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Joel Jacob Barker

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Comic book writer doodling his way thru zines, such self-published titles like MARSHALL’S NOT SO MELLOW (now sold at Final Boss Comics & Games, NJ). www.jojabarker.com

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Thank you 🙏 Already got great inspiration and can’t wait for more — from y’all 🤩

04.03.2026 22:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You’re welcome — so glad to have @finalbosscomics.bsky.social put in a good word for y’all 🤩 Looking forward to more 🙌

04.03.2026 22:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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…not to mention @nickdragotta.bsky.social & @calebgoellner.bsky.social GHOST CAGE — I even returned to @finalbosscomics.bsky.social the following week to transfuse my newfound, rediscovered Cosmic (re)Charge back into the very generator from which conducted said Comic Book Energy — ty!!1!

04.03.2026 05:15 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Between rereading @remender.bsky.social SEVEN TO ETERNITY and @ashcanpress.com 4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK my drift away from comics is subsiding…

04.03.2026 05:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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#InTheStacks at @thirdeyecomics.bsky.social Episode 11 - Matthew Rosenberg ( @ashcanpress.com )!

New Episodes of The Stacks Every Tuesday. Watch the Rest: youtu.be/1Z9xS7oyncU?...

03.03.2026 15:01 👍 38 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 7

who could have seen AI become weaponized by a corrupt government, except for literally everyone, as well as decades of science fiction

28.02.2026 16:27 👍 719 🔁 175 💬 4 📌 1
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

27.02.2026 20:16 👍 3856 🔁 3249 💬 2 📌 69

If today felt unproductive, remember: Rest is part of the workflow. Always has been. 🖌️💙

24.02.2026 03:00 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Happy #coloristappreciationday!!! Here's a TON of AMAZING colorists here on Bluesky for you to follow! bsky.app/starter-pack...

24.01.2025 16:31 👍 127 🔁 56 💬 5 📌 3
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Voting opens for the inaugural Zelda Awards, honoring women in comics "By us. For us. Celebrating the outstanding achievements of women in comic book culture."

Voting opens for the inaugural Zelda Awards, honoring women in comics

"By us. For us. Celebrating the outstanding achievements of women in comic book culture."

18.02.2026 21:02 👍 76 🔁 45 💬 3 📌 11

I look good in purple 😘

20.02.2026 03:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brilliant timing, Great Celestial Bodies of Alignment — I needed this more than you’re ever know 🙇‍♂️

20.02.2026 03:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

…in other news, my son and I are really enjoying #WonderMan 🤩 /fin

17.02.2026 03:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My social media consumption has been restricted to YouTube for a while now, but also since I switched from Android to Apple I’ve had most, if not all(!), platforms on my phone close to half a year and this is the first time I’m posting some’m “significant”… 1/

17.02.2026 03:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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WTF is a Podcast with Marc Maron – The Graphic Novel Marc Maron, Brian Box Brown & Z2 present: WTF is a Podcast, the official graphic novel of the WTF Podcast.

one more day to get in on the @marcmaron.bsky.social WTF IS A PODCAST graphic novel kickystarty www.kickstarter.com/projects/z2c...

02.10.2025 15:21 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
a spread for a comics page, black background, with white panel borders and most the drawings white on black. upper left of the spread, a swirl of the start of a star - emanating out from it in radiating arms, a number of different paths in brick-like interconnected panel border shapes. First radiating down and to the left the life of a brown dwarf - which never quite becomes a start. the next branch goes mostly down - a red dwarf which burns longer than the current life of the universe, but the path forks near the bottom, because some of these alternately flare up during their life. the next path is a dwarf star - much like our own - which is stable until it puffs up late in its life, then burst off much of its material to become a white dwarf. Here the path forks - in one branch it lives on as a white dwarf and nebula, in the other, when it has a partner star, it steals material from it and eventually becomes a type 1A supernova. Overlaid a bit on this set of paths and the red dwarf is an example of a binary star system and a six star system. Emanating from the middle of these paths from upper left and going across the spine of the book to the lower right, is a path filled with galaxies - the path loses its border in the middle showing a collection of galaxies. Upper right path is a blue super giant as we move right it goes nova becoming in one forking path a black hole, in another a spinning neutron star - and that forks to either continue or if paired, collide to go supernova and create heavy elements. Middle of right side, molecules formed by chemistry with these atoms forged in stars. new swirls form, and then we see another generation of stars in a grid set of panels and the Planets! formed around them. This is a generational cycle and the text reflects that

a spread for a comics page, black background, with white panel borders and most the drawings white on black. upper left of the spread, a swirl of the start of a star - emanating out from it in radiating arms, a number of different paths in brick-like interconnected panel border shapes. First radiating down and to the left the life of a brown dwarf - which never quite becomes a start. the next branch goes mostly down - a red dwarf which burns longer than the current life of the universe, but the path forks near the bottom, because some of these alternately flare up during their life. the next path is a dwarf star - much like our own - which is stable until it puffs up late in its life, then burst off much of its material to become a white dwarf. Here the path forks - in one branch it lives on as a white dwarf and nebula, in the other, when it has a partner star, it steals material from it and eventually becomes a type 1A supernova. Overlaid a bit on this set of paths and the red dwarf is an example of a binary star system and a six star system. Emanating from the middle of these paths from upper left and going across the spine of the book to the lower right, is a path filled with galaxies - the path loses its border in the middle showing a collection of galaxies. Upper right path is a blue super giant as we move right it goes nova becoming in one forking path a black hole, in another a spinning neutron star - and that forks to either continue or if paired, collide to go supernova and create heavy elements. Middle of right side, molecules formed by chemistry with these atoms forged in stars. new swirls form, and then we see another generation of stars in a grid set of panels and the Planets! formed around them. This is a generational cycle and the text reflects that

Finished spread! The lives of different types of stars, the various ways they give back all they had taken in changed, and the new forms they give rise to! This took me some time to say the least! It's a lively place out there! On to the next spread (finale of this chapter!!)
#Nostos #Unflattening 2

20.09.2025 16:23 👍 279 🔁 80 💬 9 📌 11

MICE, Dec 6th-7th

Boston University

micexpo.org

MICE, Dec 6th-7th Boston University micexpo.org

Raina Telgemeier is the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning creator of Smile, Sisters, and Guts, which are all graphic memoirs based on her childhood. She is also the creator of Drama and Ghosts, the adapter and illustrator of the first four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels

24.09.2025 19:02 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Orange promotional graphic for event featuring Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud on Oct 21 at 6 PM. Headshots of the speakers are included with the book cover for "The Cartoonists Club."

Orange promotional graphic for event featuring Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud on Oct 21 at 6 PM. Headshots of the speakers are included with the book cover for "The Cartoonists Club."

10/21 at 6 PM | Best-selling authors Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud come together to discuss the unique power of comics and their new graphic novel, The Cartoonists Club.

🎟️ Get tickets: buff.ly/UZswhPx

27.09.2025 19:00 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us this Saturday 10/4 as we host our 2nd annual #FinalBoss #ComicFest / Trick or Read event.

There will be free comics, sales, and local indie comic creators to check out.

Stop on by, support the arts, and have fun!

#FinalBossComics #FinalBoss

02.10.2025 00:03 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Growing up to make Funny Books.

15.05.2025 20:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haven't listened to this since Groove Shark was a thing! open.spotify.com/track/6fX7s3...

16.02.2024 22:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2 (series) finale's I'm carrying with me:

Loki AND Doom Patrol

I love me a good character arc of a super selfish, self-centered figure right-sizing themselves to be present in what counts!

Go "Tin Man"!!!

(...oh, and "Time God" 😘)

16.11.2023 04:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New Cryptid Creator Corner podcast
@jimmygaspero.bsky.social is chatting with Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz and Ryan Best about their crowdfunding capes comics project RISE.
This cover y’all… .
🎧 - apple.co/47xeRIl

14.11.2023 20:53 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy New Comic Book Day, it's the FINALE!

Pushing through all those negative thoughts, all of the discomfort, making Comics no-matter-what and discovering, "To thine own self be true!"

#jojabarker #Cartoonist #MakingCoimcs #OnePanelAtATime #NCBD #Webcomics #Mascot #BeTrueToYourself

15.11.2023 15:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Timely Comics bullpen, card game, 1948

Timely Comics bullpen, card game, 1948

Timely Comics, 1948. Poker game after work.

Note they've flattened out a drawing table on which to play cards.

Artie Simek, front, facing the camera. Syd Shores back center. Right of him is David Jaffee, Al's kid brother. Al worked at Timely, too.

10.11.2023 12:07 👍 106 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 0
Bitches on Comics graphic for Episode 171: Equally if not more nonbinary featuring Ben Kahn

Bitches on Comics graphic for Episode 171: Equally if not more nonbinary featuring Ben Kahn

I had so much fun talking to the Bitches on Comics podcast about my new middle grade novel Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend! We get into nonbinary storytelling, creating power sets, Riverdale, more Riverdale, and so much more! Tune in where you get #podcasts. bitchesoncomics.com/episode-171-...

14.11.2023 19:35 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Happy A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

Happy A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

14.11.2023 09:06 👍 3576 🔁 1682 💬 40 📌 63
A screenshot of the DSTLRY hall map, with our logo pointing to our table

A screenshot of the DSTLRY hall map, with our logo pointing to our table

It’s almost @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social time! You can find us in DSTLRY hall, D13! See you there, chums!

06.11.2023 10:53 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
New Cryptid Creator Corner comics interview podcast drop with WordBros Bob Frantz and Kevin Cuffe chatting about their new Nad Cave Studios project Skeeters

New Cryptid Creator Corner comics interview podcast drop with WordBros Bob Frantz and Kevin Cuffe chatting about their new Nad Cave Studios project Skeeters

New Cryptid Creator Corner podcast 💧
@jimmygaspero.bsky.social is chatting with @kevincuff.bsky.social and Bob Frantz about their new @madcavestudios.bsky.social projects Skeeters
🎧 - apple.co/47kDmbR

03.11.2023 20:14 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Another week, another 2+gutter panels! #SwipeLeft #Webcomic

An odd update: First image is technically two panels cobbled into one, while the other is its own, bridge-like caption portal sucking ya into the finale!

Next update will be the wrap up...or, is it?!? #Website #Mascot

03.11.2023 20:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0