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Sage Coffey🌿☕

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Wine Ghost Creator, BUGSNAX Story Editor, NOT A WOLF illustrator & former CAKE organizer! Repped by Linda Camacho (Gallt and Zacker) and Mary Pender (WME) 🐛They/Them🐛

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · Jan 15

Howdy! I'm Sage (they/them) I'm a trans nonbinary cartoonist known for my work w/ The New Yorker, The Nib, The Washington Post & BUGSNAX. I'm the creator of Wine Ghost, co-author of Abortion Pill Zine & illustrator on Dan Sheehan's I AM NOT A WOLF!
🌐 sagecoffey.com
💌 sagecoffey @ gmail
#portfolioday

A photo of a graphic novel titled "Wine Ghost Goes to Hell" by Sage Coffey (published by Iron Circus). The cover depicts a white sheet ghost with large eyes holding a glass of red wine and flying through a makeshift city. She has hot pink hairy legs and is wearing round black heels. The background of the photo is a pink crushed velvet surrounded by chocolates, spicy chips and a tall glass of red wine.

TEXT: at the top - WOLF. At the bottom - Token Creature Wolf. the word Wolf is crossed out in red and written across the card in red handwriting is Regular Human Guy. 2/2
IMAGE: An official Magic the Gathering Card depicting a wolf at a standing desk with a computer in the middle of the woods. The wolf is dressed in a suit and tie. From the "I AM NOT A WOLF" collaboration with MtG's Secret Lair series.

A comics page with 4 pages. This is an excerpt from Abortion Pill Zine.
Panel 1: A borderless panel of Sage running with a megaphone and a protest sign that says "Abortion, Any time any Reason." DIALOG: I've Been Pro-choice as far back as I can remember but it wasn't until my own abortion that I became more involved in abortion rights advocacy and storytelling.
PANEL 2. Sage holding up miso and mife boxes. DIALOG: Abortion is not uncommon and most abortion happen early in pregnancy.
PANEL 3. Sage turning towards the camera. 4 people of varying backgrounds and identities are standing behind them. DIALOG: According to the guttmacher institute in 2020 about 1 in 5 pregnancies (excluding pregnancies that end in miscarriages) ended in abortion.
PANEL 4. A small illustration of the CDC building and a pie chart reflecting the statistics laid out in the dialog. DIALOG: According to the CDC's 2020 Abortion Survey 81% of abortions occurred at 9 weeks of pregnancy or earlier. Nearly all (93%) of abortions occurred at 13 weeks of pregnancy or earlier.

An official pencil illustration of Filbo Fiddlepie from the game Bugsnax pointing towards a hot air balloon in the distance.

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Young Horses @younghorses.com · 1d

2 more years and the horse can drive

Philip Tibitoski @ptibz.younghorses.com · 1d

hey, the world is completely nuts right now but our game dev studio @younghorses.com turned 14 years old today and that's pretty neat!

Octodad gingerly holding Bunger and Strabby from Bugsnax in his arms as they look to him.

The text reads, "Thank you for 14 great years!" but it's clearly a reused image because you can see the numbers 12, 11, and 10 crossed out. The Octodad: Dadliest Catch, Bugsnax, and Young Horses logos can also be seen.

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 3d

I'll be tabling at Pretty Good Fest today!! First floor in the back!

I'm even bringing a few of my artist proofs for @dansheehan.bsky.social's Magic the Gathering NOT A WOLF Secret Lair! Holo and non-holo (1 per person) come throooOOOOUGHHHWWWWW🐺

Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · Aug 29

Howdy y'all!! I'm only tabling at 1 event this year and it's the first ever Pretty Good Fest (spiritual successor of Zine Not Dead Fest)! It's been weird pretty much not tabling this year but rest assured, something good is cookin'. See you all OCT 4TH!

Fantastic poster by Molly Colleen O'Connell

Poster for Pretty Good Fest 2025. TEXT on poster: Pretty Good Fest presented by perfectly acceptable press. Saturday October 4th 11am-6pm at the Chicago athletic association.
TEXT (from a small drawing of Sage on the side): I'll be tabling. See you there! I'll have Abortion Pill Zine, Wine Ghost Goes to Hell, Dozo x2 color riso travelogue, Sweaty Palms Vol. 2, 1$ 1-page zines, stickers.
IMAGE: A hand drawn poster of animals riding a bus and reading zines. It's part wood-cut part overlapping printed style with mixed textures with a color palette of green, yellow, red, pink and orange.

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 4d

SHE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

a close up of a man 's face with a white shirt and black tie

Alt: a close up of a man 's face with a white shirt and black tie

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shivana @heyshivana.bsky.social · 4d

my hot take is some of y'all need to stop only reading comics. read prose, go to a museum, learn scrimshaw, wtfever. go be an interesting person first because i can TELL when people don't ingest anythiinnggg else but comics

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry, that sounds so dire, hahaha. What I'm really saying is; it's important to have support. Bootstraps narratives fed us the idea we should be able to do everything alone and with art, or any creative practice, it's not that it's not possible per say but its needlessly more lonely and difficult.

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 4d

At the risk of rambling as I'm one to do, I think the practice of being an artist and wider living doesn't oblige itself to the confines of how our housing, food security, ect. systems work and so keeping a partner (romantic, business, platonic, ect.) is just seeking community support at its core!

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 4d

100%. Endlessly grateful for my partner who also handles the "normal human stuff" 💀

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 4d

I DO! I took some from the outside of Hohoza (Kyoto) and I believe I have some from Furby Noise as well.

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Leo Fox @leoofox.bsky.social · 4d

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 4d

YAYY!! I'd love to! (Def let me know if/when you have a deadline in mind!)

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 4d

Similar for more illustrative art positions but I imagine even the rate for "clean up" is zilch. I do sincerely think the use of AI art will disappear in both professional & indie spaces, it's just the wait that makes me want to pull my teeth out.

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 4d

Ohhh, I love Popotame too! There are so many cool zine spaces in Tokyo (Furby Noise cafe in Koenji was one of my faves but it recently closed) I was thinking about haku & a few others in Kyoto! Since the artist residency last year I noticed it might be worth touching on zine shops outside of Tokyo!

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 5d

"Let him who thinks he knows no fear look well upon my face"

A photo of an Aarvark on its hind legs against a white background. The aarvark's head is raised and curious.

Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 5d

I've heard countless folks say "I can't even draw a stick figure" and let me tell you, that squiggly hand-drawn line will always have more heart and expression than any AI art could ever have.

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 5d

I really hope so! It's disheartening to see how many job listings are calling for slop in creative positions across game dev, illustration and animation...There's a lot of heart in drawing, acting & writing that AI and the people who call themselves "AI artists" (yuck) will never be able to capture.

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 5d

Uhm, that's actually Linda Burgers from Bob's Burgers.

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 5d

Same question but I def want to write about some I had gone to in Japan.

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 5d

Folks just need to let Silent Hill be folk-horror that evolves and changes over time!! It's that simple. Even ones that """"fit into the lore"""" like SH: Shattered Memories are much more fun if you come into it without the expectation of advancing a narrative you already know the ending to.

Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 5d

Get well soon, Andy!!

Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone else flying fairly soon really worried about how the government shut down is going to effect the already understaffed and overworked Airport Traffic Controller situation or just me? 🧍

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 7d

Fundraising is very challenging, especially these days. Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social will be offering a workshop on grassroots fundraising for organizers next Saturday, October 11th.

This is 1 of 3 Communiversity courses ⬇️ we're offering that day, all in-person in NYC, sliding scale:

Communiversity Catalog: Grassroots Fundraising for Organizers — Interrupting Criminalization

www.interruptingcriminalization.com

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 6d

* note: This estimate was made using Vangelis as an example and this calculator www.marinerescueportjackson.com.au/speeddistanc...

Speed Distance Time Calculator

Marine Rescue NSW Port Jackson Unit

www.marinerescueportjackson.com.au

Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 6d

Depending on each ship's knots (unit of speed), they should arrive in 3-4 hours! (At a glance on the tracker, most are travelling 3-7 knots)

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, some folks are trying to figure out how many nautical miles are left in the livestream's chat but its moving fast. It looked like they hit some choppy waters earlier in the stream and that can effect speed for sure.

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Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social · 6d

I just have no words but love and support for the folks on the floatillas. I really hope the Fair Lady is able to make it since they're a decent bit aways from those being intercepted....

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