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tyuiopolis.bsky.social
@tyuiopolis.bsky.social
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Undercover artist trying to make a fresh start
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thespaceshipper.com
Nicholas Meyer's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was released 34 years ago today.

Still one of the greatest successes of this saga. What a great ending.

This is goodbye.
Star Trek TOS Cast Final Bow and Good Byes HD (VI The Undiscovered Country Ending)
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December 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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cartoonist.coop
if you're one person making a comic by yourself, don't treat yourself like you should function on the same level as comics that have multiple people working on them. your backgrounds can be squiggles and colors.

allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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comicsinthega.bsky.social
Today is the birthday of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. (Nov. 26, 1922-Feb. 12, 2000.)
Schulz at his drawing table holding a sketch of Snoopy.
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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screenmedia.bsky.social
The multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇸 American romantic drama “CASABLANCA” directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid and Dooley Wilson premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City #OnThisDay in 1942

🎬 #WarnerBros
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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comicsinthega.bsky.social
Today is the birthday of cartoonist Chester Gould (Nov. 20, 1900-May 11, 1985), the creator of Dick Tracy.
A black and white photo of Gould A profile image of Dick Tracy from the cover of "The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy."
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
tyuiopolis.bsky.social
On this day the first strip of Calvin and Hobbes was printed forty years ago! To celebrate here's the front of an old bootleg t-shirt that belonged to my parents. The other side will be revealed next month!
#calvinandhobbes
The first four-panel strip of Calvin and Hobbes in which Calvin, wearing a pith safari hat, tells his father, who's washing his car, that he is trapping tigers with tuna fish sandwiches. The last panel shows Hobbes, dangling upside down on a rope snare, munching on a tuna fish sandwich. An old white t-shirt with an image of Calvin inside a toilet reaching for the handle to flush... A comic-strip panel of Calvin inside a toilet reaching for the handle to flush. Bill Watterson's signature is on the bottom right corner.
November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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markharris.bsky.social
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars started 22 years ago today.

And it was great. It actually reconciled me with Star Wars. Still available on Disney+.
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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comicsinthega.bsky.social
Today is the birthday of artist, writer, animator, & producer Osamu Tezuka (Nov. 3, 1928-Feb. 9, 1989).
A black and white photo of him sitting at his desk with several Astro Boy toys
November 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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tyuiopolis.bsky.social
"It's the Great Pumpkin! He's rising up out of the pumpkin patch!" #art #illustration #charliebrown #peanuts #linusvanpelt #sallybrown #snoopy #charlesschulz #billmelendez #halloween
Pen and marker illustration of the scene from the 1966 film "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" in which Linus Van Pelt, with Sally Brown to his left, joyfully announces the appearance of the Great Pumpkin at the local pumpkin patch as an somewhat omnious silhouette, bearing a resemblance to a certain beagle, rises up against the full moon in the background.
October 31, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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worldsfinest.bsky.social
The "Gargoyles" animated series premiered on this day (Oct. 24) in 1994 with "Awakening, Part One!" One of the best and most influential shows of the 1990s, this fan-favorite cartoon offered-up mature and complex characters, incredible casting, and strong story-telling! #Gargoyles
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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tyuiopolis.bsky.social
"Ugh!, Disgusting Blob!" #art #illustration #ghostbusters #slimer #ghost #halloween
Pen and marker illustration of the green "slimer" ghost from the 1984 "Ghostbusters" feasting on leftovers from the hotel's room service cart
October 24, 2024 at 9:48 AM
tyuiopolis.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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tyuiopolis.bsky.social
"You know it's just occured to me we really haven't had a completely successful test of this equipment"
"I blame myself"
"So do I"
"Well there's no sense in worrying about it now"
"Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back"
"Yep" #art #halloween #ghostbusters
Pen and marker illustration of the three original Ghostbusters, Ray Stantz (Dan Akroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), and Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) in the elevator on their way to find and trap the slimer
October 22, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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tyuiopolis.bsky.social
The smol reaper meeting another one of my characters, TV Guy #art #illustration #grimreaper #shinigami #robot #halloween
Pen and ink illustration of the small grim reaper, his back turned to the viewer, glaring over his shoulder at a small, retro television-themed robot appoaching him with a wry, sardonic look on his face.
October 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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tyuiopolis.bsky.social
Another picture of the smol reaper, this time I tried to go for a more manga-influenced look #art #illustration #grimreaper #shinigami #halloween
Pen and marker illustration of a small grim reaper with the wind blowing his cowl over his head, the glare on his visor obscuring his right eye, his right arm resting on the hilt of his oversized katana which rests on his right shoulder, the bottom half of his garb more ragged than usual, and his left sleeve torn away showing his skeletal but cartoony left arm.
October 15, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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tyuiopolis.bsky.social
"Oh! Amon-Ra-- Oh! God of Gods-- Death is but the doorway to new life--- We live today- we shall live again-- In many forms shall we return- Oh, mighty one." #art #illustration #themummy #boriskarloff #halloween
Pen and marker illustration of the scene from the 1932 film "The Mummy" in which the mummified Imhotep, hearing the magic words of the Scroll of Thoth, slowly begins to awaken.
October 13, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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tyuiopolis.bsky.social


"Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous." #art #illustration #maryshelley #frankenstein #boriskarloff #halloween
Pen and marker illustration of the scene from the 1931 "Frankenstein" in which the monster raises his eyes to see light from the outside world for the first time.
October 12, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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tyuiopolis.bsky.social
"Feast your eyes-- glut your soul, on my accursed ugliness!"
#thephantomoftheopera #lonchaney #art #illustration #halloween
Pen and marker illustration of the infamous unmasking scene from the 1925 "Phantom of the Opera".
October 8, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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tyuiopolis.bsky.social
"Cesare-- can you hear me? Cesare-- I am calling you-- I-- Dr. Caligari-- your master-- Awaken for a moment from your dark night--"
#thecabinetofdrcaligari #conradveidt #germanexpressionism #halloween
Ink and marker illustration of the awakening of Cesare the Somnambulist
October 5, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute. Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner. I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way. Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose. The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why. Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes. I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic). "To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
September 30 vs. October 1
Keir Dullea as David Bowman Keir Dullea as David Bowman, but a bit older
October 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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tyuiopolis.bsky.social
"Now, when I die, bury me in my straight-leg britches
Put on a box-back coat and a Stetson hat
Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain
So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat" #ghost #cabcalloway #fleischerbrothers #halloween
Three images of the rotoscope ghost from the Fleischers Studios' 1933 "Snow White"
October 1, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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schulzmuseum.bsky.social
This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on September 9, 1968.
September 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM