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Duncan Eagleson
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Writer, Illustrator, Arteologist - https://www.duncaneagleson.com/
Another B&W painting for Halloween: Mr. Hyde.
Frederic March won an oscar for his performance in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931). Makeup by Wally Westmore.
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A pair of cinematic Draculas: Lugosi and Lee.
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Happy Halloween! Continuing to post some of my "Scream Stars" pieces from previous October challenges:

Fay Wray, the original scream queen (based on a promo photo), and Boris Karloff in The Black Cat.
October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Happy book birthday to my friend Jane Ashford! Romance and paranormal mystery combine in LOST TIME.

www.amazon.com/Lost-Time-Ja...
Lost Time
Lost Time - Kindle edition by Ashford, Jane. Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
www.amazon.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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A lot of people are quoting this post and that's good because they should, AI sucks and robs us of something special and only mediocre uncreative piss-babies rely on it to make anything at all, fuck AI, p.s. Emma Thompson is now the president, sorry, that's just how it is
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
More October challenge pieces from previous years:

Lon Chaney Jr. in The Wolf Man (1941), Chaney Sr. as The Phantom of the Opera (1925).
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Managed to get in another seasonal rendering, adding to the Scream Stars series, this one of Vincent Price:
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Finally found time for a couple of new ones. Haven't seen GDT's new Frankenstein yet, tho I'm psyched and looking forward to it. Meanwhile, staying with the Frankenstein theme, here's creator and creature from Hammer's 1958 version, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
October 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Following up on yesterday's Frankenstein Creature & the Bride, Here are their creators - Colin Clive and Ernest Thesiger.
October 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Haven't had time to do any art challenges this month, so I'll post a few pieces from previous Octobers.

Here's Karloff as the Creature and Lanchester as the Bride:
October 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This got me thinking about Myrna Loy, who, although she did go on to many great performances, I'll always think of her as Nora Charles. There was, however, in 1932, one real dog of a film that she was sorry she signed on for. 1/4
Put Myrna Loy in better, non-vampire roles, Hollywood! (I do love these old captions)
October 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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They’re gonna ferret out the last three Black women with government jobs and fire them
Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open
September 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I never got around to seeing any of the Conjuring movies. Having had personal experience of the Warrens, I wasn't up for watching movies that valorize a pair of lying, manipulative con artists. Seeing those scumbags portrayed as heroes would have set my teeth on edge.

skepchick.org/2025/09/the-...
The True Horror Behind “The Conjuring”
Way back before I was living under an actual authoritarian theocracy, I enjoyed making videos about, well, relatively inconsequential bullshit. For those who are new here, I do what I do today beca…
skepchick.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Multiple polls and studies have shown this. When you present the policy facts w/o labels, most US Americans approve of these "leftist" policies. Dem leadership needs to get a clue, and stop listening to those who want them to become GOP Lite.
A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.”

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...
Gen Z and Millennials Prefer Socialism To Capitalism, New Poll Says
“Young progressive voters are stepping into their full economic and political power."
www.teenvogue.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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September 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
qrp with something watery
September 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Remembering Betteridge's Law:

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'NO!'"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...?
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I was today years old when I learned that the spelling of "lede" (the introductory portion of a news story) was originally a way of distinguishing it from the "lead" of the lead type that was used in printing at the time.
August 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Rovina Cai always does such great work. I particularly love the full wraparound version.
Jacket cover for the @evernightbooks.bsky.social edition of Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker.
August 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Some of my own pet peeves. Not a huge deal if you make one of these mistakes in a post or email, but if you're a pro writing for publication you really ought to know the difference.
Not to add to the discourse, but…

It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
August 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Having read some of the early chapters of the initial version of this, I am so psyched for it!

(Also, check out Matthew's "Misfits of Magic," too. It's great fun.)
October 2025! My long time passion project finally hits shelves. This is the story that I became a comic book creator to tell! And it's the first in a series!

THE OCTOBER GIRL, Book One! From me and @madcavestudios.com's Maverick imprint!

Pre-order it now!
The October Girl Vol. 1
A moody, coming-of-age tale for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Pecular Children and Nimona, filled with fairies and ogres and magic galore.Autum...
www.simonandschuster.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Post a witch if you wish 🧙🏻‍♀️
August 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.
August 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM