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Fun quarantine activity! Decoding all of Superman’s Secret Messages in golden age Superman comics.

I recreated both the “Motion Picture Membership” decoder and Supermen of America member kit decoder using a combination of Gimp and Inkscape. I’m hoping to recreate the rest of the member kit at some point.

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I have come across a piece of pen and ink art from the "May" issue Galaxy Science fiction magazine. There is not year. It goes has "Page 116" written near the edge on the front. It depicts a sea edge with human footprints and some crabs. Any ideal of the year? And the artist.

Sorry I’m just getting back to you! I just got a chance to look through my collection of Galaxy which is limited to stuff from the 70s. I didn’t see anything like you described so its definitely not the May 1970, 71,72 or 76 issues! The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) has a complete (I believe) list of Galaxy issues. You can find it here.  Let me know if you figure it out!

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The American Way

Here’s a Superman comic I made about a year ago. I didn’t put it on here then because I felt like the issue is too difficult to handle in six pages. Not in regards to the concentration camps in our country. That issue is simple: it must be stopped and those people protected as quickly as possible. The complicated issue is what it means to be an American. We do not have a legacy I feel proud to be a part of and we must start considering some radical changes if we want keep pretending to hold the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 

art notes: I can’t draw people but Superman is based on the George Reeves version, Pa Kent is based on John Byrne’s run on the comics, the revolutionary war soldier is from a painting by Howard Pyle. It was drawn in pencil, inked with a ballpoint pen and colored in Photoshop.

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Fantastic Four #240 (1982)

Writer and Artist: John Byrne

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Island Book is now available!

I’m happy with this book and excited to finally finally have it out there!! It’s a different sort of story in some ways, and an intentional re-connection with some aspects of my experience working on Rice Boy in some others. Thank you so much to First Second Books for your support in making this thing happen. I hope you all like it!!! I’m excited about Future Projects!!!!

Please share & help me make noise about this thing!

art book | soundtrack | order

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Pre-ordered my copy today! @evandahm is writing some of the smartest fantasy today and everyone should read his stuff.

The Conqueror.

Seven weeks until Island Book is available!!!!

Another source that’s been very overtly significant to me in making this book and its setting is Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Earthsea” series, which takes place in a vast archipelago and is really concerned with travel by sea, isolated spaces, and embedding a sense of mystery into the physical world itself… these are the aspects that have most stuck with me, at least! These six books were written over the course of 50-odd years, and really chart a course through Le Guin’s relationship to the genre of heroic fantasy and its political premises. Really profoundly changed how I look at secondary-world fantasy; can’t recommend the series enough.

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Cover and last page of the September 5, 1987 issue of 2000AD. 

Last page is part of a comic called “What’s in a Name?” written by Neil Gaiman and art by Steve Yeowell.

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3D printed Ki from Myst: Uru that I made a few months ago. I started with the files Click9898 posted on thingiverse but made my own modifications.

I shared these on the Uru forums a little while ago but thought I’d share them on here too 

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Just recently started reading this series and boy is it depressing. It seems to me it’s a critique of male fantasy with a high fantasy backdrop. Love these covers and would love to know more about the artist.

Three 1977 covers by S.C. Wyeth, for a trilogy by Stephen R. Donaldson. They��re the only works attributed to the artist. Thanks to cobwebs-from-a-library-corner for mentioning him to me.

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If the essay wasn’t proof enough, I really love the character of Superman and his ability to inspire.

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I would love to get some feedback on this essay I wrote about John Byrne’s run on Superman and writing superhero comics in general.

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Really interesting essay. It helps me to think about my process of making which, due to my impatience with drawing, is based around using the objects I have at hand (paper, cardboard, felt). In the same way he describes the act of doodling combining and recombining objects (and also story ideas) for me produces the most satisfying work.

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Happy birthday, Bowie. Where have all the good times gone?

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Star*Reach #2, 1975

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Sunset on Krypton I made a little 3D printed model of the Bottle City of Kandor based on Dave Gibbons' version in Superman Annual #11.

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Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine March 1970, Cover by Jack Gaughan suggested by The Region Between.