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kit mills @mitkills.bsky.social · Jan 15
i missed #portfolioday yesterday but it doesn’t hurt to show off anyway! i’m kit, a comic artist, illustrator, and storyboard artist.

published: tko presents
upcoming: abrams, image, iron circus

keep an eye on me for diary comics, medieval ephemera, and wip of my gay anna karenina adaptation 🪩
overhead shot of a rave dancefloor. a young woman is dancing with her friends, then looks over her shoulder. she’s distracted and looking for someone, and pulls out her phone to text. a trans woman is getting dressed in a sexy nun costume, and then follows another sexy nun down a hallway. neither of them are having fun. outside of a stand up comedy bar, crowds are arriving. inside we see a comedian onstage, then zoom in on him. a man is beset by a haunted magician’s jacket. a dove flies out of his sleeve, followed by a bouquet of flowers and a deck of playing cards, spilling out in a mess.
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all scripts by me and an amazing range of art styles and storytelling from @valhal.bsky.social, @mitkills.bsky.social, @jjlopez.bsky.social, @amiepsychique.bsky.social and others #comics #scifi
Sci-fi Revue 2020 | English | GlobalComix
Read Sci-fi Revue 2020 Online. SCI-FI REVUE 2020 collects four scintillating, original tales (one in black & white, three in full...
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May 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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my comic anthology Sci-fi Revue inexplicably continues to get reads on @globalcomix.com, so you should check it out too if you like robots and stuff
globalcomix.com/c/sci-fi-rev...
Sci-fi Revue 2020 | English | GlobalComix
Read Sci-fi Revue 2020 Online. SCI-FI REVUE 2020 collects four scintillating, original tales (one in black & white, three in full...
globalcomix.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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aliciadkennedy.bsky.social
I wrote about significance of both Pope and Saint Francis, especially to cultural Catholics. www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-francisw
On Francis
The pope who chose Catholicism’s most appealing saint for his papal name.
www.aliciakennedy.news
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
mitkills.bsky.social
happy first nib & ink fest! i have a little comic in the anthology—make sure to grab the “after dark” edition 😈
May 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
mitkills.bsky.social
really disappointing behavior from silver sprocket
May 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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joandark.com
Hi, I got laid off from Silver Sprocket last week and yesterday was my last day!

I'm still so grateful for the chance to support some of the best cartoonists out there and to work with some amazingly-skilled colleagues.

Everyone is struggling right now BUT I'm looking for work if you've got it!
April 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
mitkills.bsky.social
saving lives
shmuffalo.bsky.social shmeric 🐌🐌 @ MICE @shmuffalo.bsky.social · Apr 11
I don't know who needs to hear this, but: 300 dpi is the minimum resolution for printing FULL COLOR. If you're working just in black, or lineart with a spot color, you want to be as close to 1200 dpi as you can get! Minimum 600!!
April 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
mitkills.bsky.social
i wonder how far along in this book i’m going to get before i finally think of a title
a page of 12 thumbnails in spreads
April 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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mitkills.bsky.social
drew a picture of me and my cat
a medieval illumination-style drawing of kit and their cat esmé. kit is seated at a desk drawing comic into a book, and esmé has her paws up on the book, being a nuisance. above them reads “2025” and below them “happy new year from kit & esmé.” a decorative border of stars and botanical elements surround the center drawing, with medieval-style animal heads in boxes at the corners. the whole thing is in black and red ink.
April 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
mitkills.bsky.social
drew a picture of me and my cat
a medieval illumination-style drawing of kit and their cat esmé. kit is seated at a desk drawing comic into a book, and esmé has her paws up on the book, being a nuisance. above them reads “2025” and below them “happy new year from kit & esmé.” a decorative border of stars and botanical elements surround the center drawing, with medieval-style animal heads in boxes at the corners. the whole thing is in black and red ink.
April 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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mitkills.bsky.social
drawings from readings:
1. turn the golf course into a public sex forest! at bluestockings (lyn corelle, shuli branson, adam turay)
2. absolutely packed audience at franklin park for torrey peters, anton solomonik, robert jones jr., lynne tillman, bridgett m. davis, caoilinn hughes)
a black and white pen drawing of three readers seated onstage. all of them are wearing face masks, and the reader in front is holding a mic a black and white pen drawing of the audience at a reading. most of them are facing the right towards the stage, except for one person who is facing me. they’re wearing a shirt that says i 💜 chili dogs
April 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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mitkills.bsky.social
i missed #portfolioday yesterday but it doesn’t hurt to show off anyway! i’m kit, a comic artist, illustrator, and storyboard artist.

published: tko presents
upcoming: abrams, image, iron circus

keep an eye on me for diary comics, medieval ephemera, and wip of my gay anna karenina adaptation 🪩
overhead shot of a rave dancefloor. a young woman is dancing with her friends, then looks over her shoulder. she’s distracted and looking for someone, and pulls out her phone to text. a trans woman is getting dressed in a sexy nun costume, and then follows another sexy nun down a hallway. neither of them are having fun. outside of a stand up comedy bar, crowds are arriving. inside we see a comedian onstage, then zoom in on him. a man is beset by a haunted magician’s jacket. a dove flies out of his sleeve, followed by a bouquet of flowers and a deck of playing cards, spilling out in a mess.
January 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
mitkills.bsky.social
drawings from readings:
1. turn the golf course into a public sex forest! at bluestockings (lyn corelle, shuli branson, adam turay)
2. absolutely packed audience at franklin park for torrey peters, anton solomonik, robert jones jr., lynne tillman, bridgett m. davis, caoilinn hughes)
a black and white pen drawing of three readers seated onstage. all of them are wearing face masks, and the reader in front is holding a mic a black and white pen drawing of the audience at a reading. most of them are facing the right towards the stage, except for one person who is facing me. they’re wearing a shirt that says i 💜 chili dogs
April 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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robertgreeve.bsky.social
if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead”

even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.
On her first day in the facility, Becky asked for a scrap of paper and a pen, and began to draw the inmates on the table next to her. She was immediately inundated with portrait requests. A Mexican woman called Lopez, who had a photo of her children stored on one of the iPads, told Becky she would buy her some paper and colouring pencils from the commissary if Becky drew her kids. She soon became the dorm’s unofficial artist-in-residence, with women huddling around the dirty mirrors to make themselves look presentable before they sat for her. They would decorate their cells with Becky’s drawings, or send them to their families. Lopez declared herself Becky’s manager. “She kept saying, ‘Becky, you need to ask for stuff in exchange. Ask for popcorn.’ And I’d be like, ‘Lopez, I don’t need anything.’ I thought, I’m here briefly, you’re stuck here a long time. I’m not going to take your food away from you.” A three by three grid illustrating in blue pen cartoon portraits of women in an ICE detention center. “Mrs Kailey,” Bana, Lewelyn, Ikram, Asil, ‘Auntie,’ ‘F.Z,’ Kseniia, and “P.A.” Two have light hair, three have glasses, one wears a hijab, one poses, and one holds a drink.
April 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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tutusntinyhats.bsky.social
Bluestockings Cooperative is an incredible radical space in NYC, and they do do much important mutual aid work in their community. Help them stay open!

www.gofundme.com/f/qe29bh-sav...
Donate to Save Bluestockings: Support Radical Spaces, organized by Bluestockings Cooperative
Comrades, book lovers, queer fam, we have some rough news. … Bluestockings Cooperative needs your support for Save Bluestockings: Support Radical Spaces
www.gofundme.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
mitkills.bsky.social
get ‘em
a 4-panel diary comic in black ink and violet pencil. a muay thai instructor is demonstrating a push kick and teeps his assistant into the audience.
March 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
mitkills.bsky.social
i do not wish to be out here railing against genAI all the time but it simply bums me out to no end!! it is morally and philosophically bad to outsource human wonder, interpretation, and creativity to a machine that is made out of plagiarism and you will not convince me otherwise
March 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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roseberrycomix.bsky.social
Look upon the visage of the Cave Bear, drawn on the wall of Chauvet Cave 30,000 years ago. Do you feel kinship? Do you feel emotions stirring in your heart? Do you feel the crushing weight of history? Its artistic legacy is yours to inherit, as long as you stop fucking generating images in ChatGPT.
a red ochre drawing of a cave bear on the walls of chauvet cave
March 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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kendrawcandraw.bsky.social
One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe
March 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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evandahm.bsky.social
i am committed to the human world of human effort and interpretation!!!!!!! do not debase yourself!!!!!!
March 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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mitkills.bsky.social
more of parker posey’s perfect outfits from party girl 🪩📚
a pen drawing of parker posey in party girl, digitally colored. she’s standing on top of a table at the library, mid-pose. she has so many colors on. a pen drawing of parker posey in party girl, digitally colored. she’s wearing some kind of leopard print coat over a blazer and an ascot, with red shorts and red striped tights. a pen drawing of parker posey in party girl, digitally colored. she’s wearing a leopard print coat over a green mini dress and some sort of purple shawl, and purple tights. a pen drawing of parker posey in party girl, digitally colored. biiig pants, pointy shoes, pink and blue ball necklaces.
March 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Michalina Janoszanka, Wiosna (Spring), ca. 1920s. One of several paintings made directly on glass by the Polish artist. More of her work in our latest post: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

And buy a print of this image in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/product/spri...
Painted scene, in the bottom right corner a frog sat aside a patch of fly agaric mushrooms. To the left of the frog and extending into the distance is a body of water on which float lilypads and upon the banks of the water brightly painted trees emerge all against a stunning coral sky
March 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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larazontally.bsky.social
Hello PW starred review www.publishersweekly.com/9781966503040

Thank you to this reviewer for that (Base Notes) shoutout, too <3
No Such Thing as Duty by Lara Elena Donnelly
Donnelly (Base Notes) wows with this intimate genre-bending novella that is at once a WWI spy thriller and a supernatural altern...
www.publishersweekly.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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tommchenry.bsky.social
Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.
INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes. 7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM