David Revoy

🍄 Webcomic Artist • Fantasy humor
🌱 Weekly comic strips (Wed) • Longer series brewing in background
🎨 Only use Free/Libre & Open Source tools • CC-licensed • No AI

🔗 Blog/Shop/Support:: https://www.davidrevoy.com/linktree/

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2026-08-27 09:49:13 UTC

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+1 Breizh
Smartman, don't get me wrong, I would love to believe in this poll's results. But in my local reality (at weddings, in my repair garage, at the restaurant, on week-end) when I listen to my non-technical peers, it contradicts this poll.
To me, this 175K of votes (minus the 10% who voted "pro AI") is just the result of active link shared in communities informed about AI issues, and activists (love them, btw, no problem here). Also, 175K is not a lot.

2026-08-26 16:24:48 UTC

The Minions of Avian Intelligence
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/067.html#bonus
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-08-21 12:17:34 UTC

Monthly report for July is out!
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1167/monthly-production-report-for-july-2026
I'm sharing making-of and behind-the-scenes stories, unpublished visuals, and news about all my background projects. I also share (as usual, without paywall) high-resolution images, timelapses, brushes, layered files, tutorials, hardware reviews and more on my websites.
Thank you for all the comments and your amazing support! Let me know if there's an aspect of my work you'd like to see in my next month's report.
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2026-08-19 17:21:05 UTC

The Aesthetic Rebellion
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/066.html#bonus
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-08-17 19:06:30 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hbons/117099208164126991
Disgusting. Pausing my volunteer tablet driver contributions and any future Linux-related work until The Linux Foundation grows a bit of ethics. If they don’t change, I’ll look elsewhere.
#note15cm…attw

2026-08-16 19:23:10 UTC

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No, but I found in my most recent post I could put the video timelapse as the last media in the caroussel of pictures ( after all comic panels) and it reduced drastically the AI accusations, label or not. I'll just continue this way. If you find anything, let me know!

2026-08-05 19:45:04 UTC

New blog-post: "When online commenters 'detect' my art as AI"
→ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai
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2026-08-05 16:09:36 UTC

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Her fictive painting? The largest resolution I have for this color sketch is https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/temp/2026-08-04_gothic-sorceress-fictive-painting.jpg
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2026-08-05 16:01:12 UTC

Authenticity Problem
Bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/064.html#bonus
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-08-03 15:56:30 UTC

It feels good to draw these two again for the next MiniFantasyTheater!
#screenshot #krita #linux
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2026-07-31 15:40:52 UTC

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For reviews of a couple of model, I try to do that on my blog: https://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?tag/hardware
My advice for the best quality/price/linux-support non wacom model with a display: the XPPen Artist Pro 16 (Gen 2) .

2026-07-31 15:38:27 UTC

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on Fedora, the package "udev-hid-bpf" as dnf is also very up to date (being a Red Hat project),via dnf, you can make supported this list of devices: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/udev-hid-bpf/-/tree/main/src/bpf/stable?ref_type=heads , or these one already supported in kernel https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/hid/bpf/progs .
Don't trust their proprietary driver, it's buggy , and more on anything Wayland. Don't also trust the one who will tell you OpenTabletDriver, it's a userspace driver conflicting with many DE's feature and settings on Wayland.

2026-07-31 13:46:01 UTC

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oh no. I just saw the news about the missile. Do you know if they sent the alert in all the country? Or only in the regions nearby the frontier with Ukraine?

2026-07-29 22:02:59 UTC

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Au contraire, je pense que c'est un phénomène de délire de masse pour divers raisons et pathologies non traités (eg. des psychoses ordinaire sous jacente et différent niveau de paranoïas)

2026-07-29 16:17:59 UTC

🔥
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/063.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-07-29 08:44:41 UTC

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Oh yes, I'm also in the "confused" boat right now. My early decision is to keep it (just all brands, festival, publisher are still looking at IG metrics as if it was gold, and all other metric as if it was nothing), and continue to build elsewhere my online presence.

2026-07-26 11:10:00 UTC

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Également enfumé sur Montauban. Je vois difficilement le coteau d'en face 😶‍🌫️

2026-07-23 13:35:30 UTC

I’m sharing a bit of my trip this week with my mobile Krita/KDE Neon Linux workstation. Tiny samples from the train, Wikimania conference, and the hotel room! Producing my weekly comic this way was challenging, but I’m really glad it worked out!
#krita #kde #train #wikimania #wikimania2026 #paris #painting
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2026-07-22 15:37:38 UTC

Chill Out
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/062.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-07-18 12:34:32 UTC

For Instagram, my art is "Likely made with AI". Hard to be an artist in 2026...
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2026-07-16 18:54:54 UTC

While I wrapped up the video editing for my review of the massive XpPen 27" (coming soon on the channel), I started filming shots for the XpPen Artist 12" 3rd and... I just had to share this because it’s just too cute! I don’t regret choosing the pink model. 🩷 :blobaww:
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2026-07-15 21:40:02 UTC

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🥇 ← Médaille d'or du meilleur jeu de mot sur cet épisode, décerné par moi et @npub1742…48nv qui à fait la trad en français! ( et qui me gratifie souvent de petit gag de traduction avec les MR https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/webcomics/-/merge_requests/1316 )

2026-07-15 18:10:31 UTC

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📝 Edit: "North Pole" → "South Pole".
Reason: As pointed on the comments (thank you), no penguins in the north. TIL! (src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin#/media/File:Penguin_range.png )

2026-07-15 17:56:53 UTC

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But this rule works on earth only, no? :) On Hereva, the world of Pepper&Carrot, they probably exist on the north-pole.
(note: Thank you! I had no idea about no pingouin on the north-pole 😅 🐧 🐧🐧🐧)

2026-07-15 17:51:48 UTC

Magic Portal
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/061.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-07-15 16:16:16 UTC

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Note: I edited "(because ignoring)" to "(because unaware)" ; just a English skill issue of mine, 'Ignorer" in French means unware (or disregarding depending the context) but in English it's only a solid choose to disregard. A false friend, and a common mistake for a French. (and thanks to the quick PM I immediately received about it. 😉)

2026-07-15 16:07:33 UTC

I'm sorry. Yesterday I reshared Morevna's derivation animation without considering (because ignoring) their support to Russian state propaganda during the Ukraine war (src: see https://awawa.club/notice/B8KQeteAjwfTJAYUEq or comments under my boost).
I let flattery, and my familiarity to this team blinds me, and boosted without studying it. That was a mistake.
To clarify: I don't support that AT ALL.
Thank you to those who pointed this out. I apologize for not thinking critically and will do better next time.

2026-07-08 17:11:33 UTC

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Yes! This is the fifth episode with them :pepperandcarrot: , I'm drawing Pepper when she is 9 years old in MiniFantasyTheater, before the events of the series Pepper&Carrot
I added a tag recently to list them:
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater__Pepper-and-Carrot.html

2026-07-08 16:52:47 UTC

Summer Witchcraft
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/060.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-07-03 17:29:15 UTC

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Yes, and a heavy one too. Very interesting about the Wacom movink15; usually Wacom share the spec, so 6 month (or so) after the release of a new model on the market (and on rolling distro) they are plug and play.
But I'll review also next month a 12inch from XpPen and a 11" from Gaomon that are also targeting this market: the one of the screen display tablet for less than 250$ , and with a single USB-C for power and data.

2026-07-03 17:16:59 UTC

Just contributed my first drawing-tablet driver! 🎉 It is for this giant XpPen Artist Pro 27 (gen2) I received (sponsored in exchange of a review on my channel). I adapted the existing specs of the 16" and 19" and it taught me so much, from compiling to submitting a MR. Everything now works perfectly on my GNU/Linux KDE Neon Plasma... Feeling accomplished! Review video coming soon!
MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/udev-hid-bpf/-/merge_requests/243
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2026-07-01 09:08:10 UTC

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AA ?
@npub1f3y…fezh

2026-06-30 10:41:43 UTC

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En tout cas, avec un minimum de recherche, on voit que cet article flatteur est la formule de l'auteur (src. https://muckrack.com/nolen-jonker/articles ).
Donc v'là la crédibilité de "independent test confirms". 🤡 Le pourcentage est sortie comme ça de nul part, sans métrique, au feeling.
Ayant été professeur de Photoshop en haute école d'infographie pendant des années avec des centaines d'élèves, et ayant accompagné l'équipe de Krita depuis 2010, je pense que ce 90% est exagéré, malheuresement.

2026-06-24 16:47:20 UTC

Adventure Calls (Clearly)
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/058.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-06-22 20:19:33 UTC

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It's user space driver, and they usually conflict with higher layer and have limited option on the D.E (and often conflict with it). Also possible lags (from my tests). Something I notice with dozen of hours of drawing per day. I wrote a bit more about this type of driver here, chapter "d. User-space drivers " : https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1145/interim-install-guide-kde-neon-user-edition-for-a-professional-digital-painter-workstation#d-user-space-drivers

2026-06-22 16:30:15 UTC

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Yep, at least if I come back to them with the repo renamed and assuring them they are open community project without Wacom leading them and hosted on freedesktop or something neutral like that, maybe I can convince them to join back.
Unless it was just an excuse, and deeper, Huion is happy to sell XpPen/Gaomon/Ugee the development of their proprietary Linux driver. Might be a source of income that contributing to an open-source could break if each brands become independent after that.

2026-06-22 13:28:58 UTC

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Yes, I read that the Wacom drivers for recent Windows or Mac doesn't include anymore old models. It's a chance they are still plug and play on Linux.
It's thanks to something like that, that I got my color-calibrator Xrite Colormunki for cheap. A user was selling it for very low because the hardware had no more driver on their Mac. While it works perfectly on Linux. :blobaww:

2026-06-22 12:41:28 UTC

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Yes, for long Wacom also had the patent for battery-free stylus by magnetic resonance, and that's how they did monopolise the industry. Once the patent was expired, not that long ago, maybe less than 10 years, we saw many new brands arriving on this market.

2026-06-22 12:17:23 UTC

Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux FLOSS Drivers
After investigation; Gaomon, XpPen, and Huion won't collaborate on open-source drivers because of outdated naming conventions. Here's what I learned from direct contact with their technical teams, and what I plan to do to move forward.
Link to article: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1154/why-drawing-tablet-brands-wont-collaborate-on-linux-floss-drivers
#linux #drivers #tablet

2026-06-20 15:45:25 UTC

Just revamped my self hosted "link tree" page: a new look and easier access to my webcomics. It's a single HTML file, public domain: feel free to fork and customize it.
https://www.davidrevoy.com/linktree/

2026-06-18 18:21:46 UTC

New blog post: Monthly production report 2026-05: KDE NEON install guide, a long making-of and Italy
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1153/monthly-production-report-2026-05-kde-neon-install-guide-a-long-making-of-and-italy
#MonthlyReport

2026-06-17 16:27:33 UTC

The Nest and Travel Souvenir
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/057.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-06-10 18:14:09 UTC

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I'm sure many derivations were done around the Baba Yaga tales from Russia and eastern of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_About_Baba-Yaga

2026-06-10 15:36:43 UTC

Home Sweet Home...Sort of
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-05-30 21:47:17 UTC

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@peha/116664981255610188
"Meet Carrot, our cat: a tribute"
:blobcatheart:
#note18hq…pmy9

2026-05-28 17:56:11 UTC

Dryad, a poster illustration for the Geek Faeries Festival.
#krita #illustration #digitalpainting #fantasy #dryad
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2026-05-27 16:19:08 UTC

Finally, a quest worth doing
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/054.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-05-25 09:42:33 UTC

Hey, next week (May 30th to 31th), I'll be at the Torino Comics festival in Italy, meeting the "Silly Studios" publisher on their booth (Zona Chiostro, Pagoda P10). If you are around, come to say a hello and get a signed and sketched copy of the paperback volumes of "Pepper & Carrot"!
See you in Turin!
https://torinocomics.it/
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2026-05-24 14:18:04 UTC

A new "Exquisite Corpse" collab! This time with artist the @npub1a0m…ejy5 (left), and me (right). The theme: animals. Fun! fun on the Fediverse :fediverse: :blobcatheart:
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2026-05-24 13:31:08 UTC

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Plop! Et voici ma partie de droite 😊
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2026-05-24 10:08:03 UTC

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By the way, I should probably update my article with a graphic representation of this 'death valley' 😆
Joke aside, in the Wayland era, the D.E. controls the color management and the tablet handling. (before on X11, we had CLI tools for that, that could work on all distro, not anymore). That's why now the choice of D.E. and its version is far more important than the choice of distro, imo.
The 26.04LTS has a descent Plasma version. Maybe a sweat LTS ecosystem once Snap removed (2/2)

2026-05-24 10:02:11 UTC

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Yes for OpenSuse, used it 10y ago for maybe 1 month, I appreciated their home made custom settings, but disliked the focus on server ("uptime funk" era and ewww the communication of Lunduke).
I then went to Arch at that time. Never tried Alma or Rocky. I guess they suffer the same situation than in Debian: frozen right withing what I call the "death valley" 2023~2026 ; when X11 got more bugs unfixed, and Wayland isn't ready enough. (1/2)

2026-05-23 16:59:44 UTC

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2/2 Yes, Linux dev in general needs to look at "pro gamers" rigs, "pro video editor", "pro game dev", and more hyper specialized PC install because having all this possibilities would just enrich the ecosystem for every users with all their complexity (I don't believe in the myth of the "average user"...).

2026-05-23 16:57:42 UTC

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I wish it could! Any attention on this part is good.
The computer graphic scene is so large and with deep expertize... game dev, 3D art, movie editing, optic science and at multiple level too (hobby, learning, professional).
Also many users enjoys having an OS allowing them to do a bit of everything on their computer: music, video editing, art, code, writing and don't crash on a limit if they start to get hyper specialized in one area. 1/2

2026-05-23 14:12:29 UTC

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My blog is back! I went into the logs to see the RSS code was the main culprit: huge and with 14K RSS bots hitting it over the last 10h.
So, I simplified the RSS because, meh: I was sending the full content of the article with 10MB of pictures and the code was dynamically converting the markdown to html, then html to special char, *each time* 🫠 hm hm, no wonder...
Now the website is back and up to speed, and the article received over 60K visitors, thank you!

2026-05-23 10:22:07 UTC

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Quick mirror of my article on my other server: https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2026-05-23_KDE-Neon-for-digital-painter-guide_mirror/ because my blog is in a overload situation, too many visitors, I hope it helps!

2026-05-23 09:30:18 UTC

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Oui 😅 Désolé, Je viens de regarder les logs du serveur: le lien tourne fort. Même très fort. Le serveur distribue mais en situation claire d'overload. Le temps d'accès est très long depuis hier.
C'est flatteur en tout cas après tout le travail dessus. Merci pour le message!

2026-05-23 02:28:55 UTC

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Yes, unfortunately, Debian 13 is one of the distro that is in the "valley of death" of being released with not good enough Wayland tech; and X11 support starting to be neglected and buggy... That's a shame, I really liked my years on Debian!

2026-05-22 17:31:40 UTC

:linux: After months of testing, weeks of writing, here is finally my new full Linux install guide: "Interim Install Guide: KDE Neon User Edition for a professional digital painter workstation": https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1145/interim-install-guide-kde-neon-user-edition-for-a-professional-digital-painter-workstation
Everything about Drawing Tablet, Color Management and Calibration/Profiling on KDE Plasma 6 Wayland, and all to survive the packaging mess with eg. built-in tutorial to revert version of Flatpak, scripts to beta-test Krita, and more!
The most complete article I ever published!
https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/116/619/385/936/326/170/original/3513274dcae3c0dc.jpg

2026-05-21 20:04:33 UTC

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😍 Nice! Thank you for taking the full pack!

2026-05-21 09:20:20 UTC

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ewww. He bien idem. Bien dommage, va falloir sans doute que je m'adapte et si ça devient un évenement pro-AI que je passe mon chemin.

2026-05-21 09:05:02 UTC

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Je suis curieux, comment c'est visible? ( celui là https://capitoledulibre.org/ ? Ce n'est pas du "Sealioning" comme question, tu sais que je suis pas pro-AI du tout du tout, mais vraiment de la curiosité pour savoir si il y a une méthode ou des indices criants que je ne vois pas.)
En tout cas, l’e-mail du jour contient un beau em-dash pour faire une pause dans la phrase, ce qui se trouve parfois en anglais mais jamais à ma connaissance en Français.
Un coup de LLM sans doute? 🤔
https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/116/611/734/621/451/777/original/d269a0a1a124599d.jpg

2026-05-21 06:18:33 UTC

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It is printed in French since ten years now, search for "Pepper et Carrot, edition Glénat". But they never did the Artbook.
About the "Episode 39: The tavern", no, it's not the last episode, I'm continuing, surely but slowly. It's frustrating because I spent the past month on many Yak Shaving (operating system, Krita release and videos, improving MiniFantasyTheater, etc... ).
I'm right now at the Layout step of the episode 40. I'll try to make a post on the blog about it!

2026-05-21 05:40:48 UTC

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Thank you for taking them! 💜 He he, same, I even didn't notice it until I received a DM of the publisher who really felt super bad about it; he told me he sent a general message to the Kickstarter and felt he ruined the batch by this mistake that went under their radar.
I told him and to the graphist to not worry and blame themselves that hard, I find it fun and "collector" too and haven't even noticed it at first. 😅 Really a minor typo, and a fun "made in Italy" souvenir.

2026-05-21 05:35:48 UTC

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Hello! Fin de semaine un peu compliqué et j'ai pas ma partie de prête (mea culpa); peut-on remettre ça pour ce week-end? Dimanche je devrai avoir ma moitié de prête.

2026-05-20 17:02:38 UTC

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This episode was totally screen-recorded and I had no issues with OBS+Wayland+Plasma+Krita. The full process was also commented (audio recording) and it's from A to Z: from scratch to posting. The scenario in Kate, to the panel making, text, everything fully in Krita 5.3 with the new text tool and comic panel tool.
Now I have over 20 hours of video editing to do in Kdenlive; many sequence will be accelerated as time-lapse. ETA of this big tutorial bonus: maybe start of june.
https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/116/607/956/759/815/406/original/e64dd3d52a19a273.jpg

2026-05-20 16:23:40 UTC

Ep 53. Breathing Underwater
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/053.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-05-13 16:05:55 UTC

Classic vendor move
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/052.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-05-06 20:12:16 UTC

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oh, what he did is bad, I'll work on making this backfire to him.

2026-05-06 16:11:15 UTC

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Yes, "Hereva"; but take it as a parody of lore and universe rather than something really trying to be serious and coherent to the detail by design.

2026-05-06 15:52:19 UTC

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Real loot: "wild ferocious wild forest octopus meat", equally disappointing 😅

2026-05-06 15:32:58 UTC

The loot
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/051.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/116/528/347/315/812/180/original/208c5e547646e0da.jpg
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2026-05-06 14:30:57 UTC

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Cool! Par contre, on prend le temps, ~ 21 Mai? Je bookmark et je me mets un rappel sur le calendrier 😅

2026-05-06 10:46:56 UTC

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Super, je te donne alors cette partie gauche, je prendrai la même en miroir pour faire la partie droite.
Un thème? (je pensais à zoo, animaux; pour le fun mais dit moi et on adapte)
https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/116/527/221/604/871/302/original/4e81f5ace6eb9277.png

2026-05-06 10:36:30 UTC

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:blobcatheart: Thank you for featuring my work Elena!
Just a minor technical details: I don't use a Wordpress or a ready made plugin: I wrote in php a code to retrieve the comments on my blog via the Mastodon API, I share it here https://www.davidrevoy.com/article981/i-may-have-found-an-alternative-solution-to-my-blogs-comment-system
So technically, it's not my blog post that goes on the Fediverse; it's just I dual post, and on the blog I enter the URL of the related Mastodon post so it grabs the comments. Not super automatic, but a DIY 😊

2026-05-04 15:48:01 UTC

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Oui, le légendaire "Tac au Tac", j'en ai revu un ou deux en entier dernièrement.
D'ailleurs, faudrait qu'on s'en fasse un aussi de Cadavre Exquis. ^ ^

2026-05-04 14:40:30 UTC

A Fediverse experiment! an "Exquisite Corpse" collab with artist @npub1lym…fqe3 (left), and me (right). Fun fun!
Full original thread: https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B5c8qmENlmX1kjRXMm
https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/116/516/803/545/221/401/original/3431c9ec1890498a.png

2026-05-04 14:30:49 UTC

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Wow! so detailed! 💜 Here is mine:
(I'll glue both of them on a post in my TL, feel free to do the same!)
https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/116/516/779/421/425/706/original/92d9f3cc6eb2f2ce.jpg

2026-04-29 19:51:43 UTC

The comic I posted today is the first one that I have created from A to Z under a Wayland session (KDE Neon User Edition, Plasma 6.6.4, Krita 6.0.1), and that after 17 years under X11.
A big thanks to:
- the Wayland team for improving the color management
- KDE Display/Input team for the tablet and ICC support
- Krita team for a better experience on Wayland.
I can finally adapt my workflow to this tech! I'll post a new install guide on my blog soon™ https://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?tag/linux

2026-04-29 18:50:14 UTC

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The og:image link on my website is the 4 panels in a single image. So, it's Pleroma who has a bug, and replace the link preview with the last picture of the attachement...

2026-04-29 16:24:20 UTC

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I'm curious what is your client, because it looks like 100% a policy of your platform.
My website only publish this in the header
```
<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/low-res/en_050_miniFantasyTheater.jpg"/>
```
So, your client choose to use the last picture of the series within the post to illustrate the attachement to the post. Please report it to the maintainer! Thank you.

2026-04-29 16:00:03 UTC

Fast Travel
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/050.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-04-29 00:07:55 UTC

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Honestly, I'm not sure which shocks me more: the sponsorship itself, or the fact that you're announcing it happily and proudly without considering how problematic it might be for your community.
Unfortunately, I'll take this as a sign of a pro-AI cultural shift at the Blender Foundation. What a disappointment.

2026-04-27 09:44:31 UTC

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My first reflex would be https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/work_items

2026-04-27 07:36:52 UTC

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Oh yes, I'm a big believer of the 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication' mantra, even if it's a bit impossible for me to apply it to my style (at the moment). I'm made of another wood.
Their consistency in style, storytelling and theme tells a lot about a very deep artistic choice. Very Pop-art, love it.

2026-04-27 07:16:40 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/116467205610853524
You probably saw it last week-end: @npub1y32…g9js replicated the "unified" VS "split" panels experiments poll.
They obtained a result... totally inverted compare to mine! 😮
A very interesting result I tried to analyse in a paragraph (update on the footer of my original article): https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1138/unified-vs-split-panels-experimenting-with-publishing-digital-comics-on-the-fediverse#when-the-webcomic-war-and-peas-replicates-the-experiment
#note1dpe…tp79

2026-04-24 10:39:49 UTC

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A collab? Sounds good, esp if we can keep it Creative Commons Attribution, or ShareAlike.
What about an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse , @npub1lym…fqe3 ?

2026-04-22 16:09:23 UTC

The Dungeon of Dark Patterns
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/049.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-04-20 10:38:10 UTC

RE: https://floss.social/@kdenlive/116425440021929906
Great blog post from Kdenlive, the FLOSS video editing software I've been using for my video channels for 15 years [1]. I really like the recent improvements to the Titler feature.
[1] Ytb: https://www.youtube.com/@DavidRevoy (soon 100k subscribers 😆 Ptb alternative: [email protected] )
#note1ha7…s8kz

2026-04-16 11:32:21 UTC

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Ha non, j'avais oublié.
Du coup, je viens de voir qu'il y avait pour 20/30€ des petits refroidisseurs de RAM, comme deux petits ventilos qui se clip sur le dessus, alimenté par une prise classique de PSU. Je vais prendre ça, c'est sage pour mettre toute les chances de mon côté et prolonger leur vie à cette proximité du CPU.

2026-04-16 10:29:02 UTC

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Oui, clairement. Ça m'a coûté 30€, car j'ai du envoyé une petite boite aux Pays-Bas avec suivi. La procédure est assez flou, pas mal de vérifications avec formulaire, un PDF avec code barre à imprimer et à joindre dans la boite retour, mais quelques emails rare mais rassurant de confirmation ici et là.

2026-04-16 10:23:50 UTC

Remember my RAM issue from January? After months (warranty forms, posting back the 2x8GB modules to factory, and waiting), the brand finally honored their lifetime warranty and I received my new RAM this morning!
Back to 32GB! 🎉
A relief, because I've been running over the last few months with 16GB, and it was tight for intensive work.
www.davidrevoy.com/article1117/the-ram-nightmare-how-i-lost-my-sanity-and-almost-my-deadline

2026-04-15 16:53:59 UTC

Quest item management
Full reader and bonus: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/048.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-04-14 14:14:56 UTC

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Hey Emilion, I totally understand, and I would do the same 👍
Unfortunately, for the self publishing books 100% made with FLOSS, that was the only company/solution I found long time ago, before that was so problematic (the Brexit put a lot of tax on the UK print pod). I might need to look for a EU print-on-demand solution soon.
For the version of the publisher Silly Studio (Italian publisher), they just put their Italian/English version in the shop https://sillystudiosofficial.com/shop/

2026-04-14 13:12:50 UTC

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Screenshots of Scribus running on Debian KDE with the Pepper&Carrot books on it (CC By)
- Sources: https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/book-publishing (require 24GB)
- Books: https://www.davidrevoy.com/static9/shop#official
#scribus
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2026-04-14 10:52:53 UTC

Scribus , the open source desktop publishing software I use for my comics, just had two new releases!
- 1.6.6 (stable) https://www.scribus.net/scribus-1-6-6-released/
- 1.7.3 (unstable) https://www.scribus.net/scribus-1-7-3-released/
:blobaww: 🎁
#scribus

2026-04-13 06:17:29 UTC

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I have artists who use that vertical (1×4 or more) in my TL, yes it has good pros you mentioned but also this cons:
Cons:
- limited to the width of a single long 'thumbnail' sized the column of TL on clients and not all og them have a policy for it (but Mastodon does)
- Scaling down image algorithm of the platform, good for graphical style, but not detailed art.
- On click, the "full preview" rescale to the entirety of the screen, making them impossible to read without zooming.

2026-04-12 23:08:54 UTC

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Inkscape, because I'm maintaining right now 28744 Inkscape SVG files (translation of pages for Pepper&Carrot and Mini Fantasy Theater), and refactoring all of that to change workflow is impossible right now. Also because hosting on Git the SVG is really flexible and lightweight compare to the Krita Kra files with multiple layers: SVGs are XML text, so it's possible to diff, and versioning control system works great for that type of file.

2026-04-12 21:39:49 UTC

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:blobcatheart: Thank you!

2026-04-12 21:16:16 UTC

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Also on the Fediverse → @npub1lc8…j94y