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JB Shear
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Hi! I’m a cartoonist from North Carolina. My current projects are Inoscularum, a love story about healing the world with folk magic, and The Sun & Moon Sisters, a 70s murder mystery about two psychic sisters.

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Nox is on the other side of this picture but he looks janky, so… here’s just Ariadne! Figuring out how I want to ink these guys.

#inoscularum #sketchbook
Ariadne looking over her shoulder with a surprised expression while sort of stumbling backwards?
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Excited to be almost done with pencils for ch. 1 so I made fanart of my own comic, as a treat (for me)

#inoscularum #art #comics #comicoop #altcomics
A drawing of Ariadne and Nox, the main characters of my comic Inoscularum
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Just designing some outfits for Ariadne that probably won’t appear in the comic for a couple of years!

#sketchbook #inoscularum
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Have you ever read Land of the Lustrous? It’s all about this sort of thing! (These are two pics of the same character)
October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Big ol’ thanks to everyone who came to my table to say hi at Zine Machine today!!! Can’t wait to eat an ibuprofen and crack open these awesome books!
My epic boutny of zines, bought and traded from an epic bounty of creators!
October 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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These noodles that got burnt onto the bottom of the pot came out looking like some abstract… noodle art…
A photo of rice noodles burnt into a funky shape that I’ve edited to be more saturated and high-contrast
October 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Women don’t like the vehicle
The original self-driving truck (it’s the main villain truck from Maximum Overdrive)
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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It’s this pad of paper from Strathmore!
October 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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10! More! Pages! Of! Pencils! Before! I! Can! Finally! Ink! This!
#comics #Inoscularum
October 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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When drawing the other eye just isn’t working out
#sketchbook
A picture where instead of drawing the other eye I have cut out a flower from a piece of washi tape and placed it where the other eye should go
September 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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I! Am! Still! In! Pencils! Town! I’m! On! Page! 28! Of! 46! I’m! Very! Pumped! About! This! But! I! Unfortunately! Don’t! Have! Any! Exciting! Inked! Pages! To! Show! You! Yet! Here! Are! More! Pencils!

#comics #Inoscularum #altcomics #comicoop #wip
A penciled-in panel of my comic Inoscularum. Ariadne and Nox look at each other nervously while a chorus of haints howls nearby.
September 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Momentous. Thank you, everyone. (Holds bouquet and waves)
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Cover process part 3/3!

#comics #altcomics #art #traditionalart #comicoop
So here it is all inked, and with all of the yellow fully filled in. I used a mix of colored pencils and magic markers to color everything, because I wanted to give it some of the texture that was present in the Giallo cover that inspired me. Gotta be honest, though, I wish I had just done a yellow ink wash here. This was a real pain in the hand! Here it is fully colored in, featuring the blues, greens, and purples that I liked so much about the inspo cover! Here’s the final artwork, scanned and cleaned up! I wound up taking out the “featured in two-sided tales” tagline (using the eye dropper, the brush tool, and my laptop’s trackpad, lol) because I just thought it looked sloppy. I didn’t the same thing for the trim marks too! Ta-daaaaa, here it is all printed out and assembled! I wound up going through Mixam for the printing. I wish the greens had showed up more in the final print, but that might have been an issue on my end with the file I sent them. All in all, I’m pleased with it!
September 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Cover process part 2/3!

#comics #altcomics #art #traditionalart #comicoop
So, I inked my new cover design, and started coloring it, but Iris’ head was just… really bugging me, it looked really off. I felt like I had to take a chance to salvage what I already had, because I liked the rest of the cover. So…… I traced the shape of her old head into my sketchbook, drew her an all-new head inside that shape, cut it out, and glued it onto the cover! I’m honestly amazed that it worked. I finished inking her head once the glue dried— I didn’t want to glue it down already inked in case it smudged or the ink made the paper curl up. (Here’s the page in my sketchbook where I drew and cut out her new head, where I sketched a bunch of Irises after the fact.)
September 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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A few months overdue, here’s my process for the cover art for The Sun & Moon Sisters, from inspiration to final piece! Details in alt text. This one was a bit of a doozy, so this is post 1/3…
#art #altcomics #comics #traditionalart #coverart
I took my inspiration from Giallo paperback covers (Italian thriller novels named for their bright yellow covers). I liked this one in particular for all of the purples, blues, and greens, and liked the idea of putting Iris in a prominent place on the cover. My initial thumbnail sketches. I also had the idea of doing something more similar to an old Nancy Drew cover, but ultimately settled on the Giallo-inspired cover. The rough pencils for the cover. At first, she was holding a teacup, but I decided to scrap that. You might notice that this looks completely different from the final cover, and that’s because… I decided to completely redraw the cover! I felt like the composition just wasn’t as dynamic as I wanted it to be. But this wasn’t the end of my revisions! To be continued…
September 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Preparing to assemble Autumn with Puppy & Pig! 🍂
#zines #puppy&pig
The mini-zine Autumn With Puppy & Pig printed out but not yet assembled
September 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Just doing some more pencils while listening to my clock radio that may or may not be possessed
September 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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chugging along!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#comics #altcomics #Inoscularum #comicoop #wip
Rough draft page of my comic Inoscularum next to the pencils for the final draft of the same page.
September 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Never James’d a Bond in my life but I drew this woman and thought this was what she ought to be saying
A babed-out woman in a slightly sci-fi looking dress holding a slightly sci-fi looking gun saying, “I’m sorry, Mr. Space Bond… Now I have to KILL YOU!” Drawn in pink ballpoint pen with certain parts drawn over in black micron pen
September 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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How the tech bros sound right now
Wallace excitedly presenting Gromit with The Wrong Trousers as if they’re something Gromit would even remotely want
September 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Coming soon…!

#art #zines #comicoop
Cover art for Autumn with Puppy & Pig- Puppy, a dog girl, stands with a rake and smiles while Pig, a little pig, jumps into a pile of leaves.
September 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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If you see this, quote post your cat art!
Cowboy Kitty, looking in a saloon window, watches a cat play piano while a bunch of other cats dance and have fun, and imagines himself playing the piano instead, wanting to be a source of fun and good times.
September 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh yEAAAAAH!!
September 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Ohhhhhhhh yeeeeaaaaaah
September 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I’m always researching 60s and 70s fashion for the sake of giving Iris and Theo historically accurate clothing and this look really takes the cake. We should all take after this lady and start dressing like the cousins from Katamari.
A woman in a knit two piece suit and a white hat that… I mean how do I even describe it, it’s like an oval-shaped bubble that goes around her head and has a little window in the middle where her face is. It’s adorable. She has white gloves and boots also. She looks like a very cozy alien.
August 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM