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Karen Czap

@charmgardens.com

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Cartoonist, X-Men Fan, Sunfly Believer, Tall Cool Vulnerable & Luscious, FFG, Greatest of All Taurus (*they*) 🌸🌷🌼 https://linktr.ee/charmgardens

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Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · Nov 8

Hi Bluesky, I'm Karen, sometimes working professionally as K Czap. My two books are the queer utopian mixtape that is Fütchi Perf (Uncivilized Books, 2017) and Four Years (Czap Books, 2024), a comic that tries to cure trauma with friendship. I like making work about friendship and transcendence

Cover to Fütchi Perf, futuristic people sitting underneath dark blue waves in the shape of the Lake Erie coastline

Interior page from Fütchi Perf, with two young future punks finding Perf House for the first time

Cover to Four Years, Betty Yaris sitting, surrounded by yellow flowers

Interior page from Four Years where Betty and Vivvie are getting into a white truck to drive around Providence

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iasmin omar ata | delta 🌟 vtuber comms open! @deltahead.bsky.social · 11h

my hands are shaking with rage and grief. i shouldn't have to do this. the edited text on this image should not exist. this should not still be happening in 2025

a panel from my entry in Samidoon. it is sepia tone of a palestinan family walking. the caption reads "in 2024, the images from inside Gaza echo my family's storie from Palestine. the walk away from our tattered homes looks the same as 50 years ago." the 2024 is crossed out witht 2025 written next to it. my hands are shaking with rage and grief as i type

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preternia @preternia.com · 14h

Bandai S.H.Figuarts One Piece Tony Tony Chopper, details coming soon.

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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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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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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

New books this week: Thomas Pynchon's first novel in 12 years, and much more

In addition to Pynchon's Shadow Ticket, this week's releases include a new memoir from Dopesick author Beth Macy, and a coming-of-age story from former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo.

www.npr.org

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popple @popple.bsky.social · 23h

my new comic MEATCUTE is now available to read digitally! $8+, NSFW 🧸🐾💦 toycomputer.itch.io/meatcute

Meatcute (18+) by otto

18+ beastly roommate romcom / toycore body horror

toycomputer.itch.io

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Alexander Angelo @aldondo.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite panels from Episode 8 [Choosing Sides II], out now!!

Read our free webcomic [THE CAGES] on Webtoon and Tapas.
Art: @seyeart.bsky.social
Letters: @djeljosevic.bsky.social
#ComicArt #Webseries #webtoon #tapascomic

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Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 1d

Applying to @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social made me feel better about myself - it can happen for you too! www.comicartsmaineportland.com

CAMP | Comic Arts Maine Portland Festival

The Comic Arts Maine Portland Festival (CAMP) is Maine's largest free comic event dedicated to the art and community of independent comics and graphic novels. The first Comic Arts Maine Portland Fest...

www.comicartsmaineportland.com

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Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 1d

Hey look!

Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 5d

www.patreon.com/posts/140281... it's the free monthly round up! Check out what's going on and stay for the cute picture of me without a hat on at the end!

Buy My Book! - 10/02/25 | Charm Gardens

Get more from Charm Gardens on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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popple @popple.bsky.social · 3d

new comic "MEATCUTE" 32pg roommate sex comedy/toycore body horror 🐾🪡🍖 tabling today at philly comix expo, old pine community center 10am-6pm :•) digital edition coming 🔜💦💦💦

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Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 4d

Haha I remembered this all on my own

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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 5d

ShortBox Comics Fair is live! My offering this year is a horror short story about a son questioning if he needs to rescue his mom from a newfound obsession with making art.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 5d

Oh also more diary comics and sketchbook stuff on Patreon.com/lauraknetzger

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Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 5d

www.patreon.com/posts/140281... it's the free monthly round up! Check out what's going on and stay for the cute picture of me without a hat on at the end!

Buy My Book! - 10/02/25 | Charm Gardens

Get more from Charm Gardens on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 5d

www.patreon.com/posts/140281... it's the free monthly round up! Check out what's going on and stay for the cute picture of me without a hat on at the end!

Buy My Book! - 10/02/25 | Charm Gardens

Get more from Charm Gardens on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 7d

TRANSGENDER FOR EVERYBODY 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Kiki Shu @shuuinn.bsky.social · 7d

🪵 Bundle of sticks from flash for @cathygjohn.bsky.social !!! #handpoked #tattoo #queertattoo

A black ink handpoked tattoo of a bundle of sticks placed on the inner side forearm

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Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 7d

Oh my god, junk email from Jack Reed assuring me he's a simp and voted with Republicans to try and avoid the shutdown

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Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 7d

Yess, it's Las Vegas 🏀

Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 8d

Wow!!! Thank you!

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 8d

#PVDlocal: The Mayor's promises that PPD won't cooperate with ICE have proved empty. On 10/6, City Council's holding a hearing that could lead to a prohibition on police-ICE cooperation, as well as some protections for schools & courts. Get your testimony ready. 10/6, 5:30pm, City Hall, 3rd floor

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Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 8d

YEEAAAAHHHH!!!!!

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Alexander Angelo @aldondo.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow!! Words can’t describe how grateful I am to work with @seyeart.bsky.social

Join us for the final episodes of the qualifying round in [THE CAGES] !!
#ComicArt #Webseries #WebComic

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 9d

One of the big things we wanted to do with this comic was to place The Forgotten Five in conversation with classic serialized storytelling before the binge era, so most of these are comics that are kind of a small slice of a larger, sprawling story. Subscribe @ patreon.com/theforgottenfive

Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 9d

Over at @13thd.bsky.social, @saracentury.bsky.social and I talk about the comics that influenced THE FORGOTTEN FIVE, with artist @deankotz.bsky.social!

13thdimension.com/the-forgotte...

THE FORGOTTEN FIVE: 13 Classic COMICS SERIES That Inspired a New Superhero Saga

Alex Segura and Sara Century take you back to the ’80s and ’90s…

13thdimension.com

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Karen Czap @charmgardens.com · 10d

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