Jason Bradley Thompson

If you really want to play this dumb game, I am married to an Arab, thanks

The government has said they will but I don’t think they’ve actually attempted anything

Israel is attacking Lebanon, where about 600 people have died, what is the Lebanese Army going to do?

1. Join Hezbollah defending Lebanon
2. ‘Disarm’ (attack) Hezbollah and start another civil war
3. Sit around doing nothing like a bunch of idiots

Israel is attacking Lebanon, where about 600 people have died, what is the Lebanese Army going to do?

1. Join Hezbollah defending Lebanon
2. ‘Disarm’ (attack) Hezbollah and start another civil war
3. Sit around doing nothing like a bunch of idiots

Followup: thank you! It eventually came online again, I just had to wait a few hours!

Yeah, he's clearly a megatalent! And making one of the most popular & important manga currently in existence, of course! No cheap photo backgrounds for him or his staff! ;)

Thank YOU for spending so much time playing with my ridiculous idea!!

“You must go deeper inside yourself to find your way out.” - Christoper Priest, “The Affirmation”

(Of course, the character who takes this advice is about to go completely crazy)

Haha, I know what you mean!

Thanks! Makes sense, but I hope I can catch them working.

The conclusion of @dylankkrp.bsky.social ‘s Dungeon Crawlers actual play! ❤️👶🏼 I wrote my Dungeon Babies #dnd variant rules right after the birth of our child and it was very personal to me honestly. Having this campaign end is like a baby growing up! 😭 #ttrpg #dmsguild

Yeah agreed. But there really are a lot of manga artists where you can tell they only draw the people and leave the background stuff to assistants or just to clip art. Their people art can still have tons of style! 🤷‍♀️

Of course there are tons of manga artists working in sci-fi or historical settings who have that level of detail and are clearly not just tracing photos (or for the historical ones, they're kicking ass with the reference material)

To me it depends on how blatant it is. I'm sure Jiro Taniguchi uses tons of photo reference. Whether he ever literally traces photos I dunno, but if so he blends it well. Most 'turn a photo into a drawing' filters are still pretty obvious... but they might look 'good enough', I guess

Yeah, most 'realistic' backgrounds in manga for decades are traced (or lately, computer-filtered) photos. So I honestly don't mind that. I think it's ripping off other artists' work that is more of an issue, or in the Eguchi case, ripping off a living person's portrait photo.

Dungeon Crawlers FINALE - All Growed Up YouTube video by Dylan Ramsey

Can the DUNGEON CRAWLERS face the other D of #dnd & save all of babydom? Or will these infant adventurers become dragon chow? 👶🐲

Come see the epic conclusion to our #dnd5e game, using the "Dungeon Babies" rules by @mockman.bsky.social. NOW ON YOUTUBE!
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I'm doing a playtest of collaborative variant rules for Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep!

Please join us on roll20 and Discord on Tuesday 3/17 at 7PM PDT. We'll create a Dreamland and then explore it together #ttrpg #dreamlands discord.gg/gH66AkY9?eve...

Thanks!!

Hi, I'm getting an error when I try to access your site -- "Anime News Network is currently unavailable. The connection broke midway. This may be a temporary glitch. Please try again later."

Does this just mean you're getting too much traffic? Should it clear up soonish? I'd love to know, thanks!

"Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga" in the '80s cynically joked about manga artists copying photos for reference. It's also a longstanding shameful thing in the USA comics industry -- TCJ used to have a "swipe file" feature. The Eguchi article suggests it's now more looked down upon than it one was

Traced identities: Hisashi Eguchi and the crisis of the Tokyo Pop image - The Comics Journal In the autumn of 2025, Japanese illustrator and manga artist Hisashi Eguchi was accused of tracing a photograph of a woman without her consent for a public promotional image.

Interesting article about the recent controversy over mangaka Hisashi Eguchi tracing a photo of a well-known real person (and getting noticed and called out for it, which is the unusual 2025 part)

(The article has nothing to do with the company Tokyopop) www.tcj.com/traced-ident...

Whoa, it was a card based RPG!!?

You were a kickstarter backer for the graphic novel, right? Then you probably got the map then!

Truthfully it was Edward Martin III who came up with the idea and directed it and pulled it all together! He reached out to me about my art and we made a contract (and I drew new versions of some things).

You’re too kind! 🙏 I did do a map of the Dreamlands long before I thought of the game… so maybe it rose out of the map….

But seriously book 3 is so genius! A whole different world in a different genre awaiting outside Gormenghast. Brilliant

Thank you so much! If it’s even legible that’s great— I’m usually too lazy to push the extra buttons to add fonts 😅🙏

Ahhhhhh… yeah, but from the tiny fragments of book 4, I feel poor Peake ended it at the best possible place

I'll trade you a "Song of Ice and Fire" ending for endings to "Abarat" and David Gerrold's "Chtorr" (though I suspect Gerrold is planning on running away from Chtorr for the rest of his life)

I've never read more than a page of George RR Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" novels, so it's much more important to me to say.... I really hope Clive Barker finishes "Abarat"