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laurenanalepa.bsky.social
lauren ✨ queer comic creator
@laurenanalepa.bsky.social
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32 ✨ lesbian/queer ✨ she/her ✨ detroit, mi comics writer/illustrator & art educator, loves gay witches #art || #oc || #comics repped by @sknigge.bsky.social with high line lit https://linktr.ee/laurenanalepa commissions open (ko-fi)
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lauren ✨ queer comic creator @laurenanalepa.bsky.social · Jul 8
Happy #portfolioday ! I'm a comic writer & illustrator (and art educator). I'm eager for work on genre fiction comics, especially in the YA/NA space. Below are some examples from my current project, Longest Night: a 'something's in the woods' queer fantasy

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illustration of two characters standing back to back in front of a gothic style castle window. one has a sword. a trio of character designs: a black woman with red locs and thigh high boots, a curvy white woman with long red hair in a green dress; and an olive skinned elven woman with purple/silver hair, conjuring a magical flame. pencilled pages for the comic: a 2 page spread in which the redhead tries to talk to the elven woman, who is having none of it. a character interaction study of the elven woman clutching the unconscious body of the redhead.
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lauren ✨ queer comic creator @laurenanalepa.bsky.social · 13d
Took a break from working on graphic novel pages to visit my beloved scratchy pencil brushes 💖 #oc #ocart #wip
Elven woman (character from my graphic novel project) holding a sword in a bloody hand and a glowing magical item in the other. Crouched on the ground in eerie red light and a coiled up pose
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Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfandwyldbooks.com · 2d
🌈📚🙂 slowburn sapphic space fantasy novel 👇

#booksky #queerbooks
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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 2d
This past month was so busy I’ve been neglecting my book promos, so how about a little sale?

🌸✨Name Her Holy ebook for $1✨🌸 only on my kofi from now through Friday!

Get yourself a slowburn sapphic space fantasy novel for your weekend read 🍂☕️

ko-fi.com/s/748ece637a
Cover for Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis, a crown of dusty mauve and earthy flowers surround a black swirling void. Behind the cover is a split image of a red haired woman in armor and a woman with dark short hair covering her face.
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 9d
the secret is you want your protagonist to be a lil pathetic
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Valiant 🏳️‍⚧️ | Follow BOOM Goes the Bride on Backerkit! @valwrites.ca · 2d
This article finally got my idiot people who have been teasing me about how much i hate AI to be like "oh... Oh fuck"
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
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Chan Chau @aluhnim.bsky.social · 3d
Trying to doodle more during October.
a doodling of my character holding some red string/ribbons.
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lauren ✨ queer comic creator @laurenanalepa.bsky.social · 2d
armor drawing! ⚔️🛡️
i'm counting down the pages till Gwen isn't wearing this damn thing. & I have to go back and kind of standardize how I rendered it....
all four images are low res screenshots of a comic character wearing an armor breastplate with pauldrons.
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lauren ✨ queer comic creator @laurenanalepa.bsky.social · 3d
what do we think? a bob’n’bangs is my base state hairstyle. I’ll probs redye the green after it’s cut
A selfie of an exhausted woman with long hair. It’s nipple length. I’m sorry but I don’t know how else to describe it Hopefully not ai Pinterest image of a messy wavy bob with bangs. I will never style my hair in any meaningful way so it’s important that what they do with it is ready when I roll out of bed
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lauren ✨ queer comic creator @laurenanalepa.bsky.social · 3d
is there an amount of scrolling pinterest on a search for "long bob" that will get me to the real, not-ai images? i'm losing hope
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Roz 🏳️‍⚧️ @rosenkranz.bsky.social · 3d
art vs artist 🌳
a fan poster for the silt verses podcast. it depicts a large tree with thorn-like branches. on its bark, there's a high voltage sign symbolizing the saint electric, the withermark and the prayer mark of the many below. there are pointe shoes dangling from one branch. one of its branches is shaped like a hand, with a wedding band on its ring finger. there's also a blue-green crab climbing the tree. white crocuses are blooming next to the tree. behind the tree there's a snare dog, with rows of teeth all around its body. behind the dog, a red river is rising the artist holding their fluffy white cat
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d
This whole section really.
Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
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lauren ✨ queer comic creator @laurenanalepa.bsky.social · 5d
Art vs Artist 🗡️
a smokin hot babe in a weirdly lit bathroom mirror. She’s got a purple bob and glasses, taking a mirror selfie. She is me An illustration of a character supporting herself on a sword thrust into the ground, holding something that’s glowing with eerie red light
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sad disco @fitivarka.bsky.social · 5d
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Emily Schnall @emilyschnall.bsky.social · 8d
My schedule is open for comics!! Hire me!

I especially love telling stories in horror, fantasy, or anything with critters. Previously worked with Dark Horse, IDW, 2000 AD, and Oni Press

Available for interiors and covers ✨
Digitally inked and colored comic page showing a woman nervously leaving her apartment and heading to the subway at night Ink and watercolor comic page featuring a barn filled with many supernatural creatures and two female humans telling them to behave before walking off Digitally inked and colored comic page composed of 5 horizontal stacked panels. A man examining a rock face, hands playing tic tac toe, a family kitchen scene, a man at a computer terminal, and a hand reaching for a lizard scurrying across the same rock face from panel 1 “The Sixth Gun: Battle for the Sixth #2” Cover: vultures flying over an armored man with a long shadow made of flames
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Bill Clinton @billclinton.bsky.social · 8d
Under my administration we captured 3 gray aliens and 2 green
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cryling.art 🌘💜 Comms Open @cryling.bsky.social · 10d
I still have commission slots available! 💜✨️
#commissions #artcommission #characterart
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Commission listing for $80 USD character portraits with examples Commission listing for $160 USD half body illustrations with examples Commission listing for $185 USD character design sheets with examples My commission Terms and Services for ko-fi
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Camille Pagni @camillepagni.bsky.social · Jun 5
Leaving Troy, the first page of the comic book I'm currently finishing !
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lauren ✨ queer comic creator @laurenanalepa.bsky.social · 12d
still playing with this
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ionomycin @ionomycin.bsky.social · 14d
late night snack
drawing of a dark room. almost half of the room is a huge water tank. a big eel-type fish is swimming in, and a character is throwing fish food into the water to lure smaller fish in
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lauren ✨ queer comic creator @laurenanalepa.bsky.social · 10d
Quote with your queer characters

impossible to choose, here's many (oops all lesbians edition)
the mcs of my current graphic novel project, Dez (elf) and Cora (passed tf out) they are in love with each other, but angstily a short redhead standing on a stool and leaning argumentatively towards a taller girl with an auburn braid. both are blushing. the short one is Bea, the mc of my comic Things Lost and Missing, and the tall one is her crush Winnie a spread of 5 sprites of a tall butch character named Mira Vali. she's a hottie in a suit. The text says "three months and 2 credits away from graduation, Mira's pre-law degree is basically in thebag. Just don't look too closely into her sealed juvenile records..." she's from my video game concept "dating sim that doesn't exist" a pretty girl with straight brown hair sitting at a library desk in dappled, romantic lighting. her name is Faye Yamada, she's also from dating sim that doesn't exist.
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Julie Benbassat @juliebenbassat.bsky.social · 10d
Pajama Sam fan art (2020)
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✦𝖕𝖊𝖏𝖓𝖙✦ @pejntboks.bsky.social · Apr 10
OC Card Deck: The whole gang! 🃏 [ #pejntart ]
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lauren ✨ queer comic creator @laurenanalepa.bsky.social · 12d
still playing with this
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lauren ✨ queer comic creator @laurenanalepa.bsky.social · 13d
Took a break from working on graphic novel pages to visit my beloved scratchy pencil brushes 💖 #oc #ocart #wip
Elven woman (character from my graphic novel project) holding a sword in a bloody hand and a glowing magical item in the other. Crouched on the ground in eerie red light and a coiled up pose
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Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 18d
We've started running regular zap sessions now! Join us over in the Discord and yell at payment processors alongside fellow creators.
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Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · Jul 30
Members, the Coop is calling on you to participate in our upcoming zap sessions to take collective action regarding censorship & pay discrimination for 18+, erotic, and NSFW artists.

Look out on Discord for more info about when and how to join, coming soon.

Art by @itsnero.com
A series of infographics featuring the Cartoonist Cooperative's mascots Inkling (an inkwell) and Nibford (a dip pen) as they share information about what a phone or email zap is. Image one shows Inkling on the phone, reading from a script. Text reads, "What is a phone or email zap? A phone (or email) zap is a coordinated campaign where many people contact a target (such as a company, agency, or representative) to apply pressure and demand action on one issue." The Co-op logo and website appear at the bottom of all three images: https://cartoonist.coop/. Nibford sits at a desk, calling someone on the phone while looking at their computer screen. Text reads, "How can I organize one? Agree on a target and an issue to collectively press for. Gather scripts ahead of time. Coordinate a time when everyone is available to call/email. Hang out IRL or in a voice call together! Log any feedback and share updates with your fellow zappers! Keep it up until demands are met! This is a marathon, not a race." Inkling and Nibford jump for joy with confetti raining down around them. Text reads, "And most importantly... celebrate your wins!"
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25d
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
www.nbcnews.com
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