Terry Blas
@terryblas.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🇲🇽GLAAD award winning Writer/Artist. (YMIL)
Marvel:(Reptil, Nova) Abrams: (Lifetime Passes) Boom Studios (Hotel Dare)
Marvel:(Reptil, Nova) Abrams: (Lifetime Passes) Boom Studios (Hotel Dare)
As far as I know...sometime next year?
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
As far as I know...sometime next year?
Thank you. I appreciate it. “The deal I deserve” is a good way to put it. I don’t think I deserve all the money in the world but the last offer I got from a company to write a graphic novel would have paid me less than $1,000. Less than my monthly rent. I’m so frustrated.
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Thank you. I appreciate it. “The deal I deserve” is a good way to put it. I don’t think I deserve all the money in the world but the last offer I got from a company to write a graphic novel would have paid me less than $1,000. Less than my monthly rent. I’m so frustrated.
😭 Thank you, Maia. 💖
October 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
😭 Thank you, Maia. 💖
I hope you get a kick out of them. 19/19
October 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I hope you get a kick out of them. 19/19
I just want to tell stories, and it's awful feeling like you're being kept from doing that. Anyway, here's the pages if you want to see them. I guess somebody should. 18/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I just want to tell stories, and it's awful feeling like you're being kept from doing that. Anyway, here's the pages if you want to see them. I guess somebody should. 18/?
So this tells me that the basic essential pursuits, jobs like being a doctor or a lawyer, or an essential worker, those are worthy and noble, but the creativity, art, music, and sharing those things through stories, thats what we need while we are living. That's what we need to feel alive. 17/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So this tells me that the basic essential pursuits, jobs like being a doctor or a lawyer, or an essential worker, those are worthy and noble, but the creativity, art, music, and sharing those things through stories, thats what we need while we are living. That's what we need to feel alive. 17/?
A while back I had the opportunity to visit Amsterdam and see where Anne Frank lived when she was forced to hide. During that time she decorated her room with postcards, magazine pictures, photos of celebrities, the Queen. She made up quiet games with her sister. She wrote in her diary. 16/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A while back I had the opportunity to visit Amsterdam and see where Anne Frank lived when she was forced to hide. During that time she decorated her room with postcards, magazine pictures, photos of celebrities, the Queen. She made up quiet games with her sister. She wrote in her diary. 16/?
Stories. Books, Comics, Movies, TV shows, video games, creative projects, DIY projects. I played an insane amount of Animal Crossing and I started making puppets during the pandemic. Don’t ask, I can’t explain it. I got super into BL and KPop. 15/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Stories. Books, Comics, Movies, TV shows, video games, creative projects, DIY projects. I played an insane amount of Animal Crossing and I started making puppets during the pandemic. Don’t ask, I can’t explain it. I got super into BL and KPop. 15/?
One of the first things to go when we are told that there’s no money or budget in schools is what? Art. Drama. Music.
Anything creative. They are deemed non-essential. But during the pandemic, after our basic needs of food and sleep were met, what did we all turn to in order to survive? 14/?
Anything creative. They are deemed non-essential. But during the pandemic, after our basic needs of food and sleep were met, what did we all turn to in order to survive? 14/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
One of the first things to go when we are told that there’s no money or budget in schools is what? Art. Drama. Music.
Anything creative. They are deemed non-essential. But during the pandemic, after our basic needs of food and sleep were met, what did we all turn to in order to survive? 14/?
Anything creative. They are deemed non-essential. But during the pandemic, after our basic needs of food and sleep were met, what did we all turn to in order to survive? 14/?
And I get it, the world's messed up right now & people aren't spending much money on art & everyone is worried that the world is going to end...but you know what? During these times, when we are told that art isn't essential, that our stories aren't "sellable" that's when we need art the most. 13/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
And I get it, the world's messed up right now & people aren't spending much money on art & everyone is worried that the world is going to end...but you know what? During these times, when we are told that art isn't essential, that our stories aren't "sellable" that's when we need art the most. 13/?
As if I didn't have to sit there and watch the boy I liked (and couldn't tell) flirt with a girl who was supposed to be one of my best friends. But yes, the Mormon stuff. Let's just talk about that. It still makes me mad to think about it. I haven't sold a book in about four years... 12/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
As if I didn't have to sit there and watch the boy I liked (and couldn't tell) flirt with a girl who was supposed to be one of my best friends. But yes, the Mormon stuff. Let's just talk about that. It still makes me mad to think about it. I haven't sold a book in about four years... 12/?
I heard about Matthew Shephard on the news & saw how people vilified Ellen Degeneres after she came out. As if growing up in Boise ID, and listening to Sinead O'Connor & Sarah Maclachlan & Natalie Imbruglia didn't shape me. As if Buffy and Disney cartoons and X-Men didn't inspire me to draw. 11/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I heard about Matthew Shephard on the news & saw how people vilified Ellen Degeneres after she came out. As if growing up in Boise ID, and listening to Sinead O'Connor & Sarah Maclachlan & Natalie Imbruglia didn't shape me. As if Buffy and Disney cartoons and X-Men didn't inspire me to draw. 11/?
But reducing my experience and my life down to JUST the missionary stuff felt so demeaning to me, as if my dog disappearing when I was 16 didn't damage me since she was the only one I'd come out to. As if I didn't muster up the courage to come out in 1998 only to chicken out when... 10/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
But reducing my experience and my life down to JUST the missionary stuff felt so demeaning to me, as if my dog disappearing when I was 16 didn't damage me since she was the only one I'd come out to. As if I didn't muster up the courage to come out in 1998 only to chicken out when... 10/?
The response was that it was confusing (as if people/readers don't know what a flashback is) and that it would be better if it was just about me as a missionary. And THAT is what really angered me. More than the year of waiting. Because yeah, I get it, the culty shit is more fascinating...right? 9/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The response was that it was confusing (as if people/readers don't know what a flashback is) and that it would be better if it was just about me as a missionary. And THAT is what really angered me. More than the year of waiting. Because yeah, I get it, the culty shit is more fascinating...right? 9/?
I was then ghosted by this editor for a year. That's so incredibly unprofessional to me that it angered me. I don't think I'm special, but I also don't think I'm so disposable that you would not respond to something YOU asked me to do for over a year. And then when I finally heard back... 8/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I was then ghosted by this editor for a year. That's so incredibly unprofessional to me that it angered me. I don't think I'm special, but I also don't think I'm so disposable that you would not respond to something YOU asked me to do for over a year. And then when I finally heard back... 8/?
And I liked them. A scene of something that happened to me as a missionary & a flashback of me at 16, in 1996, on the beach in Ixtapa Mexico, flirting with a boy in secret. And maybe I shouldn't be saying this, but considering most days I feel like comics is done with me, I'm just gonna go ahead 7/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
And I liked them. A scene of something that happened to me as a missionary & a flashback of me at 16, in 1996, on the beach in Ixtapa Mexico, flirting with a boy in secret. And maybe I shouldn't be saying this, but considering most days I feel like comics is done with me, I'm just gonna go ahead 7/?
And I mean, I get it, I tell my students all the time that they need to be able to talk about their art because explaining what I do to someone who likely can't picture it and convincing them it will make them more money is a big part of my job. ANYWAY, I dug in, and drew the pages. 6/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
And I mean, I get it, I tell my students all the time that they need to be able to talk about their art because explaining what I do to someone who likely can't picture it and convincing them it will make them more money is a big part of my job. ANYWAY, I dug in, and drew the pages. 6/?
...for a book that there was no guarantee would get picked up. And even more so if I didn't plan to draw the book. How am I supposed to commit an artist to a book that they would have to do free pages for especially if it isn't a sure thing? Anyway, I'd be drawing this cause it's my story...5/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
...for a book that there was no guarantee would get picked up. And even more so if I didn't plan to draw the book. How am I supposed to commit an artist to a book that they would have to do free pages for especially if it isn't a sure thing? Anyway, I'd be drawing this cause it's my story...5/?
So I wrote a pitch a few years ago, and there was some interest from an editor, but they asked me to draw a bunch of pages & that took me forever because I was always doing commissions and writing to survive. And to be honest, I was slightly frustrated by editors wanting to see finished pages... 4/?
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
So I wrote a pitch a few years ago, and there was some interest from an editor, but they asked me to draw a bunch of pages & that took me forever because I was always doing commissions and writing to survive. And to be honest, I was slightly frustrated by editors wanting to see finished pages... 4/?
They are very active in their church, I've since left the Mormon church (like the minute I finished my mission) & it took me a long time to repair a relationship with them after I came out- but I realized, my parents don't really read my work anyway, and I'd just be talking about my experience. 3/?
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
They are very active in their church, I've since left the Mormon church (like the minute I finished my mission) & it took me a long time to repair a relationship with them after I came out- but I realized, my parents don't really read my work anyway, and I'd just be talking about my experience. 3/?
So yeah, it took me a long time, but I thought maybe a book about my teen years & what helped form me could be interesting considering the second 1/2 of the book, all of those things would be kept from me as I'm forced to be a missionary when 9/11 happens. I just didn't want to upset my parents. 2/?
October 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
So yeah, it took me a long time, but I thought maybe a book about my teen years & what helped form me could be interesting considering the second 1/2 of the book, all of those things would be kept from me as I'm forced to be a missionary when 9/11 happens. I just didn't want to upset my parents. 2/?