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Lesly Julien @leswrite.bsky.social · 9h

Another #portfolioday Perceive me. Hire me. Collab with me.

Lesly Julien @leswrite.bsky.social · Jan 9

Hey #portfolioday avert your gaze from the fading star blinking toward oblivion.

It's me, Lesly Julien 🇭🇹 comic writer of stories like Savage Wizard, Headcases, Ghost Gauntlet and others.

If you want something written consider hiring me

Contact info in my bio.

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 21h

But if you haven't, you should check it out and jump on board, too! Comics are great

Ray-Anthony Height @raheight.bsky.social · 21h

With a little under 3 days left in the campaign, it is with GREAT pleasure to announce that Midnight Tiger: EVO #1 has officially funded! THANK YOU ALL!!

To celebrate, I'll add one more special tier tomorrow for the last 2 days- BE DRAWN INTO THE BOOK AS A RECURRING CHARACTER! tinyurl.com/2s7esn4w

Midnight Tiger: EVO #1- Launching A New Ongoing Series!

A teenage hero discovers that his beloved city has been invaded by creatures called Castrels who have disguised themselves as humans.

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 22h

If you see this, post the 4 mutants who have always been your favourite since you first got into X-Men.

Jean Grey in her original Phoenix costume.

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 22h

Big same

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

Time magazine is owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who just came out as a Trump supporter and said it would be great if he sent the National Guard to invade San Francisco

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Daniel Kalban @dkalban.bsky.social · 1d

79% of the goal made! Let's get to the goal by the end of the week!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ame...

CHUTZPAH! A Jewish Celebration In Comics

A comic book anthology celebrating Jewish stories and Jewish joy by Jewish creators!

www.kickstarter.com

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 1d

THIS! Open that vein and bleed on the page, find an audience or revise it later, whatever brings you peace or joy.

Kris, spelled “Kris” @nottherealkris.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t have to read anything to write.

Go write your unhinged 4000 page tomes divorced from any literary traditions or guardrails you beautiful freaks.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 1d

Saw Tron: Ares this afternoon and, seriously, legit liked it! Saw it at a theater has the new HDR picture and Dolby Atmos sound, and both of those technologies were impressive and noticeable. The NIN soundtrack is as rad as everyone is saying, too, but the movie itself is, imo, a legit good time.

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 1d

Come on, Falcons! Why even bother with the cool throwback helmets if you're not gonna go with the red jerseys, too. The Polish Cannon, Steve Bartkowski, and I are disappointed.

Former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Steve Bartkowski rockin' the Falcons' all-time best look, with red helmets and jerseys.

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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Read our cover story from 2024 about the Karankawa, the people who inhabited the coastal plains and barrier islands of Texas: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/karankawa-people-today/

The Karankawa Want You to Know They’re Not Extinct

Emerging from a long history of oppression, slanderous folklore, and rumors of their demise, the Gulf Coast people are finding a place for themselves in the twenty-first century.

www.texasmonthly.com

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 1d

I can smell this post. In a good way.

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CJ Camba @cjcamba.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm looking for work for november and the following months!

CJ Camba @cjcamba.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi #Portfolioday!

I'm CJ, I work as an interior artist! I'm available to work in new projects. Also I'm developing a creator owned horror project. I'd like to get in touch with editors.

More pages at cjcamba.com

Cover from my creator owned comic project in the works 'Furtivo'

Interiro black and white page from The Future Favors the Bold

Interior black and white page from The Future Favors the Bold

Portfolio black and white piece of Jubilee and Howard The Duck walking through the street

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 3d

One thing you will never ever see is cops actually protecting protesters, regardless of circumstance. It's against their very nature. Even with their city under assault by the federal government, cops go after protesters like dogs after a cat.

Unless those protesters have swastika flags.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3d

This is like Looney Tunes levels of criminal corruption

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 3d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 3d

One of the great Marvel covers of the era. I didn't like Howard as a kid (I didn't understand it and I didn't like comics that I thought were making fun of superheroes), but seeing this cover in house ads made me try to find it (I did not succeed, alas).

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 3d

21 for me. Got some work to do.

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 3d

What conservatives accuse other people of doing is what they themselves are doing or are going to do. It has ever been thus.

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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 3d

You remember when at the start of the pandemic everyone was hanging on whether WHO was going to call it a pandemic as if anyone with a dictionary and a map of infected countries couldn't make that call? We need to stop waiting for people in fancy suits to think for us. A lot of them are bad at it.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway, lest you think I'm picking on Denny O'Neil, who wrote a lot of comics I love (but also some I don't), this is all very much of a piece with the men's adventure fiction of the day, stuff like Mack Bolan and the Destroyer, a lot of which is even worse than this. So...yeah. 5/5

Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway, according to the text, O-Sensei has mastered "all" martial arts (although only like 4 Japanese arts and boxing are mentioned lol), and now Richard Dragon has also mastered them "all" -- and it only took six years! Probably took O-Sensei decades, but Richard *is* white after all. 🤣 4/x

Richard has mastered "all" the martial arts...in six years! lol

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 3d

And maybe a "destiny of greatness." I'm not blaming Denny for this, but when we look at angry, racist, lying dudebros today whining about other people getting stuff and confused that everyone else doesn't recognize that they're the real heroes, it's maybe not a complete mystery. 3/x

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 3d

After tossing Richard around a bit, the Japanese O-Sensei and Benjamin (soon to become the black sidekick in spite of having vastly more training and wisdom) invite Rich to join them, because O-S senses that in spite of being an angry, racist, thief, Rich has a core of goodness! 2/x

After kicking Richard around for a bit, O-Sensei and Benjamin invite Richard to join the team as their lead hero.

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 3d

Re-reading the mid-70s Richard Dragon series from DC for the first time in forever, and it starts off on a wild foot. Denny O'Neil sets up a heel-face turn, but going Full Racist and thinking the character can easily pivot from that with no lingering taint was a choice (sadly, Denny was right). 1/x

Richard Dragon calls the first black man he meets "a refugee from a minstrel show" and "an ape," and then invokes white pride.

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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 3d

If an organization has enough money to run commercials all day Saturday urging people to support a new law to "save college sports," you can be assured that they are not telling the truth and have no interesting in "saving" anything good.