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Gabrielle Drolet

@gabrielledrolet.bsky.social

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Writer and cartoonist based in Montreal. My first book is out May 20 :) Gabrielledrolet.com

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Nov 16

I have a book coming out in the spring!!! It’s funny and personal and has been years in the making!! It’s called LOOK MA, NO HANDS!

Publishers marketplace: New Yorker cartoonist and MFA graduate Gabrielle Drolet's LOOK MA, NO HANDS, a humorous memoir with illustrations that explores the complexity of developing disabling and life-altering pain in her twenties, learning to write when she couldn't type, cook when she couldn't chop, assemble IKEA furniture when she couldn't twist an Allen Key, and navigate byzantine health systems without the privilege or security of a family doctor, to Jenny Bradshaw at McClelland & Stewart, by Martha Webb at CookeMcDermid (Canada English).

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Day 7 of rat October

Small watercolour painting of rat in a pumpkin, wearing stem as a hat

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Day 6 of rat October

Watercolour of a rat dressed as a plague doctor

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Day 5 of drawing a rat every day in October

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!!

Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · 4d

I’m taking suggestions from Twitter and Instagram!

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Day 4 of drawing a rat every day in October

Small watercolour painting of rat playing bagpipes

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Day 3 of drawing a rat every day in October

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Day 2 of drawing a rat every day in October

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Day 1 of drawing a rat every day in October

Small watercolour painting of a rat in purple wizard robes

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for sharing!! 🩷

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 13d

"I got this job the way I’ve gotten most of my jobs: through an acquaintance who heard I was looking for work. This is key to success in freelancing... a roster of industry connections who know how desperate you are."

I'm very late to this fun excerpt from @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social's book!

How to Make a Living as a Writer | The Walrus

Horse stories in the morning, erotica in the afternoon

thewalrus.ca

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Sep 8

weird thing I had fun making

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Aug 29

four panel comic. Two dinosaurs wonder what future generations of dinosaurs will look like, saying they’ll probably have huge teeth and longer arms and laser eyes. Cut to the humble pigeon millions of heats later. She looks down at her egg surrounded by two twigs and a cigarette butt and says “yeah. That’s a perfect nest for sure”

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Aug 12

not afraid

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Aug 6

thank you :)

Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thanks so much!!!

Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Aug 6

recent conversation

Cartoon. Woman texts friend asking why the bottom of her tomato plant has yellowed. Friend answers that, as plants grow, they sometimes need to focus their energy on new growth and fruit. Woman snips off the yellow leaves to help the plant keep growing

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Aug 5

repeatedly leaning over to my date and saying “this is just like Challengers”

Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Jul 25

just saw a novel get described as being “set in Sally Rooney’s Ireland.” and I know what they mean, but it does make it sound like Ireland is a place Sally Rooney rules over with an iron fist

Three panel comic. Paul mescal is speaking and uses quotation marks in his speech bubble. Then he says “ah, I forgot, we can’t use quotation marks here. Not in sally Rooney’s Ireland”

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Roy T @augustburnsroy.bsky.social · Jul 24

I finished @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social's book: Look Ma, No Hands last night and loved it. I worked at a complex chronic pain facility in Toronto in my early professional career and this really was a perfect bookend to that chapter. What a touching and funny story! Recommended!

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you so so much, means the world!!!

Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’m writing a novel btw

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Jul 21

horse

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Jul 21

so much of women’s health stuff is like “yeah we know this because we conducted one study sixty years ago on a single rat. and the rat was male”

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · Jul 19

baby’s first metro ride

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