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Dirk Schwieger
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Berlin-based comic artist (he/him, white) trapped in a tech bubble.

Posting for help in 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 about comics, queerness, digital privacy and Elves.

:fediverse […]

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In 2022, Ireland did something bold. It trusted its artists. 2000 creators received €325 a week, no strings attached. The result was more art, less anxiety, stronger communities, and even economic gains.

Now the program is permanent. Ireland becomes the first country to prove that supporting […]
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October 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Happy #followfriday!

These are 5 comic artists from my city – Berlin – you should subscribe to:

@mawil
@Elke_Renate_Steiner
@jorisbasbacker
@Ullilust
@thilokrapp

👉 Which 5 comic artists from your city or region are an inspiration to you?

#comics #comic #graphicnovels #graphicnovel #MastoArt […]
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October 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Name the Elves!

#comics #comicart #MastoArt #fediart #elves #popculture #comic
A black and white comic drawing, here and there blue pencil. In landscape format, it shows a group of nine characters side by side, depicting Elves from various pop culture backgrounds, like movies, musc, animation, comics, and anime. I won't spoil who is who for the moment, but will edit this alt text in one week to reveal the characters.
September 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I met this Manga artist at a book fair this spring and bought two of her books.

Today I wrote her how impressed I am with her work, and how exceptional her drawings/flow/humor/dialogues are - which they truly are.

She was so, so happy! Immediately wrote back a long email and shared how she was […]
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October 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The poetry of these children arises from the fact that we find in them all the problems, all the sufferings of the adults, who remain offstage. [...]
They are the monstrous infantile reductions of all the neuroses of a modern citizen of industrial civilization […]

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Drawing by Charles M. Schulz of all the main characters of his comic strip Peanuts, which debuted on this day 75 years ago.
October 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Name the Elves!

#comics #comicart #MastoArt #fediart #elves #popculture #comic
A black and white comic drawing, here and there blue pencil. In landscape format, it shows a group of nine characters side by side, depicting Elves from various pop culture backgrounds, like movies, musc, animation, comics, and anime. I won't spoil who is who for the moment, but will edit this alt text in one week to reveal the characters.
September 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Went to my kids' school yesterday for parents' night, and boy did my body exactly know what to do:

Huddle in the back row,
mind-wandering mode on,
scribble for your life!

It was like I never left.

#dadtoot #artistslife
Crappy picture of my notebook. Apart from, well, notes, it shows what I doodled with my pen during parents' night: First it was a rock with some moss and grass, then came a whole underwater world with plants, a snail, a big fish and some smaller ones as well as creepy eyes in an underwater cave.
September 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
Night time. Three figures walk up a set of stairs. They are in fact Penrose stairs, an impossible object which one can walk up endlessly. Low on the side of the stairs is a window. Another figure leans out and shouts up at the walkers: “Guys! I'm sure it's not easy being trapped in an endless paradox representing the limited nature of human perception, but some of us are trying to sleep down here!”
September 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Welp, the next few comic pages will be a wee bit wonky :BlobCat_Bandage:

#comic #comics #artist #artistslife #artistsonmastodon
A hand in front of a grassy background, the pinky is wrapped in an orthesis (for the next couple of weeks).
September 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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How I wish this #manga by Mizuki Shigeru would be translated into English!

He portrays the life of one of Japan’s most fascinating intellectuals, Kumagusu Minakata – naturalist, Buddhist micobiologist and probably Japan’s first environmental activist.

1/2 […]

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A black and white double page of a manga drawn by Mizuki Shigeru. I don't understand the Japanese word balloons, but across these pages, you can see the protagonist, Kumagusu Minakata, having drinks and talking to other older men, you can see trees, talking cats and weird microscopic fungal structures - an interesting mix!
September 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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GPT-5 plateau-ing is giving me hope that maybe all isn't lost
🌍💚🤞

#ai #gpt5 #ClimateChange #climatecrisis
August 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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The feeling when you realize you're in nature.

#comic #comics #makingcomics #tfw #workinprogress
Black and white drawing of a comic page showing just on image: A small figure from behind way down on the page, looking at a towering mountain range in front of them. Above, and taking up most of the page, dramatic cloud structures swirl.
August 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I’m a huge admirer of comic artist Larry Marder, and love this #FantasticFour-themed cover by him.

It was FF-co-creator #jackkirby who – through his art – introduced Marder to Native American designs, especially #hopi kachinas.

Very elegant how this abstract […]

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A cover of Larry Marder's comic book "Tales of the Beanworld" issue number 19, published by Eclipse comics in 1991. At the top you can see Heyoka, the bean who does everything upside-down and backwards bean, flying through a constellation of shapes reminiscent of the Fantastic Four. It's hard to describe the way this arrangement hovers between abstract and figurative, using basic geometrical shapes that correspond to the way the Fantastic Four have been portrayed in the comics by artist and co-creator Jack Kirby. If you know the comics, though, certain colors and textures form an unequivocal portrayal of these comic characters.
July 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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No shade but while folks on other platforms might be drawing "comics", us Fedi artists are creating #gravy novels.
July 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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German comic festivals are exactly how you imagine them to be.

#comicfestivalmuenchen #davegibbons #watchmen #comics #comic #hurm
A photograph of the Dave Gibbons exhibition at this year's comic festival in Munich. There's prints and original art by Gibbons on display, overtowered by a giant illustration of the comic character Rorschach from Watchmen, holding a German beer and mumbling "Munich? Hurm." The same Rorschach illustration printed on a flyer.
June 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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„Kaum sind wir so weit, unser Glück zu begreifen, da ist es schon nur noch eine Erinnerung.“

Esthers Tagebücher von Riad Sattouf - für Kinder, Jugendliche und ihre Eltern so unverzichtbar wie eh und je. Der eben erschienene neue Band ist wieder exzellent.

#comic #buch
S. 3 des Comics Esthers Tagebücher, Mein Leben als Achtzehnjährige
June 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Juhuuuuu! 🍀🙃🥳https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/deutscher-sachbuchpreis-ulli-lust-fuer-comic-die-frau-als-mensch-ausgezeichnet-a-17aa11a2-66e8-467d-94e1-03b95264c50d
Deutscher Sachbuchpreis: Ulli Lust für Comic »Die Frau als Mensch« ausgezeichnet
Professorinnen und Wissenschaftler waren nominiert, aber die mit 25.000 Euro dotierte Auszeichnung für das beste deutsche Sachbuch geht an einen Comic über Steinzeit-Frauen. Der Preis für Ulli Lust bestätigt einen Trend.
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June 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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One of the cartoons from Physics for Cats
Title: Soren Kierkegaard, 1843 Image: A three panel comic strip that shows Mr Kierkegaard saying "Life can only be understood backwards" as he walks from right to left through the three frames (i.e. against the usual order in which these panels would be read) A dog walks from left to right, saying: "But it must be lived forward"
May 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Just stumbled upon this box my daughter glued together for me many years ago, when she was just beginning to write single letters.

I love the floating island she has drawn on it, but the secret highlight are all the zigzag lines around it.

I remember asking […]

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A wooden box with thick walls, crafted together rather roughly. On one side, you can see a children’s drawing with black marker, depicting a floating island with trees on top and a whole swarm of the letter N all around it. It’s an adorable little nothing box.
May 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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"Angoulême - Comic-Verbände drohen mit Boykott des größten Festivals der Branche in Europa

Rund 400 Comic-Autorinnen und Autoren haben zum Boykott des bedeutendsten Festivals der Branche in Europa aufgerufen. Hintergrund ist die stillschweigende Vertragsverlängerung für den Veranstalter im […]
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April 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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[USpol / faeries ––– [Just a normal children's book signing in a normal country, nothing to see here]]

> “You can’t fire the fucking faeries. You can’t put the muses into gulags.”

– Musician-turned-children's book author Tori Amos calling for artistic resistance last month in LA […]
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April 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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[Cosmic transphobia in the Sandman comic “A Game of You” (adapted in Season 2 of Sandman, coming this July) – CW: Neil Gaiman]

Today saw the announcement of the 2nd and final season of the TV series #sandman

There's something that has always irked me about its source material, the story "A […]
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April 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I miss Iceland and won't be seeing it for quite some time.

Still such a privilege to immerse myself into its breathtaking landscape every day 💚

#comic #comics #graphicnovel #graphicnovels #panelpreview #MastoArt #fediart #penandink #brushandink #lineart #wip #iceland
A comic panel, landscape format and landscape content: In black and white (with light blue penciling here and there) you can see an Icelandic landscape with hills and a waterfall. A road runs through, with two cars visible, but they are very small compared to the surrounding nature.
April 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.
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April 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM