Shane M. Bailey
@shanembailey.com
Comic Colorist/Web Design-Dev/Writer
Portfolio at https://cara.app/shanembailey
shanembailey@gmail.com for coloring opportunities/commissions
He/Him - 🏳️🌈 Ally - 💜🤍💜 Gray Ace/Demi-Het (? just ask)
Comics will heal your heart, kid. - Me (after Kirby)
Portfolio at https://cara.app/shanembailey
shanembailey@gmail.com for coloring opportunities/commissions
He/Him - 🏳️🌈 Ally - 💜🤍💜 Gray Ace/Demi-Het (? just ask)
Comics will heal your heart, kid. - Me (after Kirby)
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Shane M. Bailey
@shanembailey.com
· Dec 19
I was just asked in an email but to give everyone an idea of my prices...
I digitally color over a scan of the original pencils or inks (inks are preferable for the best results) and then provide a flattened tiff file back for printing, along with a png or jpg for sharing online.
I digitally color over a scan of the original pencils or inks (inks are preferable for the best results) and then provide a flattened tiff file back for printing, along with a png or jpg for sharing online.
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Someone should make a reality show that's just comic book people on dates.
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Someone should make a reality show that's just comic book people on dates.
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I suppose you've read the psychedelic Dope Rider!!
December 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I suppose you've read the psychedelic Dope Rider!!
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Kirchner’s the Bus is one of the cleverest, ingenious, well drawn, constraint-based comics ever. Check it out if you’ve never seen it!
December 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Kirchner’s the Bus is one of the cleverest, ingenious, well drawn, constraint-based comics ever. Check it out if you’ve never seen it!
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Art by • Roger Dean
December 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Art by • Roger Dean
I have to admit this is pretty cool
You have to find out who stole the blanket, in what part of the neighborhood, and into what shape it was formed (a tent, a "paper" airplane, a football, etc., all represented by game pieces). The board itself is an attractive overhead (presumably non-canon) shot of the gang's stomping grounds.
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I have to admit this is pretty cool
Oh thank goodness they rolled that back.
Dear SFWA and surrounding industry:
It's a two-mailout kind of day!
Thank you to everyone who wrote in.
The Board wishes to share the results of two votes held this afternoon, with further amendments to our Nebula Awards Rules.
It's a two-mailout kind of day!
Thank you to everyone who wrote in.
The Board wishes to share the results of two votes held this afternoon, with further amendments to our Nebula Awards Rules.
Press Release - December 19, 2025 - 2 - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Guidance from the SFWA Board on the major questions in this year's Nebula Awards Review Process: for poetry, category minimums, and LLMs.
www.sfwa.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Oh thank goodness they rolled that back.
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I told my roommates about the Metropolis Dog and they're DUBIOUS. @planetx.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I told my roommates about the Metropolis Dog and they're DUBIOUS. @planetx.bsky.social
I kinda want this.
Ok so MacFarlane toys does these...deformed? Weird proportion figures? They've done Bane and Batman and Swamp Thing and ... they're not my thing generally but this Darkseid makes me laugh and I love him. Look at his tiny frowny face! He's adorable.
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I kinda want this.
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I was interning at Marvel in the 90s when he was doing various work for them (Thor, XSE, Spider-Man Unlimited, etc) and it was an open secret then that he had a whole studio of guys working under him in Brazil. He'd do the big splash pages and his assistants would do everything else.
December 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I was interning at Marvel in the 90s when he was doing various work for them (Thor, XSE, Spider-Man Unlimited, etc) and it was an open secret then that he had a whole studio of guys working under him in Brazil. He'd do the big splash pages and his assistants would do everything else.
Hell yeah!!!
Ryan North and Gavin Guidry taking over as the creative team for The Flash
Denys Cowan joining Dan Watters on Nightwing
I'm also really excited about Mayor Poison Ivy, @gwillow.me and the rest of the team have been making an accessible book that deserves to always be in print.
Ryan North and Gavin Guidry taking over as the creative team for The Flash
Denys Cowan joining Dan Watters on Nightwing
I'm also really excited about Mayor Poison Ivy, @gwillow.me and the rest of the team have been making an accessible book that deserves to always be in print.
Slugfest | Act II of DC’s All In begins in March
New creators, storylines and title changes permeate through DC’s March titles.
smashpages.net
December 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Hell yeah!!!
Ryan North and Gavin Guidry taking over as the creative team for The Flash
Denys Cowan joining Dan Watters on Nightwing
I'm also really excited about Mayor Poison Ivy, @gwillow.me and the rest of the team have been making an accessible book that deserves to always be in print.
Ryan North and Gavin Guidry taking over as the creative team for The Flash
Denys Cowan joining Dan Watters on Nightwing
I'm also really excited about Mayor Poison Ivy, @gwillow.me and the rest of the team have been making an accessible book that deserves to always be in print.
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Every statement from this administration about trans people is either an outright lie or yet another plan to make them suffer, all for no reason aside from feeding the fear of bigots.
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Every statement from this administration about trans people is either an outright lie or yet another plan to make them suffer, all for no reason aside from feeding the fear of bigots.
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Remember in the late '90s when the "Mike Deodato" credit could have been any number of like 5 or 6 different people?
Such that it eventually was "Deodato Studios" and we still didn't get any clarification as to who the other people were? (I think we now know & one of them was Ed Benes.)
Yeah...
Such that it eventually was "Deodato Studios" and we still didn't get any clarification as to who the other people were? (I think we now know & one of them was Ed Benes.)
Yeah...
December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Remember in the late '90s when the "Mike Deodato" credit could have been any number of like 5 or 6 different people?
Such that it eventually was "Deodato Studios" and we still didn't get any clarification as to who the other people were? (I think we now know & one of them was Ed Benes.)
Yeah...
Such that it eventually was "Deodato Studios" and we still didn't get any clarification as to who the other people were? (I think we now know & one of them was Ed Benes.)
Yeah...
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You can have access or you can be a journalist. You can’t do both. Not indefinitely. The idea that Deodato didn’t use ai in that comic…is not even laughable. It’s an insult. He’s calling you stupid to your face.
December 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
You can have access or you can be a journalist. You can’t do both. Not indefinitely. The idea that Deodato didn’t use ai in that comic…is not even laughable. It’s an insult. He’s calling you stupid to your face.
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Either Deodato is lying, and he used a bunch of generated slop for this book, or he isn't, and he made all of these errors of consistency, posing, etc on his own - and either way, he should be real fucking embarrassed.
Okay yeah, This feels like a mix of AI Slop, Trace Photo Ref, and Actual (mostly rushed) Art, all made to hide the duct tape and glue.
Im kinda mad I backed the Kickstarter, checking that now they REALLLLLLY hid this.
AWA Studios really pocketed 100K in Kickstarter Money and ran with this.
Im kinda mad I backed the Kickstarter, checking that now they REALLLLLLY hid this.
AWA Studios really pocketed 100K in Kickstarter Money and ran with this.
December 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Either Deodato is lying, and he used a bunch of generated slop for this book, or he isn't, and he made all of these errors of consistency, posing, etc on his own - and either way, he should be real fucking embarrassed.
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Back in the '90s he rejected accusations of using multiple uncredited artists to draw for him.
But it was true.
So those 5(+?) people started being credited as "Deodato Studios" for another year and a half.
Then he moved on to tracing 3D models.
But it was true.
So those 5(+?) people started being credited as "Deodato Studios" for another year and a half.
Then he moved on to tracing 3D models.
Mike Deodato Jr. rejects accusations of using AI in AWA’s ULTIMATE OZ
The proliferation of AI slop has created an environment where anybody can accuse any comic creator of using Ai in their work.
The proliferation of AI slop has created an environment where anybody can accuse any comic creator of using Ai in their work.
Mike Deodato Jr. rejects accusations of using AI in AWA’s ULTIMATE OZ
The proliferation of AI slop has created an environment where anybody can accuse any comic creator of using Ai in their work.
www.comicsbeat.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Back in the '90s he rejected accusations of using multiple uncredited artists to draw for him.
But it was true.
So those 5(+?) people started being credited as "Deodato Studios" for another year and a half.
Then he moved on to tracing 3D models.
But it was true.
So those 5(+?) people started being credited as "Deodato Studios" for another year and a half.
Then he moved on to tracing 3D models.
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"We asked the artist who clearly used AI to create his new graphic novel if he used AI and he said 'nuh-uh' so clearly this is just a witch-hunt."
And people wonder why comics journalism died.
And people wonder why comics journalism died.
December 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"We asked the artist who clearly used AI to create his new graphic novel if he used AI and he said 'nuh-uh' so clearly this is just a witch-hunt."
And people wonder why comics journalism died.
And people wonder why comics journalism died.
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To *strongly* reiterate: Sweet Shop will not sell AI comics.
We love you messy, sloppy bags of water walking around with your ideas.
We love you messy, sloppy bags of water walking around with your ideas.
December 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
To *strongly* reiterate: Sweet Shop will not sell AI comics.
We love you messy, sloppy bags of water walking around with your ideas.
We love you messy, sloppy bags of water walking around with your ideas.
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This. Remember... engage with or promote generative AI in your comics practice and you lose our support and coverage. For good. Zero tolerance.
Oh also: the AI stuff…maybe read the room?
Even though you can't really make convincing AI comics (yet), 1/3 of comics creators know or suspect they have lost work to it already. Only 4% of creators use it, and none for final artwork or writing.
We hate that shit.
Even though you can't really make convincing AI comics (yet), 1/3 of comics creators know or suspect they have lost work to it already. Only 4% of creators use it, and none for final artwork or writing.
We hate that shit.
December 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This. Remember... engage with or promote generative AI in your comics practice and you lose our support and coverage. For good. Zero tolerance.
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For their instagram ads they use AI voices and what I presume are AI spokespeople constantly.
December 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
For their instagram ads they use AI voices and what I presume are AI spokespeople constantly.
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2/? More projects from my intro finals - drawers wrestling with finding ideas (& playing with form), with identity, with internal states, & non-drawers making smart comics about how you can make comics and how drawings work at the base level (drawn directly from class content...) Good stuff!
December 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
2/? More projects from my intro finals - drawers wrestling with finding ideas (& playing with form), with identity, with internal states, & non-drawers making smart comics about how you can make comics and how drawings work at the base level (drawn directly from class content...) Good stuff!
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Super Dimension Fortress Macross art by Shoji Kawamori (1982)
December 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Super Dimension Fortress Macross art by Shoji Kawamori (1982)
In case you missed it.
December 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
In case you missed it.
I use solicits and leagueofcomicgeeks.com
How the hell does anyone hear about new comics? Like I feel I only know about new book releases because artists talk about them here or I see them at my LCS. I don't surf reddit and I don't pick up news anywhere else, really
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I use solicits and leagueofcomicgeeks.com