Heather Maxwell 🔆

@hamfist

Sometimes I get paid to draw. Sometimes I don't, but I draw anyways. If you don't know why you're following me, read my comic in my pinned bloot (I think the posts here should be called bloots). 🏳️‍⚧️

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Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· 6d

Marvel, I dare you

Photoshop mockup of a Spider-Man comic cover using Chris Juhn's photograph of some guy in Minneapolis dressed as Spider-Man getting ready to punch out Jake Lang on the back of a pickup truck

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Jan 27

Picture of an old post from Mike Primavera from 2019 reading "My neighbor told me coyotes keep eating his outdoor cats so I asked how many cats he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new cat afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding shelter cats to coyotes and the his daughter started crying" which I have altered to read "My opposition party told me CBP keep breaking laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just passing new laws for CBP to break and the his DNC started sending me texts asking for money"

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Jan 20

Share a television show that raised you.

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Jan 11

What four classic video games to you find yourself replaying no matter how old they are? These are mine:

Image from the game Timberborn, showing 2 beavers overlooking an idyllic beaver city

Image of the box for the PlayStation 2 version of Katamari Damacy, depicting a cow standing in front of a city and a mountain, with a large Katamari dwarfing the city and mountain, but still under a rainbow

An image of the compact disc for Sid Meier’s Civilization IV

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Jan 3

Who’s your favorite super-hero? (Without saying Batman or Spider-Man) For me it’s the Red Tornado, for a bunch of weird personal reasons, but also because he never lets being completely exploded stop him from coming back to fight evil for more than a few issues

Who’s Who page of the Red Tornado (the 2nd one (the android)) drawn by Carmine Infantino (although I think the costume was designed by Dick Dillin)

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Dec 28

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Nov 25

"he looks more like a comic-book character"

Panel from Dark Knight Returns of Two-Face by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley, but that one panel that shows how Harvey views himself in which both sides of his face are disfigured

Panel of General Immortus from an issue of either Doom Patrol, or My Greatest Adventure, probably drawn by Bruno Premiani

Panel of Professor Ivo from Justice League of America #218, pencilled by Chuck Patton and inked by Romeo Tanghal. Colors by Anthony Tollin.

Panel of Prune Face from the Dick Tracy comic strip, presumably by Chester Gould.

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Sep 23

What video game do you consider perfect?

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Jul 17

Screenshot of the account heading of the SWERF mentioned in the original post - a handy labeler has indicated she is a follower of Brianna Wu and Jonathan Chait

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Jul 13

I got this when I had to stay overnight at the hospital after hitting my head at school. They used to do that to make sure you didn't have a concussion; I don't think they do any more. In the end, I didn't have a concussion, but I remember this wraparound cover. Just not any of the stories inside.

The cover of World's Finest #255 from March 1979. On the cover, a green, winged swamp monster is holding Superman aloft while Batman is being pushed aside by an alternate Batman in the foreground. Batman is saying "I'M HELPLESS! THE LIVING BAT-GOD IS DESTROYING SUPERMAN!" to which the alternate Batman is replying "THEN ONLY THE ORIGINAL BAT-MAN CAN SAVE HIM!" while a caption below asks "WHO-- OR WHAT-- IS THE ORIGINAL BAT-MAN??" The alternate Batman's name uncharacteristically has a hyphen in it. On the back cover, still part of the larger image, Captain Marvel, Black Canary, Green Arrow & the Creeper can be seen rushing to Superman's aid. A caption box promises "IN THESE PAGES-- THE WORLD'S FINEST SUPER-HERO SENSATIONS-- SHAZAM! BLACK CANARY! The CREEPER! GREEN ARROW!" Abve the actual tile of the comic, trade dress proclaims "68 PAGES! ALL NEW! NO ADS! NON-STOP COVER-TO-COVER ACTION! 4 FULL-LENGTH FEATURES!" In the bottom corner, a triangular caption advertises that "YOU COULD BE A WINNER IN THE SECOND SUPERMAN MOVIE CONTEST! DETAILS INSIDE"

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Jul 6

What movie did you see way too young. I was sleeping over at my grandma's and this was on TV.

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Jun 26

This one

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Jun 14

QRP with your header art!! Mine is a detail of the 1st age of a comic I put up on the internet roughly 6 months ago. You can read it for free at hamf.ist!

$A pencil drawing in blue monochrome of a profile shot of a young short haired child in a plaid short sleeved shirt. The child's head is in silhouette. Within the silhouetted head, a pink monochrome brain is depicted as being split in half by a lightning bolt shaped fracture. Blue energy effects radiate out from the pink brain and out to the edge of the page. A caption near the bottom of the page reads "When I was 11, I broke my brain."$

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Jun 5

HO IN YOUR DRAGON

Picture of a Metro bus in Los Angeles traffic - a “How to Train Your Dragon” ad covers the left side of the bus, but a window has been lowered, so some of the ad is not visible and it appears to read “HO IN YOUR DRAGON”

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· May 21

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?

Screenshot of Babe from Babe Pig in the City, specifically from the scene where he turns on the bridge to the dog chasing him and plaintively asks "Why?"

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Apr 30

That's all just preamble to me announcing that I got a new nameplate yesterday. It's early days on the show so so far it's just a generic studio nameplate, but plain as it is, I think it's my favourite.

Nameplate from my new job - A square grey nameplate with the logos for, from left to right, Cartoon Network Studios, Warner Bros Animation & Hanna-Barbara Studios Europe. Under the logos is my name, Heather Maxwell.

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Apr 30

I don't remember when I started doing that, so I don't know if I have any from my earliest jobs. The ones I do have are scattered all around my garage, but I found 2 of the best of them to post here as examples.

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Apr 30

Somewhere along the 30ish years of working in animation I started making a habit of grabbing the nameplates from my various office doors and cubicle walls as I left, just to have something to keep as a memento of each specific gig.

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Apr 26

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Mar 29

Here’s a screenshot of this congressperson describing herself as a “Constitutional conservative“ on Twitter.

Screenshot of Rep Victoria Spartz’s post on Twitter. The text reads “As a Constitutional conservative who believes that government’s main job is to PROTECT equality of rights and the rule of law I will never let my fellow Americans down for appeasement & political messaging, regardless who is in charge - Pelosi or McCarthy”. There is a picture of her attached. The screenshot was taken at 1:34 when my phone battery was at 27%.

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Mar 21

If you see this, post your green #art 🌱

A post-it with a drawing of Jessica Cruz, aka Green Lantern, from the TV show DC Superhero Girls. She is surfing through space on a green power ring projected surfboard. Beside the post-it are 2 markers, 1 black and 1 green.

4 index cards arranged in a grid formation - on each card is a Ninja Turtle, drawn with a green sharpie, except for their masks, whish are drawn in the colours appropriate to each Turtle. 4 markers are placed above the cards - the lime green Sharpie that each Turtle's body is drawn in, & 3 other Sharpies - 1 red, 1 orange, 1 blue.

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Mar 12

Newsweek picked some weird graphics for their child marriage graphic - you wouldn't know this was an article about child marriage from the images. I did a little bit of work in Affinity to fix it, but it doesn't really convey the appropriate sense of coercion.

A map of America, withy the states color-coded based on where child marriages are most prevalent. Newsweek, in their original graphic, added clip art images of a groom and a bride with their backs turned on the left, and a masculine hand putting a wedding ring on a feminine hand's ring finger. I resized the bride and the feminine hand in both images to be much smaller.

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Feb 22

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 20:

A tilted panel showing a rotting, grinning, one-eyed, green-skinned character happily shouting "TWIST ENDING!"

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Feb 21

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 19:

A long vertical caption reads "FLESH AND BONE TWIST AND WARP IRREVOCABLY UNDER THE UNFORGIVING INFLUENCE OF THE INFECTIOUS HORMONE'S UNDENIABLE ENERGY, FORCING A SERIES OF BIZARRE AND GROTESQUE PHYSICAL TRANSMUTATIONS!"

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Feb 21

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Feb 20

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 18:

The words "My editor thinks you can skip these two pages anyways." are contained within a pink frame composed of brain matter.

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Feb 19

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 17:

A single-panel comic strip in black & white. A cherubic girl character is holding her hand out intersecting the dotted outline of a missing, larger cherubic character. The text reads "love won't... ...fill in the blanks of a missing partner."

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Feb 18

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 16:

Picture of a child in an oversized blue smoking jacket with yellow trim leaping out of a large salmon-coloured chair. The child is saying "NOPE! I'M DONE DECIDING STUFF!"

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Feb 18

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations & no judgement. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 15:

A series of word balloons emanating from an old lady offscreen. They are arranged in something of a choose your own adventure style. The 1st balloon reads "This is your son? Oh, but..." leading to 3 choices, either "...his hair is so pretty..." or "...his eyes are so beautiful..." or "...his eyelashes are so long...". From those 3 balloons the line can finish with 1 of 2 choices, either "...it's wasted on a boy!" or "...he should've been a girl!"

Heather Maxwell 🔆@hamfist· Feb 16

A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. I stole this line from Jack Kirby, but I can't find the source again for proper attribution. It's either from New Gods or Thor, I think. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #QueerWriters Day 14: