Sign in

Angie Wang

@okchickadee.bsky.social
1.4K followers 163 following 239 posts

I draw, teach at USC, and run Comic Arts LA. I won a James Beard Award and a National Magazine Award, and was a Pulitzer finalist. “Is My Toddler A Stochastic Parrot?” in the New Yorker.

PostsRepliesMedia
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
also a love letter to LA and this part of the LA river, which (by the way) looks gorgeous right now!!
A comics page where a character looks out onto the evening LA river
0180
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m working on my josei-influenced comic for Shortbox Comics Fair! ☺️ it’s kind of a love letter to the Lililicious scanlation group, if anyone remembers them
Two people stand together holding hands on a pink background. The title reads Us at 40.The same two people are now facing each other holding hands on a pink background, but clearly older. One has transitioned.
310521
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Okay, here’s what I think Piranesi looks like as a 2010s indie game. Some perfunctory survival elements (fishing, crafting, using the tides table to predict the next tides), a very minimal UI, and you go around exploring this massive empty place with different biomes looking for clues etc.
0193
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
tw CSA, Neil Gaiman If your immediate reaction when hearing a five year old experienced child sexual abuse is expressing disgust and concern that they’ll be a future perpetrator… that sucks, y’all. Sorry to be a social media scold and all, but that really sucks.
2110
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Part of what makes poetry worth decrypting is the knowledge that someone encoded their experience into it, in a way that allows for multivalence in meaning and interpretations, which gives it dimension and body and life. I liked this by John Ashbery, even though it was a lot of decrypting on my end:
1226
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The discourse about that paper on highly-rated AI poetry especially misses the point—because one of the greatest strengths of poetry is that it’s a person speaking to you intimately, illuminating a real experience you may have never seen anyone put words to before. Some pieces I’ve liked lately:
1297
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Oh I guess Bluesky has videos now and I didn’t even notice! Here’s my animation about eating my baby’s toes from a couple years back:
15774182
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Screencaps below of the post. I’m also seeing Redditors who were MLs (municipal liaisons) say that they were mistreated and fired en masse by Kilby Blades, which led to camp events being run by sponsors, and that NaNo is a skeleton crew of just one person (the interim ED) and two part-timers.
146
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Sorry to be an internet shitpig again, but I dug a little to find out who’s running NaNoWriMo right now because that FAQ is full of grammatical errors, so it was clearly written with no oversight. It looks like the interim director Kilby Blades is pretty much the only person left at the office? 🧵
23410
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 10/07/2024
OMG.
5028631067
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
Yes, it’s literally in the transcript of the podcast. She hadn’t met Neil before that point. If the point you’re making is that Neil didn’t *directly* hire her, that seems like bizarre hair-splitting to me. She’s hired to care for their shared child and be an au pair for the family.
110
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
I did some layout analysis for different comics, and then I figured they’d probably be helpful for other people too. It’s really interesting how cartoonists can use different methods to create a sense of subjectivity or wrongness or slow time.
291099427
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Whoops, a lot of cartoonists have probably moved over to Bluesky. Just FYI, CALA is back and accepting applications!
012975
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Someone else reproducing the PTSD emoji thing got a particularly spicy ending: twitter.com/sirbughunter...
000
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
From @venturetwins on X, this screenshot from Copilot… Sydney’s back. I love this lol
110
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
The passages about human worth and machine “superintelligence” struck me as interesting the first time I played it a decade ago, but this time they moved me to tears—they’re prescient of this conversation we’re urgently having right now. Also, I didn’t understand this part REALLY until Ori:
120
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
From the Other Site, this thread by Corey Brickley: x.com/coreybrickle...
170
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
I believe that’s Adao Lee, who also shows up in this exchange with Dave McCarty (John Smith is Ersatz Culture who’s done a lot of the collating of Chinese fan reactions to this debacle):
150
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
He was the one who said this, and he’s been really active in reblogging and keeping up with English language news on the Hugo controversy on Weibo. I see his posts all over the place.
020
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
I followed the weibo link and this Adao Lee is this guy?? The one who’s been posting about the Hugo’s controversy on Weibo???
100
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Here, I’ve got you!
1100
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Were you at Chengdu Worldcon? I think there’s an Esquire reporter who wants to talk to people who attended.
111
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
So the remark here that the organizers aren’t familiar with this scene and dared to block a popular book like Babel without fear of gossip makes sense if there’s a divide between SFF fans and the people there to secure sponsorships and handle the con. Just speculation—please LMK if I’m mistaken!
140
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
For anyone reading this thread, here’s pomelo’s much better translation of the cryptic post by La Zi, one of the vice chairs of Chengdu Worldcon:
0172
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
(These are all machine translated btw. The second one is especially cryptic.)
1555
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Some of the conversation happening there:
6769
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Me and Ori:
0131
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Really loved this @eryk.bsky.social essay on AI images. It really takes you by the hand and walks you through the issues in a clear, patient way: cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/diagram-of...
12411
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Intelligencer has kinda been killing it lately. nymag.com/intelligence...
042
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Like, I think this meme is really sweet. Everyone loves seeing things go from a blank page to something amazing. And it often IS unclear whether AI-generated images were made by hand or by computer. It can really make you think, looking at it, “Wow, I did that.”
110
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
I wish Bluesky had video/GIF posting so I could show the WIPs of my new animation side-project. Well, here’s a still 🫥
A woman trying to relax in a room with gently blowing curtains
160
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
🔥 this tho 🔥
010
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 11/07/2023
An illo for the NYT Book Review (of Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter) based on the first drawn depiction of a black hole
2123