Sam Benc 🐟
@nonvieta.bsky.social
Cartoonist. Adult Teenage Dirtbag 🌱 Friend of shrimp 🦐
She/her 🏳️🌈
Philadelphia
Making a GN, LAST SHIP TO MARS (Henry Holt, 2026)
💌 [email protected]
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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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BUY INDIE🖤☠️
Looking for a story where ocean life assimilates w/the human body in a Weird Body Horror bonanza?
...Would you believe we have more than one?
Check out:
FROM THE BELLY by @emnays.bsky.social
REEF MIND by @hazelzorn.bsky.social
store.tenebrouspress.com
Looking for a story where ocean life assimilates w/the human body in a Weird Body Horror bonanza?
...Would you believe we have more than one?
Check out:
FROM THE BELLY by @emnays.bsky.social
REEF MIND by @hazelzorn.bsky.social
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
BUY INDIE🖤☠️
Looking for a story where ocean life assimilates w/the human body in a Weird Body Horror bonanza?
...Would you believe we have more than one?
Check out:
FROM THE BELLY by @emnays.bsky.social
REEF MIND by @hazelzorn.bsky.social
store.tenebrouspress.com
Looking for a story where ocean life assimilates w/the human body in a Weird Body Horror bonanza?
...Would you believe we have more than one?
Check out:
FROM THE BELLY by @emnays.bsky.social
REEF MIND by @hazelzorn.bsky.social
store.tenebrouspress.com
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If you need to get presents for teenagers this holiday season can I recommend these graphic novels that I am buying for my teen: BROOMS, HELLO SUNSHINE, and S.I.R.
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If you need to get presents for teenagers this holiday season can I recommend these graphic novels that I am buying for my teen: BROOMS, HELLO SUNSHINE, and S.I.R.
I think about it this a lot with comics. There are single issues of mainstream comics of big IP that legitimately are selling perhaps a couple thousand copies across the whole country. Buy that floppy or trade or book! It absolutely makes a difference!
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I think about it this a lot with comics. There are single issues of mainstream comics of big IP that legitimately are selling perhaps a couple thousand copies across the whole country. Buy that floppy or trade or book! It absolutely makes a difference!
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I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
It's that time of year. Time to agonize over whether a daily or a weekly planner is going to fix me
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It's that time of year. Time to agonize over whether a daily or a weekly planner is going to fix me
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Thank you to everybody organizing, posting, marching or protesting on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Remember this:
Remember this:
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Thank you to everybody organizing, posting, marching or protesting on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Remember this:
Remember this:
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I Know The Way Out - the new poetry comic collection from me and @chrissywilliams.bsky.social - is OUT NOW and available to order online here: tomhumberstone.com/shop/i-know-...
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I Know The Way Out - the new poetry comic collection from me and @chrissywilliams.bsky.social - is OUT NOW and available to order online here: tomhumberstone.com/shop/i-know-...
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
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I really like this and I think someone should commission Claire to write a spell for being a non-completionist. Lot of slop is being made these days and I think everyone should allow themselves the liberation of not feeling like you have to watch it to the end if it sucks
Years ago I wrote a spell to stop myself caring about something and it worked. Maybe you know someone who could use it now
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I really like this and I think someone should commission Claire to write a spell for being a non-completionist. Lot of slop is being made these days and I think everyone should allow themselves the liberation of not feeling like you have to watch it to the end if it sucks
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For folks who are newer around here, thanks for following! This is my deal; I make a free to read webcomic about love and grief and cultural expectations of masculinity through my transmasc lens ✌️
#KeepingTime
#KeepingTime
There are now 3 full chapters (that's 106 pages!!) of completely free-to-read KEEPING TIME, the queer, slow burn between two former friends and now current bandmates who - for better or worse - fall in love.
#KeepingTime #webcomics
🎸 keepingtimecomic.com
#KeepingTime #webcomics
🎸 keepingtimecomic.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
For folks who are newer around here, thanks for following! This is my deal; I make a free to read webcomic about love and grief and cultural expectations of masculinity through my transmasc lens ✌️
#KeepingTime
#KeepingTime
You don’t know fear until your 75 gallon Amazon river aquarium’s temperature alarm starts going off
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
You don’t know fear until your 75 gallon Amazon river aquarium’s temperature alarm starts going off
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨
For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.
Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale
itch.io
For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.
Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale
itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨
For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.
Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale
itch.io
For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.
Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale
itch.io
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Why Silksong doesn't have difficulty settings or sliders: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Why Silksong doesn't have difficulty settings or sliders: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Essential reading, like virtually all of Klein's work
@naomiaklein.bsky.social: ”Where the Surrealists made irreverent and untameable art, the fascists sought a world of perfect symmetry. While the Surrealists embraced the frailties and mysteries of the human body, the fascists waged war on deviance.’’ www.equator.org/articles/sur...
www.equator.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Essential reading, like virtually all of Klein's work
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There is no such thing as unskilled labor.
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There is no such thing as unskilled labor.
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
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I'm still waiting for a Blu-ray release of "Coo of the Far Seas" (1993).
There is an HD master, but it's only broadcast on television in Japan occasionally.
There is an HD master, but it's only broadcast on television in Japan occasionally.
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I'm still waiting for a Blu-ray release of "Coo of the Far Seas" (1993).
There is an HD master, but it's only broadcast on television in Japan occasionally.
There is an HD master, but it's only broadcast on television in Japan occasionally.
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I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
I will not hand it to the Pope.
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Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
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Writing about people donating trash is — and I kid you not — the only thing (so far) to almost get me fired. White people were LIVID. And organized to get my university fired for it.
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
I had a womens studies professor try to coax a class to understand that it’s not ’wrong’ for an alcoholic homeless person to take your change you tossed and spend it on alcohol. People were livid lol. It really changed my perspective on giving. its freeing to give without expectation.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Writing about people donating trash is — and I kid you not — the only thing (so far) to almost get me fired. White people were LIVID. And organized to get my university fired for it.
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
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Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
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Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.
Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know how addictive their platforms can be to teens.
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.