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Jonathan Ya'el Eden
@jonathaneden.bsky.social
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✶ he/it ✶ 🪰 trans illustrator creating queer horror comics 🪲 embracing monstrosity + liminality 🪱 lover of parasitic worms 🦇 jonathanyeden.com 🪳 jonathaneden.bigcartel.com ✨ patreon.com/jonathanyeden
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 15
Hello 👋🏽 I'm Jonathan Ya'el, a queer writer + illustrator exploring monstrosity and memory through speculative fiction. Currently working on a myriad of horror comic projects.
Illustration of a pale woman wading into a dark lake at night, her white hair falling around her. Her head is bent at a disconcerting angle. She smiles eerily and cups water in her hands, offering it to us. Painting of a sinister figure suspended upside down. An emperor moth is laid over their face, the eyespots of its wings covering their eyes. Multiple mouths smile across their neck. They are wearing a dark dress and their hair radiates behind them. Comic page from my webcomic, Every Time I Die, I Wake Up Here. Vincent, a Black trans man from the 19th century, encounters a shadowy apparition of himself in the night, its body crawling with maggots. Narrative text reads, "Like I've lost something precious and no amount of grief will bring it back. As blood circles the drain and maggots take to flesh, it waits for me from across the room. Rotting." Black and white illustration of figure with long dark hair. Maggots and centipedes crawl over and out from their face.
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Black Indie Comix Club [Follow our Black & Bloody Kickstarter!] @blackindiecomix.bsky.social · Aug 25
The amazing @jonathaneden.bsky.social has art dripping in so much detail, moody atmosphere, and old school horror you may have to look over your shoulder at night! We can't wait to read this one 🫣

#blackart #blackbooksky #blackcomics #comics #art #sinners #booksky #vampires #blackvampires
Jonathan Ya'el Eden's artist spotlight, with a creepy butterfly motifed Black woman on the left, and the first page of an absolutely terrifying graveyard comic on the right.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Jul 13
In a completely unexpected & surreal turn of events, I was asked to illustrate a thank you gift for My Chemical Romance's Seattle performance! It feels completely unreal to have had the opportunity to make something a band I love got to receive! 🥹 #mychemicalromance #mcr
Black and white digital illustration of My Chemical Romance performing, done in the style of vintage comic book covers. Circular panels highlight each member of the band along the left side of the page, while the central illustration shows them performing against the backdrop of T-Mobile Park.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Jun 27
Fairy among the foxgloves
Illustration of an unsettling fairy with brown skin and dark, symmetrical patterns over their eyes and mouth. Their eyes flash purple and their dark hair is braided back, with curled tendrils framing their face. They wear a shawl reminiscent of butterfly wings, and dark butterflies and bright stars fill the grey sky behind them, under an arch of purple foxglove flowers.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · May 13
☀️ 🌙
Warm illustration of two men of colour against a blue and cream background. Cool illustration of two men of colour against a purple and grey background.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 27
🖤 ⛓️ queer as in f*ck you ⛓️ 🖤
Black and white poster of two queers with dark curly hair and multiple eyes kissing. Both have multiple piercings and one of them has a split tongue body modification. Poster text reads "queer as in fuck you" in gothic lettering.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 26
centipede doodle
Illustration of a white house centipede against a black background.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 22
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Surreal black and white illustration detail of the underside of an insect with a human face. Its features are obscured by symmetrical black patterns.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 22
digital and print copies are available here! :)

www.novaandmali.com/books

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Books | Nova and Mali
www.novaandmali.com
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 18
thank you so much!
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 18
yes!!! parasite romances are my absolute fave :’)

the book is And They Were Monsters! it’s a monster romance art book inspired by campy horror & pulp fiction
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 17
seeing stars 💫
Illustration of a Black woman with looking wide-eyed to the side in saturated orange, green and purple. Stylized tears fall from her eyes and stars dance above her head. A large orange star is positioned over her face like a flash of light. The image is split diagonally, with subtle glitch effects throughout.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 17
My illustration for @novamali.bsky.social's And They Were Monsters 2024 art book 🪱
Illustration of a trans man with long curly hair sitting on his knees in a cozy, candlelit bedroom. He is wearing lingerie and a dark silk robe, which he opens to reveal a hole in his chest from which a large parasitic worm emerges. He gently holds the worm and the two almost kiss. Behind him on the wall are oval portraits of the two of them.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 17
haunted (2024)
Green and black horror illustration of a trans man sitting by candlelight, surrounded by darkness. Behind him, a shadowy apparition of himself holds onto the back of his chair.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 16
Line art for a page from my webcomic, Every Time I Die, I Wake Up Here.
Line art of a gothic horror comic page. A mixed Black trans man in Victorian era clothing turns slightly in his chair, holding a pair of scissors that cut an empty dialogue bubble. Behind him, a Black and Asian man leans tentatively against a door frame.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 16
Celestial centipede ✶ 2023
Black and white gothic illustration of a centipede surrounded by stars.
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reed p @mediocre.bsky.social · Apr 16
“every border implies the violence of its maintenance” includes gender
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 16
🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS PEOPLE WILL LIVE FOREVER 🏳️‍⚧️

A (belated) drawing for trans day of visibility last month ✊🏽 ✨
I love us so much and we deserve to thrive 💜
Illustration of three trans people of color supporting one another. In the center, a Black trans woman with long grey curls is embraced by a Black trans man with feed-in braids and an Asian non-binary person with short curly hair. Background text reads “trans people will live forever.”
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · Dec 1
birthday gift art of the noble hagfish for my lovely boyfriend @chewytoothmeats ! as he absolutely adores them❣️ :)
A digital drawing of a densely coiled ball of 5 yellow-green hagfish, heads twisting in different angles, some presenting their everted jaws full of sharp little teeth. The background is black, with bold red seaweed framing the sides of the illustration. A red star sits over the middle off the hagfish, illuminating the backdrop in a red glow.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 16
wow I miss painting :')
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 16
progress
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 16
Bodies of Possibility 🏳️‍⚧️ 2023
Painting of a mixed Black trans man from the 19th century facing forward on a chaise, sitting powerfully. He is dressed in dark pants with suspenders and a light shirt that's partially open, revealing his naked chest in a moment of trans power and joy. "He/him" is written in large gothic font at the top, and "bodies of possibility" is written in small print at the bottom.
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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Oct 3
Growing Paws · 2020
A digital illustration depicting a bust of a pale, humanoid figure. Vines with reddish leaves resembling small hands surround the character.
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 16
one of my faves of yours! :')
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ludo 🐍 @theesnakebitch.bsky.social · Nov 17
Autopsy
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Jonathan Ya'el Eden @jonathaneden.bsky.social · Apr 16
Language of Flowers (2022) 🥀
Illustration of white poppy flowers against a black background. "Poppy" and its meaning in the language of flowers, "oblivion" are both written vertically along the border in gothic font. Illustration of white hemlock flowers against a black background. "Hemlock" and its meaning in the language of flowers, "death" are both written vertically along the border in gothic font. Illustration of white foxglove flowers against a black background. "Foxglove" and its meaning in the language of flowers, "falsehood" are both written vertically along the border in gothic font.