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Tomatobird 🍅
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Allie. 25+. Illustrator, comic artist, full time bird. Purveyor of zines, Biblical yaoi appreciator. tomatobirdart.com
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 3d
Notebook Comics: or how I've been spending my post grad time lmao

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10-18-2025 Notebook Comics
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 3d
Going to make a thread of free software that's useful for making zines (writing, illustrating, image processing, laying out, publishing...)
Different operating systems. Let's go...
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Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 5d
This fall, join together to make minicomics in the return of the Cartoonist Coop's official autumn public art challenge: 🍂 CARTOONBER! 🍂

Team up with 1-3 creators, assign yourselves roles, make some comics together, and tag us with your finished pages on social media and use #cartoonber2025 !
An earthy colorful graphic announcing the Cartoonist Cooperative's art challenge called Cartoonber. The illustration shows the Coop's mascots Nibford and Inkling as bugs sitting on top of round red text bubbles. The Co-op logo is justified left at the top with centered text. The text reads, "Cartoonist Cooperative presents Cartoonber 2025! Join your fellow comic makers to create a four-page mini comic (or four single pages) together this fall!" Underneath this are four prompts: Round one: rise. Round two: fall. Round three: persistence. Round four: revival. Text at the bottom reads, "Join the fun on social media October fifteenth to December fifteenth!" Art by Harper Crane @harpiscordial.bsky.social and original challenge designed by Buttercup @btrcp and Jessi Eoin @jbeoin An earthy colorful graphic announcing the Cartoonist Cooperative's art challenge called Cartoonber. The illustration shows the Coop's mascots Nibford and Inkling as bugs sitting on top of round red text bubbles. The Co-op logo is next to and above text that reads, "Cartoonist Cooperative presents Cartoonber 2025! Step one: Team up with one to three other creators to make a four-page mini comic or four single page comics! Step two: Assign yourselves roles: script, lines, colors, and letters. Step three: Make a four to six panel, single page comic (standalone or part of a mini comic) every fortnight. Step four: Share it on social media on the dates mentioned and tag the Cartoonist Cooperative!" Underneath this text is the Co-op's website: https://cartoonist.coop. Art by Harper Crane @harpiscordial.bsky.social and original challenge designed by Buttercup @btrcp and Jessi Eoin @jbeoin An earthy colorful graphic announcing the Cartoonist Cooperative's art challenge called Cartoonber. The illustration shows the Coop's mascots Nibford and Inkling as bugs sitting on top of round red text bubbles. The Co-op logo is next to and above four prompts with text that reads, "Round one: rise . Share on October 29. Round two: fall. Share on November 12. Round three: persistence. Share on November 26. Round four: revival. Share on December 10." Underneath this text is the Co-op's website: https://cartoonist.coop Art by Harper Crane @harpiscordial.bsky.social and original challenge designed by Buttercup @btrcp and Jessi Eoin @jbeoin
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 5d
Was rereading my own comics from way back in 2019 and its like Wow…..OP….ur mind….#SelfReblog…. I was really cooking then ….will i ever cook again? Good question
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 6d
In a way I feel like I'm back at square one LMAO
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 6d
I've always been a cartoonist...but I used to draw my actual self and not this birdsona
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 6d
While compiling my zine list I reread a personal comic I made back in 2018 and was like whoa I didn't remember all of this XD but a good thing I recorded it.....honestly it seems like some things havent really changed
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Vinnie D. @antibunny.bsky.social · 6d
I've said before. AI isn't a program. It isn't an app on your phone. It isn't an idea. It's a very real physical building that can barely keep running by consuming multiple cities worth of resources. When the money runs out, and the utilities are cut, AI will cease to function.
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 6d
Blog post on my site! Been updating and working on it but also having thoughts
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My Page
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 7d
Just a few more of my favorite things I've made over the past couple of years
Cover of my comic "Fried Zine Tomato' - three little red tomatoes are dangling at the top of the cover and then the rest of the cover is covered by tomato vines and the words "Fried Zine Tomato' and my name A forest of mushrooms and a little frog, a winding stream, a butterfly and a bird A day in the life of Frogby, Frogby wakes up in the morning, says good morning, reads with a cup of tea, takes a trip around the lake, goes for a swim, stops for a picnic with a friend 'Would you like any of the brie?' says the friend, a rat, 'No, thank you! I fancy a bit of ched' says Frogby. Frogby goes for another swim, he takes the long way home, he watches the stars before bed and he says goodnight before starting again. Illustration of a woman in a coral pink dress with a white cat, whose face is obscured, but on the wall is an absurd portrait of the fancy little cat
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 7d
@nastytico.bsky.social ’s OC, Caio

#tomatobirdart
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 12d
I got an ask on tetratto about comic making process and I wrote up a whole long thingy here:
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 14d
Every zine fest is a miracle and a labour of love, but here are some things that I have experienced that make for a zine fair that is especially nice to table at:
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Five things zine fairs do that I love - sheer spite press
Hello! I’ve been thinking about zine fairs (and book fairs, small press fairs, and other places where people stand behind a table and sell you little booklets). I’ve tabled...
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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 14d
this is a great write-up of actionable tips for organizing zinefests, and also captures some of what I've enjoyed about the zinefests I've been part of. zine-centric fairs have absolutely been my best experiences as an author & creator.
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 16d
Man I need to rewatch, saw years ago in high school but I don't think I appreciated as much
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 16d
Aww how sweet! Hope she enjoyed...and yeah unfortunately I've seen that trend around where if you are generous sometimes ppl will take it for granted ...
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · Aug 27
I finished my #comic this week, “The Holy Cephalophore,” and have been scanning all day yesterday…hopefully will be able to pick up the proofs today!

It’s my first comic I’ve done 100% traditionally in years, done with pen and ink + Brush pen, about the Death of Richard the Lionheart.
Cover art for The Holy Cephalophore, showing a man standing with a sword in front of a flame and an obscured female head Manuscript style page, reading: In Fair Limoges, the land of Saint Valerie, the King of England embarks on an unholy mission to punish his disloyal vassals, devastating the land with fire and sword…
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 22d
The Trials of Tomatobird
Chopped - tiny Allie running away from a knife chopping carrots on a cutting board washed - Allie in a colander with bok choy under the faucet Cooked - Allie clinging for dear life to the spatula in a fiery pan Served - Allie posing on a plated dish of rice, vegetables, and meat
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 16d
Like I'm an indie zine & comics maker, I'm not aspiring to the same thing as ppl who wanna work for studios, so if I see advice for that I might be slightly interested but if I see advice that doesn't apply I will pass on it
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 17d
It wasn't even an unsolicited critique to an individual person just a generic statement...but ppl I think see art advice online and think it MUST be talking DIRECTLY to them
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 17d
Like "some people can't afford art school!!!" That's great....then u can learn from people giving out advice online....which includes evaluations and talking about industry standards...
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 17d
Remembering that time on twt a professional industry artist made a post for her audience of other pro industry aspiring artists saying the most milquetoast "you need ur portfolio to be at a certain skill level to be hired for XYZ positions" and ppl from completely different art circles got mad at it
theotherhappyplace.bsky.social The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 17d
Someone asked "why dont artists post tutorials as much anymore? It's always behind a paywall"

I think it is because every single time I have seen a tutorial go viral people end up SCREAMING at the artist "how DARE you tell me how to draw?!"
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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 17d
Someone asked "why dont artists post tutorials as much anymore? It's always behind a paywall"

I think it is because every single time I have seen a tutorial go viral people end up SCREAMING at the artist "how DARE you tell me how to draw?!"
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beck @bitingteeth.bsky.social · 17d
sometimes you look through old sketchbooks and find out you were cooking
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Tomatobird 🍅 @tomatobird.bsky.social · 18d
I was like “its bc there isn’t a fujo audience for this, only guys making sigma male edits”