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Jason Toal
@samepagestudio.bsky.social
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Visual & Digital Collaborator
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Let's make stuff that matters.
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Thrilled to support my pal, Kat, on her new creative project Potato Nose: 1977, the graphic novel on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat...
Potato Nose: 1977, the graphic novel
A tragicomic memoir of pubescent anxiety and ecstatic delusion.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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🌑 New Moon: Creative Source
A new cycle begins in stillness and marks.
Theme: Protecting the spark. Drawing from within.
Inspiration: "I paint flowers so they will not die."
— @frida-kahlo.bsky.social
#NewMoon #CreativeCare #RememberYourMagic
On some pages from Frida Kahlo's sketchbook, many circles fill the page with faces in each one. Notes from a journal entry on the opposite page, a portrait bleeds through from the opposite side. https://emilysnotebook.co.uk/all-posts/frida-kahlo-her-journal-intime/
June 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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June 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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New comic: on the origins of Due Process, how fundamental it is to our very notion of freedom, and how we all must stand up for the rights for any one of us to preserve liberty for all of us. Alt-text, notes/process & printable version on my site, appreciate sharing spinweaveandcut.com/due-process/
Alt-text: A comics page in black and white, addressing the concept that a country is an idea - and ours is built on among other things the concept of due process (which goes back to the Magna Carta). Images and text all snake across the page across a backdrop of humans imprisoned, and packed together, becoming a black mass in the lower right. I’ve written full description of the imagery with all the text on my site at the link (can’t put enough characters here…)
May 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The image features a large, red, heart-shaped graffiti with drips of paint running down, giving it a raw, emotive feel. Inside the heart, the word "RESIST!" is boldly written in white, stylized, rough-textured letters. The background is a textured blue surface with varying shades, creating a stark contrast with the red heart. The overall appearance conveys a strong message of defiance and passion.
May 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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The stuff of legend

Original post: norden.social/@DogRunner/1...
May 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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🌑 New Moon: Rooted in Renewal
Theme: mentors, memories, and magic that shape the journey.
Inspiration: "I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece." – @louisebourgeois.bsky.social

#NewMoon #MentorshipMatters #RememberYourMagic
A drawing by Louise Bourgeois featuring a large, intricate, circular tangle of blue ink loops that radiate outward like the dense petals of a blooming flower. The loops are drawn in a continuous, overlapping line that creates a sense of energy and organic growth. From the base of the flower, a thin straight stem extends downward with two small leaves labeled "toi" and "moi" (French for "you" and "me"). The background is plain white, emphasizing the vivid, hand-drawn texture of the looping lines. Artist: Louise Bourgeois (American, born France, 1911–2010) Culture: American Titles: Untitled - from the portfolio Homely Girl, A Life Date: 1991 Place: New York, NY, United States Medium: Blue ballpoint ink on wove paper envelope Dimensions: Envelope: 6 9/16 × 4 13/16 in. (16.7 × 12.2 cm) https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/30794/untitled-drawing-1?ctx=dc96832f5bf27c7d0fe68cda6686797480cd9cc1&idx=50
April 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Experimenting with open educational resources in comic form.
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Everything in this work was human-created, EXCEPT the alt-text for which I used AI. Damn compelling how well the bot was able to describe my images.
#OER #Accessibility #Comics #DigitalLearning
Open Resources – find them – use them – learn! – SAME PAGE STUDIO
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April 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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🌗 Last Quarter
Theme: Reflect and simplify, make space for marks.
“Inspiration: "The grid is not the story, it’s the frame that gives shape to experience." - @nsousanis.bsky.social
#makespace #markwhatremains
#grids #gestures #nostos
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"Where it all begins: a piece of paper is a magical place to think in ways you couldn’t otherwise. One of Sousanis’s spread layouts in process." A rough sketch on grid paper, planning a comic book page layout. There is a spiral composition with scribbly lines and circles. From an article in the Harvard University Press called "Answering the Siren’s Call: A Peek Inside Nick Sousanis’s New Comic Book Nostos"
March 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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🌖 Waning Gibbous
Theme: Harvesting wisdom, connecting ideas, and sharing insights.
Inspiration: "Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together,' and we all do this every day." - Corita Kent
#WeCanBe
Title we can be Year 1978 Archive ID 78-12 Medium Serigraph Size 14"h x 20"w Transcribed Text we can be
March 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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🌕 Full Moon: Clarity, Celebration & Symbols of Meaning
Theme: Storytelling through symbols—what image represents your journey this cycle?
🎨 Inspiration: "Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, symbol, and design." — Loïs Mailou Jones #SymbolsOfMeaning
Loïs Mailou Jones American, 1905–1998 Esquisse for Symbols, D'Afrique II., 1983 Medium Acrylic on wove paper Size 30.4 x 20.3 cm. (12 x 8 in.) https://nmwa.org/art/artists/lois-mailou-jones/
March 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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🌔 Waxing Gibbous: Momentum & Refinement
Theme: Using color to express meaning, refining our work.
Inspiration: "Through color, I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man's inhumanity to man." — Alma Thomas
@almathomas.bsky.social
#ColorInMotion
Air View of a Spring Nursery Alma Woodsey Thomas Date: 1966 Style: Color Field Painting Genre: abstract https://www.wikiart.org/en/alma-woodsey-thomas/air-view-of-a-spring-nursery-1966
March 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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🌗 First Quarter: Obstacles, Adjustments, Momentum
Theme: Shapes emerging from lines, embracing structure through repetition.
Inspiration: – Emma Kunz
Article: Who and What Connects the Dots? Emma Kunz’s Method as Infographics and the Politics of Probability
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#MomentumMarks
Cavallo, F. L. (2022). Who and What Connects the Dots? Emma Kunz’s Method as Infographics and the Politics of Probability. Parallax, 28(4), 426–441. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2023.2206241
March 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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🌒 Waxing Crescent: A Link in the Chain
Lines, momentum. Each mark builds on the last.
Theme: Movement, connection, and intention.
Inspiration: "I am not a beginning. I am not an end. I am a link in a chain." - Keith Haring.
@kharingdaily.bsky.social
#WaxingCrescent #LinesInMotion
Keith Haring Untitled, Painted in 1982 sumi ink on paper A continuous line drawing large scale many bold lines and distinct shapes. Works on Paper 72 x 115 ½ in. (182.9 x 293.4 cm.)
March 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I'm huge fan of Mareks' comics and zine templates, and this "stacking and snipping technique" looks like it's going to be a big time saver from my exacto blade method. Can't wait to try it out in my next batch!
marekbennett.bsky.social Marek Bennett @marekbennett.bsky.social · Mar 8
Mini-Comics Assembly Lines

📖 7 COMICS FORMATS + 🔧 Key features +⌚ Time needed!
Mini-Comics Assembly Lines
📖 7 COMICS FORMATS + 🔧 Key features +⌚ Time needed!
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March 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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🌑 New Moon. Blank canvas. Every line is an experience.
Theme: Make the marks that matter.
Inspiration: "Every line is now the actual experience with its own unique story." – Cy Twombly @cytwombly.bsky.social
✨ Let the marks flow. New cycle, new movements.
#NewMoon #MarksThatMatter
Artist: Cy Twombly b. 1928, Lexington, Virginia; d. 2011, Rome, Italy Title: Untitled Date: Rome, June 1960 Medium: Oil, graphite, and oil stick on canvas Dimensions: 37 1/2 x 40 1/16 inches (95.7 x 101.8 cm)
March 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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🌘 Waning Crescent
Theme: Closure and rest
Inspiration: "For me, lines and words are the same thing." - Shantell Martin thecreativeindependent.com/people/shant...

Shantell Sans a font from the artist shantellsans.com

Artist website: shantellmartin.art
A line drawing from Shantell Martin. A rendering of Martin’s set design for Kites, the ballet she’s designing and being performed at the Boston Opera House March 3-13. Web exclusive image courtesy of Shantell Martin. https://interiordesign.net/designwire/artist-shantell-martins-meditative-line-work-expands-to-winterwear-and-the-boston-ballet/
February 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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🌓 Last Quarter
Theme: Letting go, simplifying, and making space
Inspiration: “The value of art is in the observer. When you get a response that is above the common emotional response, that is when you get something.” ~ Agnes Martin @agnes-martin.bsky.social
Gratitude, acrylic & graphite on canvas
Acrylic & graphite on canvas Agnes Martin, Gratitude, 2001, 60" x 60", acrylic & graphite on canvas Style: Minimalism Genre: abstract To quote Louise Fishman, "Agnes Martin is the Buddha". Her paintings are the visual equivalent of breath -- the weave of the canvas, dry pencil line, light wash of translucent color -- silent, still, inclusive -- nothing and everything. They convey an expansive stasis, an ineffable wholeness in the humble and patient frankness of her process.
February 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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🌖 Waning Gibbous
Theme: Extracting insights, sharing knowledge
Inspiration: "Drawing is a way of reasoning on paper." — Saul Steinberg
“A Writer Who Draws.” On the Life and Creative Legacy of Saul Steinberg
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Saul Steinberg, Island, 1965, watercolor, pen and ink and pencil on paper, sheet: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1967.102.3 https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/island-22926
February 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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🌕Full Moon, Celebration and Release.
Theme: Acknowledging insights, "Separating the wheat from the chaff"
Inspiration: "I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for." — Georgia O’Keeffe @gokeeffe.bsky.social
Evening Star No. III.
Georgia O'Keeffe. Evening Star No. III. 1917 - Watercolor on paper on board: 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 (22.7 x 30.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evening_Star_No._III._1917_Georgia_O%27Keeffe.jpg
February 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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🌔 Waxing Gibbous, momentum & refinement
Theme: Reviewing progress and strengthening commitment.
Inspiration: "All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier..." ~ Lee Krasner @leekrasner.bsky.social
In Memory of My Feelings
Lee Krasner Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings 1967 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/32444
February 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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🌗 First Quarter, obstacles, tension, shape.
Theme: Shapes emerging from lines, embracing uncertainty.
Inspiration: "There is no must in art because art is free." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
tensione delicata n. 85, 1923 (Delicate Tension)
@wkandinsky.bsky.social
Delicate Tension by Wassily Kandinsky A dynamic composition of shapes conveying movement and energy. Kandinsky executed Delicate Tension at the Bauhaus from 1923 to 1925, during the prestigious school’s most rationalist period under the directorship of Theo van Doesburg.
February 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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First post of my #inktober2024 series. 03-01-24
Format: Ink on stickie notes in a four page zine.
Reflection: For this post I am thinking about @paul-klee.bsky.social and the concept of "taking a line for a walk", which for me has always meant blind contour drawing.
same page stickies-03-01-24 Page 01 - Cover #inktober 10/10/24 same page stickies-03-02-24 Page 02 - Drawing a blind contour drawing of boots #inktober 10/10/24 same page stickies-03-03-24 Page 03 - Text: I have had my boots for 5 years now. WE have seen a lot. I thought I would give them 5 min. for an old school blind contour drawing. I could get back into this. #inktober 10/10/24 same page stickies-03-04-24 Page 04 - Summary Drawing of boots #inktober 10/10/24
February 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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🌒 Waxing Crescent, lines, plans, movement. The cycle is in motion.
Theme: Making pictures from the observable
Inspiration: "A line is a dot that went for a walk." Paul Klee
@paul-klee.bsky.social
Twittering machine - 1922
Twittering Machine by Paul Klee Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine) is a 1922 watercolor with gouache, pen-and-ink, and oil transfer on paper by Swiss-German painter Paul Klee. http://most-famous-paintings.com/ADC/Art.nsf/O/8LT49S
February 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM