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Sam Benc 🐟

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Cartoonist. Adult Teenage Dirtbag 🌱 Friend of shrimp 🦐 She/her 🏳️‍🌈 Philadelphia Making a GN, LAST SHIP TO MARS (Henry Holt, 2026) 💌 [email protected] Rep'd by @draper-claire.bsky.social

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · Nov 26

I feel like I forget to talk about it but here's a reminder that I have a comic coming next year called Last Ship to Mars 🚀 that is not even a little concerned about Mars and is instead a love letter to the Earth and the huge importance of staying and doing the work. It's also gay. ✨

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 1h

Huge accomplishment!! I always feel like the early stages, laying everything out is the hardest.

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Rumic World @furinkan.com · 19h

On this date, October 14, 1980, the very first issue of Big Comic Spirits is published with the first chapter of Maison Ikkoku.

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Las 🐺🪽 @featherfangart.bsky.social · 5h

| Villain |

To all my fellow people pleasers out there... 😌
#originalart

an illustration of book being pierced through by a sword, from the wound the thorns with red tips are growing, slowly changing into flowers, a red bookmark is there to symbolize blood.

the book reads 'It's alright to say No. You will always be a villain in someone's story...'

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 9h

MOOD.

(Was That Normal? by @avpotts.bsky.social - follow the Kickstarter by signing up here www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...)

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 2h

I’m SO glad you think this too!! I had fun with it but it felt like a LOT of different script passes happened that left it somehow both strangely unfinished and also aggressively squeaky clean. The visuals and music were great but I kind of forgot the story as soon as the credits rolled.

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Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 22h

Comic Frontier is humans talking to humans. I’ve spoken to Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Annie Nocenti and so much more. I don’t make money on the site at all. I just love the comics arts! Please consider supporting human work. Patreon.com/Comicfrontier

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22h

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 22h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks, I hope you do when it's out!

The character is a full robot, her arm is just a cheaper replacement that looks more obviously robotic!

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 8h

Sometimes it's the right call to not trust a restaurant that is surrounded on three sides by a cemetery

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · Jun 1

hey Philly, if you’re looking for shitty diner food, do NOT go to Bob’s Diner in Roxborough! we decided to try it out this morning, and we were there for all of 5 minutes before the patrons and waitresses started yelling homophobic slurs and talking about how gross the pride parade is

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 1d

Denver Leary spent the last three (3!!) chapters of KEEPING TIME trying to get the reserved, attractive pianist he used to know to (re)join his band. He FINALLY succeeded except it's, uh, off to a rough start

#KeepingTime #webcomics

🎸 Latest update: keepingtimecomic.com
🎸Start from the beginning

A panel from the webcomic KEEPING TIME. Three dudes in a band are in their practice space experiencing a full range of emotional reactions to a new band member joining them. The bassist, Stef, crosses his arms surlily, Tomás, the drummer, is an excitable toddler, and Denver holds his hands out at Stef in a 'dude, what gives' gesture as he asks, "Stef, buddy? You wanna say hi back, or...?"

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 8h

The Raggedy Ann to Joker pipeline feels really appropriate these days

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #porfolioday ! I'm Sam, a queer Philly based cartoonist making comics and character design/visual development with a focus on sci-fi and environmentalism. I love drawing girls, robots and messy, detailed worlds.

I'm especially looking to line up some short comics!

💌 [email protected]

Sketches of a robot girl and some various robotic arm design explorations

A page from my graphic novel, Last Ship to Mars

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 9h

I got distracted by how cuddly my dog was being and didn’t realize my coffee had tipped over and was emptying its entire contents on the couch….

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 9h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 20h

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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Barbara Perez Marquez➡️BCC Table 519 @mustachebabs.com · 1d

I’m hoping by next #PortfolioDay I’ll have some shiny new things to share, but for now it’s not too early to reach out with your 2026 writing needs (particularly for shorter projects)!

Barbara Perez Marquez➡️BCC Table 519 @mustachebabs.com · Jul 8

Hope everyone is having a good #PortfolioDay!

I'm Babs, a queer latine writer, and I've got a few books coming out soon and just overall spend my time telling queer stories✨

www.mustachebabs.com

Comic page from the comic Kiss the Cook (written by Barbara, art by Rhinosnax). Olivia saved something for Marcelle, which Marcelle is delighted to try as they continue to chat.

Olivia: I do have something for you, I’m Olivia by the way.

Marcelle: Marcelle, nice to meet you...

Marcelle: Are you sure?

Olivia: Yeah, neighborly treat.

Olivia: I’m sorry I didn’t get to come by first. I wasn’t sure if I should just wait until tomorrow’s bake since everything else sold out...

Marcelle: Why is that?

Panel from House of Slay Season 2 story, Mx. Nomer, with fragment glimpses of the main character Naomi. Art by Dominic Bustamante.

Cover art for "The Curie Society: Game of Code" featuring a dynamic illustration of six diverse characters actively engaging with various technologies, set against a backdrop of a large classical building. Text includes authors' names: Heather Einhorn, Adam Staffaroni, Barbara Perez Marquez, and Sonia Liao.

Page 1 from the Tell Them Of Us story, Sower's Requiem, with the main character Nela walking through a golden field of wheat and ending with her boot prints on the soil. Art by Amalas Rosa.

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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 1d

Happy #portfolioday

I make comics and drawings of my original characters and it makes me happy ✨

Hit me up if you wanna work make cool shit together 💕
brukajones.com/contact-me

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 21h

Repost with your favorite Halloween costume

My girlfriend is obsessed with my first Halloween costume, and I don’t know what I like more about it: the weird grasping hand (waiting for candy) or whatever my mom thought she was doing with that make up

Old photograph of me dressed as a clown at 3 years old with unsettling white face make up

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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · Apr 7

vamped up (1/2)

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Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez looking for a new agent @artofnickyrdrgz.bsky.social · 1d

🏳️‍🌈🇵🇷 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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scary bravo @sierrabravoart.bsky.social · 1d

oh my god it's #PortfolioDay again and i really want to get to do another comic soon, please let me do some history and mythology stuff thanks

www.sierrabravoart.com
email: [email protected]

promotional art for the tenth anniversary of Hans Vogel is Dead! Hans and Reineke walk through a birch forest, Hans looking behind him at the viewer.

an illustration of the chimera from Greek mythology, walking through some ruins overgrown with ivy and a charred stone wall.

a comic page from HANS VOGEL IS DEAD, showing a dogfight between multiple German and Polish aircraft.

a comic page from HANS VOGEL IS DEAD, showing a boxing match between Princess Glückskind and the leshy. The leshy attempts to turn into multiple animals, unsuccessfully.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. At its core it’s for cowards who hate other people, and hate the idea of anyone gaining something from what they feel the world owes them.

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 1d

The only reason to ever use this is you are just a hateful human who doesn’t want to give money to anyone else and thus rejects the ENDLESS other ways to get your porn fix. It’s the ultimate wish fulfillment of sex worker hating fascists who believe they are owed sexual gratification.