Ian Reed

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Artist, Designer, & Cartoonist. I post about history, art, pro-wrestling, Tottenham Hotspur, and comics. Opinions my own.

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Elizabeth Sorrell, Ferns in the Conservatory, 1945 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1114556

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Another of my favorites #FromTheInspirationFolder Hermann Vogel (1854-1921) created the most wonderful worlds, chock-full of charming details and intricate linework. Just such a perfect example of the utter magic of drawing.

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Hey you! 🫵 Comics enjoyer! Don't you wish there was a way to get every comic that Silver Sprocket publishes delivered to you without having to think about it? Well NOW there is!! Help yourself to the best new indie comics with a Silver Sprocket membership! store.silversprocket.net/collections/...

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If you are thinking about making a comic, consider that you can print 50 issues of a 24 page greyscale A4 comic on 50lb uncoated paper with a colour cover and staple binding for $165

The other Western indie comic killer is the expectation that A) to stand out your comic must be in colour and B) you can’t sell your comic until you have 300 page library omnibus editions ready to go

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There's a lot of gorgeous merchandise at the anime shows, and incredible skill: but they're not telling stories. If you wanna find good stories and storytellers, you go to zine shows in North America. Those are the cheap tables and the ones that are making comics.

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Every once in a while Desperado will do a perfect German suplex out of nowhere, and it reminds me that the guy who taught Desperado to do a German suplex learned how to do one from the guy who invented them. #njpw

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Still from Excalibur '81 | Armor by Terry English

Sexually Suggestive

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Here’s some math courtesy of Nate Powell to keep in mind when signing that graphic novel deal. #comics

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I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.

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Posting art or announcements on Threads feels like throwing a pile of stuff into a bottomless pit.

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Alexander Calder, Comb, before 1943 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136769

Lmao enjoyed drawing this mimic

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AdBlock Plus is all fine and dandy but what we really need is AI-Block Plus

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This extremely wonderful article running down all the typography in ALIEN will help you start your week off right

Alientypesetinthefuture.com My third post about typography in sci-fi has been gestating for a while now. Indeed, it's been slowly taking shape – you might say it's been forming itself inside of me – for really quite some time. I...

Working on a small module w my buddy Dan and naturally overdoing it

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Adobe furiously backtracks.

Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ workwww.theverge.com The company is trying to win back trust after last week’s backlash.

Little dungeons action

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Alien (1979): The Leviathan's bridge & computer room, early art by Elliot Scott With the "Snark", the "Leviathan" was one of the early names of the USCSS Nostromo.

Had a great time visiting Saratoga this weekend w my fam

Sally’s been puttin in the work

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It's a shame that cinema's grand return to horniness appears to be led by Yorgos Lanthimos making movies like The Erotic Adventures of Edwina Scissorhands

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Obviously this is a really high profile case, but it's hard to convey to people in other professions how much professional artists have to constantly deal with people who covet their work, who seek to profit from it, but don't believe the artist should be paid for it. edition.cnn.com/2024/05/22/t...

Why OpenAI should fear a Scarlett Johansson lawsuit | CNN Businessedition.cnn.com Could Scarlett Johansson sue OpenAI for creating a voice assistant that sounds like the actor’s performance in the 2013 film “Her,” about a man who falls in love with an artificial intelligence?

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"Despite battling a fever and being on the brink of death, Plato...retained enough lucidity to critique the musician [an enslaved Thracian girl] for her lack of rhythm, the account suggests." he died as he lived www.theguardian.com/books/2024/a...

Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ashwww.theguardian.com Newly deciphered passages outline Greek philosopher’s burial place and describe critique of slave musician

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4' 33" has fallen

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Romita Jr, man

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Remains of a long gone exoplanet civilization. Quick sketch with digital color overlay. #scifi #scifiart #alien

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It’s so funny how, of all the great prescient dystopian scifi films of the ‘70s, the one that hit closest to the mark is the tagline to ZARDOZ.

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John Piper, St Mary le Port, Bristol, 1940 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1114408

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A little announcement - the pre-launch page for REFUGIUM, the Griz Grobus sequel, is now live on kickstarter ! SIGN UP HERE to be first up when it launches: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gri...

Coming soon: REFUGIUM - (A Hardcover Graphic Novel)www.kickstarter.com A journey to an ancient pocket of alien life, on a terraformed world... and a sprawling guidebook to the lost life-forms of the planet!

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Bless this actual fucking hero

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