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Kevin Forbes
@kevinforbesarts.bsky.social
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Artist, Writer, Comics (the Intersection of those Two.) Creator of Tales of Phantom Cay. (He/Him.)
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this is where i skeet from, if you even care
The Satellite of Love from Mystery Science Theater 3000, a Bone Shaped Space-Station that is essentially a dog toy covered in Star Wars-style Greebling. It's like Silent Running but instead of taking care of plants they watch b movies and make jokes. I watched this as a kid and it's become a recent fixation again as an adult.
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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I remembered I draw a second Krampus! I do a Christmas Card for my comic every year, and 2022 was done in the style of Vernon Grant because he is one of two pop artists from my home town, and he specialized in little elf guys (he invented Snap Crackle and Pop among other things.)
I draw a christmas card every year for my comic, Tales of Phantom Cay, and the one I drew for 2022 was in the style of a Vernon Grant Christmas Card. All of my main characters are drawn in the style of Christmas Elves playing with ornaments and Candy Canes beneath the Tree - except for the villain Mr. Trousers who I drew to look like a Miniature Krampus, switches and all.
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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I guess it is time to bring out my old Krampus drawing that I made before Bluesky was a thing.
it is a drawing I made a few years ago of Krampus - a horrifying goat-man demon thing. He has chains on his legs, pale gold goat-like eyes (I enjoy goat eyes because they are unsettling in a way different from snake eyes) horns and a backpack full of switches. He has a long pink tongue and is standing in a field of somewhat abstract snow (I didn't put as much detail in the snow as I did in the Krampus.) Admittedly the end result is kind of like Chewbacca as a goat alien instead of a dog alien.
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Inspired by local events in my home state. www.thestate.com/news/local/e...
It is the logo for the New England Patriots (a profile of a man wearing a tricorn hat with a star on it, all in Patriotic Colors Red White and Blue (with his face being silver.) I changed it so that the Tricorn Hat turns into the Silhouette of a Paper Mill, and the red trailing off part turns into smoke. I then gave it the name "New England Polluters" after the fact that Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, owns a paper mill in my home state of South Carolina that is polluting a small town without shame. The town is so small that it's hard to get anyone to care.
December 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I make a comic called "Tales of Phantom Cay" which is influenced by Eurocomics, Bone, Carl Barks, and the Commedia Dell'Arte. It is about the weird people inhabiting an island and their adventures. It is currently in the 3rd Act, where a lot of plot points introduced in Acts 1 and 2 are ....
A page from a couple of chapters ago, where three of the main characters enter an old mine and character 3 (Quinn) gets lost because he is in his own thoughts while characters 1 and 2 (Olivia and Pierre) go one way down a fork while he goes the other.
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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when you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.
(p.s. the original creature of this image, @jbmonge.bsky.social is a bluesky user.)
A pale, vaguely skeletal creature merges from a cave. This is the "Mom? Dad? Friends?" meme based on an image by Jean-Baptist Monge.
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
(this is the third time I've done this I am running out of getaway vehicles)
a bright pink corvette somewhere in Los Angeles. For the sane world this is just a car, but for Los Angeles this is almost like spotting a cryptid - this is Angelyne's car. The original celebutante, before influencers, before reality tv, this is the original "I want to be famous by being famous" person. She came to Hollywood and bought herself a bright pink corvette, and some big billboards with airbrushed pictures of herself on them, and has been basically "Dreaming the Impossible Dream" ever since. Supposedly she has been living kind of rough lately. But she is basically LA's Emperor Norton - every town has a kind of weird guy in it that everyone just sort of accepts as "oh that's the rollerskating everywhere guy" or whatever. This is LA's "Weird Guy." Imagine how weird you have to be to accomplish that.
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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A movie that takes place where you're from.
The film poster for The Prince of Tides. At the bottom is a boat sailing what appears to be the low country. At the top is an image of Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand's characters laying in a bed. Barbra's character is content, Nick Nolte's character looks more uneasy.
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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this is how I post
It's Keanu Reeves as Johnny Mnemonic, wearing a big Virtual Reality Helmet and manipulating a virtual object with haptic gloves. Imagine when we thought this would be the future? I do. I miss it. Virtual sports were supposed to be people running around a weird polygonal landscape with lasers and swords powered by VR and haptic feedback. Instead it's gamers with vape contracts who scream slurs at each other.
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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There's only one beer left
Rappers screaming all in our ears, like we're deaf
Tempt me, do a number on a label
Eat up all they emcees and drink 'em under the table

(i had to redo it so I could edit the photo.)
It's a meme of the New Pope Leo looking like he is about to start rapping. Because I posted this with MF DOOM lyrics I edited in the famous MF DOOM Mask, which (if you haven't seen it) looks a lot like Maximus's helmet from Gladiator.
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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This joke might be funny for one or two people and for the rest of you I am sorry.
A painting of Vercingetorix, the Gaulish War Leader, surrendering to Julius Caesar as painted by Lionel Royer. I added the phrase "Vercingetorix said Trans Rights" in a decorative, Trajanesque Font called Cinzel. The joke is that the Romans referred to the already assimilated Gaulish settlements such as Narbonne as "Cisalpine Gauls" (because they were on the same side of the mountains as the Romans were. While Vercingetorix and his armies were the "Transalpine Gauls" i.e. the Gauls on the other side of the Alps i.e "Dangerous Barbarians." But also, Trans Rights Are Human Rights.
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle. (I didn't get far)
The Fast Mail Train No. 97 crash back in 1903. The inspiration for the famous folk-country song "The Wreck of the Old 97." There is a Rail Museum in Spencer, NC today. It's worth a visit.
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
It is a classic clown car, one of the first.
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Featured: one extremely punchable face.
A picture of Shawn McCreesh the guy who wrote this article. Looking just so incredibly douchy and smug about being weirdly nostalgic for an era of corruption and cronyism that allowed an actual pedophile ring to exist, something that should only exist in Satanic Panic paranoia.
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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A picture of famed country singer Johnny Cash giving the camera the middle finger, for context it is because the quote that got the user banned was just Johnny Cash lyrics and it is embarrassing that Blue sky admins didn't know that, and are doubling down rather than just admit that they are wrong.
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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If you see this, post your bird art
A drawing I made years ago of a cockatiel (standard grey, yellow, and white coloration) standing in a nondescript brown background. Face full of whimsy with orange cheeks, as cockatiels do.
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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A Mamdani Political Poster Parody that says "Winners Don't Do Drugs" "For William F. Sessions, Director, FBI." This kind of oddball phrase is very familiar if you played Arcade Games a lot in the 1990s, when Street Fighter would show it in between people actually playing the game.
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Going to conduct a little experiment here, with a scene from The Lion King as a control.
One of three images from the "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" sequence from The Lion King, in which we get strongly implied animal boning in a movie for kids, but they are cisgender heterosexual animals so it is okay as far as Bluesky Moderation is concerned. This scene is Nala and Simba looking lovingly into each others' eyes. The second of three pictures from the "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" scene in the Lion King, where after playfully romping around like kids Simba is suddenly on top of Nala and she licks his face. And finally, the scene that launched a thousand furries, that one frame from the "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" sequence in the Lion King where Nala looks up at Simba and gives him really intense "Come Hither" eyes.
November 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Drop something purple.
A digital painting of the first photo taken by the James Webb Telescope. It is a black purple night full of "stars" - stars which are actually galaxies. In my attempt to draw this photo, I incorporated subtle elements referencing Kirby Krackle and UPA aesthetics. I would not mind revisiting this some day and leaning harder on those elements.
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I see that Hakeem Jeffries has reached the "pretend that I was always in favor of this" phase
professional Quisling Hakeem Jeffries pretending that he was always in favor of this, and that it was somehow his idea and a thing that he did rather than something that he desperately fought against, tooth and nail, until this exact moment.
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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also I don't know if anyone even remembers this show but
the character Sully from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, a show where Jane Seymour played the doctor in a wild west town and dealt with wild west issues in a slightly more grown-up light than classic westerns (natives were actual human beings who deserved rights, for instance.) Sully was the half-feral love interest who was basically her "will-they-or-won't-they" without the show.
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I didn't have to dig for this it was the second or third top thing in his posts. It's honestly funnier than anything I've ever written, and it's not even on purpose.
a screenshot from bengm198's bluesky where he is pleading to a youtuber to be allowed back on the discord after his shitty behavior got him banned. I didn't have to dig at all for this.
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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It's the Tinner's Hares, three hares running in a circle, their ears forming a triangle inside it. It is a strange symbol that shows up all over the Silk Road, and as far as anyone can tell doesn't really have a deeper meaning to it. Which is to say, don't forget to say "Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits" today.
November 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Sketch for a project I am working on that isn't Phantom Cay #artsky
A sketch of a Cyberpunk landscape. If you look closely you can see that the buildings are based on animal related things like hamster cages, birdhouses, cat towers, etc. airships (both dirigibles and non defined more exotic varieties) are in the background - a cloudy sky
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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QRP with your dark art 🍅🩸
"The New Gehenna" A desolate wasteland under an overcast sky. Shrines shaped like bullets have altars full of blood which in turn feeds into a river of the same. One of them has a torn and dirty American flag. Above all is written the biblical quote Jeremiah 7:31 which reads "And they have built the High Places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to Burn Their Sons and Their Daughters in the Fire, Which I did Not Command, Nor Did It Come Into My Heart."
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM