Allison O'Toole

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2026! 🎉

This is our second ever #MSWL Day on Bluesky. We’re happy you’re here!

You can, as of TODAY, search Bluesky and ManuscriptWishList.com posts at once: manuscriptwishlist.com/smart-search. All posts are verified by a human who works in publishing. ☕

Indie/webcomic/self-published and minicomic folks: there are Eisner categories for best short story, best one-shot, best digital comic, and best webcomic.

SUBMIT 👏🏼 YOUR 👏🏼 WORK 👏🏼

(but do it quick, deadline is 13 March)

The Rumpus is open again for submissions! Send us your previously unpublished emotionally resonant comics 💖

A shot from phantom of the opera of phantom and Christine kissing, with big yellow text reading “need ACHIEVED” and a party emoji

Text reading “Toxic Romance Roulette! Describe a problem in your life. How could someone solve that problem for you, if all morality was out the window?”

A shitty doodle of a blushing stick figure reading “you (winsome li’l human)” and a little devil waving with one bloody arm, labeled “sexy evil thing that just did you a solid”

no-context images I made for a slideshow in my genre fic class today

Wow this is very relatable content to me

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A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

An Exclusive looki inside the western graphic novel Cave Grave: Wild West Tales by Shawn Kuruneru from Oni Press #graphicnovel An Exclusive looki inside the western graphic novel Cave Grave: Wild West Tales by Shawn Kuruneru from Oni Press

An Exclusive looki inside the western graphic novel Cave Grave: Wild West Tales by Shawn Kuruneru from Oni Press #graphicnovel

2 hour delay on transmission.

"Free Palestine" -censored.

Poor guy who says the thing he fears saying most as a tic?

Top tier performers having racial spurs shouted at them?

Uncensored.

And of course the story is now about Black vs disabled as opposed to the amazing achievements.

One thing we don’t do well, societally or interpersonally, is digest harms when there really isn’t anyone to blame.

Being called a n*gger on international television in front of your peers is a harm.

Having a disability that creates that harm through no choice of your own is a harm.

How to be a Good Leader (as modeled by Kermit) - 8 page folded zine | Vivi Doodles! Get more from Vivi Doodles! on Patreon

New Zine on How to be a good leader as modeled by Kermit the Frog! Up on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...

I have a feeling the guys on LinkedIn are gonna love this..

I WISH Kaori had been able to secure the gold, I'm still gutted about it, but I'm also truly thrilled for Alysa--what a fantastic ambassador for the sport! Both women, and Amber Glenn, have been at the forefront of modelling a much healthier women's field than we saw at the last Olympics! My loves 💕

100%-If I hadnt made Adult Romance (thanks gumroad for banning it!!!) theres no chance @henrybarajas.bsky.social would have seen my work, let alone put me on Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco with him.
Its a cliche but its true, make the work you wanna make in order to someday do this professionally.

Congrats Neil!! This is going to be a classic in comics studies and craft!
Neil's research is on how understanding and reading comics (or sequential imagery) is a cognitive skill and process not unlike learning and reading a language. It's interesting stuff - worth a read for us working cartoonists

A shirt design/illustration of icicles looking like a cage, behind which several children are trapped and crying. The text reads "ICE IS INHUMANE"

A shirt design to raise money against ICE! www.bonfire.com/ice-is-inhum...
Proceeds from this shirt will go directly to NorCal Resist www.norcalresist.org
ABOLISH ICE

I just got my annual Public Lending Right cheque for Because Internet from the Canada Council for the Arts, so permit me a thread about what the public lending right is and why you should request books you love from public libraries!

Spin Rack Press: Risograph Prints Spin Rack Press is a brand new risograph micro-studio aiming to create riso-printed comics and zines, and you can help us get started!

The link to the kickstarter is here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi...

Text reads "Julie and Knack bought a riso, so now we need help buying some more ink drums" with a drawing of both artists holding up the risograph.

A pink and black risograph photograph.

@whittledraws.bsky.social and I bought a #risograph machine as a kind of spur of the moment thing! Now we just have to get the different ink drums to really get it running, which is where you come in! Check out our #kickstarter in order to get some magical fundraising prints! Link below.

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

infographic: "whoa there, pardner!" a fake bluesky DM i sent myself as an example says: "hi can u please not repost your own art so much. it's literally murder and oppression and hate crime that sometimes i have to scroll past things i've already seen". a displeased cowboy emoji is giving this message a thumbs down. infographic info continues: 'round these parts we curate our own timelines! if you don't want to see a post again, open the meatball menu and click "hide post for me." now you don't have to see it and no one has to feel bad!" (the cowboy emoji is now giving you a thumbs up. off to the side, there's a screenshot of the aforementioned menu with the relevant buttons circled in blue.)

this hasn't personally happened to me, but i've seen other artists here talking about it intermittently. so here's an infographic about a handy feature i think a lot of people are overlooking! #artsky #artistsonbsky

Screenshot of the 2026 Eisner Awards call for entries, dealine March 13 2026.

Eisner submissions are now open. My fellow comic creators, no matter at what point in your career you are, if you're making comics in any form, these awards are "For You" and you absolutely can be nominated. Let's get small press/self pub comics on that list! ENTER: www.comic-con.org/uploads/2025...

🥲🥲 we're all doing our best

BUT LOVE IS ALWAYS SELFISH, a dark sapphic comic with high school drama & vampire thrills is out!

Queen bee Annalyn Park has the school in her thrall, so why does this social butterfly stick to her dour roommate Maxine?

🩸 kmbrlei.itch.io/but-love-is-...

Lose SIGHT ahhh embarrassing

A photo of figure skater Mikhail Shaidorov with text proclaiming his win of the Olympic gold medal in figure skating!

Figure skater Mikhail Shaidorov in a hoodie next to a statue of Po from Kung Fu Panda in Beijing, China. Mikhail is copying the panda's pose with one leg kicked way up in the air

I haven't been able to stop thinking about the men's free skate yesterday and I understand /why/ the focus is on Ilia's narrative--my heart breaks for him, too--but I don't think we should lose site of the person who ACTUALLY won the gold medal!! Congrats, Misha!!!

YouTube video by Olympics The Best of Denis Ten at the Olympic Games | Top Moments

The legacy of Denis Ten, the first Olympic medallist in figure skating for Kazakhstan, is alive and well. It's such a tragedy that he couldn't see Shaidorov's victory, he would be so proud youtu.be/Wo8S6qbgmGU?...

call for freelance writers: ELLE’s culture section is open for pitches! i’d love to read your story ideas about tv, film, books, music, and art.

pitch guidelines/FAQ are in the form at the link in my bio (tap the link starting with “FREELANCE WRITERS…). please fill out that form with your info!