Jim Rugg
@jimruggart
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True Crime Funnies, Hulk Grand Design, Street Angel, The PLAIN Janes, Octobriana 1976, Afrodisiac - illustration, design, comics
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Advance copy of my new Notebook Drawings collection from
@adhousebooks
arrived...debuts at
@ComicArtsBklyn
Nov. 8.
http://t.co/4Oq0XKm7WI
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Thanks for all the birthday wishes! Here’s a gift for everyone - Geof Darrow’s cover for Hulk Grand Design: Madness 1.
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Tell your comic shop you want a copy today!
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What does Hulk Grand Design look like under a blacklight? It’s giving off gamma rays! And yes, I have a blacklight in my kitchen. Don’t you?
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Thank you again to everyone who has supported this book. I am overwhelmed, humbled, and grateful by the response.
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Kid Hellboy after Charles Schulz commission - gory horror comics
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My new dream project, I mean book has been revealed! Hulk: Grand Design - March 2022. Celebrating 60 years of Hulk! Hear all about it and check out some art here:
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Usagi Yojimbo and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — ballpoint pen on notebook paper
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Hulk Grand Design
@EdPiskor
variant cover announced!
#Hulk
#HulkGrandDesign
#edpiskor
#march2022
#incrediblehulk
#wolverine
#cartoonistkayfabe
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Hulk Grand Design
@peachmomoko60
variant cover announced!
#Hulk
#HulkGrandDesign
#peachmomoko
#march2022
#incrediblehulk
#shehulk
#cartoonistkayfabe
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Retailer question: Is Hulk Grand Design: Monster 1 standard comic book sized or oversized? It is standard comic book dimensions but twice the story length - 40 pages of dense comics!
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Advanced copy of Hulk Grand Design showed up today. Thanks
@Marvel
and thanks to my fellow Pittsburgh and
@CartoonKayfabe
Grand Designers
@EdPiskor
and
@tomscioli
I’m humbled, grateful, and excited to share it with everyone. In shops 2/22. Order your copy today!
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Hulk Grand Design: Monster 1 - preorder it this weekend from your local comic book store. I used every drawing supply I own - markers, paint, digital, ink, nibs, brushes, color pencils, and ballpoint pens! Let your comic shop know you want one! Kayfabe effect! Thanks.
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What a
@CartoonKayfabe
weekend! ComicsPRO was amazing. Meeting comics retailers was electric! So many brilliant, dedicated retailers are responsible for today’s comics golden age and they have a lot of ideas to sell more comics! THANK YOU, comics shop owners and retailers!
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I made a blacklight Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles screen printed poster with
@Nickelodeon
and
@iam8bit
Super limited. Available NOW.
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I drew a variant cover for
@Marvel
X-Treme X-Men 2 - an homage to Jack Kirby’s original X-Men cover.
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Exclusive
@CartoonKayfabe
: the great
@artofmmignola
on
@IDWPublishing
Batman: Year One! The Artist Edition from IDW is NOT to be Missed!
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Hulk Grand Design Marcos Martin variant cover announced!
#Hulk
#HulkGrandDesign
#marcosmartin
#march2022
#incrediblehulk
#cartoonistkayfabe
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November 15th Dutch 0 from
@imagecomics
@nathanfoxy
#joecasey
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This is my variant cover of Chap Yaep’s Team: Youngblood character - Dutch!
#1993
#ballpointpen
#notebookdrawing
#youngblood
#coverart
#cartoonistkayfabe
#comicbookart
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I drew a cover for X-Men Legends 2. I used notebook paper and ballpoint pens!
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Morning warmup - Master of Kung Fu corner box (with screen tone)
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Today marks 3 years of
@CartoonKayfabe
Thank you to everyone who has watched our videos, shared them with friends, sent books, added to the comics talk, and of course - the great Geof Darrow! Read More Comics! Make More Comics! Year 4ever starts now!
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Hulk Grand Design: Monster Madness - prepping files for print. Preorder yours this week at your local comic shop!
#kayfabeeffect
@CartoonKayfabe
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Hulk: Grand Design
March 2022
#ballpointpen
#hulk
#makemorecomics
#incrediblehulk
#notebookdrawing
#ballpointpendrawing
#granddesign
#cartoonistkayfabe
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Doom Patrol - Robotman, Elasti-Girl, Negative Man, and "The Chief" - the World's Strangest Heroes!
Ballpoint notebook commission
#HeroesCon
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Hulk ballpoint pen sketch cover. Have you preordered Hulk Grand Design: Monster 1 and Hulk Grand Design: Madness 1 from your local comic shop?
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Hulk Grand Design: Monster 1 - March 2022!
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Tell your local comic shop! Show
@marvel
what the Kayfabe Effect is all about!
@cartoonistkayfabe
#MakeMoreComics
#ReadMoreComics
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Did you miss my TMNT blacklight screen print? An artist proof is available today - Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation benefit auction and includes a gift certificate for framing. Please share and consider donating to this great cause. Thank you:
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Spinner Rack Girl
11 x 17 in. Ink on Bristol
I’ll be
@heroesonline
next weekend. Hope to see you there.
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A Christmas miracle?! Thank you
@PhilipTanArt
for a gorgeous Street Angel piece. I want to read a whole story that looks like this! Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Cover art - Red Room Crypto Killaz 1
@EdPiskor
@fantagraphics
@CartoonKayfabe
Homage to
@robertliefeld
and the
@ImageComics
revolution!
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Hulk Grand Design: Monster orders due this weekend. Last chance to tell your comic shop to order a copy for you!
#kayfabeeffect
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Today’s
@CartoonKayfabe
Understanding Comics’
@scottmccloud
shoot interview! We talk about comics, making comics, comics history, creator rights, 24 hour comics, Google comics, APAs, and drawing every day! Enjoy -
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Mike, let’s do
@CartoonKayfabe
shoot. Your craft and influence are an inspiration. I can’t wait to dig into it with you and talk comics and cartooning for other cartoonists and fans!
@EdPiskor
&
@jimruggart
(who I've worked with) ROCK! They've featured a few of my gigs, & it's always surreal, reflective & encouraging. That & the
@DarkHorseComics
#MADMANiverse
Library, has me looking back studying/assessing my wide swings/goals over the years.
#StayOnTarget
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World's 1st Blacklight Comic Book
MTSYRY: Octobriana 1976
Preorder this psychedelic outlaw comic today!!!
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Final order cutoff 1/24. ATTN Kayfabers - preorder Hulk Grand Design: Monster this week at your local comic book store! Kayfabe Effect.
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My NEW comic is now available CONSPIRACY COMICS 1.
3 complete stories:
Pittsburgh’s Greatest MYSTERY, Kerry Von Erich vs Ric Flair in a steel cage, and the WAR ON DRUGS!
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Tell your local comic shop to order Hulk Grand Design today! It’s gonna be super cool.
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Steve from Stranger Things commission.
Want your own commission?
Details here:
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Mohawk Storm cornerbox drawing - ink, screen tone, acrylic paint. There’s a video of this on the
@CartoonKayfabe
channel. Thanks, everyone that hung out during the drawing.
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The Maestro! from Hulk Grand Design: Madness! April 2022. Pro-tip — preorder this one when you tell your local comic shop you want Hulk Grand Design: Monster.
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I made a cover for
@EdPiskor
@fantagraphics
RED ROOM comic. Here is a post with sketches, notes, inks, and other details about the process:
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Thank you to everyone who preordered Hulk Grand Design!
@marvel
has extended FOC thru February 7! So order your copy this week! Could this be a number 1 seller? Not without you!!! Kayfabe effect! Tell your local comic book shop to order Hulk Grand Design! And again - thank you!
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We’re looking at Judge Dredd 1 (Eagle Comics) on
@CartoonKayfabe
so here’s a Judge Dredd cover I drew for
@IDWPublishing
Video link in bio or
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PETER LAIRD!!! Today on
@CartoonKayfabe
PETER LAIRD!!! Peter Laird Shoot Interview! The Co-Creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Joins the Boys!
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Books about making comics from one of several book shelves.
#MakeMoreComics
#CartoonistKayfabe
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Ed McGuinness’ cover for Hulk Grand Design: Madness 1! Preorders are due this week. So tell your local comic shop which one you want - McGuinness, Rugg, or Darrow covers available - and remind them to preorder this book! Kayfabe Effect!
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New comic book cover for Joe Casey,
@nathanfoxy
and
@imagecomics
DUTCH 0! This was a ton of fun and is available at finer comic shops now! Ballpoint pen on notebook paper with a dash of 90s nostalgia!
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Today on
@CartoonKayfabe
Peter Laird and
@kevineastman86
get back together to talk Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles history as we flip through issue 2! Witness history!
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Cats out of the bag - here’s my variant for Red Room 3 from
@EdPiskor
and
@fantagraphics
original art and process post on
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Here’s the finished drawing. Come to
@fcfcomics
this Saturday to win it and to pick up the new Street Angel: Deadliest Girl Alive book from
@ImageComics
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and much love to you and yours! Enjoy the Street Angel XMas Special comic here:
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My NEW comic book TRUE CRIME FUNNIES debuts
@heroesonline
June 16-18! Drugs! Wrestling! Pop Art!
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Shogun Warriors ballpoint pen drawing was my first ballpoint pen drawing. I drew it for the 2011
@heroesonline
auction. The response was good and it was fun to draw so I’ve been drawing them ever since. I just drew a new one for my next comic but I can’t show that to you yet!
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“My dream project is to make the greatest Hulk comic of all time.” - from my proposal for Hulk Grand Design
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Today on
@CartoonKayfabe
see how it turned out! First LOOK at Hulk Grand Design —
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You didn’t think yesterday’s
@CartoonKayfabe
video was all, did you? Today,
@kevineastmantmnt
and
@peterlaird1
hang out and supply us with anecdotes from when they put TMNT issue 3 together. Witness comic book history.
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In the early 90s, young
@robertliefeld
set the comics world on fire!!! The legendary comic creator tells us about his start in APAs, New Mutants, X-Force, Extreme, Alan Moore...plus his NEW podcast Robservations and his GIJoe comic - Snake Eyes!
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Rick Veitch is on the short list of cartoonists who inspired me on this path! I found his indie work in the 90s and it rewired my brain and what I thought comics could be! He’s a giant!
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Hulk 3:16 says Preorder Hulk Grand Design: Monster at your comic shop!
In stores March 16, 2022
#hulk
#hulkgranddesign
#cartoonistkayfabe
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How to Draw Walrus Man. May the 4th Be with You. From Notebook Drawings 2011-2012
@adhousebooks
and
@iam8bit
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Today’s the day!
@CartoonKayfabe
Comic Book Christmas in July. Share some comics, by any means, around your neighborhood!
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RETAILERS, don’t forget to order your copies of HULK: GRAND DESIGN - MONSTER
#1
by Monday, February 7!
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Kayfabers, please remind your comic book retailer to order copies of Hulk Grand Design this weekend. Kayfabe Effect. Thank you.
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Usagi Yojimbo (created by Stan Sakai)
Ballpoint on lined paper
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See you
@baltimorecomics
this weekend!
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Fantastic Four Grand Design by
@tomscioli
and
@Marvel
- hear all about it from Tom himself in this exclusive
@CartoonKayfabe
interview:
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Help — graphic novel recommendations for a kid who loved Dog Man but is now a couple years older? Thanks!
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We had a chance to ask
@sinKEVitch
some questions
@heroesonline
this year. You can see his answers on
@CartoonKayfabe
YouTube here:
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Have you watched the Stephen Bissette interview on
@CartoonKayfabe
It will brighten your day and make you a better cartoonist!
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