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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF

@rosebdraws.bsky.social

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queer cartoonist. working on OGN, GUTLESS 🌿 illustrator of eisner award winner, FRIZZY. 33. they/them. participating in Shortbox Comics fair 2025!! rep’d by Tamara Kawar https://linktr.ee/rosebousamra

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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 7d

HAPPY SHORTBOX DAY!! 🎊🥳✨ my new comic, The Shepherd and the Sleeping Knight, is available now for £7, 41 pages of queer fantasy for all ages~

The Shepherd and The Sleeping Knight by Rose Bousamra — ShortBox Comics Fair

This queer fairytale tells the story of a reclusive shepherd who prefers the company of sheep over people. Then one rainy day he finds a knight sleeping in the woods and, unable to wake him, is forced...

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 17h

thank you to everyone who’s picked up The Shepherd and the Sleeping Knight from the ShortBox Comics Fair so far 💞🐑💞 it means more than you know!!

get it now until oct. 31st at www.shortboxcomicsfair.com ✨

Digital, colored sketch of the shepherd and knight from my shortbox comic. The knight is holding a sheep (with a pigeon on her back) in one arm and the shepherd in the other, both are smiling happily. Handwriting reads ‘thank you for reading the shepherd and the sleeping knight. Read from now until oct. 31 at the shortbox comics fair’

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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Buy Go-Man! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 4d

Edit of Alyssa Edwards in the backrooms saying "...backrooms?"

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joe dáire @saint-vagrant.bsky.social · 4d

comics is labour so subject to issues of labour, taking yourself seriously is underrated, any story can be good, things seem to work out best when genre is less a setting/collection of memetic tropes but instead the poetry by which emotional, otherwise unexpressable experiences are represented

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 5d

the shepherd 💞 the knight

main characters from my new 41-pg queer fairytale comic, out now!!

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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Bramblefix, daughter of the cosmos @bramblefix.bsky.social · 5d

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Papoila ✹ sbcf @gaiapapoila.bsky.social · 8d

🐇Tell me who your wizard is👑 is my new comic, available for @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social an online comic fair that takes place throughout October!🍂 (❁´◡`❁)
details ☛ 50 pages | b/w | price £8
☛ link www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

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Athenaeum Comic Art @athenaeumcomicart.bsky.social · 5d

Just posted 15 brand new originals from @leoofox.bsky.social Ignatz winning Boy Island! I adore this book, so go take a look!

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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 5d

btw if you want to see him in color, you can download him as a free coloring page on my p🌱treon 😎

Free Coloring Page : Mushroom Witch | Rose Bousamra

Get more from Rose Bousamra on Patreon

www.patreon.com

rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 5d

from this request on my strawpage— thank you!!

screencap of my strawpage. Request says “draw a mushroom or jellyfish witch!”

rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 5d

mushroom witch and his resurrected familiars...🍂

dip pen illustration of a witch wearing a big mushroom as a hat that hides most of his smiling face, standing in the middle of a mushroom patch. there are leaves falling and he's surrounded by a reanimated crow and fox with mushrooms growing out of their half-rotted bodies.

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Rowan @runefruit.bsky.social · 6d

You can follow / browse through all the lovely Shortbox comic artists here: go.bsky.app/ERmC5SX
Very honoured to be a part of this goated lineup :]

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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 7d

if you enjoy my shortbox comic (or any of my work) and you’re shy (like me) this is a great way to let me know 💜🥹 i really appreciate it!!

rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 7d

btw i made a strawpage for people to leave me lil drawings, ask me questions, and request drawings..! rosebdraws.straw.page

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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 7d

GORGEOUS!!!!

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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 7d

HAPPY SHORTBOX DAY!! 🎊🥳✨ my new comic, The Shepherd and the Sleeping Knight, is available now for £7, 41 pages of queer fantasy for all ages~

The Shepherd and The Sleeping Knight by Rose Bousamra — ShortBox Comics Fair

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9d

Detroit…please know that you are special. ❤️

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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 9d

why thank you

rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 9d

bonus: wife getting impatient and running away while i look for the perfect stick

Photo of my hand holding a stick while my wife walks up ahead

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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 9d

went to the forest, may not return 🫡🌱

Photo of turkey tail mushrooms growing on a dead log in the wood

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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 12d

aww thank you so much!!

rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 12d

as a chronically ill person, i think a lot about (and am lucky to experience) the love it takes to care for someone who can’t give much back—the difficulty and joy and necessity of that kind of love, and the way it helps us love and accept ourselves in turn.

Page from the Shepherd and the Sleeping Knight with the shepherd tucking the unconscious knight in to bed. Text reads “I won’t leave you alone. I promise.”

rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 12d

next week (Oct. 1st) you’ll be able to read The Shepherd and the Sleeping Knight, my new 41-page romantic queer fantasy comic about a shepherd who questions his isolated existence when he rescues a knight trapped under a sleeping spell.. 🧚

Flyer for my shortbox comic, the Shepherd and the Sleeping Knight. Title is in the center with the shepherd in the foreground ahd the sheep in the background, two fairies surrounding the title

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BENNIZONE @bennizone.net · 18d

Shortbox Comicsfair 2025 is ten days away!
(shortboxcomicsfair.com)
While you wait for the comics to drop on October 1st, how about perusing some fancy outfits?!
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A bunch of SBCF-artists have come together to celebrate! :-) Presenting, the RED CARPET GALLERY!
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⭐⭐ bennizone.net/funzone/sbcf25 ⭐⭐

Many individual illustrations by various artists, depicting their characters in fancy clothes, compiled together for a group-photo. A flashy sign above them reads SBCF 25 RED CARPET, and red velvet curtains hang at the sides.

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rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 13d

yeah and no one told me it gets more painful the higher up on the ear you go. 😭 decided 3 was enough lol

rose b. ➡️ A2CAF, SBCF @rosebdraws.bsky.social · 20d

local pals: i’ll be tabling at this!! 🫡🥳

Ann Arbor District Library @aadl.org · 27d

A2CAF Small + Indie Press returns to AADL in partnership with Athenaeum Comic Art! Join us Saturday, October 11, 11 AM–5 PM at the Downtown Library for a celebration of small press comics publishing.

Check out the schedule of events, vendors, and more: aadl.org/a2cafsip

Promotional poster for A2CAF, a small and indie press comics festival scheduled for October 11th from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm at Ann Arbor District Library. The poster includes vibrant red and yellow text on a black background.