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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

new comic, titled WELCOME HOME ❤️‍🩹🐱🐱

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Molly Muldoon @passingfair.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Ran to the library on my lunch break and saw @cooklincomics.bsky.social’s book in the wild! Featuring my first ever blurb! Proud of you, friend! 💕

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I'M LEADING A *FREE* COMICS WORKSHOP ON FRIDAY 3/6 at 7pm ET/4pm ET with Sequential Artists Workshop! I'll be going full ACE OF HEARTS, talking about how to visually convey abstract feelings, with an emphasis on the presence of love 🥰 💜 Register here: bit.ly/SAWCooklin

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!!! as a treat, I have shared a transcript of my talk with @erikamoen.bsky.social at @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social on January 24th to my Substack! please enjoy 🖤🩶🤍💜

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talkin' ACE OF HEARTS with Erika Moen!

a transcript of our talk at BwP on 1/24

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Hello! I’m giving away some free ACE OF HEARTS-themed Valentine’s Day goodies and there are only a few spots left!! Here’s what they look like, and here is the link to the form: fminrdqj.formester.com/f/TtsFEU54w

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Portland/SW Washington folks… Just plugging that I’m teaching a beginner’s comics class for six weeks starting next Wednesday! It will be at the new Clark College campus in Ridgefield and we’re gonna have a lot of fun!!! To register: www.campusce.net/clark/course...

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I worked for the news in Portland for the latter half of 2025. For the #iceoutcomics project, I shared my experience dealing with the public relations teams at ICE and DHS. Spoiler: they suck.

I worked for a local media outlet in Portland for the latter half of 2025. Few ICE detainment stories we covered stuck with me quite like the story of 27-year-old Jose Paniagua Calderon.
His arrest on Fourth Plain Boulevard in Vancouver, Washington was recorded from two different angles. Both videos show Jose’s vehicle being driven away by ICE agents, but not before rising and falling while Jose screamed.
According to his family, the visible bump was his foot being run over.

$After local media outlets picked up the story, DHS posted a statement on X: By Tricia McLaughlin: Never happened. ICE did NOT run over this illegal alien's leg. Pure theatre. No Injury. After ICE officers applied wrist restraints, Paniagua launched into an Oscar-level performance, dramatically screaming while officers simply moved his vehicle off the roadway. He walked around normally immediately after without issue and received a full medical evaluation including multiple X rays that showed ZERO fractures, dislocations or injures. This statement was surprising not because of its contents but because it existed at all. ICE and DHS ignored almost every inquiry I sent them. When they did respond, it was usually weeks late, short, and/or rude. This is not normal for government communications.$

One night, after dealing with ICE and DHS’s deliberately terrible communications teams for months, I was unfortunately privy to a Jesse Watters segment about all the horrible illegals ICE has been getting off the streets. I wanted to throw up listening to it.
After most of my inquiries to ICE and DHS being ignored, it filled me with rage to see the way they were so obviously in cahoots with right-wing media, feeding them all of their “success” stories while leaving local journalists high and dry.

I no longer work for the news, so I feel at liberty to say this. Be assured, the only people putting on an Oscar-level performance are the public relations goons at ICE and DHS. They so blatantly and repeatedly lie. They ask the American people again and again to deny what they can see with their own eyes.
And somehow, people all over this country eat it up.

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

First comic reading I ever did at @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social in August 2022 vs. my reading at BwP for my debut graphic memoir on Saturday 🥲

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Helioscope @helioscopepdx.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Big standing room only crowd at Books With Pictures for @cooklincomics.bsky.social in conversation with @erikamoen.bsky.social, talking about Cooklin’s debut graphic novel ACE OF HEARTS. @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social @streetnoisebooks.bsky.social.

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

So honored to have an excerpt of ACE OF HEARTS up on the @crucialcomix.bsky.social website!! It’s the part of the book where I finally realize I’m asexual after years of confusion and hurt and compulsory sexuality. I hope y’all will check it out 💜💚🙂

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Y'ALL! IMPORTANT UPDATE! The venue for my author event has CHANGED. It will be taking place at BwP's SE Division location instead. Date, time, and awesome guest @erikamoen.bsky.social remains the same!!! Updated flyer below. I hope y'all can still make it!!!

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

if you have any questions for me about the process of making the book, the book itself, asexuality, ME, please drop them either in my mentions or in a DM! I’m gonna be answering them in a substack post. make sure to subscribe to my substack so you don’t miss it: cooklin.substack.com

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cooklin's corner | Substack

A substack featuring updates about the life and career of the cartoonist known as cooklin. Occasional reflections and probably a lot of memes. Click to read cooklin's corner, a Substack publication wi...

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

it is ACE OF HEARTS RELEASE DAY, BABY!!! this is my debut graphic memoir about my experiences with love while coming of age as an asexual person. booklist gave it a starred review which apparently means it’s good!! if this sounds like your kinda book, check it out and let me know what you think 🥲

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

🚨 new AI-free art show just dropped 🚨 my older sister just launched her non-profit, Created Ungenerated! it is dedicated to protecting human artistry in the age of AI. CU’s first AI-free art show will take place at the Oregon Convention Center in April. more: www.createdungenerated.com

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Home - Created Ungenerated

Art without the human element is broken. Help us fix it. In Portland, OR on April 25, 2026, we are hosting the world's first artist's summit addressing AI ethics and its harrowing implications on our ...

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

sooooo i never post on bluesky anymore, BUT i wanted to make sure you lovely people knew that my debut graphic memoir ACE OF HEARTS: LESSONS IN LOVE FROM AN ASEXUAL GIRL is available for pre-order! check it outttttt ~ linktr.ee/aceofheartsb...

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Pre-Order ACE OF HEARTS | Instagram | Linktree

A coming-of-age graphic memoir about one girl’s struggle to figure out and then claim her asexual identity. The debut of cartoonist cooklin. Out January 2026.

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

my not even 2-year-old niece seeing me on FaceTime and being able to identify me as her auntie CC is incomparable joy

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

i love the overture that plays at the beginning of a local news show. a whole orchestral suite brings the drama, and then, BAM. simplysafe security footage of a kia being stolen in an upper middle class neighborhood.

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

get milchick out of there so he can realize his true purpose — musical theater

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

a few days ago I went to a bar and there was a full table of eight. every single person sitting at the table was a young white male with brown hair cut into that gen z haircut. you know the haircut I’m talking about. with the curls and shit. anyway it was remarkable and a little terrifying

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

it’s really funny when a person who has never had a cat and thinks cats are assholes actually spends time with a cat and the cat is super friendly and cuddly and the person is like “wow this cat is like a dog!” like actually no that’s just what cats are like, you’ve been lied to

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

i recommend singing to your cat. they especially like songs with a low register. my cat particularly likes it when i sing her levon by elton john or landslide by fleetwood mac. hope this helps

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

i think it should be socially acceptable to eat your movie theater popcorn with a comically large spoon so your fingers don’t get all buttery

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

junior from duolingo is a little shit

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

whenever I say something stupid I always follow it up with, “sorry, I’m super tired.” the problem is that I say stupid things like all the time. so am I perpetually tired or am I just stupid? honestly, it’s probably both

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

it happened again last night. I have yet to actually use my cane

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I think an elephant moved into the apartment above mine

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

people who hate musicals because “nobody just breaks out into song and dance” has clearly never seen me waiting for my food to heat up in the microwave

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

humans really popped off when they invented tying the arms of your sweatshirt around your waist when you don’t want to wear it. a great solution to an everyday problem

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

do i need to see Mickeys 1-16 to understand Mickey 17

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

cried thinking about Past Lives (2023) again

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

kids shows when I was growing up were always telling kids that broccoli is gross. but I remember trying broccoli for the first time and being like. wtf. this shit slaps

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

the other day I told my partner about all the insane things that happen in Riverdale. I think we moved on too quickly from that show and its sheer buffoonery

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

just found an old story I was writing when I was in film school. the main character, who I heavily based on myself, was asexual. I wouldn’t realize I was asexual until three years later. I’ve written a lot about all the signs throughout my life that I was asexual, but this one is CRAZY. damn.

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Hey, Mark. I just printed out the passage of the handbook on changing out group photos. Just might be good to peruse when you're between things. #severance @benstiller.redhour.com

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emily mccarthy @emmypadge.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I am such a fan of CC’s work and will be BEGGING my local library to carry her new book!!!

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I love the word “gangbusters” and we should all use it more

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

excited to announce that my debut graphic memoir, ACE OF HEARTS: LESSONS IN LOVE FROM AN ASEXUAL GIRL, published by Street Noise Books, will be out in February 2026! 🖤🩶🤍💜

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

what is it about nighttime that makes mcdonald’s call my name man

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

me when I’m on hold for an hour an a half

an old tweet from Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce from 2011 that reads, “Haha this song selection is out of control”

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

why is every Super Bowl commercial just like a supercut of the human lifespan from literal sperm cell to death with big savings all along the way

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

okay. I’ll bite. what the hell is “crashing out”

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

do you think hall and oates ever explor—*gun shot*

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cooklin @cooklincomics.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

as much as I’d love all of season 2 at once, a whole week in between severance episodes is teaching me a valuable lesson about patience. a lack of overindulgence in what pleases us most makes us better servants. praise kier

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