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Dylan NDR Edwards
@dylanndr.bsky.social
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Maker of queer & trans comics (Transposes, Valley of the Silk Sky) and monsters (Feeping Creatures). he/him
http://www.studiondr.com/
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It's Asexual Awareness Week, and I happen to be very aware of being asexual, it turns out. I have created many comics on the subject, which are available in print form as minicomics, or on my website for digital consumption!
www.studiondr.com/comics/autob...

#AsexualAwarenessWeek #Asexuality
Cover the QAT Person #1 minicomic by Dylan Edwards, featuring comics on Queer, Asexual, and Trans identity. The cover art shows a cartoon drawing of the artist at his drafting table. Cover the QAT Person #2 minicomic by Dylan Edwards, featuring comics on Queer, Asexual, and Trans identity. The cover art shows a cartoon drawing of the artist looking nervous as off-screen crowds discuss him without his input. Cover the QAT Person #3 minicomic by Dylan Edwards, featuring comics on Queer, Asexual, and Trans identity. The cover art shows a cartoon drawing of the artist in a selfie with several other people outside a Japanese trans guy bar. Cover the QAT Person #4 minicomic by Dylan Edwards, featuring comics on Queer, Asexual, and Trans identity. The cover art shows a cartoon drawing of the artist sitting clothed in a bathtub, yelling "take that, phobes!" as he shakes his fist.
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Anyway, did you know that leftists can set up booths at the big normie protest marches and pull in people who are socialism-curious but don't know where to start? It's true!
Hand-painted banner on a booth at Denver's No Kings October 2025. The banner reads: "Queers bash back against Trump! Stonewall was a riot! FRSO Freedom Road Socialist Organization"
October 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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what’s your sign
Photo of an antique sign that reads "GAY OILS Really Lubricate!" In the top right corner is a logo of light house surrounded by the words "Gay Oil Co" "Gay Gasoline" and "Gaymobile Oil"
September 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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qrp with something watery 🌊

#art
Concept art from Valley of the Silk Sky by Dylan Edwards: a person carrying a lantern walks through a strange subterranean swamp filled with aquatic plants and dome buildings that resemble anglerfish. Inside one of the buildings a large insectoid creature coils up defensively as it stands near some egg sacs. The figure is walking perilously close to the creature without seeing it.
September 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Apparently we just missed each other! I saw a few of these signs in this last set, but was a little further back from them. I did very much enjoy this Guillotine Care Bear sign!
September 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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One of my favorite books as a kid was a collection of editorial cartoons by Ben Sargent. BIG BROTHER BLUES came out in 1984 and covered much of the first Reagan administration. For some mysterious reason, I've been thinking about this book a lot lately
editorial cartoon by Ben Sargent (1983, Austin American Statesman) A speech bubble points to a rundown shack: "SURE he's loonik' at a 200-billion-dollar deficit, Pa, but he'll just have to raise it somehwere ELSE this time! He's cut us to th' NUB already! You can't get blood out of a turnip! [text fades]" Second bubble: "GOOD LORD, MA - HERE HE COMES AGAIN!" Ronald Reagan is carrying an axe, sneaking up to the house editorial cartoon by Ben Sargent (1981, Austin American Statesman) A frenzied mob leads a bound person labeled "The Poor" up to a guillotine labeled "Reagan Budget" A member of the mob tells The Poor: "Hey, it's for th' good of th' country! Think what an honor!!" editorial cartoon by Ben Sargent (1981, Austin American Statesman) An impoverished couple dressed in rags in a ramshackle kitchen. The woman heats up a can of dog food on the stove. The man sits at a table reading the "help wanted" section of the newspaper A voice on the radio: "This just in - David Stockman today revealed the Reagan tax cuts were an outright ploy to fatten the pockets of the rich ... I repeat --" Man: "- That's NEWS??!" editorial cartoon by Ben Sargent (1982, Austin American Statesman) A high-ranking military officer points to bars on his uniform. His hat is labeled "Pentagon Budget" He says: "This one's for Medicaid ... That one's for food stamps ... Welfare ... Low-income housing ... school lunches ..."
August 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Did you know I make weird little monsters out of polymer clay sometimes? They're called Feeping Creatures, I started sculpting them in 2004, and I just released a new batch for the first time in 3 years. You can find them here: www.etsy.com/shop/feeping...

#polymerclay #monsterart
Polymer clay sculpture of a snake with a cat head (a cat snake, if you will). The colors are a swirl of glittery black and orange-yellow-red stripes. Polymer clay sculpture of a strange creature with an angry face. The colors are a marbled swirl of black and glittery red. The creature has a classic villain mustache, one eye, and a single eyebrow. Its mouth is open and three teeth are visible. Polymer clay sculpture of a snail with a surprised expression. The shell colors are a swirl of glittery black and orange-yellow-red stripes. The body is glittery black, and the eyes yellow with black pupils.
August 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I have, at long last, finished sorting and photographing and listing my new enamel pins!

The Honduran White Bat and the Butterfly Bat are now available in my Feeping Creatures Etsy Shop:
www.etsy.com/shop/feeping...

#bats #EnamelPins #HonduranWhiteBat #ButterflyBat
Photograph of an enamel pin of a Honduran White Bat, designed by Dylan Edwards. A bat with black wings, a white body, red legs and arms, and yellow fingers, ears, and nose leaf flies in front of an image of a full moon printed on fabric. Photograph of an enamel pin of a Butterfly Bat, designed by Dylan Edwards. A bat with black wings, a white body, red legs and arms, and an orange head and membranes flies in front of an image of a full moon printed on fabric.
June 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Not only am I saved, she somehow gets the kidnappers to kidnap themselves
Photo of Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale in Poker Face: a woman with long curly red hair leans forward with a serious look on her face
June 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I've done a lot of comics about trans folks, but the best known is probably my book Transposes. Six true stories of seven queer trans mascs. The print edition sold out years ago, but you can still snag a digital copy: www.studiondr.com/comics/trans...

#tdov #TransDayOfVisibility #transmasc #comics
Book cover for Transposes by Dylan Edwards. A comic book illustration of a bearded man in a suit and hat, carrying a cane, and dancing. Behind him are several comic panels of various trans mascs doing various things. Bottom text reads: "Foreword by Alison Bechdel, New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home and Are You My Mother?"
March 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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This sketch from Jan 2021 sums up why I rarely post art on socials anymore. I find self-promo difficult at the best of times; mustering the wherewithal to do it now is wherewithain't. But I still post weekly to Patreon, with many free public posts:
www.patreon.com/dylanedwards

#TransArtists #queer
pencil drawing by Dylan Edwards: a hand wearing a fingerless glove and holding a pencil surfaces from the water as a wave labeled "Horror News" washes over it. A speech bubble points to the downing artist: "Look, I made a thing ... -glub-"
March 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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If you see this, post your bird art 🐓
Cartoon drawing of a chicken next to a text box that reads "If a chicken is reinventing how poultry vocalize, is it thinking outside the boks" Bottom text reads "Taxonomically Unbound ©Dylan Edwards - studiondr.com"
November 18, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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Hi there, new followers! I'm a queer & trans comic artist and illustrator. I've been doing this for about 25 years and have lots and lots of comics for you to peruse! Sci-fi fantasy, autobio comics, non-fiction works about queer & trans concerns:
www.studiondr.com

#queercomics #queerartists
Book covers for comics created by Dylan Edwards. Text reads "Queer & Trans Comics By Dylan Edwards" Titles from left-to-right: Valley of the Silk Sky [a human and a humanoid insect person look bashfully at each other over a strange flower] Politically InQueerect [a blond man looks over his shoulder at a creepy Tudor mansion; a smiling old woman stands in front of the house] The Outfield [a pile-up of football players; the man on the bottom seems to be enjoying himself quite a bit] QAT Person issues 1 and 2 [self-portraits of the author drawing at a drafting table, and looking worried] Transposes [a man in a suit and straw hat dances across the cover while holding a cane in an homage to the poster for the musical Funny Face] Bleating About the Bush [cartoon of George W Bush smiling and holding a long scroll of paper listing some of the many atrocities of his administration]
November 16, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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I have done the thing! Yeah yeah, presidential race, blah blah. But also take a minute to look up the people running for, like, public transit board of directors, y'know? One had lots of ideas for how to improve service, the other didn't seem to care about public transit at all. Good to know!
photo of a gloved hand inserting a ballot into a ballot drop box
October 27, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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I don't really post here much because social media in general has become something of a chore, but I do still make horrible puns from time to time and need to inflict them on others in order to survive, so here you go
Screenshot of an Instagram Story by Dylan Edwards Black background with a still of Gandalf on the bridge fighting the Balrog Text reads: "I apologize profusely and with the utmost sincerity for joke I am about to make [ahem]" "You know Gandalf has IBS because he fought a fierce battle with the Bowelrog" [in very small text] "You: you could have just ... not posted this" Me: No but see it's a shitpost, so"
October 18, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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I've been using Sticker Guy for many, many years and always had a good experience with them. They run monthly sales on fun vinyl/ink color combos, so you can try 'em out cheap!

They were the printer I used for my most popular sticker, the glow-in-the-dark rat butt
square sticker with a black background, featuring a drawing of a rat seen from behind. The rat is green to demonstrate the sticker's glow-in-the-dark feature a hand holding a square sticker that features a black-and-white drawing of a rat seen from behind
July 16, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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I found a hornet's nest on the ground, washed the paper and dried it flat, then used to pieces to simulate layers of sedimentary strata. Then I drew a dinosaur skeleton nestled in the middle.
Photo of a framed art piece on a bookshelf. Next to the art is a small hornet's nest. The art is a 2D collage of hornet nest paper affixed to black mat board, with a white pencil drawing of a dinosaur skeleton in the middle.
February 20, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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My comic for the January issue of OFM takes a look at how easy and fun it is to access healthcare when you're trans! Yes, these are all 100% true stories culled from my own experiences. You can read the whole comic in the digital edition (I'm on page 6):
www.outfrontmagazine.com/january-2024...
January 16, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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This Sunday, January 14, you can find me tabling at the Queer Bazaar at Town Hall Collaborative! I will have my usual assortment of comics and stickers and whatnot, as well as some brand new art I've been working on. Come to the thing!
525 Santa Fe Dr
Denver, CO 80204
11AM - 4PM
January 11, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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My comic for the December 2023 issue of OUT FRONT Magazine is all about the various iterations my fashion sense has gone through over the years. You can read the whole thing in the digital edition of the magazine, where you shall find me ensconced on page 6!
www.outfrontmagazine.com/december-202...
Excerpt from a comic by Dylan Edwards Panel 1: Top caption: Egg Stage Image: female-presenting human with long, unkempt hair, wearing glasses, a baggy Megadeth t-shirt, fringed leggings, and big black boots stands facing forward, scowling Bottom caption: "Mitigate dysphoria by hiding under excessively baggy clothing" Panel 2: Top caption: Baby Trans Stage Image: male-presenting human with short hair, wearing glasses, a baggy long sleeve shirt, cargo pants, and hiking boots stands facing forward, frowning and giving the finger Word balloons: "Nice outfit, loser!" "Haha!" Middle caption: "25 years old, getting bullied by high schoolers" Bottom caption: "Excessively baggy clothing makes you look like an actual baby" Cover of OUT FRONT Magazine, December 2023 issue Top text: OFM OUT FRONT Magazine, Happy Holidays! Middle text: 2024 Holiday Gift Guide Photo: two people of ambiguous gender presentation sit in front of a light gray background. The top person has short dark hair, a green knit sweater, white pants, and black boots. The other person sits beneath, laying on the floor, has short blonde hair, and wears a red sweater. Both are draped with a garland made of evergreen.
December 12, 2023 at 9:32 PM
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My latest comic for OUT FRONT Magazine contains "jokes" (I use the term in the broadest possible sense) of dubious moral character, and should frankly be eschewed in favor of something wholesome. I'd avoid page 6 if I were you.

www.outfrontmagazine.com/november-202...
A slender person in a teal leotard and knee-high black boots, with a salmon-colored sash and lock of hair, lunges to the side in an elaborate dance move. They are holding a bundt cake dripping with frosting directly in front of their crotch. Their speech balloon reads: "Ill be serving bundt". The front cover of the November 2023 issue of OUT FRONT Magazine. A masculine person in heavy contour makeup, wearing a mustache and a sweater vest, holds a pie on one hand. The cover text reads: "OUT FRONT Magazine" "Thanks ... I'm Giving"
November 22, 2023 at 3:13 PM
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My Halloween costume from last night: Leather Dad Jokes! I wrote a bunch of dreadful puns, taped them to the backs of Halloween-themed stickers, and handed them out to people at the party.

(Yes, more than one person said, "So your costume is basically just you.")
A man stands with his back to the camera. He is wearing a black cap with studs, a leather motorcycle jacket, leather pants, and leather boots. The jacket has a back patch that reads "Leather Dad Jokes." Several strips of paper lay on top of a computer keyboard. Each strip has a different pun on it. Some examples: "Do vampire arachnids prefer to drink from spider veins?" "Builder boas. Constriction workers?" "wet, slushy snowfall: skyarrhea" Two stickers on rest on a table, featuring artwork by Dylan Edwards. The left sticker is a black oval with a holographic bat. The right sticker is a jack-o-lantern in the shape of a house, haunted by ghost mice. Below the stickers are piles of the same designs with puns taped to the back" "A cheesy disguise leads to a queso mistaken identity" and "If bacteria are returned to their dish of origin, are they repetriated." A man wearing a cap with studs and enamel pins, black rectangular glasses, a leather motorcycle jacket, and a red shirt winks at the camera. He has long gray sideburns. Behind him are two mirrors with his back reflected. Both show the back patch on his jacket that reads "Leather Dad Jokes." The left mirror image is reversed, the right mirror image shows the text oriented correctly. There are Halloween decorations in the background.
October 29, 2023 at 2:38 PM
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It's Asexual Awareness Week! I made a comic about various subsets of asexuality, and the distinction between aromantic and asexual identity. This is a brief overview of a complex topic, obvs (I've not yet managed to solve all the world’s problems with a half-page comic, sadly), but you get the idea.
October 23, 2023 at 9:52 PM
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My comic for the October issue of OUT FRONT Magazine features queer tarot cards of my own devising! One of them is even worksafe, ha ha, heh.

Hit up the OFM website to read the full comic in their digital edition! You'll find me on page 6.
www.outfrontmagazine.com/october-2023...
Tarot card illustration: a white man in a business suit glares menacingly and clutches handfuls of dollars. Instead of legs he has several tentacles. Behind him is a rainbow pride flag with a dollar sign on it. Text: THE TENTACLES OF PENTACLES Upright: A corporation will fawn over you to get your queer dollars, but as soon as it comes time to actually defend queer and trans people, they'll cave to the loudmouthed bigots. Reversed: Your queer community will experience an abundance of mutual aid. Image: a femme with long dark hair and olive skin wears a tiara of radiant spikes. Their arms are crossed, hands palm-up. A black electric candle sits in front of them. Text: Top left: OFM logo Middle right: Witch Craft 101 Middle left: Southern Gothic Realness Bottom right: Queer Magic
October 22, 2023 at 6:43 PM
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Yes, these searches for reference images are all relevant to the same comic, because I am normal and I only write normal things
screenshot of open browser tabs. From left to right: guillotine - Google Search butternut squash - Google Search pig - Google Search bundt cake - Google Search
September 24, 2023 at 9:49 PM