But then I accidentally had a spare minute, so I decide to join in with the October inking. Who knows if I’ll do one a day. I decided I wasn’t going to go the batober route (Chris Samnee has that locked down) the robotober month (Ian McCaig will destroy you) or Dreddtober (that’s my day job!) so I went with Ben Templesmith’s Helltober, 2023.
I did something similar the last time I did Inktober, though, but tried to find obscure horror old b&w horror movies (which included Creature from the black lagoon and a few others from this list)
Yesterday I banged out a little Noseratu, and I added a funny little motivational poster sound byte to it and I thought I’d spread it out to all my social media what have yous and see where it does best. And. Well. At time of writing on X (the formerly useful social media platform known as twitter) I’ve had 22 likes, on bluesky, that was outpaced early on with low numbers and then… then Neil Gaimen reskeeted it and boom – I’m currently sitting at 1.2K likes.
I’ve been on bluesky for a bit (certainly not as early an adopter as I was of twitter) but there really has been a remarkable ramping up of the numbers over there. It’s also – at least for now – filled with comic pros. I’m not saying twitter isn’t still a useful platform, but as musk shaves off the features reducing any chance of a decent reach (I have 14k followers on twitter, and that image has been seen by 888 people, 22 of whom have liked it) making it much much less useful. If that had happened without some viable alternatives I think we’d be sunk. I do wish mastodon had gained traction, but it’s slightly sticky techy start and extant userbase of linux-beards and complexty around picking a server made it … unattractive for people who just wanted a quick alternative to twitter. Bluesky, despite or because of the invite system – who can say – seems to have picked out a lot of the creative industry and is only growing. Sure they’re not the people who buy your work, but it’s just nice to be surrounded by people you know again.
Anyway, blogtober day 2!
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