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Reimena Yee 🦇
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Historical fiction comics skeleton with a whimsigoth vibe. Academic-practitioner & comics taxonomist. Co-founder of the @cartoonist.coop I am just chilling here when I am not making my (web)comics or blogging about craft.
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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · Nov 17
[📚ABOUT ME] I'm a Malaysian illustrator, writer and comics educator/organiser. Author of several award-winning/nominated graphic novels and webcomics. Creator, curator and webmaster of the Comics Devices Library. Co-founder of the Cartoonist Cooperative. Open to work!

More about my books/projects ⬇️
All of my graphic novels and webcomics in print. You will find out more about them down the thread. Poster for the creator's guide to comics devices, or the comics devices library.
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Still super proud of everyone involved in this! One thing not mentioned is that behind the scenes, the co-op was able to help move a lot of creators off HW hosting so their comics are protected in the long term- collective action WORKS.
cartoonist.coop Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 19h
The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement at:

cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...
Hiveworks Guild logo. Two bees sitting on a bee hive holding hands.
January 13, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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This is such a small thing in the face of everything else going on...

but the 57th NAACP Image Awards nominations were announced today and they left off the illustrators of four out of the five graphic novel nominees.

I remain dissatisfied with how comic artists are treated.
Outstanding Literary Work – Graphic Novel. Creaky Acres: A Graphic Novel – Calista Bril (Penguin Young Readers). Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls – Rob Edwards (Stranger Comics). One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel – Rita William-Garcia (HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books). Parable of the Talents A Graphic Novel Adaptation – Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damien Duffy, Illustrated by John Jennings and David Brame (Abrams ComicArts). They Choose Violence – Sheldon Allen (AWA Studios).
January 12, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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I've shown a lot of growth from being a cartoonist who couldn't draw horses to one who gets hype with the idea of drawing horses when given the opportunity, all within 3 years.
January 1, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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ventiskull.bsky.social
Underrated point of discussion with the AI + social media uproar is giving thanks to patrons of the arts, especially non-artists, who are willing to put in the effort to support artists at a time when it has never been easier or more normalized to do the opposite.
December 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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If you have the experience necessary to help guide a non-profit that will independent cartoonists get their comics into libraries, and get readers more diverse stories, check this out.
December 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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explodingarrow.bsky.social
Comics critics! You have just a few more days to apply to the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
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December 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
reimenayee.com
This is a really much needed service!!!!
comicslibrarian.bsky.social Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.bsky.social · 15d
I am founding a not-for-profit website where independent comic creators and small publishers can easily sell their works to libraries, plus provide other services. Called (for now) the Comics Librarian Commons, this will be an online hub bringing independent creators and librarians together.
A two panel cartoon done in sketches introducing a not-for-profit, online hub for librarians to shop for independent comics A two-panel cartoon explaining the Artist Alley section and how to shop A two panel cartoon explaining how the works are sold and shipped and how the site will be promoted A two panel cartoon calling for folks to volunteer for the board of directors
December 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Quickly posting to say: hi, new followers! I am still recovering from physical and mental exhaustion, but 2026 will have a few exciting - including the 10th anniversary rerun of my first completed webcomic/graphic novel. Here's a preview of its key art.
a work-in-progress screenshot of the key art for The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya's 10th anniversary. The main character Zeynel is embraced by his wife Ayse, the other main character, framed by gold-edged roses and tulips and arabesque frames inspired by Rococo art.
December 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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derfbackderf.bsky.social
Important article, comics colleagues. Where we stand right now in this Book Ban culture war that shows no signs of abating.

I've said this from the beginning: this began as a classic Comics Witch Hunt. When this started in Texas & Florida in 2021, My Friend Dahmer was one of the targeted books.
The Latest Trends in Comics Censorship: Book Censorship News, December 26, 2025
What are the trends in comics censorship over the last year? A look at the data and titles being targeted, with help from a comics scholar.
bookriot.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but:

If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present.

Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover
March 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and whatever else you celebrate. Here's the illustration for the end-of-year postcard I sent to friends and family (those in my address book anyway) #art
A grey sooty owl shaking off some stars from its feathers
December 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and whatever else you celebrate. Here's the illustration for the end-of-year postcard I sent to friends and family (those in my address book anyway) #art
A grey sooty owl shaking off some stars from its feathers
December 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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I'm opening limited slots for portrait commissions during the Christmas/Holiday season until December 20th. Pet portraits and people portraits, great as gifts. :3 reimenayee.com/commissions
Two tabby cats getting cozy with Halloween motifs, ghosts and ivy White poodle looking very pleased with his stack of bones Portrait of a goth middle aged couple with their two alive cats and their ghost cat. Portrait of a gay couple with their cat and their hobbies.
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I'm opening limited slots for portrait commissions during the Christmas/Holiday season until December 20th. Pet portraits and people portraits, great as gifts. :3 reimenayee.com/commissions
Two tabby cats getting cozy with Halloween motifs, ghosts and ivy White poodle looking very pleased with his stack of bones Portrait of a goth middle aged couple with their two alive cats and their ghost cat. Portrait of a gay couple with their cat and their hobbies.
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
reimenayee.com
Fantastic advice thread on how to improve your comics panelling craft
arielries.bsky.social Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · Dec 10
So my first tip for this is just Read a Lot of Comics. have comics in your bookshelf (real or virtual) that you can flip through for inspiration and see how other artists are working and what/how they fit visuals into a panel. I read a lot of manga on my phone, and every time i see a page that--
pearlsplatoon.bsky.social el @pearlsplatoon.bsky.social · Dec 8
Do you have any general tips on how to improve comic layouts/paneling? I want to start making proper comics but paneling is something I really struggle with (especially when it comes to making sure my sketch compilations fit the panel size while still being effective/showing everything I want)
December 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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also @reimenayee.com's comics devices library is great if you want to break down how layout makes you think and feel: comicsdevices.com
Comics Devices Library - The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices
An online library and meronomy of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.
comicsdevices.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Incredible archaeology and Indigenous art from Huichol territories, showing that the Pecos murals were painted continuously over 4,000 years. "The canyons are like an “ancient library containing hundreds of books authored by 175 generations of painters". www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r... 🏺 🗃️
Researchers Discover the Shocking Age of the Mysterious Pecos River Rock Art
The murals were painted on limestone canyon walls, in the same style, over the span of four millennia
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Been KO’ed by back-to-back travel, illness and general cursed-2025 shenanigans; in the respites I’ve been making a 3D model of Alexander to use as reference, and even in its half-baked stage it is paying off
A painterly 3D model of Alexander alongside my drawings
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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OMG what the heck!! This is so cool to see experimental art/archeology being built upon my Tumblr/Twitter rambling theory on this style of ancient Greek earrings. 😍 www.tumblr.com/reimenaashel...
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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arpadokay.bsky.social
half of it is slavery. the model it all comes from is white men know how to run things, and all mistakes come from the servant class being unable to realize the vision. it's colonialism, it's chattel slavery, it's deskilled labor, it's the auteur. property as exclusion, power as the right to exclude
jasonkoebler.bsky.social Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Nov 6
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Not quite a proper update since it's missing its second half (to be posted later), but...
👁‍🗨 Alexander, the Servant & the Water of Life
Update: alexanderromance.com/comic/chapte...
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The comic, in a 2 page spread, is done in the style of Persian miniature. The story is this: The green-clothed Servant escorts Alexander and his mother Olympias behind the curtain (note: this was the previous 2 page spread, which was done in the ancient Greek style) …and delivers them both to the day of Olympias’ wedding (the Persian style, the comic you are reading now). The Servant tells Alexander, “In this story of the egg, your mother was bethrothed… (not to Philip! No! To none other than-) The Shah of Persia.” The chorus once again emerges from the palace’s treasure room. Each woman carries a tray, each with a golden egg of dazzling flair and style, envy of all. The Servant carries a tray, too, and bows to the wedding couple. “The wedding was one big part of a diplomatic parley that involved a gift of a hundred thousand golden eggs. Each one containing a precious gem. Of course, your mother was the crowning jewel.” “All seemed well… until it didn’t. Not long after the Shah rejected her. The dragons wailed in despair: Why?, they asked.”
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Not quite a proper update since it's missing its second half (to be posted later), but...
👁‍🗨 Alexander, the Servant & the Water of Life
Update: alexanderromance.com/comic/chapte...
About: reimenayee.com/alexander
Subscribe to newsletter: buttondown.com/reimena
The comic, in a 2 page spread, is done in the style of Persian miniature. The story is this: The green-clothed Servant escorts Alexander and his mother Olympias behind the curtain (note: this was the previous 2 page spread, which was done in the ancient Greek style) …and delivers them both to the day of Olympias’ wedding (the Persian style, the comic you are reading now). The Servant tells Alexander, “In this story of the egg, your mother was bethrothed… (not to Philip! No! To none other than-) The Shah of Persia.” The chorus once again emerges from the palace’s treasure room. Each woman carries a tray, each with a golden egg of dazzling flair and style, envy of all. The Servant carries a tray, too, and bows to the wedding couple. “The wedding was one big part of a diplomatic parley that involved a gift of a hundred thousand golden eggs. Each one containing a precious gem. Of course, your mother was the crowning jewel.” “All seemed well… until it didn’t. Not long after the Shah rejected her. The dragons wailed in despair: Why?, they asked.”
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Been around the traditionally published block long enough to have an edition of my graphic novel remaindered (aka PULPED) 🧍‍♂️ this “ouija board” edition was originally for libraries and hard for me to even acquire, so I’m glad to be able to rescue a few for my online shop! Cover design: Patrick Crotty
My children’s graphic novel Seance Tea Party, with a purple hardcover designed to look like an ouija board.
October 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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When the Night Grew Teeth - illustration based on my vampire webcomic The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a rerun next year
An elegant looking Ottoman era man (AKA the main character of the webcomic) inside a cage of thorny roses. His neck is titled upwards and pricked deeply and bloodily by two thorns, an allusion to the vampire who killed him. A hawk with blood red eyes flies behind him. The illustration is tinted blue, with the only other colours being the blood red on the previous noted areas and some other thorns, and a subtle gold embroidery on the character's coat.
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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When the Night Grew Teeth - illustration based on my vampire webcomic The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a rerun next year
An elegant looking Ottoman era man (AKA the main character of the webcomic) inside a cage of thorny roses. His neck is titled upwards and pricked deeply and bloodily by two thorns, an allusion to the vampire who killed him. A hawk with blood red eyes flies behind him. The illustration is tinted blue, with the only other colours being the blood red on the previous noted areas and some other thorns, and a subtle gold embroidery on the character's coat.
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM