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@alepresser.com
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Comics Artist. Hugo Awards finalist. Mother. Tired. She/her. SideQuested Book1: sidequested.com/book/ AlePresser.com | patreon.com/alepresser Rep by Bailey Tamayo ⭐ btamayo@sjga.com

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Ale @alepresser.com · 02/10/2026
The black ink was running low when the second cat was made.
Two calico cats with theirs backs to the camera. One is white, orange and black, and the other is white, orange and gray.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 02/10/2026
Boopable nose. 🐱
A calico cat, all comfy on some cushions, snifing in the direction of the camera.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 27/09/2026
Eu tenho uma @sulamoon.bsky.social (e uma Moni, mas eu não sei a @ dela) e vocês não te-em.
A selfie of me, Sula and Monique, after eating a pizza in a small restaurant in Lisbon.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 27/09/2026
I mean it. #webcomics sidequested.com
Charlie and Jet in another croped panel. Charlie is FREAKING OUT pointing at something, and Jet is looking at her like who says "girl, omg, chill", double chin and all.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 27/09/2026
Read Side Quested. It keeps getting weirder. #webcomics sidequested.com
a very tiny croped panel with Leopold, Charlie, Robin and Jet, and there are all sorts of expressions here.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 25/09/2026
The Tapas platform for webcomics and webnovels seems to be about to shut down. Don't abandon your fav comics and artists. Go check if they already have other websites and social media. If you OWN a webcomic there, make sure to have a website! Here's a thread with resources:
A yellow banner with the Tapas dog and Peony the vulture. The dog is sad and Peony is comforting it. There's also a sign of attention and the Tapas logo.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 17/09/2026
We've installed curtains on our bedroom (Ikea rules) and omg it looks SO COZY!!! I love my home so much!
A corner of a bedroom with light green walls, a bed with a beige floral pattern, an acustic panel on the headbed, and transparent beige curtains!
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Ale @alepresser.com · 16/09/2026
My setup with the new AMS is finally done and NGGGGHHH the level of organization and clear information is DELIGHTFUL. Plus, EVERYTHING WORKS. Ugh, I feel SEEN. 🥹 #3dprint
An ikea platsa closet with a Bambu Lab A1 3d printer inside. Below it, and AMS unit, also from Bambu. Everything is neat and tidy.A photo of my screen showing the desktop app, that displays the filament colors and levels loaded. It's BERY organized and pretty.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 13/09/2026
John will, eventually, have some fun. ;) #webcomics ➡️ sidequested.com
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Ale @alepresser.com · 11/09/2026
I decided to use all my leftover filaments to make this new place for my nail's stuff, and it turned out SO CUTE I'm planning on doing MORE THINGS like this!!! #3dprint
It's a foto of a simple cosmetics organiser with a handle, but it is all striped with different colors horizontally.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 11/09/2026
Kinky.
Title reads "feet shoes because what's more beautiful t..." . It should end with "than feet". And yes, there's someone wearing slippers that look lile feet. And not particularly pretty ones.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 11/09/2026
Kid playing and this by his side. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
My kid playing with a Nintendo Switch control, and one of our cats sleeping with her paws up, fully belly-trap.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 11/09/2026
Ok, this is super weird, but kinda fun.
Title reads "homer simpson costume eyes and hair". Photo is a dude with 3d printed boggled eyes, and his face painted in yellow and light brown, like Homer Simpson. Yes, he is bald.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 10/09/2026
I mean, I'm into furry art, but what's THIS?
Title reads "thicc orangutang showing off some dan..." and it's a 3d print of one of those silly, old, tired faved orangutang, posing like if twerking (I think) and with the bootiest booty that could be placed on it.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 10/09/2026
I can't see a situation where someone would think this is a good idea, but that's just me.
Title reads "toothpaste pooping chihuahua". It is a 3D printed chihuahua in the pooping position on the top of a toothpaste, that when tou squeeze, it comes out of his bitt.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 08/09/2026
From Side Quested, Charlie, Peony and Leo chatting about Peony's old boss being "the big D". Leo breaks.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 06/09/2026
Artists! Quote with your city art!
The city of riverfall, inspired by Greek Santorini
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Ale @alepresser.com · 04/09/2026
By now, y'all must know that when I make THIS kind of panels layout, it's because shit is going DOWN. 😈
a screenshot of a comic page, only the panel frames, without any sketches. the panels are all twisted, all over the place.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 04/09/2026
I just filled this and this is what I had to say about AI for the EU. Please, go tell them what you think about it. The people in charge need to understand what its people actually wants and thinks, and not what the sociopats from the bigtechs are pushing.
A screenshot of a text that reads: "AI for creative fields is a mistake.
The data centers required to make them function are monstruosities that destroy the enviroment and inflate the price of technologic parts for everyone.
All the information that is required to make them work is based on stolen creative content, making a tool that doesn't create - only processes and regurgitates something that once was art - and has no concept of whatt makes art what it is, without any compensation for its original creators.
The easy access to something that looks like art for the untrained eyes is putting artists all over the world out of job. Nothing new or interesting is being created, and the people flooding the world with it are in entirelly for the effortless profit that's barely there; no wonder the datacenters are drowning in debt.
There are studies that show the constant use of AI is compromissing people's hability to think and to create, as it is overloading workers that have to revise and correct the work made by AI.
The said AI is not actual inteligence: it's a trending processor that will give the user something that looks like what they want, based on what it saw online. 
I expect the EU to do better than this, by not selling the advances for the enviromental sustainability in exchange for instant reward and permanent decrease of inteligence, creativity, and critical thinking of its people."
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Ale @alepresser.com · 03/09/2026
Oooh, @tapasapp.bsky.social @tapascommunity.bsky.social showing some love to Side Quested again!!!
A screenshot of the tapas app, where one of the main featured banners if Side Quested's, at the community tab.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 03/09/2026
When mom notices you're an overthinker nerd.
A panel of Charlie and CHloé. Charlie is all blushing and happy, and Chloé looks very proud, smiling. She's saying "yes, you are a person who thinks long and hard about that which is meaningful to you."
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Ale @alepresser.com · 29/08/2026
SUCCESS!!!!!!!
A photo of a Bambu Lab A1 3D printer with a highly modified AMS lite unit. And it works!!
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Ale @alepresser.com · 28/08/2026
We just build a literal tiny luxury house to be our cats's bathroom on our balcony. We can't get any more cat person than this.
At the corner of a balcony, a deep grey, black and white wooden house, that includes some acrylic windows, sits on a ikea wooden exterior floor. Above it, there's a hanged planter that looks like a disco ball with some hanging leaves.A closer look at the house, you can see the litter box inside through the acrylic windows, and a paper scratcher by its side.A detail showing that we can lift the roof to easy access to the litter box for cleaning.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 27/08/2026
They're finally in preorder at Amazon, but they're not allowing to deliver in Portugal yet. I feel conflicted. I think they look AWESOME, but do I really want them?
Rumi's mattel doll, at Amazon screenshot.Same, for Zoey.And same for Mira.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 27/08/2026
I mean, sure.
Title reads "the lazy hand hat v2.0 - funny sun shade", and there's a photo of a guy wearing a headband with a literal 3d hand as if covering your eyes from the sun.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 27/08/2026
When you open the thing up, it says "Denis", but you know what. Too late.
On top of a printing surface, the letters if "Denis" are in purple, but the picture is slightly croped in the side and the "D" really looks like a "P".
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Ale @alepresser.com · 27/08/2026
I think it's important to mention that this is the SECOND version.
Title says "the knuckle sandwich v2", and it's a sandwich with 4 holes for your fingers. 3D printed.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 26/08/2026
Hum. Okay.
Title says "3D printable scale armor set" and it's a ripped as fuck dude, very much AI, wearing a scaled armor that looks like Red Sonja's bikini, but for gay men.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 26/08/2026
This is a classic. I have no words for it.
It's, huh, a horse with Cristiano Ronaldo's face. It's all in gold and marble, it's disturbing.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 26/08/2026
Starting with this amazing slop of Rumi. Poor girl.
Scene from kpop demonhunters where Rumi is eating lamen, but they "completed" her body from waist fown and OH MY GOD THAT'S AWFUL
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Ale @alepresser.com · 25/08/2026
Y'all, let's watch together the Hugos! www.patreon.com/AlePresser/e... This sunday! Mark it on your calendar!!
A promo image that reads "Hugo Awards ceremony, Live Q&A with AlePresser". It has an illustration of Hope Blackwell looking nervous, Ale's profile picture illustration, and the Hugo's rocket logo, on topo of some galaxy image.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 23/08/2026
Yes. From this, to this, going through this. Now testing!
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Ale @alepresser.com · 22/08/2026
Your favorite Disney Prince (wrong answers only) (Hey, Disney, call me!)
Prince Leopold, from Side Quested, rocking on his mandolin in a stage where the pianist stopped playing to watch the show, eyes wide.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 21/08/2026
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE I open Instagram, and it's always CERTAIN that if this video shows up, I WILL watch at least a couple of times. You know the one.
Screenshot of couple dancing on an improvised competition and rocking HARD.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 19/08/2026
She's almost gone, folks! Hurry!!! www.makeship.com/products/peo...
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Ale @alepresser.com · 17/08/2026
I was supposed to be having fun, y'know.
Photo of inside an oven, where 4 fish nuggets are inside a glass recipient, which is broken.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 17/08/2026
The weird feeling of being in a sitcom when you have to do the laundry at a Laundromat.
A laundromat. Photo was made with my phone, and shows my knee and foot, since I'm here, waiting.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 16/08/2026
Yo! You have FIVE days to make sure you have your Gossip Bird with you for Christmas!!! We will NOT make this campaign again, awright? www.makeship.com/products/peo...
4 photos of the Peony plushie, front, side, back, and 3/4.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 14/08/2026
#footloose3000
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Ale @alepresser.com · 13/08/2026
Peony is so. So sorry for you. www.makeship.com/products/peo...
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Ale @alepresser.com · 12/08/2026
Oh, and I got THIS awesome shot here of the eclipse shadow through tree leaves!!!
A photo of a white wall with a closed dark window. There is a shadow of a tree, and all the litte dots between leaves are actually moon shaped, because of the eclipse!
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Ale @alepresser.com · 12/08/2026
Eclipse was awesome!! Picture taken at Praia Olhos da Água, south Portugal!
A dark photo made with a safety glasses in front of the cellphone camera. The sun looks like a smile, and there are some tree shadows below it.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 11/08/2026
Art vs artist #webcomics
Side Quested Book 1 cover. It's mainly blue, and has the protagonist, Charlie, with a book in her hands, and a smile of someone who's ready to own you so bad.That's me. I'm a middle aged woman, with gray hair, glasses, and a black turtleneck. There are book behind me. I don't look my 44 years, tho...
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Ale @alepresser.com · 11/08/2026
Hey, who wants to see some contextless scenes from Side Quested's future updates? sidequested.com
Prince Leopold literally cracking.Charlie and Leo talking. She looks sassy, he looks embarrassed.Leo and Charlie look shocked with something, while Peony (on Charlie's arms) looks disgusted.Charlie and Leo seem to be rolling comically while Peony flies away.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 11/08/2026
Don't forget to get your Peony Plushie! The campaign was a success, but after August 21th she'll be GONE!! And we have NO plans to bring her back! www.makeship.com/products/peo...
A promo image of the Plushie. It says "you asked. We've made it. Peony the Vulture Plushie, available now! Makeship + Side Quested. Available at makeship.com until August 21th!" There are photos of the plushie from 4 angles, and a special photo at a sunset on top.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 10/08/2026
Honestly, do y'all think we stand a chance on this year's Hugo? I kinda think AGAHF has, like, a REPUTATION, but would that be enough?
A screenshot of this year's finalists for graphic story. It reads: "Best Graphic Story or Comic

Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon, written by Kelly Thompson, art by Hayden Sherman and Mattia de Iulis, coloring by Jordie Bellaire, lettering by Becca Carey (DC Comics)

A Girl and Her Fed, written by KB Spangler, art by Ale Presser (www.agirlandherfed.com)

A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel, written by Ursula K. Le Guin, adapted and art by Fred Fordham (Clarion Books; Walker UK)

The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Orion UK)

The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers, written by Kieron Gillen, art by Caspar Wijngaard, lettering by Clayton Cowles (Image Comics)

The Space Cat, written by Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second)

362 ballots cast for 243 nominees. Finalists range 19-42."
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Ale @alepresser.com · 07/08/2026
Yes, yes. "You are writing ". Because of "Page 160". Sure.
A screenshot of an email from "Julian". I redacted the company name. Email says "Hi Ale, I found Side Quested through a list of self hosted comics, and the about page lists the schedule as Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 21h GMT, with the art credited to you and the script to K.B. Spangler. Page 160 went up on August 5. That is why I am writing. (Redacted) is a new platform I am building, and I think you would be a particularly good fit."
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Ale @alepresser.com · 07/08/2026
here's a one-page comic that tries to give you a glimpse of what's all about. kinda fails tho. the comic goes so much more than that...
A comic where Hope Blackwell try really hard to make AGAHF look like a normal comic, and fails miserably.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 07/08/2026
3D printing with color feels like science fiction. "Hold on, let me dowload this TOY into REALITY."
in my hand, an Astro Bot toy, from the Ps5 game.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 05/08/2026
The insanity of working on Publishing schedules. I am *very* tired.
A screenshot of my Patreon library of posts, showing that I have posts scheduled up to December 7th, for page 214 of Book 2.
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