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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 4d

You can also be like my mom and order Angelica and the Bear Prince, in fact!!! It’s out now! 🐻‍❄️

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MJ erickson @mjerickson.bsky.social · 20d

a woman in a yellow sweater is smiling and looking at the camera

Alt: Betty White from Golden Girls winking

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · Sep 11

done! SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS COMIC UGH

it's bitter, baby, and it's very sweet cover. subtitle says october 31st, 1994. a basement. and a secret they wish they'd never uncovered. by keezy young. the image is of three teenagers; one is dressed up as a witch, one is a skeleton, and the other is just in street clothes

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · Jun 2

You should preorder my book, and here are all the links www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/604737...

Cover to my graphic novel, Angelica and the Bear Prince. A young couple holds hands—a young femme person dressed mostly in pinks and reds, and a more masc person dressed in cool hues.

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Lesly ✨️ @leslyoh.bsky.social · Jul 13

🍽️ #farcille

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Cara McGee💕MOMOCON AA1919 @ohcararara.bsky.social · Jul 8

I always forget to participate in #PortfolioDay but I am ON IT this year!

I'm Cara, I've worked with companies like Marvel, DC, BOOM, MadCave, Cards Against Humanity, and many more. I super want to start doing more book covers, including prose books.
You can see more at caramcgee.com 💖 ILU.

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · Jun 26

I have a new graphic novel releasing and you should preorder it! (And if you can't, please repost this!) ✨📚✨

🔗: us.macmillan.com/books/9781250179524/flip/

summary: A nerdy black girl swaps bodies with her rich white boy crush. Self-love, humor, kpop stanning, boarding school, Houston! #booksky ✨

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MJ erickson @mjerickson.bsky.social · Jun 24

Some supernote sketching

Sketch of a woman wearing a dress and standing in water, study of reference photo

Sketch of random eyes, hands, a nose & the back of my dog’s head

Random life sketches of my dogs, a money tree & a coat

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晴晴 @sachinteng.bsky.social · Jun 24

I made this available as a print in my shop. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Point of Pride, an organization dedicated to providing Trans people financial aid for transition care

Transition care IS life saving, it saved MY life. If my art has ever meant anything to you, please help

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · Jun 24

hey, i made a terrible comic instead of working #makeaterriblecomicday2025

panel 1: a person is pointing on a bed where cats are lying in a way that leaves a vaguely human outline in the middle, saying "this is my hole!! it was made for me!!
panel 2: a twisted shape of a person lies on the bed, screaling silently as the cats sleep peacefully in random positions

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joe dáire @saint-vagrant.bsky.social · Aug 3

☁️🌤️☁️☁️
SHOALING
🐚🌊🌊🌊

from SUPERPOSE ⛓️

a loose and colourful illustration of a sandbar in a shallow, teal sea, under the bulbous rolling tower of a nimbus cloud in a blue summer sky. the water is shallow and clear enough that the sandy bottom peeks through the foam and patterns of waves-- populated with crops of seaweed, shells, starfish. seaweed and shells are washed up onto the exposed sand. in the centre, a young trans man appears to have been washed up onto the sandbar like flotsam, lying flat on his stomach, his long hair mixed into the sand, seaweed clinging to him, his legs stretching back into the water where the waves seem wanting to reclaim him. a small wave is breaking behind him, strangely, white water surging up into the air. he is awake, face partially hidden by his arms, his eyes peering up at the young child standing over him, casting a short noontime shadow. the kid's footprints in the sand expose an intent to meet him, but it's not clear from where they wandered, or how long either of them have been here.

a section of the image, close-up, cropped in on the blue, cyan waves rolling over one another and moving in to embrace the sandbar.

another close crop of the image. this time it's on the trans boy, Rafael. he's looking up bleary-eyed at the child (unseen in this crop) and tinged with some kind of unplaceable melancholy.

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · Jun 12

first spell

one-page comic, black and white and grayscale
panel 1 : close up of a woman's hand, wearing rings, on an old spellbook page
panel 2 : same woman's hands conjuring some black fire
panel 3 (big) : woman sitting on the floor where a pentagram is drawn, with skulls and candles, while a tiny demon with horns seems to jump out of the spellbook right on her legs, visibly very happy
the woman's wearing converse-like shoes, jeans, a tope revealing her shoulders (and a big tatto on the left one), she has a choker necklace and hair loosely tied into a messy bun
text : Look. There's never a perfect time to cast your first spell. Especially as a self-taught witch. Reckless ? Sure. But the truth is... I needed a friend."

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · Jun 9

Me at all the beautiful people backing the RHS2 Kickstarter

A panel out of context from RHS2 featuring Eugene grabbing Michel's arm and extremely excitedly exclaiming "I'm going to get you LAID!"

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Valentaine 🦇 @valentaine.bsky.social · Jun 9

My #oc Melissa💙 #art

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · Jun 9

The Kickstarter for Real Hero Shit 2: Harder Than It Looks is LIVE NOW!!!! Right NOW!!!!!! Back it in the first hour for free domestic or discounted international shipping!!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Real Hero Shit Book 2: Harder than It Looks by Kendra Wells

Grab the second volume of the queer fantasy adventures of a disparate band of mismatched adventurers: Real Hero Shit!

www.kickstarter.com

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · Jun 4

hey here's something I would love us all to do like RIGHT NOW: find out if your local library is doing any kind of pride programming or display, and if they are, email them to say thank you and why it matters to you. whether or not you're queer. especially if you're in an area where it's fraught

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Maren 🦎💚 @rennerei.bsky.social · Jun 5

good morning jae (oc)

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Camila 🌷 @nekomori-art.bsky.social · Jun 2

It's officially tomato season 🍅 New wallpaper pack is up on my Ko-fi!

🌞: ko-fi.com/s/337d7795c8

[ #CuteArt #Wallpapers ]

Mock up of a phone wallpaper and icon set titled "Coming Harvest". The Lock screen depicts three small bunnies hanging onto a vine of ripening tomatoes. The Home screen shows various icons designed around Summer and vegetables. Text on image: new phone wallpaper and icon set available on ko-fi.com/nekomori

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · Jun 4

loose freehand inks

ink drawings on a sketchbook page, sort of improvised freehand silent comic about my baguette yuri project (romance between two offensively french girls) with little slice-of-life scenes
one girl works in a café/bookstore, the other is a florist, both are cute

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SON M. @bogboogie.bsky.social · May 20

A VAMPIRE, A WITCH AND A WEREWOLF TRY TO KILL VAN HELSING IN A SINGLE WICKED NIGHT.

Issue 2 of the Hollowed Night goes live on kickstarter TODAY!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha...

Coming soon: The HOLLOWED NIGHT #2 - A horror COMIC BOOK

A forbidden pact, a dark power, and the ever-looming threat of a monster hunter who wants them dead. A comic by Son M and Lady Santos.

www.kickstarter.com

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SON M. @bogboogie.bsky.social · May 21

“Love in all things, even magic.”

THE HOLLOWED NIGHT #2 is currently on Kickstarter and weaves the tale of our dark witch, Naenia.

And what truly happened to her coven that terrible night…

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · May 21

It’s not “industry drama” or idle discourse or whatever. It’s genuinely annoying and bad that when any of us get recognition for our work, some of our colleagues are gonna have a little white grievance about it and then think they’re brave and smart for saying it out loud.

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SPiNDLE @aidenr0.bsky.social · May 18

swimming lesbiabs

an artwork showcasing two of Spindle's characters; Ottilie (on the left) and Asimov (on the right) swimming in the water. The perspective is bottom-up; green kelp is under them.

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Olivia Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · May 20

that whole thing where white people create absolute dogshit garbage comics & jerk each other off with awards & tout themselves as the pinnacle of innovation & gatekeep minorities from any opportunities or recognition & then call *us* the untalented ones the second one of us gets an award. lmao. lol.

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Olivia Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · May 21

"why are we giving the comic attention" because i would rather light a racist cartoonist's shit UP instead of ignoring it and pretending they are some kind of weird anomaly in their thinking. shit is pervasive. we are obligated to call this shit out, LOUDLY. why else do you think it's like this.

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