Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Ben Templesmith

@templesmith.bsky.social

4.3K followers 260 following 7.6K posts

Australo-American. Grumpy rabble rouser. Co-created 30 Days of Night, you know, that became that film. Writer, artist, cephalopod, cat & horror enthusiast. Annoyingly for you, still here.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · Nov 14

Going forward, thanks to AI tech bros & their billionaire parasites, I show far less art on the platforms. ( Gonna Nightshade the crap out of things too ) But I show all my process & a lot more stuff over on thesquidarmy.com patreon.

Here's a little free bit.

1 8 130

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 48m

This is your annual reminder that an Emu is pronounced “Eem-yoo” and that Americans need to stop with the baby talk of “ee-moo”

They are not bird-cows.

Bird-cows are entirely different, savage, udderless creatures.

It’s a name. Get the name right. It’s not an accent thing.

And yes we eat them.

1 2

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 16h

Violent femmes!

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Time is that unassuming girl you meet & dismiss & ignore early on, only to discover she’s the love of your life just as she’s about to leave.

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 1d

King George is their heritage too. We need to demand they put those statues back!

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 1d

😂

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Vale Drew Struzan 💔

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 2d

So... how many bullet holes would we be talking you think?😅

Reposted by Ben Templesmith

austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 2d

10 210 750

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 2d

If I dressed up as a British Redcoat, walking down the middle of the street with a giant flag that said "REMEMBER YOUR HERITAGE" in the South... would I get shot?

6 9

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 2d

You have the best ideas Chris.

Can I borrow a couple hundred dollars?

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 2d

JFC, in Pittsburgh now, there’s casinos in the supermarkets??

2 8

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know WTF drugs American Airlines schedulers are on when they’re scheduling flights they say are “on time” when clearly they’ll be arriving *after* the boarding time for the aircraft’s next flight. Their delays are apparently completely manufactured.

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I have a couple of the berserk hardcovers since it’s… very visually bonkers stuff.

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 3d

So I wasn’t at NYCC. But I made some great contacts for possible printing, delved into the of adult swim & now swirling ideas for… cartoons??? & I think I got a job from NYCC even though I was absent.

Weird weekend full of wonderful people at Galaxycon St Louis.

& Kevin Maguire. 😂

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I knew quite a few of em.

Always looking for the visually dynamic/interesting stuff I could interpret in my style.

Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 3d

So if I were to do some more anime oriented shows, what sort of anime type stuff would you ind interesting in my style?

I LOVE Miyazaki’s works of course. But I need to be exposed to a few more things than the stuff I grew up on.

Attack on Titan was also my jam.

Gimme ideas!