Kris Bertin
@hobtown.bsky.social
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Kris Bertin
@hobtown.bsky.social
· Feb 7
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Big REMINDER: THIS IS HAPPENING SOON! TWO WEEKS!
■■■BREAKING NEWS■■■
HOBTOWN 3 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is getting launched in HALIFAX, featuring:
•ALEX
•KRIS
•COPIES OF THE NEW HOBTOWN
All are encouraged to attend (unless barred from Bearly's).
MARK YOUR CALENDARS, NOV 25
HOBTOWN 3 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is getting launched in HALIFAX, featuring:
•ALEX
•KRIS
•COPIES OF THE NEW HOBTOWN
All are encouraged to attend (unless barred from Bearly's).
MARK YOUR CALENDARS, NOV 25
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Big REMINDER: THIS IS HAPPENING SOON! TWO WEEKS!
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Can't stop thinking about the fact that the government is literally slashing public service jobs while bringing in AI for use in the public service.
They are literally doing, as a government, what we scream at tech bros for doing to their employees.
Pretty gross!
They are literally doing, as a government, what we scream at tech bros for doing to their employees.
Pretty gross!
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Can't stop thinking about the fact that the government is literally slashing public service jobs while bringing in AI for use in the public service.
They are literally doing, as a government, what we scream at tech bros for doing to their employees.
Pretty gross!
They are literally doing, as a government, what we scream at tech bros for doing to their employees.
Pretty gross!
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‼️Preorder at your local comic shop today‼️
❕Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 3: The Secret of the Saucer
❕Rick and Morty: RickleMania
❕MFKZ Vol. 1
❕MFKZ Vol. 2
❕Adventure Time Vol. 1: Best of Buds SC
❕Adventure Time Vol. 1: Best of Buds HC
❕Cemetery Kids Run Rabid #4
❕Biker Mice from Mars (2025) #6
❕Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 3: The Secret of the Saucer
❕Rick and Morty: RickleMania
❕MFKZ Vol. 1
❕MFKZ Vol. 2
❕Adventure Time Vol. 1: Best of Buds SC
❕Adventure Time Vol. 1: Best of Buds HC
❕Cemetery Kids Run Rabid #4
❕Biker Mice from Mars (2025) #6
November 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
‼️Preorder at your local comic shop today‼️
❕Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 3: The Secret of the Saucer
❕Rick and Morty: RickleMania
❕MFKZ Vol. 1
❕MFKZ Vol. 2
❕Adventure Time Vol. 1: Best of Buds SC
❕Adventure Time Vol. 1: Best of Buds HC
❕Cemetery Kids Run Rabid #4
❕Biker Mice from Mars (2025) #6
❕Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 3: The Secret of the Saucer
❕Rick and Morty: RickleMania
❕MFKZ Vol. 1
❕MFKZ Vol. 2
❕Adventure Time Vol. 1: Best of Buds SC
❕Adventure Time Vol. 1: Best of Buds HC
❕Cemetery Kids Run Rabid #4
❕Biker Mice from Mars (2025) #6
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Hey everyone! In addition to the previously announced nonfiction workshop and Matthew J. Trafford interview, I will be hosting a lecture at the AfterWords Festival in Halifax on post-traumatic narratives. Hope to see you there!
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Reframing Narratives For The Post-Traumatic Experience - Afterwords Literary Festival
With Peter Counter
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November 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Hey everyone! In addition to the previously announced nonfiction workshop and Matthew J. Trafford interview, I will be hosting a lecture at the AfterWords Festival in Halifax on post-traumatic narratives. Hope to see you there!
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It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything
2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text
February 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything
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and ribs!
November 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
and ribs!
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Read the first volume of Hobtown Mystery Stories and that comic scratched an itch. Hot dang. Good stuff. Real sense of place in its setting. We love that.
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Read the first volume of Hobtown Mystery Stories and that comic scratched an itch. Hot dang. Good stuff. Real sense of place in its setting. We love that.
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■■■BREAKING NEWS■■■
HOBTOWN 3 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is getting launched in HALIFAX, featuring:
•ALEX
•KRIS
•COPIES OF THE NEW HOBTOWN
All are encouraged to attend (unless barred from Bearly's).
MARK YOUR CALENDARS, NOV 25
HOBTOWN 3 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is getting launched in HALIFAX, featuring:
•ALEX
•KRIS
•COPIES OF THE NEW HOBTOWN
All are encouraged to attend (unless barred from Bearly's).
MARK YOUR CALENDARS, NOV 25
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
■■■BREAKING NEWS■■■
HOBTOWN 3 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is getting launched in HALIFAX, featuring:
•ALEX
•KRIS
•COPIES OF THE NEW HOBTOWN
All are encouraged to attend (unless barred from Bearly's).
MARK YOUR CALENDARS, NOV 25
HOBTOWN 3 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is getting launched in HALIFAX, featuring:
•ALEX
•KRIS
•COPIES OF THE NEW HOBTOWN
All are encouraged to attend (unless barred from Bearly's).
MARK YOUR CALENDARS, NOV 25
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There's a shotgun-wielding "Ape Lord", a gang of purple-clad psychics, a flying saucer, and if that isn't enough, our lead is thinking, speaking, and experiencing the entire story BACKWARDS:
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: The Secret of the Saucer drops on November 25th!
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: The Secret of the Saucer drops on November 25th!
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
There's a shotgun-wielding "Ape Lord", a gang of purple-clad psychics, a flying saucer, and if that isn't enough, our lead is thinking, speaking, and experiencing the entire story BACKWARDS:
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: The Secret of the Saucer drops on November 25th!
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: The Secret of the Saucer drops on November 25th!
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Hobtown Mystery Stories (@hobtown.bsky.social): only the latest will be released this year, but I absolutely devoured all 3 of these fantasy-horror comics about mystery-solving 90s teens in Nova Scotia. The 2nd was especially traumatic (I read it twice 👀). They put the "graphic" in graphic novel
Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 3: The Secret of the Saucer
The Secret of the Saucer
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October 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Hobtown Mystery Stories (@hobtown.bsky.social): only the latest will be released this year, but I absolutely devoured all 3 of these fantasy-horror comics about mystery-solving 90s teens in Nova Scotia. The 2nd was especially traumatic (I read it twice 👀). They put the "graphic" in graphic novel
There's a shotgun-wielding "Ape Lord", a gang of purple-clad psychics, a flying saucer, and if that isn't enough, our lead is thinking, speaking, and experiencing the entire story BACKWARDS:
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: The Secret of the Saucer drops on November 25th!
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: The Secret of the Saucer drops on November 25th!
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
There's a shotgun-wielding "Ape Lord", a gang of purple-clad psychics, a flying saucer, and if that isn't enough, our lead is thinking, speaking, and experiencing the entire story BACKWARDS:
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: The Secret of the Saucer drops on November 25th!
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: The Secret of the Saucer drops on November 25th!
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If you're on the @waltscomicshop.bsky.social FOC list, you just received my blatant attempt to hype the Hobtown Mysteries series from @omnipress.bsky.social, IMO maybe the biggest hidden gem in the warehouse. So excited for vol. 3!
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
If you're on the @waltscomicshop.bsky.social FOC list, you just received my blatant attempt to hype the Hobtown Mysteries series from @omnipress.bsky.social, IMO maybe the biggest hidden gem in the warehouse. So excited for vol. 3!
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Instead of HATING AND KILLING the author of the other totally sick ONI Press surrealist graphic novel about flying saucers coming out this year, the two of us chose friendship and solidarity.
Here's my interview with ADAM SZYM about his phenomenal book Little Visitor & Other Abductions!
Here's my interview with ADAM SZYM about his phenomenal book Little Visitor & Other Abductions!
I did a long in depth interview with Kris Bertin, writer of the great Hobtown series, about my new book, what compels me about aliens, working with the unknown, and of course: day jobs.
Give it a read,
@hobtown.bsky.social asks some great questions!
Give it a read,
@hobtown.bsky.social asks some great questions!
"I happened upon one of those documentary shows about UFOs and abductions that seemed ubiquitous on cable television in the 90s, and it was one of the only times I can remember watching something that genuinely scared me enough to give me nightmares." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/09/22/i...
September 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Instead of HATING AND KILLING the author of the other totally sick ONI Press surrealist graphic novel about flying saucers coming out this year, the two of us chose friendship and solidarity.
Here's my interview with ADAM SZYM about his phenomenal book Little Visitor & Other Abductions!
Here's my interview with ADAM SZYM about his phenomenal book Little Visitor & Other Abductions!
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Being a butcher, I was at stores where I would be the main cutter. I’d get home and my hands would be in so much pain, I couldn’t draw shit. Even the mental energy needed to write was exhausted. I honestly feel part of being a cartoonist is finding a day job where you can 1/2 ass, 1/4 ass infact!
I've always wondered how other artists work day jobs then draw.
When do chores get done? When do you work out? When do you sleep? When do you relax?
Having a partner who does chores too makes a world of difference for me.
When do chores get done? When do you work out? When do you sleep? When do you relax?
Having a partner who does chores too makes a world of difference for me.
October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Being a butcher, I was at stores where I would be the main cutter. I’d get home and my hands would be in so much pain, I couldn’t draw shit. Even the mental energy needed to write was exhausted. I honestly feel part of being a cartoonist is finding a day job where you can 1/2 ass, 1/4 ass infact!
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My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”
October 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”
■■■BREAKING NEWS■■■
HOBTOWN 3 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is getting launched in HALIFAX, featuring:
•ALEX
•KRIS
•COPIES OF THE NEW HOBTOWN
All are encouraged to attend (unless barred from Bearly's).
MARK YOUR CALENDARS, NOV 25
HOBTOWN 3 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is getting launched in HALIFAX, featuring:
•ALEX
•KRIS
•COPIES OF THE NEW HOBTOWN
All are encouraged to attend (unless barred from Bearly's).
MARK YOUR CALENDARS, NOV 25
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
■■■BREAKING NEWS■■■
HOBTOWN 3 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is getting launched in HALIFAX, featuring:
•ALEX
•KRIS
•COPIES OF THE NEW HOBTOWN
All are encouraged to attend (unless barred from Bearly's).
MARK YOUR CALENDARS, NOV 25
HOBTOWN 3 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is getting launched in HALIFAX, featuring:
•ALEX
•KRIS
•COPIES OF THE NEW HOBTOWN
All are encouraged to attend (unless barred from Bearly's).
MARK YOUR CALENDARS, NOV 25
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Why did you make that, man
October 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Why did you make that, man
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red ghost and his super apes #JackTober
October 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
red ghost and his super apes #JackTober
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An easy one: Any comics film adaptation that exists without the original creator being able to pay off their house is a moral failure
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
An easy one: Any comics film adaptation that exists without the original creator being able to pay off their house is a moral failure
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
I'll have a 43 page comic called PARTISAN in the 2nd issue of @mothership.bsky.social 's MEGADAMAGE magazine.
An eviscerated android is discovered in the airlock of a luxury cruise vessel. The ship's security officer has to investigate using the android's downloaded memories.
I'll have a 43 page comic called PARTISAN in the 2nd issue of @mothership.bsky.social 's MEGADAMAGE magazine.
An eviscerated android is discovered in the airlock of a luxury cruise vessel. The ship's security officer has to investigate using the android's downloaded memories.
October 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT:
I'll have a 43 page comic called PARTISAN in the 2nd issue of @mothership.bsky.social 's MEGADAMAGE magazine.
An eviscerated android is discovered in the airlock of a luxury cruise vessel. The ship's security officer has to investigate using the android's downloaded memories.
I'll have a 43 page comic called PARTISAN in the 2nd issue of @mothership.bsky.social 's MEGADAMAGE magazine.
An eviscerated android is discovered in the airlock of a luxury cruise vessel. The ship's security officer has to investigate using the android's downloaded memories.
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noticed this little easter egg on a recent reread
October 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
noticed this little easter egg on a recent reread
@andrewnhood.bsky.social I remember you
October 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
@andrewnhood.bsky.social I remember you
Hobtown Fans be cracking our best codes left and right this is a crisis and humilating
October 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hobtown Fans be cracking our best codes left and right this is a crisis and humilating
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