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Rowan K. Briggs

@kbriggs.bsky.social
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Comics witch, teaching artist, zine-making forest hag 🌱they/she🌱 Pubs: Sycamore, a full text adaptation of Macbeth, The New Chapter Tarot, Triskelion, and more! 📍Philly links: linktr.ee/withryn

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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 17h
A few pages of my grief memoir are in the latest @mindlessones.bsky.social, a free top tier comics and culture newsletter
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Rolling itself in the pot to mix and season the food
Mother Sausage. SFMR: The many Lives and Countless Deaths of Buddy Baker. Mere Crowleyanity. Mr Dough and the Egg Princess. The Dead Parent Club. The Horned God in Times of Crisis. Planks Constant. Fi...
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
PCX is open! 4th & Pine, free entry, world’s phinest comics. Organized by the heroes at @partnersandson.bsky.social
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'll be at Table 35 with my good pal @larsenproject.bsky.social, right next to @newlevant.bsky.social and @kbriggs.bsky.social at Table 34
A map of the tables at Philly Comic Expo, with #35 circled.
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A page from my grief memoir in progress, cropped for easier reading (in theory). Death and Money, they go hand in hand.
Text reads: My siblings, the Log House, and class are important elements of this backstory.  Growing up I felt a lot of confusion about my social class.  Dad did well for himself, his business was successful and he seemed to have a natural knack for managing money and using it to his advantage.Text reads: My mother did not. She poured her energy into a perpetually failing small business, limped it along year after year, used child support to pay for our housing and “we can't afford that” was her regular refrain.Text reads: Was I on the bottom rung of the American Dream, gripping white knuckle onto middle class status? Or was I flirting with luxury, denying I was rich while riding in a new SUV and flying out to the Grand Canyon with my siblings?The full page, a collage of early 90s JC Penney catalog images but all the models have either a dog or a pig head. The panels are skewed, shooting off at different angles.
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I've started work again on a grief memoir about suddenly losing my Dad. I'm making pages in order (shocking!) and posting them as I go on my Patreon, for $1 a month. I'll post bits on here, too patreon.com/withryn
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bruno is helping with con prep
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
PCX is this Saturday! Blessed to be tabling next to the esteemed @newlevant.bsky.social and right by @planetx.bsky.social and @larsenproject.bsky.social I've got a new collection of short comics to debut - romance on one side, break-ups on the other!
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cannot wait to clothesline you on a dancefloor again
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh heyyy UK pals I’ll be at TB this year, wandering around and not behind a table.
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Hazel Newlevant @newlevant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Stoked to table at the Philly Comics Expo for the first time next Saturday, 10/10! I'm sure the show will be a 10/10 as well. Catch me at table 34 with the esteemed @kbriggs.bsky.social!
Philly Comics Expo poster, illustrated by Tara Booth. Text:
"Old Pine Community Center
Presented by Partners & Son
Philly Comics Expo
FREE & open to the public!
Saturday 10/10/26
6AM - 6PM"Photo of my table setup at FlameCon 2026. Titles, from left to right:
Instant Portraits - "Done before you know it!" - $10
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition [free]
NO IVY LEAGUE
BECOMING WHO WE ARE
SUGAR TOWN
TENDER-HEARTED
HAZEL'S FAVORITE PLANTS TO GROW: 2025
QUEER AND HOW WE GOT HERE: A (PERSONAL) HISTORY
CHAINMAIL BIKINI: THE ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN GAMERS
CI VEDIAMO
QUEER UPRISINGS
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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It's very hard to be creative right now
The "sorry to people who followed me for art but then don't see any for weeks at a time" cake meme
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Will our corner simply be too powerful??
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Philly Comics Expo is in 10 days! I'll be debuting a new comic 👀
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just got in my table assignment for PCX, and I'm going to be rocking Table 35 with my good pal @larsenproject.bsky.social! And if that wasn't cool enough, I'll be right next to @newlevant.bsky.social and @kbriggs.bsky.social at Table 34! I cannot think of better company!
A map of the Philly Comics Expo with Table 35 circled.
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
C U Next Tuesday
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This show is all about my process and features the notebooks, sketches, ref pics, collage materials, and research notes that went into each project.
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’ve got a new solo show in Pottstown! And a new name to go with it 💚
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A preview of my newest comic-in-progress will be a part of this amazing group show in Philly. The Weight is a memoir of grieving my Dad, who passed away suddenly last July.
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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Bank Holiday Weekend Flash Sale - 25% off! Use the code AVERY25 to get the deal on all books in the SALE category. There's a limited number of some books, prints and bundles available, so nab them while you can! averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Restocked some fav familiar faces in my shop - cats in space! Spot and Felicette (a real Parisian street cat who was sent into orbit and returned safely as part of Frances space program in the 1960s)
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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Today is Shakespeare Day! I'm a bit of a Shakespeare nerd, so one of the great joys of my time in comics was working on @kbriggs.bsky.social's Macbeth adaptation! It's a true work of art. Full text, sex/colour-blind casting and amazing collages. averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/macb...
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hi would you like to talk about 70s Bruce Springsteen
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Still buzzing from the opening reception last week, my youngest sister even drove up from NC and brought me this goth plant. Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Art of Macbeth is up until March 27 at ArtFusion19460 in Pottstown, PA
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
An exhibition of original pages from my adaptation of Macbeth, published by @averyhill.bsky.social, opens March 6 in Pottstown, PA.
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
And most importantly, fuck ICE
Out of tall grass, a raised fist holds a sickle against a New Moon. The text reads "RAGE MOURN ACT"
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Comics! From beyond the Patreon wall, the start of a memoir of grieving my Dad.
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I'm back with comics! (This post is available to free members)
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The Weight, part 1 | K. Briggs
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
It is! 6th luckiest lad in 2026
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
@nearit.bsky.social tho
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Mindless Ones @mindlessones.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Issue #33 of our newsletter is out now, ft. superfictions vs. an exhuasted reality, Warrior (not a prank, not an imaginary story), Frankenstein, The Boo Radleys, Keeper, Lovejoy, The Legend of Unicron, a Mindless cut-up, and more!
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They cluck their thick tongues, and shake their heads
The Filth. ABHOBC: Warrior. C'Mon Kids. Cate LeBon. Robots III: Minds. Reverse Forklift Noise. Keeper.
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
An old Medusa-self from an out-of-print comic
A watercolor self portrait with adders for hair, tucked behind a panel layout with some vintage comic panels. The text reads "Anger. Suffering, and ferocity. Survival. Or death. Struggle and fury. The Furies. Tearing me apart. I try to escape"
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
First page, un-pay walled
A comic page with panels in the shape of a page from The Book of Kells. The center panel is a pencil self portrait of me head down at my messy desk. The two side panels are Independence Hall with a woodblock printed oak leaf over them. Above is an arch of rubber stamped graph paper. The text reads “A pillar of my life is gone. I am unstable. Unknowing how the structure stands in its absence”
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
My Food Not Bombs crew is partnering with Planned Parenthood to get free period products for our community. Workshop and packing party December 3rd www.weareplannedparenthood.org/a/houselessn...
Flyer for a free workshop on houselessness and the fight for reproductive justice workshop on Wednesday December 3rd at 6pm in Norristown. RSVP at https://www.weareplannedparenthood.org/a/houselessness-fight-reproductive-justice
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This Sunday in Norristown, Dec 7 in Pottstown. We distro hot food, snacks, drinks, toiletries & period products, clothes, and even stuffed animals and art supplies.
Montgomery County PA Food Not Bombs distro information - Pottstown at the old Days Inn at 61 W. King Street every first Sunday of the month from 1-3pm and Norristown at the Transportation Center every third Sunday of the month from 3-5pm
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Today I got to help puppet a giant compost pile and dancing worms, I love Spiral Q
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A new short comic about grief
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August | K. Briggs
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Some pages freed from behind their paywall. This Electra project continues to evolve, and while I really like these images, this isn't her final form!
A collaged page of comics.  The text reads "When I started this project, my father was alive.

It was a memoir about growing up and surviving a terrible mother, set against an ancient Greek play about children killing their terrible mother, until I was ready to cut her off and thereby “kill” her. Psychologically, of course.

But now he's gone.  My “good” parent was complicated, our relationship was loving but complex.  Before he died my father had made the transition from Idol to Human Being in my eyes.  I'm grateful for that, that I got to see him and recognize him as both capable of harm and full of love.

I wrote a whole draft, had a complete plan.  I'm starting over."A collaged page of comics. The text reads "A brief summary of Electra: a story about the tension between Justice and Taboo, a tale of family dysfunction with few survivors.  It starts off-stage and over a decade ago, with Helen of Troy...

Helen and Clytemnestra are sisters, their brothers Castor and Pollux are the deified Gemini Twins.  Helen was married to Menelaus, her sister Clytemnestra was married to his brother Agamemnon. When Helen ran off to Troy, Agamemnon was put in charge of the military force that would siege the city until they brought her back. 

Except they couldn't get out of port. The winds were bad, nonexistent. So Agamemnon tricked his wife into bringing their daughter Iphigenia to their military encampment on the shore. Where his own child was sacrificed. A favorable breeze, at last.

Ten years later, Agamemnon returns triumphant. And Clytemnestra promptly kills him in the bath, some say with an ax, for murdering their daughter.  Justice served and sin committed. They have other children, and their son Orestes is now honor-bound to avenge the death of this father. By committing the ultimate act of horror and taboo – killing his mother.

But Clytemnestra has a new husband, Aegisthus. Together they move to prevent the revenge-killing and Orestes taking his rightful place on the throne.  Orestes is banished to live with his “friend” Pylades. And for good measure his other sister Electra is shipped off to the countryside and married to a poor but honorable peasant.  No offspring of hers will be able to raise and army against Aegisthus and Clytemnestra."
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
After a Ren Faire test run, improvements have been made
Attended a costume ball at ArtFusion, a local art center, as The Dread Pirate Roberts. I’m leaning against their sign in my costumeAn attempt at drag make-up for The Dread Pirate Roberts, with blond mustache
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Woodblock leafs
A woodblock print of an oak leaf and an acorn on orange paper, sitting on the grassThe same woodblock print, but on tracing paper and nestled into a red maple branchThe same woodblock print, on regular paper and sitting on a red carpetThe same woodblock print, on cardboard and sitting on a tartan blanket
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Levi Combs @planetxgames.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
@sallycantirino.bsky.social @ohheybuddy.bsky.social johnmcguirerpg.bsky.social are absolutely killin’ it with this one. This looks so damn good. www.kickstarter.com/projects/joh...
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Mindless Ones @mindlessones.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Issue #29 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Andrew & Steven, more Magnus, one last haunting, subtext (a coward's tool), Miguel, a final haunting, and The Real Ghostbusters. You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll dispel certain thoughts that have long troubled your soul!
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Nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired
The Vile Dead finale. Andrew & Steven. ABHOBC: The Real Ghostbusters. One last thing. 'Kin Aesthetic. More Magnus.
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Easton SPX 12-4pm today at the Sigal Museum
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Gotta block ‘em all! Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday. Flush these turds HERE - bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This book is a challenge and I'm in for the PROCESS
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Starting over (kinda) on Electra | K. Briggs
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Traffic into Philly is fun, because if I leave my house at 3:45pm it takes an hour and 15 minutes but if I leave at 4pm it takes two hours.
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Ren Faire/Halloween test run
I’m wearing a Dread Pirate Roberts cosplay and holding a wooden sign that says “As You Wish”
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
dailylocal.com
East Vincent delays adoption of data center ordinance
“We the people bankrolled this guy and now he is trying to plow through this community.”
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
In an unspeakably dystopian move, the grounds of Pennhurst Asylum are the proposed site for a data center.
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Protect Pennhurst from Data Center Development
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Rowan K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Reject modernity (nihilism) Embrace tradition (being in your community, doing whatever’s within your power to make things a bit less shit)
Two tables full of snacks, food, toiletries, drinks, Narcan, and art supplies. One table has a banner that says “Solidarity Not Charity”, the other table has a banner that says “Food Not Bombs Montco”
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