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Working at Revolutions Bookshop in St Johns, Portland today.

#independent bookstore day

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TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

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AI is not just a content or surveillance issue; it’s contributing to global ecological crises.

#ecology #nature #environmental impact #environmental crisis

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I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

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#nightmare on elm street #tedwardbak #movie review #the dream master #freddy krueger

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After a quick family trip home to Colorado I caught my train (California Zephyr) out of Denver’s Union Station on Friday. Passed thru desert in Utah and Nevada before a long layover in Sacramento where my good friend and fellow cartoonist Rita Sapunor took me out to Locke — a postcard of a tiny river town full of character and rowdy-ass bars and old boardinghouses. We visited the bookshop/antique shop and the Chinese lottery museum then caught a phenomenal show at a tiny venue with the locals. Unreal.

Made it back to Sac for a quick bite then my northbound connection (Coast Starlight) with time to spare. Woke up in my seat the next morning with a view of Mt Shasta. Later scored an old railroad spike beside the train yard in Eugene when I stepped momentarily down from the coach for a breath of fresh air.

Bak home in St Johns for now. Travel over the Rockies and Cascades and Sierras and thru the deserts and along the coasts always puts my soul in a place it wants to be.

#sierra nevada #rocky mountains #travel #train travel #sacramento #desert #utah #nevada #oregon #boarding house #sacramento river

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Just fyi on May 1 I am leaving Instagram and FB and am posting from now on exclusively to Tumblr and my Patreon.

#spiritrealm #tedwardbak #illustration #artists on tumblr #cartoonistsontumblr #naturecomics

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Arief Rachmad

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Dean Ellis

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Christoph

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Follow @pal_portrait_project on IG

#freefreepalestine #permanentceasefirenow #endsettlercolonialism #endimperialism #usoutofthemiddleeast #tedwardbak #illustration

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New risograph covers for my REMOTE VIEWER comic premiering at the Permanent Damage comix event hosted by Floating World Comics in Portland OR August 26 2023.

#tedwardbak #floatingworldcomics #permanentdamagecomix #illustration #drawing #risograph #remoteviewer #comics #comix #esotericism #babalon #remoteviewercomix #telesthesia #spiritrealm #Spotify

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Bookmark designed for Revolutions Bookshop in St Johns, Portland OR

#bookmark #illustration #tedwardbak #bookshop #stjohnspdx #revolutionsbookshop

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Revolutions Bookshop.

St Johns neighborhood, Portland OR.

#bookshop #illustration #drawing #interiors #tedwardbak #stjohnspdx

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The first Sea of Time #1 review is incredibly generous. Courtesy of Charles Hatfield at The Comics Journal today:

“I can’t tell whether this is a continuation, companion, or sequel to Bak’s Island of Memory, a nearly decade-old (2013) graphic novella with the same subject: Georg Steller, the 18th-century German naturalist who traveled under the aegis of the Russian Empire and explored Alaska and Kamchatka. Bak has been obsessed with Steller for years, and has long promised a complete graphic biography of him under the title Wild Man. He has referred to Sea of Time as the second volume of Wild Man, but also as “the serialized graphic novel follow-up to Island of Memory.” I don’t get how the two books fit together, or what is supposed to come next. What I do know is that both books are lovely, and that, taken by itself, Sea of Time is hermetic and hard to parse, but stunningly beautiful and transporting. I’m glad that more Sea of Time is promised, because no one else is doing quite what Bak is doing at the intersection of comics, history, and the natural sciences. He treats comics as a way to feed his knowledge of the natural world yet is likewise alert to the political and cultural snares inherent in his subject matter, especially the fraught interchange between imperial and Indigenous ways of knowing. Bak’s sharp, rugged style somewhat evokes the woodcut technique of early Russian lubki, which could be either an apt or ironic framing of the imperial adventurism that underlies Steller’s story. In any case, Bak’s art is getting lovelier, and his graphic worldmaking is something to behold. At only 24 pages, this booklet makes me impatient to see more!”

#comics #illustration #art #drawing #ecology #nature #naturecomics #thecomicsjournal #comicsreview #tedwardbak #islandofmemoryseaoftime #seaoftime #alternativecomics #floatingworldcomics

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Drawing for a new hand-made print partially based on the illustration Voici La Figure de L’esprit from Le Secret de La Poule Noire (1820) which I found referenced in Grillot de Givry’s Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy. Possibly the beginning of a small series.

I call this drawing The Summoning. It refers to the conduit and geographical consolidation of occult power at the California coast (redwood, Pacific coast and coast range) — which is a historic locus of spiritual and supernatural activity.

#summoning #mysteryreligion #naturespirit #art #illustration #drawing #pencildrawing #occult #occultart #occultdrawing #magicworking #coastalcalifornia #cartoonistsofinstagram #tedwardbak

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I painted six of these today.

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