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Ryan Howe
@ryanhowe.bsky.social
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Comic book artist, graphic designer, illustrator, writer. Creator of Daisy Blackwood: Pilot For Hire and We've Got Spirit.

You can find more of my work, my weekly free webcomics, and my contact info here:
https://linktr.ee/ryan_howe
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ryanhowe.bsky.social
Working on something new in the New Year... #comics
A woman lies on the ground, clutching the earth while the craft she crash landed in sits behind her in a pile of churned up dirt. A distant sunrise lights up the sky behind her.
December 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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elainemwill.bsky.social
This is from 2020, but I still like it -
A black and white ink drawing of an octopus wearing a Santa hat and puzzling over a long string of Christmas lights, which is draped all over its many arms.
December 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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simonroy.bsky.social
Today on the patreon - the first issue of of NIGHTSOIL, collected in a handy pdf. On a distant, barren world, a hermit is forced to rejoin the society he tried to reject, decades ago... (with colors, of course, by Sergey Nazarov).
www.patreon.com/posts/nights...
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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torikateillo.bsky.social
Hi #kidlitartpostcard day! ❄️

I’m Tori & I love creating fun, silly & heartwarming characters - animals and human!

Interested & open for work in PB & BoardBooks
Represented by Analía Cabello
@analiacabello.bsky.social
at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

More artwork @ torikateillustration.com
A boy is holding a bright star and being held up by a bear to put the star on a sad little tiny tree. A girl is giggling in the bottom corner at a fox who is tangled up in the christmas lights. The text reads “Tori Kate - represented by Analía Cabello at ABLA - torikateillustration.com”
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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gwillow.me
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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elainemwill.bsky.social
#traditionalart
a dragon in silhouette perched on top of an abandoned shed. several other abandoned structures can be seen in silhouette in the background. there's a power pole in the foreground. the sky is firey orange and yellow.
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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tendermiasma.com
I'm watching an adult creator get systematically cut off from every income stream by payment processors and now debankment could be on the table. She makes legal content. They are trying to shut her up and hope that we'll shut up too.

We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.
dieselbrain.bsky.social Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Nov 17
#SaveSpeech

Ana's situation has gotten more severe. This is blatantly targetted debanking and [extremely unfortunate] proof that these call campaigns are getting under paypros skin

Keep calling Visa and MC and demanding they stop discriminating against adult content!

stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
ryanhowe.bsky.social
This was a blast to work on, big thanks to Robert for letting me play with his characters.

The book's also an absolute steal of a deal on Itch!
robertinthewires.bsky.social Robert, Holiday Homunculus || Mr. 404 @robertinthewires.bsky.social · Nov 13
NEW BOOK JUST DROPPED

Want a space opera novelette about life after an interstellar rebellion, written by me and with seven stellar comic pages by @ryanhowe.bsky.social?

Go read THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF GYRO BRONSON!
robertislostinthewires.itch.io/the-last-wil...
ko-fi.com/s/244938e18a
A shot of a planet with two moons and a sun orbiting it. The text around it reads "THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF GYRO BRONSON. ROBERT IVENIUK. ILLUSTRATED BY RYAN HOWE." Black and white text. Reads: The mountains would be migrating soon. It was clear by the way the snow and boulders rolled off their peaks and the birds flew from their stony backs. If Talisa squinted, she could see them shift in place, teetering as though they were about to topple over. In truth, their countless root-like legs were wrestling themselves from the soft soil. Before long, they would begin their long march to find new stretches of earth to plant themselves. Talisa wished she could have stayed to watch them leave. Mountains only migrated once every hundred or so years. The last time she saw one move, she was a child, and too young to appreciate their majesty. Not that her parents let her get close enough to do so. From the safety of their colony, they watched the mountain by their colony shuffle mindlessly eastward, knocking over trees and ambling through Liberation Lake, while Talisa and her parents were safe behind blast-proof windows at least ten feet thick. Other moments from that day did not come to her as clearly. Her father insisted she cried and waved goodbye to the giant living rock. Why she didn’t remember that, who could say? She rested by her speeder as its hydrobattery finished charging in the river. The trees swayed in a calm breeze. Puffy seeds rode by on a gust of air, rooting themselves on a mossy outcrop in the distance. A mothbat settled on the long stem of a flower with prismatic petals, colours shifting as the light danced along its sharpened petals. Birdsongs and the babbling of the creek behind her tickled her ears. It was soon interrupted by the chime of her battery, and an electronic voice calling out “Fully Charged.” Kicking herself off the speeder, she trudged over. The top half of the battery, a brass ring angled upward for her to grasp, breached the surface of the water. From beneath the stream came a radiant cyan light, and a low hum. [editor's note: the rest of the description will continue on Page 3!] [editor's note: due to character limits, I moved some of the alt text from Page 2 to Page 3.] Without hesitating, she stepped one foot into the waters and reached over to collect the bulky, lantern-shaped fuel cell. After a thorough towelling to ensure it didn’t short out the vehicle’s insides, she loaded it in. Please, not like last time, she said to herself. Internal processors revved up and her ride was alive again. The speeder evoked the image of a wingless, legless bird, and when its headlamps and side-lights flashed on, the steel body appeared as though it was decorated with feathers. Fishing her gloves from her pockets and the flight jacket off of the duskox-leather seat, Officer Cadet Talisa Severn put herself behind the handlebars and switched the machine on. Her speeder huffed and lifted itself off the ground. As she slid goggles over her head, in the corner of her eye, she noticed the smallest mountain in the range was moving forward. Eight-panel comic page. PANEL 01 WIDE PANEL showing a buff man, GYRO BRONSON, standing between a young woman, HELENA HATHAWAY, and a BEAST rising out of the ocean, something halfway between a Komodo Dragon and a coral reef. The two humans are standing at a beach at sunset. NARRATIVE BOX: THE PLANET VADRIA, AT DUSK! NARRATIVE BOX: OUR HERO, GYRO BRONSON, HAVING ESCAPED THE UNDERSEA KINGDOM WITH HIS LADY LOVE, HELENA HATHAWAY, FINDS HIMSELF FACE-TO-FACE WITH A TERRIBLE FOE! PANEL 02 Small panel of GYRO with HELENA looking terrified. HELENA: OH, GYRO! DO SOMETHING! GYRO: DON’T WORRY! WE’VE BEEN ON LAND LONG ENOUGH THAT THE SOLAR BATTERIES ON MY PLASMA PISTOL SHOULD BE CHARGED! PANEL 03 Small shot of GYRO taking a BLASTER off his hip. It shimmers as he readies it. GYRO: HALF-POWER?! THIS BETTER WORK! PANEL 04 Show GYRO blasting the BEAST and sending it reeling into the sea behind it. GYRO: TAKE THAT, MONSTER! SFX: BZAP! PANEL 05 Shot of the BEAST taking the brunt of the blast and reeling back into the sea behind it. SFX: BATCHOW! BEAST: SKEEEEEEE PANEL 06 Show HELENA and GYRO embracing as GYRO looks on at the smouldering beast’s body in the foreground. He looks firm, but also remorseful. HELENA: OH, GYRO, YOU DID IT! GYRO: ALL IN A DAY’S WORK. PANEL 07 Panel showing a retrofuturist SHUTTLE flying close to the ground, nearing a hillside. HELENA [from off]: GYRO, LOOK! IT’S THE GALAHAD! THE OTHERS FOUND US! GYRO [from off]: WE BETTER GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE TROUBLE SHOWS UP! PANEL 08 Long panel of GYRO and HELENA running to the ship as a pair of lobster-humanoids crawl out of the rocks. GYRO: UH-OH! CRAYMEN! HELENA: OH, WHY’D YOU HAVE TO SAY THAT, GYRO! NARRATIVE BOX: NEXT WEEK: THE CLAWS OF CARNAGE!
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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astridoverthere.bsky.social
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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mostlyghostly.bsky.social
Really feeling that post Halloween despair today 🎃💀👹🎄
November 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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deadspiderhands.bsky.social
they see you
digital drawing of a lady leaning against a stone wall surrounded by jack o’ lanterns that are looking at her
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
ryanhowe.bsky.social
Monday night comics! Page 25 and 26 of We've Got Spirit: To Err Is Human... (Previous updates at #ToErrlsHumanWGS)
page 25 of We've Got Spirit: To Err Is Human... page 26 of We've Got Spirit: To Err Is Human...
October 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies.

Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...
ised-isde.canada.ca
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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pauljholden.com
I'm Off to bed, if you're looking for some nighttime reading, my free scifi webcomic has 8 pages online and is released weekly, a dead spaceship, a weird machine ... and The Ghosts of War...

www.pauljholden.com/patreon.php?...
Welcome Welcome! | PJ Holden
Get more from PJ Holden on Patreon
www.pauljholden.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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diannalgunn.bsky.social
CANADIANS!! The official petition started by a member of Parliament to fight back against payment processors' censorship of legal content is only open for a few more days. Make sure you've signed it: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6695 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
October 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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aledthompson.bsky.social
I've been waiting all year to repost this 🎃
A pumpkin patch in a variety of shapes and colours, some with carved faces with different expressions. Between the pumpkins are black and white cats, crows, frogs, bushes, twigs and mushrooms.
October 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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comicsinthega.bsky.social
"A Halloween in Duckburg" by Carl Barks.
A painting of Donald Duck opening his door on Halloween to find Huey, Dewey, and Louie, dressed as a ghost, a witch, and a devil, along with Witch Hazel and various monsters.
October 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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gregpak.net
Sharing this again because despite all of the horrors, you are not alone. MILLIONS of people around the country are standing up and saying NO, and you can join them.
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Sep 25
"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!"

Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!
October 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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aplante.com
i’m so sorry you had to find out this way but all-dressed chips are just chip bukkake
a cartoon drawing of the retro old dutch chip flavour mascots. all-dressed is kneeling on the ground, eyes half-closed in ecstasy. sour cream is kneeling in front of him and sucking him off while green onion fucks him from behind. onion is also pulling his own hair for a little bit of extra umf. salt, vinegar, and ketchup are all jerking off and jizzing on all-dressed. all are having a fantastic time. good for them.
June 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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spryoldlorax.bsky.social
Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.
I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting. The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The "known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson. So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself." 1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium. Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary. Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
September 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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thestoopidcato.bsky.social
KEEP DRAWING!
August 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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raphlife.bsky.social
Most of the issues with the tech industry right now stem from the fact that these people were raised on a steady diet of tech exceptionalism and were trained to believe that art doesn't matter because it's not fundamentally about driving capitalism a little further.
September 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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jasoncopland.bsky.social
Here's a few of the FULL TILT wraparound sketch covers I did for the sketch cover version of the ashcan I made for the book. I have a whole book of the sketch covers I did up at the link below.
September 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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jasoncopland.bsky.social
The joy I get from making a comic is generated by the actual acts of physically writing and drawing the book. Handing any aspect of that over to anything else deprives me of all the joy.
September 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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ericafails.bsky.social
Issue 2 cover for Harley and Ivy: Life and Crimes!
(And reminder that issue one is out November 5th)
www.comicsbeat.com/dc-comics-de...
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy ready to fight, surrounded by joker faces
September 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM