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Tara O’Connor
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Comic Maker!
Based in Belfast! 🤘
CRY OUT LOUD and FLY BY NIGHT out now from Random House Graphic 💬
Looking for representation!

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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · Sep 5
Unbox My Book With Me! Cry Out Loud comes out in 11 days! ✨
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I know how reproduction works and all that, but like sometimes if you think too hard about it, it’s just really weird? Like my daughter has the tops of John’s ears and the bottoms of my ears. Just? I dunno?

Babes, can ya tell it’s been awhile since I’ve slept properly?
January 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Every. Single. Time. 😆
JOHN'S DAD JOKES Panel 1: we’re waiting for the bus. I say: 00000H, ITS CHILLY OUT HERE. Panel 2: John remarks: IT'S NOT CHILE... ..IT'S IRELAND. Last panel: I grimace but I can’t help but laugh. 🤭
December 2, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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It’s apparently Dad Joke Day! John mastered these long before becoming a dad. 🙏
taraocomics.bsky.social Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · Dec 2
Every. Single. Time. 😆
JOHN'S DAD JOKES Panel 1: we’re waiting for the bus. I say: 00000H, ITS CHILLY OUT HERE. Panel 2: John remarks: IT'S NOT CHILE... ..IT'S IRELAND. Last panel: I grimace but I can’t help but laugh. 🤭
January 5, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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When one of your besties who came to visit a few months ago made you a bunch of food to freeze and you thought you finished it all—but good fortune shines upon me on this chilly winter day, for another Tupperware container was found…
January 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Water went down my sleeve, today is cancelled.
January 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Another wee sketch in!
Ink drawing of character with a sword and spiked hair
January 1, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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Another wee sketch in!
Ink drawing of character with a sword and spiked hair
January 1, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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While Fly Ny Night and Cry Out Loud are their own standalone stories they’re connected by a common theme: local folklore.

Growing up in NJ I have always wanted to do a story involving the Jersey Devil and of course once I moved to Ireland I had to delve into the lore around the banshee.
Sequence from Fly by night Dee is face to face with the “Jersey devil” HA! Why am i talking as if it can actually understand me? Sequence from Cry Out Loud between nell and the banshee.
January 1, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Watching a documentary about the Pine Barrens and the first thing they mention is blue holes. Funny that!
Page from fly by night. Text reads It's so still. What is it? A blue hole. People tend to avoid this one, but Beth always liked coming here 'cause it's so peaceful. It's rumored to be bottomless. Some say it leads to hell, that the Jersey Devil grabs them and pulls 'em down into the depths. Ha, the Jersey Devil. People still believe in that garbage? Seems so, but I sure as hell have never seen it. Superstitions aside, of the people who have gone missing round here... ...most were thought to have fallen in. The currents grab 'em. You don't think-
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Did y’all know in 2021 I did a graphic novel featuring the Jersey Devil? 👀
Penal sequence from fly by night. In one Dee is trying to feed a creature beef jerky. In the second panel, it chomps down on it. In the third panel, it sticks its head in the bag.
January 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Just the quickest of doodles during a 5 minute nap. 😮‍💨
Ink doodle a girl holding her knees to her chest she has short hair and she’s wearing a skirt and a puffer jacket.
December 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Happy New Year from the fam 💖
The family!
December 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Smell ya later 2025. ✨
Collage with images from cry out loud and in the middle of a picture of me. Except the second image, which is the preview of a pitch I’m working on.
December 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Just the quickest of doodles during a 5 minute nap. 😮‍💨
Ink doodle a girl holding her knees to her chest she has short hair and she’s wearing a skirt and a puffer jacket.
December 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Here’s a save point for y’all before we head into 2026.
Up on the mournes a bright light shines thru the clouds.
December 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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it's my birthday today! may i present thee with some of my fave arts to share 💖🎉🎁
Illustration inspired by the pairing Hansry from Kingdom Come Deliverance, but make it the hand flex scene from 2005's Pride and Prejudice A digital illustration inspired by Disco Elysium. Kim and Harry play a board game that is the hanged man case: all the pieces are key players in the case. A digital illustration inspired by the EXU trio from Critical Role. Fearne, Orym, and Dorian lie down in a grassy field. Fearne is laughing, Orym has his eyes closed in content, and Dorian looks at Orym fondly. A digital illustration inspired by my trans man paladin Sir Alder. He stands nude in a green forest at night. He holds a sword in one hand and a branch of alder in the other. He wears a laurel crown of victory.
December 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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When your hubby, despite absolutely hating it, finds out they’re taking Star Trek off Netflix, gets you your fave series for Christmas—now that’s true love. 🥹
Blue ray box set of Star Trek TNG the full journey
December 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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It’s that weird nether zone between Christmas and New Year’s—no one knows exactly what day it is or how much cheese has been eaten.
Jez from peep show TIME MOVES AT A DIFFERENT SPEED IN THE NETHER ZONE. WE NEED TO RELAX.
December 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Worth the time for perfect roasties. 🙏
Roasted potatoes!
December 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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✨ Merry festivities everyone! ✨
Typography done in procreate, bubble letters read Merry Merry with sparkles next to it
December 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Merry Xmas Eve! 🎄Time for cuddles and Lord of the Rings before all the cooking tomorrow! ✨
Seasons greetings from the place I spent 90% of my days. It’s a picture of me and my daughter she’s sleeping. We’re on the sofa.
December 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Oh, look, it’s me.
Hovis soft thick and white bread
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Add to this the AI family holiday portraits—like y’all gotta know we know it’s not you, right? It’d be sad if it wasn’t so infuriating.
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I didn’t think it was possible for Facebook to become even more of a cesspool but AI has really ramped it up. On today’s episode it’s a mom using generative AI to fake spending time with her kids. 🫣
December 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I didn’t think it was possible for Facebook to become even more of a cesspool but AI has really ramped it up. On today’s episode it’s a mom using generative AI to fake spending time with her kids. 🫣
December 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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We watched #PredatorBadlands and…anyone else see it?
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM