Madeleine Vasaly
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The Proofreader's Guide to Comic Book Style
An Editorial Handbook for Print and Digital Comics
comicbookstyle.com
Comic creators! Did you know @cartoonist.coop members get a discount on The Proofreader’s Guide to Comic Book Style?
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
A friend and I were talking about awkward stock photos again and I realized it's never a bad time to reshare this list of sites with free stock images that are both less awkward AND more inclusive in terms of the people in them. (It includes a great one for your fall vaccine coverage!)
Free Sources for Inclusive and Stereotype-Busting Stock Images — Madeleine Vasaly
One problem you’ll run into in almost any stock library is that a lot of images are pretty stereotypical and don’t tend to feature a lot of diversity. That’s why whenever I find a new site with free-u...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
A friend and I were talking about awkward stock photos again and I realized it's never a bad time to reshare this list of sites with free stock images that are both less awkward AND more inclusive in terms of the people in them. (It includes a great one for your fall vaccine coverage!)
October 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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it's me, I'm tattooing people. in case you were wondering what I've been up to.
Hi, I'm Joe. I'm a designer and illustrator apprenticing out of a private studio in Bloomington, MN. I've got flash on my website and am also interested in doing customs -- send me a DM or use my website form to get in touch.
🌱 nepenthestattoo.com
🌱 nepenthestattoo.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
it's me, I'm tattooing people. in case you were wondering what I've been up to.
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Comics very often don't get a dedicated copyedit, and sometimes there's a good reason for that. But fixing spelling, formatting, and continuity issues before the text is lettered makes things SO much easier for everyone—and your letterer and proofreader will thank you.
3 Reasons to Copyedit Your Comic Script — Madeleine Vasaly
Copyediting isn’t always part of the publishing process in comics, but it can benefit the work and everyone involved.
www.madeleinevasaly.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Comics very often don't get a dedicated copyedit, and sometimes there's a good reason for that. But fixing spelling, formatting, and continuity issues before the text is lettered makes things SO much easier for everyone—and your letterer and proofreader will thank you.
On campus at MCAD today to talk to comic students about why creators should care about editorial style. Thanks to @opauloart.bsky.social for inviting me!
October 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
On campus at MCAD today to talk to comic students about why creators should care about editorial style. Thanks to @opauloart.bsky.social for inviting me!
Comics very often don't get a dedicated copyedit, and sometimes there's a good reason for that. But fixing spelling, formatting, and continuity issues before the text is lettered makes things SO much easier for everyone—and your letterer and proofreader will thank you.
3 Reasons to Copyedit Your Comic Script — Madeleine Vasaly
Copyediting isn’t always part of the publishing process in comics, but it can benefit the work and everyone involved.
www.madeleinevasaly.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Comics very often don't get a dedicated copyedit, and sometimes there's a good reason for that. But fixing spelling, formatting, and continuity issues before the text is lettered makes things SO much easier for everyone—and your letterer and proofreader will thank you.
I'll be holding down the @twincitiesgeek.com table all day Sunday! Stop by and pick up some freebies. #MNCBA #FallCon
Come say "Hi!" 👋 at MNCBA FallCon 2025!
#MNCBA #MCBA #FallCon #MNStateFairgrounds #TwinCities #ComicCon #ComicConvention
#MNCBA #MCBA #FallCon #MNStateFairgrounds #TwinCities #ComicCon #ComicConvention
October 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I'll be holding down the @twincitiesgeek.com table all day Sunday! Stop by and pick up some freebies. #MNCBA #FallCon
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Don't miss the last Publisher/Freelancer Social Hour of 2025! PEN and the Minnesota Book Publishers Roundtable invite you to this free casual networking event for anyone with a job or an interest in the Twin Cities publishing scene.
Publisher/Freelancer Social Hour
October 15, 2025, at 4:30 p.m.
pensite.org
October 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Don't miss the last Publisher/Freelancer Social Hour of 2025! PEN and the Minnesota Book Publishers Roundtable invite you to this free casual networking event for anyone with a job or an interest in the Twin Cities publishing scene.
The 2025–2026 @pensite.org season kicks off tonight, and for the first time in a long time, I won’t be running the meeting!
After 7(!) years on the PEN board, my retirement officially goes into effect this week. I’ve had the pleasure of working with so many lovely people over all that time.
After 7(!) years on the PEN board, my retirement officially goes into effect this week. I’ve had the pleasure of working with so many lovely people over all that time.
September 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The 2025–2026 @pensite.org season kicks off tonight, and for the first time in a long time, I won’t be running the meeting!
After 7(!) years on the PEN board, my retirement officially goes into effect this week. I’ve had the pleasure of working with so many lovely people over all that time.
After 7(!) years on the PEN board, my retirement officially goes into effect this week. I’ve had the pleasure of working with so many lovely people over all that time.
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Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches
September 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches
Someone just drove past my apartment playing "Sixteen Tons" at top volume. Happy Labor Day.
September 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Someone just drove past my apartment playing "Sixteen Tons" at top volume. Happy Labor Day.
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It's Letterer Appreciation Day! Today only, get 15% off my book on comics style with the code LETTERER.
Good lettering is seriously underrated. And in comics and graphic novels, the letterer is one of the people whose work most affects—and is most affected by—the work of the proofreader.
Good lettering is seriously underrated. And in comics and graphic novels, the letterer is one of the people whose work most affects—and is most affected by—the work of the proofreader.
The Proofreader's Guide to Comic Book Style
An Editorial Handbook for Print and Digital Comics
comicbookstyle.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It's Letterer Appreciation Day! Today only, get 15% off my book on comics style with the code LETTERER.
Good lettering is seriously underrated. And in comics and graphic novels, the letterer is one of the people whose work most affects—and is most affected by—the work of the proofreader.
Good lettering is seriously underrated. And in comics and graphic novels, the letterer is one of the people whose work most affects—and is most affected by—the work of the proofreader.
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Happy #Letterer Appreciation Day! If you want to check out fantastic letterers here on bluesky, here's a starter pack!
Also, if you are a letterer who wishes to be included in this pack, or an aspiring letterer who would like a portfolio review, please message me any time.
go.bsky.app/D5PbjPZ
Also, if you are a letterer who wishes to be included in this pack, or an aspiring letterer who would like a portfolio review, please message me any time.
go.bsky.app/D5PbjPZ
September 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Happy #Letterer Appreciation Day! If you want to check out fantastic letterers here on bluesky, here's a starter pack!
Also, if you are a letterer who wishes to be included in this pack, or an aspiring letterer who would like a portfolio review, please message me any time.
go.bsky.app/D5PbjPZ
Also, if you are a letterer who wishes to be included in this pack, or an aspiring letterer who would like a portfolio review, please message me any time.
go.bsky.app/D5PbjPZ
It's Letterer Appreciation Day! Today only, get 15% off my book on comics style with the code LETTERER.
Good lettering is seriously underrated. And in comics and graphic novels, the letterer is one of the people whose work most affects—and is most affected by—the work of the proofreader.
Good lettering is seriously underrated. And in comics and graphic novels, the letterer is one of the people whose work most affects—and is most affected by—the work of the proofreader.
The Proofreader's Guide to Comic Book Style
An Editorial Handbook for Print and Digital Comics
comicbookstyle.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It's Letterer Appreciation Day! Today only, get 15% off my book on comics style with the code LETTERER.
Good lettering is seriously underrated. And in comics and graphic novels, the letterer is one of the people whose work most affects—and is most affected by—the work of the proofreader.
Good lettering is seriously underrated. And in comics and graphic novels, the letterer is one of the people whose work most affects—and is most affected by—the work of the proofreader.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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These movies love ignoring their own messages. Like in Jurassic World when Bryce Dallas Howard says "corporate" thinks they need to "up the wow factor" with genetic modification, and Chris Pratt goes, "They’re dinosaurs. Wow enough."
I really hoped they were being self-aware there, but no.
I really hoped they were being self-aware there, but no.
there's an interesting idea threaded through the last three or four Jurassic Park movies: mega corporations are convinced cloning dinosaurs is worth a huge amount of money somehow but it never ever pans out
you could make a really fun movie or series with this as the underlying premise
you could make a really fun movie or series with this as the underlying premise
August 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
These movies love ignoring their own messages. Like in Jurassic World when Bryce Dallas Howard says "corporate" thinks they need to "up the wow factor" with genetic modification, and Chris Pratt goes, "They’re dinosaurs. Wow enough."
I really hoped they were being self-aware there, but no.
I really hoped they were being self-aware there, but no.
Most of my SDCC photos are crappy snapshots taken on the move, but I'm glad this one came out halfway decent. The cosplayer (AZ Tony Stark) happened to walk by me on a lunch break and you couldn't NOT notice that suit.
August 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Most of my SDCC photos are crappy snapshots taken on the move, but I'm glad this one came out halfway decent. The cosplayer (AZ Tony Stark) happened to walk by me on a lunch break and you couldn't NOT notice that suit.
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Yall I got to look at this book during SDCC and it's great. The very first page I opened covered 2 different questions I'd literally always had about editing. Be sure to check it out.
Comic creators! Did you know @cartoonist.coop members get a discount on The Proofreader’s Guide to Comic Book Style?
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
The Proofreader's Guide to Comic Book Style
An Editorial Handbook for Print and Digital Comics
comicbookstyle.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Yall I got to look at this book during SDCC and it's great. The very first page I opened covered 2 different questions I'd literally always had about editing. Be sure to check it out.
Someone is selling a Tutant Meenage Neetle Teetles cross-stitch in the @twincitiesgeek.com Facebook group and let me tell you, that stupid meme has not stopped being funny after two years of working professionally on Ninja Turtles content.
August 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Someone is selling a Tutant Meenage Neetle Teetles cross-stitch in the @twincitiesgeek.com Facebook group and let me tell you, that stupid meme has not stopped being funny after two years of working professionally on Ninja Turtles content.
Knock on wood, but I think I made it through SDCC and a six-hour flight diversion without getting covid. Shoutout to N95s.
August 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Knock on wood, but I think I made it through SDCC and a six-hour flight diversion without getting covid. Shoutout to N95s.
My convenient @bookshop.org list of Eisner-winning books about comics is now updated with this year's additions!
#SDCC #SDCC2025 #EisnerAwards
#SDCC #SDCC2025 #EisnerAwards
Eisner Award–Winning Books About Comics
An incomplete list of books that have won the Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book or Best Academic/Scholarly Work, in reverse chronological order.
bookshop.org
August 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My convenient @bookshop.org list of Eisner-winning books about comics is now updated with this year's additions!
#SDCC #SDCC2025 #EisnerAwards
#SDCC #SDCC2025 #EisnerAwards
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Comic creators! Did you know @cartoonist.coop members get a discount on The Proofreader’s Guide to Comic Book Style?
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
The Proofreader's Guide to Comic Book Style
An Editorial Handbook for Print and Digital Comics
comicbookstyle.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Comic creators! Did you know @cartoonist.coop members get a discount on The Proofreader’s Guide to Comic Book Style?
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
Comic creators! Did you know @cartoonist.coop members get a discount on The Proofreader’s Guide to Comic Book Style?
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
The Proofreader's Guide to Comic Book Style
An Editorial Handbook for Print and Digital Comics
comicbookstyle.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Comic creators! Did you know @cartoonist.coop members get a discount on The Proofreader’s Guide to Comic Book Style?
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
Visit the co-op intranet under Education in the Benefits section to access your code for 10% off your order on comicbookstyle.com.
From a disposable camera on my first trip to Paris when I was 18.
July 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
From a disposable camera on my first trip to Paris when I was 18.