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Sean Knickerbocker

@rustbeltreview.bsky.social

Cartoonist, editor of Rust Belt Review, animal enthusiast.

518 Followers  |  403 Following  |  115 Posts  |  Joined: 26.07.2023
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I’m seeing lots of AI cover art for small press books these days. Feels bad, man.

27.01.2026 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Scrooge from Muppet Christmas Carol: You there, boy! What day is it?

Bean Bunny: Why, it’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil, sir!

Scrooge: Then I haven’t missed it!

Scrooge from Muppet Christmas Carol: You there, boy! What day is it? Bean Bunny: Why, it’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil, sir! Scrooge: Then I haven’t missed it!

24.01.2026 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5394    πŸ” 680    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 9

People are terrified here in a way I’ve never seen before, and the right is reveling in it. Every opportunity for cruelty is being taken.

10.01.2026 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I say without exaggeration that Minnesotans were dancing in the street when he lost in 2020

10.01.2026 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As an American, I’m formerly inviting any outside regime to kidnap or terminate any criminal leaders of this place.

03.01.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chat GPT desperately looking around an airport when making up a name: uhhh, your child’s name is…. (Sees newsstand) Hudson. Yeah, Hudson….(sees man with sunglasses) Oakley. Hudson Oakley!

02.01.2026 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wrapped up my Seventh Seal + Magic the Gathering parody this week! Read the whole thing in this thread.

29.11.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You just can’t emulate a nib line.

25.11.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd say our country decidedly is pro-sex abuser.

18.11.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
During a baseball game, an umpire gestures for Spider-man to leave the field. Spider-Man walks away followed an anthropomorphic brick wall who is captured in his webbing net.

Umpire: I'M KICKING YOU OUT OF THE BALL PARK, SPIDEY. AND TAKE THAT WALL WITH YOU! EXIT

Panel from Spidey Super Stories #8

During a baseball game, an umpire gestures for Spider-man to leave the field. Spider-Man walks away followed an anthropomorphic brick wall who is captured in his webbing net. Umpire: I'M KICKING YOU OUT OF THE BALL PARK, SPIDEY. AND TAKE THAT WALL WITH YOU! EXIT Panel from Spidey Super Stories #8

02.11.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 706    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

Listen, protest however you like. It’s none of my business. But I do immediately think you’re a Nazi if you are carrying the American flag.

18.10.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On my website I have an extremely limited supply of my new graphic novel Best of Three. Grab one while it lasts. Comes with a free riso print cuz I'm very nice like that. Ur Welcome.
www.seanknickerbocker.com/store/best-o...

13.10.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified πŸ˜‚

07.10.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 222    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

lol, this has to be some sort of op

06.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Social media and crowdfunding have turned cartoonists into small business tyrants who are unable to show solidarity for workers or other cartoonists.

06.10.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Have you tried the donut vending machine?

06.10.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The act of mass shooting is inherently radical right wing behavior. I don’t need to dissect a manifesto or a profile to know that. Studying a shooter’s politics feels like a nation wide effort to cope with the fact that we’ve given up on any actual gun control policy coming to pass.

29.09.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I often think of the time some guy tried to run over me and a bunch of protesters outside an ice facility back in 2019. It was clear to me that they would have no issues with killing peaceful protesters. It kinda shifted my mentality on what was actually necessary to stop them.

28.09.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Silver Jews!

28.09.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My phone is basically nothing but a spam machine at this point. This is what I’m paying for.

26.09.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

let it be known that my position on Bret's right to free speech has never changed.

24.09.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nah, I went to CCS years later, it was an art school down South.

24.09.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited for my latest and most ambitious comic, Black Arms to Hold You Up, to come out Oct 7 thru @pantheonbooks.bsky.social . You can cop pre-orders thru you local bookstore, anywhere books or sold or thru the pub’s link: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671968...

14.09.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œOoh, can you put it on speaker? I want to hear 911 laugh at you.”

14.09.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4008    πŸ” 738    πŸ’¬ 172    πŸ“Œ 47

I’m already hearing rumors of this behavior. You messed up big time.

14.09.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s like a 100% overlap on the venn diagram of liberals who ignore genocide and liberals who defend Charlie Kirk, so no surprises on my end.

14.09.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you find yourself on a 19 hour grayhound busride from SPX back to whatever challenging reality you find yourself in, please know that art will nourish you, and you have every right to make and appreciate art.

14.09.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only with the right credentials and the right class affiliations could you experience, make, or learn about art.
The DIY scene was a direct contradiction to this notion.
Through shows like SPX, I learned that anybody can make art and that art was a nourishing and essential force. Not a luxury.

14.09.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0