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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 14m

You can buy my 2500+ page TTRPG at half-apress.itch.io/60-years-in-...

Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 13m

My controvertial opinion is that in addition to lightfastness and opacity, watercolors should have an indicator of how well they'll show up on a cheapass scanner. Would make my life easier.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 33m

Link to the book, which also covers the 1886 Watercolor Controversy (surprise, surprise, it was about lightfastness)

This pamphlet admits some colors are fugitive but argues were used in mixes and not exposed to light, so the issue is minimal.

archive.org/details/gri_...

A descriptive handbook of modern water-colour pigments : illustrated with seventy-two colour washes skilfully gradated by hand on whatman's drawing paper : with an introductory essay on the recent wat...

First published in 1887

archive.org

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 16h

Ever think about how so many tech people believed in the Singularity, when the progress of computers + AI would become a self-reinforcing loop, while here in the real world many of Silicon Valley's problems are caused by the fact that tech innovation has slowed to a crawl?

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 1h

This is the last piece of art I completed before breaking my arm in June. I wanted to see if I can work in a somewhat conventional Webtoon style. Still need some practice, which I'll get back to someday... The character is Onawa from GearHead RPG. Watercolor on watercolor paper.

A woman wearing green armor and a cloak.

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Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez looking for a new agent @artofnickyrdrgz.bsky.social · 13h

🏳️‍🌈🇵🇷 it's #PortfolioDay yet again! still looking for an agent and/or editor for this GN (QRP'd) & general comics work! i'm interested in creating and working on NA & adult GNs & other select illustration work (general illustrations & illustrating select children's/YA works) 💛
artofnickyrodriguez.com

5 panel comic aboard a pirate ship during sunset

written by akira b!

5 panel comic aboard a pirate ship during dusk/nightfall

written by akira b!

nicky holding a copy of Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris & Maite Urcaregui in which Nicky has a short comic

an excerpt from the short comic featured in Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 3h

I just printed a picture of it on A3 paper, laminated it to make it shiny, and it worked surprisingly well. Had people coming up to see if I had a giant cassette in there.

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 4h

Thanks!

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 4h

Repost with your favorite Halloween costume.

I am Soundwave, if that's not obvious. Tried to convince my son to go as Rumble but he had his heart set on Bumblebee.

I am wearing a Soundwave costume, my son wearing a Bay-movies Bumblebee costume, and my wife has a pumpkin hairband. For whatever reason my son is also doing ironic Vulcan salute.

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Wuvable Oaf AKA Ed Luce @wuvableoaf.bsky.social · 4h

Repost with your favorite Halloween costume...

Can I post, like, three?

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 18h

I finally got around to mounting the trophies from my last visit to Canada.

Eight different root beer bottle caps mounted on a piece of blue matte board and framed. They are Barq's, Frostie, Stewards, The Pop Shoppe, A&W, Jones, Dad's (Diet), and Virgil's. This is all that I could find in Deer Lake and Corner Brook.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 22h

Novels are just comics consisting of one picture and an overwritten caption.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 16h

If I had to guess, I'd guess it's because gamedevs wanna play with VR.

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 16h

Or at the very least, innovation in computers and consumer electronics. mRNA vaccines are a new technology that's growing by leaps and bounds.

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 16h

Ever think about how so many tech people believed in the Singularity, when the progress of computers + AI would become a self-reinforcing loop, while here in the real world many of Silicon Valley's problems are caused by the fact that tech innovation has slowed to a crawl?

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 16h

Still thinking about how, in a different timeline, Tim Burton would have directed a movie based on Mai the Psychic Girl, which would've potentially kickstarted some aspects of the anime boom far earlier than we saw in reality.

(Source: The Kansas City Star, 9/29/1991 edition)

■ "Mai, the Psychic Girl" is incredibly—popular—in—the Orient, but in the United States the character's following is limited to hard-core comics fans. Still, it will be directed by "Batman's" Tim Burton, who apparently can do no wrong. Rumor has it he wants his favorite leading lady, Winona Ryder, to star.

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Jeff Martin @jeffmartinart.bsky.social · 1d

Sara's got a list of plans for her ascension to the top of Hell, Inc., but she's realizing it may need more detail.

Read this week's Hell, Inc. comic, and over 400 previous ones!

hell.rentathugcomics.com/comic/saras-...

Sara’s List

The Patreon preview for this strip is about how short the script can be for mostly visual strips like this one. A reiteration from last week, but my new book, GRUNTS, is back up on DriveThruComics …

hell.rentathugcomics.com

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 2d

CANADIANS!! The official petition started by a member of Parliament to fight back against payment processors' censorship of legal content is only open for a few more days. Make sure you've signed it: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 17h

Alt text: A sign in a bookstore or library reads "Fuck social media. Marry books. Kill AI."

ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 1d

!!!

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 17h

Some people have strange and terrible hobbies.

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itch.io @itch.io · 17h

Consume Me: BEING A TEENAGER SUCKS. So, we made a videogame about it.

hexecutable.itch.io/consume-me

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 17h

I have no idea. It's almost impossible to find root beer in South Korea (maybe they have it somewhere in Seoul? Sometimes?) so every time I visit North America I indulge myself. I think the Pop Shoppe is Canada only.

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 18h

I finally got around to mounting the trophies from my last visit to Canada.

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 19h

Then six months to a year later I get something from a Kickstarted that I don't even remember having backed. Wait, I think I've lost the point of this metaphor...

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 19h

Having post-exertional malaise isn't exactly like spoon theory; it's more like I have a credit card for spoons, and I can spend spoons using the card but can never 100% know my balance until later when I'm going about my business and bam! Overdraft charges.

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