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C. Labrie

@coreylabrie.bsky.social

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Comic artist, writer and cheese lover. Creator of the webcomic Deep Water and other interesting things. www.deepwatercomic.com https://deepwater.the-comic.org/ She/Her

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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Nov 13

New followers welcome! I'm Corey, a traditional comic artist you can access my webcomic Deep Water about a merman and the field researcher whose pool he moved into here:
deepwater.the-comic.org

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

There was a meeting at our city hall about trans safety and these are the notes I wrote for an impromptu speech I gave, one of about 20 that evening. I'm definitely gonna be attending more meetings and giving more speeches in the future.

Text that reads:

I am set to perform at the Avenue Cafe on Saturday, to use my freedom of speech, but I've never had more stage fright in my entire life. In 15 years doing drag, burlesque, and performance art, I've never been this scared.

The first amendment is not equally applied to everyone. Some people have more freedom to speak than others and some of those people have used their free speech to threaten the trans community.

We have laws against hate speech, but laws that aren't enforced fail to be laws.

Why we have hate speech laws is because hate speech is terrorism. An act of terrorism has been committed in Lansing. One man's words have terrified the queer and trans people of this entire city. The terrorism doesn't start with the gun, it starts with the words.

A balloon popped at the Ave and people thought we were about to be the next Pulse massacre. And it got me wondering, if that gunman had given warning that he was coming, would anyone have taken steps to prevent it? Would anyone be proactive about it, or would they also be met with a shrug?

Ally is useless as a noun. It's a verb. It requires action. Reaction is almost always too late.

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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · 1d

a woman wearing a sweater with a house and clouds on it

ALT: a woman wearing a sweater with a house and clouds on it

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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · 11d

Quick watercolor study for the Spoopy season! You guys-I. AM. SO. READY.

watercolor study of a double streetlamp lighting up the fall leaves at night

C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Sep 10

I played that and it scared my dog to the point where he's trying to protect me from my laptop.

C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Sep 9

That's what I want to know. Does it just cost that much to run the servers while it destroys the local ecology and water supply?

C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Aug 27

Oh number 12. The absolute audacity of it to haunt me everywhere I go.

Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · Aug 25

Been a year. Time to repost this.

YOUR PORTFOLIO CRIT
THINGS I'D TELL YOU IF I WERE LOOKING AT YOUR WORK IN PERSON
1 Violating the 180 degree rule makes this sequence hard to follow
2 A few more incidental overlaps will make this foreshortening clearer
3 Symmetrical compositions with a character dead center imply an important moment. Don't draw every panel like that?
4 This __ looks kind of fake. Take the time to look at reference instead of just making it up
5 An establishing shot will help the reader understand where this takes place.
6 Find a life-drawing session to attend, or practice from photos online.
7 Show these pages to someone who doesn't know the story and ask them to tell the story back to you.
8. Nudge this part over a bit to eliminate that tangency.
9 You flattened out the depth by rendering the foreground, middle ground, & background with the same values. Create depth and direct the eye by organizing them into overlapping planes of light & dark.
10 there are better ways to use your time than rendering every brick.
11 these characters look like they're floating (or falling). Draw figures and bg from the same eye level.
12 Unless this will be a wordless comic, leave more room for the lettering

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Deep Water Comic @deepwatercomic.bsky.social · Aug 21

GADDANGIT why can't I edit posts Bsky??
ANYWAY- Deep Water is still updating, we're onto Part 2! Check it out!
deepwater.the-comic.org

A merman lurks in the shadows between the sunbeams underwater. image is made up of teal, blue and green the Text "Deep Water" is at the bottom left. I tried to make it spooky, but meh

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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Aug 19

a man in a top hat and bow tie is saying oh how sad .

Alt: a man in a top hat and bow tie is saying oh how sad .

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · Aug 19

From a writer group post someone sent me: "...the attitude now is so exclusive and unwelcoming for those of us who are either pro-AI or use AI"

GOOD JOB, EVERYONE, KEEP MAKING THEM FEEL UNWELCOMED, YOUR SHAME IS WORKING. 🥰

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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Aug 18

"How deeply unpleasant it is to learn art the right way" . . . MOST THINGS are deeply unpleasant to learn when you are learning them. I wish these people would just say they don't want to learn to Draw, they just want the drawing done- and they don't care whose face they step on in the process.

C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Aug 8

There are always caveats that just don't hold up to what they think a "real" woman is. It always devolves. Always.

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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Aug 8

All my life, As a woman with as she- oh so delicately put it "faulty equipment" I have heard this joking sentiment from so many other women. Only to have them turn around and say "well if you don't menstruate-" or "well if you don't have children-" or "well if its not EMERGENCY surgery-"

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Jun 19

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · Jun 19

@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.

kottke.org @kottke.org · Jun 19

A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]

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chainsawroll🍉🌮 @chainsawroll.bsky.social · Jun 8

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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Jun 7

Oh my god, this is the best news I've heard all month.

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Chehalis Tribe Buys Billboard, Plans to Replace Messages with Accurate U.S. History

NAPAVINE, WA — In a development historians are calling “chef’s kiss levels of poetic justice,” the infamous Uncle Sam billboard along I-5 near Chehalis has been purchased by the Confederated Tribes…

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · Jan 23

Daily life in 2025.

#AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

The tuba meme, where a schoolgirl has her head pressed against the wall by another girl wielding a tuba, pushing it right up to her face, suggesting and intense, unavoidable onslaught of sensory information

Girl against wall:Me trying to do a basic ask I've managed Jo do every day Without incident for many years

Girl with tuba: EVery organisation on Earth

Tuba: AI

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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · May 23

uuuuggghhh. I am so tired of these White, underground, "edgy", comix scene R. Crumb buttsniffers. So eDgY! So brAvE! sHe's saYInG aLl thE tHiNGs OtHer PrOfeSsioNALs are TOO AFRAID TOO GUYS.

C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · May 18

Hey All!

I'll be tabling at the Comics Confluence in Portland, OR starting at 2pm today. There's a whole lot of great people here, and awesome panels to attend at Lincoln Hall on the PSU campus today! Come by and say Hi!

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Deep Water Comic @deepwatercomic.bsky.social · May 12

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Hey! do you know where you can read Deep Water on webcomic day? Check it out!

Because ComicFury has been super awesome- Its the one place where posting my comic doesn't feel like just tossing pages into the void. Lots of great comics and people!

Deep water on comicfury
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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · May 7

Just three days to back Cammry Lapka's first self Published comic. If you love Cryptids and the Olympic Peninsula this comic is right up your alley! Its only about $1,300 away from its goal!

Cammry Lapka @chroncruik.bsky.social · Apr 1

Give my prelaunch page a follow! :) my first self published comic #georgesmith #comic #indiecomics #kickstarter #smallartist #indie #graphicnovel #artwork #artist

Coming soon: George Smith: Paranormal Investigator of the PNW: RELAUNCH

Follow George, a normal guy, who has to navigate the not-so-normal Olympic Peninsula after his daughter is abducted.

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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Nov 13

New followers welcome! I'm Corey, a traditional comic artist you can access my webcomic Deep Water about a merman and the field researcher whose pool he moved into here:
deepwater.the-comic.org

Deep Water

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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · May 7

Just three days to back Cammry Lapka's first self Published comic. If you love Cryptids and the Olympic Peninsula this comic is right up your alley! Its only about $1,300 away from its goal!

Cammry Lapka @chroncruik.bsky.social · Apr 1

Give my prelaunch page a follow! :) my first self published comic #georgesmith #comic #indiecomics #kickstarter #smallartist #indie #graphicnovel #artwork #artist

Coming soon: George Smith: Paranormal Investigator of the PNW: RELAUNCH

Follow George, a normal guy, who has to navigate the not-so-normal Olympic Peninsula after his daughter is abducted.

www.kickstarter.com

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C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Apr 18

I think Duke really hit how I've felt for the past week. Squatchcon was a blast, can't wait to go next year. Thanks to everyone who came to the panels, or stopped by my booth to say hello- I really appreciate it!

A black dog with a white spot on his chest sleeps upside-down on a low blue couch. You have to trust me when I say he is very cute, because adjectives are hard for my brain right now.

C. Labrie @coreylabrie.bsky.social · Apr 12

WHAAA? You wanna know how to create comics? Come see me @chroncruik.bsky.social and Per Berg and listen to our wisdom at "Creating Comics"

#Squatchcon2025 #PortAngeles #conlife

picture of a con schedule Highlighted text reads "Comic Book Artists Per Berg, C. Labrie and Cammry Lapka discuss what it takes to create, publish and market your own comic. Ask your questions in and informal Q&A style panel covering comics from concept to completion."