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Carey Pietsch

@careydraws.bsky.social

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I make comics! she/her. #1 NYT Bestselling cartoonist & co-adapter on http://theadventurezonecomic.com; morphclubcast co-host. it's peach 🏳️‍🌈 newsletter for book, convention, & webshop updates & discounts: 📩 https://www.careydraws.com/newsletter

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 13d

Formal post soon, but for the first time in eight (!) years, I'm open for illustration & short comics work! I'd love to do more TTRPG equipment & character designs/ illos; book covers; & book interiors. I also love making short comics & would love to be a part of more anthologies! www.careydraws.com

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 36m

See you tomorrow (Thursday, 10/9)!! Booth #3300 at 1 PM!!

c fangbattle and killian as depicted in the TAZ graphic novels inform you that carey pietsch is doing a signing at First Second's NYCC both #3300 on Thursday, 10/9 at 1 PM

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really excited to get to do a signing at NYCC this year! I'll be at @01firstsecond.bsky.social's Booth #3300 at 1 PM on Thursday, 10/9!! See you there!!

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 1d

Yay it’s my book’s birthday; don’t yell about pubes in public

An angry character shouts in the distance, “I hope they step on a million stray legos. I hope they get an ingrown pube!” A second character in the background responds, “Jelly you gotta not yell about pubes in public. Also, mind the ice.” A nervous young person with freckles and short hair hides behind an evergreen bush in the foreground.

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 1d

This would single-handedly transform the lives of everyone I know in such profound ways it is difficult to fully articulate, but it would also let us actually make more and different and crazy things

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 2d

I’m always happy to sign them when I’m tabling at cons! I’m unfortunately done tabling for the year but hope to be back at it in 2026!

Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really excited to get to do a signing at NYCC this year! I'll be at @01firstsecond.bsky.social's Booth #3300 at 1 PM on Thursday, 10/9!! See you there!!

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 2d

The third bench in bilewater…………

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 6d

It’s so annoying that we all have to just continually point out how rules around/between decorum and violation are applied asymmetrically to vulnerable groups versus the people who are always hassling them, and it’s extra insulting that the people in charge are trying to lol it away.

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 7d

This one made me lose it! I was only able to do it with the hive charm that refills your last health unit lost over time + lots of breaks

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

www.wheresyoured.at

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 8d

Unfortunately I came to this area to escape the suffering of the high halls enemy gauntlet so I’m locked in… but not tonight lmao

Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 8d

If I have met your cat(s) in real life or we’ve shared a meal I would love it if you could reply/DM me a picture of them in a cute/funny pose! Drawing a tiny one-page personal zine w lots of cats and would rather draw known cats where possible-they won’t all fit but would be fun to include some!

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 8d

The only part that has actually made my thumb and ZR finger hurt so far is trying to climb mount fay after the first bench. Don’t like it

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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 9d

I keep thinking about this piece. It feels so odd to have someone put into words what I suspected. I think the ideal authors for current publishing's standards are influencers/celebrities: built-in audience, unrelated income streams, someone else does their PR/comments moderation, willing to shill

Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 9d

it took me less than 5 minutes to do my 3 calls.

"i saw on the news trump is threatening to shut down the government if democrats don't bend the knee over trans healthcare. i will never vote for [rep] again if they give up trans healthcare. i would rather the government shut down."

that's it.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 9d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12d

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody

State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.

gothamist.com

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 11d

So far the biggest downside to going from hollow knight replay right into silksong is: it did take me a full 25 hours to realize that holding down the dash button made hornet keep sprinting

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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 12d

Does anyone ever try to sell original art at comics shows? Every time I've done this people are so squeamish about touching an original watercolor, even if it's in a plastic sleeve. And they sell very few, even if I price them super low. Any tips?

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 12d

Also it took like, 1-2 years for each batch of 30 to sell & some of them went online later. And I was making a lot of hi-viz fanart; I think if I tried the same thing now it would be harder for a number of reasons! Interesting puzzle to think about

Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 12d

these were also all postcard-sized & I displayed them laid out but slightly overlapping in individual transparent sleeves in a slightly raised/angled display tray to make them feel a little less precious-- had the same problem with people not wanting to touch them otherwise! it's tough!

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 12d

I sold original ink drawings w/ limited greyscale marker tone of fantasy prop designs back in ~2018 for $40-70 each & they found homes-- but I think it helped that I had posted them all online as a series leading up to the cons; people who bought them had usually seen them & wanted their fave

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 13d

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 13d

thank you! The last GN is really something special & I'm excited to get to talk more about it soon!!

Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 13d

my email is on my portfolio website, linked above! you can also sign up for my newsletter if you want very infrequent (quarterly-ish) emails with bonus comics, discount codes for when my webshop opens, and news about what I'm working on. 📩 www.careydraws.com/newsletter