Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Finally watched Kpop Demon Hunters and I'm obsessed! 110
Reposted by Alex L CombsTall Rob @grandrobert.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Bookstores, comic shops, and libraries place books on shelves with their covers facing out because we are more likely to peruse a book if we can see its cover. I learned of Combs & Eakett’s *Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day* only b/c it was displayed that way. My review here:thetallrobreport.blogspot.comTrans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day (Alex L. Combs & Andrew Eakett, Candlewick Press, 2025)For folks who have learned about trans and nonbinary identities in the last 10-15 years of pop culture representation, this graphic tex... 332
Reposted by Alex L CombsJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 18/06/2025NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese SCOTUS used to justify Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care: on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid... & Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...juliaserano.substack.comWhat Covid “Lab Leak” and “Rushing Kids into Transition” Have in Commonand more general thoughts about conspiracy theories and negativity bias 6632256
Reposted by Alex L CombsComic Book Yeti 🎃 @comicbookyeti.com · 20/06/2025It’s a brand new Cryptid Creator Corner as @byrononeal.com’s Pride Month episodes continue and he chats with @alexlcombs.bsky.social & Andrew Eakett about TRANS HISTORY. Listen now at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts. 274
Reposted by Alex L CombsRachel @ziggystarlog.bsky.social · 20/06/2025As someone who loved reading books about history as a kid (and still do as an adult), TRANS HISTORY would've been an immediate book order pick, and I got to interview @alexlcombs.bsky.social and Andrew Eakett about their graphic novel below: 163
Reposted by Alex L CombsAnn Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social · 13/06/2025People have been living beyond the binary since the earliest recorded human civilizations. On the podcast today, authors @alexlcombs.bsky.social and Andrew Eakett talk about their new graphic novel Trans History: From Ancient Times to Present Day. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...episodes.fmTrans History: From Ancient Times to the Present DayListen to Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day from Vulgar History: Revolution wherever you get your podcasts! 1147
Reposted by Alex L CombsGreen Brain Comics @greenbraincomics.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Green Brain Staff Picks of the Week! May 14, 2025 @mrdavehill.bsky.social @artyomtopilin.bsky.social @oni-press.bsky.social @mooncalfe1.bsky.social @dccomicsreal.bsky.social @alexlcombs.bsky.social Andrew Eakett, Lo Hartog Van Banda, The Tjong-Khing, @fantagraphics.bsky.social 142
Reposted by Alex L Combs🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 14/05/2025if you’re trans or nonbinary and have good, bad, or indifferent feelings around touch, please take this quick survey for an upcoming trans tuesday essay it’ll only take a few seconds and will help a lot! 🩷 22723
Reposted by Alex L CombsGraphic Medicine International Collective @graphicmedicine.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Speaking of comics award season... 👀 042
Reposted by Alex L CombsComic Book Yeti 🎃 @comicbookyeti.com · 06/05/2025Had a fantastic conversation with @alexlcombs.bsky.social and Andrew Eakett this afternoon about their book Trans History From Ancient Times To The Present Day. That will be out in June for our Pride Month Coverage but the book is out next week so make sure to look for it. 15118
Reposted by Alex L CombsAlex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 05/04/2025If you've pre-ordered Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, make sure to enter the giveaway. You'll receive a digital bonus comic that didn't make the final cut of the book, and be entered in a raffle to win one of 10 mini-portrait paintings (hand painted by me!) ♥️ ➡️Link in bio⬅️ 054
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 05/04/2025If you've pre-ordered Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, make sure to enter the giveaway. You'll receive a digital bonus comic that didn't make the final cut of the book, and be entered in a raffle to win one of 10 mini-portrait paintings (hand painted by me!) ♥️ ➡️Link in bio⬅️ 054
Reposted by Alex L Combssierra bravo @sierrabravoart.bsky.social · 04/04/2025ok but also: did you see THIS update!!!! 1148
Reposted by Alex L CombsAjuan Mance @ajuanmance.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This is going to the top of my spring reading list! 094
Reposted by Alex L Combs🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 01/04/2025📜new episode!📜 #TransTuesday I interview @alexlcombs.bsky.social and Andrew Eakett about their new graphic novel, TRANS HISTORY: FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO PRESENT DAY! Apple Podcasts hasn't yet updated its feed, but until it does you can find it on other podcasting services and on the show's website!pendantaudio.comTilly's Trans Tuesdays | Pendant Audio 1177
Reposted by Alex L Combs🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Welcome to #TransTuesday! This week we have TRANS HISTORY 3: INTERVIEW WITH @alexlcombs.bsky.social AND ANDREW EAKETT, creators of the graphic novel, Trans History - From Ancient Times to the Present Day! Trans people have always existed 💜 (transcript thanks to @summerknights.bsky.social!)tillystranstuesdays.comTRANS HISTORY 3: INTERVIEW WITH ALEX L. COMBS AND ANDREW EAKETT - Tilly's Trans TuesdaysNOTE: This week's update is a transcription of a live interview done as part of the Tilly's Trans Tuesdays podcast. Special thanks to Kate Rascali for the transcription! Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This... 2153
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Illustrations from some of my classes just for fun! I like to do the assignments along with my students. 051
Reposted by Alex L CombsGwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025For International Women's Day, can I recommend this fine anthology that I published? #IWD wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...wizardstowerpress.comFight Like A Girl – Volume 2ISBNs Paperback: 978-1-913892-84-5 EPUB: 978-1-913892-82-1 MOBI: 978-1-913892-83-8 04427
Reposted by Alex L CombsBogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025My second short story collection is about halfway to earning out its advance! Now is your chance to pick it up & help push it over the line 😃 (also this is a trans & intersex book!) Amazon US: amzn.to/4gI6AFy Bookshop (recommended): bookshop.org/a/14302/9781... (associate links just in case)bookshop.orgPower to Yield and Other StoriesCheck out Power to Yield and Other Stories - <strong>COMPLEX COMMUNITY</strong>​<p><em>Power to Yield</em> is a collection of speculative tales exploring gender identity, neurodivergence, and re... 03016
Reposted by Alex L CombsAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025This is an incredible history of trans people and the doctors and activists who fought for their right to exist 38624
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 12/02/2025I just called mine and their inboxes are full, but I sent them emails through their websites. I find writing a little easier anyway! I chose to focus on opposing the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because I had a personal story to tell– 130
Reposted by Alex L CombsAlex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Andrew and I can hardly wait to share "Trans History: A Graphic Novel" with everyone! If you preorder the book, you'll get access to a bonus digital comic and be entered to win an original mini-painting. Thanks for your support! @candlewickpress.bsky.social #TransHistory #LGBTHistory #GraphicNovel 0104
Reposted by Alex L Combsshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/02/2025thread with @aoc.bsky.social’s advice for this moment, and it involves calling your reps. not sure how? use 5calls.org (they have an app too). 511722775
Reposted by Alex L CombsMargaret Kingsbury @kidlitmatters.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Shouting out this wonderful nonfiction graphic novel I recently read by @alexlcombs.bsky.social & Andrew Eakett that shows the myriad of ways gender has been expressed through the centuries & that trans people have always existed. Great for ages 10-100. Out in May, preorder link in comments! 24922
Reposted by Alex L Combskelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025It's here: bookriot.com/alpena-publi...bookriot.com“Hopefully, we can sit together and discuss what we consider is appropriate”: Inside Two Years of Nonstop Hell for Alpena Public LibraryDestruction of US public libraries may start with complaints over books, but that's not the end goal. Alpena Public Library is now the tool of those book banners and serves as a stark warning of what'... 02414
Reposted by Alex L CombsAlex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 06/01/2025My mom always voted left. She was into health food and yoga, but she was also anti vaccine way back in the 1980s. I didn't get any vaccines until I went to college. Since COVID she's gone hard right and is now a Trump supporter. This has been the route of many such 'health nuts' formerly on the left 1172
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Thank you @juliaserano.bsky.social for organizing #LGBTQNotGoingBack. I'd love for my comic to be added to the master list! 030
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Andrew and I are a gay and trans couple who recently got married! Thinking about #LGBTQNotGoingBack my mind kept going back to one moment 20 years ago, shortly after we'd moved in together. At that time it was still illegal for us to get married, and I didn't know if it would ever be a possibility. 2152
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Excited to post the comic I drew for #LGBTQNotGoingBack 💪✏️ 050
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024If you pre-order Trans History don't forget to enter the giveaway! You'll receive a bonus comic that didn't make it into the book, and be entered to win an original mini-painting of a person featured in the book! #TransHistory #LGBTBooks #GraphicNovels #TransPride 065
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Andrew and I can hardly wait to share "Trans History: A Graphic Novel" with everyone! If you preorder the book, you'll get access to a bonus digital comic and be entered to win an original mini-painting. Thanks for your support! @candlewickpress.bsky.social #TransHistory #LGBTHistory #GraphicNovel 0104
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 08/04/2024It's hard to believe that we're finally starting to work on cover designs for Trans History!! 020
Reposted by Alex L Combssierra bravo @sierrabravoart.bsky.social · 03/04/2024it's that time! if you want to go ahead and vote for HANS VOGEL IS DEAD, Vol. 1 for Best Original Graphic Novel in the Ringo Awards you'd make my whole day. Hurray! ringoawards.com 01411
Reposted by Alex L CombsStacked Deck Press @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social · 03/04/202412 HOURS LEFT! We need your support! Back this incredible graphic memoir today! zoop.gg/c/agoodsportzoop.ggA Good SportA Good Sport is a graphic memoir from French cartoonist Soizick Jaffre. The book details the author's participation in the 2018 Gay Games, her lifelong pursuit of athletics, and the history surroundi... 011
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 03/04/2024Yesterday's demo and warm-up for the illustration class I'm teaching! I brought my hot wheels collection in for the students to draw. Then we tried making abstract drawings base on the car designs ✏️🚙 010
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 29/01/2024Just realized I could add M.A. after my name in my email signature 💪🤓 010
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 29/12/2023I've collected so many photo references for the Trans History comic, and even though I didn't end up using a lot of them, I'm looking forward to eventually sharing some on social media! 030
Reposted by Alex L CombsJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 12/12/2023This is very true. Everything you want to learn about any art or craft is freely available on YouTube. The problem is, you then have to do the work, which is the sticking point for many. 6950511839
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 12/12/2023Wow i am getting to draw some beautiful historical twinks right now. I love my job 🥰💖 020
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 08/12/2023One of my young students said "I'm going to draw Elmo on fire!" and proceeded to render the most horrifying freddy krueger-looking colored pencil drawing i've ever seen 000
Reposted by Alex L CombsThe Latinx Comic Arts Festival @latinxcomicarts.bsky.social · 06/11/2023We are pleased to reveal this year's poster (by Amber Padilla) for the 2024 Latinx Comic Arts Festival! Join us Friday & Saturday, March 22-23, at Modesto Junior College (Modesto, CA) from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. It's a free, family friendly event with a lowrider exhibit on Saturday. 04024
Alex L Combs @alexlcombs.bsky.social · 26/10/2023Overheard a (cis) coworker recommend the Hogwarts game to a fellow (cis) coworker who responded "JKR can go f*** herself". Thank you ally, we need this energy!! 020
Reposted by Alex L CombsTyler the ✨𝓕𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓼𝓲𝓪𝓷✨ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @tyleralbertario.bsky.social · 26/10/2023This month marks the 50th anniversary of Jerry DeGrieck and Nancy Wechsler becoming the first openly LGBTQ elected officials in US history. For my first ever byline for LGBTQ Nation, I had the honor of speaking with both of them about their experience: www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/10/amer...lgbtqnation.comAmerica’s first out elected officials were two civil rights warriors you’ve probably never heard...Before there was Harvey Milk, Barney Frank, or Danica Roem, there was Jerry and Nancy... 021
Reposted by Alex L CombsSilver Sprocket @silversprocket.net · 25/10/2023First up for Spring 2024, its INFLUENCA, a zombie apocalypse love story by Jade LFT Peters, Coming this February! Told through the lens of interviews, social media posts, & reminiscing, Influenca is a look into a day at the end of the world, & what life looks like when the apocalypse is predictable. 1357
