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T. Perran Mitchell
@tperranmitchell.bsky.social
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Writter, Letterer and Bird Dad.
I ❤️ Comics.
Www.tperranmitchell.com
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birdhism.com
🦜 Birds Deserve Better! - Pls share!

Parrots are smart, social creatures w/complex needs.

💚 Thinking about bringing a parrot into your life? Take time to research, consider adoption, and choose to support responsible, ethical sources (i.e. not Petco, Petsmart, etc.)

#Parrotcrisis #birds
February 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social
You can print Know Your Rights cards here! And in many languages. ICE has complained that people being informed of their rights has been a huge barrier for them, this is a material way to help.

www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...
Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC
All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...
www.ilrc.org
February 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
tperranmitchell.bsky.social
Yes, please.
theonion.com The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 20
Wallace Shawn Emerges As Frontrunner To Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond
Wallace Shawn Emerges As Frontrunner To Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond
February 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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"Drawing a good figure doesn't make you a good artist. I can name you ten men, right off the bat, who draw better than I do. But I don't think their work gets as much response as mine. I can't think of a better man to draw Dick Tracy than Chester Gould, who certainly is no match for Leonardo Da Vinci. But Chester Gould told the story of Dick Tracy. He told the story of Dick Tracy the way it should have been told. No other guy could have done it. It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do, you do it. If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal 'em. Take those hands. The only thing I can say is: Caniff was my teacher, Alex Raymond was my teacher, even the guy who drew Toonerville Trolley was my teacher. Whatever he had stimulated me in some way. And I think that's all you need. You need that stimulation. Stimulation to make you an individual. And the draftsmanship, hang it. If you can decently: learn to control what you can, learn to control what you have, learn to refine what you have. Damn perfection. You don't have to be perfect. You are never going to do a Sistine Chapel, unless someone ties you to a ceiling. Damn perfection. All a man has in this field is pressure. And I think the pressure supplies a stimulation. You have your own stresses, that will supply your own stimulation. If you want to do it, you'll do it. And you'll do it anyway you can." - Jack Kirby
February 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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gregpak.net
Norrin Radd, relatable as always.
Two panels from SILVER SURFER #18 (1970) by Lee/Kirby/Trimpe/Rosen showing the Silver Surfer brooding on the rocky ground saying "But now--my very soul is aflame with burning rage! In a world of madness--I tried to practice reason---but all I won was hatred---and everlasting strife!"
February 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
tperranmitchell.bsky.social
Tori Amos' Boys for Pele is one of my all-time favorite rainy day albums. I remember being in high school, lying in bed listening to it mixing with the sound of the rain drops on the roof.
The cover of Boys for Pele album by Tori Amos. She is sitting in a rocking chair holding a rifle on an old wooden porch.
February 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
tperranmitchell.bsky.social
All of the X-Men books are killing it. If you're looking for a good read, check them out. Especially Uncanny X-men.
January 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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vince.vinceunderwood.com
Hey Y'all. Our LCS, The Comic Book Clubhouse, has had another break in. Third one in two months and there have been break ins before that too.

If any of you bigger than me creators can offer any help (signed stuff, a sketch, etc) I know they could use the help.

Contact info in the replies.
A picture of a comic book shop front door that has been smashed in. It is accompanied with the following text: I am sitting here in my cold shop once again because someone smashed a window and broke in. This is the third time since Dec. 1. I am lucky enough to be able to do something that I love for a living, I own and operate a local comic shop, the Comic Book Clubhouse. But here is the thing, I'm not getting rich doing this, I do it for the love of comics. I pay my bills, I have 2 employees, most months we get by, some by the skin of our teeth. Every time someone breaks the window and steal from us it gets harder. I lose product, and have to replace a window. There are small shops in this town that will go away if we don't start caring, please shop locally, and please if you know anything about the break in share it. Thank you all for supporting The Comic Book Clubhouse, and hopefully we can continue to be your comic hook up for many years to come. Matthew Serratto
January 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
tperranmitchell.bsky.social
I just contacted my senators and urged them to oppose Pete Hegseth's nomination to lead the Defense Department. Trump's pick would undermine our national security. app.sosha.ai/s/oSF1eB61
January 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
I’m a one-woman independent journalism team. If you want to help me keep at it, become a paid subscriber today: www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jan 22
SCOOP: The Trump administration has ordered the National Institutes of Health to impose an "immediate and indefinite" ban on all travel, domestic and international. Internal emails reviewed by The Handbasket outline what employees know so far.

Read more here:
SCOOP: National Institutes of Health ordered by Trump admin to enact 'immediate and indefinite' travel suspension
"If staff aren’t able to travel, clinical trials will likely have to be put on hold," a source tells The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
tperranmitchell.bsky.social
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
- W.B. Yates
January 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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paarsec.com
One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹
“Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or because of—his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn’t so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don’t think it was pain that made him so great—I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.” ― David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
tperranmitchell.bsky.social
I'm completely gutted by the news that David Lynch passed. It's not a stretch to say a friend and I have spent hundreds of hours talking about his films and Twin Peaks.
January 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
tperranmitchell.bsky.social
Just tested positive for covid for the very 1st time. Boo...
December 23, 2024 at 5:42 PM
tperranmitchell.bsky.social
Today, this is me.
theonion.com The Onion @theonion.com · Dec 18
Man Says ‘Fuck It,’ Eats Lunch At 10:58 A.M.
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Man Says ‘Fuck It,’ Eats Lunch At 10:58 A.M. -The Onion
December 18, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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blambot.bsky.social
Copies of the award-winning Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering SIGNED by author, Nate Piekos are once again available from Blambot.com! https://buff.ly/3U7w4md
October 14, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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gailsimone.bsky.social
This book is underexposed. I asked a bunch of friends, giants of prose, games and comics, to write a Sonja story and they killed on it!
drivethrucomics.com DriveThruComics @drivethrucomics.com · Dec 10
Legends of Red Sonja Volume 1 from Dynamite Comics is 50% Off today only as the Deal of the Day!

Get it here: tinyurl.com/4nd4s6zv

In this unique collection, ongoing RED SONJA series writer @gailsimone.bsky.social hand-picked eleven of the fiercest, most talented, and most popular female writers.
Legends of Red Sonja Volume 1 at DriveThruComics.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
There are many reasons that organizing must be different now, like:

1/x

the mechanisms of the State will function VERY differently—the old ways no longer work.

After the last 10 years of stress/activism, many of our adrenals are trashed already, to say nothing of the impact of COVID on the +
December 4, 2024 at 9:25 PM
tperranmitchell.bsky.social
Happy Artist Sunday! Now that you’ve shopped local for Saturday, please consider picking up some stuff from your favorite artist. Here comes a shameless plug and some of my artist friends. www.tperranmitchell.com/store

#ArtistSunday #comics
A cartoon still from the TV show, The Critic. A cardboard cut-out Jay Sherman holding a book called What I do in the Dark, by Jay Sherman. The text on the image says Buy My Book.
December 1, 2024 at 8:32 PM
tperranmitchell.bsky.social
Spent the afternoon building and painting Warhammer. Heading home to watch AEW Full Gear. What a nice Saturday.
November 23, 2024 at 10:03 PM