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michael busuttil

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designing/editing the Massive-Verse (Radiant Black/Rogue Sun/The Dead Lucky/Supermassive) at Image Comics. hosting Ranger Danger. he/him.

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hey! I'm Michael Busuttil, a comics editor & designer. I've worked on books like RADIANT BLACK, ROGUE SUN, and the rest of the Massive-Verse, the Eisner-nominated DEEP CUTS, Kid Cudi's MOON MAN, THE INFERNALS, and THE SINGULARITY!

I will mostly be here doing dumb bits for my own amusement.

Covers of six comic books - Radiant Black, Rogue Sun, Moon Man, Deep Cuts, Across the Massive-Verse, and The Infernals.

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · 6d

every question has a clear and succinct Reddit post with a precise and specific answer that describes a button or menu option that simply is not on my screen

michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · 6d

teaching myself Blender at half past midnight for a book like a crazy person

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · 8d

very good

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · 11d

i like 'em

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 12d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · 12d

Bill Burr Baggins

michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · 13d

just an embarrassment of riches every single year

ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 13d

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · 27d

fun fact: the DC in DC Comics stands for Dete Ctive so the full name of the company is actually Detective Comics

michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Sep 13

please, Mr and Mrs samanthamashillustration was my father

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · Sep 12

I love making comics so much. I love figuring out the pacing, how much to show vs tell, composing each panel and the page as a whole, clever little sound effects or lettering touches, finding ways to streamline the process without compromising quality. ☺️

Ideal story-telling medium if you ask me.

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Sep 11

I believe she was on here but got suspended earlier today

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Sep 9

Goku is one of the most famous fictional characters of all time. he has an evil brother who shows up, dies immediately, and then no-one ever mentions him ever again

Kris Werewolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · Sep 9

dragonball has basically become a persisting pop culture entity that won't ever go away which leads to funny things like the fanbase fixating on dudes like Nappa in a desperate attempt to make him a character

michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Sep 9

i like this song a lot. this has been Michael's Music Corner.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Sep 8

ok everybody get ready

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The Mountain Goats - Armies of the Lord

Choose your preferred music service

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Sep 1

shout out to @beccasee.bsky.social, one of my favourite people in comics. we're gonna win her an Eisner soon, I promise

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Sep 1

I was gonna write something about how letterers are the unappreciated backbone of the industry but I genuinely just got an email from a letterer delivering a draft that I have to go look at instead

Pat Brosseau @droog811.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today, September 1st is Letterer Appreciation Day. Celebrated on Gaspar Saladino's birthday who was one of the greatest comic book letterers to ever pick up a pen. So, please appreciate the artistry of lettering which is more than just words on a comic book page.

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Aug 26

when you're happy with the dialogue, cut 30% of it

Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · Aug 17

Following up on my portfolio critique list: Any of you comics writers who teach feel like coming up with a list of 12 Things You Would Probably Tell an Aspiring Writer about their Comic Script?

Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · Aug 16

Great idea! I'm not the guy to do it, but I'm sure it could be done: "The story starts on page three." "The protagonist's efforts would be more compelling if you established what the stakes are if she fails" etc.

michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Aug 25

I hope that doesn't mean you were also missing real emails from Image Accounting, possibly to send you vast sums of money

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Sebastián Píriz @sebastianpiriz.bsky.social · Aug 25

I got an early morning email from Image's accounting that raised some red flags for me.

Do not put your account info in the link they shared.

contact your editor first asking about this.

I hope I'm wrong, but I really think somebody got hacked

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Aug 23

this is generous because I would [redacted for legal purposes] them with my bare hands

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Aug 23

not gonna lie, if one of my friends told me they used ChatGPT to write all their texts to me, I would slowly edge that person out of my life

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 23

Life is a continuous series of burdensome choices. True freedom comes when you give yourself over to the algorithm.

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Aug 23

I don't want it to be wrong in the book but what keeps happening is we have a local translate it, people online tell us it's wrong, and then they all have different ideas of what the right translation would be - I just don't know how to square everyone on this

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Aug 22

hey! every bit of Spanish in the book was translated by a local-Chicago native Spanish speaker and run past another to check it. people keep flagging the Spanish we use but we've checked all of it with multiple people (and we've tried different people, too) so I really don't know how to fix this

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Aug 19

I love that he drew those two figures and was like "no I went off on those" so he put them up the top as well

Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · Aug 19

Joe Caroff, West Side Story movie poster, United States, 1961⁠
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Caroff, designer of book covers, posters, and logos, including the “007” for the James Bond franchise, died on Sunday, just before his 104th birthday. Among his iconic creations was this poster often misattributed to Saul Bass.⁠

Detail of a poster focused on the words “WEST SIDE STORY” in a weathered stencil style, and an illustration of a man dancing on a stairway.

Detail of the same poster but showing more of the dancing illlustration, including a woman on the stairway.

Full, uncropped poster with this text on the top, “The screen achieves one of the great entertainments in the history of motion pictures.”

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Aug 18

this guy genuinely wrote some of the best music ever written in the English language and he also wrote this and we all just have to live with that

michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Aug 18

they're not, uh... they're not real. they're devices.

michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Aug 18

there seems to be a new school of media consumption that's something like "the characters are my friends and I need them to always make good and healthy decisions" and I simply do not understand it

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · Aug 14

do you think the Russian government would be interested in paying millions of dollars for two guys to talk about Power Rangers

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Aug 14

I think the most interesting thing (derogatory) about the podsphere is the discovery that many podcasters had been paid millions of dollars by the Russian government to do misinformation

The acknowledge it ... and kept on misinforming

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