solilo guy @dirk@computerfairi.es
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Berlin-based comic artist (he/him, white) trapped in a tech bubble.
Tooting for help in 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 about comics, infosec, queerness, and Elves.
Joined Apr 2017
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I put @tomgauld's brilliant new comic for @newscientist alongside Ibn Al-Rabin's masterpiece “Le Verbe Prophétique” as demonstrating the ways you can do things in comics seemingly simple yet bewilderingly complex that can only be done in comics.
#comics
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A gift with the scent of snowflakes?
Sure!
A passphrase that’s gonna melt your heart?
Yeap!
Sending friends ❤️ 😡 🤪, but privately?
Absolutely!
This and more
at our next FLINTA* CryptoParty
on Wednesday, December 7th 2022
at 7 pm CEST
online via BigBlueBotton
https://lecture.senfcall.de/ren-met-lbg-d81
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Mondrian Crescent
I love it when train doors align at the end of a tunnel. The red tiles at Green Park station make this the ideal location to capture this moment.
It wasn't luck though, instead I froze the moving train with a fast shutter. It took ages to get it centred.
This final image resembles an abstract art painting by Piet Mondrian.
#art #mastoart #abstract #architecture #photography #potd #symmetry #london #underground #londonunderground #railway #mondrian #tiles #photo
Damn, my go-to art supply shop in #Berlin-Wedding seems to have shut down.
Where I got those special brushes and that certain paper of which I don't even know the name...
They could have made a lot of money announcing this four weeks prior! 😬
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Was lucky enough to finally realise my childhood dream and see the Northern Lights dancing in the night sky during my winter road trip around Iceland. There's never a guarantee you will see them as they're so unpredictable and the sky must be as dark as possible. This is a long exposure and caught a shooting star in the frame as well.
© All rights reserved
#northernlights #aurora #iceland #photography
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Was lieben wir alle in der Familie von 11-55 Jahren „Esthers Tagebücher“! Dieser #Comic ist ein großer Wurf. Für Alt wie Jung! So schonungslos, so unverstellt, so ungefiltert berichtet #Autor Riad Sattouf vom Leben seiner Nichte - wunderbar! Großer Dank an Übersetzer Uli Pröfrock aus #Freiburg (ehemals „X für U“)! Die Liebe, die ins #Buch geflossen ist, war sicher nicht mit Geld aufzuwiegen. #Danke! @ComicContext @comic @ComicBookProgressive
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This comic comes closer to my feelings about gender than pretty much anything else I have ever read: https://thenib.com/name-change-nonbinary/
Hey, I’m doing a re#introduction for everyone #newHere:
I’m Dirk, a German #comic artist and writer from #Berlin (he/him).
I’m also a #queer and #polyam dad, trying to balance care work/family life with my current project, “People Not Seen” – a non-fiction #GraphicNovel about #Elves, memes and the power of storytelling. (I used to live in #Iceland and miss it a lot!)
Here’s my website:
https://peoplenotseen.com
I'll be mostly posting about #comics, with a bit of #privacy thrown into the mix.
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Legal Fund for Creator of "Oh No" Comics
If you've ever used a pink blog "oh no" meme, or laughed at one of the Webcomic Name strips, consider giving its creator some help retaining their intellectual property.
Important #Kickstarter campaign about restoring the first #comics anthology feat. Black characters created by Black talent, a whole 19 years before #BlackPanther first appeared.
If you can, please help to rescue the #Black community's trailblazing contribution to the comics medium from oblivion!
The year #Sandman ended, I met @neilhimself at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
We teenagers always sneaked in through the parking garage to steal comics.
He suddenly sat on a chair, being interviewed. I summoned my courage and my English - both wobbly - and congratulated him on the completion of Sandman.
He said he'd very much "appreciate" it and I had no idea what that meant. So I channeled his comic worlds for help, became an immortal being, said "you *should* " and strutted away flamboyantly.
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Hullo. So this is Mastodon, eh? Well, I'm here. And to celebrate, here's a photo I took yesterday in Kingston NY of Good Omens director Douglas directing An Unnamed Actor (on the other side of the glass) in Episode 2 of Good Omens Season 2 (Coming Next Summer).
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Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.
This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.
If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".
So #KeepFediWeird.
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2021 comic sales hit a record high, thanks to manga and kids' graphic novels; superheroes, not so much.
https://www.diversetechgeek.com/2021-comic-sales-hit-record-high
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Anatomy of a sound effect. Something I developed over a decade ago to help my students understand the flexibility and power of sound design in comics. I've been told this has been used in some college classes as well--I just hope it helps lead cartoonists to more thoughtful integration of sound in their comics!
Berlin-based comic artist (he/him, white) trapped in a tech bubble.
Tooting for help in 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 about comics, infosec, queerness, and Elves.
Joined Apr 2017
