Uncanny Burt
@uncannyburt.bsky.social
I write comics sometimes. One of my comics has made people cry. Their tears feed me.
A chaotic disaster of a bisexual. Just making my way through life while disappointing my parents.
He/him or they/them. Slowly moving from the former to the latter.
A chaotic disaster of a bisexual. Just making my way through life while disappointing my parents.
He/him or they/them. Slowly moving from the former to the latter.
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Uncanny Burt
@uncannyburt.bsky.social
· Jul 10
First time doing #PortfolioDay.
I'm Burt. I'm a writer of comics, prose and fan-fiction. Not a lot published yet, but keen to do more.
Variety of genres but feel a pull towards horror and fantasy.
Also done a little bit of editing work.
I'm Burt. I'm a writer of comics, prose and fan-fiction. Not a lot published yet, but keen to do more.
Variety of genres but feel a pull towards horror and fantasy.
Also done a little bit of editing work.
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the pre-launch page for @mhcaliwrites.com's next book is live! w/ an absolutely MONSTROUS line-up of #comics artists, The Hectic Love Lives of the Mythical dives into the dating lives of demons, monsters and cryptids!
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
(thanks for letting me go ham on this #art!)
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
(thanks for letting me go ham on this #art!)
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
the pre-launch page for @mhcaliwrites.com's next book is live! w/ an absolutely MONSTROUS line-up of #comics artists, The Hectic Love Lives of the Mythical dives into the dating lives of demons, monsters and cryptids!
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
(thanks for letting me go ham on this #art!)
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
(thanks for letting me go ham on this #art!)
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Hey NEW comic creators! @punkrockkris.bsky.social & I are launching a brand new horror comic anthology called CHK Presents: AHA!
We're accepting submissions starting today until 1/1/2026! If you are looking for an anthology to get your story or art out there...(cont below)
We're accepting submissions starting today until 1/1/2026! If you are looking for an anthology to get your story or art out there...(cont below)
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Hey NEW comic creators! @punkrockkris.bsky.social & I are launching a brand new horror comic anthology called CHK Presents: AHA!
We're accepting submissions starting today until 1/1/2026! If you are looking for an anthology to get your story or art out there...(cont below)
We're accepting submissions starting today until 1/1/2026! If you are looking for an anthology to get your story or art out there...(cont below)
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I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.
November 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.
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Gaza Government Media Office says just 24 percent of agreed aid allowed into Gaza since ceasefire deal came into force.
Israel still blocking most Gaza aid as military carries out more attacks
Gaza Government Media Office says just 24 percent of agreed aid allowed into Gaza since ceasefire deal came into force.
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Gaza Government Media Office says just 24 percent of agreed aid allowed into Gaza since ceasefire deal came into force.
Been a while since I've been on Bluesky, and came back to a few 'this person has followed you notifications'.
Most always leave me with a 'what post or comment or what made them follow me?' Though some, of the 'selling you titillation' variety, aren't so hard to gauge.
Most always leave me with a 'what post or comment or what made them follow me?' Though some, of the 'selling you titillation' variety, aren't so hard to gauge.
November 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Been a while since I've been on Bluesky, and came back to a few 'this person has followed you notifications'.
Most always leave me with a 'what post or comment or what made them follow me?' Though some, of the 'selling you titillation' variety, aren't so hard to gauge.
Most always leave me with a 'what post or comment or what made them follow me?' Though some, of the 'selling you titillation' variety, aren't so hard to gauge.
I am the kind of person who will be writing a message/text/comment/whatever and go into an aside so use brackets, only to then discover that aside has an aside so go back and change first bracket to a comma so I can use brackets for second aside.
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I am the kind of person who will be writing a message/text/comment/whatever and go into an aside so use brackets, only to then discover that aside has an aside so go back and change first bracket to a comma so I can use brackets for second aside.
This is obviously not a fully comprehensive look at, what I understand of myself to be, rather nuanced views. Even on my final point I find myself at odds with myself.
I do often wish I had a simpler, more aimed morality. Would make things easier. But it wouldn't be me, nor what Animorphs taught me.
I do often wish I had a simpler, more aimed morality. Would make things easier. But it wouldn't be me, nor what Animorphs taught me.
Due to the state of things in the world I've thought about my own morality a lot lately, and kinda need to just express it.
September 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is obviously not a fully comprehensive look at, what I understand of myself to be, rather nuanced views. Even on my final point I find myself at odds with myself.
I do often wish I had a simpler, more aimed morality. Would make things easier. But it wouldn't be me, nor what Animorphs taught me.
I do often wish I had a simpler, more aimed morality. Would make things easier. But it wouldn't be me, nor what Animorphs taught me.
Due to the state of things in the world I've thought about my own morality a lot lately, and kinda need to just express it.
September 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Due to the state of things in the world I've thought about my own morality a lot lately, and kinda need to just express it.
Realised I shared this with zero context (and debated leaving it that way).
My DnD group just started a new mini-campaign using the Anime rule books where we play isekai'd versions of ourselves.
I became a Pet Monster Trainer whose Pet Monster is Toasta (another player created the human leg canon).
My DnD group just started a new mini-campaign using the Anime rule books where we play isekai'd versions of ourselves.
I became a Pet Monster Trainer whose Pet Monster is Toasta (another player created the human leg canon).
Toasta Trainer Burt Wants to Battle!
This is my latest piece of art. Been working on it over the last couple weeks (colouring took ages for being so simple).
Done pretty much entirely from references/tracing. Some minor full freehand, though mostly just for cleaning stuff up.
This is my latest piece of art. Been working on it over the last couple weeks (colouring took ages for being so simple).
Done pretty much entirely from references/tracing. Some minor full freehand, though mostly just for cleaning stuff up.
September 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Realised I shared this with zero context (and debated leaving it that way).
My DnD group just started a new mini-campaign using the Anime rule books where we play isekai'd versions of ourselves.
I became a Pet Monster Trainer whose Pet Monster is Toasta (another player created the human leg canon).
My DnD group just started a new mini-campaign using the Anime rule books where we play isekai'd versions of ourselves.
I became a Pet Monster Trainer whose Pet Monster is Toasta (another player created the human leg canon).
Toasta Trainer Burt Wants to Battle!
This is my latest piece of art. Been working on it over the last couple weeks (colouring took ages for being so simple).
Done pretty much entirely from references/tracing. Some minor full freehand, though mostly just for cleaning stuff up.
This is my latest piece of art. Been working on it over the last couple weeks (colouring took ages for being so simple).
Done pretty much entirely from references/tracing. Some minor full freehand, though mostly just for cleaning stuff up.
September 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Toasta Trainer Burt Wants to Battle!
This is my latest piece of art. Been working on it over the last couple weeks (colouring took ages for being so simple).
Done pretty much entirely from references/tracing. Some minor full freehand, though mostly just for cleaning stuff up.
This is my latest piece of art. Been working on it over the last couple weeks (colouring took ages for being so simple).
Done pretty much entirely from references/tracing. Some minor full freehand, though mostly just for cleaning stuff up.
I am the kind of lucky who puts headphones in when I go to the shops, get back to the car and can't find the case, then see it sitting lodged under the wheel of the car beside me that had been there the entire time...
September 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I am the kind of lucky who puts headphones in when I go to the shops, get back to the car and can't find the case, then see it sitting lodged under the wheel of the car beside me that had been there the entire time...
One of my favourite things about writing my first drafts out behind is seeing the different pens used as I go, and watching them slowly die.
It's like a weird version of sedimentary rock layers.
It's like a weird version of sedimentary rock layers.
September 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
One of my favourite things about writing my first drafts out behind is seeing the different pens used as I go, and watching them slowly die.
It's like a weird version of sedimentary rock layers.
It's like a weird version of sedimentary rock layers.
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Just a periodic reminder that it's a good idea to bookmark your favorite artists' sites, sign up for their newsletters, and follow them everywhere you can. (My links are in my profile & pinned post!). Because of the current climate of censorship you never know where we'll get kicked off of next.
August 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Just a periodic reminder that it's a good idea to bookmark your favorite artists' sites, sign up for their newsletters, and follow them everywhere you can. (My links are in my profile & pinned post!). Because of the current climate of censorship you never know where we'll get kicked off of next.
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One of my first big comics was Faith from Valiant, an Eisner-nominated book that was positive & inclusive. The Bloodshot news from last week was beyond disappointing.
So for one week, I'll donate all profits from Faith shop sales to Trans Lifeline. And take 15% off Valiant with the code "LIFELINE".
So for one week, I'll donate all profits from Faith shop sales to Trans Lifeline. And take 15% off Valiant with the code "LIFELINE".
August 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One of my first big comics was Faith from Valiant, an Eisner-nominated book that was positive & inclusive. The Bloodshot news from last week was beyond disappointing.
So for one week, I'll donate all profits from Faith shop sales to Trans Lifeline. And take 15% off Valiant with the code "LIFELINE".
So for one week, I'll donate all profits from Faith shop sales to Trans Lifeline. And take 15% off Valiant with the code "LIFELINE".
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August 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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DEATH OF THE HEART IS OUT!!!! 🥳🎉🎊✨
I am so hyped to share this with the world!!! Hands down the best musical project I’ve done so far! A special record, and I appreciate everyone who helped make it possible, everyone who bought - copy, and everyone giving it a listen!!!!
I am so hyped to share this with the world!!! Hands down the best musical project I’ve done so far! A special record, and I appreciate everyone who helped make it possible, everyone who bought - copy, and everyone giving it a listen!!!!
August 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
DEATH OF THE HEART IS OUT!!!! 🥳🎉🎊✨
I am so hyped to share this with the world!!! Hands down the best musical project I’ve done so far! A special record, and I appreciate everyone who helped make it possible, everyone who bought - copy, and everyone giving it a listen!!!!
I am so hyped to share this with the world!!! Hands down the best musical project I’ve done so far! A special record, and I appreciate everyone who helped make it possible, everyone who bought - copy, and everyone giving it a listen!!!!
This. We don't even have the best copyright protections for individuals and they still find it too unfair to the rich who can, apparently, only make money by stealing.
If your industry requires theft to work then it deserves to collapse on itself.
If your industry requires theft to work then it deserves to collapse on itself.
When they say 'copyright reform', they mean, 'convincing governments to change the law to make it legal to steal from artists, so billionaires don't have to pay'.
Australia is stuck in the “worst of possible worlds” when it comes to AI and the use of local data, according to Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood, arguing that reforms to copyright law could help Australian companies compete globally and strengthen the local AI industry.
Read more:
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August 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This. We don't even have the best copyright protections for individuals and they still find it too unfair to the rich who can, apparently, only make money by stealing.
If your industry requires theft to work then it deserves to collapse on itself.
If your industry requires theft to work then it deserves to collapse on itself.
Trying to work out the outfits characters will wear to prom for my comic WIP has really hammered in two things-
1- How uninteresting 'masculine' outfits tend to be.
2- How internalised the idea that 'feminine' outfits have to all be different from each other is.
1- How uninteresting 'masculine' outfits tend to be.
2- How internalised the idea that 'feminine' outfits have to all be different from each other is.
August 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Trying to work out the outfits characters will wear to prom for my comic WIP has really hammered in two things-
1- How uninteresting 'masculine' outfits tend to be.
2- How internalised the idea that 'feminine' outfits have to all be different from each other is.
1- How uninteresting 'masculine' outfits tend to be.
2- How internalised the idea that 'feminine' outfits have to all be different from each other is.
Was gonna make some dumb joke about how this FB 'memory' is nothing, but then realised that's most of my actual memories...
August 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Was gonna make some dumb joke about how this FB 'memory' is nothing, but then realised that's most of my actual memories...
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one of Bendis’ admiral traits as an up-and-comer: he was no kind of virtuoso and yet he figured out how to make do with the limited art skills he had to get it done, and wrote to his limitations. people still read Jinx, and Torso.
he then built a writing style around his artistic limitations, and 🤷🏻♀️
he then built a writing style around his artistic limitations, and 🤷🏻♀️
Brian Michael Bendis made his first story, jinx, by taking photos of people and then turning those into comics. It's essentially a fumetti, a photo comic. That's a pretty great answer for making comics photorealistically that people can admire for its ingenuity
August 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
one of Bendis’ admiral traits as an up-and-comer: he was no kind of virtuoso and yet he figured out how to make do with the limited art skills he had to get it done, and wrote to his limitations. people still read Jinx, and Torso.
he then built a writing style around his artistic limitations, and 🤷🏻♀️
he then built a writing style around his artistic limitations, and 🤷🏻♀️
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Dungeons and Daddies S3; EP31 is now LIVE. it’s all gone a bit Lichtenstein and 2/4’s of The Guttural Screams stage a daring arial rescue with the magic of PHYSICS
www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/episodes/s3e31
follow the Dad’s on Bsky; @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social
#art #dnd #ttrpg
www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/episodes/s3e31
follow the Dad’s on Bsky; @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social
#art #dnd #ttrpg
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Dungeons and Daddies S3; EP31 is now LIVE. it’s all gone a bit Lichtenstein and 2/4’s of The Guttural Screams stage a daring arial rescue with the magic of PHYSICS
www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/episodes/s3e31
follow the Dad’s on Bsky; @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social
#art #dnd #ttrpg
www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/episodes/s3e31
follow the Dad’s on Bsky; @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social
#art #dnd #ttrpg
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okay here we go DRAW A BIRD CHALLENGE y'all! right now, with your own hands, no fukken "A.i." it's fine if it's bad! bad is good because you did it on your own and had fun and learned something and made something literally only you could have!
#DrawABird
#DrawABird
Bird
August 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
okay here we go DRAW A BIRD CHALLENGE y'all! right now, with your own hands, no fukken "A.i." it's fine if it's bad! bad is good because you did it on your own and had fun and learned something and made something literally only you could have!
#DrawABird
#DrawABird
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I also have to show the Script Club image I made. How could anyone resist joining this club?
August 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I also have to show the Script Club image I made. How could anyone resist joining this club?
Finished* the 3rd draft if the first issue/chapter of my big comic WIP yesterday (*by hand anyway, still need to type most up). Did it on break at work and one of my coworkers asked me about why I was rewriting at all (they don't understand drafts) and-
August 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Finished* the 3rd draft if the first issue/chapter of my big comic WIP yesterday (*by hand anyway, still need to type most up). Did it on break at work and one of my coworkers asked me about why I was rewriting at all (they don't understand drafts) and-