Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design
@alzamon.bsky.social
Alberto Gonzalez / Costa Rican 🇨🇷 children's illustrator, middle grade comics author, character designer and multi-trick pony. My nick is my shortened full name. More about me at go.alzamon.com
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Well it took way longer than expected but this humble account of yours truly has just crossed the 1k followers mark! 🥳🎈🎉
So, as promised, here's finally the commemorative art for display. "Making of" extra material will be available soon! :D
So, as promised, here's finally the commemorative art for display. "Making of" extra material will be available soon! :D
Something I don't bring much often is that I've been an audio nut since I became a jazz fan in my teens and it's the first weekend in months I can just sit down and listen to music properly (I need to change that fugly furniture I know). More info in alts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Something I don't bring much often is that I've been an audio nut since I became a jazz fan in my teens and it's the first weekend in months I can just sit down and listen to music properly (I need to change that fugly furniture I know). More info in alts.
Welp time to set it in stone I guess
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Welp time to set it in stone I guess
Assuming UBI is just survival income and not a luxurious one, I'd probably keep doing what I'm doing now — but without the anguish of whether I'll earn enough to cover the basics, or further eating up at my dwindling savings 🥹🤞🏻
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Assuming UBI is just survival income and not a luxurious one, I'd probably keep doing what I'm doing now — but without the anguish of whether I'll earn enough to cover the basics, or further eating up at my dwindling savings 🥹🤞🏻
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I'm a firm believer people should have access to art and the things we create. Here's a full, free, downloadable PDF of Beneath the Grove CH. 1. Save it, print it for yourself, share with your buds- whatever! Have a happy Friday!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1CY_M...
drive.google.com/file/d/1CY_M...
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I'm a firm believer people should have access to art and the things we create. Here's a full, free, downloadable PDF of Beneath the Grove CH. 1. Save it, print it for yourself, share with your buds- whatever! Have a happy Friday!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1CY_M...
drive.google.com/file/d/1CY_M...
@javidecastro.bsky.social hombre, que ahí las dao justo con el creador de la biblia del cómic moderno. Felicidades. 🙌
Okay, this is a cool idea.
If you're wondering ‘What do you mean it reads back to front as well as front to back?’
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
@javidecastro.bsky.social hombre, que ahí las dao justo con el creador de la biblia del cómic moderno. Felicidades. 🙌
Yesterday I was shared a Facebook link where I never go if I can avoid it, but this time didn't, and to see most of my former tech contacts having become unashamed AI snake oil salespeople was revolting. Same vibes on LinkedIn.
So it's not just Microsoft's top CEOs. 😮💨
So it's not just Microsoft's top CEOs. 😮💨
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Yesterday I was shared a Facebook link where I never go if I can avoid it, but this time didn't, and to see most of my former tech contacts having become unashamed AI snake oil salespeople was revolting. Same vibes on LinkedIn.
So it's not just Microsoft's top CEOs. 😮💨
So it's not just Microsoft's top CEOs. 😮💨
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Huge Black Friday sale today in the @maverickogn.bsky.social online shop, including 50% off such titles as THE OCTOBER GIRL Book One by a certain Matthew Dow Smith!
So if you haven't picked it up yet, today is a great day to do it!
So if you haven't picked it up yet, today is a great day to do it!
The October Girl - Vol. 1 - Maverick
A moody, coming-of-age tale for fans of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Nimona, filled with fairies and ogres and magic galore. Autumn Ackerman grew up believing in fairies and magic a...
maverickgraphicnovels.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Huge Black Friday sale today in the @maverickogn.bsky.social online shop, including 50% off such titles as THE OCTOBER GIRL Book One by a certain Matthew Dow Smith!
So if you haven't picked it up yet, today is a great day to do it!
So if you haven't picked it up yet, today is a great day to do it!
Well Macy's parade balloon he wasn't but Daniel actually did cosplay one alongside @jonscrazyblues.bsky.social own Bubble Fox! I need to make more funny one-shots, send in time ⏳😅
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Well Macy's parade balloon he wasn't but Daniel actually did cosplay one alongside @jonscrazyblues.bsky.social own Bubble Fox! I need to make more funny one-shots, send in time ⏳😅
Esta IA sí que sí 🫠
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Esta IA sí que sí 🫠
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Oh hey lots of holiday bargains are lighting up my email and social media.
Just a reminder to shop small this weekend. Visit your indie bookstore.
The billionaires have enough.
Just a reminder to shop small this weekend. Visit your indie bookstore.
The billionaires have enough.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Oh hey lots of holiday bargains are lighting up my email and social media.
Just a reminder to shop small this weekend. Visit your indie bookstore.
The billionaires have enough.
Just a reminder to shop small this weekend. Visit your indie bookstore.
The billionaires have enough.
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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Hope you all get to enjoy a nice dinner of popcorn, jelly beans, pretzels, and toast.
Hope you all get to enjoy a nice dinner of popcorn, jelly beans, pretzels, and toast.
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Hope you all get to enjoy a nice dinner of popcorn, jelly beans, pretzels, and toast.
Hope you all get to enjoy a nice dinner of popcorn, jelly beans, pretzels, and toast.
Okay, this is not "my" book but rather "our" book it being a collective anthology. But my stuff is there and it's been a milestone for many of us who participated on it. Available on Amazon now, other bookshops coming soon!
@kcsanthology.bsky.social
@kcsanthology.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Okay, this is not "my" book but rather "our" book it being a collective anthology. But my stuff is there and it's been a milestone for many of us who participated on it. Available on Amazon now, other bookshops coming soon!
@kcsanthology.bsky.social
@kcsanthology.bsky.social
While we are on a turkey roll today (okay, you, not me)... don't let the capitalism overlords take the joy of creating stuff on your own with whatever you've got away from you. Don't worry about it sucking; it will. Do it anyway. Again. And again 🎨
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
While we are on a turkey roll today (okay, you, not me)... don't let the capitalism overlords take the joy of creating stuff on your own with whatever you've got away from you. Don't worry about it sucking; it will. Do it anyway. Again. And again 🎨
The “democratization of art” AI charade is just BS. Always has been, always will be. Schools give kids art supplies for free. And the fanciest stuff won’t make a pro out of you by itself. You still have to do the work.
And that’s what AI bros want — to cheat, to skip the hard parts. Well, no. 🙃
And that’s what AI bros want — to cheat, to skip the hard parts. Well, no. 🙃
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The “democratization of art” AI charade is just BS. Always has been, always will be. Schools give kids art supplies for free. And the fanciest stuff won’t make a pro out of you by itself. You still have to do the work.
And that’s what AI bros want — to cheat, to skip the hard parts. Well, no. 🙃
And that’s what AI bros want — to cheat, to skip the hard parts. Well, no. 🙃
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
Sick of having to bump into such types every day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Somebody pop that bubble for good asap 💥
Somebody pop that bubble for good asap 💥
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sick of having to bump into such types every day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Somebody pop that bubble for good asap 💥
Somebody pop that bubble for good asap 💥
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“Art is valuable precisely because it is not easy to create. We are interested in art, in any and all of its forms, because humans made it. That’s the very thing that makes it interesting; the who, the how, and especially the why.” [joshcollinsworth.com]
Alchemy
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit
joshcollinsworth.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“Art is valuable precisely because it is not easy to create. We are interested in art, in any and all of its forms, because humans made it. That’s the very thing that makes it interesting; the who, the how, and especially the why.” [joshcollinsworth.com]
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He estado tan lleno de trabajo que no había ni podido presumirles que en el más reciente número de la revista española Amaníaco sale nuevamente un cómic mío. ¡Patas Negras en el mágico mundo de los oficinistas! ¡Sigan a @amaniaco.com para su dotación de cómics wenazos!
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
He estado tan lleno de trabajo que no había ni podido presumirles que en el más reciente número de la revista española Amaníaco sale nuevamente un cómic mío. ¡Patas Negras en el mágico mundo de los oficinistas! ¡Sigan a @amaniaco.com para su dotación de cómics wenazos!
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“All I wanted to do was make people laugh.”—Charles M. Schulz
🎂 Today, we celebrate the birthday of Charles M. Schulz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922.
Thank you, Mr. Schulz, for all the happiness and laughter.
Photo by Michael Myers, c. 1954 © Schulz Museum.
🎂 Today, we celebrate the birthday of Charles M. Schulz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922.
Thank you, Mr. Schulz, for all the happiness and laughter.
Photo by Michael Myers, c. 1954 © Schulz Museum.
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“All I wanted to do was make people laugh.”—Charles M. Schulz
🎂 Today, we celebrate the birthday of Charles M. Schulz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922.
Thank you, Mr. Schulz, for all the happiness and laughter.
Photo by Michael Myers, c. 1954 © Schulz Museum.
🎂 Today, we celebrate the birthday of Charles M. Schulz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922.
Thank you, Mr. Schulz, for all the happiness and laughter.
Photo by Michael Myers, c. 1954 © Schulz Museum.
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Amics, Ilustrar es pensar. Da igual con qué se realice. Sea lápiz, collage, 3D, fotografía o lo que sea. Ilustrar no es ser académico en lo tradicional. Es resolver problemas comunicativos con cosquillas mentales. Usar el arte para hacernos llegar le sentimiento más allá de las palabras.
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Amics, Ilustrar es pensar. Da igual con qué se realice. Sea lápiz, collage, 3D, fotografía o lo que sea. Ilustrar no es ser académico en lo tradicional. Es resolver problemas comunicativos con cosquillas mentales. Usar el arte para hacernos llegar le sentimiento más allá de las palabras.
Leave it to Jon to review a CB special where I can't decide if it's the most awesome or must cursed one or both, either way I'm on a roll here 😅 🍗
Who’s ready for a CRAZY review of a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?!?
*Crickets Chirping*
Great! Let’s do this!
Note: I’m not analyzing every last frame of this thing. Just the stuff in particular that really sticks out.
*Crickets Chirping*
Great! Let’s do this!
Note: I’m not analyzing every last frame of this thing. Just the stuff in particular that really sticks out.
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Leave it to Jon to review a CB special where I can't decide if it's the most awesome or must cursed one or both, either way I'm on a roll here 😅 🍗
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Math is knowledge. Knowledge is power.
30k is also way WAYYYY too low. IMHO, anything less than 50k for a 200 page full color book is highway robbery.
So if you have to get robbed to get published (and self pub isn't an option)...at least make something you love, okay?
30k is also way WAYYYY too low. IMHO, anything less than 50k for a 200 page full color book is highway robbery.
So if you have to get robbed to get published (and self pub isn't an option)...at least make something you love, okay?
Here’s some math courtesy of Nate Powell to keep in mind when signing that graphic novel deal. #comics
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Math is knowledge. Knowledge is power.
30k is also way WAYYYY too low. IMHO, anything less than 50k for a 200 page full color book is highway robbery.
So if you have to get robbed to get published (and self pub isn't an option)...at least make something you love, okay?
30k is also way WAYYYY too low. IMHO, anything less than 50k for a 200 page full color book is highway robbery.
So if you have to get robbed to get published (and self pub isn't an option)...at least make something you love, okay?
Funny (not) this comes up as I want to get a couple pages' coloring done for a pitch packet asap.
It's my right to give it a shot, but if the shot ends going nowhere... I'll need to find out something else to do. 🥲
It's my right to give it a shot, but if the shot ends going nowhere... I'll need to find out something else to do. 🥲
The one about comic book page rates – again. News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
The one about comic book page rates – again
News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
www.comicsbeat.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Funny (not) this comes up as I want to get a couple pages' coloring done for a pitch packet asap.
It's my right to give it a shot, but if the shot ends going nowhere... I'll need to find out something else to do. 🥲
It's my right to give it a shot, but if the shot ends going nowhere... I'll need to find out something else to do. 🥲
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How to make beautiful comics:
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
imgs.xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
How to make beautiful comics:
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.