Gabe Martini • Artist

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If you don’t know anything about me or my comic Just Us: Rex, this is kind of the perfect jumping on point for you!

There’s 19 pages of free comic in this one! WHAT?!

Check it out if you’re into that kind of thing! 🥰

URGENT: Following yesterday's public protests & our thread calling for everyone to contact their MP urgently here is some guidance on what you might say in an email.

This is not a time for thinking someone else will fix this. Please read, share and ACT!

www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...

In the meantime, as well as badgering your MP, may I suggest making a donation to a trans organisation like transactual.org.uk?

Also very happy to take suggestions of other credible orgs from trans folks.

The back of a black jacket with a white line drawing of a skull in a furry aviator-style hat. The eyes of its ski goggles have crosses through them and it is wearing earmuffs over the hat which have joysticks where the puffs of the earmuffs would be. The illustrator's name (Lillian Hochwender) is signed underneath. The jacket is on a bright orange background.

A blond-haired knight looks upwards at an ethereal yellow flame floating over their head, their hair caught in an unseen breeze. Layered over their silver armour is a singed white garment with a picture of two four-pointed stars. Over that is a dark red cloak with a darker turquoise interior, gold detailing and fur around the collar. There are images of crescent moons on either side of the cloak. There are two yellow plumes coming from their silver helmet. The background is a black arch shape surrounded by a dusky grey-blue.

A headline from The Gutter Review saying "Bringing the Past to Life: Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein at 40"

A comic page drawn by Gabe Martini, showing an androgynous white sailor floating under water while psychically talking to a sea monster. The sea monster isn’t fully visible, its many tentacles covered in glowing eyes. The page is colored in shades of blue and yellow.

Hi #PortfolioDay !

I'm Lillie and I love drawing weird & atmospheric stuff. I also write a variety of things including comics and essays about comics. ☺️ Please keep me in mind for future projects!

Portfolio (& contact info): bit.ly/2IJn6vl
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ligerlillie

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

They are cool with draining the grid and the aquifers if it means they can replace human labor. That's the whole story, and I wish we heard it told exactly like that more often.

“You will be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:

Here we go folks, the LAST DAY of the Just Us: Rex crowdfunding campaign and we are at an amazing 97%!
That means we’re less than $70 from our goal!
That’s CRAZY! This campaign has made me feel so much joy. I can’t wait for you guys to see everything this book has in store.

The Library of Congress has literally one gazillion public domain photos and illustrations that are free to use for your projects!
www.loc.gov/free-to-use

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.

More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):

1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇

1/10

Come on, UK people. Show your support from trans people. It only takes a few seconds.

Alien (1979)

I love Ripley. Alien (1979) #ProcreateArtist #fanart

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Bluesky Must Enforce its Community Guidelines Equally

It’s easy to look at the Jesse singal situation and think “not my problem” or “yeah hope he gets tossed but whatever”, but i do genuinely believe it’s important we make it extremely clear to Bluesky that this should not become a place that welcomes antitrans bigotry and harassment chng.it/GbrnQ7dkWj

Cropped image of a character wearing a yellow vest, a white t shirt that reads “princess”, blue trousers. They have a headband and mid length spiky hair. They are holding a black rod of sorts but the crop on the image is too close to tell what it is.

I’ve been sick these past few weeks so getting stuff done is hard but i’m testing out some colours on a v rough sketch

My favorite variant I’ve done for the year! Wonder Woman #18! Wanted her to look like a GLOW wrestler.

#dccomics

Eros. A poster in made for Inventaire. One of those images I almost abandoned before returning a year later to finish

Totally forgot to share him again on here but he’s a belated Krampus for Krampus night this week ✨🔔⛓️✨

Pin-up drawing of Midnighter and Apollo, in the likeness of Tom of Finland.

Cruising Midnighter and Apollo. You know they keep things spicy. 🌘☀️

AI for LOLs is still AI, lads

Opt the fuck out

Sorry to hear you’re going through this. You’re amazing, you’ve done so many cool stuff, hope you feel better soon! x

Sending all the good vibes your way. I’m also struggling rn, but we’ll get through it

When your own body turns against you, making art hurts twice as much. It’s soul crushing, but we power on.

This is so coooool! Damnn

I, along with many other artists have been wrongly placed on this list. I have never used AI in my work.

bsky.app/profile/info...

@amithompson.bsky.social @godivaghoul.bsky.social are at least a couple others I recognize.

damn it i feel called out

Aiight BOOM. 👏🏾👏🏾 My goal is to fill this pack with working Black artists who post regularly and are community active! Please lmk if you'd like to be added! #art #blackartist #blacksky #illustration #comicart #gameart #kidlit #conceptart

bandit pals

nomad/bandit gals for @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

flip that shit and liquify it until it stops looking like the face is melting is 90% of my art process

Support Just Us on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/justuscomic Support Just Us On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations

Hey I learned how to share links on Bluesky!
We’re currently 43% FUNDED and I’d love to get to 50% before the day’s over!
PLEASE if you’re able to, become a part of Team Rex and help this queer indie comic get made!
💖💖💖
ko-fi.com/justuscomic/

Screenshot of kofi goal page with the share button highlighted

Also I used the link i got from here, not sure if it’s all the same or not