@jojabarker.bsky.social
Big 🍎 Hoosier • ✊🏻 • He/Him • #Cartoonist -- Go to http://linktr.ee/jojabarker for my most recent publications, while my website http://jojabarker.com is a Comic of an introduction!
Growing up to make Funny Books.
15.05.2025 20:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Haven't listened to this since Groove Shark was a thing! open.spotify.com/track/6fX7s3...
16.02.2024 22:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02 (series) finale's I'm carrying with me:
Loki AND Doom Patrol
I love me a good character arc of a super selfish, self-centered figure right-sizing themselves to be present in what counts!
Go "Tin Man"!!!
(...oh, and "Time God" 😘)
New Cryptid Creator Corner podcast
@jimmygaspero.bsky.social is chatting with Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz and Ryan Best about their crowdfunding capes comics project RISE.
This cover y’all… .
🎧 - apple.co/47xeRIl
Happy New Comic Book Day, it's the FINALE!
Pushing through all those negative thoughts, all of the discomfort, making Comics no-matter-what and discovering, "To thine own self be true!"
#jojabarker #Cartoonist #MakingCoimcs #OnePanelAtATime #NCBD #Webcomics #Mascot #BeTrueToYourself
Timely Comics bullpen, card game, 1948
Timely Comics, 1948. Poker game after work.
Note they've flattened out a drawing table on which to play cards.
Artie Simek, front, facing the camera. Syd Shores back center. Right of him is David Jaffee, Al's kid brother. Al worked at Timely, too.
Bitches on Comics graphic for Episode 171: Equally if not more nonbinary featuring Ben Kahn
I had so much fun talking to the Bitches on Comics podcast about my new middle grade novel Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend! We get into nonbinary storytelling, creating power sets, Riverdale, more Riverdale, and so much more! Tune in where you get #podcasts. bitchesoncomics.com/episode-171-...
14.11.2023 19:35 — 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Happy A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate
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A screenshot of the DSTLRY hall map, with our logo pointing to our table
It’s almost @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social time! You can find us in DSTLRY hall, D13! See you there, chums!
06.11.2023 10:53 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
New Cryptid Creator Corner comics interview podcast drop with WordBros Bob Frantz and Kevin Cuffe chatting about their new Nad Cave Studios project Skeeters
New Cryptid Creator Corner podcast 💧
@jimmygaspero.bsky.social is chatting with @kevincuff.bsky.social and Bob Frantz about their new @madcavestudios.bsky.social projects Skeeters
🎧 - apple.co/47kDmbR
Another week, another 2+gutter panels! #SwipeLeft #Webcomic
An odd update: First image is technically two panels cobbled into one, while the other is its own, bridge-like caption portal sucking ya into the finale!
Next update will be the wrap up...or, is it?!? #Website #Mascot
Season Finale of LOWER DECKS?!?
...well, looks like another series for me to catch up on cuz y'all are raving about this one!
I just finished GEN V (was that a finale??), and staying up-to-date with FRASIER.
Just saw Season 2 of INVINCIBLE dropped.
What am I missing!?!
I’ll be talking Spawn on the Todd McFarlane Discord this Friday at 9pmEST.
discord.gg/meHtrBPZ?eve...
$21 away from 3K! That’s halfway towards our funding goal sorted! From there it’s nothing but up—stretch goals and more! You know the drill: Go here👉🏻 www.kickstarter.com/projects/sxb... Art by @lizprincecomics.bsky.social and other stuff by me! Viva Summer Camp! Viva Comix!
02.11.2023 23:29 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Deadlines are over, so finally had time to listen to @davidharper.bsky.social’s Off Panel podcast with @ericafails.bsky.social about our book PARASOCIAL — it’s a really fun interview. Erica is the best. open.spotify.com/episode/0D01...
02.11.2023 23:40 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Art mantra
02.11.2023 22:37 — 👍 1823 🔁 528 💬 19 📌 19New favorite couple:
Negative Man 💘 Mr. 104
Continuing my weekly updates, the next two panels from my website, jojabarker.com, I further explore that Comics is truly a great fit for me(!)...but, those lingering doubts are sure as heck hard to shake!!
28.10.2023 03:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just finished episode "How to Build an Audience" and now gonna wrap up "Surviving the Churn" on Comic Lab with @guigar.bsky.social & @davekellett.bsky.social via Spotify:
Brad & Dave bring the same caliber of humor and expertise as NPR's Car Talk -- for Comics!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If you feel taking constructive notes, working to improve your craft, & respecting your collaborators is stifling you/your art, then comics aint the industry for you.
Comics is *group work* where we all try to tell the best stories we can together.
This is a general message, but if it stung you 🤷🏾
BUT, not only am I still trudging across that plateau of the tedious monotony, I am using this new found confidence to muster a courage (like those of you who are better adjusted to the Making Comics carnival) to juggle both a collab w/ Jon and my own TWO, forthcoming works! /fin
26.10.2023 04:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Then, a recent (¡finished!) New Yorker style project rejuvenated confidence in "quick sketch" drawings that gave way to new ideas -- only to further exacerbate the former symptoms... 4/
26.10.2023 04:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0...y'all recognize such symptoms: Itching for new, fresh ideas, but dread of the potential guilt that another project slips into a pit of The Unfinished! 3/
26.10.2023 04:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's those beginner butterflies that I'd love to release outta their cocoons before they're fully formed!
One project is so, SOOO close to being launched, but that tedious monotony of its plateau of the just-gotta-get-through-it is weighing me down more than I'd like... 2/
A) Still can't manage to turn out the light before midnight -- I could've been asleep almost an hour ago!
B) I wanna share all that I'm currently working on, but jinxed myself too many times by talking prematurely...
C) I really want to share what @jongorga.bsky.social and I are gonna be up to! 1/
It's almost become a cliché at this point, but I can't get this poem out of my head today. Sending the best to everyone grappling with... everything. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...
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