Just a little different 😂

Hello Body Horror #1 is out tomorrow and the Beat says it rules! Loved finally getting to letter a @barkmouchard.bsky.social script.

And it goes without saying that the @ryehickman.bsky.social art is fantastic. The target audience for this is just a little bit different than our collab on Galaxy.

A photo of JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERGALACTIC and GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN on an ink-stained art table.

JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERGALACTIC SPECIAL by me, @nicoleamaines.bsky.social, Travis Moore, @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou comes out in *next week!*

GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN, by me, @ryehickman.bsky.social and @longtalljodie.com hit stores in just *two weeks!*

SO EXCITED!!!

Fanart of Jory’s three weed-smoking girlfriends behaving lewdly with a pattern of pot leaves and hello kitty heads for a background

420 Blaiz It

Cover of SUBLIMATION by Nebula Award-winning author Isabel J. Kim, showing a black vertical line in the middle with four copies of the same figure walking away on both sides. The figure closest to the line is faded with each one that follows growing more solid, with the last one being the most solid. Additional Cover Text: "One of the best debuts of the year." - John Scalzi

Photo of Isabel J. Kim by Amanda Silberling

There's a new Women in SF&F Month guest post today! SUBLIMATION author @isabel.kim discusses creating characters, particularly those of a different gender, in “Writing the Other.”

www.fantasybookcafe.com/2026/04/wome...

#Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy #SciFi #SpecFic 📚🪐

Hahahaha exactly

Original, for anyone not yet blessed by the experience of reading this post:
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And the comic version:
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Fanart of Jory’s three weed-smoking girlfriends behaving lewdly with a pattern of pot leaves and hello kitty heads for a background

420 Blaiz It

Ancient oak tree, drawn in pen and ink

New work! May Day, an ancient oak tree. Drawn in pen and ink, coloured in Procreate #SciArt #treeart #treeartist #oaktree #ancientoak #illustration #penandink #inkdrawing #handdrawn

Galaxy looks at Superman coming down, saying that everything will be okay, and internally screams his logo.

Happy Superman Day. I cried when I lettered this.

I have a lot of Superman Feelings.

(via @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social in Galaxy: As The World Falls Down, a book you can buy in, like, two weeks???)

A panel from GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN by Jadzia Axelrod, Rye Hickman and Jodie Troutman, in which Galaxy watches Superman descend from the heavens, light streaming behind him. Galaxy is flipping out a little. SUPERMAN: Everything's going to be okay. I'm here. GALAXY: I cannot believe this.That's SUPERMAN. Superman is right in front of me!

Happy Superman Day.

I have a lot of feelings about Superman. I have been fortunate enough to put all of my feelings about Superman in a book, GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN, which I made with @ryehickman.bsky.social and @longtalljodie.com (It will be in stores in two weeks or so)

Injury Prevention from Lauded Comics Writer and Physical Therapist, David Andry "Go for walks, take an outside break, drink lots of water, give your eyes something of different distances to focus on."

As good as time as any to remind all you creatives to stand and stretch. Here's an article from the @comicbookyeti.com with some of my tips and tricks for preventing repetitive injuries.
www.comicbookyeti.com/post/injury-...

Gotcha, ty!

Not at all the point here but I can’t stop pondering “indie creators and sports franchises” as their two examples of IP holders, in the context of digital comics. Truly odd!

Coming soon: Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror is a full-color comics anthology of LGBTQ+ horror stories centered around annual events.

Hey, y'all! Me and @ryehickman.bsky.social have a story in this anthology, where we get all gay and creepy with Rosh Hashanah. The whole anthology is full of excellent comics, so you'll definitely want to be alerted once the Kickstarter starts:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

2001 piece from a while back. I wanted to do a bunch of tribute pieces, but then, you know, life…

I’m doubling down on the em dashes. They can pry them from my cold, undead hands.

B l e s s

Unfortunately my internal response to genAI’s adoration of the em dash has been my own long-repressed adoration of mrs. dalloway’s semi-colons so that’s gonna be fun for whoever reads my scripts next

It helps the original show was also primarily dabbling in neoclassical and rococo architecture to begin with. The intense abstraction of the movie's ohtori academy is going to obviously signpost the passage of time and the deconstruction of old ideals even if you don't know the exact inspiration

a shot of ohtori tower surrounded by incomplete half crescent balconies jutting out from various buildings, the framing and steelwork nakedly visible

utena ascending a staircase precariously and impossibly hanging over a mix of abstract shapes that constitute buildings

ohtori academy glows as anthy turns out the lights

juri and the fencing club stand in front of a deconstructed wall cut through with white and red paint, its windows stained glass with abstract shapes - some filled, some not.

It is simply never a bad time to think about the architectural design in Adolescence of Utena

Congrats!!!

Payment plans; installment agreements | Internal Revenue Service Answers to questions about payment plans (including installment agreements).

For anyone, freelancers or otherwise, fretting over a crazy tax bill, remember you can easily sign up to pay in an installment plan. I survived for years on this, and while not totally ideal, the interest is not terrible and it’s better than having to take a loan/stress:

www.irs.gov/payments/pay...

GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN, the sequel to GALAXY: TGE PRETTIEST STAR, is out May 5 and is a graphic novel about being trans, queer love, anxiety over life after high school and what to do when a powerful empire wants you dead. I made it with @ryehickman.bsky.social and @longtalljodie.com.

:D

Omg yes! I have absolutely turned in my final pages, celebrated, and then shortly after cried like a baby because I already miss making the thing

Y’all open to reviewing fellow pros? I have a laundry list of things I want to improve in my nsfw comics, but the possibility of fresh eyes (whose work I really like) on it sounds fucking great

This sounds fucking GREAT!!!