Armando M. Zanker
@zanker.bsky.social
🇲🇽 Multipurpose cartoonist
✉️ thearmando@gmail.com
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✉️ thearmando@gmail.com
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White Ash Comics is looking for a few human comic book COVER ARTISTS for 2026. If you want to be considered, reply with samples and/or a link to your portfolio. I will repost all legit responses.
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
White Ash Comics is looking for a few human comic book COVER ARTISTS for 2026. If you want to be considered, reply with samples and/or a link to your portfolio. I will repost all legit responses.
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IF YOU ARE TRYING TO MAKE A COMIC...
Please talk about it on this thread! I would love to hear what stage you are at, what is working well, and what has proven more difficult than you thought.
Share a bit of art, if you can!
Sing your own praises, if you like!
Please talk about it on this thread! I would love to hear what stage you are at, what is working well, and what has proven more difficult than you thought.
Share a bit of art, if you can!
Sing your own praises, if you like!
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
IF YOU ARE TRYING TO MAKE A COMIC...
Please talk about it on this thread! I would love to hear what stage you are at, what is working well, and what has proven more difficult than you thought.
Share a bit of art, if you can!
Sing your own praises, if you like!
Please talk about it on this thread! I would love to hear what stage you are at, what is working well, and what has proven more difficult than you thought.
Share a bit of art, if you can!
Sing your own praises, if you like!
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Hey, Thought Bubble 2025 is on! Sad to be missing it this year as it really is the best comic con in the UK (don’t tell the others) but hopefully I’ll be able to attend as a vendor next year and show everyone what myself, @nerdigrey.bsky.social and @zanker.bsky.social have been working on 👀👀👀
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hey, Thought Bubble 2025 is on! Sad to be missing it this year as it really is the best comic con in the UK (don’t tell the others) but hopefully I’ll be able to attend as a vendor next year and show everyone what myself, @nerdigrey.bsky.social and @zanker.bsky.social have been working on 👀👀👀
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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hey #screenwriting #screenwriter who writes #tv and #film - have you ever wondered how a great writer creates unforgettable characters? ME TOO! sadly, all you get is my latest essay in which i break down how i cope with what i see as my weakest suit!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-am...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-am...
I Am Insecure About My Character(s) - Uncanny Magazine
Great characters are the cornerstone of storytelling. For a story to work, the audience must bond in a meaningful way with a cast of fully realized individuals whose actions and conflicts create drama...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
hey #screenwriting #screenwriter who writes #tv and #film - have you ever wondered how a great writer creates unforgettable characters? ME TOO! sadly, all you get is my latest essay in which i break down how i cope with what i see as my weakest suit!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-am...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-am...
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Hey illustrators/agents!
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hey illustrators/agents!
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
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The final order cutoff for my Black Label comic BATMAN/GREEN ARROW/THE QUESTION: ARCADIA #1 is this Monday 11/3. If you want a copy tell your comics shop to preorder. Colors by Romulo Fajardo Jr. and lettering by @simonbowland.bsky.social!
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The final order cutoff for my Black Label comic BATMAN/GREEN ARROW/THE QUESTION: ARCADIA #1 is this Monday 11/3. If you want a copy tell your comics shop to preorder. Colors by Romulo Fajardo Jr. and lettering by @simonbowland.bsky.social!
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Presenting: NO MORE BLADES IN YUCATÁN. Available now: ko-fi.com/jarredlujan
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Presenting: NO MORE BLADES IN YUCATÁN. Available now: ko-fi.com/jarredlujan
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Comic book writers, comment below with your portfolio!
Let's give hiring editors an easy place to find us.
Let's give hiring editors an easy place to find us.
October 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Comic book writers, comment below with your portfolio!
Let's give hiring editors an easy place to find us.
Let's give hiring editors an easy place to find us.
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Way to go, @jimlee.bsky.social and DC Comics!
Hopefully more publishers follow a similar stance going forward.
bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-co...
Hopefully more publishers follow a similar stance going forward.
bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-co...
"DC Comics Will Not Support AI Generated Storytelling Or Art"- Jim Lee
"DC Comics Will Not Support AI Generated Storytelling Or Artwork" - transcript and video of Jim Lee's speech at New York Comic Con
bleedingcool.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Way to go, @jimlee.bsky.social and DC Comics!
Hopefully more publishers follow a similar stance going forward.
bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-co...
Hopefully more publishers follow a similar stance going forward.
bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-co...
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The more I curate my social media experience - reducing platforms, trimming followers, switching off notifications, posting less - the more I realise that what I'm inevitably working towards is just not having any social media at all.
October 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The more I curate my social media experience - reducing platforms, trimming followers, switching off notifications, posting less - the more I realise that what I'm inevitably working towards is just not having any social media at all.
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Explore culturally rich stories by Latino creators on GlobalComix’s iOS/Android apps or website. Let’s celebrate Hispanic heritage together! 💪 #ChispaComics #GlobalComix #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinoStories
October 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Explore culturally rich stories by Latino creators on GlobalComix’s iOS/Android apps or website. Let’s celebrate Hispanic heritage together! 💪 #ChispaComics #GlobalComix #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinoStories
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AI evangelists are archetypal "Ideas Guys". The ones who are convinced they've come up with the best movie/comic/game concept ever, but just need actual talented people to make it for them. The inevitable lack of interest from creatives is, in their mind, the reason they've never succeeded.
The level of hatred these AI bros have for creative people I just do not understand
May 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
AI evangelists are archetypal "Ideas Guys". The ones who are convinced they've come up with the best movie/comic/game concept ever, but just need actual talented people to make it for them. The inevitable lack of interest from creatives is, in their mind, the reason they've never succeeded.
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I cannot tell you how many parents I met across the last few events who said that comics started their kids reading. Just comics. It’s the one thing that worked. 🫡
I’m just humbly suggesting that, should the publishing industry want to tackle the crisis in reading for pleasure rates, and we have research suggesting that there’s no crisis in reading for pleasure rates amongst children who read comics, that there’s maybe a relatively simple solution right here.
September 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I cannot tell you how many parents I met across the last few events who said that comics started their kids reading. Just comics. It’s the one thing that worked. 🫡
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Worked up a poster for Sinners - that cross section of horror movies, period pieces, and roots music checks an awful lot of my boxes, and heavens but it was beautifully made.
September 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Worked up a poster for Sinners - that cross section of horror movies, period pieces, and roots music checks an awful lot of my boxes, and heavens but it was beautifully made.
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So grateful the Yeti team took the time to help me out with an interview. The incomparable Jimmy was kind to lead me through it, even as I had some struggles with my memory.
Give it a listen and consider backing @viniciuscarreiro.bsky.social and my Kickstarter!
Give it a listen and consider backing @viniciuscarreiro.bsky.social and my Kickstarter!
It’s a brand new Cryptid Creator Corner (on a Monday!). @jimmygaspero.bsky.social chats with @dougawood.bsky.social about the current Kickstarter for UltraMax: Death Row. @byrononeal.com has been dealing with a lupus flare-up so Jimmy is editing and accidentally set this to drop a day early.
September 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
So grateful the Yeti team took the time to help me out with an interview. The incomparable Jimmy was kind to lead me through it, even as I had some struggles with my memory.
Give it a listen and consider backing @viniciuscarreiro.bsky.social and my Kickstarter!
Give it a listen and consider backing @viniciuscarreiro.bsky.social and my Kickstarter!
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The hits keep coming! My wife’s in the ER for low heart rate and unexplained abdominal pain. And our new insurance doesn’t kick in until Oct 1. Here comes a wave of huge hospital bills. Anything helps. Thanks skeeters.
Welp. My family's bank account is negative. It'll be at least a month or more before my book advance arrives. If anyone wants a signed Bowie book or wants to subscribe to my movie Patreon at the $5 level, now would be a great time. Thanks!
September 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The hits keep coming! My wife’s in the ER for low heart rate and unexplained abdominal pain. And our new insurance doesn’t kick in until Oct 1. Here comes a wave of huge hospital bills. Anything helps. Thanks skeeters.
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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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If you're on LinkedIn, you'll probably want to switch this toggle to 'off'.
September 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
If you're on LinkedIn, you'll probably want to switch this toggle to 'off'.
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Welp. My family's bank account is negative. It'll be at least a month or more before my book advance arrives. If anyone wants a signed Bowie book or wants to subscribe to my movie Patreon at the $5 level, now would be a great time. Thanks!
September 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Welp. My family's bank account is negative. It'll be at least a month or more before my book advance arrives. If anyone wants a signed Bowie book or wants to subscribe to my movie Patreon at the $5 level, now would be a great time. Thanks!
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Hey #kidlit illustrators!
We’re beginning to think through a mythology-themed beginning-reader series. I'm looking for someone w/ a commercial/punchy, character-forward style who can breath life into ancient lore.
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
We’re beginning to think through a mythology-themed beginning-reader series. I'm looking for someone w/ a commercial/punchy, character-forward style who can breath life into ancient lore.
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
September 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Hey #kidlit illustrators!
We’re beginning to think through a mythology-themed beginning-reader series. I'm looking for someone w/ a commercial/punchy, character-forward style who can breath life into ancient lore.
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
We’re beginning to think through a mythology-themed beginning-reader series. I'm looking for someone w/ a commercial/punchy, character-forward style who can breath life into ancient lore.
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
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I like to write crime stories and about superheroes. UltraMax is a fun mash up of those two spaces.
A prison drama set in a world with super powered criminals that is focusing on the struggles with dealing with wilder personalities.
Live on Kickstarter
www.kickstarter.com/projects/174...
A prison drama set in a world with super powered criminals that is focusing on the struggles with dealing with wilder personalities.
Live on Kickstarter
www.kickstarter.com/projects/174...
September 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I like to write crime stories and about superheroes. UltraMax is a fun mash up of those two spaces.
A prison drama set in a world with super powered criminals that is focusing on the struggles with dealing with wilder personalities.
Live on Kickstarter
www.kickstarter.com/projects/174...
A prison drama set in a world with super powered criminals that is focusing on the struggles with dealing with wilder personalities.
Live on Kickstarter
www.kickstarter.com/projects/174...
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Dibujé una historia escrita por Abraham Martínez para esta antología, que hoy arranca su fondeo. ¡Cómics!
September 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Dibujé una historia escrita por Abraham Martínez para esta antología, que hoy arranca su fondeo. ¡Cómics!