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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 25/09/2026

Tonight on Shaderunners: Gay bickering 🍸 💚 Webtoon: buff.ly/97QDtve 💛 Tapas: buff.ly/QPikUvA

Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 10/07/2026

Mine and @lindarrow.bsky.social 's webcomic Shaderunners is now available to read in vertical format on Webtoon Canvas as well as Tapas 🍸 💚 Webtoon: buff.ly/97QDtve 💛 Tapas: buff.ly/3N5TOih There will be an update every Friday on both platforms, starting from the very first page!

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 21/05/2026

2006 | 2016 | 2026 Keep at it I guess! Also yes this is indeed gay Cardcaptor Sakura fanart because I've always been really really cool.

Three versions of the same illustrations - the first drawn in 2006, the second in 2016 and the third in 2026. The drawing depicts the characters Touya and Yukito from CardCaptor Sakura in a romantic pose. The difference in style and quality between the illustrations is significant.

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Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com · 31/03/2026

Happy #TDoV / #TransDayofVisibility! Our book WHEN I WAS ME: MOMENTS OF GENDER EUPHORIA is a stunning collection of comics from over 60 trans artists exploring the joy of being transgender. 50% of profits go to UK orgs supporting queer youth. 🪷 quindriepress.com/books/p/wiwm

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 02/04/2026

Heads up for authors and comic artists that email scams have been getting a LOT more sophisticated thanks to AI. This email I just got includes actual details about my book, even though there are still some obvious AI tells in my opinion (the subject & the last paragraph especially stand out). 1/2

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Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com · 18/02/2026

The Quindrie Comic Fund will open for submissions in May! UK-based comic creators can apply for up to £1000 to put towards a comic project or goal. Read more details and sign up to be notified when submissions open here: quindriepress.com/fund 🐉

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 19/03/2026

anyway this arrived the other day. if you know you know

A picture of a very large print of the painting 'Portrait of Carl Van Vechten', 1922 by Florine Stettheimer, framed in gold and leaning against the wall in my apartment.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Our Palestine comics resource list is slowly expanding at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social. There's some incredibly powerful and devastating work included herein: www.brokenfrontier.com/tag/palestin...

A montage of covers of graphic journalism , graphic memoir and graphic biography on recent events in Palestine.

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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

if YOU are doing Trans Rights Readathon (I am, more info next week) or simply looking to read more fun things with trans people in, here's a reminder my books exist and an excuse to shout out some books I really enjoyed. Thread ⤵️ #TransRightsReadathon #trr26

Graphic reads "Want to read more books with
trans & n-b characters?
I Shall Never fall in love - Regency rom-com graphic novel with a transmasc/n-b MC.
Choose your own path (and gender) in Into the Tower (n-b love interest) or Night at the vampire castle (transfeminine n-b and trans man MCs).

Graphic reads 'Recent books I enjoyed with
trans and/or n-b leads', with the book covers of A Lady for All seasons by TJ alexander, the Scandalous letters of V and J by felicia Davin, Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto, Angelica and the bear prince by Trung le Nguyen, and Trans history, a graphic novel by Alex L Combs & Andrew Eakett.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 12/11/2025

Dear @annerice.amc.com and @iwtvwriters.bsky.social please hire me to draw an IWTV graphic novel, I have the credentials and I think it would make my 14-year-old self reach nirvana... also I really enjoyed drawing that blond man freaking out... #IWTV#InterviewWithTheVampire

An illustration of Claudia, Lestat and Louis from the TV show Interview With the Vampire. They are gathered around a dining table in their house in Rue Royale, holding up glasses of what is presumably blood. The mood between them is tense.

A comic page depicting a scene from the Interview With the Vampire novel, not previously adapted by the TV show. In it, Lestat yells at Louis for not being able to accept his vampire nature.

A comic page depicting a scene from the Interview With the Vampire novel, not previously adapted by the TV show. In narration, Louis describes the intensity and horror of his dreams as a vampire.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 02/03/2026

Made new profile pics for myself and @lindarrow.bsky.social ! My struggle is always that they have to match but I want to draw myself as a weird little guy and Lin as the most beautiful woman in the world...

A square illustration depicting me (Alex) in vibrant colours.

A square illustration depicting Lin Darrow in vibrant colours. She is the most beautiful woman in the world!!!

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 28/02/2026

you guys are NOT ready for this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

One year ago today our Palestine comics resource list went live. Lots more additions to the list coming soon. www.brokenfrontier.com/resource-lis... #FreePalestine

A banner image of covers from comics work dealing with Palestine and the genocide in Gaza.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 10/02/2026

my wrist is still fractured btw and i regret to inform you every time someone sees my cast and asks how i broke it i get closer to saying oh you know. jerkin' it

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 10/02/2026

Been looking at too much German expressionist art lately.... #InterviewWithTheVampire #iwtv

An illustration of Louis and Lestat from the TV show Interview with the Vampire, drawn in the style of old German expressionist movie posters, stylized with dark colours and rough linework.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 03/02/2026

one funny thing about having transitioned is that my dad is really supportive and hasn't actually changed the way he talks to me at all, just swapped "daughter" for "son". so he constantly refers to me as his "lovely son" and "beautiful son of mine". i think it's so cute honestly i love it

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 01/02/2026

every time i go to an adult puppet show (which is a lot of times) i always have a small hope that i'll get to see a human fuck a puppet and it never happens because everyone in theater is a coward. apparently

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 29/01/2026

if any of you are noticing that @lindarrow.bsky.social and i are especially synced up it's because i'm visiting her in canada right now. also because we're bound by the red string of fate but that's secondary

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 29/01/2026

you guys don't even understand how good this one's going to be

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Ras Ein al-Auja, one of the last remaining Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, has been completely erased through brutal Israeli settler violence. Ras Ein al-Auja has been ethnically cleansed. (1/3)

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 27/01/2026

i love heated rivalry because now that it's hit the mainstream i can finally find out which of the women in my life have the fujoshi gene

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 26/01/2026

Today marks mine and @lindarrow.bsky.social 's 16th anniversary as friends & creative soulmates! I lucked out with the best possible collaborator. I can't even imagine where I would be today without Lin's friendship & artistic influence. Lin, I love you and I hope we make comics together forever 🩷

An illustration depicting myself (Alex) and my writer Lin Darrow.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 13/01/2026

one of the positive things about this development though is that i'm finding out just how many of my fellow hive sufferers i hadn't been following on bluesky! very happy to be correcting this now

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Jes & Cin @jesncin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Making a 🧵 to help people get context on Hiveworks: The Hiveworks Guild statement from Cartoonist Co-op. Make sure to check the "How You Can Help" tab

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 12/01/2026

One of the crazier Hiveworks stories in the bunch. Recommend a read if you'd like an example of just how absurdly bad things got for some people.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 12/01/2026

Krispy has been more professional, caring and hard-working during the last few years promoting the Hiveworks artists' interests than Xel and Isa have been over a decade actually running the company

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 12/01/2026

Anyone wondering why @lindarrow.bsky.social and I (and many others) left Hiveworks, read this statement. The Guild has been a source of incredible inspiration, full of amazing people who care deeply about their peers & webcomics as a whole. I am sincerely grateful for everyone's hard work in this.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 11/01/2026

went on a hiking trip with my dad for his 70th birthday & was worried he would fall when we went down these extremely unsafe-looking steps. i watched him like a hawk and then when we reached the bottom at last with no incident i immediately slipped and fell. anyway my right wrist is fractured now

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 30/12/2025

very weird to be working on a graphic novel because i'd sketch 70 pages in two months and go fuckk i'm the slowest artist alive

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 17/12/2025

Tonight on Shaderunners: The end of chapter 3. Don't forget to click 'previous' for the last page! | Read for free at Shaderunners.com 🍸💚

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 26/11/2025

don't ever accept free tickets to the theatre because the monkey's paw WILL curl and in the actors WILL shine the world's brightest spotlight on your face and demand that you sing them a song in the middle of the play. in german

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 12/11/2025

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 08/11/2025

Another time I went a little nuts was at the height of COVID-19 when I caught the Destiel subvariant... I refuse to feel shame [1/2]

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 07/11/2025

Ezra and Easton, Easton and Ezra. / Shaderunners.com

An illustration of Ezra and Easton from the webcomic Shaderunners. Easton is smoking underneath a large portrait of Ezra, with intricate and colourful patterns around him, resembling the shape of moth wings.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 06/11/2025

This is a thread all about mine and @lindarrow.bsky.social's queer noir webcomic Shaderunners.com, a historical fantasy comic where the alcohol prohibition in the 1920s is instead a prohibition of COLOUR 🍸💚 The archive is big, it’s free to read, and the story is in its final act!

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 04/11/2025

In Search of Absent Pigments, part 1 of 4 🩵✨ A short comic by myself and @lindarrow.bsky.social, originally published in the Come Together anthology in 2019.

A cover for the comic In Search of Absent Pigments, depicting a hand reaching for a painting of a young man.

In the present, a man is looking through an art market. Many years in the past, that same man is looking up.

In the past, the man is standing in his studio, looking up at a life-sized painting he has drawn of a handsome, naked young man.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 06/11/2025

i will stop spamming with old art soon btw. you will once again be graced with my devout social media silence 🙏

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 05/11/2025

Tonight on Shaderunners: Back to the Shadery. | Read for free at Shaderunners.com 🍸💚

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 04/11/2025

In Search of Absent Pigments, part 1 of 4 🩵✨ A short comic by myself and @lindarrow.bsky.social, originally published in the Come Together anthology in 2019.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 03/11/2025

Ivo and Satinder pinups! Plus a more risqué Easton in the reply for those of you who like greasy men in lingerie...

A pinup style illustration of Ivo Keys, a character from the webcomic Shaderunners. She is wearing a 1920s swimsuit and enjoying a drink at the beach, a sly expression on her face.

A pinup style illustration of Satinder Hali, a character from the webcomic Shaderunners. She is sitting on a vintage car and smoking a cigarette, wearing a revealing tank-top and an easy smile.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 01/11/2025

Some 2020 Shaderunners art...

An illustration of Ivo from the webcomic Shaderunners, dressed in a short blue dress against a backdrop of geometric shapes.

An illustration of Satinder from the webcomic Shaderunners, dressed in purple against a backdrop of abstract round shapes.

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 27/10/2025

best thing that happened to me all year. yes i said TO ME because that's how invested i am in everyone finally having a chance to realize what I've known for over 15 years, that Lin is the best writer in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 27/10/2025

I actually don't think I ever posted this one at all? But here it is. Not sure what I was going for with this one tbh. #iwtv #InterviewWithTheVampire

An illustration of Louis and Lestat from the TV show Interview With the Vampire. They are set against a red backdrop of a skyline, but it's pretty abstract. They are wearing the clothes they wore during the fight at the end of episode 5. Lestat's hand is covering Louis' mouth while he holds onto his waist. The mood is ominous and dark.

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