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Varethane
@varethane.bsky.social
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Canadian comic artist! I make Wychwood ( https://www.wychwoodcomic.com/ ) and Chirault ( https://chirault.sevensmith.net/ )
#webcomics FFXIV acct: @xivsorrel.bsky.social
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Varethane @varethane.bsky.social · Oct 17
Guess maybe I should do a general introduction post over here!

I'm Thane, and on this account (depending on the day's whims) you may see me post about:

🔹 Comics
🔸 Animation/Gamedev
🔹 Final Fantasy (FFXIV in particular)
🔸 Jak and Daxter
🔹 Legacy of Kain
🔸 Anime
🔹 Painting/Art
🔸 Comics...on the WEB
varethane.bsky.social
Having fun messing around in my sketchbook this week! I brought a really weird selection of pens and like two markers, so not much colour will appear, but I can noodle with the pens to my hearts content.
December 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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glassshard.bsky.social
I don't like algos, never have. Social media every day should be like making a mixtape for all your friends. You're sending their timeline all the best stuff you come across. We curate for each other and for ourselves rather than letting bossy bots call the shots.
kim-hu.com Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 2d
all bluesky not having an algorithm means is that all the adhd hyperfocus sickness of the mind posters finally don't get deboosted anymore; free of our shackles we can force everyone to read 50000 posts about blorbo a day every day
katriaraden.bsky.social Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 2d
could be wrong but I think people took bluesky not having an algorithm to mean you can just post whenever and run and accumulate however many likes you believe you deserve

but no, you still gotta engage with others and be a part of the community
December 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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scottycomics.bsky.social
Check out all these cool webcomic creators~ 👀
feathernotes.bsky.social Krispy @feathernotes.bsky.social · Nov 8
Welcome to Bluesky new folks!
Wanting to follow WEBCOMIC CREATORS?
I got you!

🔴VOLUME 1 go.bsky.app/RbsaF4W
🟠VOLUME 2 go.bsky.app/AdEFLDK
🟡VOLUME 3 go.bsky.app/4harP2r
🟢VOLUME 4 go.bsky.app/G69ktFZ

If you are a webcomicker and would like to be added, let me know in replies!

#webcomics #comics
December 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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deuxdel.bsky.social
If any of you who follow me are Toronto based, there's a petition to give TTC priority at intersections! Please consider signing, it'll go far to help the public transit issues and car congestion in the city!

www.ttcriders.ca/greenlight?r...
Give Transit the Green Light
www.ttcriders.ca
December 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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ggdg.bsky.social
read soulsov!!!! i'm good at art and storytelling and i want to share my fun world and its many freaks with you. at least play the free demo! gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov
December 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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prongles.bsky.social
Merry crisis, here’s a new ingress page: www.ingress-comic.com/comic/chapte...
Toivo and Serule from the latest Ingress page. They’re both drawn very simply and looking at each other deadpan.
December 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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chrisgardiner.bsky.social
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.

But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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sabato-n.bsky.social
i dont remember if i ever posted this to bsky actually
December 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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copperthecarutor.bsky.social
#meetthewebcomic
Better late than never?

Rated 17+, The Guide to a Healthy Relationship is a dark human drama about abuse, illness, and the struggles of recovery. The story follows Julian, a short-tempered short stack and Apollo, a dumbass with good intentions.

linktr.ee/CoppertheCar...
On the left: #MeetTheWebcomic, followed by The Guide to a Healthy Relationship. Underneath is the genre descriptions, reading Drama and Psychological. Then the story blurb, "Apollo is doing fine. Just fine. He bartends, parties and drinks with his friends, and talks to a picture of his dead childhood friend. He's fine. Until he thinks he sees his dead friend during a night out drinking." Ending with a link. On the right: A drawing of two people underwater. One is holding the other's hand while looking up, and the other appears to be unconscious. A comic page showing a guy sitting on the floor with his legs up on a small table. He is watching a movie on his laptop until a photo starts talking to him, and he proceeds to argue with it. A comic page showing words in random noise in what looks like ripples. The ripples are then interrupted by a mop, it turns out to be water in a mop bucket. The mop is rung out and the person holding it begins mopping the floor in a dark room. A comic page showing someone standing in the woods, in the dark, wearing socks with no shoes, and holding a flashlight.
December 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
varethane.bsky.social
Doodling!
December 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
varethane.bsky.social
seasons
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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skullamity.bsky.social
Heyyy #meetthewebcomic!
@femonologue.bsky.social and I have been making endcomic.com for almost 16 years!

the end is a queer sci-fi drama/adventure where two aliens on a rescue mission crash a convention and accidentally take eight dorks on the ride of their lives!
Two women enter the front doors at a hotel hosting a convention. Jack and his twin sister Kait are waiting in the lobby, and the following conversation takes place: JACK: That's--! JACK: It REALLY is her! JACK: And she looks EXACTLY like she did in the pic and videos! KAIT: See? Nothing to worry about...for YOU at least. KAIT: But is SHE safe? What have you REALLY told her about you? KAIT: Does she know your DARK secrets? Has she seen the BABY PICTURES? I'm sure I have some in my wallet... Jack is visibly sweating and horrified in the last panel. Sam, Max and a couple of Hlurcht--cute aliens with slug/snail like heads and a variety of different manicured and shaped carapaces, are flying over Gorth Station at night on their way to The Races. Sam is excited, and Max is incredibly hungover and trying not to barf. SAM: Oh, MAN! SAM: We NEVER had anything like this back on Ith! SAM: Are you SEEING this Max? MAX: It's-- MAX: hhhhhfff MAX: g r e a t. Sam. In the first panel, a hover transport speeds off into the fungal wilds, Ith's colossal moon looms in the background. Kait, who is on the transport is saying "I guess we'll see..." There is a scene change. Sari is coming back into consciousness, laying on the floor in the ruins of the symposium. She rubs her eyes as footsteps approach. Xia spits out an accusatory "YOU." at her and she tries to sit up. Henri has accidentally made Kait cry while her, Kait and Lon are stuck processing mushrooms on Ith, and is frantically trying to cheer her up. HENRI: I... WAIT. HENRI: What if we... NO. HENRI: No, that's a shit idea. HENRI: But maybe it's not. HENRI: It COULD work, if... HENRI: I am the SMARTEST motherfucker EVER. HENRI: After our shift is over, you're going to find Lita. HENRI: She owes me a favour for letting her borrow Blaire's cards and make copies of them. Tell her I'm cashing in. KAIT: Henri, I...are you sure? HENRI: YOU'RE WELCOME, SHUT UP. HENRI: You're gonna have to explain what a picnic is to her, but get her to hook you up with dinner for two. HENRI: Clean yourself up, and head out to the big shaded rock by the pond. I'll make sure Noh agrees to meet you there.
December 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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phantomarine.bsky.social
Happy #MeetTheWebcomic day - this is Phantomarine!

A ghostly princess must sail across a haunted sea to save her soul from a devious death god known as the Red Tide King.

Great to read if you like mysteries, Disney villains, dinosaurs, eyeliner, and bisexual lighting.

www.phantomarine.com
A promo image from the webcomic Phantomarine. A ghostly princess begins to draw her sword as she is swarmed by a sea of red ghosts. Three feature prominently - a man and a woman who appear to be twins, and a grinning plesiosaur.
December 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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feathernotes.bsky.social
Happy #meetthewebcomic !
I make two comics with my co-creator @spacerocketbunny.bsky.social
🔶Ghost Junk Sickness: a sci-fi bounty hunting action story
♦️Lunar Blight: a gothic horror with plenty of monsters

www.ghostjunksickness.com
lunarblight.com
two characters sit in many wires, digital art a comic page spread of a bounty hunter hitting a space ship a character collage of characters, one holds a sword in the front, digital art a comic spread of a character discovering a monster, black and white
December 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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prongles.bsky.social
Time to #meetthewebcomic!

Ingress Adventuring Company follows the adventures of a powerful wizard with the emotional maturity of an irresponsible teenager as he deals with the ghosts of his past. Too bad his past also wants to kill him.

www.ingress-comic.com
A comic page from Ingress Adventuring Company. Toivo is getting hit over the head with a large wooden beam. Toivo, Spicer, and Rocky fall through the bottom of the panel. A comic page from Ingress Adventuring Company. An elf walks through a series of hospital beds as the people in them slowly deteriorate to become mere skeletons. The narration on the page says: "Eventually, everyone who was in contact with Derik was affected. And one by one, the conclave died. By the time that I figured out the cause... it was too late." A double page spread of Ingress Adventuring Company. Three figures stand in the foreground with cages of bestial monsters trapped above them. Toivo: I think I know where those missing townsfolk went now. Aidan: Shit. This is bad. He's already turned this many people into Beasts. Nikki: This looks like an army. Nikki: If this really is derik, it's just like what he was doing before at Aidan's temple... but... Nikki (turning to Toivo): You already figured that out, didn't you Toivo? Toivo: Ha. Ha. What? A page from Ingress Adventuring Company. Toivo and Vivianne have an emotional conversation. Vivianne approaches Toivo. Vivianne: No! Panel 2 shows blood being drawn into a magic circle. Vivianne: You can't leave me! Panel 3 shows Vivianne getting closer to Toivo, crying. Vivianne: You can't leave me again. Vivianne kisses Toivo, who isn't receptive.
December 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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lilaclotus.bsky.social
Chipping in as a reader to say that I really enjoy these comics!!!

Also Thane did this piece of art for a vampire character of mine and it slaps so hard and YOU SHOULD GET A COMMISSION RIGHT NOW
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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kajotko.bsky.social
#meetthewebcomic, may I introduce you to All Known Alternatives.

It's an urban fantasy about trying to get back home from a Quest across parallel worlds.

Also: The Power of Friendship, color coded magic, Mystery and a Cursed Sword.

Ongoing, read 4 chapters now on akacomic.com or Webtoon/Tapas
December 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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kodyisover.com
Hey #MeetTheWebcomic! I make Keeping Time, a longform drama that's ostensibly a band romance between former friends, but might be better categorized as an adult coming-of-age story where that self discovery is painful and hard-fought.

#KeepingTime #webcomics

🎸 keepingtimecomic.com
A promotional graphic that reads #MeetTheWebcomic Keeping Time Romance, Drama, LGBTQ+ Daniel and Denver haven’t spoken since Alex died. When a chance encounter reunites them as friends and bandmates, they find themselves falling in love - for better or worse. keepingtimecomic.com with an illustration of two men playing electric guitars, bathed in stage lights. A comic page from KEEPING TIME that tracks an interaction between Denver, a blond punk with a neck tattoo, and Daniel, a Japanese-American guy who seems perpetually sad. Denver and Daniel sit on a steel work access staircase in an alley, catching up on the years that have passed since they lost saw one another. In the final panel, Denver suggests Daniel should swing by band practice, because "the band's still going strong." Another page, this time tracking an interaction between Denver and his roommate, Tomás. Tomás expresses hesitancy at the idea of inviting Daniel back into the band, which immediately earns him an angry, snapped response from Denver. A third and final page. Denver and Daniel are walking together on a winter's night. Denver shares that he now lives with Tomás, but that it comes with difficulties because of Tomás and their cheap apartment's plumbing. Daniel laughs for the first time maybe all comic.
December 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
varethane.bsky.social
Oh hey, I hear it's #meetthewebcomic!

I make two of them:
🌿Chirault: a high-fantasy adventure full of monsters and magic
🦋Wychwood: a science fiction post-apocalypse featuring interdimensional travel and conspiracies

chirault.sevensmith.net
www.wychwoodcomic.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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screentonescast.bsky.social
Just in time for the holidays!
Need something to read while you relax with family? Perhaps while travelling?
Use the #meetthewebcomic hashtag to introduce your webcomic to the world, and make sure to use 4 of your best pages to draw in new readers!
halftone image with # meet the webcomic
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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sabato-n.bsky.social
anyway in honor of new arcadion tier i post this again
March 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
varethane.bsky.social
I've updated my Masterlist of Printers-- it's been a long time coming (last edit was in 2021??), so there are a bunch of changes, and you can check it out here: screentonescast.com/view/66

If anything is missing from the list, or should be updated, let me know!
Screen Tones Podcast: Varethane's Masterlist of Printers
This is a big post compiling all the printers of books, prints, and other popular comic-related merch that I (Varethane) have either worked with or heard recommended by other indie creators. It starte...
screentonescast.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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madamenostalgic.bsky.social
⭐⭐⭐⭐

Loved this. I hope Rian Johnson keeps getting the opportunity to make these films.

Glenn Close is SO, SO amazing as always. And Josh Brolin has completed his transformation into 1998 Jeff Bridges.
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
varethane.bsky.social
LRT: I finished Final Fantasy Tactics for the first time just a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it greatly-- and especially enjoyed having new context for a lot of the stuff that shows up in the FFXIV raids XD (music, characters and settings, etc)
December 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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steelpeach.bsky.social
FFT Mustadio with the sniper rifle from the FF14 Mustadio

#FFT
Mustadio crouching in a sniper rifle reload pose from the FF14 sniping cutscene A smaller background drawing features Ramza and Mustadio (in their tiny sprite look) running together, Mustadio happily holding a sniper rifle. Text pointing to the rifle says "Dad made for him". Behind them Besrudio stands proudly in the doorway and says "Go get them son"
December 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM