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Paul Fricke

@opauloart.bsky.social

Blood Orange comic https://www.newdaynoir.com/ • MCAD Comics prof • Alex Toth In Depth program host

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Drawing? What’s drawing?!

05.12.2025 20:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DRAW

05.12.2025 20:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for joining class! Good feedback from students 🤓👍

14.10.2025 19:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Gene Kelly Summer Stock dance gestures • JUMP FOR JOY!

17.09.2025 20:02 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Back at it: 40 pages of breakdowns on Blood Orange. Time to draw some more comics.

Read previous chapters or purchase your own print copy of Vol. 1 at www.newdaynoir.com/shop

20.08.2025 14:46 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Enough.

15.08.2025 20:21 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides."

— Junichiro Tanizaki

13.08.2025 19:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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NOIR frame/composition study

THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948)

12.08.2025 21:10 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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mum

11.08.2025 21:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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bagel shop sketch 5

09.08.2025 18:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Gratitude builds a bridge to abundance."

— Roy T. Bennett

08.08.2025 15:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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don't B- B+

07.08.2025 15:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

😂

06.08.2025 14:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like near twice the size, I’m told.

06.08.2025 14:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So, it's been revealed - DC will release July 2026 the HC collection - DC UNIVERSE BY ALEX TOTH: THE DELUXE EDITION.
The powers-that-be tell me the cover shown from the Penguin Random House’s online catalogue is but a stand-in. And it'll be many more than the 200 pgs cited in that listing.

06.08.2025 14:14 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2
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bagel shop sketch 4

04.08.2025 16:10 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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gymgnostic gestures

03.08.2025 16:56 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thankee Mike!

03.08.2025 16:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WATCHOUT

01.08.2025 16:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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bagel shop sketch 3

30.07.2025 17:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grace. Class. Respect.

RIP Ryno

29.07.2025 22:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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full drawing ->

28.07.2025 18:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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bagel shop sketch 2

28.07.2025 18:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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While in CHGO recently, met up with a group of artist pals. L-R: Alex Ross, Jim Engel, moi, Jim Wisniewski, & Hilary Barta. Superb pizza, top-notch chats 😎

25.07.2025 16:34 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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bagel shop sketch 1

24.07.2025 17:52 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thx Mike

17.07.2025 22:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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on the rocks

17.07.2025 15:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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genuinely

16.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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a life of adventure can take its toll

14.07.2025 21:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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