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Colleen Frakes

@colleenfrakes.bsky.social

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Rhymes with "rakes" or "lakes". No relation to the Star Trek guy. I write and draw lots of stuff. Rep'd by Susan Hawk of Upstart Crow Literary. Trans rights. Free Palestine. We're all in this together. (She/they) http://www.tragicrelief.com

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 43m

Thanks Steve! I definitely don't promote as much as I should, and for this event the bookstore kept everything. But looks like the Norwich Bookstore can get copies!

www.norwichbookstore.com/browse/filte...

The Norwich Bookstore

local indie bookstore serving Norwich, VT and the Upper Valley since 1994

www.norwichbookstore.com

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 11h

It's just an MST3K episode without the commentary. Don't overthink it.

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 18h

I only have 10 copies left!!

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 22h

The Bigfoot Kid's Book Fest is happening TODAY!
I'll be signing from 1-4
www.bigfootkidsbookfestival.com

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 22h

The Bigfoot Kid's Book Fest is happening TODAY!
I'll be signing from 1-4
www.bigfootkidsbookfestival.com

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 1d

Hurray! HAPPY FRIDAY!
Enjoy your NYCC vacation 😁

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no, now my child is crying over a dead cat JUST LIKE WE'VE ALL CRIED OVER BINX

a man in a white shirt is standing in a cemetery with stairs .

ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing in a cemetery with stairs .

media.tenor.com

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 1d

Hocus Pocus does not have as much Doug Jones as I remembered. I am disappointed

a black and white photo of a person standing next to a grave .

ALT: a black and white photo of a person standing next to a grave .

media.tenor.com

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 1d

kiddo asked how they made the cat look like it was talking so we might have to watch this

youtu.be/cEkmDECUBGE?...

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 1d

Skeet with a frog to scare ICE

A black and white comic where a man yells at a frog

A black and white comic where a frog turns into a wizard

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing the child's film education tonight with Hocus Pocus!

It's on DVD from the library, so it opened with an old anti-smoking ad 😆

a woman in a cauldron with green smoke coming out of her mouth

ALT: a woman in a cauldron with green smoke coming out of her mouth

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 1d

Oh noooo 😆

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 1d

The only one he directed, Maximum Overdrive.

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 2d

So are you the type of cartoonist who, once you sell out at a show, you treat the rest of the weekend as a vacation? Or the type who gets a pack of paper and starts selling sketches?

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 3d

So...25th amendment time? 25th amendment? Section 4? Anyone?

...please?

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

pearl, one of the crystals gems who rebelled against the diamond authority at the side of rose quartz

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 3d

Hahaha! That's an amazing coincidence.
But sorry, my kid wants to be an Astrobot

a white and blue robot with a blue eye and a blue nose

ALT: a white and blue robot with a blue eye and a blue nose

media.tenor.com

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 3d

Halloween costume step 1:
$16 for a white shirt and pants
$11 in blue fabric

Photo of a white shirt, white pants, and a pile of blue fabric

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 4d

We CANNOT lose Dolly Parton this year I don't care what dark pacts need to be done get to work, team

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 4d

Me: I'm gonna draw a shorter comic this time, I'll aim to keep it under 60 pages

Me (A few months later just finished page 55): oops

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 5d

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 5d

Paid Patreon members get my little diary comics once a week
www.patreon.com/posts/140477...

Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 5d

YES!!

Reasons why Rebecca Sugar is the best choice

1. She must understand how gay Moominvalley is, and will hopefully bring the subtext into text

2. SONGS!!!

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 5d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 6d

Yay! Bread and Puppet has been doing this since 1963.