@bigbigtruck.com
Comic artist/letterer. Creator of TJ & AMAL and SHOT & CHASER. Lambda & Harvey winner, Ignatz & Eisner nominee, actual Alfa-177 Canid. Banner by @magicmetalbird.com Fix your hearts or die. tjandamal.com/info.html patreon.com/bigbigtruck
The whole show was a 3 hr cycle of
get really into music -> sudden inspiration for Band Comic stirikes and i have to jot it down before I forget -> distracted from music -> get back into music -> inspiration strikes again
Atw on stage at stubbs
King Buffalo and All Them Witches on a breezy mild night, hell yeah
If you’re at #eccc please don’t forget to come to the Basement! A lot of people seem to think there’s only Funko pops and long box comics and blind boxes, but they moved a bunch of indie artists down here too! Don’t miss out!!
that’s how they get ya, you gotta keep coming back for the hit
Lettering a book that calls for all balloons to have unique, organic, blobby shapes. Thank you, curvature pen. You saved my wrist.
oh good! Actually committed to ANOTHER comics event at that time, so I'm excited to be catch this later :D
In the meantime, we're still socializing them (LBF is getting increasinglly fond of the daily grooms he's going to need) but the rescue-to-adoption treadmill is stalled while they're here
This morning's murps and bonks. Marvin and Little Big Fat are still looking for a forever home in the Austin/Central Texas area!
a cute person in a pink, brown, and white tuxedo with a big scoop of neapolitan ice cream
Neapolitan, for April
patreon.com/bigbigtruck
A sunlit updraft of a developing thunderstorm
Current sunset stormy scene on the OK/TX border.
so envious!! thank you for sharing this with the world.
i'm going to become... a male model
Automate your lettering, save your wrists!
I’ll be running a panel for @cartoonist.coop’s Nib & Ink Festival about how to make your computer do more work and prevent injury while lettering!
Time: May 9 @ 2PM EDT
Place: Zoom / remote
More info here: nif.cartoonist.coop/event/automa...
that's the devil talking, finding yourself hot is good and rules <3
Illustrator! But I do the same in Indesign really often, too.
this message brought to you by Create Outlines -> ungroup -> stroke 0.25pt -> Shear 12 degrees -> regroup
everyone who includes bold and italic in their custom fonts should get free ice cream and find $500 on the sidewalk
join me in incomprehensible shitpost shirt land
had forgotten about this song until just yesterday and hot damn
I gotta dig back into my subtle/clouddead/doseone/hymie's basement/etc catalog
"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.
I always treasure folks who actually want to talk and ask questions about my stories and characters. I don't remember if they bought anything or not; the memory is all about that they cared enough to ask
dainty
I haven't! They look pretty cool but seem like smth I'd have to carry rather than wear. I like the texture of the grips tho
big same
YOOOOOOOOOOO LOOKS SO GOOD!!!
Was hoping to lat pull and bench my own body weight be end of 2025 but injury and illness knocked me back about 30lbs on each
Me flexing and wearing a forklift simulator shirt
Slowwwly getting back to previous pbs. Chest and shoulders are always the slowest to rebuild.
Most of the manga I have is on 60# uncoated stock, fwiw
