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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4

@ghostlysloth.bsky.social
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Any Prounouns. Queer comic artist living in the Midwest. I love to draw ghosts, gays, and cosas de mi gente. rep'd by Alex Weiss @akaweiss.bsky.social at Azantian Literary. MI TIO HERNÁN | Winter 2028 🚫NO AI/NFT alaraujoart.com

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026
in the age of AI, making art is a radical act
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Mistress Divinity, Queen of Autism @queenofautism.myatproto.social · 07/06/2026
if an autistic person asks if you're autistic, you're no longer self-diagnosed, you're now peer-reviewed
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a classroom of young students are sitting at their desks. The teacher responds to a question from a crustacean sitting in the back row, “No… a Japanese spider crab can’t run for office.” Panel 2: the spider crab is hard at work, leafing through a pile of books in a dimly lit library. Panel 3: the spider crab stands proudly at a podium in front of a crowd; behind him is the American Flag. People in the crowd are excitedly cheering, video recording the crab on their phones, and holding a flag that reads: YES WE CRAB.
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Testosterone genuinely is the bees' knees. Highly recommend it 🙂‍↕️
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I love tabling and meeting people but omg, I am so wiped out ;A;
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
At SPX!
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'll be tabling at #Smallpressexpo this weekend! My table is JA4!
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Check out the amazing comics me and several comic creators made for this fair!
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Chel Bielski goes to a Ghost Wedding expecting to see a Living and a Deceased tie the knot! But they come across a past crush! What will become of them? Tomorrow, my paranormal romance comic "Transcendental" debuts at We Heart Webocomics Digital Comic Fair! @weheartwebcomics.bsky.social
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eliushi (We 💜 Webcomics Digital Comic Fair) @eliushi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Tomorrow!!! This digital comic may be yours as part of the @weheartwebcomics.bsky.social fair happening in all of Sep!
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We Heart Webcomics @weheartwebcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Happy Monday Bluesky! ✏️ Mark your calendars for our upcoming digital comic fair where we showcase new comics from our members and guest spiderfriends! ✏️
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My cat needs to see a vet this week for a possible ringworm infection. Please consider commissioning me or repost this. Anything helps!
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Jes & Cin @jesncin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You will be ahead of so many comic artists if you learn lettering. Even if you don't plan to be a pro letterer, it goes a long way in improving your composition when you're considering how the reader's eyes will travel through the page. It's part of comics grammar. Just doing this goes a long way 👇
"Arrange speech into a diamond shape. Small words and phrases on the top and bottom, big phrases and words in the middle." This is visually represented by soft purple horizontal lines in a diamond/kite shape.
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💀 goodshipskypirate (aka Neo Yi) 🛹 @goodshipskypirate.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Halfway through August. So close. SOOOOO close to a bunch of comics you guys can buy and read and support your fellow indie comic creators. Spinning my chair in excitement for you to read my Pirate Skellie Man comic.
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hey, uh, if anyone has gone to SCAD for a Comics MFA, please dm me! I am very curious if this is the right school for me or not:)
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I started working on my adult trans genderflux werewolf comic again. Get hyped.
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Test proofs are finished!!! Time to send them off to my editor!!!
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Babygirl, I am having g so much fun working on test proofs for my debut graphic novel eeeeee!!!!
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
BIG SAME
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just backed this! Very excited to read this!!!
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Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez is on sub! needs an agent! @artofnickyrdrgz.latinsky.app · 31/07/2026
$284 left to cover my 5th session of ketamine therapy for my OCD!
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Buy Nicky Rodriguez a Coffee
Send a tip to Nicky to help her keep making comics & stay afloat!
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Angela Hsieh @hisiheyah.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm Angela, an illustrator looking to work on book covers and interior illustrations! I published a graphic novel last year. I love drawing animals, real and fantastical. #PortfolioDay Portfolio: www.angela-hsieh.com Email: angelahsiehart[at]gmail[dot]com Rep'd by @jenazantian.bsky.social
Mock book cover for a story titled "Awakening." A young woman stands in a winter storm, holding a branch with glowing blossoms. Behind her, a dragon made of wood opens one vivid green eye. Illustration of an enormous tree in the middle of an oasis, sheltering all manners of desert life. Hidden in the roots of the tree is a glowing red spark. The border of the illustration depicts stylized linear versions of desert flora and fauna, including giant armadillo-like creatures, scaled wolves, jackrabbits, lizards, and succulents. Cover for the middle grade fantasy graphic novel, LU AND REN'S GUIDE TO GEOZOOLOGY by Angela Hsieh. Two twelve year old girls, Lu and Ren, run along a shore brimming with grasses and flowers. Giant axolotls float lazily in the lake behind them. Cover for the middle grade nonfiction book, ANTARCTICA: THE MELTING CONTINENT by Karen Romano Young, illustrated by Angela Hsieh. A small research vessel is dwarfed by a enormous glacier. Seals and penguins rest on floating ice. Below the water, orcas and fish frolic.
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davidlasky.bsky.social @davidlasky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
OMG, People! Did you know that I'm teaching THREE DIFFERENT ONLINE COMICS CLASSES THIS SUMMER?! And two of them kick off this weekend. www.laskycomics.com/web-shop/
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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I refuse the digital art vs traditional art narrative We got digital art and analogue art as an umbrella term and within those there can be different styles It’s just different use of medium Both hand drawn Both human made Both valid
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We Heart Webcomics @weheartwebcomics.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🥁CONTRIBUTOR LINE-UP🥁 Here’s a thread of our contributors (with more to come)! 💫
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Andrew Leamon @andrewleamon.com · 29/05/2026
I'm tired of the toxic positivity of, "Just make comics! No excuses!" There are plenty of valid excuses, and it doesn't make you any less of a comic creator for having to take a break or figure things out.
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Someone should hire me to write or ink their comic please 🥰🥰🥰
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Tomorrow! Geeked to join cool comics makers/thinkers @scottmccloud.bsky.social @neilcohn.bsky.social @reimenayee.com to talk comics theory & education & such! Tune in 6pm ET 3pm PT Saturday, June 30 - all on zoom hosted by @cartoonist.coop! Hope to see you there!
Poster for comics panel with Scott McCloud, Reimena Yee, Neil Cohn, and me Nick Sousanis. Text reads:
 NIF Event:The Study of Comics in cademia (Understanding Comics)
05/30/2026 @ 3pm PDT/6pm EDT/
10pm GMT/8am AET
https://nif.cartoonist.coop/event/the-study-of-comics-in-academia-understanding-comics

Event Details
Join cartoonist and comics devices curator Reimena Yee as she introduces the work of comics scholars and educators Scott
McCloud (Understanding Comics), Dr. Neil Cohn (Speaking in Pictures) and Nick Sousanis (Unflattening).

Together they will discuss the exciting developments in comics academia, and how cartoonists and academics benefit from each other's expertise.
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Jim Mortensen @jimmortensen.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The best thing you can do as an artist is to make things that no one else can make.
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I forget how fun it is to paint with gouache :)i should paint more
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Sean Gardner @seangardnerxiv.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Hideo Kojima and Jorge Gutierrez getting into AI shit on the same day is just really fuckin bleak, man.
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I... I had to reread this 4 times to set in the betrayal :( not this
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This shit is dreck and I'm not scared of AI, what actually hurts my soul is seeing Jorge Gutierrez sell out to this AI plagiarism. I'm so fucking sad. I respected this man and his amazing films and series so much. This one really hurts. Goddamn it. Does he even know how it works? Sigh
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Dark Horse management has consistently failed to protect its workers from everything from sexual harassment to discrimination to layoffs, a union is long past due. I support them, and you should too ✊🏼
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Melissa @mhudson-illustration.com · 16/04/2026
Feeling sassy, made a thing
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"Starve the Artists and Wonder Why the World is Ugly" Sticker for Sale by MHudsonArtist
Obviously it's hard out there for human artists, and I just wanted to make something that expressed how I feel as a struggling creator in a world increasingly filled with slop made from my stolen work...
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
No one warns you how hard it is to name a comic ;A;
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I would make some amazing memoir comics if I wasn't so afraid to be vulnerable 🫠
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
One day I'll visit a Mexican gay bar, and I will feel at home. One day.
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Guess who lost their glasses to the sea?
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
🫡🫡🫡
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Jamie Noguchi | Drawing and Drawing Some More @jamienoguchi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
never forget!!! thenib.com/white-lies/
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White Lies | The Nib
One of the comics industry’s most powerful white men got his notoriety pretending to be Japanese.
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I cant tell if I need to get a better drawing tablet, if I need to find the right pen, or if I need to fix the tablets pencils pressure 🫠
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Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez is on sub! needs an agent! @artofnickyrdrgz.latinsky.app · 09/04/2026
vote Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings for ✨Best Comics Related Publication✨ bsky.app/profile/arto... An intersectional & interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Latinx studies & comics studies, drawing together critical essays, pedagogical reflections, & short comics!
cover of Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings anthology  comic page:
ANTICOLONIAL NATIONALISM IS
BORN WHEN COLONIAL SUBJECTS BEGIN TO ENVISION THEMSELVES AS A FREE NATION. THAT VISION OF A FUTURE UNITES PEOPLE IN AN EFFORT TO CREATE EQUALITY IN A NATION OF THEIR OWN DESIGN.

THE CALL FOR INDEPENDENCE
IS A DEFINING FACTOR
ANTICOLONIAL NATIONALISM, ALONG WITH THE PUSH FOR DECOLONIZATION. IT IS A CALL THAT HAS PERSISTED THROUGHOUT PUERTO RICAN HISTORY, DESPITE THE UNITED STATES'S EFFORTS TO SILENCE IT.

THE UNITED STATES' NATIONALISM, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS DEVOTED TO MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO, TO DEFENDING THE AMERICAN IDENTITY, WHITENESS. IT OPPOSES VON-WHITE IMMIGRATION, FOREIGN CULTURES, AND ANY POLICIES THAT WOULD GIVE THE "OTHER" A CHANCE AT UPWARD MOBILITY.
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Mark Bouchard @barkmouchard.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
BUSINESS AS USUAL has 24 hours left and about $700 to its goal our social satire comic about a crew of dissidents attempting to free the detainees from america’s first off-the-grid ice detention center is 100% finished and ready for your eyes!! secure a copy here: kck.st/3NkpnOX
Shelby Criswell’s cover for BUSINESS AS USUALJude Doyle’s quote Mattie Lubchansky’s quote
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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 20/04/2026
The Study of Comics in Academia May 30, 6 PM EDT I'll be moderating a panel for @cartoonist.coop Nib & Ink Digital Comics Festival, with @neilcohn.bsky.social @scottmccloud.bsky.social @nsousanis.bsky.social - geeking over the developments in comics studies. nif.cartoonist.coop/event/the-st...
Our personalised avatars speaking in speech bubbles. The content of the bubbles is pretty much what's on the text of this post!
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Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez is on sub! needs an agent! @artofnickyrdrgz.latinsky.app · 15/04/2026
i need some help getting the next $350 together for the third therapy session!
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Apocalypse Cowboy @apocalypsecowboy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Due to an unexpected expense, I'm opening up three emergency half-body/bust commissions at half price. Help or shares would be appreciated. #SupportArtists #IndieArtist #MutualAid
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We’re so close to 70% funded! Many thanks to everyone for supporting this anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...
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Thyme Travellers 2
An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
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Alondra Araujo👻 SPX JA4 @ghostlysloth.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
If anyone has a MFA inc Comics, can I talk to you??? I am interested and want to ask for advice :)
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