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Joris Bas Backer
@jorisbasbacker.bsky.social
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A He/him Dutch in Berlin. Author and artist of comics// 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️
👁 2026 Baumschatten
👁 2021 Kisses For Jet
👁 2020 Küsse für Jet
👁 2018 Familienjuwelen
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Joris Bas Backer @jorisbasbacker.bsky.social · Mar 12
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warandpeas.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM
jorisbasbacker.bsky.social
Wollen wir uns mal in echt sehen? Für die Frühplaner ein save-the-date:
Bookreleaseankündigung und Coverbild von der comic Baumschatten von Joris Bas Backer. Freitag 27e Februar um 19:30 bei Modern Graphics Kastanienallee 79 Berlin. Moderation Caroline Ring.
January 29, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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samaraspeakers.bsky.social
This is a great interview with Tessa Hulls in The Comics Journal. Process photos!

www.tcj.com/ghost-story-...
Ghost Story: an interview with Tessa Hulls on her Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir - The Comics Journal
In May 2025, first-time author Tessa Hulls was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her stunning autobiography Feeding Ghosts, making her the only graphic novelist other than Art Spiegelman to ever win the ...
www.tcj.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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doodlemancy.com
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html

🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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queerglobal.bsky.social
We are building the world's largest archive of LGBTQ+ Global Majority & Migrant stories. We need YOUR voice to make history.
​✅ Safe space & expenses covered
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​Join the legacy. Apply here: forms.gle/ALgvoWj6QSY9... 🏳️‍🌈
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A woman is being interviewed for an Oral History Project by Queer Global
January 9, 2026 at 1:51 PM
jorisbasbacker.bsky.social
It's official: Baumschatten is coming out in February and can be pre-ordered!
www.editionmoderne.ch/buch/baumsch...
Baumschatten - Edition Moderne
Baumschatten • ISBN 978-3-03731-290-2 • Online bestellen: Kamil und Sjonnie trennten sich, bevor ihre Liebe überhaupt richtig beginnen konnte — ihre Vorstellungen und Bedürfnisse waren zu verschiede...
www.editionmoderne.ch
January 8, 2026 at 6:21 PM
jorisbasbacker.bsky.social
FYI, This is the 2nd petition to the same issue.

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Petitionen: Verwendung von Cookies nicht aktiviert
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January 4, 2026 at 1:24 PM
jorisbasbacker.bsky.social
See you in 2026! I leave you with a panel from my new comic coming out very soon!
Comic panel of a woman drifting under grey water among small fish and weeds.
December 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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illiannaheger.bsky.social
www.annaheger.de/lesbar Eine Arbeitsanleitung um alt Texte zu erstellen, grade solche die Comicpanels beschreiben. Natürlich als zweiseitiges Comic, welches ein weiteres Comic zitiert: online mit Textversion auf deutsch und englisch.

#ScreenreadableComics #AddAltText #ImmerZeichnen
Ausschnitt aus dem Comic "maschinenlesbar". Text: Digitale Bilder brauchen Beschreibungen damit ihr Inhalt von Screenreadern ausgelesen werden kann. Abbildung: Eine Person mit Vollbart und Glatze fotografiert eine Poster an einem Baum. Daneben das Bild eines Comicpanel mit weissen Häschen in einer Socialmedia App und ein Flussdiagramm aus Icons: Ein Icon für Bild, Berge und Sonne, steht neben dem Icon für Text, fünf Linien untereinander. Dazwischen das Wort versus. Vom Bild Icon zeigt ein direkter Pfeil zum Icon für Auge. Vom Icon für Text geht ein Pfeil zum Icon für Screenreader-Software, das wie eine Computer Platine aussieht mit der Bezeichnung daneben. Von hier gibt es zwei weiterführende Pfeile. Einer geht erst zu einem Icon für akustisch, ein Lautsprecher, und dann zum Icon fürs Hören, ein Ohr. Der zweite geht zu einem Icon für Braille, drei Buchstaben in Punktschrift, p, q und r, und dann weiter zum Icon haptisch, zwei Finger nebeneinander.
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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allusionistshow.bsky.social
new episode is in your podfeed! @timbrookes.bsky.social of #EndangeredAlphabetsProject takes us on a delightful journey of handwriting. Listen/read via theallusionist.org/scribe and find Tim's book By Hand at endangeredalphabets.com
Allusionist 221. Scribe — The Allusionist
"I have never felt so naked. That's how exposed I felt at the idea that my handwriting was going to be seen by the world," says Tim Brookes, founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project and author of t...
theallusionist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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bethanyblack.bsky.social
I wil never take ozempic, because what if the time finally comes to eat the rich and I have no appetite?
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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marinaomi.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a comics co-editor position at @therumpus.net

We're looking for original literary fiction and non-fiction comics that feel personal. Bonus if it's hand-lettered (the path to my heart) 😘

No AI

Pays $100

therumpus.submittable.com/submit

Pass it on!
Baby raccoons just because
December 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
Here are a few examples of the new line of conversation starter Holiday designs that I'm launching on sophielabelle.dashery.com . To mark the occasion, there's a big sitewide sale for only two days. Just so you know, the cutoff date for receiving orders before Christmas in the US is next Monday!
December 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
jorisbasbacker.bsky.social
If you are in Zürich next week:
literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltun...
Down by Law – mit Joris Bas Backer und Todd Sekuler, Agata Dziuban und Aleksandra «Sasza» Stachowska
Der Band «Down by Law: Criminalization, Solidarity and Survival in Europe» zeigt, wie Menschen in kriminalisierten Lebenswelten handeln, Widerstand leisten und Solidarität aufbauen. Jeweils eine*
literaturhaus.ch
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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alyssaharad.bsky.social
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · Nov 24
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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moderngraphics.bsky.social
Zine Abend bei uns! Mit Vera Bekema, Clairikine, Vanessa Karré, Alea Rodriguez und Esther Samuels-Davis

Donnerstag, den 27. November, 19.30 Uhr
Eintritt frei
modern-graphics.de/Zine-Abend/

#Comic #Event #Berlin #Zine #Indie
Plakat für den Zine Abend in schwarz weiß. Eine Collage aus unterschiedlichen Stilen und Zeichnungen. Darüber steht als Text: Zine Abend bei Modern Graphics 27.11.2025 19:30 Uhr
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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moderngraphics.bsky.social
Knochen-Comics im Doppelpack am 26.11. bei uns mit Tine Steen und Richard Cowdry!
modern-graphics.de/Double-Featu...
#Comic #Event #Berlin #Paläontologie
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
Now for some sports news...
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
Panel One: A sportscaster speaks to a television camera "You join us just in time for the annual booksellers versus librarians tug of war." Panel Two: We see the participants warming up as he continues... "Two very strong teams this year, they’ve both been in training since February. As always, the real skill in this match is not to start chatting about boo-" Panel Three: "Too late!! A pair of librarians are discussing the new Margaret Atwood! A crowd is forming! The booksellers are joining in! It's all over!!" We see all the participants chatting. Panel Four: The sportscaster finishes up to the camera: "The rope lies untouched! The discussions continue! We have a draw for 325th year in a row! Join us again next year!" End. Bonus alt-text Content: Fun fact! The first tug of war was between the staff of Cranston Library and those of Daniel Midwinter Booksellers www.cranstonlibraryreigate.com/ www.blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscripts/2017/11/10/booksellers/
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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larsvontoerne.bsky.social
Update zum Eklat bei Europas wichtigstem Comic-Festival: Auch deutsche Verlage erwägen Angoulême-Boykott www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comic... via @tagesspiegel.de
Eklat bei Europas wichtigstem Comic-Festival: Auch deutsche Verlage erwägen Angoulême-Boykott
Undurchsichtige Buchführung, toxisches Management, Verdacht auf Vetternwirtschaft und ein Vergewaltigungsfall: Europas größtes und wichtigstes Comicfestival steckt in einer fundamentalen Krise.
www.tagesspiegel.de
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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wearequeeraf.com
🏳️‍⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!

Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.

With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.

Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Graphic on light grey and pastel purple background featuring six Trans+ creatives. Text that reads: Trans+ History Week 04-10 May 2026. Paid opportunities for Trans+ Creatives.
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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bethanyblack.bsky.social
Alan Moore knows the score
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
3. Utter Horror!
Halloween horror! Horrifying: 1. Floating skull 2. Evil fog 3.Slime fiend Utterly horrifying: 1. Floating skull who borrows books and never returns them. 2. Evil fog with some really awful opinions (it is saying we've got the internet so we don't need libraries") 3. Slime fiend who browses bookshops then buys online
October 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
jorisbasbacker.bsky.social
The first page of the very last scene!!!
October 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
jorisbasbacker.bsky.social
Tomorrow (and yesterday but I am slow) was the release party of the @bkberlin.bsky.social . Come by for the bands, murals and original drawings!
September 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
jorisbasbacker.bsky.social
Lavender Pages, a UK solidarity project providing books for LGBTQIA+ prisoners, asked me to donate sone books and I glady did. If you are interested too, find out more here:
lavenderpages.substack.com/about
About - Lavender Pages’ Substack
News and Info about the Lavender Pages Project. We send reading material written by LGBTQIA+ authors to LGBTQIA+ incarcerated peoples in the UK. Click to read Lavender Pages’ Substack, by Lavender Pag...
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September 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM