Ira Marcks

Comics, Creepy | SHARK SUMMER (2021) | SPIRIT WEEK (2022) | SCHOOL NIGHT (2026). Podcast @feelingcartoons (he/him)

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

Hi, I'm Ira! I make graphic novels for MG readers. I teach comics on Skillshare. I podcast about cartoons. Find out more here:

👋 https://t.co/36A2C8LRWX

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

How am I celebrating the JAWS 50th anniversary? With a tour around the setting of the shark movie that inspired my shark book in the setting that is celebrating its 50th anniversary!

[Mark Crilley @markcrilley]

Here's a simple way of making your pictures appear 3-D. I've been using it for many years, and it has always served me well.
#howtodraw #drawingtips

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

My next kid graphic novel is about alchemy and I got a bit obsessed researching just so the book could have a readable transmutation formula. It's important to inspire young readers and I believe my work can be a gateway for a new generation of niche, underemployed academics

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So my next book SNAKE SCHOOL, about two kids who discover the lost formula for transmutation, is having production woes and got bumped to 2026. 😭 Who knows what the world will look like when this thing comes out. The only bright side is - alchemy never goes out of style.

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

@Noonmarkart Thank you! Yes, it's a simple 3d sculpt w/ a bit of spacial lighting, everything else is drawn on in clip studio.

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

A little further down The River

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@Noonmarkart damn 🖤

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

"Tree of Life, Tree of Death. Is there a difference?"
- Cosmic Cat

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

Yes

[Mark Z. Danielewski @markdanielewski]

But where is Hobbes?!💙

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

I have now fulfilled my childhood dream of working in the effect department of a low budget 1950s sci-fi movie. I'm out of Dawn dish soap but it was worth it.

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

"Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind, forces pulling from the center of the earth again" - pretty good lyric from that song Lightning Crashes by that band LIVE

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

You know that Stevie Nicks song Storms? Track seven on Tusk, I think. That's a really good song.

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

@Noonmarkart so true!

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

Mer-row 🐱

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My new year's resolution is to make scary comics for kids and that's it.

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

@rachel_sala Thanks! More softness is my new years rez

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

Suddenly realizing this drawing I've been working on today is about getting lost on an experimental art journey with no land in sight.

[Ira Marcks @iramarcks]

Happy Talking Animals Night everyone