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jlroberson

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Little clockwork word bombs from the slightly acclaimed cartoonist/writer, creator of LULU, SUZY SPREADWELL, VLADRUSHKA & much more. Drop in at jlroberson.org! Also:
patreon.com/jlroberson
jlroberson.blogspot.com
...and you can find my books at Amazon & Google Play, and my art at Saatchi and Artpal.

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Green_Footballs, to random
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I’ll give Elon Musk credit for one thing he did all by himself: he’s destroyed the myth of the super-rich Tony Stark tech genius.

jlroberson,
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@Green_Footballs Isn't it interesting that after the first movie we never see any Stark employees except Pepper and Happy?
And it's BRIDGES, the villain, that actually interacts with staff, never Tony.

ComicContext, to random
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@ComicContext Colorist: the placement of that highlight on her lips makes her look less sexy and more rabid ;)

jlroberson, to vinyl
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Brighten your day and lighten my load with my 'Rent & #Taxes Relief Auction'! Bid now for fantastic savings! https://www.ebay.com/itm/296333468796?itmmeta=01HTNMVAH08NP5MCT9AGF8FEYX&hash=item44fed9e47c:g:2BMAAOSw5QJmCir0 #record #LP #vinyl #music #auction #1970s #artrock #katebush

jlroberson, to comics
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Big sale to help pay my rent and taxes! Please BID NOW! https://www.ebay.com/itm/296328903027

jlroberson, to random
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Translated: they could only find candidates that would take #Trump votes. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/no-labels-wont-run-third-party-campaign-after-trying-to-recruit-a-candidate_n_660ef447e4b083254eab6406

dangillmor, to random
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Trump's company is more obvious than the usual scam, where the perps usually try to hide the sleaze long enough to take some money and run. I'm watching to see if he finds a way to cheat on the six-month share-selling lockup.

jlroberson,
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@dangillmor His defense is always "I should be able to run over as many urchins as I like!" He has no patience to pretend not to have done a crime; he believes when he does it, law is irrelevant.
The weird part is that often he's not "lying" at all, he's asserting total immunity.
Just for him.

gutenberg_org, to books
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English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë died in 1855.

She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she published under the gender neutral pen name Currer Bell. Along with "Jane Eyre," her other notable works include "Shirley" (1849) and "Villette" (1853). Brontë's writing is celebrated for its exploration of social issues, particularly the role of women in Victorian society.

Books by Charlotte Brontë at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/408

Cover page of The Search After Hapiness [sic]: A Tale by Charlotte Brontë

jlroberson, (edited )
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@gutenberg_org http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=202

jlroberson, to random
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Thanks to those who donated at first, but I still need your help and the donations seem to have stalled.
Please give if you can or at least ask others to. I wouldn't be asking if I had any choice. And thank you. https://www.gofundme.com/manage/help-me-through-my-job-slashing-my-pay

jlroberson, to comics
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Big #sale to help pay my rent! Please BID NOW! #comics #graphicnovel #eurocomics #druuna #nude #eroticart #scifi #sciencefiction https://www.ebay.com/itm/296328904620

masukomi, (edited ) to random
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For those of you considering starting something with Patreon, it's fully moved into late stage enshitification.

This poor creator was given $583 by their patrons, and Patreon took $109 of it in fees. 🤦‍♀️

Go use Ko-fi, they're still run by humans who actually care about creators and don't try and screw them at every opportunity. Also consider Ghost.org. They're working hard to make an Open Source Patreon style platform w/ NO fees beyond simple hosting cost.

jlroberson,
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@masukomi Just had a look. They don't allow nudity so that knocks MY comics out of the running. I can do most anything want at Patreon as long as it's paywalled when adult. A shame because it looks otherwise OK

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@masukomi I hate that word, and it only describes MAYBE 1/3 of my comics. That's another issue, that they can't distinguish so-called "porn" from other work with nudity.

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@masukomi Thankfully, I've never had a single person who tried that chargeback scumfuckery on me at Patreon

jlroberson,
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@masukomi Oh, they don't, and I have the history of censorship since 2010 to prove it ;)

jlroberson,
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@masukomi Just to give you some idea: this, THIS was a page I had to fight with what used to be Createspace (and is now Kindle Direct) about.
REALLY.

jlroberson,
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@masukomi I know! I mean, at least 1/3 of my work, I can see why it would attract censorship because it's MEANT to be explicit, but I still do not agree. Especially since I think my stuff's pretty tame by present day standards, even the X stuff. But whatever...

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@masukomi ...and at least it's about people who consent and in fact the woman is pretty much always the driving force.
I woulda thought that would count for SOMEthing but... ;)

jlroberson,
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@masukomi But it's not like it sells anyway.
Though I wonder how much of that was because 10 years ago I'd release and publicize things and then they'd be banned that day(Amazon and Google Play), so it always looked like vaporware. I feel it made me look unserious and people just stopped paying attention since they'd never see it anyway

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@masukomi It makes one feel cursed after a while and like not even trying to make books.

jlroberson,
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@masukomi and none of these platforms would give the slightest shit about it if I were not also the publisher, there's plenty available far stronger than mine(the great BLACK KISS by Chaykin, say, or Crepax). But people like me have no clout, EVEN IF I've been doing this over 25 years.
Also, people who WRITE explicit stuff(you know, the ones with the terrible AI covers) are OK, but DRAW the very same stuff? Nope.
I call that discrimination by medium.

jlroberson,
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@masukomi ...for some reason #comics clearly marked as adults only are different to their algorithms than prose.

mcc, to random
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So you may have heard that a Boeing whistleblower died of what local police described as a "self-inflicted" gunshot wound right in the middle of his depositions, a timing which… well, lots of things happen, but if someone were going to act on suicidal impulses that is not the timing I would expect them to do it with.

Have you been wondering what exactly it was he was saying in those depositions? Cuz here's an American Prospect article largely based on his testimony:

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

jlroberson,
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@mcc I'm originally from Charleston. Being able to get away with anti-worker and anti-safety shit like this is why companies MOVE to SC, which is among many things a very weak state on worker rights.

whitequark, to random
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Never touch the catgirl.
Please don't. Cause of failure
This may be the cause

jlroberson,
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@whitequark (me to instructions) You're not my DAD

flexghost, to random
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Dems are usually terrible at messaging

But this: this is a home run.

🇺🇸

Video answering trumps question are you better off than you were 4 years ago illustrating trumps failure with the pandemic

jlroberson,
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@flexghost That was quite an interview when he made the "It is what it is" statement. And it hadn't even hit 200,000 yet
#trump

jlroberson, to comics
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/296307005028

jlroberson, to random
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It is now even more imperative that you do your best to make sure he loses the election anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg6UxwFph_k #trump

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