Awww! So many amazing GOOD OMENS fans at Emerald City Comic Con and they brought me JOY! And DUCKS!!!! www.instagram.com/p/DVhLVscElV...
@colleendoran
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Awww! So many amazing GOOD OMENS fans at Emerald City Comic Con and they brought me JOY! And DUCKS!!!! www.instagram.com/p/DVhLVscElV...
Grim Jack and ASM Ultimate X-Men
Next up 4/5
It was really neat to meet @colleendoran.bsky.social and brought her a Grim Jack to sign for fun, with her having done a backup
Also had a chance to see Bluesky's own @zackdavisson.com who always rocks π€
A follow up games' artwork posts from the Age of Empires III.
Created as an advertising image, I based the work on a historical site, Fort Ticonderoga in New York, around the time of the French and Indian War of the 1740's.
Allegory for the American Empire
36" x 48" Oil on Panel. 2004
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 300-baud modems on fire off the shoulder of Compuserve. I watched C-64s whirring in a dark living room near the disk-swapping party. All these moments will be lost in time, like TRS-80s in the rain. Time to <CONNECTION LOST>
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. ASCII porn in IRC Channels. I watched hamsters dancing to looping MIDI after eons loading on 14.4k modems. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
I programmed on punch cards, when my school went online around 1979, my friends and I hacked into the school board computer system, moved all the teacher pay scales four bytes to the left. Their password was CODE, the factory default. Original script kiddies. There at the beginning. Good times.
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h β’β’β’ My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
βI have usernames older than you.β.
Holy shit
An all-time favorite con sketch: @jeffparker.bsky.socialβs opening spread for a monkey-themed sketchbook. Jeff Parker is at Emerald City Comicon this weekend, table E-27!
Deeply saddened to learn of the death of the incredibly sweet and luminous doll and delight, artist Victoria MacKenzie Childs. We will miss you. funeralmarks.site/victoria-mac...
Gift has been delivered to @colleendoran.bsky.social !
Got my autograph from @colleendoran.bsky.social !
#GoodOmens
This book was so important to me when I was a kid
I'm enchanted, this is SO SWEET! thank youuuuuuu!!!!!
ICYMI
A before and after restoration picture of a page of comic art from A Distant Soil.
Allan Harvey, comic art restoration specialist, going over his work, research and adventures in antique comics over at his Patreon! www.patreon.com/post...
Allan Harvey is the best comic art restoration specialist in the biz and he has just started a Patreon, where he shares his work. Sign up for FREE at this link.
Allan Harvey is the best comic art restoration specialist in the biz and he has just started a Patreon, where he shares his work. Sign up for FREE at this link.
Picture of Colleen Doran with the Emerald City Comic Con logo.
See you this weekend at EMERALD CITY COMIC CON at booth O-12 in Artist Alley!
It is my first appearance at this event! Thanks to my agent Spencer Beck and the wonderful staff of ECCC for arranging this for me months ago! I know how hard you all work!
front cover of Legends of Indie Comics Words Only Volume 2: Prose Epics of the Greatest Indie Heroes... ... Written by Their Genius Creators Plus: Brand New Fiction by the Legendary Garth Ennis & Howard Chaykin Crossover Epic Included Featuring a mashup drawing of various indie comics icons in front of a star field.
5 More Indie Comics characters on a starfield: Just imagine! A full house of top indie comics characters, reunited in this voluem of prose fiction tales and black-and-white illustrations by the genius creators who first breathed life into them in the 1980s and beyond! ...
#Booksky Arrived today Legends of Indie Comics: Words Only Volume 2 by Garth Ennis, Howard Chaykin, @colleendoran.bsky.social , et al
It's easy to forget how much pain procrastination costs. Procrastination is death by a thousand nothings. Keep this list of the pain of procrastination around to remind yourself of what you are losing drop by drop. If you have to do this exercise every single week, do it. Make it sink in.
Procrastination is death by a thousand nothings. colleendoran.substack.com/p/the-procra...
A beautiful renaissance era girl with dark hair in an elaborate costume of pale gold tissue with a blue ribbon at the bodice. She is holding a bouquet of flowers. She stands in lovely garden which has a fountain to her left, and two young woman are talking to each other in the background. They have a greyhound.
Cover of the book The Twelve Dancing Princesses. A very beautiful girl in a gold dress. She holds a lute. She is surrounded by a frame of flowers. There are many beautiful young girls dancing in the background. The setting is the Renaissance.
Multiple paintings from the book The Twelve Dancing Princesses in small thumbnail images.
In a blue dark knight, there is a mysterious castle in the center of a lake. The windows glow with a golden light. Golden leaves of a willow tree frame the image.
Kinuko Y Craft who turned 86 last month is selling ALL the art from her exquisite 1989 work THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES. Info at Link. www.patreon.com/post...
Retailers, you have until this coming Monday, March 2nd, to pre-order Enemy of My Enemy: A Daredevil Marvel Crime Novel!
Check out my letter at the link below for more on what went into making this book and why you should pick up some copies:
prhcomics.com/2026/02/24/d...
When you get Chesley Bonestell to paint your building.
10 PAGE COMIC PAID GIG: hereβs another one folks! In need of a professional comics artist for a ten page short comic. Must be great at drawing people, monsters, and backgrounds. Non-realistic / traditional comic book style wanted!
Please email sequential examples to louissouthard(at)gmail(dot)com
If I won the lottery, I wouldn't say anything, but there would be signs...
@colleendoran.bsky.social is indeed up in those Pantheons, both of Nordic and Greek goddesses.
A beautiful renaissance era girl with dark hair in an elaborate costume of pale gold tissue with a blue ribbon at the bodice. She is holding a bouquet of flowers. She stands in lovely garden which has a fountain to her left, and two young woman are talking to each other in the background. They have a greyhound.
Cover of the book The Twelve Dancing Princesses. A very beautiful girl in a gold dress. She holds a lute. She is surrounded by a frame of flowers. There are many beautiful young girls dancing in the background. The setting is the Renaissance.
Multiple paintings from the book The Twelve Dancing Princesses in small thumbnail images.
In a blue dark knight, there is a mysterious castle in the center of a lake. The windows glow with a golden light. Golden leaves of a willow tree frame the image.
Kinuko Y Craft who turned 86 last month is selling ALL the art from her exquisite 1989 work THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES. Info at Link. www.patreon.com/post...
Cover of Mind Map Mastery by author Tony Buzan
I struggle with brain fog & try many things to aid memory, work, and story planning. Mind Mapping is quite effective. Yes I know it's an amazon link, ask for it at your local store. https://amzn.to/4rx8LSU
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Cover of Mind Map Mastery by author Tony Buzan
I struggle with brain fog & try many things to aid memory, work, and story planning. Mind Mapping is quite effective. Yes I know it's an amazon link, ask for it at your local store. https://amzn.to/4rx8LSU