Jessi Eoin

@jbeoin.bsky.social

they/them 🌿 illustrator + cartoonist 🍄 changeling 🌼 jbeoin.com/newsletter 🌿 [email protected] 🍄 rep: @jenazantian.bsky.social‬ ✨

@jpawlik.com Oct 1, 2026, 7:42 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

Hey are you a comic artist on Tapas? Are you frustrated with the news?

Publish your Tapas comic on Itch.io (either partially or in full, even just 1 chapter) and submit it to the Tapas X Itch.io bundle form here by Oct 30th 11:59pmEST
forms.gle/QhQaJ4cXvXKT...
#Tapas

@chaseburns.art Sep 26, 2026, 8:32 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

My fourth font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This prompt was "Horror", as if that wasn't obvious! It has lots of alternate characters!
You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/scrawling-da...
#font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

there's a speech balloon that reads "Wanna hear how long I can scream? Aaaaaiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!!! Hold on, let me try that again..."

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

Uses opentype ligatures to switch up side-by-side duplicate characters. Vowels have 4 alternates! Alts can also be picked manually, for variety.

Displaying this feature is a speech balloon that reads "Thiiisss iiisss hooow slowwlllyy I caaaaan taaallkk" and 4 "urgh!"s with different alternate letters.

Good for sound effects (Maybe even better than for dialogue…). Demonstrating this are stylized sound effects that reads "Splat", "Aaaiiieeee!!!", and "drip drip".

another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font. this one displays all of the characters included in the font, with many alternates.

@chaseburns.art Sep 19, 2026, 7:11 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

My third font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This one's prompt was "Sci-fi"! It's very alien!
You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/turing-pest-...
#font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

An image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern.

There's a speech balloon reading "You’ll never be able to break through my alien technology firewall!" and a response that reads "Uhhh... can you repeat that?"

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

Another image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern. This one has a lot of unreadable text, which reads:

"The Turing pattern is a concept introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis", which describes how patterns in nature, such as stripes and spots, can arise naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state. The pattern arises due to Turing instability, which in turn arises due to the interplay between differential diffusion of chemical species and chemical reaction. The instability mechanism is surprising because a pure diffusion, such as molecular diffusion, would be expected to have a stabilizing influence on the system (i.e., complete mixing)."

- “Turing pattern” per Wikipedia

Another image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern.

There's doubled-up text in different styles that reads "Besides the regular style, there’s the more easily readable 'Halfways' style" / "And both of those styles have an 'Empty' version, which only has outlined shapes."

In a very unreadable style, there's a line of text that reads "It’s not very easy to read!!"

Another image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern. This one lists the four styles: Regular, Halfways, Empty, and Halfways Empty. It also displays all of the glyphs included in the font

@chaseburns.art Sep 13, 2026, 1:47 AMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

My second font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This time the prompt was "Fantasy"!
You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/thauma-heisler
#font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "Thauma Heisler", an obscure magical text comic font.

a sign set in the font reads "Abandon all hope ye who enter here," alongside speech balloons that read "That sign’s been there for quite a while," and "Isn’t it about time we got it replaced?"

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

another image displaying "Thauma Heisler", an obscure magical text comic font.

speech balloons read "Speak my name! Shazam!!", "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!", and "Let me clarify this. Taro, Caro, Salomon!"

Lowercase vowels are underlined.

a rotated caption box reads "Maybe rotate it to disguise the latin alphabet even more!"

You can type in all caps to get rid of the underline effect.

Double curly brackets {{ }} make breath marks with opentype ligatures, demonstrated by a speech balloon reading "Alakaza--(gasp) You interrupted my spell!"

another image displaying "Thauma Heisler", an obscure magical text comic font. this one lists the four styles: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. it also displays all of the glyphs included in the font

@chaseburns.art Oct 1, 2026, 7:58 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

My fifth and final font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! The prompt was "Font Selfie", so I made a font influenced by my own handwriting!
You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/cb-compositi...
#font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "CB Composition", a handwritten comic book font.

there's a speech balloon that reads "For this font, I took a page out of my own book… literally! Which is to say… the shapes are influenced by the quick notes I took in school!!"

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

another image displaying "CB Composition", a handwritten comic font.

There's a speech balloon reading "technically most comic book style fonts are handwritten, but what I mean is this is pretty sloppy."

OpenType ligatures make side-by-side duplicate letters different, for a more handwritten feel.

Some letters even have triplicate versions!

There's another speech balloon reading "Wheee!!! Ooooohhh?? Aaaaiiiiiieeee!!"

And for the discerning individual, alternate characters can also be picked by hand! Even the periods!!

There's a speech balloon that reads "and then I was all like, 'blah blah blah'.....", with highlighted letters, discerning which ones are alternate letters.

another image displaying "CB Composition", a handwritten comic font. this one lists the four styles: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. it also displays all of the glyphs included in the font

@chaseburns.art Sep 5, 2026, 7:27 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

My first font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! The prompt was "romance", even though the font doesn't traditionally look it...
You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/tell-em-shak...
#font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

@cartoonist.coop Sep 25, 2026, 7:39 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

Comics workers! We need YOU to contribute to this survey! Beyond page rates & advances, we also ask about con revenue, Kickstarters, subscription platforms, & more! To make positive changes in our industry, we need to better understand challenges faced by traditional & self-published cartoonists!

@cartoonist.coop Oct 4, 2026, 3:02 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

Loosen up and listen in, Oct 11! Connect your artist's mind, ear and eye, sketching along to an album. Find inspiration in melodies while choosing your own medium. Draw what you hear in this jam session hosted by A.C. Esguerra, followed by an optional show & tell to share your creations!

A graphic announcing the “EAR & EYE JAM SESSIONS” event, to be held on Sunday, October 11th, at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 7 PM GMT / 5 AM (Monday) AEST. The illustration is mostly black and ivory in a sketchy fountain pen style. On a page of sheet music, an inkwell with a coy, mysterious smile draws musical bars using a singing five-pronged pen nib. Text below reads: “Listen to a music album start to finish, draw what you hear”. Music notes stylized to look like eyes, time signatures and squiggles of ink decorate the page.

@cartoonist.coop Oct 2, 2026, 2:03 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

Wish you had a place to discuss your more macabre writings and horrific comics? Look no further than the Horror Genre Mixer! Join us on October 9th as, lead by Leon Crozier, we talk projects and inspirations as you get to know your like-minded peers. Art by Cally Leung

A grey and yellow event graphic featuring Nibford (a dip pen) and Inkling (an inkwell) shining a flashlight in a creepy room. The words illuminated announce "Horror Genre Mixer! October 9 @ 3PM PT / 5PM CT / 6PM ET / 10PM GMT / 8AM (next day) AEST" as an ominous shadow lurks behind them...

@bonedustpress.bsky.social Sep 4, 2026, 3:04 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

🌟 HEAVY ARE THE YEARS is now live on Kickstarter!! 🌟

This book is a Stardust Collaboration with @wildstarpress.bsky.social with a special collaboration from @gegallas.bsky.social of Open Book Chocolates!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...

@hellocloudy.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 6:14 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

shop update soon 👀🎃

Saturday, September 12th
8pm CEST

hellocloudyart.etsy.com

hand holding a ceramic plate peinted with an image of a black cat surrounded by pumpkins

hand holding a ceramic trinkrt dish shaped like a black and orange bat

hand holding a ceramic plate painted with and image of a black cat in a withc hat surrounded by pumpkin vines

hand holding a small ceramic plate shaped like a curled up sleeping cat with pumpkin vines painted on it

@wildstarpress.bsky.social Sep 4, 2026, 2:00 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

HEAVY ARE THE YEARS is now live and on kickstarter!

This book is a Stardust Collaboration with @bonedustpress.bsky.social with a special collaboration from @gegallas.bsky.social of Open Book Chocolates!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bonedustpress/heavy-are-the-years-story-collection

@aubryjoi.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 11:44 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

Littlefoot 🍃🦕

[ #cuteart #traditionalart ]

@cartoonist.coop Sep 9, 2026, 11:52 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

CartUn continues to collaborate in solidarity with UNITE HERE Local 25 as they seek a labor neutrality agreement to safely unionize!

Attending SPX? Don’t worry, read about 4 ways you can help support Local 25’s efforts:

journal.cartoonist.coop/stronger-tog...

(art by @amandajealous.bsky.social)

A drawing of Inkling and Nibford hold signs supporting the Local 25’s union organising efforts.

@prisonculture.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 1:49 AMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

"The Brooklyn Public Library will launch its first-ever craft library on Wednesday, allowing library cardholders to borrow art supplies for a variety of activities, including screen printing, bookbinding, metal stamping and hand embroidery."
gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

@mustachebabs.com Sep 9, 2026, 12:10 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

Today!

@jbeoin.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 12:09 PM

this is such a cool idea!! 😃💖

@cartoonist.coop Aug 31, 2026, 4:02 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

We still need more participants for our 2026 Comic Workers survey!

This survey is for both self-published and traditionally published cartoonists!!

If you make any kind of comics in the U.S., we want to hear from you!

Please take a minute to take the survey here: cartoonist.coop/2026comicwor...

@cartoonist.coop Sep 6, 2026, 2:01 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

It's a new week of the CartUn Letterer Challenge, and this time the theme is "Fantasy"! A team of adventurers just stumbled upon a witch's grimoire - what does this ancient text look like? Tag and share your work with us and get lettering!

cartoonist.coop/calendar/

Art by Cally Leung/BubblyErnie

A graphic announcing the prompt for week one of Cartoonists United's Letterer Challenge 2026. Nibford, dressed as a spellcaster, reveals the Letterer Challenge theme of "Fantasy" on an old scroll. Text reads, "September 6 to 12: A team of adventurers just stumbled upon a witch's grimoire-- what does this ancient text look like? Share your work and tag us! Join our weekly Art Huddle to share your progress!" A link to join the organization is shown as cartoonist.coop/join.

@cartoonist.coop Sep 7, 2026, 9:00 PMReposted by @jbeoin.bsky.social

Our incredible volunteer Web Dev team is so excited to show off the overhauled Cartoonists United website! This update showcases more of our labor advocacy work, the CartUn Journal, the CartUn podcast, as well as a brand new Worker Grievance Form!

Check out the new website here: cartoonist.coop

A screenshot of the Cartoonists United website.

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