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Kori Michele

@korimichele.bsky.social
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Cartoonist, zinester, shawol. website/portfolio: korimichele.com

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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Patreon told me I gotta send them a picture of my ID or my face or I can't withdraw my money. Jokes on you I'm just gonna delete my account
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Formative character design from youth: Just making the cutoff at 12 but I knew immediately & pulled this book down. I didn't understand this book at all and I don't care much about robots but I was obsessed with the character design for Amaterasu-no-Mikado and it informed my aesthetics ever since.
Character sheet from vol. 1 of the Five Star Stories, particularly of note, the elegant and decorated Amaterasu-no-Mikado.Page from vol 1 of the Five Star Stories, featuring a full body drawing of Amaterasu-no-Mikado.Page from vol 1 of the Five Star Stories, featuring a full body drawing of Amaterasu-no-Mikado (back.)Cover of vol 1 of the Five Star Stories, 1999.
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Tony Breed ✶ boop @tonybreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The single most arresting character design of my youth has to be Warlock, as drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A Canticle of Pan, Paul Thévenaz, c. 1920.
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Aishwarya Tandon @toondoon1010.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy 4 years to DIWALI IN MY NEW HOME! 🪔 My debut picture book, written by Shachi Kaushik, published by Beaming Books w/ @andreahall.bsky.social as the editor! 😊✨ A great time to buy it as a gift, with Diwali only 42 days away! 💛 www.beamingbooks.com/store/produc... #kidlit #booksky #picturebook
Cover of DIWALI IN MY NEW HOME by Shachi Kaushik & Aishwarya Tandon.Interior page from DIWALI IN MY NEW HOME by Shachi Kaushik & Aishwarya Tandon.Interior page from DIWALI IN MY NEW HOME by Shachi Kaushik & Aishwarya Tandon.
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've christened her Mariah and baptized her with stickers. Some of the stickers are older than me lolllll. Oh man I'm having so much fun!!!
Picture of a tape deck covered in stickers. A  copy of Mariah Carey's Music Box on cassette is sitting on top.Close up of stickers on deck 2.  Vintage cat stickers and other iridescent Sticker Magic brand animalsClose up of stickers on the center panel. Some fuzzy wizards and little aerobics bears.Close up on stickers on deck 1, mostly dolphins.
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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 26/09/2026
My fourth font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This prompt was "Horror", as if that wasn't obvious! It has lots of alternate characters! You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/scrawling-da... #font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026
an image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

there's a speech balloon that reads "Wanna hear how long I can scream? Aaaaaiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!!! Hold on, let me try that again..."

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

Uses opentype ligatures to switch up side-by-side duplicate characters. Vowels have 4 alternates! Alts can also be picked manually, for variety.

Displaying this feature is a speech balloon that reads "Thiiisss iiisss hooow slowwlllyy I caaaaan taaallkk" and 4 "urgh!"s with different alternate letters.

Good for sound effects (Maybe even better than for dialogue…). Demonstrating this are stylized sound effects that reads "Splat", "Aaaiiieeee!!!", and "drip drip".another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font. this one displays all of the characters included in the font, with many alternates.
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She loves BAG
Grey tabby cat Mimi rolling on a brown paper bagGrey tabby cat Mimi hugging a brown paper bag
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Felt cute, took some pantry pix 🥫🫘🫙
Selfie in floral shirt, jeans, and acorn necklace Selfie in floral shirt and acorn necklace
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My husband got me my long-begged-for tape deck for our fifteenth wedding anniversary yesterday! The first thing I listened to was Pet Shop Boys Introspective and oh my GOD did it sound good. Hope all my friends are ready to get bombarded with lovingly crafted mixtapes. ♥️♥️♥️
Photo of a RASCAM 202MK7 tape deck with a rack of cassette tapes on top.
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey, fuck platforms. Including this one! You never know what nonsense they're gonna ban you for here. And you never know what corporate whim will cause the sudden collapse or destruction of any other. Make a personal website, please! This is mine studiokori.neocities.org
studiokori.neocities.org
I'm a cartoonist, professor, and zinester! I like watermelon, glitter, kpop group SHINee, sincerity and anarchism.
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰
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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
晩夏のグラデーション
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A magical experience yesterday, turned a corner at a pond and spotted the crisp reflection of a bird that we couldn't spot! After some searching we saw a sneaky juvenile night heron... How funny that it was revealed so clearly by the water!!! A cutie!!!
Reflection of a juvenile heron on water.Reflection of a juvenile heron in water.A juvenile heron hidden in trees.A juvenile heron hidden in trees.
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Undead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Getting ready to never forget again. Get Your War On is the best depiction of what it felt like for me to be progressive and anti war in DC post 9/11.
Get your war on comic. Clip art man sitting at a computer and keyboard says "oh my god this war on terrorism is gonna *rule*! I can't wait until the war is over and there's no more terrorism!
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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now
photo of a white truck with the logo for Bob’s BBQ Emporium, which is written in comic sans and has a charming rudimentary illustration of a pig
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African American Policy Forum @aapf.org · 08/09/2026
We are grateful to everything Lonnie Bunch gave to this country, and we vow every day to fight to protect it.
When you erase history, you naturalize the inequalities that our history has produced.  When the state takes over official public institutions and insists that only happy stories can be told about our country—effectively erasing the stories of Black, indigenous, women, queer and working Americans from the narrative—that's not living in a democracy. That's fascism. That's white supremacy. We cannot both-sides the state seizing control over the power to decide which history is legitimate and which is not. The Smithsonian should belong to all of us; not to unchecked government officials dead-set on discrediting the truth for their own political gain.
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Turkey Vulture, Point Lobos SNR, Monterey California Acryla Gouache on paper, September 2026
Painting of a Turkey Vulture in a tree. Painted with hot pink, olive green, brown, orange a sky blue.(close up of painting)Work in progress photo of painting (1/2 done), showing the reference photo, pallet, and color swatches in the backgroundWork in progress photo of painting (just sketched), showing the reference photo, pallet, and color swatches in the background
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Look at this rainbow angel.
Mimi the grey tabby cat sitting on her windowsill bed, rainbow beams from the holographic cling film in the window striping across the room.Mimi the grey tabby cat sitting on her windowsill bed, rainbow beams from the holographic cling film in the window striping across the room.  She's reaching up at the windowsill.Mimi the grey tabby cat sitting on her windowsill bed, rainbow beams from the holographic cling film in the window striping across the room.  She's looking moodily at the camera.Mimi the grey tabby cat sitting on her windowsill bed, rainbow beams from the holographic cling film in the window striping across the room.
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sooooo coooooollllll! Down with platforms, up with personal websites! Zines forever! This ruuuuuules
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you haven't yet, please meet Mimi. She's my absolute cartoon character of a cat. A little grey tiger with big 'ol anime eyes. She loves like she's never been hurt in her entire life. This time last year I didn't yet know her, but soon she would join our family & become a comfort after loss.
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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If we're talking about Jenny Holzer, I gotta repost my favorite Marquees (1993)
A theater marquee reading "It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender"A theater marquee reading "savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later"A theater marquee reading "turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance"A theater marquee reading "go where people sleep and see if they're safe"
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy Jenny Holzer, election time 1984 (Survival 1983-85) Photo Pelka/Noble #everynightapoem
In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy

Sign on a truck, Jenny Holzer
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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pull your work off of Webtoon right now if you've put anything on there, allowing AI to be trained off their platform's work so "fans" can make AI "fancomics" is horrible, horrible. Pull it right now.
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Last drawings from California...thank you cranky sea lions of Cannery Row
Painting of a wet sea lionSketch of a sea lion sunningSketches of sleepy slug sea lionsSea lions and sea gulls in Monterey
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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Go-Man Vs. the Star Dragon OUT NOW! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Every drag show this weekend is going to have to make some very hard choices
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ring ding ding ding ding ding ding, banana slug
Painting of a banana slug in giant cloverClose up of paintingbanana slug in giant cloverPainting of a banana slug in giant clover
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Drew a friend today
Drawing of a great blue heron, abbots lagoon, CAClose up of drawing of a great blue heron, abbots lagoon, CADrawing of a great blue heron, abbots lagoon, CA, held up at location a great blue heron with its mouth wide open
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Per last post: I don't like engaging with "comics drama" on social media (I'd hoped would be left to twitter!) but this is not that! It is an extremely generous & considerate "debunking," and stands as really interesting text documenting the emotional process of a "debunking." Well worth reading.
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you're aware of this scuffle at all, I highly recommend you read the entirety of this thorough and thoughtful piece that details not just the verification that Cleve's claims are without merit, but also the writer's experience moving through the process of challenging each assertion in time.
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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
To everyone who’s been following along with this story — some of you for almost three years! — thank you so much for reading 🖤 If you haven’t dug into this goblin-divorced-moms-horror-romance yet, you can read the whole thing from the beginning now. Start here: www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/001/
A heart-shaped pile of colored pencil nubs, with hand lettered text saying “thank you for reading!”
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Israel is deliberately starting wildfires in Lebanon, destroying olive groves and woodlands, in what environmentalists describe as an “ecocide”
theguardian.com
Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
Emergency services, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
thinking of you
a stylized 3d render of two great blue herons in the foreground, with a cabin in the background. i'm playing guitar in the doorway.
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
One of the best comics, frog or no. A masterpiece!
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𝓐𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓮 @hotchickhell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Destroyer of worlds
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Zach Clemente @clementeworks.com · 11/08/2026
Shit like this is why "never sign a deal with webtoon, host your own webcomic" has landed in my top 5 pieces of advice for young artists
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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
子供の私がいた
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Jimmy Presler 🐴 @jimmypresler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sign this petition to show your support for keeping Senior Editors in the Dark Horse Workers Union. actionnetwork.org/petitions/dh...
actionnetwork.org
DHWU Wants Senior Editors in the Bargaining Unit!
Since the Voluntary Recognition Agreement was signed, Dark Horse Workers United has been working in good faith with Dark Horse Comics to take the next steps toward contract negotiations—but that good ...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/08/2026
Cuba's national electric grid collapses, plunging island into darkness reut.rs/4fKWwgK
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Cuba's national electric grid collapses, plunging island into darkness
Cuba's national electricity ​grid collapsed late on ‌Sunday, the state-owned national electric utility ​said, plunging the ​island of about 10 ⁠million people into ​darkness as blackouts are ​becoming ever more frequent.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s latest effort to overhaul higher education.

The letter, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News, asks schools to publicly pledge to make sweeping changes that include reexamining admissions practices, hiring more conservative faculty, cracking down on student protests, combating grade inflation, reducing foreign donations and lowering tuition.In contrast, the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges.


AAU’s president, Barbara Snyder, described the letter as a kind of olive branch. She told Bloomberg that the administration’s outreach opened communication channels between university leaders and the White House that have been largely shut since Trump launched his pressure campaign last year. She plans to call on member colleges to support the initiative.

“It’s critical to have a really good working partnership with the federal government,” Snyder said. “Whether your particular institution is under investigation or not, everyone understands how important that is.”
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you think I'm not going to remember every single business, organization, and institution that complied in advance, you've got another thing coming
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Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
UNION UPDATE: tl;dr Dark Horse leadership is attempting to reduce union membership by claiming supervisory status for Senior Editors, who have never been allowed management roles. 🧵
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Drawin' at the Met
Drawing of two ram heads held up in front of a decorative post the drawing was based on.
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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Saw some gorgeous black crowned night herons in Central Park this morning 😍
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rafael zaiats @cornpunk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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