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K.B. Spangler

@kbspangler.com
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Writer, cartoonist, editor. Hugo finalist. Very sweary. Half politics, half dog pics. She/her. 🖼️ kbspangler.com 🐨 agirlandherfed.com 🐲 sidequested.com 🎉 patreon.com/KBSpangler ✨ Rep by Bailey Tamayo • btamayo@sjga.com ✨

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/09/2026
Carly responded to a Bluesky post two years ago when I was in a panic and needed someone to do some really basic photoshop. Instead she came up with illustrations that shaped how the publication looked. Do send her more work if you need actual talented human illustration.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 1h
Very much okay with this accidental color combination. #garden #gardening #BloomSky #BloomScolling
Pinkish apricot mums and a hot pink…thingy? In the foreground
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 2h
COMIC: Lost in Thought
PANEL 1: ARTHUR, a yellow duck, lays on a green grassy hill, with a blue sky with white puffy clouds in the background. FLACO, a green lizard, stands next to Arthur, looking at him.
ARTHUR: Wouldn’t this be a lovely spot to just get lost in thought?

PANEL 2: ARTHUR continues to lay, while FLACO runs out of frame. No text.

PANEL 3: FLACO returns, carrying a thought bubble, tongue out in concentration like it’s heavy. No text.

PANEL 4: FLAVO stands above FLACO, holding the thought bubble over his head, tongue out in concentration. It casts a shadow on ARTHUR’s face. ARTHUR smiles.
ARTHUR (text in the thought bubble): ahhh that’s better.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 5h
I would watch every single one of their ads, too, and not toss their Act Blue texts right into spam.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 15h
The part that turns me into a rabid harpy is someone will STILL ask “Well why didn’t she just come forward” as if that’s an actual question that needs to be discussed in 2026. (Yes I’m aware)
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Jennifer Ruth Jackson @jenruthjackson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
100 Calls for Submissions in October 2026 - Paying markets! publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2026/09/100-... #SubOp
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100 Calls for Submissions in October 2026 - Paying markets!
This October there are more than eight dozen calls for submissions. All of these are paying markets, and none charge submission fees. As alw...
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 23h
It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...
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Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.....
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A Frogs Gent @frogsgent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As I've said multiple times at this point, "The Internet Is Not Real Life" should be understood as an Aspirational Statement rather than a Descriptive one.
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David Petersen @mouseguard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve painted five #TMNT blank covers each featuring a different turtle and Splinter! Art process and info to purchase them here: www.patreon.com/posts/170393...
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 29/09/2026
That is a very loud, very passionate conversation about the power of Satan happening three tables over.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 29/09/2026
"I'm just so incredibly pathetically straight." "Except for Gillian Anderson." "I mean, obvs."
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 29/09/2026
I’ve been duped into letting the Shitbeasts out so they can yell at the owls again.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 29/09/2026
A blanket fell off the bed and onto Tai and were having a real “You kick her body like the football?” moment but with deep trauma and anxiety pee.
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Florida figured it out?
Michael and Janet from The Good Place
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 28/09/2026
A bumblebee with her pollen fat pants on, blorping about in the dahlias. #garden #gardening #BloomSky
The dahlia is red with a yellow center!
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 28/09/2026
Some days it feels like I'm about to lose my shit in a truly breathtaking way.
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
COMIC: Unnecessary Pedant!
TEXT: Look out, evil-doers! There’s a new superhero in town! UNNECESSARY PEDANT!

PANEL 1: GRAMP, an older bald man with a grey mustache, looks askance at ARTHUR, a yellow duck, wearing a black eye mask and black cape.
ARTHUR: CITIZEN! I noticed you used “Their” instead of “There” in your e-mail.
GRAMP: Oh, yeah, I noticed that typo JUST as I was hitting “send”…

PANEL 2: ARTHUR points his wing at a defensive GRAMP.
ARTHUR: “Their” is a possessive pronoun, you see.
GRAMP: No, I KNOW: it was just a typo.

PANEL 3: ARTHUR continues, making GRAMP angrier.
ARTHUR: Whereas you shoud’ve used “there” to indicate a place.
GRAMP: I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IT WAS JUST A TYPO

PANEL 4: ARTHUR leaps in the air, showing off his red t-shirt with a “U P” under his cape. GRAMP, now super angry, holds his hands up to his mouth yelling after ARTHUR.
ARTHUR: Anyway, I can see that my correction has done a great service, here! Unnecessary Pedant, AWAY!
GRAMP: NO ONE WANTS THIS

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 28/09/2026
It's Monday at SIDEQUESTED and Our Lad™ is Ladding© again! But this time it's for good and disgusting reasons. sidequested.com #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics #GraphicNovel #ew
Leo, brave doofus, says "If I had a sword, I could fight our way out." In the background, Charlie and Peony hold each other tight.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 28/09/2026
Looking for sourcing on this and it might be in reference to a similar address he gave a year ago. Then again, it’s 3AM and I’m basically a head of lettuce that can type. Anyhow, yes, if he does the thing, I’ll do the thing (liveblog the bats flying from the hellmouth).
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Peter Clines @peterclines.com · 28/09/2026
OH HEY SAN DIEGO FOLKS Completely forgot to mention that I'm going to be at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social tomorrow night chatting with @seananmcguire.bsky.social about the latest October Daye book-- A DIVIDED DUTY. Swing by and ask questions. Get answers. Buy books and have them scribbled in.
A Mysterious Galaxy event poster for SeananMcGuire (in conversation with Peter Clines) Monday, Spetember 28th, 2026 at 7:00pm. The posterhas both our headshots and the cover of A DIVIDED DUTY
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 27/09/2026
It's the greatest thing when my husband facetimes his toddler niece, just eavesdropping on a half-hour conversation where he's all "Yeah kid, I LOVE Cheerios!"
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 26/09/2026
I’m on tour!!! Who’s in Italy next week?
A cartoon of myself superimposed over an actual photo I took of a piazza last time I was in Italy. The word balloons say, “I’m going on book tour… in Italy!”ANGELICA E IL PRINCIPE ORSO
TRUNG LE NGUYEN IN TOUR

4 Ottobre | ore 14:00
BIBLIOTECA CASA NICCOLINI, FERRARA
Festival Internazionale

5 Ottobre | ore 17:00
BIBLIOTECA SALA BORSA, BOLOGNA

6 Ottobre | ore 17:30
SALA SANTA MARIA NIVES,
RIMINI

10 Ottobre | ore 17:00
EXMA TORRETTA TAM TAM, CAGLIARI
Festival Tuttestorie

11 OTTOBRE | ORE 18:00
LIBRERIA NOVARCADIA, ROMAA cartoon of myself superimposed over an actual photo I took of a piazza last time I was in Italy. This time I am running around like the roadrunner. The word balloons say, “Yaaay!!!”
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They'll tell you there's no money for teachers, veterans or to bring your costs down. Then a corporation needs a tax break and the money turns up quickly. A budget is a moral document. A budget tells you what a government actually values, line by line. #AngieforFlorida
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Girl on a monster by Bruce Timm.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hobbies are how we fight the Darkness
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 27/09/2026
There’s a Michael Moore (90s Moore) bit where someone tells him they want to liberate the sheeple, and he asks them if they own a television, and they say no of course not, and he says “They do, and you are definitely not going to liberate the people you’ve already decided aren’t worth your time.”
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of
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K. @undeadrobins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've started my regular @kbspangler.com Rachel Peng series re-read. I wish more people knew about these books, because they're amazing.
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Inks. I wouldn’t say I was cleaning my studio but I was puttering a little and found these ink drawings from 2024 when I was at a friends cottage. I believe they were Copic brush marke4 and gel pen. 5x7.
4 ink drawings featuring a mouse hobo character, his raccoon friend and a nice mouse lady in a pretty dress.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 26/09/2026
Hope Blackwell goes on a bit of a "spree" vibes.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 26/09/2026
I know nobody likes the podbros but I love their weekend interviews, where they allow the author or the politician to dig down into their thesis. Here's Naomi Klein about the connections between the End Times, Silicon Valley, and MAGA-flavored fascism. Yes, the red heifers are mentioned.
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Naomi Klein: Trump's Allies Think the World Is Ending. They're Ready.
YouTube video by Offline with Jon Favreau
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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 26/09/2026
Days left for the Livi Talbot anniversary sale, including the temporary discount on the new hardcover. All books on sale direct--including the audiobook bundle--here: payhip.com/skyladawncam...
Promo for the anniversary sale. Background image is of a woman rock climbing in silhouette against an orange sky. Text says "Happy Ten-Year Anniversary Livi Talbot" with confetti. The first three book covers in the series--each with a silhouetted woman in different backdrops--are in the corner with the lowered prices, and then there's a larger book cover for the deluxe hardback, this one looking like a pulpy vintage book with a woman fighting a dragon. "Deluxe special edition hardcover now available, $49.95 for a limited time"
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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another great day at the annual AES bug event. I will never take people buying my drawings for granted.
A table showing some of my insect postcards and greeting cards. Oh, and me. Smiling like a loon.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 26/09/2026
Thread about media tie-in properties and advances. QTing this post in particular as my #3 is JOUST and come on, universe, call me, I can make it work, flap*flap*flap*flap*flap
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 26/09/2026
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The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR's comment section? | TechCrunch
When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 25/09/2026
I can hear this photo and it sounds like *khkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkh*
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 25/09/2026
imho the only movie with truly graphic nudity is BORAT so I expect the documentary to meet or exceed that standard.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 24/09/2026
I know everything feels overwhelming right now, but that's because we're all overwhelmed. I should probably put something happy here so, I dunno, we've all gotten really good at sadly poking things with sticks, I guess? Go clean something easy and very small. You'll feel better.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 24/09/2026
Ah, the first real sign of fall: the air is full of warm dog farts as the dog smashes her butt against the space heater.
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
COMIC: Batpug!
PANEL 1: Against a sunset purple-to-yellow sky, OSO, a fawn pug dressed in a cape and cowl like Batman, perches on the top of a building.
TEXT: BATPUG! It’s not who I am underneath, but what I DO that defines me.

PANEL 2: Close up on OSO as he jumps across a yellow-to-purple background.
TEXT: AND WHAT I DO….

PANEL 3: Cut to a bathroom vanity with a yellow bathmat on the ground. OSO, still in the cape and cowl, lifts his leg to pee. SHELDON comes running in, in shock, hands out to grab him.
TEXT: is consistently pee on the bath mat.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 24/09/2026
Probably a good time to point out that Carlson's name has been floated as one of the only people who can tap into the "normie" side of the MAGA movement, and they're starting to get him into shape for 2028.
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 24/09/2026
Dogs: OUT Me: Okay but you need to promise you won’t fight with the owls tonight. Dogs: WE PROMISE WE JUST EAT SLIGS Me: Sure that’s fine—wait, what? Dogs: SLUGS ARE THE GROUND CANDY THAT POPS
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 24/09/2026
All right, all, it’s…certainly been a day that ended in Y. Tomorrow, I get to talk mushrooms and mycology at Clarion West! You can get tickets to attend virtually here! www.clarionwest.org/event/deep-d...
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Mycology, Decay, and Metaphors for Community
From fungus to slime molds, nature has always held lessons for us in collapse, renewal, and connection—sometimes sticky, sometimes horrifying, always a little weird. Author T. Kingfisher (What Moves…
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 23/09/2026
I've been thinking this nonstop.with an extra helping of "always try to put the positive kindness you want into the world" in a death cage match with "lol rofl GOOD"
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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Undeniably: Stoneskin by @kbspangler.com; this is a space opera akin to Andre Norton's, and that is not a comparison I make lightly. It was self-published, and despite my efforts, I could not get it or the sequel on the Hugo shortlist. I am still wounded from those efforts.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 23/09/2026
*whispers very quietly* motherfuckers
IT’S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON ON MY FRONT PORCH, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 23/09/2026
Ninety minutes of cute autumn/Halloween cookie decorating for your background noise needs! Cute designs, no gore, very bland bank hold music which occasionally swaps out with very bland vaguely spooky plink-plonk music.
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🎃90 Minutes Halloween Cookie Decorating~Satisfying Cookie Decorating with Royal Icing~Spooky Cookies
YouTube video by Sofia~YFS COOKIES
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 23/09/2026
Tomorrow my Patreons get the first look at the new project from @alepresser.com and myself! Details are here! #book #books #novel #LightNovel #Patreon
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Teaser - SIDEQUESTED light novel | K.B. Spangler
Starting October 1st...someone wicked this way comes. Specifics ETA! Updates are every Thursday! You don't need to read SideQuested to under
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