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Taurin Clarke

@muaadib

“Blacker than a landlord’s soul” Brooklyn based illustrator Cover artist At Marvel, DC, BOOM! And others

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They really don’t, but I’m glad YOU do lol. Thank you!

04.03.2026 04:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you kindly.

25.11.2025 15:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GREEN ARROW issue thirty-one - our final issue - is on FOC this Monday. I put a lot of myself into this standalone one-shot story, so I hope people will pick it up. Covers by the great @muaadib.bsky.social & @skyepatridge.bsky.social. It's been an absolute honor to write this book. 💚💚

22.11.2025 18:51 👍 56 🔁 19 💬 7 📌 4

Yeah one is great but two is SUBLIME

23.09.2025 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

OOOOOOFT. This is brilliant!!!!

23.09.2025 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nah I don’t take it that way, so you certainly shouldn’t.

We were only supposed to have 7 issues and look how far we came!

Ive been on books that ended before; you just move onto the next.

I’ve got some insane stuff coming down soon and I’m hyped to share when I can.

Thank you for the support.

23.09.2025 20:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I cannot stress what a life-changing book this was for me. Absolutely proud and blessed to have been able to contribute.

BIG thanks to @christophcondon.bsky.social for trusting the vision.

21.09.2025 23:39 👍 43 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Almost forgot: Inari's kitsune! Inari's skulk consists of Yako (one-tail), Zenko (two-tail), & Tenko (three-tail). This is based on the mythological concept that the more tails a fox had, the older/wiser/stronger it was. This idea is loosely reflected in Inari's foxes.

24.08.2025 19:06 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Since Monika is blasian (Japanese father, black mother). For those who don't know, when you design black characters, it's very easy for things like skin tone & hair texture to get lost in translations. That's why Taurin adding these specifics into Inari's character sheet is so necessary.

24.08.2025 18:58 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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The great thing about Taurin is his first drafts are so good you really only have to mix 'n match your favorite things! I ended up going with option 3 w/ the note of shrinking her hip slits as we didn't want to inadvertently sexualize her. After that it was mostly finding the fight mask look.

24.08.2025 18:51 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Design-wise, I sent so many images to Taurin & my editor TOm over the course of '24 that it'd be impossible post them all here, but the main influences were Yuffie, Ibuki and Kimberley from Street Fighter. These influences are reflected in Inari's first designs

24.08.2025 18:47 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Her creation came about summer '24 after I got Covid & finally had time to play FF7 Rebirth. She is heavily inspired by Yuffie, one of my all-time favorite characters . I had been wanting to do more detective stories w/ Miles, and a young, fun, ninja thief seemed like the perfect fit for our series.

24.08.2025 18:44 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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I co-created Inari with the immensely talented @muaadib.bsky.social (we also co-created the Ellie Deadpool design!). Inari is a Japanese-American, super-theif, with the mutant power to manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum, which she uses to create hardlight foxes.

24.08.2025 18:36 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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I'm sitting in the Toronto airport, sleep-deprived & exhausted from spending the past 5 days going feral at Fan Expo/pushing the limits of the city's nightlife. So I figured now would be a perfect time to do a character breakdown of Monika Mori aka Inari, who will be appearing in MMSM 37 this week!

24.08.2025 18:31 👍 54 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 0

Only 11 days left to preorder Temporal issue 1 by @stephwilliams.bsky.social, art by @asiahfulmore.bsky.social, colors by @djcolorscomics.bsky.social, letters by @beccasee.bsky.social! Cover A by @muaadib.bsky.social and cover B by @kharyrandolph.bsky.social! www.lotuslandcomics.com/2025/08/pre-...

04.09.2025 12:36 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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THE MARVEL ART OF TAURIN CLARKE Kickstarter is live!

Over 184 pages of dynamic cover art and some never seen before illustrations!

Packed with behind the scenes content
Process shots
Exclusive Kickstarter rewards

This is not one to miss!

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29.07.2025 15:46 👍 97 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 3

I haven’t been to that theater since it became the nighthawk! I gotta get over there.

Great shot by the way!

02.06.2025 03:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Jeeeeeeezus Christ. Amazing!

27.05.2025 22:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yall really don’t understand how hard Taurin Clarke cooked with this Inari design.cant wait to do a breakdown for her.

21.05.2025 19:01 👍 93 🔁 35 💬 10 📌 4

Best collaboration, best result!!!

22.05.2025 18:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Much appreciated Tom!!!

13.05.2025 12:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In stores today, DEADPOOL # 14. The penultimate issue of our run.

This is probably my favorite cover of the bunch.

08.05.2025 04:03 👍 82 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

Hey, you know I’m a huge fan of your work… but I’m an even bigger and unrelenting of Star Wars, so know I meaaaaans that shit haha.

It feels like the first time I read anything EU for the first time as a kid… fresh, exciting and full of mystery. Great stuff.

07.05.2025 16:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Read it last night- amazing start, dude.

07.05.2025 16:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The lack of media literacy (amongst all the other more horrible things) with these people is strong. Thank you for this lol.

05.05.2025 00:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for the very kind words AND insights. I think with GA we have a great team, thanks to our editor …and he’s always given me space to do what feels right with our book. it’s very collaborative and that helps elevate the final product. I’m glad it’s resonating with folks.

23.04.2025 18:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you.

23.04.2025 18:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The final showdown between Ollie and The Fresshwater Killer goes down now in GREEN ARROW # 23! In stores today!

23.04.2025 18:13 👍 52 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
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Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.

Really not good

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

22.04.2025 17:22 👍 5837 🔁 1518 💬 332 📌 112

this is basically just a big plan to impoverish the united states

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