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Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

My last post got tagged as explicit because there are boobs in it. Does that mean the post gets blurred or hidden or something?

February 7, 2026 at 3:47 AM

Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

Found this old sketch of Finkie from years back so I inked it.

February 7, 2026 at 3:42 AM

Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

A few small crime graphic novels. I miss this Vertigo line in particular.

February 7, 2026 at 12:40 AM

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Jacob Phillips

@thatjacobphillips.bsky.social

Just finished up colouring another issue of Peril of the Brutal Dark! Some non-spoilery favourites. Issue one out Feb 26th!

February 5, 2026 at 8:17 PM

Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

sketch from a few years back that I just found.

February 5, 2026 at 7:57 PM

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Frankee White

@daydreamcomix.com

I JUST CAME FROM HELL has launched on Patreon!! As a gift, the cover and first three pages are free to view both on BlueSky and Patreon! Updates will occur every Tuesday moving forward.

If you enjoy these pages, please share and help us spread the word!

Read here: www.patreon.com/posts/142138...

Cover of I JUST CAME FROM HELL. It shows a pregnant Jes holding her belly in front of a negative tree. A pair of bloody hands reach out to grab her.

Page 1
Five Panels

1 - EXT. Wide shot. The entrance to Cebe’s Hand, a wild swampland in the Florida Panhandle. While not as wild as being inside Cebe’s Hand will be. There is still tons of foliage and greenery around. A deer drinks from a nearby bed of water. An alligator lies in wait.

JES (Off-Panel): June 6th, 2017.

JES (OP): Lisa Leung arrived in Devil’s Garden, Florida with her now deceased fiancé, Jonathan Johnson, to visit his estranged parents, William & Mary, also now deceased.

2 - The Alligator slowly and quietly swims up towards the deer, who unknowingly continues to drink.

JES (OP): What was supposed to be a day of reconciliation transformed into a night of horrors.

3 - Suddenly, the deer jerks its head up from drinking.

SFX: shf shf

JES (OP) A night where only Lisa would survive.

4 - …and darts away before the Alligator can strike.

JES (OP): Supposedly, a church fire would claim 33 souls that night. Their bodies have never been found.

JES (OP): But that doesn’t explain what happened next.

5 - Lisa, the noise that alerted the deer, walks down a dirt road, naked and bloodsoaked.

JES (OP): The following morning, as the sun’s light broke over the horizon…

JES (OP): …Lisa was seen stumbling, naked and bloodsoaked, down an old dirt road that leads from Cebe’s Hand, a tangled web of swampland that stretches across the Florida panhandle.

Page 2
Seven Panels

1 - Sheridan Porter, a white man in his late 50s with leather tan skin, drives a middle of the road pick up truck. Not new, but not a beater either. It’s well maintained despite its age. He had a quizzical look on his face as he tries to make sense of this figure he sees ahead.

JES (OP): Sheridan Porter, a Good Samaritan, who happened to be driving to his favorite fishing spot, was the first to find her.

2 - Wide shot of the truck pulling over as it nears Lisa.

JES (OP): When he noticed the state Lisa was in, he pulled to the side of the road to help.

3 - Sheridan exits his truck as Lisa passes him by.

JES (OP): As Sheridan approached, he could hear her talking to herself.

LISA (to herself): I don’t know. I don’t know. I took a leap of faith…

4 - Sheridan approaches Lisa who does not notice him at all.

JES (OP): If this all wasn’t strange enough, Lisa didn’t even notice him.

JES (OP): It was like she was somewhere else. Lost in her own mind.

LISA (to herself): This isn’t right. It shouldn’t be possible, but you’re still here.

5 - Lisa collapses into Sherdian’s arms.

JES (OP): Sheridan stopped her and asked for her name and she immediately collapsed in his arms.

SHERIDAN: Ma’am, are you okay? What happened to you?

6 - She weakly looks up at him. We can see both of them in this panel.

JES (OP): She looked at him, finally realizing where she was, and quietly uttered a single sentence.

7 - Extreme close-up on Lisa’s exhausted, bloodsoaked face.

JES (OP): M-my name is Lisa Johnson, and…

October 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM

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Marie Enger

@soengery.bsky.social

Black stoneware and cinnabar exterior with a black amber interior...

Part of next weeks Heart Wyrm drop, gonna sell 'em as a set.

A photo of the Bleeding Hearts cups - four red and black spiked cups that look like hearts.

February 5, 2026 at 3:29 AM

Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

Reading bedtime stories to the 11yo out of a Robert E Howard Solomon Kane collection, as you do...

February 5, 2026 at 3:04 AM

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Derf Backderf

@derfbackderf.bsky.social

Interesting!

Here's a guy I haven't thought about in some time. Fascinating story. There was a documentary a few years ago, which I've been meaning to track down.

For those too young to remember 1991, Diana is one of the worst cases of comics persecution in US history.

Playing Dirty: The State of Florida Versus Mike Diana, a new drama about a notorious comic book obscenity case - The Comics Journal

About midway through The State of Florida Versus Mike Diana, the new play by Lenny Schwartz that ran recently at the Daydream Theatre Company in Providence, Rhode Island, a group of the title characte...

www.tcj.com

February 4, 2026 at 4:18 PM

Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

It's wild, that feeling you get when you draw something and you feel that sensation of, "yes, this is how I'm supposed to do it."

February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM

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Dave Chisholm

@davechisholmcomics.com

So, now that the final-order-cutoff for issue 1 of IS TED OK? has passed, I guess I'll stop promoting it.

JUST KIDDING.

I'm gonna put together a rad trailer for issue 2 and keep hyping the series.

I'll never apologize for hyping my work.

February 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM

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Benjamin Æ Filby

@benjaminaefilby.bsky.social

@ianface.bsky.social 🙏

Dave F @filbs.bsky.social · 3d

Unashamedly biased post the third. Terrific (terrifying) end to the TOMB saga. Great story and script by Ian Mondrick (not on Bluesky ?). Superb artwork by @benjaminaefilby.bsky.social both ably supported by Bennion, Jones, Napier and Makepeace. We are the Pale Horse ?

February 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM

Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

He is haunting the alleys in my imagination. I don't know why he can't just stop.

February 3, 2026 at 9:59 PM

Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

Petunia showed up in my dreams. I had to bring her out.

February 3, 2026 at 9:45 PM

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Dave Chisholm

@davechisholmcomics.com

Hey hi, MONDAY 2.2.26 is the last day for your local comic shop to pre-order the first issue of IS TED OK? so I’m gonna share some pages and nice things people have said about it. Sound good?

Please share if you feel like it. This book RIPS and I need everyone to buy a copy or two!

February 1, 2026 at 7:43 PM

Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

In 2011 I was looking at a lot of Mignola and Samnee.

February 2, 2026 at 12:22 AM

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wwxwashere.bsky.social

@wwxwashere.bsky.social

January 30, 2026 at 10:19 PM

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Mark Stafford

@marxtafford.bsky.social

Review of Bog People from The Morning Star.
Does this mean I'm part of the solution?

Fine tales of folk horror

Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror Edited by Hollie Starling, Chatto & Windus, £18.99HOLLIE STARLING draws on two fuzzy categories — “working-class” and “folk horror” — to c...

morningstaronline.co.uk

December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM

Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

David Hine and Guillem March really cooked on Azrael back in the day. Shame we never got more of them together. Really a shame we don't get more of Hine, period.

January 30, 2026 at 5:48 AM

Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

This flatters me.

Nick Principe @nickdachrome.bsky.social · 8d

@christophcondon.bsky.social and my buddy @brianlevel.bsky.social have handed in a giant achievement in counter culture comics
#NightPeople is like if #DavidLynch did a comic
It’s an experience… not a read !!
@oni-press-bot.bsky.social was wise to release this one

January 29, 2026 at 11:32 PM

Brian Level

@brianlevel.bsky.social

Same as Matt. The greatest American crime comic in history but somehow does a disservice to what the book is.

𝕄𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕨 ℝ𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕘 @ashcanpress.com · 10d

In my top 5 greatest comics of all time.

David Lapham @davidlapham.bsky.social · 11d

Introduction…I’m an Eisner winning artist and writer, known for the independent noir comic book series STRAY BULLETS, that I cocreated with my partner Maria Lapham. In any medium, I believe in visual storytelling that can knock you on your ass.

January 29, 2026 at 11:30 PM