Pocket Bear Press

They're fairytales for adults, fantastic and mature, sometimes harrowing, but always flowery and grand and lush and expansive in ways that have made me stop and go "...wait. 🤨" more than once.

The accusations make sense, if you get me.

Anyway, start with the "Tales from the Flat Earth" series.

This is your occasional reminder that, if you like Neil Gaiman's stuff, but can't bring yourself to like it anymore for justifiable reasons, Tanith Lee is the author he is credibly accused of extensively cribbing from, and her work is on Audible, and AMAZING.

warm up sketches

small panel with a rollicking crowd of 3rd class Titanic passengers

Look what I do to myself! Why. This is the psychosis of comic artists.

The image depicts a comic. Panel one shows the main character lying in bed with a heating pad. Panel two shows the same image, but now a cat has appeared on the heating pad. Panel three shows the same image, but a second cat has appeared alongside the first on the heating pad. Panel four shows the same image with two cats on the heating pad, one dropping from the ceiling, and one entering through the window.

spash panel of 3rd class Titanic passengers entering via the stairs.

Me: I'm going to make things a little easier by doing a splash panel instead of 5 panels

Also me:

Imagine how many terrible comics comics you could publish for $77 billion.

Finished The Gospel of Carol by @longtalljodie.com and utterly enjoyed it. Rambunctious,irreverent, iconoclastic, feminist, and told with both snark and heart. As much as it lampoons the characters and storylines, it genuinely cares for them, too. Some genuine bittersweet moments for me.

Some sort of weird chicken. #mousart

In many Western tales, you're taught to slay your monsters. In ours, you dance with them. You heal them. Our film is in its final days on Kickstarter: bit.ly/croc-dance-ks

#Kickstarter #animatedfilm #crocodiledance

Hey all,

The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.

Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.

You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

Sweet, Kingdom is now serialized on the Shonen Jump app.

Fanart by Sfé of the sphinx and four of the black rabbits from the stop motion Pinocchio movie.

Fanart from the stop-motion Pinocchio. It had a lot of character designs that spoke directly to my soul.

🦋 #sfedrawing #fanart

You never know. A long-dead civilization in the Andromeda galaxy could have taken a photo and transmitted it tens of millions of years ago and it's about to arrive.

The cover page. An apartment building on a street corner.

A page where the guys walk around back of the building.

An ogre in a sweater greets the guys at the door.

I'm making Around Bear Corner, a comic about queer life and magical realism in the 21st century.

The hardest part is OH MY GOD I HAVE NO TIME. I wanted to be done with this chapter months ago.

PocketBearPress.com

Drawing of DC Comics character Aquaman swimming at the viewer at dangerous speeds. Why so fast? Slow down, Sea King.

Detail of a drawing of DC Comics character Aquaman. I don't care if he doesn't have the beard in the comics right now, let me have my fun.

AQUAMAN.

It's true.

Google maps showing me in a condo in a different time zone

Hey so my phone is suddenly thinking it's in Saint-Hubert, Quebec? At a specific condo?

Exploded-view Gameboy art piece.

UNSOLVED MYSTERIES OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE:

Why did Tony Stark keep Iron Man's identity a secret from Happy and Pepper for so long when it just made their jobs harder?

Dear Publisher - We recently shared the news that Baker & Taylor was shutting down operations. When we learned they were financially unstable, Ingram took many steps to reduce credit exposure and stock levels, while continuing availability of books to library customers. Those steps were highly successful and the credit balance to the account was brought down significantly over time. At the time they shut down operations, their remaining stock on hand was minimal. Unfortunately, we have received notice that they will not pay the outstanding amounts they do owe and no further stock will be returned. Ingram is taking on the first $100,000, but the debt owed exceeds that amount. As a result, a chargeback for your pro rata share will be on your December statement (available the first week of January), per the terms of your contract.

With 6 HOURS LEFT in the ⭐50% OFF⭐ sale, I'd like to remind folks that we are confirmed Private Equity Collateral Damage & will be taking a hit on payouts from our distro, Ingram.

ICC will be absorbing the loss, NOT billing artists, so we would appreciate your patronage today!

store.ironcircus.com

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WRITERS! Want to troubleshoot, level up your work or learn a new medium? Bring joy back to your writing practice or come back from burnout?

I have openings for coaching clients! Drop a line to jay.edidin(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject COACHING QUERY for a free consultation!

I can't believe he's 28. ( We only count years since you first posted a webcomic now)

Gonna have a big fat fabulous husband if you keep this up.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the PlayStation 4 has the most unintuitive design ever. Need to turn it on or eject a disk? Just poke the strip on the front that looks nothing like a button until something happens!

X-Men predicted this crap 40 years ago. Right down to it being forced on everyone.

I tried that last year. Did you know there's only two routes to the store and they can back up that entire side of town? Thankfully, I committed to giving up right before the last tun off.

That is some 90s comic book hair.

An image of Storm from the X-men, a Black woman with shock-white hair and eyes, weaves wind and lightning with her hands.

Noodling around with this Storm illustration for fun. I haven’t worked in this style in a while.

This reminds me of when my local bank put up a billboard stating "This buyer's market is making history!"

In 2009.