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Gus Becker

@gusbusdraws.bsky.social

250 followers 360 following 400 posts

Scientist & artist drawing cartoons of robots, aliens, & sometimes wizards in Denver, CO. I love making #zines! Check out my space on small web: https://gusbus.space

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Gus Becker @gusbusdraws.bsky.social · 2d

Woah what this is so cool! How does this thing work? It was like a game of telephone with art?

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Biomush @biomush.bsky.social · 2d

My entry for the 2025 feastphone

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Gus Becker @gusbusdraws.bsky.social · 11d

Bug astronaut doing bug and/or astronaut things

Digital drawing of an astronaut with a bug head holding some pliers and floating in front of a starry background

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_Mostly_Ghostly_ @mostlyghostly.bsky.social · 16d

Weird little freaks like you’d see in old games ✏️🦇🗿🐙

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Gus Becker @gusbusdraws.bsky.social · 16d

✨See a mage, post a mage✨

Magic axolotl!

An axolotl mage releasing some magic bubbles

Gus Becker @gusbusdraws.bsky.social · 18d

So much of LinkedIn is AI slop

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✦ 𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐙𝐙𝐄𝐒𝐄 ✦ @bruzzeseonline.bsky.social · 21d

This character has been included in the concept stage for at least three different projects over the years. Different names and all that, but I just can't not use this look.

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jouste @jouste.bsky.social · 19d

The Bloodbathogen!
This terrifying triple threat has been stapled together to be three times as scary! It doesn't matter what bites you, you'll be sure to turn into something awful or maybe even a combination of these bonded brothers of bedlam! Be it bark, blood or brains!
#0617

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 20d

It's finally time for Skinktober!

What's that? No, I'm pretty sure it was never called anything else.
#art 🦢

a digital painting of a juvenile five-lined skink sitting on a decorative pumpkin. it is surrounded by vine and leaves. the lizard is striped lengthwise down its body in white and black, transitioning to a bright blue tail about halfway down. the colors have been very saturated, and the shapes are abstracted to be rigid angles.

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Monica @monica.dev · 23d

A few years ago, I attended #virtualCCFest for the first time and left inspired! Today, I will be delivering the closing keynote at CC Fest. I'm looking forward to sharing my love of creative coding and encouraging others to archive (and share!) their creative work.

Poster for virtual CC Fest 9-28-2026 details & rsvp at https:/ccfest.rocks.

A poster for the "Virtual CC Fest" on September 28th, with a schedule running from 9 AM PDT to 12:30 PM PDT. The background is a grid of vertical and horizontal watercolor stripes in yellow, red, blue, and green. The title "virtual CC Fest" is in a red, pixelated font.

The schedule is as follows (all times PDT):

9:00 to 9:30 am: Welcome and opening keynote with Char Stiles

9:30 to 10:30 am: Workshop Round 1

Art, Code & Storytelling with p5.js by Missy Cooper

Your First Creative Coding Class - In a Post LLM world by Akanksha Vyas

Tracing the Storyline by Jesal Mehta

Spatial p5 - Live-Coding for Mixed Reality with p5.js by Tibor Udvari

Computational Thinking and Comics: The Magic of Fractal Gridding by Ecy Femi King

Power of the Portrait by Lisa Hauser

10:30 to 11:00 am: Stretch Break / Info session / Networking

CC Teacher Camp Info Session & Networking by Saber Khan

11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Workshop Round 2

Vibecoding and CS education - An open conversation by Paul Way

Closing the Circle by Jesal Mehta

Teaching and Learning with Web Spinner by Caleb Foss

AI Mirror Play by ash herr

3D printing with p5.js by Gair Subbraman

Digital Quilting Circle by Tess Ramsey

Stringing worms with type & code by Sai Ram Ved Vyapurapu

12:00 to 12:30 pm: Closing keynote and goodbye with Monica Powell

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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · Sep 18

Those That Inherit the Earth Vol. 1 is live on Kickstarter!

If an episodic tale of an opossum and an astronaut living in a sword and sci-fi world sounds like your thing, this book is for you

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Logan / Tachyon @tachyonart.bsky.social · Sep 18

I've been doing a pretty good job about keeping the site updated btw. First look at all new art is there. There's a backlog of stuff I haven't posted on socials yet if you go to the blog section.

Logan / Tachyon @tachyonart.bsky.social · Aug 25

All art for a complete website overhaul. Check it out here: tachyonart.neocities.org

Click around to find some brand new illustrations!

Tachyon Art

An archive of art, projects, and interests

tachyonart.neocities.org

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Logan / Tachyon @tachyonart.bsky.social · Sep 18

You can leave the experiments to the lab rats. For real results you need a mouse out in the field.

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Zuccnini 🎃🦖 @zuccnini.bsky.social · Sep 15

Sunflower snack
[ #art #oc #watercolor ]

Watercolor illustration of mr dinosir eating a sunflower at the foot of more sunflowers.

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Gus Becker @gusbusdraws.bsky.social · Sep 15

Aw thank you!! Was definitely fun to put together. I think I'll make some more little worldbuilding zines like that!

Gus Becker @gusbusdraws.bsky.social · Sep 15

Had a great time at #Denver Zine Fest this weekend! This was the first time we tabled as UFO Country Press!

Photo of me & my buddy Earl behind our table of zines!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Sep 15

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant.
“Reactor Overheating”

2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads:
“Press cancel to avoid critical overload”

3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads:
“Enter password to confirm”
“Incorrect password”
“Incorrect password”
“Do you want to reset your password?”
“Reset link has been sent to your email”
“Please choose a new password”
“New password can't be the same as old password”
The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9.

Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up.

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Ollie (0/1 COMMISSION SLOTS FILLED) @ordheist.bsky.social · Sep 14

trying to gauge interest for this faux wargaming codex thing, would people be interested in buying an e-book/hard copy of something like this?

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Britzilla 🇬🇧 Commissions Open @britzilla.bsky.social · Sep 15

Working on a vehicle design for a friend.

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Gus Becker @gusbusdraws.bsky.social · Sep 15

Thank you! Feels like a good opportunity with all these prompts that match the same theme

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Matt @mattlibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 15

There a re some zine feeds: bsky.app/profile/veli...

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Gus Becker @gusbusdraws.bsky.social · Sep 15

Ah! I ended up with one of the Jobblins zines! Thanks so much, I love it!

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Bean @bebebeanie.bsky.social · Sep 15

Went to Denver Zine Fest for the first time. I had a lot of fun and met so many amazing artists!

I also brought copies of my Jobblins zine and traded and bought so many cool zines!

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Gus Becker @gusbusdraws.bsky.social · Sep 15

I think maybe we are & we just aren't good at finding each other! Where are the #zine makers and lovers of #zines??

Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · Sep 15

So a question, why don't zinesters seem to be on this platform?

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Gus Becker @gusbusdraws.bsky.social · Sep 15

Woah these look great! It would be so cool to see them swimming around in some kind of web 1.0 aquarium 👀