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Ashanti Fortson
@ashantifortson.com
Cartoonist, illustrator, embroiderer, color designer. They/them.
🇲🇽 ENG/ESP OK

NO AI. Get outta here

https://ashantifortson.com/
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Hi! I'm Ashanti Fortson, a queer Afrolatine multidisciplinary artist working as a graphic novelist & illustrator. I also embroider and needle-felt. I'm interested in color, texture, evocation, and emotion.

Available for freelance!
Check out my shop! 💜

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A illustration for The Baltimore Banner, about government rollbacks on protections for abused/neglected immigrant youth, and the fear, unease, and instability that those affected are experiencing.
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Absolutely do buy books if you can. And there’s a lot of ways you can pay without money. You can promote or write about or share work. I did an art trade recently with an artist in Chile bc we didn’t have mutual payment options. Or you can share with the author what the work made you feel. Etc
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Let’s be so for real about who the real thieves in creative industries are. It’s not someone pirating a damn pdf. It’s the fucking parasites scraping yr work for an LLM, it’s algo-brained ghouls at the highest levels of major media who killed art as a career so they could pocket your living
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Hooray we have a matcher who will match up to US$100 of donations. We can do this! 💕💕 like, share, donate if you can.
11/700 with only days to go, to ensure Maha and family stay housed in the cold, rainy winter of G@za. Our donations keep them alive. Can you help? ANYTHING HELPS
Saving lives on the frontline in Palestine - help Maha
My name is Louisa and I'm raising money for my dear friend Maha and her family in Gaza.
chuffed.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
More thermal printer stickers 💫
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Drew up a little sticker design and printed it on my thermal label printer! Baby.
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"

"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Heartbroken to learn of Alice’s passing. I looked up to her immensely, and I was so grateful for her patience, grace, creativity, & insight as a collaborator. I will miss her fierce kindness & her sharp wit so very much.

I drew this portrait of us in 2021 for CommunityAsHome. Rest in power, Alice.
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Almost done with pencils… almost…!
September 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Have fun at SPX, folks! Also vote for BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA in the ingatzes please
September 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I LOVE FLATTING COMICS!! if u need or know of someone who needs their pages flatted, hmu........i am flexible w/ rates : o )

here is my resume, a love letter (intro) to flatting via google slides

full version of this presentation over at tinyurl.com/Vronflat !!
January 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I crocheted a cute tote for myself this summer! Adapted from a pattern in Crochet Crush, by Molla Mills, with acrylic chain handles added. My new favorite bag! ☀️
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I crocheted a cute tote for myself this summer! Adapted from a pattern in Crochet Crush, by Molla Mills, with acrylic chain handles added. My new favorite bag! ☀️
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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reading black flame had me shaking and crying only a quarter of the way in. i was being given something i couldn’t even begin to articulate my need for until it was in front of me. i can’t recommend it enough.
Given the people who run this place are transphobic crypto fascists who kick trans women. Let’s promote Gretchen’s work on here for her. She has a new book out. It looks really cool, you should grab a copy and help her out, and also you’ll get to read a cool book bookshop.org/p/books/blac...
Black Flame
Check out Black Flame - <p><b>An instant <i>USA Today</i> bestseller!</b><br><br><b>One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in </b><b><i>Black Flame</i></b><...
bookshop.org
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.
September 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Being informed that DC has cancelled Gretchen Felker-Martin's work to appease the whiners of the world.

Should be a reminder for folks as to what Corporate IP comics actually are, because ppl forget and act like these enterprises are progressive to justify their consumption.
September 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Breaking news: local bug Ashanti enjoying Silksong greatly
September 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Finished my mom's birthday basket, complete with a mother-of-pearl button to secure the hinged lid. Love how it came out and so does she 🥰
September 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Ok folks I am raising $US500 (AU$750) for our beloved Maha and her family, so they have some money when they ultimately get displaced. So far we have $US$34/500 ($AU50/750). My aim is to meet this target by Tuesday 9 September. Can you help?
Saving lives on the frontline in Palestine - help Maha
My name is Louisa and I'm raising money for my dear friend Maha and her family in Gaza. Here is her story:
chuffed.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Studio flash sale! Lots of sketches and small paintings collecting dust and looking for a new home.

This one is an acrylic plein air painting on watercolor paper of Queenie Park
$50-$100 sliding scale. Reply or message me if you are interested ⭐️
September 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Just relaunched my newsletter! Here's the first installment of Letters from a Gnome. You, too, can subscribe and receive letters, in your email inbox, from a gnome (me)

letters-from-a-gnome.beehiiv.com/p/letters-fr...
Letters from a Gnome #1
Relaunching my newsletter!
letters-from-a-gnome.beehiiv.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A recent #illustration for The Baltimore Banner, on young people using chatGPT as an anonymous personal diary & confidante despite knowing the risks and consequences of using it
August 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Ever wanted some of my illustrations as desktop/mobile wallpapers, or perhaps social media icons/PFPs?

Good news: I just put up FIVE wallpaper & icon packs up for sale on my Ko-fi shop, each for only $1. Check 'em out!

🎨 ko-fi.com/ashantiforts... 🎨
June 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM