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Stíofán Mhac an Bhaird (Stephen Ward)

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Comic-loving bookworm. Scribbler of words and images. (cis,he/him) Website: https://stephencward.com Avatar by Debbie Jenkinson

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www.rocketgal.com
Still digging around for something!

28.02.2026 00:52 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Sold out currently.

*Adds to list*

10.03.2026 13:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of me, a woman with messy blonde hair

Photo of me, a woman with messy blonde hair

Digital art of a desk cluttered with paper and note pads, doodles and papers of lyrics, coffee cups, pens, stickers, cassettes

Digital art of a desk cluttered with paper and note pads, doodles and papers of lyrics, coffee cups, pens, stickers, cassettes

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as adults sharing a drink while sitting in front of a food truck

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as adults sharing a drink while sitting in front of a food truck

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as teens sitting in front of a basketball court with a urban city background, on a warm early summer evening

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as teens sitting in front of a basketball court with a urban city background, on a warm early summer evening

I’m Amalas and this is my art

08.04.2024 10:44 👍 1178 🔁 200 💬 43 📌 13

The BBC somehow manages not to mention that a male anti-trans/gender-critical extremist harassed a female MP so relentlessly that police had to offer her an escort for her protection

A pretty significant and central detail to just leave out

10.03.2026 08:59 👍 126 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 0
Forty drawings of pop culture characters, sports people and musicians drawn as a birthday gift to my brother

Forty drawings of pop culture characters, sports people and musicians drawn as a birthday gift to my brother

My baby brother turned forty recently, so I drew him a card featuring the characters that have had the biggest impact on his life and personality. I struggled a bit with some of the likenesses, but I'm broadly happy with it. Have fun guessing them all!

10.03.2026 13:15 👍 65 🔁 11 💬 7 📌 0

I was thinking recently how the digital comics I occasionally buy direct from self-publishing creators have become like the comics of my childhood. Not so much disposable but still ephemeral. Read once and then forgotten, lost to various device changes or in forgotten download folders. Very retro.

09.03.2026 19:56 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Halfway to rent and our rent is due TOMORROW! Jittery time lapse representing the state of my mind.

€1000 over two days is highly unlikely but very sale saves us from accumulating more debt!

10.03.2026 11:12 👍 81 🔁 73 💬 1 📌 2
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Delivery Day! Should have all these logged by end of day today! Let’s make rent!
littledeercomics.ie

10.03.2026 11:25 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

perfect no notes

10.03.2026 11:52 👍 46 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0
A banner for an Etsy closing down sale. Text Reads: Etsy Closing Sale, Zines, Stickers, Pins, Prints, Everything must go! 50% off

A banner for an Etsy closing down sale. Text Reads: Etsy Closing Sale, Zines, Stickers, Pins, Prints, Everything must go! 50% off

SALE SALE SALE! 50% off everything on my Etsy until March 31st, and then I'm closing it!

www.etsy.com/shop/DrawBoy...

10.03.2026 12:22 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

06.03.2026 13:38 👍 9579 🔁 2174 💬 89 📌 35
Serena Mercado's cover for Seven Wives

Serena Mercado's cover for Seven Wives

MMPR: Rita's Rewind by Tango

MMPR: Rita's Rewind by Tango

The A cover for Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology

The A cover for Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology

The A cover for Sink Your Teeth In by Lauren Knight

The A cover for Sink Your Teeth In by Lauren Knight

Time for a new one!

I'm Zoe. I write comics! I've written for IDW, Marvel, Tiny Onion, Dark Horse, Titan and BOOM on licenses like Black Cat, Power Rangers and Godzilla as well as original series like BLADE MAIDENS and SINK YOUR TEETH IN

Always looking for work! Contact: zoetunnellwrites@gmail.com

16.02.2026 17:34 👍 244 🔁 76 💬 2 📌 3

I recognize that price tag....

To the online shop!!!😁

10.03.2026 13:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dead Horses

Dead Horses

Not to mention👇

10.03.2026 13:46 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Miskatonic High

Miskatonic High

Scatter white & Fosgrove

Scatter white & Fosgrove

Shield Maiden #5

Shield Maiden #5

Cat School 1

Cat School 1

And a few more! I really love this job and I hope we get to work together

10.03.2026 13:19 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Go read Persepolis.

Or maybe watch the movie.

10.03.2026 00:38 👍 263 🔁 74 💬 3 📌 0

Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words

If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.

10.03.2026 11:30 👍 250 🔁 70 💬 10 📌 9
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"The Maronite . Catholic priest was killed in Qlayaa, Lebanon, on Monday as he sought to assist parishioners whose house had been fired upon by an Israeli tank"

"Fr. El-Rahi rushed to the house ... with several young people when the tank struck the house again"

A shepherd dies with his flock.

10.03.2026 12:07 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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It's the last few hours for our Dan Dare: First Contact graphic novel Kickstarter early bird discounted pledge tiers. Now is the best time for you to consider backing this project...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

10.03.2026 13:05 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2

I’m not surprised. We went through this process last year and while it’s great it is crazy expensive even with the heat pump / solar grant and it’s not certain that you will get the grant when doing the work. Policy needs to include low cost long term finance so people can afford this.

10.03.2026 10:35 👍 36 🔁 9 💬 10 📌 2

Art is joy

10.03.2026 13:36 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A close up of Úna-Minh wearing a green and white t-shirt and black headphones

A close up of Úna-Minh wearing a green and white t-shirt and black headphones

Hey, I'm Úna-Minh (that's my first name)! Producer, games writer, generalist. I also make solo games & PM a small team that localises indie games into Irish.

Open to work, short-term, long-term, term-term, and open to rapping the first 150 pokémon during my interview.

#WhatAGameDevLooksLike

10.03.2026 13:19 👍 35 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0

Clarity on who REALLY matters to Irish #FFFG Govt.

"MIPIM is...referred to as the Davos of real estate, & some 20,000 delegates are expected to attend this year.
Minister for #Housing James Browne & Graham Doyle, the Dept. of Housing's Secretary General, will address delegates..."

#speirghorm

10.03.2026 10:23 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Torch: Reclaim the Skies

Torch: Reclaim the Skies

Courier Z

Courier Z

Her Hardboiled Heart

Her Hardboiled Heart

Puddle Jumpers

Puddle Jumpers

As a freelance editor that you can hire for your #comics project, my focus is narrative. I want your story to be as legible and textured as it can be! That’s my focus, working with you: creative development and confidence in audacity.

My email is in my bio!

Here are some recent/ongoing projects

10.03.2026 13:13 👍 32 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 1
8 panel comic

P1: We are looking down at a tiny lil jumping spider, as it is dwarfed by the bare foot of a human standing out of frame

P2: a low shot of the foot's owner, as he looks down with a look that says 'I know what must be done'

P3: in silhouette --eyes blank-- the man rears hiis right hand back

P4: a closeup of his hand as it careens downward

P5: Back to the lil spider, looking up in fear as the shadow of the approaching hand looms ominously.

P6: a side view of the hand as it screeches to a halt over the cowering spider

P7: the hand remains in place, as the spider looks up in confusion

P8: a closeup of the spider, as the hand gently pets them on the head.

8 panel comic P1: We are looking down at a tiny lil jumping spider, as it is dwarfed by the bare foot of a human standing out of frame P2: a low shot of the foot's owner, as he looks down with a look that says 'I know what must be done' P3: in silhouette --eyes blank-- the man rears hiis right hand back P4: a closeup of his hand as it careens downward P5: Back to the lil spider, looking up in fear as the shadow of the approaching hand looms ominously. P6: a side view of the hand as it screeches to a halt over the cowering spider P7: the hand remains in place, as the spider looks up in confusion P8: a closeup of the spider, as the hand gently pets them on the head.

27.09.2025 17:20 👍 1012 🔁 224 💬 10 📌 10

Oh fuck off. The AI wouldn’t exist without human writers work being stolen

10.03.2026 13:02 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Ad for a music act called Goitse. Goitse, dammit, absolutely not goatse

Ad for a music act called Goitse. Goitse, dammit, absolutely not goatse

hooooo boy did I do a double take

10.03.2026 12:06 👍 39 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 3

If they keep pushing AI in schools I worry we’ll be the last generation to even be able to identify what is AI writing and what’s not, let alone prefer writing from humans

10.03.2026 13:25 👍 242 🔁 31 💬 19 📌 2

An case of manipulative design. A while back they changed the stations, making the collecting baskets smaller, harder to reach, so you almost have to toss the coins. A kerb stops you getting closer. The change hatch is also awkward, and the barrier goes up before the coins drop, urging you on. 1/2

10.03.2026 10:19 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site

every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods

10.03.2026 02:00 👍 4465 🔁 825 💬 46 📌 19