Mel Gillman

@mgillman.bsky.social

2022

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Queer comics maker, colored pencil artist, and all-around woods gremlin. Author of As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreams, and Other Ever Afters. They/them.

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Well this is some really cool shit!

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This is incredibly awful: apnews.com/article/marc... Please sign the petition to stop Missouri's execution of an innocent man: innocenceproject.org/petitions/st...

Stop the Sept. 24 Execution of Marcellus Williams, an Innocent Man - Innocence Projectinnocenceproject.org DNA evidence not available at the time of trial proves his innocence but has not been considered in court. Act today.

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Hello new followers. If you like werewolf-western-horror-romances, then here's an Ignatz award-winning comic that *I* invented and that *you* can buy and pay me enough to keep drawing: www.olivia-stephens.com#/darlin/ www.patreon.com/oliveoilcorp

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Another neighborhood find, id’ed thanks to @mgillman.bsky.social’s zine (ko-fi.com/s/6c16d1553e), turned into Sichuan puffball saute!

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knowing what we're paid empowers everyone and helps us push publishers to raise their absolutely abysmal wages 🗣️✨✨we deserve to get paid what we're worth!!

It's time for the 2024 Comics Worker Survey for US workers! Pay transparency is crucial to uncovering patterns in pay inequity & learning what publishers and clients can ACTUALLY pay us. Submit your info and encourage your peers to do the same! cartoonist.coop/2024USsurvey (art by Phil McAndrew)

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Honest to God: this is an accessible, reasonably thorough overview you can share with your mom that also does a solid job shooting down the campaign’s attempts to distance themselves from the plan

PEOPLE Magazine! What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Education people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

accidental covid gender affirmation

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Short Run Comics Festival is offering 5 paid apprenticeships for comics students aged 15-19! shortrun.org/mini-comics-...

Mini-Comics Apprenticeships - Short Runshortrun.org Five paid apprenticeships are available, beginning in August and running through October (nine Saturday afternoon sessions, exact dates listed in the application). Students will learn about the histor...

covid finally got my ass after successfully dodging it for 4 1/2 years, and this is my summary of the experience so far:

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“23rd Street Books, the grown-up sister imprint of Macmillan’s eclectic graphic novel powerhouse, First Second Books, will launch next year with graphic novels from Gene Luen Yang, Damon Wayans Jr., Saul Williams, Ben Hatke, and more.”— Publisher’s Weekly www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

23rd Street Books Hits the Road at Macmillanwww.publishersweekly.com The grown-up sister imprint of Macmillan’s eclectic graphic novel powerhouse, First Second Books, will launch next year with graphic novels from Gene Luen Yang, Damon Wayans Jr., Saul Williams, Ben Ha...

Absolutely ANNOYING how much better my pencils get in direct proportion to how many reference images I look up >:|

I finally timed milkweed pod foraging season right! Fried up a couple small pods as a test and they’re really good :9

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IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! If you're a U.S.-based comics creative - aspiring, working, or otherwise - and you do ONE thing to help out your fellow creators this year, let it be filling this survey out!

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This but unironically.

A bunch of people recently have told me I’d love The Summer Hikaru Died, and you know what??? you all were correct. gold stars for everyone. thank you

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For anyone doing this: USPS prices are going up on July 14th. Postcard stamps are going up from 53¢ to 56¢, & regular stamps are going up by 5¢. I think you can order them at the old prices from USPS until the 13th. USPS sells one variety of 'forever' postcard stamp: store.usps.com/store/produc...

I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

This summer heat really is something else…anyway, anybody know how to unmelt a plastic ruler

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If you're in NY and can sign this, please do. Masks bans will not combat antisemitism, they will just put disabled people at risk. We can and must do better. www.jewsformaskrights.com

Jews for Mask Rightswww.jewsformaskrights.com

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After month of public outcry, NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundays

NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundaysgothamist.com In November, the mayor's budget cuts forced libraries to close on Sundays. The issue has been a thorn in his side ever since.

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Keep support, donate, share Now there is only 1,830 euros left until the halfway point Anything will make a difference gofund.me/7c433301 #gaza #freepalestine #palestine #help #support #fundaiser #evacuate #rescue #war #genocide

On the drawing board tonight ✏️

thank u @pseudonymjones.bsky.social for declaring today #makeaterriblecomicday2024 and allowing me to tell this story

"Claudia, in an impossible afternoon light..." (i'm not okay 🥲)

Kiddos on the drawing board today

After IWTV, if Delainey Hayles does not live out the rest of her days able to choose whatever theatrical role she wants with the ease of picking a new shirt out of a catalog, we go on the warpath

I’m finally reading @chaseprairie.bsky.social’s comics dissertation on prairie ecology and restoration, and am loving it so far. Highly recommended for midwesterners and ecology-lovers of all sorts: www.etsy.com/listing/1721...

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Completely unrelated, my first solo writer credit, Mighty Nein: Origins Caduceus Clay came out yesterday! It's a story about death, being alone at the looming end, who leaves and who is left behind. It turned out so so beautiful and I hope you enjoy it. bookshop.org/p/books/crit...