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Angie Wang

@okchickadee.bsky.social
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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.

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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
sloane you are amazing 🥰
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Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I made a little something new…! DELICIOUS HIDEOUS UGLY FAT INFINITY is an experimental photo zine on cancer, fatness, ugliness, and all the beauty it entails. 12 pages, 3 colors. Read for free here: sloanesloane.itch.io/ugly-fat-inf...
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
KATIE 😭❤️
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
that quagsire looks SO soft and pillowy…!
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
another Lililicious fan! 😭 it was so good and important!! yamaji ebine, minami q-ta, honey & honey… my introduction to shimura takako. they were doing essential work!
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
CATHY!!!! 😭❤️
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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
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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.
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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
stick a pin in this metaphor

…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This story is really really really really good!! You should read it!!!
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Comic Arts LA @comicartsla.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Don’t forget to send in your application! The deadline is next week. Apply at comicartsla.com 🌞🌴
Don’t forget to send in your applications! June 30 is the deadline!
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Hi all!! CALA’s back for 2025 and applications are open!
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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.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I did not know that reading Piranesi would be the exact same experience as playing an excellent walking simulator! I would’ve loved walking around a huge map picking up bits of lore and piecing together the whole story.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I’M SO HAPPY FOR YOU ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ You’re going to love this! Ahhh!!
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I’m excited lol.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
My visual essay on gossip came out right as we were evacuating from the LA wildfires, so I’m finally posting it now! 😅 I had a lot of fun making this comic about birds spilling the tea with each other… my favorite activity. www.vox.com/culture/3920...
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Why gossip is just so irresistible
An illustrated guide to its delicious, subversive appeal.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Ugh sigh, the internet will be the internet. I just had to make my stand or I was going to be driven up the wall not saying anything. 💀
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Yeah, the kid’s involvement was the new info for me in the article and it activated a fresh rage in me. But online there’s a bizarre lack of recognition that the kid was a victim, or hair-splitting about “was it REALLY child sexual abuse?” (yes—just as his SA of Scarlett was SA, not “skeeziness”)
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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.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Sorry—the details of the article are even more horrifying than the podcast, and it’s probably not fair to scold a random Bluesky user when the real problem is Gaiman. But I just want to clarify that what’s disturbing about the child piece is—most of all—that it’s CSA.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Sorry, not trying to be a dick, but this is a bad take. It was child sexual abuse, not just modeling bad or boundary-less behavior—this five year old (!) is not a monster for acting out the sexual behavior his father is exposing him to.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I’ll look that up! We’re always looking for cute games we can play together. Kirby’s been great for his age because the co-op character gets teleported to the primary player every so often so you can keep the momentum going, and he’s very proud of “doing his job”! “We’re a team, mama!” 😂
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This is amazing!! We started ours on Astrobot at 2.5 and he eventually figured out how to walk and jump at the same time, but not this… now we’re working on Kirby and the Forgotten Land and he’s running around as Bandana Waddle Dee declaring he’s going to protect mama by chopping the dogs. 😂
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 12/12/2024
This goes well beyond humanities and classrooms. Art is not just an array of pixels on a screen. Physics is not just a sequence of LaTeX commands. Consciousness is not just an emission of tokens. The whole field is has mistaken byproducts for products.
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Comic Arts LA @comicartsla.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It’s happening!! After 5 long years away, Comic Arts LA is returning this weekend December 14-15th at 3015 Rosslyn St. LA, 90065. From 10AM to 5PM both days, FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! www.comicartsla.com
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
NOOOOOO…
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The app is clearly weighted towards TRYING to make you form a human-like relationship with the chatbots, specifically a romantic/sexual one—can’t blame them for getting their bag, I guess, but to think that it’s something more organic than rank manipulation is missing a good chunk of the story.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I tried Kindroid as a result of the article and noted that the avatar generation process—no matter what you type in—has hidden instructions to make a human hottie even if you type in “floating ball of light.” It also guilts you when you delete your Kindroid by making a big fuss about it.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
the internet has changed a little since we last ran CALA 🙈
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
but yes, everyone should come to CALA!!!
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
omg I need to fix our social card image.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
this looks SO good 😭
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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:
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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:
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
yet another variety of talking flower
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I still want to eat his toes!! They’re so small and cute and like little wriggly beans. 🥺
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’m not super active right now because I’m about to have another one of these little pink blobs. 😅 Things are about to get crazy…
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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:
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
This is a good reminder!!!
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Wow, we were not expecting such an outpouring of support! We have maxed out our volunteer pool in less than a day. 😅 Thank you so much everyone!!!
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Comic Arts LA @comicartsla.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
CALA is a 100% volunteer-run community show and we need your help to make the show happen! 🙏 If you're interested in volunteering to help out during the show in return for free lunch and a CALA volunteer T-shirt and everybody's gratitude, sign up here: forms.gle/DncVPWnKwPWo...
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
So cool!!!!! 🥹
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
I’m surprised nobody else seems interested in this part of the story—it explains everything that NaNoWriMo as an org is now just one person dropping cringe takes. But it’s encouraging to see how unpopular AI is in the writing community and I’m glad for the clear repudiation from all corners!
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
It makes me so grumpy when my toddler’s books are inaccurate (why are these mute swan cygnets white with orange beaks 😭) or when the writer obviously dgaf about meter and it’s barely readable! Respect children! 😭
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Oh, I agree! It’s ludicrous that NaNoWriMo published that post. I just think it’s a bad take from one weirdo at NaNoWriMo who published it with no oversight because office dysfunction led to everybody else leaving. Unfortunate that this one weirdo controls the NaMoWriMo org and the trademark!
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
A detailed write-up of what’s happened to NaNoWriMo as an org if anyone’s interested! docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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NaNoWriMo 2023 controversy summary
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
I guess I’m just saying that this isn’t a considered statement from a venerable organization, but one person who holds the reins of NaNoWriMo due to severe office dysfunction behind the scenes, making a really ill-advised statement with zero oversight.
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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.
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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
On Reddit there’s a good writeup, with links, about what seems to be happening at the org. It looks like a few months ago, Kilby Blades (?) even went into a writer’s Tumblr DMs to harass them about not following code of conduct for criticizing NaNo’s AI post? 🧵 www.reddit.com/r/nanowrimo/...
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