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rachel elliott

@okieelliott.bsky.social

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portfolio: rachelelliott.me luvs comedians tacos comics queer kentucklahoman teacher she/her/y’all author-illustrator of THE REAL RILEY MAYES (harpercollins 2022) and ZEB AND BEL (harpercollins 2026) all views and expressions are mine, not my employers’

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · Nov 30

a lot of new friends joined over the holiday 👋 (thanksgiving in the usa)

hello!! 👋 i’m rachel, i make comics for kids! my first book is a LGBTQ award winning graphic novel called THE REAL RILEY MAYES.

i also draw Martin Short a lot.

(u can buy book here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)

graphic of the lion at the new york public library holding the book THE REAL RILEY MAYES

two fountain pen and marker drawings of martin short as oliver putnam saying “thank you”

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Meghan Lands @meghanlands.bsky.social · 15h

Hi book people, I recently started reading fiction again. I just finished Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro and really enjoyed it, can you recommend something to read next? I've missed like 10 years of novels so go nuts.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 14h

hands you some bugs

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 15h

“Free speech curfew” is one of the most authoritarian and dystopian terms I think I have ever heard.

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Comic Book Couples Counseling @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 14h

"Whole point of comics is healing yourself..." - @ngoziu.com during tonight's 700th Episode of @pwcomicsworld.bsky.social's More to Come Podcast. #ComicsWillMendYourHeart #NYCC

Ngozi Ukazu with microphone in hand, copy of Flipped standing up.

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 15h

go cubs

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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 15h

Comics should work with stage productions and there should be comics on stage every day of the year

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 15h

the more i draw comics the more i feel like its more like doing a stage production than writing a book

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Melissa Manlove @mmanlove.bsky.social · 3d

Psst! I am opening up to unagented children's book submissions *just for the month of October*! This is an exciting experiment. The email to send submissions to is [email protected]. You can find out about what I'm looking for at www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/me...

Melissa Manlove – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

www.manuscriptwishlist.com

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 2d

i think it would be funny if oliver putnam found out he had a hick brother that rehabbed injured possums and went line dancing on the weekends

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 2d

can you tell i have too much work on my plate this month and this is how i cope?

rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 2d

it also would be heartbreakingly funny if the hick brother is *not* immediately enchanted with oliver and slaps his hands on his knees and says “welp-“ in the middle of one of oliver’s stories

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 2d

oliver tells those over the top stories about broadway and cocaine and the brother tells stories about that time he was in the highest wind speeds on the planet

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 2d

lol he plays his neice

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 2d

also he should be a twin and martin short plays both parts, i will draw the storyboard for you hulu

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 2d

i think it would be funny if oliver putnam found out he had a hick brother that rehabbed injured possums and went line dancing on the weekends

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 5d

early

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 5d

i think my cat set our alarm clock ahead one hour…??

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 12d

some happy

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 12d

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!

reactormag.com/reading-rain...

Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor

The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.

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rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social · 15d

Hello! some news: I'm writing & drawing a comic chapter book series for young readers!
it's published by First Second, a long-running comics imprint for kids at Macmillan. Thanks to Robyn Chapman, editor, & Susan Hawk, agent, & YOU, friends who see my sketches.
rachelelliott.me/2025/09/26/i...