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Jason Ahlquist
@jasonahlquist.bsky.social
2.3K followers 1K following 940 posts
Writer, Designer, Illustrator.
I love signal boosting moots’ projects when they wow me.
Writing & Drawing “The Invisible Sun”, a sci-fi graphic novel.
He/Him #PNW, #indiefilm, #indiecomics, #antifascist
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#OrcspirationswithEmil @Nora.Zone
Put away your weapon, today you will battle self doubt. And you will win.
February 3, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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Cool costume design!
wayofpaman.bsky.social Marc Glave @wayofpaman.bsky.social · 5d
I’m hoping you guys will like, comment, and share these posts so we can bump the Kickstarter follower count WAY up before we launch. Comment and I’ll get the link to you.
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/ako...
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Thewayofpaman.com
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#darksentinel #sentineliscoming #wayofpaman #indiecomics #comicbooks
February 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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Skylight has a ton of new updates! And we’re actively shipping bug fixes!

Thanks to all the folks via comments and email helping us find the bugs 🐞

Shout out to @reedharmeyer.bsky.social for working so hard on @skylight.social ✨

#update #news #skylightsocial #opensocial
January 26, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Seems like an appropriate reaction. 👍
lunch-meat.bsky.social LunchMeat Art @lunch-meat.bsky.social · 25d
I'm LunchMeat and these are my Meatheads. Begun when I was an idiot teen, I return to them in my mid/late 30s as a way of dealing both with the existential horror of the modern world (the cartoony scream and fragmentation of human features) and fighting AI images (by being a mess)
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I think the best way that visual artists in traditional mediums are going to fight back against AI images (at least, at the start) is by looking at what AI can't do, the same way painters had to do with photography before. The most obvious answers to this are, so far, that AI can't make real world paintings and it can't make organic human mistakes that look natural. With that in mind, I try to be as messy and carefree with these paintings while also maintaining some elements that would be recognized as traditional styles and techniques. Also, they are fun. The main thing for me is I like them and they are fun. They wouldn't be worth doing otherwise and would just be straight political art and I would be far angrier as a person. I think most people who pay attention to what's going on in the world today are absolutely experiencing some form of spiritual/mental/existential crisis. I think lots of folks would agree with me about that, too. These paintings are my way of addressing that directly, both my own feelings of it and to act as a sort of mirror for others. Showing us our own inner state and our own fractured sense of being. I try to keep things cartoony specifically as a reminder that there is a comedic element to all this tragedy and that we are sympathetic critters at the end of the day. I need that reminder for myself as much as I think others do. By mixing abstraction, cartoons, graffiti, and the occasional landscape into my work, I am bringing my artistic inspirations and backgrounds all together. That's it. That's the long and short of it. I title my pieces in ways that I hope cause people to take a second look at the painting and rethink what might be being displayed. If I can bring them in with the image, get them a second time with the title, then maybe JUST MAYBE I can also get them to engage with and question more of what's going on in the art and in themselves. That's my hope anyway. It's a tricky goal to reach, not going to lie. And I kinda suck at it lol
January 14, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Pieces of Candy
4 John Candy cartoon heads
January 11, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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a drawing of franz kafka’s the metamorphosis, gregor waking up as a beetle, with the words new year new you
January 3, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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Making comics is easy, for example:

I made this comic 7 years ago. All I have to do is replace a word, and it stays relevant.

Original (Left) & New Version (Right)

#comics #indiecomics #satire #tech
A comic parodying tech A comic parodying the fact that it's easy to parody tech
January 5, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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2026 plans.

I have 9 months until the new book comes out, and then the promotional blitz. Until then I plan to fill the schedule productively but at a much more relaxed pace than 2025.

The next project is smaller and more fun. The postponed PUNK ROCK & TRAILER PARKS 2.

#indiecomics #comics
January 2, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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A friendly visit…
#indiecomics #comics #cosmichorror #demon #art
@adambarnhardt.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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XMAS CHEER! ☃️

#dada #comicstrips #comicstrip #blackandwhitecomics #dadaist #christmascard #existentialcomics #indiecomics #snowman
December 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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If I’ve read anything this year that I think #Solarpunk folks will appreciate, it’s this.
ontopunk.bsky.social ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · Dec 1
“Awareness is the cognitive realisation that industrial civilisation is entering contraction and demise.

“Acceptance is the psychological recognition that the worldview you lived inside no longer holds.

“The first is information. The second is transformation.”
The Truth About Collapse Acceptance
by Adrian Lambert
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December 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Smoking kills, you know
[ #CrossfireArt | #OCsky | #SinOfWrath ]
October 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Congrats and thanks for the share!! Here is my Girl Whimsy, an ex knight who just wants to make people smile and laugh. She quits the knighthood to become a postal worker ✨️
Symmetrical bust of a yellow tiefling. She has vitiligo on the left side of her face going all the way up her horn. Her hair is in large silver ringlets, and her horns curl in a corkscrew pattern. She’s wearing a large jesters collar with ruffles underneath.
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The artificial golden boy !
September 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Wow just look at this piece!
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Well, I'm projecting my life onto her...

#art #digitalart #fanart #TheAmazingDigitalCircus #TADC #Gangle
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Pye Parr
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Sid !
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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If you haven’t heard of or read comics by Wesley Griffith then FIX THAT NOW!

The Jump is one of the best comics I’ve read all year!

Check out my video on it here:
youtu.be/-IY0aW6U6T4
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Pullbox Kickstarter Spotlight on Kate Carter Adventures #7- If Adventure had a name… it’d be found in the title of this comic book!

www.thepullbox.com/2025/11/92484/

#comicsky #kickstarter #indiecomics
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
jasonahlquist.bsky.social
I don’t know anything about the story, but this had me at “jacked Santa”.
ozzdog12.bsky.social Ozzdog12 @ozzdog12.bsky.social · Nov 10
You should buy my comic(s)! The pictures below are interiors. A step above the rest.

#PolarDestroyer

polardestroyer.bigcartel.com/products

Or

ko-fi.com/ozzdog12/shop

#indiecomics
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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#art #comics #antifa #WW2 #occupy #AntiFascist #DumpTrump #Graffiti #Anarchy
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Trippy!
stephane-decaneva.bsky.social Stéphane De Caneva @stephane-decaneva.bsky.social · Oct 31
Une figure digne d’Halloween extraite d’Opéra Imaginarium (bon courage pour en tirer un masque, par contre 🎃)
#halloween #horror #monster #comicbook #bandedessinée #indiecomics #sciencefiction #draw #comicbookartist #bd
November 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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October 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Preview of a doodle I’m working on that might become an illustration. It just struck me as cool how we’re rescuing the concept of frogs from the yucky memes #Portland #antifascist #nokings #frogs
October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM