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Chapter 59 of The Bright Side begins today!

This chapter will post weekly on Saturdays until 26 September 2026.

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An existential story about the friendship between self-assured normal human Emily, and the eternal and neurotic Death. They expand each others worlds, but what would it mean to save their friend Zoe...?

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#tbs #spiderforest #webcomics #webcomic #webcomic update #comics on tumblr #webcomics on tumblr #indie comics #the bright side #the bright side comic #death #slice of life #black and white #traditional art #pomegranates #trying a new synopsis idk im always just writing stuff idk how to summarise it!!!!!!!!!#zoe is also there and important #i should mention her sometimes #markus doesnt get a look in sorry markus

jaradraws

let me crawl inside your ribcage and 😴 snork mimimimi

#tlt #red and blue #inside out #sleepings

jayrockin

Why do the square sign language bubbles in rtts point at the mouth instead of the hands? My brain keeps forgetting that they're not talking when i see those.

Dialog bubble tails pointing at the rough center of the face is standard practice for comics and makes it much easier to quickly identify who's speaking. I occasionally point the dialog tail at places like Talita's trunk and a signer's hands but I only do it if I think it isn't going to make the dialog order ambiguous or the panel composition ugly. Ease of reading is always more important than being pedantic about the physical origins of language; a story is less effective if you're tripping the reader every other panel to hammer them with unimportant and repetitive information. Also, if you're fluent and watching someone sign your eyes are mostly going to be on their face anyways, since that's where a lot of important subtle signifiers are happening

quigleythecrow

As a linguist with an interest in sign myself, I have a uh, hobby, of collecting depictions of sign language in comics. As one does. I have found one specific instance where a Deaf artist preferred to point dialog bubbles at the head, generally, regardless of if it was signed or spoken. Other than that, I've found it's pretty evenly split between tails pointing at the mouth vs the hands. People do get REAL creative with stylizing signed dialogue/dialogue bubbles though, so really the key to readability is consistency of method.

I...have a whole powerpoint about this actually...

jayrockin

Yeah, being consistent with the visual language is most important. I have seen a lot of diversity in comic portrayals of sign as well, including among Deaf cartoonists, so I've gone with what feels to me like the best compromise between clearly delineated and fluid to read. There's more than one way to slice a cake though

#this also interests me a lot #sign languages #writing about writing #i went with normal bubbles but single guillemets around the text to indicate that it's a translation #idk if that's common ENOUGH to count as convention for translation exactly #but i see that a bit #and that's what i'm going for

the-eldritch-it-gay

“but shrouded black figures are scary!” not when ur muslim. its the funniest fucking thing. this is labeled on pinterest under shit like “classic horror” “scary phone wallpaper”

but that LITERALLY just looks like a niqabi or someone in a jilbab. Like Look at this pic of me (from a self photoshoot, now w/o the dramatic lighting and dark background)

or this pic of me

like its so funny i can’t be scared of shrouded figures it just looks like me.

the-eldritch-it-gay

if i saw this i would just be like “Assalam alaikum sister, dope sword you got there”

ultmateragnarok

I mean I think a part of the ‘scary background’ bit is the thing where the individual in question is staring directly at the viewer from a foggy pond in a dense forest. And also the literal burning halo

the-eldritch-it-gay

sounds like a normal Friday night. if a sister wants to go on a walk in the evening who am i to stop her. if she has a burning halo that’s the will of god.

#i love this post #photography #portraits #robes #death lol #i finally have a big black shroud robe of my own to be death/ringwraith-ish #i did try to take care to make it not look like im accidentally doing a dodgy cosplay of a muslim woman #theres too much of that in parliament or whatever...

i love having a buffer, it's SO NICE to be able to work through weird script/pace moments and my own moods without slowing down the posting, also love having regular parallel play times (even if i dont make it to them as consistently as would be good) to be like ok. drawing time. we are all drawing now

this post brought to you by the fact that chapter 60 was really giving me a wobbly about how to start it but it's good now 👍👍👍 (hacker voice) we're in

also brought to you by melbourne comic jam, hooray for melbourne comic jam

#woo #i also like the 'draw the whole chapter before i start to post it' for a) buffer and b) can go back and fix stuff if i need #and dont have to come up with the title image first #idk what it will be for this chapter #we will see #theres more tricky parts to come for this chapter but thats ok im compiling visual references about it #it was more a script issue to just... get started...#about tbs #chapter 60

frankenfossil

Fun and games on The Bright Side comic...

#evening rb

nemfrog

Astronomy sampler. The Gate Beautiful. 1903.

Internet Archive

#patterns #black and white #space

finderheart

I can't believe it took me this long to post these I finished this like nine months ago

An idea I had for Blood of Eden propaganda/recruitment posters featuring some of our favorite guys - combo of digital-print cyberpunk graphic design style with oldschool Saturday Morning Post covers like you'd see Leyendecker paintings on

I was gonna post these ahead of tabling at a small con and selling prints of them but ended up not tabling because turns out grad school is hard

maybe next year... figured tumblr would like though

#portraits #tlt #text

may12324

Its chapter 6 and Juniper is up to no good

may12324

Read my webcomic here

#fairydoll #comics

Fun and games on The Bright Side comic...

christopher-ratto

What is this witch doing at dusk?

#love herrrrrrrr #dragon age #dao #dai #da

pippinstook

oh what id give to go to ten forward and have a drink with guinan <3333

just a lil guinan doodle..... i wanted to practice the lighting in the original scene but idk.. i gave up

#star trek #no insp #g

wyrmwizzard

The moss ... it spreads 🌱

I've recently learned the french knot technique, and I'm Addicted. 'been using my new power to make psychedelic patches of moss around my 💀

#embroidery #moss

zegalba

Heiko Hellwig: Silicon Cities (2017)

Colorful Circuit Cities Built From Motherboards, Processors, and Microchips. Hellwig built these cityscapes last year using the guts of old MacBooks, IBMs, and even PlayStations that he scavenged from eBay and friends' basements.

#collage #colours #circuit boards #patterns

cheaphalloweencostume

im so sick of unnecessary dinner scenes in movies 😡 every fucking movie they just want to titillate you with some food because they think you’re a dumb animal who just wants to see mashed potatoes bouncing. if its an IMPORTANT dinner scene where they explain lore then whatever i understand. but they shove useless meals into every movie these days and its disgusting

#now that emily hangs out with people other than dee its like 'i guess they are going to socially consume foodstuffs again'#i say this as though it's been a recent story development lol #writing about writing

tokkibean

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

harpyharpyharpy

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

#i have such an enormous unwieldy document for tbs #my poetry however just languishes in a million unlabelled unsorted documents #tbh i used to do that for tbs scripts until uhhhh disconcertingly recently #and then i was like megadoc time #hoarder approach to writing #as with everything else tbh #writing about writing

ymutate

Phil Greenwood

Moon Lights, n.d.

https://www.wychwoodart.com/art/phil -greenwood-moon-lights

#umbels #yellow and blue #landscape

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