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Jay Lender - Commissions Open!
@jaylender.bsky.social
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Storyboarder/Writer/Director of SpongeBob SquarePants, Hey Arnold, Phineas and Ferb, the graphic novel Duster, and the live action movie They're Watching.
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And here are the originals by @magicwhistle.bsky.social (with the exception of the sniff and ahhh panels which are mine). While the source of the drawing isn't always an indicator of who wrote the gag, it's a safe bet this is Sam Henderson's bit.❤️
Pencil on yellow post-it. 3 Rough Storyboard panels: 1) Mr. Krabs in outrageously overdone fishing gear with net, basket, lure box, etc. KRABS: Here’s where clam fishin’ gets serious… 2)SpongeBob and Squidward flank Krabs, wide-eyed. SPONGE: Is that gear for us? KRABS: No… 3) Krabs holds up a bucket. KRABS: But THIS is: 1) Krabs reaches into the bucket. KRABS: Rich, aromatic, mountain grown… 2) pulls his hand out, covered in fish guts and bones. KRABS: chum… 3) Close on his claw covered with guts. Flies buzzing around 1) Krabs sniffs his claw, satisfied. SNIFFFF! 2) He slumps and exhales, half lidded. KRABS: AAAAAH… no clam could resist it. 3) Krabs zips over to Squid and shoves the bucket at him. KRABS: Welp! Start scoopin’!
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I just got the final batch of pencils for one of the two graphic novels I'm working on!
Pencils by Carlos Aon over my roughs.
TWO GRAYSCALE COMIC PANELS: 1) A punk holds a young man by the throat and brandishes a baseball bat at him. 2) The punk is shocked when a hand reaches in from off screen to grab his arm. He's about to be very, very sorry. ORANGE LINE and GRAY TONE: Same images as previous, but rougher.
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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SpongeBob and Squidward in their tender final moments. My rough storyboard panels from "Graveyard Shift."
Three rough storyboard panels. Graphite on yellow post-it. 1) Panicked Squidward yells “We’re doomed!” 2) Tearful SpongeBob sets him straight: “No, that’s not it.” 3) Sponge reaches out to comfort Squid. “I’m just so touched that you’d go to the trouble to dress up as a ghostly frycook...” Three rough storyboard panels. Graphite on yellow post-it. 1) Blubbering, tearful SpongeBob gestures off screen. “…and stand on the” 2) Cut to the shadowy figure of the Hash-slinging Slasher standing in darkness across the street, spatula raised. Sponge: “other side of the street just to entertain me…” 3) Sponge is overcome, still gesturing off screen. Squid’s aghast. Sponge: “You must really like me…” Squid: “SpongeBob…”
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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We walk in the footsteps of giants.
"Rough Suggestions" pose sheet for Jack Kinney Goofy shorts, featuring mindblowingly clear and expressive drawings and attitudes. God-tier shit.
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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New Kennedy just dropped!
Text message asking me to give money to a fucking KENNEDY!😂
November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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More MacOS Tahoe garbage:

1) a window in Preview with a clear edge... roll it up a bit and…
2) it's visible behind the controls... but a new shadow extends FAR below the former margin of the control bar, needlessly corrupting formerly clean parts of my document!🙄
A Preview window with a clean break between control bar and document. The same window with content scrolled up and a pointless shadow cast FAR below the former edge of the control bar.
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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More pencils by the amazing Carlos Aon. You guys are going to love this book…
An angry girl crawls after a terrified bro in a stadium.
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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BINGO!!
A bingo card with Phrenology in every square.
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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SpongeBob cheers up the gang on their quest through the terrifying Mesopelagic Zone in these roughs from my Free Comic Book Day epic from 2017. Yes, there's a tune... no, I won't sing it for you.
Rough comic panels: 1) Sandy, Larry, Patrick and Mr. Krabs walk warily through a terrifying seascape while Squidward gripes, and SpongeBob muses. 2) Sponge puts on a Music Man bandleader outfit as he ramps up his song. 3) SpongeBob dances with his baton while the others watch nonplussed. 4) They get into it as SpongeBob marches ahead.
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Something's coming.
Layout to Pencils comparison. Inks start soon.
Rough drawing of a girl running away while two others face a group of guys in a cemetery. More detailed and solid version of same, with the running girl much larger and closer, breaking out of the panel.
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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My original roughs from the SpongeBob episode "Graveyard Shift". I pushed that third pose MUCH farther in the final board.
Three rough storyboard panels. Pencil on yellow post-it. 1) Squidward holds up a hand of false honesty to SpongeBob (offscreen). "No, I don't want to scare you..." 2) He turns away, looking heavenward. "Then you might not enjoy the night shift." 3) He looks back with an evil smile. The final version of Squid's evil smile.
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Another great character campaign ad:
LEFT: Pale blue and white: Chestface, a hulking figure with a monster face on his headless torso tromps down a city alley toward a masked, costumed woman with her fist raised. They look like they're ready to fight. RIGHT: The cover to "Antimatter" where the story is collected with other cuts by Dean Haspiel.
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I always like @deanhaspiel.bsky.social's stuff… but these character campaign ads are brilliant.
LEFT: "Covid Cop" logo over a picture of a masked policeman (with antibody prong all over his bald head) with a gas tank on his back connected to a wrist-shooter standing in construction site wreckage. Behind him is a steaming, green virus-monster and a pink cityscape. RIGHT: The cover of "Antimatter" a collection of Dean's stories, featuing more heroic figures being carried on a slab of pavement on the back of Chestface, a hulking stand-up comedian/victim of genetic experimentation that... gave him a chest face.
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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"I've got a government vehicle down here that's being forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed."
Deputy Chief of Police Dwayne T. Robinson griping about glass.
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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ANGELENOS: my friend (Phineas & Ferb vet) Celeste Moreno's gorgeous musical "The Tears of La Llorona" is playing tomorrow and Sunday at Plaza de la Raza. Go, go, GO!
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-tears-...
AD IMAGE: "The Tears of La Llorona / Las Lágrimas de la Llorona" A woodblock print of an an anguished woman in a black dress looming over a burning town, and drowned figures in the river… (along with performance time and place info best seen at the attached link)
October 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Mr. Krabs convinces the gang to accompany him on a dangerous quest for gratis graphic literature in my Free Comic Book Day epic from 2017's SpongeBob Comics Freestyle Funnies.
ROUGH COMIC PANELS in blue line: 1) Mr Krabs ZIPS from aggressively thrilled Sandy to happy Larry the Lobster to peeved Squidward. KRABS: Come on! It'll be an ADVENTURE! SANDY: HOO-ah! KRABS: Comic book shops are filled with GORGEOUS FEMALES! LARRY: Count ME in! KRABS: If you don't go yer FIRED! SQUID: Sounds like a WIN/WIN to me. 2) Krabs growls at nervous Squid KRABS: Aaaaand… I'll tell EVERYBODY about-- 3) Squid ZI-I-IPPS off screen leaving Krabs blowing in the wind with a trail of bubbles:
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Unbelievable game mechanics. Great characters. Hilarious style. Constantly one-upping itself. God-tier polish. A story that earns its happy-tears. Donkey Kong Bananza is an all-timer and in a just world it'd be the killer app for the Switch 2.
A Donkey Kong Bananza promotional image. DK smashes rocks and gold while Pauline happily hangs onto his tie for dear life.
October 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Original rough storyboard drawings by Dan Povenmire for the arrival of the "Hash-slinging Slasher" in the SpongeBob episode "Graveyard Shift".
Three rough panels on SpongeBob SquarePants storyboard paper: 1) a Bikini Bottom public bus. 2) the bus pulls away revealing a hunchbacked silhouette holding a spatula, in the pool of light under a scallop street lamp. 3) the silhouette stands alone... menacingly!
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Useless, money-grubbing shitbird. Go away, Carville!
Shrieking death-mask of James Carville wants the last of your money. The Fantastic Four's Philip Masters, a cuddlier puppet master than James Carville, with whom he shares a barber.
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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@fadeinpro.com, this is what FadeIn 5.0.0 beta's Character report looks like in MacOS 15.7.1 in dark appearance.
Screenshot of FadeIn Pro 5.0.0 beta character report with white text on very nearly white fields.
October 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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The cropping on this gets me every time.😂
Super-curvy pin-up person in red cowprint thigh-boots, heart-nipple bustier, and red evening gloves... also a tail. And cut off by BlueSky's multiple image crop at the neck.
October 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I’m a bad friend.😭
October 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Trekkie Monster from the musical show "Avenue Q".
October 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Something's coming...
A ROUGH COMIC PANEL: A man in a suit and bowler hat runs down an embankment to aNOTHER man waiting with a remote telephone.
October 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Alligator is perfect low-expectations monster fun with a quality cast... and an absolutely INSANE amount of uncredited Jerry Goldsmith needle-drop from his score for the Twilight Zone episode "The Invaders."
The poster for the movie Alligator. A painted image in cool blues with pink text. A huge alligator leers out at us from a brick sewer tunnel. "It lives 50 feet beneath the city. It's 36 feet long. It weighs 2,000 pounds. …And it's about to break out!" Homesteader Agnes Moorehead cringes behind a tiny flying saucer in a B&W publicity still from the Twilight Zone episode "The Invaders"
October 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM