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Minna Turunen

@amarathimi.bsky.social

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Programmer by day, webcomic artist by night.
🇫🇮, she/her

✨Comic: https://tapas.io/series/Book-of-Change/info

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Minna Turunen @amarathimi.bsky.social · Oct 23

Hello! 🩵
I'm Minna. Excuse me while I unpack my bags a bit.

I spend my free time working on a webcomic "Book of Change". It is a weird mix of sci-fi themes, talking magical books and bitter sweet feels~

I also love to share comics, art and writing related posts.

Comic: tapas.io/series/Book-...

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Paula Cheshire 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

@paulacheshire.bsky.social

Mood 💀 #comic

December 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM

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Minna Turunen

@amarathimi.bsky.social

BoC update!

Had fun drawing the very dramatic backgrounds for this page~

Just... don't ask me about exact the layout of this library. :'D

Read here: tapas.io/episode/3701...

[ #boc-comic #boc-comic-update #webcomic #webcomics ]

"Book of Change" comic update!
Thumbnail featuring sly Murmeli.

December 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM

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Miss🐑Sheepy

@misssheepy.bsky.social

Currently sketching out pages for the next chapter and remembered this comic I made in '21 😅
Definitely feeling this right now lol

A black and white two panel comic.
Panel 1 shows a doodle of a person drawing out thumbnails excitedly
"Past me making thumbnails:
An overhead shot in this panel will look good!
Have a full city street filled with people over here!
This scene needs at LEAST 20 horses.
Oh and everytime we see this city background its from a different angle!"
Panel two is of the same doodled person, this time holding a knife and wanting to break into the previous panel. The background is filled with the word KILL.
"Present me having to draw the actual pages:"

July 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM

Minna Turunen

@amarathimi.bsky.social

December 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM

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Amanda Wong

@amandawtwong.bsky.social

Panel 1: "...and these are the animators' desks"
Panel 2: Four characters sprawled unconscious in a messy workspace

December 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM

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Johanna Taylor 👻 ✍️ 📚

@johannamation.bsky.social

SONDER (2025), a short comic about a soul who leaves their body while sleeping to go explore the world 🗺️

1/8

Panel 1:
A soul, SONDER, is escorted by two angels down an ethereal path lined with stars. They are winged and have flower blooms for heads, but otherwise look humanoid. The surrounding realm is dark and has no color.

Panel 2:
SONDER is sat down in an ornate chair in a large room; the space behind them is a latticed gothic wall that vaguely resembles a confessional booth.

Panel 3: Upshot of the CLERK: a bespectacled, celestial deer-headed being with an imposing presence, resembling a judge with a large open book in front of them.

1. CLERK: You’ve been a tricky soul to track down.  
Panel 4: SONDER looks listlessly up from their chair. The CLERK remains impassive.

1. SONDER: Am I in trouble?
2. CLERK: Let’s find out.

Panel 5:
The stars behind the CLERK’s head take on more humanoid shapes.

CLERK: 4. You see, I track every human soul that ventures too far from their bodies while dreaming, and guide them back. 5. I see everyone. I know everyone.

Panel 6:
A view of the CLERK’s open book. The name on the page is scrawled over and illegible.

CLERK: 6. But somehow, I do not know you. I cannot discern your name, nor where you come from, nor where you go. 7. So I’m curious… who are you?

Panel 7:
SONDER holds their hands, makes themself small.

8. SONDER : I’m no one.
9. CLERK: Is that so? State your case. Why should I let you roam free?

Panel 8:
Close-up on SONDER, who looks to be dissociating.

10. SONDER: Because I’m hungry.
11. CLERK (off-panel): Hungry? For what?

December 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM

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✨ Star ✨

@thestarfishface.bsky.social

I smell comic backgrounds chatter on the wind, just gonna drop this in here and let it speak for itself

From How to Webcomic!

December 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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Bree Lundberg

@breelundberg.com

Happy #SmallBusinessSaturday 🛍️ Don't procrastinate if you're ordering gifts for the holidays! Thanks for supporting my shop and other artists this year. I know times are tough for everybody. 💕 shop.breelundberg.com

Photo of lined notepad with a pink border and a banner at the top that says “stuff to procrastinate on”. At the bottom is cute illustrated grey kitty flopped over on their side with eyes closed and a thought bubble saying “I’ll do it tomorrow”.

November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM

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Johanna Taylor 👻 ✍️ 📚

@johannamation.bsky.social

Yes, & also:

Write down ALL your fun ideas and keep em in one place (notes app, notebook, word doc, etc). Including the ones you end up *not* using for your story.

Refer to it next time you get writer’s/artist’s block. You’ll find a perfect use for each idea eventually, be it now or 5 yrs from now

Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · May 21

WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.

Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.

Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.

May 21, 2024 at 10:10 PM

Minna Turunen

@amarathimi.bsky.social

Women want one thing*, and it's disgusting.

*A story about shapeshifting magic book and a dead tired programmer trying to somehow keep said book in check.

tapas.io/series/Book-...

"Book of Change" webcomic cover.

Featuring Esa holding a book and Murmeli looming behind him.

November 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM

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Finding Dee Fish

@findingdeefish.bsky.social

This was a huge challenge—capturing the 90s Image vibe of Jim Lee and Scott Williams and the era’s distinct coloring. Luckily, my amazing friend Laura Martin swooped in and added all the shiny Wildstorm/Image zazz I hoped for. Thank you so much, Laura! Squeee!

November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM

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Boum

@boum.bsky.social

????????

#comics
#boumeries

A 4-panel comic. I'm tabling at the Montreal Comic Arts Festival. A young woman walks by my table and looks at my wares. She touches one of my books on a stand, then immediately recoils and shouts "Oh my god wait. These are books??" The last panel only reads "COMICS FESTIVALS" and there's my confused face in the middle, and I say "WTF"

November 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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Bayleaf 🍃

@iceghost.bsky.social

Hey hey! Gimmie your webcomics! I wanna read ‘em. :3 All of ‘em

August 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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Boum

@boum.bsky.social

Interactions in comics festivals, amirite

#comics
#boumeries

A 4-panel comic. I'm at a comics festival. A guy walks by and says "Hey! I love your banner! It's really funny!" so I reply "Thanks! Wait until you read my comics!" So he asks "What's it about? A family going on adventures?". I say "Not really! It's all true events." He immediately replies "Oh, like the Simpsons!!" I hesitate but say "What no" then I hand him my card. "Grab my card and give it a try?" but he leaves saying "Nah, I just like your banner, bye"

November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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Jennifer Reuter

@gritrook.art

Look, y'all better hurry because these losers CAN'T keep their claws in their own business!

Fill out the visual novel dating sim survey before they steal it from me (end of Friday 21st Nov): jenareuter.fillout.c...
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#gamedev #indiegame #visualnovel #bionicle #terato #monsterromance #hateshipgame

Illustration in sepia tones of a bunch of biomech monsters with spiky spines hassling a human (self-portrait of the artist), who's dressed in a white suit and pants. She's holding a stack of papers away from one who's desperate to get a hold of them, and a second who's curious. The third, shorter, is trying to stop the second, while a fourth giant watches from afar with a derpy, curious look to him.

November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM

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Finding Dee Fish

@findingdeefish.bsky.social

Sometimes, the idea maker just… kinda gets backed up. And sometimes, not having an idea GIVES me an idea. This is one of those times. lol

November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM

Minna Turunen

@amarathimi.bsky.social

My friend @gritrook.art sometimes snipes me with fan-art of my webcomic. They draw them illegally good looking. (Makes me scream every time.)

Have to draw faster to get to point in the comic so that the fan-art does not contain spoilers anymore. :"D

November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Meredith McClaren

@iniquitousfish.bsky.social

A small black and white comic. The comic shows me in four stages.

At the beginning I am lurched over in my office chair, prepared to work hard. A speech bubble says: 'Okay. Time to lock in and-.' My cat's head is peeking up from around my lap.

In the second part, my cat has started to crawl into my space. I look down at her, but am still distractedly saying: 'Time to lock-'

In the third part my cat is starting to make herself comfortable on my chest, where she likes to be. I am succumbing, looking off in the distance saying: 'To-'

By the fourth section, I have fully surrendered. She is sleeping on chest. It's all over.

November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM

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heikala.bsky.social

@heikala.bsky.social

My thoughts on style 💦

September 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM

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Shen Comix

@shenanigansen.bsky.social

Panel 1: A girl with poofy dark brown hair, brown skin, and yellow beads holding the hair in a "space buns" hairstyle, is looking back at you while sitting in a computer chair in front of a drawing tablet. She wears a purple sweatshirt with a yellow "stitch" pattern going down the sleeves, and has apparently drawn a golden-armored knight standing on a cliff with billowing clouds and night stars in the background. She is labeled "illustrator" and says "It took me 10 hours to draw this!"

Panel 2: Shen points at her with his right hand, a manically smug expression on his face and the other hand on his hip. He is labeled "comic artist" and says "HAH!! Just ONE drawing in 10 hours??"

Panel 3: Shen continues speaking, pointing at himself with his thumb. He says "I'D have to get like TWENTY drawing done in that time."

Panel 4: Behind the still-smug shen is a slouched, deformed, horrible beast of a man with a drawing tablet in one hand and the other hand holding the pen, and also strapped to a plank of wood for wrist stabilization. It wears only a ragged loin cloth. The neck is long and extends far forward, and the hair is wild, going in all directions. In the darkness of the face two small eyes glint. This creature is labeled "animator"

October 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM

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Bayleaf 🍃

@iceghost.bsky.social

Very very stressy today

November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM

Minna Turunen

@amarathimi.bsky.social

Early concept sketches of Key for webcomic "Book of Change".

Photo's from the sketchbook are a bit messy, since my sketchbook is THICK and it is pretty much impossible to take good photos with.

[ #boc-comic #webcomic #art #characterdesign #conceptart #visualdevelopment #sketchbook ]

Early sketches of Key for webcomic "Book of Change".

Wasn't very happy with these at the time so decided to design the character later when I get there in the story.

Exploration sketches for Key for possible shapes. Also contains practice study sketches from actual birds.

Sketches just before making the character reference sheet for Key.

Getting close to character design that feels 'correct' and is easy enough to draw for the comic.

November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM

Minna Turunen

@amarathimi.bsky.social

Character ref sheet of Key for webcomic "Book of Change".

The design is inspired by birds of paradise.

I tried to incorporate elements from both the object itself as well as Murmeli's shapes, since key is a part of him.

[ #boc-comic #charactersheet #conceptart #characterdesign #webcomic #art ]