People are odd.

"Holiday bookings to Japan from key Asian markets have plunged ahead of the busy summer season. The cause: rumors of an impending earthquake prophesied in a manga graphic novel.

"Social media and viral posts have unsettled travellers and renewed attention to manga artist Ryo Tatsuki’s prediction of a huge earthquake that would inundate Japan with tsunami waves. Tatsuki, whom some claim predicted Japan’s 2011 earthquake, gives July 2025 as the date of the impending event in a graphic novel that was first published back in 1999."

#japan #quake #earthquake #ComicBook https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/travel-news/asian-tourist-numbers-to-japan-are-plummeting-a-comic-book-is-to-blame-20250526-p5m268.html

I sent a message to a local printing house asking their general pricing for printing a comic book (approx. 70 pages, hard back/paper back, full color, heavy paper weight, glossy) and might just turn out that printing locally may be too expensive after all...

Unless I hit a jackpot and can do printing and delivery, since not sure any Finnish company does print-on-demand where people can order their own copies.

I've been trying to find the #ComicBook that #TheEternaut is based on but I'm having little luck. Guess I'll go straight to watching the show
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-netflix-eternaut-scifi-dystopia-milei-dictatorship-5c4b14d54e42fb7bc75f409a0280cda4

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore

Oh, oh, I forgot to mention that this one is also by a Black artist.

In Your Black Friend and Other Strangers, Ben Passmore masterfully tackles comics about race, gentrification, the prison system, online dating, gross punks, bad street art, kung fu movie references, beating up God, and lots of other grown-up stuff with refreshing doses of humor and lived relatability.

https://store.silversprocket.net/products/digital-download-your-black-friend-and-other-strangers-by-ben-passmore

cover of Ghost Rider #17 by Mark Texeira (1991)

art from Savage Dragon #13 by Jim Lee (1994)

cover of The House of Mystery #316 by Mike Kaluta (1983)

art from Armorines #8, cover by Jim Calafiore, interiors by Jose Delbo (1995)

cover of Spawn #323 by Todd McFarlane (2021)

Silver Surfer poster from Wizard magazine #59 by Ron Garney, 1996

This X-Men battle scene painting I finished last month is still available Msg me if you're a fellow X-Fan and want to put this rad acrylic painting on canvas up on display in your place Very fine deal on it too

Here below is one of the four #sketch designs I did for a comic book fan in California who wants a Spider-Gwen #painting. I made him several different concept #sketches so he could choose which one he liked best.