Paul Tobin
@paultobin.bsky.social
Multiple Eisner winning author of Bandette, Bunny Mask, Plants vs. Zombies, the Versus novels, Heart Acres, Next Door Dungeon & more. Find me at PaulTobin.net or as OgreParty on Royal Road https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/150796
Added a new Italian fumetti to my blog-galleries! This one is OS 117, based on the Very Famous But Not In America series... OSS 117, by Bruce Jean!
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www.paultobin.net/blog-2-1/jea...
OS 117 — Paul Tobin
First, let’s start with the comic! There were 15 issues of OS 117 published in a two year span, with two different individually numbered series. Vol I #1 (July 1965) #6 (December 1965) Vol 2 #...
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February 9, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Added a new Italian fumetti to my blog-galleries! This one is OS 117, based on the Very Famous But Not In America series... OSS 117, by Bruce Jean!
www.paultobin.net/blog-2-1/jea...
www.paultobin.net/blog-2-1/jea...
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Sign up now to get notified when the Laser Joan & the Rayguns KS launches! Celebrate friendship, 'copters, machine guns and rock 'n roll with this collected one shot of action and adventure by me @djkirkbride.bsky.social @robertwilsoniv.bsky.social @jordantboyd.bsky.social & @gofrankgo.bsky.social
Coming soon: Laser Joan and the Rayguns
A 24 pg one shot adventure comic about an all-female rock band collecting the three stories that originally ran in DARK HORSE PRESENTS.
www.kickstarter.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Sign up now to get notified when the Laser Joan & the Rayguns KS launches! Celebrate friendship, 'copters, machine guns and rock 'n roll with this collected one shot of action and adventure by me @djkirkbride.bsky.social @robertwilsoniv.bsky.social @jordantboyd.bsky.social & @gofrankgo.bsky.social
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It's been just over a year since leaving Dark Horse and I've grown a lot as a freelance editor. I'm really eager to get back to editing more comics and graphic novels this year, especially for authors in the indie space.
If you are crowdfunding or self-publishing please reach out for a chat!
If you are crowdfunding or self-publishing please reach out for a chat!
Hey all, I'm officially turning my focus towards freelance editing, writing, and creative consulting.
If you need help with your project be it comic, webcomic, prose, TTRPG, or even videogame -- I have the tools needed to help you make it better.
Let's make some awesome stuff together!
If you need help with your project be it comic, webcomic, prose, TTRPG, or even videogame -- I have the tools needed to help you make it better.
Let's make some awesome stuff together!
Today I was laid off from Dark Horse Comics. While devastating news, I'm so proud of what I helped make there and am grateful to have worked alongside such amazing coworkers and creators.
I'm not quitting comics yet, so if you or someone you know needs a savvy editor please reach out.
I'm not quitting comics yet, so if you or someone you know needs a savvy editor please reach out.
February 9, 2026 at 8:04 PM
It's been just over a year since leaving Dark Horse and I've grown a lot as a freelance editor. I'm really eager to get back to editing more comics and graphic novels this year, especially for authors in the indie space.
If you are crowdfunding or self-publishing please reach out for a chat!
If you are crowdfunding or self-publishing please reach out for a chat!
A new chapter of NEXT DOOR DUNGEON is live! Go there and love it! (although read previous chapters because context is important, you know, and so is characterization, and learning to live with and accept ~ even adore ~ other people for who they are.
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...
Next Door Dungeon: Book One (Giant Rats With Big Gnashy Teeth)
When twenty-one-year-old college student Josh Hester moves back into the apartment of his youth, he finds a strange doorway that allows him to go back and forth between a fantasy RPG world complete wi...
www.royalroad.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
A new chapter of NEXT DOOR DUNGEON is live! Go there and love it! (although read previous chapters because context is important, you know, and so is characterization, and learning to live with and accept ~ even adore ~ other people for who they are.
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...
A pair of original Rip Kirby strips, by Alex Raymond. Those faces are so good.
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 PM
A pair of original Rip Kirby strips, by Alex Raymond. Those faces are so good.
This is why American school systems need Sex Education, for avoiding exactly this sort of situation.
February 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
This is why American school systems need Sex Education, for avoiding exactly this sort of situation.
Hundreds of thousands of people around America have now turned off the Super Bowl and are now busily building this set in their Sims games.
February 9, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Hundreds of thousands of people around America have now turned off the Super Bowl and are now busily building this set in their Sims games.
Just noticed that, next year, Super Bowl Sunday is on Valentine's Day, and I can already feel the tension.
February 9, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Just noticed that, next year, Super Bowl Sunday is on Valentine's Day, and I can already feel the tension.
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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Unidos somos América.
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Unidos somos América.
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judge a quarterback by whether or not he defrauds millions of dollars from poor people
February 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
judge a quarterback by whether or not he defrauds millions of dollars from poor people
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la subtilité, la précision:
The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
February 8, 2026 at 11:17 PM
la subtilité, la précision:
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The US officials at the winter Olympic games in Italy (incl. Vance) did an obscene display of tens of mammoth armored vehicles carried via ~14 planes from the US to Italy that literally suffocated transit on the small Italian streets.
Italian officials walked their way, like decent humans do.
Italian officials walked their way, like decent humans do.
February 8, 2026 at 10:08 PM
The US officials at the winter Olympic games in Italy (incl. Vance) did an obscene display of tens of mammoth armored vehicles carried via ~14 planes from the US to Italy that literally suffocated transit on the small Italian streets.
Italian officials walked their way, like decent humans do.
Italian officials walked their way, like decent humans do.
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I do not know how people in the US accept those immense amounts of taxpayers' money to go on mammoth motorcades for their VP's presence at the winter Olympics in Italy, but if the Swedish PM would do that, he would have to resign.
The queen of Sweden uses commercial flights, like mortals like me.
The queen of Sweden uses commercial flights, like mortals like me.
February 8, 2026 at 10:53 PM
I do not know how people in the US accept those immense amounts of taxpayers' money to go on mammoth motorcades for their VP's presence at the winter Olympics in Italy, but if the Swedish PM would do that, he would have to resign.
The queen of Sweden uses commercial flights, like mortals like me.
The queen of Sweden uses commercial flights, like mortals like me.
At Olympic levels of competition, the slightest margin can mean all the difference. For instance, it's been raining for two days, and I haven't been able to clean up all the cat poop in my yard from the neighborhood cats. And that might be it, really. Not sure I can make up that sort of deficit.
February 8, 2026 at 11:27 PM
At Olympic levels of competition, the slightest margin can mean all the difference. For instance, it's been raining for two days, and I haven't been able to clean up all the cat poop in my yard from the neighborhood cats. And that might be it, really. Not sure I can make up that sort of deficit.
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Well said, Bad Bunny. Well said.
February 8, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Well said, Bad Bunny. Well said.
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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OH! Also, if you read these books and liked them (and this goes for any books you enjoy) leave reviews at bookseller sites, on sites like goodreads, tell friends! It's so hard to spread the word about stuff as a creator. I'm just a me.
There are more bots following me now, but may I recommend them my ORCS! series, available through Penguin Random House here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/14460...
February 8, 2026 at 6:14 PM
OH! Also, if you read these books and liked them (and this goes for any books you enjoy) leave reviews at bookseller sites, on sites like goodreads, tell friends! It's so hard to spread the word about stuff as a creator. I'm just a me.
Made a little thing about the joy of being online.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Made a little thing about the joy of being online.
Just kinda sitting around thinking of how Roy Lichtenstein was the first widespread use of AI art theft.
February 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Just kinda sitting around thinking of how Roy Lichtenstein was the first widespread use of AI art theft.
Heckin' YEAH! It's today's new chapter of NEXT DOOR DUNGEON, a story you can read for free on Royal Road. I'd even appreciate it! Especially if you leave reviews, follows, advanced dungeoneering tips, etc!
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...
Next Door Dungeon: Book One (Giant Rats With Big Gnashy Teeth)
When twenty-one-year-old college student Josh Hester moves back into the apartment of his youth, he finds a strange doorway that allows him to go back and forth between a fantasy RPG world complete wi...
www.royalroad.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Heckin' YEAH! It's today's new chapter of NEXT DOOR DUNGEON, a story you can read for free on Royal Road. I'd even appreciate it! Especially if you leave reviews, follows, advanced dungeoneering tips, etc!
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...
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🚨 Epstein survivors release this powerful PSA in advance of the Super Bowl demanding answers from the Justice Department. This is the Super Bowl ad every American should see. Spread it everywhere.
February 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
🚨 Epstein survivors release this powerful PSA in advance of the Super Bowl demanding answers from the Justice Department. This is the Super Bowl ad every American should see. Spread it everywhere.
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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literal crimes against humanity
A 2024 DHS OIG report “found that ICE improperly authorized 32% of major surgeries performed on individuals in ICE detention without having gone through the proper procedure first,” including forced hysterectomies.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-sub...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-sub...
February 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
literal crimes against humanity
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'Blazing Saddles' was released on this day 52 years ago! (February 7, 1974)
Directed by Mel Brooks.
Starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Brooks, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras and David Huddleston, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, & more.
#OTD #OnThisDay #BlazingSaddles
Directed by Mel Brooks.
Starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Brooks, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras and David Huddleston, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, & more.
#OTD #OnThisDay #BlazingSaddles
February 7, 2026 at 10:30 PM
'Blazing Saddles' was released on this day 52 years ago! (February 7, 1974)
Directed by Mel Brooks.
Starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Brooks, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras and David Huddleston, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, & more.
#OTD #OnThisDay #BlazingSaddles
Directed by Mel Brooks.
Starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Brooks, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras and David Huddleston, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, & more.
#OTD #OnThisDay #BlazingSaddles