Pubs CAN afford these rates, they just know that they can pressure us into accepting less. "Sure, we'll only pay you $10/pg for coloring, but that other guy is only doing $5. You should be grateful." Comics is a billion dollar worldwide industry. There is literally no excuse.

“I’ve been using [Mastodon] for about two months and I am here to tell you that it is, in principle, what we should want the internet to be. If you … had reservations about joining because you thought it would be difficult, confusing, or annoying, it is not."

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URGENT commissions/donations call, Please Repost, I need to raise about $500 to pay my overdue September rent this week, I'd appreciate any help 😫🙏 (write at topiartem@gmail.com, buymeacoffee link below)
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anyone else feeling the Effects lately. due to all the Things

I'm here to really hammer home that creators in the publishing industry are not employees. When you see rates and advance numbers, artists only get SOME of that money. A huge percentage goes to taxes, representation, insurance, etc. Take that number and cut it in half. That's what creators live on.

Reminder that if you see disturbing or traumatic images, playing Tetris as soon as possible afterwards can help the brain cleanse itself, and lessen the impacts of it longer term.

No, I'm not kidding. And no one knows how or why it works. But it DOES work, and I encourage you to remember it.

Yes

johnganz.substack.com/p/the-trap

Not silly at all!
I am happy for the reminder to bring this over from twit. 🧡
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Let me show everyone who is completely at loss where to start drawing a background how you can beat the void; with super shitty 10 second doodles!

So you got your characters, right now they are free floating.. (1/6)

Perhaps someday Jesse Hamm's incredible Twitter feed will get ported over here, but until then, here's one of the many, many wonderful things he said. Let it be your North Star if you ever get discouraged 🙏

Sensitivity readers exist to help you tell your story without doing harm, not to help you tell someone else's story without anyone getting mad at you.

I wonder how many people genuinely think that artists don't routinely fail at things. Like, start writing a story and it doesn't work out and you put it in 'the file'. Noodle around with a piece of music and decide it's not a thing. I assure you - artists fail constantly. It's a big part of the gig.

At MICE this past week, I got to speak about failure on a panel with 3 wonderful cartoonists. While we didn't explicitly say it, failure is a framing device for doing stuff. There is no end, just more things to try*

*posted near midnight, apply to your experiences appropriately

The Luddites weren’t technophobes. They saw factory owners using tech to degrade their livelihoods and fought back—first by trying to negotiate, then writing to Parliament, and finally smashing the machines.

@bcmerchant.bsky.social talks to @parismarx.bsky.social about what we can learn from them.

I think it’s notable that some of the first real limits on the use of generative AI were brought to us by labor. Not Congress. Not “ethical” AI shops nestled inside big tech companies. A union.

I'm going to broadcast this once again because new people are here now.

I have a shared and self curated mute list to filter out A.I. / NFT / Crypto accounts for those who want an improved bsky experience.

I investigate them all personally, but if you find someone I missed, you can reply or @ me.

Game devs are tired. Writers are tired. Comic book creators are tired. Musicians are tired. Actors are tired. Every industry that produces media you love has been ravaged by a parasitic executive class who want to starve creators to feed some shitcunt's desire for a seventh house