Adam Szym
@adamszym.bsky.social
I make comics. Usually they're scary.
My book LITTLE VISITOR & OTHER ABDUCTIONS is available now from Oni Press.
My book LITTLE VISITOR & OTHER ABDUCTIONS is available now from Oni Press.
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Adam Szym
@adamszym.bsky.social
· Sep 22
"I happened upon one of those documentary shows about UFOs and abductions that seemed ubiquitous on cable television in the 90s, and it was one of the only times I can remember watching something that genuinely scared me enough to give me nightmares." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/09/22/i...
“I Really Love When Fiction Throws Me Into the Deep End” Adam Szym on Making “Little Visitor”
I’m Kris Bertin, author of a few books of short stories, screenplays that never got made, and Hobtown Mystery Stories, a collection of surrealist small-town folk-horror stories published with ONI P…
www.vol1brooklyn.com
I did a long in depth interview with Kris Bertin, writer of the great Hobtown series, about my new book, what compels me about aliens, working with the unknown, and of course: day jobs.
Give it a read,
@hobtown.bsky.social asks some great questions!
Give it a read,
@hobtown.bsky.social asks some great questions!
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THE WORLD IS AN AFTER-IMAGE
Pages 49-50
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The story continues here. Click on the quoted post to read the story till now.
Pages 49-50
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The story continues here. Click on the quoted post to read the story till now.
February 18, 2026 at 8:24 PM
THE WORLD IS AN AFTER-IMAGE
Pages 49-50
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The story continues here. Click on the quoted post to read the story till now.
Pages 49-50
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The story continues here. Click on the quoted post to read the story till now.
There’s a line in The Zone of Interest that I think about often in relation to the atrocities being casually committed all around us every day:
“Heil Hitler, et cetera.”
“Heil Hitler, et cetera.”
February 20, 2026 at 1:53 AM
There’s a line in The Zone of Interest that I think about often in relation to the atrocities being casually committed all around us every day:
“Heil Hitler, et cetera.”
“Heil Hitler, et cetera.”
TFW I’m just trying to teach the next generation of cheerleaders
February 20, 2026 at 1:37 AM
TFW I’m just trying to teach the next generation of cheerleaders
I saw some posts bemoaning writers using difficult/obscure/baroque/etc. language and I would argue that has always been an overly simplistic critique and that it will only become more useless as the general public slides ever deeper into illiteracy.
February 20, 2026 at 1:27 AM
I saw some posts bemoaning writers using difficult/obscure/baroque/etc. language and I would argue that has always been an overly simplistic critique and that it will only become more useless as the general public slides ever deeper into illiteracy.
Saw a Letterboxd review complaining that the Nirvanna the Band guys didn’t really jump off the CN tower. Who cares!
February 19, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Saw a Letterboxd review complaining that the Nirvanna the Band guys didn’t really jump off the CN tower. Who cares!
After I finish this comic I'm going to write a novel. Okay thanks
February 19, 2026 at 6:21 PM
After I finish this comic I'm going to write a novel. Okay thanks
I've seen some AI video clips that have a genuinely funny or interesting idea behind them but the fact that they weren't actually made by a human sucks every ounce of potential joy out of it like opening the emergency exit door on an airplane mid-flight.
February 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
I've seen some AI video clips that have a genuinely funny or interesting idea behind them but the fact that they weren't actually made by a human sucks every ounce of potential joy out of it like opening the emergency exit door on an airplane mid-flight.
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Some nice little write-ups for Little Visitor & Other Abductions by @finestsoup.bsky.social, who included it on their Best of 2025 list!
January 8, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Some nice little write-ups for Little Visitor & Other Abductions by @finestsoup.bsky.social, who included it on their Best of 2025 list!
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A throwback launch trailer I made for
🛸 LITTLE VISITOR & OTHER ABDUCTIONS 🛸
AVAILABLE IN BOOKSTORES AND ONLINE NOW
From @oni-press.bsky.social
Please SHARE!
🛸 LITTLE VISITOR & OTHER ABDUCTIONS 🛸
AVAILABLE IN BOOKSTORES AND ONLINE NOW
From @oni-press.bsky.social
Please SHARE!
September 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A throwback launch trailer I made for
🛸 LITTLE VISITOR & OTHER ABDUCTIONS 🛸
AVAILABLE IN BOOKSTORES AND ONLINE NOW
From @oni-press.bsky.social
Please SHARE!
🛸 LITTLE VISITOR & OTHER ABDUCTIONS 🛸
AVAILABLE IN BOOKSTORES AND ONLINE NOW
From @oni-press.bsky.social
Please SHARE!
The Drivers Ed teacher at our school was named Mr. Carr
okay one of my best friends just told me her driver's ed teacher was named
wait for it
Mr. Streetman
... and now, because the horrors are horroring, I wish to hear from Bluesky about all your great and bad and terrible and fun driver's ed stories
wait for it
Mr. Streetman
... and now, because the horrors are horroring, I wish to hear from Bluesky about all your great and bad and terrible and fun driver's ed stories
February 18, 2026 at 5:12 AM
The Drivers Ed teacher at our school was named Mr. Carr
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We had the incredible pleasure of helping to bring this game to Switch, and it was such a delight to work on. Grab your Switch and a BIG glass of water and settle in to Live and Drink, friends 💧💧💧
February 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM
We had the incredible pleasure of helping to bring this game to Switch, and it was such a delight to work on. Grab your Switch and a BIG glass of water and settle in to Live and Drink, friends 💧💧💧
Making comics is such a pain in the ass, man.
February 18, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Making comics is such a pain in the ass, man.
Look at how Zoomer coded this 2004 Rundgren album cover is
February 17, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Look at how Zoomer coded this 2004 Rundgren album cover is
Rewatching S4 of The Wire and I forgot about this Deadwood cameo which practically breaks the 4th wall. I think this is the closest thing to a wink at the audience in the entire series.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-oX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-oX...
Deadwood in The Wire
YouTube video by Andraž Franjko
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Rewatching S4 of The Wire and I forgot about this Deadwood cameo which practically breaks the 4th wall. I think this is the closest thing to a wink at the audience in the entire series.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-oX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-oX...
They should play Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie in 4DX.
February 15, 2026 at 11:32 PM
They should play Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie in 4DX.
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Yes!! I’m sure this will solve the problem of modern film locations all looking like flimsy animated billboards floating behind the actors! There’s no other solution.
February 13, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Yes!! I’m sure this will solve the problem of modern film locations all looking like flimsy animated billboards floating behind the actors! There’s no other solution.
Pretty confident I will never see an Emerald Fennell movie. More like Amethsyt Cardomom IMO!
February 13, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Pretty confident I will never see an Emerald Fennell movie. More like Amethsyt Cardomom IMO!
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Just finished When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy. I find most contemporary horror novel protagonists irritating so you can imagine my trepidation when I realized this one starred an improv comedian.
But this was a really solid read. Thrilling, effectively emotional, and genuinely grisly.
But this was a really solid read. Thrilling, effectively emotional, and genuinely grisly.
February 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Just finished When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy. I find most contemporary horror novel protagonists irritating so you can imagine my trepidation when I realized this one starred an improv comedian.
But this was a really solid read. Thrilling, effectively emotional, and genuinely grisly.
But this was a really solid read. Thrilling, effectively emotional, and genuinely grisly.
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My last-ever page of comic art for DC Comics; hence, the 'farewell' signature at the bottom left. It was nice while it lasted.
PS: I didn't indicate the captions as framed. I deliberately placed them so the first two would just sit as text—in air, in fire—the last two reversed (white-on-black).
PS: I didn't indicate the captions as framed. I deliberately placed them so the first two would just sit as text—in air, in fire—the last two reversed (white-on-black).
February 13, 2026 at 1:05 AM
My last-ever page of comic art for DC Comics; hence, the 'farewell' signature at the bottom left. It was nice while it lasted.
PS: I didn't indicate the captions as framed. I deliberately placed them so the first two would just sit as text—in air, in fire—the last two reversed (white-on-black).
PS: I didn't indicate the captions as framed. I deliberately placed them so the first two would just sit as text—in air, in fire—the last two reversed (white-on-black).
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Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
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Ending this operation is not enough.
We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.
We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.
February 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Ending this operation is not enough.
We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.
We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.
It’s nice to know that as AI imagery continues to dominate our lives I still have thousands of pages of Rumiko Takahashi comics I’ve never read.
February 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
It’s nice to know that as AI imagery continues to dominate our lives I still have thousands of pages of Rumiko Takahashi comics I’ve never read.
I really wish I could agree with the people acting like AI video still looks as bad as it did in 2023, but at this point I think it's safe to say that it will be almost impossible to distinguish from real video within like a year. Immensely depressing.
February 12, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I really wish I could agree with the people acting like AI video still looks as bad as it did in 2023, but at this point I think it's safe to say that it will be almost impossible to distinguish from real video within like a year. Immensely depressing.