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Illustrator & comic maker Author of Ignatz award winning webcomic BUUZA!! & artist on Eisner & Harvey nom SAVING SUNSHINE 🌸 First Second / Hachette / Simon & Schuster/ PRH / Abrams / Bloomsbury 📍London, UK 🪷they/them www.shazleenkhan.com

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 9d

FYI my shop is open and I've got some new zines and stickers on sale!!! (including this one about jrpg characters I think are trans)

www.shazleenkhan.shop

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 6d

Lmfao !!!

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Charlot Kristensen @zolwia.bsky.social · 8d

I'm back from maternity leave and in desperate need of some work. If you're looking for some fun colourful cover designs I'm your guy! Here are some book covers I loved illustrating
Contact me at [email protected]
See portfolio link below

Shares & some reassuring words would be much appreciated

A digital illustrated book cover of Cruise Life - Raining Cats and Dogs by Reese Eschmann. It shows a Black girl chasing dogs and cats on the deck of a cruise while her big brother tries to catch up while holding a cat in his arms.

A digital illustrated book cover for the title Unfadeable by Maurice Broaddus. It portrays a mixed Black girl walking by with her pit bull pet, a bridge is seen overhead her, with some cranes in the background and some key characters in the book watches her from a distance.

A digital illustrated book cover titled The Season of Styx Malone
It shows a Black boy with a cap and sunglasses on, her smirks to the viewer, and within his glasses you see the reflection of 2 other Black boys, one smiling back at him with enthusiasm while the other smiles more hesitantly.

A digital illustrated book cover of a picture book titled Bessie the Motorcycle Queen.
It shows Bessie Stringfield on her iconic Hogs (Harleys) against a backdrop of the Grand Canyon.

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 8d

Viktor if ur using click & drop i truly have had 0 issues sending to both eu and usa and afaik american parcels have arrived promptly and safely (also it turns out tracked delivery is cheaper for usa parcels!!!)

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 8d

extremely bait i came from an under funded state school where the head teacher actively embezzled funds while I was there but thats on the london borough of barking & dagenham 👍

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 8d

thank u based abrams design and editorial team who are actively teaching me grammar through our edit passes, it turns out i did NOT deserve that A in english GCSE (or I'm such a fire writer that my bunk grammar was all that kept me from an A*)

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 9d

FYI my shop is open and I've got some new zines and stickers on sale!!! (including this one about jrpg characters I think are trans)

www.shazleenkhan.shop

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 14d

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah ! I genuinely think this might be what pushes me to be a fucking ltd atp, like afaik they arent taking account of the averaging for literary works with this new software requirements either ?? truly PMO

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11d

No reduction of crime will ever be treated as real because for so many people it is not connected to real life. It is just about their hatred of cities and their hatred of Black/Brown communities.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 11d

Fascinating NPR-IPSOS poll on perceptions of crime by geography — www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Polling results show that people are far more negative about big cities in their states than their own city

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

Yes that’s exactly my beef cuz I know 100% that’s what the UK gov is modelling this fucking system after. It’s PMO !!

shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

genuinely hate this shit bro i gain 1 tiny success as a literally sole trader manufacturing items in my house and then bam now i need to not only be an accountant but also rework my entire accounting system so aforementioned millionaire mps can progress to billionaires via fintech dividends

shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

every decision every uk government has made in the last 20 years has been to basically make everyone who earns between 30k - 40k wish they didnt earn that much because of their insane taxation methods, meanwhile MPs are millionaires

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

Even if they are free I hate them !!! I don’t want them ! I want my little spreadsheet the government can eat my dick !! every added user is an incentive to investors that the software is “necessary” and “has growth potential” and forcing us to use them only serves to line shareholder pockets

shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

Oh no i have just discovered what it actually means and i am even more angry at how irrelevant it is as a system to my business activities as well as how it will quadruple the amount of work I need to do to manage my own accounts

shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

like so. What do i have to enter into it like a receipt and an essay to justify my receipt or what

shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

Girl me too

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah! For me it’s about how its definitely happening bc politicians have stakes/shares in this tax software companies because if we really needed to input this fucking data into the system, they would just improve their current exisiting GOVERNMENT SITE TO ACCOMMODATE THIS EXTRA DATA !!!

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

I sadly make above the threshhold

(Currently I would not have to do it until 2027 or something, BUT i would rather not do it, at all!)

shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

I don't want to fucking use a third party software for no reason when I fucking just write down every expense on a spreadsheet and save my physical receipts in case of audit. FUCK OFF

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

so the UK governments new"Making Tax Digital" Scheme is just a grift to get us all to start using fucking paid tax management software that politicians have undoubtedly got shares in, instead of just fucking USING A FUCKING SPREADSHEET

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 16d

edward said chacha… malcom bhaiya… we need you both more than ever right now

shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 22d

You can pre-order the zine this is from now btw!!

trump wont stop me (from shipping goods to you)

The cover of my zine (the lightmeter on my slr is lying to me)

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 22d

USA SHIPPING IS BACK, and I’ve updated my store !! Drop by for some new zines and stickers!!

www.shazleenkhan.shop

Trumps tariffs mean nothing to royal mail

three cute pictures of digimon!! Its gatomon biyomon and palmon and they are adorable

Four cute quatic pokemon - shiny wooper, lotad, horsea and poliwag

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 27d

the way i have been battling chronic pain and join injuries for like 12 years now ffs

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