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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie)
@ligerlillie.bsky.social
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Writer/Artist | talks about comics, queer stuff, and Gothic/19th century fiction a lot | they/them (or ze/zir or even "HEY YOU" if you're in a hurry) | No AI/NFTs 🚫

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · Oct 8
Happy #PortfolioDay !

I'm Lillie and I love to draw weird & spooky stuff. I also write a variety of things including comics and essays about comics. Please keep me in mind for future projects!

Portfolio (& contact info): bit.ly/2IJn6vl
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ligerlillie
The back of a black jacket with a white line drawing of a skull in a furry aviator-style hat. The eyes of its ski goggles have crosses through them and it is wearing earmuffs over the hat which have joysticks where the puffs of the earmuffs would be. The illustrator's name (Lillian Hochwender) is signed underneath. The jacket is on a bright orange background. A black and white illustration of a gas lamp emerging from fog. The sky is black but filled with flurries of snow. Flakes accumulate on the lamp. The lamplight illuminates a tentacle emerging from the fog and winding itself around the lamp's base. A blond-haired knight looks upwards at an ethereal yellow flame floating over their head, their hair caught in an unseen breeze. Layered over their silver armour is a singed white garment with a picture of two four-pointed stars. Over that is a dark red cloak with a darker turquoise interior, gold detailing and fur around the collar. There are images of crescent moons on either side of the cloak. There are two yellow plumes coming from their silver helmet. The background is a black arch shape surrounded by a dusky grey-blue. A headline saying "Bringing the Past to Life: Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein at 40"
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letteringbear.bsky.social
Today's stacks from Alan Scott: Green Lantern #2 & #3 (probably one of my favorite single issues I've ever lettered). By T. Sheridan, C. Tormey & M. Herms.

Check out the density of these pages! I feel like the stacks are akin to sports heat maps, in showing what parts of a page are more used.
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
ligerlillie.bsky.social
What’s the book you wish you could reread for the first time and why is it Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier?
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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phorrums.bsky.social
I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )
A digital drawing referencing the quoted image. In the style of an early 20th century drawing, a woman in a dress holds a minigun. The text above is changed to read "Does the minigun make women cruel?"
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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alexandragallant.com
Tapping the sign again
Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU"
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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frederikhornung.com
Meet THE DOOMS! ALL CAPS!

Tribute art of the four coolest Dooms pop culture's gotta offer!
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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paullicino.bsky.social
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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amiyatzin.bsky.social
they're gonna give the robots human rights and healthcare before they give it to you
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 12h
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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gregpak.net
william carlos williams mfer
artologica.net Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 18h
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
my cream cheese lid is so friendly
cream cheese with a smiley face on the bottom of the lid
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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rphutch1975.bsky.social
The second you put a fictional character above a real human being, YOU are the problem. Theres no ifs, buts or ands about it.

Not happy with what you read, fair enough, critique of the work is fine. Threaten a real human being over it? YOU ARE ONCE AGAIN THE PROBLEM.

See how that works?
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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gregpak.net
well thank god it's friday anyway
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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annecomics.bsky.social
And just because I want it clear

Hey

Criticism is fine

It’s great

It’s needed

And in this particular instance I probably agree with the criticism (I haven’t read it so I don’t have anything to criticize yet)

Telling someone to die is not criticism lol
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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racheaissance.com
Page rates for comics creators have remained stagnant for decades.

Men continue to write female characters as objectified and sexualized fantasies for the Big Two.

EVERYTHING IS JUST GREAT.
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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comixace.bsky.social
I post a new version of this every other year or so, and every year comic book page rates stay the same. Five years ago, people were getting paid $240 in '25 dollars; today they are getting the same $150 a page.
comicsbeat.bsky.social Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 17h
The one about comic book page rates – again. News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
The one about comic book page rates – again
News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
www.comicsbeat.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ligerlillie.bsky.social
Another month, another superhero comic that really needed a sensitivity reader and is now being met with a mix of criticism the creators should probably listen to and death threats/wishes that will ensure they don’t listen to that criticism.
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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serenamalyon.bsky.social
Hey its my birthday 🫣

Also I just added this close-up version of Beyond the Quiet to my INPRNT and it's ✨ on sale ✨
Thank youuuu that's all
a woman lying in the cosmos holding a black hole that is absorbing all of the light and colour around her.
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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imaginarystories.bsky.social
I'm in a bad place financially. If anyone wants modern #TTRPGmaps now is a great time to buy!

www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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comicbookyeti.com
I could not be happier for @jimmygaspero.bsky.social about this. He’s done and doing so much for the community and it will be amazing to hold this book in my hands. Make sure to pre-order it.
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
ligerlillie.bsky.social
Happy Editor Appreciation Day to all of the editors who have made my messy weird drafts into something presentable.
susanarendt.bsky.social Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social · 1d
By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day.

Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.

So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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kotalinejones.bsky.social
For graphic novels, especially adult genre fiction, it's incredibly helpful to review it online, talk about it, recommend it to a friend—adult fiction in the graphic novel space is difficult to place, and nothing convinces readers that they'll like a book more than the personal testimonial.
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
laurenbeukes.com Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 1d
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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hellothisisangle.bsky.social
henry
Henry from kingdom come 2 sketches
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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comicnerdsam.bsky.social
Orson Welles in The Third Man
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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kim-hu.com
💀⚔️💫
illustration of a catacomb saint standing on a pile of skulls __ #kimgakaku
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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funeralbeat.bsky.social
👩‍🌾 Grab your tools
An illustration of a young women yanking a weed out of a bed of marigolds. The primary colours of the piece are deep green and a saffron yellow, with some brown and moss green tones as well. The camera is looking up at the young girl with a forced perspective, as she pulls out the weed while leaning back. The text reads: PULL FASCISM UP BY THE ROOT.
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
ligerlillie.bsky.social
John Byrne writing this text & drawing this panel: yeah this will definitely be fine and the letterer definitely won’t want to kill me at all
badmachinery.com John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d
Comics artists who work with writers, I am doing a class for young comics writers and I would like to include some ANONYMOUS quotes from artists about things they hate getting in scripts. More "17-panel pages and cross dialogue" than "horses and bicycles". My DMS are open. SECRECY ASSURED.
Superman with a lot of dialogue, though I think it might be John Byrne writing his own dialogue here, hoist by his own petard etc
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM