@allisonmotoole
Editor of Ignatz & Eisner award-winning books. Publisher of @balustradepress.bsky.social. Kickstarter Community Advisory Council Member. She/her. icon by @sophiepaaslang.bsky.social, banner art by @mkchibs.bsky.social | learn more: www.allisonotoole.com
One cool thing about The Comics Staple, is that the plan (for now) is to go totally DIY with the whole thing! That means printing, folding, stapling, and mailing from my garage!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
I'll be at TCAF just walking around and probably doing a panel or two!
Mutuals if you're coming to the show and want to hang out, lmk!! I'd be happy to show you the town
would any meows like a commission so i can pay for my tcaf table >w> the emails went out late so the payment is due in like 2 weeks...
It's Eid in a few weeks, and Abdullah wants to buy food and new clothes for his family. Please share and donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/save-me-an...
cropped preview of a digital artwork showing two women, a painter and her muse. In in the main scene, the painter is leaning forward to brush some hair away from the muse's face. In the frame, the painter is kissing the muse's face as she pulls forward a curtain.
The kickstarter for We have always been here is now live!! If you'd like a book full of gorgeous queer art and joy, please check it out 💕
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...
Thank you again @taplingzines.bsky.social for having me!
Watercolor, gouache and colored pencil study of a terracota bust of the virgin mary from ca. 1390–95, pen doodles of stars, fish, an apple and a bird around it
Watercolor, gouache and colored pencil study of a terracota bust of the virgin mary from ca. 1390–95
The cover of the zine! In the centre is a screenshot from The Shape of Water of a woman with her hands against a tank containing a humanoid fish man. They look at each other longingly through the glass. The Title of the zine is: So you've seen The Shape of Water...A beginner's guide to monster kissing movies
screenshot from Tsui Hark's Green Snake. Two women in are sitting very close to each other in the grass, surrounded by huge flowers. One, in a pink dress, looks down, deep in thought. The other, in a teal dress, looks at her sister in concern
A screenshot from Agnieszka Smoczynska's The Lure. Three mermaids are snuggled together on a dingy grey bed beneath a disco ball (it's a weird movie). The one in the middle wears a dramatic red wig, and holds the other, younger mermaids protectively. The younger ones are suckling from the older one's breasts.
Screenshot from Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. Belle, a beautiful young woman, looks in a mirror, listening intently as the cat-like beast, in flamboyant dress and cape, holds up a key and gives her instructions on how to return to her family.
In a fit of procrastination, I did a new copy edit on this zine from last year; I forgot to share it for Valentine's Day, but if you're still looking for love, you can download my Beginner's Guide to Monster Kissing movies for PWYC on Gumroad! allisonotoole.gumroad.com/l/monster-ki...
Ah even from checking the previews on that one, I can see that it, too, requires a fresh copy edit... ah, well....
My zine about odd museums is also still up for PWYC~ allisonotoole.gumroad.com/l/museum-zine
The cover of the zine! In the centre is a screenshot from The Shape of Water of a woman with her hands against a tank containing a humanoid fish man. They look at each other longingly through the glass. The Title of the zine is: So you've seen The Shape of Water...A beginner's guide to monster kissing movies
screenshot from Tsui Hark's Green Snake. Two women in are sitting very close to each other in the grass, surrounded by huge flowers. One, in a pink dress, looks down, deep in thought. The other, in a teal dress, looks at her sister in concern
A screenshot from Agnieszka Smoczynska's The Lure. Three mermaids are snuggled together on a dingy grey bed beneath a disco ball (it's a weird movie). The one in the middle wears a dramatic red wig, and holds the other, younger mermaids protectively. The younger ones are suckling from the older one's breasts.
Screenshot from Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. Belle, a beautiful young woman, looks in a mirror, listening intently as the cat-like beast, in flamboyant dress and cape, holds up a key and gives her instructions on how to return to her family.
In a fit of procrastination, I did a new copy edit on this zine from last year; I forgot to share it for Valentine's Day, but if you're still looking for love, you can download my Beginner's Guide to Monster Kissing movies for PWYC on Gumroad! allisonotoole.gumroad.com/l/monster-ki...
A Siren wearing clothes with a messy updo bun of dark hair is gracefully posed in the mirror with her head tilted away and eyes closed. Her hand is cupping the head of an invisible figure. Two streams of dark liquid flow from dots on her neck. The mirror she poses in is antique brass and silver and very ornate
Siren Posing in Mirror With Vampire Girlfriend
Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2026! 🎉
This is our second ever #MSWL Day on Bluesky. We’re happy you’re here!
You can, as of TODAY, search Bluesky and ManuscriptWishList.com posts at once: manuscriptwishlist.com/smart-search. All posts are verified by a human who works in publishing. ☕
Indie/webcomic/self-published and minicomic folks: there are Eisner categories for best short story, best one-shot, best digital comic, and best webcomic.
SUBMIT 👏🏼 YOUR 👏🏼 WORK 👏🏼
(but do it quick, deadline is 13 March)
The Rumpus is open again for submissions! Send us your previously unpublished emotionally resonant comics 💖
A shot from phantom of the opera of phantom and Christine kissing, with big yellow text reading “need ACHIEVED” and a party emoji
Text reading “Toxic Romance Roulette! Describe a problem in your life. How could someone solve that problem for you, if all morality was out the window?”
A shitty doodle of a blushing stick figure reading “you (winsome li’l human)” and a little devil waving with one bloody arm, labeled “sexy evil thing that just did you a solid”
no-context images I made for a slideshow in my genre fic class today
Wow this is very relatable content to me
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A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone
I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…
An Exclusive looki inside the western graphic novel Cave Grave: Wild West Tales by Shawn Kuruneru from Oni Press #graphicnovel
2 hour delay on transmission.
"Free Palestine" -censored.
Poor guy who says the thing he fears saying most as a tic?
Top tier performers having racial spurs shouted at them?
Uncensored.
And of course the story is now about Black vs disabled as opposed to the amazing achievements.
One thing we don’t do well, societally or interpersonally, is digest harms when there really isn’t anyone to blame.
Being called a n*gger on international television in front of your peers is a harm.
Having a disability that creates that harm through no choice of your own is a harm.
New Zine on How to be a good leader as modeled by Kermit the Frog! Up on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...
I have a feeling the guys on LinkedIn are gonna love this..
I WISH Kaori had been able to secure the gold, I'm still gutted about it, but I'm also truly thrilled for Alysa--what a fantastic ambassador for the sport! Both women, and Amber Glenn, have been at the forefront of modelling a much healthier women's field than we saw at the last Olympics! My loves 💕
100%-If I hadnt made Adult Romance (thanks gumroad for banning it!!!) theres no chance @henrybarajas.bsky.social would have seen my work, let alone put me on Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco with him.
Its a cliche but its true, make the work you wanna make in order to someday do this professionally.
Congrats Neil!! This is going to be a classic in comics studies and craft!
Neil's research is on how understanding and reading comics (or sequential imagery) is a cognitive skill and process not unlike learning and reading a language. It's interesting stuff - worth a read for us working cartoonists
A shirt design/illustration of icicles looking like a cage, behind which several children are trapped and crying. The text reads "ICE IS INHUMANE"
A shirt design to raise money against ICE! www.bonfire.com/ice-is-inhum...
Proceeds from this shirt will go directly to NorCal Resist www.norcalresist.org
ABOLISH ICE
I just got my annual Public Lending Right cheque for Because Internet from the Canada Council for the Arts, so permit me a thread about what the public lending right is and why you should request books you love from public libraries!
The link to the kickstarter is here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi...