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cynthia yuan cheng
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cynthia yuan cheng @cynthiaycheng.bsky.social · Nov 7
About me— I'm Cynthia! I make funny-bittersweet comics & illustrations about romance, masculinity, and everyday life.
I'm currently working on WIN, a graphic memoir about playing football in high school 🏈
🌷My site: cynthiaycheng.com
🌷My digital comics: cynthiaycheng.itch.io
Cynthia Yuan Cheng
Illustration & Comics by Cynthia Yuan Cheng
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My store is back open with a few items! Have enough energy to put together these packages, so if you didn't get my little art/sketchbook the first time (because it sold out), this is a good chance to do it!

chanchauart.com/shop
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Near You, Beside You

A comic about siblings growing close and then apart, and the thing that connects them 1/5
A cover with the title Near You, Beside You Four characters are surrounded by various video games, game consoles and game accessories 1998- At Mom’s House Panel 1: Elise(age 9) :No. Panel 2: Alex: oh, COME ON! Mom is working and you’re just reading all day! Panel 3: Elise: so? Panel 4: Alex (age 7) SO that’s BORING! And I’m BORED! I wanna play with you! Panel 1 Elise: No, I don’t like going outside. Panel 2 Alex: All kids want to play outside! LITERALLY ALL KIDS!! Panel 3-4 Elise: well I don’t want to. Quit being sooooo annoying. Panel 5 Alex: you’re no fun! Why’re you so weird!! Panel 6 SLAM Elise: …I don’t know. Panel 1 Alex: MOM!! Elise won’t play with me at all! All she does is draw, read and ignore me! It’s not fair!! Panel 2: Alex: she won’t play like other kids. Makes me mad! Panel 3 Mom: Well, Alex, Elise isn’t…well, LIKE other kids. She’s wired a bit differently from you. That doesn’t mean she’s broken. Panel 4 Mom: I struggle with her too. But we love her so we mustn’t give up. You just need to find something you two can connect on. Panel 5 You’re a smart, sweet kid, bug. You’ll figure something out
November 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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HELLO!! 2025 is drawing to a close, people are buying gifts for the tweens in their lives, and DID YOU KNOW that a graphic novel named Fresh Start came out THIS YEAR?

⭐THREE starred reviews!
⭐about a kid who moves around a lot AND THEN HAS TO STAY IN ONE PLACE OH NO
⭐VERY FUNNY, LOTS OF DRAWINGS
Author Gale Galligan executing a years-too-late kneeling dab next to a standee of the cover for FRESH START (2025).
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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My online store is OPEN with a shop update! I only do online orders a couple times a year, so check it out before it closes in 10 days~

Check it out! cynthiaycheng.bigcartel.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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30th Birthday LMLYR Reading Special 🥳🥳 I want to give you all my favorite gift: COMICS! for my birthday weekend only, my 90-page romantasy BL is available to read FREE on my website!
I poured a lot of love into this comic and would love for yall to read it too 💞💞
October 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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My good friend @joviellety.bsky.social and I combined our deep love for Steve Rogers, Mr. Captain America himself, to co-create this gorgeous three-color riso print in Blue, Sunflower, and Bright Red 💙🧡❤️

Debuting at #NYCC this weekend!!
October 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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I'll be co-teaching an introductory course on graphic novels this fall via @highlightsfound.bsky.social! If you've wanted to make a GN but don't know where to start, this might be the workshop for you.

I'm honored to teach alongside @mythjae.bsky.social & @anneappert.bsky.social for this course! 💞
September 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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up late working on this very fun and nostalgic collab with @joviellety.bsky.social !! print of our favorite guy coming soon to nycc 🥹💓
September 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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💖 Hi~ I've recently been hired as Illustration & Creative Lead at The Story Division, helping publishers with graphic novel projects. I'm currently updating our artist database & looking for a wider range of art styles.

Cartoonists: post sequentials, website, availability below. No DMs/emails plz!
September 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I've updated my website! it's always a nice opportunity to reflect on the work I've made throughout my career 🥹

➡️ cynthiaycheng.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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s l o w l y making progress on my football graphic novel inks! 🥹🏈
June 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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a lil self-portrait 🖼️ my hair is getting long!
May 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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🥐🍰🧺☕️KNAPSACK MAG VOL. 2 IS LIVE! 🥐🍰🧺☕️

Our Kickstarter Campaign for Knapsack Mag 2 is here!! Help us fund our second anthology, Butter! 🍰 Volume 2 is even bigger than the first volume with over 28 artists and 250+ pages exploring our collective weird kid nostalgia...🍀
April 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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i love indie comics, i love writing comedy, i love lucky pocket!! excited for y'all to read my newest travel comedy comic that'll be in @luckypocketpress.bsky.social's Knapsack Magazine volume 2 🌟💞
A comic panel in monochromatic reddish-orange depicts a self-portrait of Cynthia yelling "대한민국 만세 Daehan Minguk Manse (Long Live Korea!)" while raising their arms. The people around Cynthia all react in shock. A crop of a comic page in monochromatic reddish-orange depicts a self-portrait of Cynthia dreamily looking at various Korean dishes. The dish shown most prominently is labelled as yukhoe (raw beef).
March 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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trying to incorporate more solid blacks into my inks, which has been fun!
February 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Hourly Comic Day 2025! I went to the korean spa with my friends Sonya and Eric 🥹♨️ (1/3)
February 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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me and my oshi 😌
January 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I'm so so excited for this!! I can't believe it's taken this long for a manga exhibition to come to the US, and I hope it's the first of many 🥹💓
January 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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happy lunar new year! my third year collaborating on a LNY art piece with my friend Sophie, as commissioned by our friend Katie 🥰
we dream of collective liberation, interdependence, and community support in the Year of the Snake and beyond 🐍❤️‍🔥
January 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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My superstar agent!!! Send your queries to Paloma!! 🥰
palomita.bsky.social Paloma @palomita.bsky.social · Jan 24
Hello! My name is Paloma Hernando, a literary agent who specializes in #graphicnovels #picturebooks and #genrefiction !
I am currently open to queries, which you can submit via www.pandeliterary.com/queries-pand...
Feel free to check out my #MSWL here www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/pa...
January 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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if you liked my Scotland travel autobio comic, WEE WANDERINGS, you might like the next comic I'm working on about my trip to Korea 🤗
January 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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So grateful that my latest comic LOVE ME LIKE YOU'RE REAL is included in this amazing list of recommendations of indie comics and manga! 🥹💞💞
January 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Thread of ways to help those devastated by the LA fires:
celestepewter.bsky.social Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · Jan 8
All, the Pasadena Humane Society is asking for donations - they're taking in animals right now, and are also preparing to evacuate if needed.

Please consider helping:
Eaton Fire Emergency
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January 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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taking a break to draw this... get deranged for a fictional character and let the teeny tiny plush you bought motivate you to get through the day
January 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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o!! thank you for the kind response to my brief mention of Love Me Like You're Real!!

I'll have to post about it more soon — I'm only barely active on bsky, because I'm too busy drawing fan art on my side twitter acct ajdkjfklsdkl 🤭
December 30, 2024 at 5:48 PM