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Illustration, comics, fonts, book design, crosswords. Art Director at Large, Tundra Books. https://johnmartz.com/

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I will be partaking this very evening.

09.08.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A blessed day on the Discover tab

09.08.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A fellow β€œThe Abyss” enjoyer, I see

29.07.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For too long knowledge work has been monopolized by people with knowledge.

22.07.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Holy blast from the past!

16.07.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

[spoilers]

The best part is when Superman is flying over a hog farm and he licks his lips and says β€œDon’t mind if I do!” before using his eye lasers to zap a pig into a big cartoon bone-in ham.

08.07.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 538    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 0

Ay, there’s the nug

08.07.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Quick warm-up sketch from this morning.

08.07.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My favorite superhero is probably Batman, aka the Wayne Knight

06.07.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been rereading the whole thing lately. Still hits.

05.07.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In a world of kikis, be a bouba.

30.05.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I once got logged out of a lightbulb.

29.05.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jarvis Cocker of Pulp as Elvis Costello on the cover of This Year’s Model in November 1993 by Kevin Cummins

29.05.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œWhen writing dialog, just use said,” he egested.

29.05.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Those Pepe le Pew cartoons really did a number on us.

28.05.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will there still be frog pics?

28.05.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

M. Sasek’s β€œThis is Sparta”

27.05.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The three stages of a PokΓ©mon’s evolution

11.05.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
It's Bernie Sanders. He's feeling prickly about InDesign.

It's Bernie Sanders. He's feeling prickly about InDesign.

I am once again asking why the baseline grid measurements in InDesign are in the application settings and not the document properties.

07.05.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Every popular list on Letterboxd is something like "Every Single Movie Ever Made" or "Films Under 1000 Minutes Long" or "Movies With or Without E in the Title (Updated Regularly)".

03.05.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Popeye spouting wisdom.

Popeye spouting wisdom.

Popeye gets it.

27.04.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 13265    πŸ” 2748    πŸ’¬ 134    πŸ“Œ 97

β€œGreat leadership.”

09.04.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The microwave oven is an amazing piece of technology that can make a bowl as hot as the surface of the sun while simultaneously keeping your food ice cold.

09.04.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Lisbon airport's wayfinding signage to the rental car drop-off has taken five years off my life.

04.04.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s one of the default macOS screensavers on one of the latest versions.

01.04.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can’t believe the U.S. government pulled a β€œIn the Loop” mere days after I watched β€œIn the Loop”.

26.03.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote:

If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be?

In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote: If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

26.03.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5108    πŸ” 1292    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 66

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