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Author of Spruce Street Squad in Owl Magazine
he/him demi/ace
#KidLitArt #TTRPG
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Intro Post: I'm the cartoonist of Complete the Quest: The Poisonous Library, the 1st RPG graphic novel & Draw out the Story: Ten Secrets to Creating Your Own Comics. I also write Owl Magazines' monthly Spruce Street Squad comic, and have cartooned for Nickelodeon, The Nib, the New Yorker and more.
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Yeah it's just money laundering anyway:
Adam Ruins Everything - How the Fine Art Market is a Scam | truTV
YouTube video by truTV
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December 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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see part of the fun when I originally made and posted this on Twitter was desperately trying to get the (here excised) screenshot of the envelope with its green wax seal in the movie that looks just like the Taskmaster envelope HOWEVER the only option was scrubbing through a gray market cam stream
Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
December 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I wanted everyone to hang out but that didn’t happen so as one does, I I made it happen in my fan art 😅 putting that aside did you guys like the finale? Did you like the season itself? Do you think we could have a season 3?

#fionnaandcake #adventuretime
December 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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A key thing about corporate use of genAI is that it removes all the friction involved between the executives' weird fetish shit and inner thoughts, and public display

It does to corporations what alcohol does to a bigot.
using AI cuts corners on involving people who know better. negativity for christmas is an awful ad concept even if it was made by people - so a creative team would push back on the request. business people like AI doesn't argue, not understanding experts were protecting them from their own bad ideas
"The most terrible time of the year"

McDonald’s pulls AI-generated Christmas advert in the Netherlands. The advert, titled "the most terrible time of the year," depicts Christmas chaos, with Santa caught in a traffic jam and a present-laden cyclist slipping in the snow
u.afp.com/S7sF
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Gag 229: Alternate punchline: It's beginning to look a lot like late stage capitalism.
December 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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2 weeks left. Can we give the webcomics community the gift of a modern, designed-for-comics, self-hostable, webcomics CMS for 2026?
Introducing Comix Cleric, a web framework that makes it easier than ever to make and host your webcomic YOUR way! Crafted BY comic creators FOR comic creators and jam packed with features, you can learn more by checking out the Kickstarter NOW!

#comic #webcomic #webcomics #kickstarter
Comix Cleric - The Indie Way to Host Indie Comics!
A web framework that makes it easier than ever to make and host your webcomic YOUR way! Crafted BY comic creators FOR comic creators!
www.kickstarter.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The city is a really good example of where they get some great depth, feeling so much wider a world than the flat, narrow path you travel along.
December 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Gag 229: Alternate punchline: It's beginning to look a lot like late stage capitalism.
December 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Hey artists, post some art you made from before Bluesky

From back when I had a webcomic.👨‍🦳
December 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Gag 228: It was funnier when I did it with Santa, but I tried this variation too.
December 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I used to hate Christmas in Vancouver because I grew up in Ottawa where December is usually snowy. Here, it's usually raining. But now I think it's kind of charming that everyone here still does Christmas activities in the rain because they're so determined to have a good time.
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I love how Absolum really uses the immediate foreground to create interesting compositions and depth. Often wonderfully deep backgrounds too when it calls for it to feel wide and expansive. Gonna use this game as a teaching example next year.
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Gag 228: It was funnier when I did it with Santa, but I tried this variation too.
December 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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It's fine it's fine, everything is fine, it's good right? yeahhh I'm sure it's fine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUrJ...
NVIDIA: WTF?
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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December 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Well, he's gone and done it. PM Goldman Sachs has replaced the excellent Kirsten Hillman with an investment banker buddy with an ethics problem in the past that cost him a job.

Wiseman was also among the first to donate to Carney's leadership bid.

#CdnPoli
CP NewsAlert: Carney names investment banker Mark Wiseman as next U.S. ambassador
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing a global investment banker and pension fund manager to be Canada's next ambassador in Washington.
ca.news.yahoo.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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This Fall, I taught a 400-level comics course at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, under our Major Authors rubric, on the comics Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. I posted a recap of each week using #comicteaching. This thread contains all of those posts, as well as a link to our syllabus.
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Gag 227: So many variants.
December 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Happy Winter Solstice. Whatever light you celebrate in the dark this season, may that warmth continue well into the new year and sustain you in the cold months to come.
December 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Altheya; The Dragon Empire - Campaign Setting Book made alongside Roll & Play Press!

KS Coming very early next year. Bright, Hopeful, Classic High Fantasy, built from a place of love and passion for the genre.

NO AI. Human writers, Human artists. #ttrpg #dnd

rollandplaypress.com/highrollers
Coming soon: Altheya: The Dragon Empire – A High-Fantasy 5E Setting
Enter a land where dragons rule, planes clash in eternal wars, and magical vaults hold ancient secrets. A campaign setting for DnD.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Hey artists, post some art you made from before Bluesky

From back when I had a webcomic.👨‍🦳
December 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I got one more restock in at the Arts Market before I head off for the holidays! more wizard stickers, pocket dungeon three packs, playmap blankets, and more!
December 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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I passed up French Salad flavoured chips, candy that I can't tell if is super sour or super fizzy, non Burger King burger king fries, and big bags of small bags of Lonely God. I'm realizing that Want-Want is the translation that we get as Hot Kid, a less, but still creepy, name for their company.
December 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I know it can be a sensitive issues, but whoever put out those Epstein Files was over-redacting.
December 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM