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John Cullen
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John Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · Oct 17
Helloooooo, new followers!

I suppose I should do an intro post.

I john. I comics. Also patreon.

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4 panel comic P1: A little one-eyed robot lies in a bed, tucked under a floral pattern quilt. Two scientists stand in the background, looking confused. The older one on the left, holding a tablet device in his left hand, says "I... I don't understand..." P2: Close up on the scientists, as the older one says "I didn't program them to be capable of sleep, see?" as he hands the tablet over to the younger scientist. The latter looks down at the tablet with a look of bemusement, as he says "HUH. And they even..." P3: The older interjects with "INDEED. I switched them on, and they immediately constructed a bed..." The younger guy raises the tablet for a closer look, with obvious shock on his face. P4: Closeup on the robot, looking utterly snug and content. The older scientist finishes with "...then they just crawled right in. That was two weeks ago." A four panel comic, with each panel being narrow, while filling the height of the page. Each panel shows a serene looking scene, with fluffy clouds filling the skies in each. The first panel starts with a caption box which reads "This too--," while the fourth panel ends on "--shall pass." 16 panel comic, laid out --depending on how you look at it-- either on the outer or inner surface of a cube. I'm doing my best impression of Scott McCloud A page from my comic "Land of NOJ," which was published in The Phoenix. Way too much to describe here. It's basically a kind of choose your own adventure comic, where the reader makes their way along either a red or blue path to try and make it to a good ending. The setup is that a character called Suze is obsessed with games, so she uses a six-sided die to make a decision. The reader also requires a die to make their way through the comic.
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Welp. Just discovered that someone is putting out a paid collection --over 200 pages-- that looks to be a Spanish language history of Garfield parody comics that may contain some of my work.

While part of me is flattered, my permission was never asked.
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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My lasting memory of Michael D. Higgins will be the time my mam and I visited the Áras.

On a group tour of the building, we were brought into Higgins's main office. Higgins then sheepishly entered through a door behind the desk, said a warm hello to us all, grabbed a pile of books, and left.
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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An anthropoo... anthropro... ... A human cat, wearing spectacles, a short sleeved shirt, and a striped tie. He is sat at a desk, in front of a computer monitor. His right hand clasps a computer mouse. Above him, the title: Garry Field
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Listening to the Falconhoof album.
Photo of a record player sat on top a chest of drawers. Laid flat on the player is the double album "Oxygene" and "Equinoxe" by Jean Michel Jarre
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Reposted by John Cullen
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the art vs the artist's hand
7x5 grid on a black background of 32 #SciArt invertebrates, from jellyfish, leafhoppers, anemones, weevils, lobsters, moths, snails, flies, cuttlefish, worms, spiders, clams, spiders, caterpillars, isopods, flatworms, nudibranch, dragonflies, ticks, centipedes, sea urchins, lacewings, squid, mosquitoes in the middle are their latin names in white text: INVERTOBER 2025 1 | Chrysaora pacifica 2 | Graphocephala coccinea 3 | Anthopleura xanthogrammica 4 | Rhynchophorus cruentatus 5 | Panulirus versicolor 6 | Phalera bucephala 7 | Chrysomallon squamiferum 8 | Mallophora fautrix 9 | Ascarosepion pfefferi 10 | Lumbricus terrestris 11 | Dolomedes tenebrosus 12 | Siliqua patula 13 | Camponotus consobrinus 14 | Eunice aphroditois 15 | Ornithoptera alexandrae 16 | Bathynomus giganteus 17 | Pseudoceros concinnus 18 | Sceliphron caementarium 19 | Vampyroteuthis infernalis 20 | Velella velella 21 | Libellula saturata 22 | Clione limacina 23 | Cicindela albissima 24 | Perna canaliculus 25 | Scutigera coleoptrata 26 | Jorunna parva 27 | Dermacentor variabilis 28 | Chrysopa perla 29 | Mesocentrotus franciscanus 30 | Anoplognathus pallidicollis 31 | Acherontia atropos extra | Aedes aegypti Me doing the italian hand gesyure with a blue teal raincoat and a nice autumny green and orange vegetation in the background with a white fence
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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The art vs the artist's hand
A comic parodying the famous "welcome to Jurassic Park" scene, only the dinosaurs are replaced by horrible hand tree things. Also, the line is changed to "welcome to hell." A photo of my right hand, contorted to match the fucked up hell hand in the comic
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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good morning happy to be here
Selfie of me from the chest up, swwating a black sweater. I'm sat in a high-backed black chair, and am staring off into the void.
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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One thing I dislike about Columbo's '80s-and-onward run is that we actually see him in the police station.

What I like in the classic run is that he never feels like an actual cop. He comes off like some trickster demon cosplaying as one.

The "modern" run removes a lot of that mystique.
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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What's a good alternative to Goodreads that isn't just me doing a spreadsheet?
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Kazuki Motoyama / 本山一城, author of several manga adaptations of Super Mario, has passed away according to his sister. He was 69 years old.
www.instagram.com/p/DPSXpYukhQd/
www.mariowiki.com/Kazuki_Motoy...
6 Mario mangas drawn by Kazuki Motoyama a 2023 photo of Kazuki Motoyama
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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6 panel comic P1: An impossibly buff Garfield knockoff (with distressingly visible nipples) towers over Jon, who is cat-sized, and lying on all fours on a table surface. P2: Same, only now Buffield points at Jon with their right hand, and reaches for him with their left. They boom: "HUMAN" P3: Brofield lays their left hand on Jon's back with such force, the latter begins to deform. Masculinifield demands: "I PET YOU. INITIATE THAT SOUND WHICH PLEASES ME SO" P4: Crushing Jon even further, The Garf lowers their head menacingly to stare at their quarry. P5: Closeup on a panicked looking and sweating Jon, as he starts shakily singing the chorus from "Hero" by Chad Kroeger. P6: As Jon continues belting out that absolute tune from off-panel, we go to a closeup of Garry Field, their face dramatically underlit. They let out a satisfied "bueno"
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I downloaded a new file explorer for Windows, and what a difference it makes. The default one is awful.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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just cleared out over 70GB of files from my downloads folder please clap
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Thinkin’ about the monkey in MGS4. I think we’d be friends
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Considering getting my mam a Miyoo Mini+ for Xmas, and just sticking the original Gameboy Tetris on there.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Our poet president ✨☘️

💚Today is Michael D. Higgins’ last day as President of Ireland! I’m so immensely grateful to President Higgins and his time in office. His legacy is one of kindness, joy, inclusion and community.

#michaeldhiggins #presidentofireland #miggildyhiggins
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Sorry, new followers with anon PFPs, but if I check your feed, and it is nothing but American politics, yerrrrrrrrr OUT.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A closeup of a comic panel drawn in a sketchbook using blue pencil and inks. In the foreground, a stressed looking balding man, sat in a high backed chair. In the back ground, a small cat with a large mouth, yelling WWAOOHHHH
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The art vs the artist's hand
A comic parodying the famous "welcome to Jurassic Park" scene, only the dinosaurs are replaced by horrible hand tree things. Also, the line is changed to "welcome to hell." A photo of my right hand, contorted to match the fucked up hell hand in the comic
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Repost to give an Irish person a jumpscare.
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Irish house, winter edition
A very condensation-y window
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Music I'm listening to as I "work"
A photo looking down on a black record player lying on top of a wooden chest of drawers. Laid down flat on top of the player is the cover for the album I'm playing, "Fragments" by Bonobo.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Reposted by John Cullen
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communing with nature

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8 panel comic P1: cartoon me, wearing a red tee and navy blue jeans, sat on a curved wall. In his right hand, he holds a croissant, which he has just taken a chomp out of. In his left, a takeaway coffee. Behind the wall, we see an expanse of grass, and --to the left-- the roots of a tree. P2: a closeup of cartoon me, as he loudly chews. He has a vacantly happy look on his face. P3: Same, but now CM swallows his food, as he notices something off-panel. P4: POV switches to look at what CM is looking at. It's a jackdaw, splooted down on the capstones atop the wall. Their back half slumps over the edge. We can just see a silhouette of CM staring at the jackdaw, who stares back with a wide eye. P5: Closeup of jackdaw's head, as things switch to negative --the jackdaw white, the background black-- as they continue staring. P6: Same POV. We switch back to normal colours. Their eye now closed, the jackdaw does a little nod. P7: We switch to a low angle closeup of CM --underlit-- as he looks on, seemingly confused. P8: Same POV, only now --eyes closed, and a smile on his face-- CM returns the nod.
June 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Going back to doing relatively tiny comics in a sketchbook to put some much needed oil in the creative gears again.
Close up photo of a comic panel drawn in blue pencil and inks. It depicts a very simple drawing of a duck, swimming on a water surface. Above them, in lower case letters, "d o n k"
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Reposted by John Cullen
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The only thing I have to say on this Remembrance Sunday is to quote, verbatim, what Harry Patch had to say about the First World War:
"When the war ended, I don't know if I was more relieved that we'd won or that I didn't have to go back. Passchendaele was a disastrous battle—thousands and thousands of young lives were lost. It makes me angry. Earlier this year, I went back to Ypres to shake the hand of Charles Kuentz, Germany's only surviving veteran from the war. It was emotional. He is 107. We've had 87 years to think what war is. To me, it's a licence to go out and murder. Why should the British government call me up and take me out to a battlefield to shoot a man I never knew, whose language I couldn't speak? All those lives lost for a war finished over a table. Now what is the sense in that?" Quotation from the British WWI veteran Harry Patch, in November 2004
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM