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John Martz

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

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RIP, Jane Goodall

01.10.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Being on the spectrum now means you take Skittles instead of Tylenol.

23.09.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Arthur Q. Bryan erasure in today’s #nytxw

18.08.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not real cmyk, it’s snake oil.

14.08.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You talk a big jorts game, Annie, but I’m not seeing any pics!!!

11.08.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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i believe that short form video is maybe one of the worst things people have ever come up with and it should be regulated at least as much as cigarettes

10.08.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1672    πŸ” 238    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 20

Things have simply not been the same since I upgraded C-2PO.

10.08.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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‘ 17    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‘ 5    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‘ 534    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‘ 21    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‘ 34    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

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