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Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

With the end of the year approaching and my Steering term coming to an end, I wanted to give a shout out to my fellow founders of @cartoonist.coop and my friends! @emo-sludge.com @itsnero.com @joandark.com @aaronlosty.bsky.social @reimenayee.com

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 27/08/2026

Been getting so many emails inviting me to “literary festivals” - which I would believe if not for the tell that they used AI to compose their message🧍‍♂️ Fastest way for me to block/ignore you for reals

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 03/08/2026

I am always happy to see and hear that comicsdevices.com is being used in schools and comics-making! Nice to know my random research obsession and the time I took to design the website are achieving their purpose 🌟

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saba sabaton @ gateway fate 501 @sabato-n.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

i'm legit almost angry at all the institutions that made people think their dream comic was unproduceable. Everything is produceable baby. The only limiter is how crazy you are

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Jasmine W. @mythjae.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I don't know if these exact things have been covered yet, but @reimenayee.com has been doing a ton of research and cataloging of visual comic tropes over on comicsdevices.com

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Comics Devices Library - The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices

An online library and meronomy of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 29/07/2026

Whoever is a comics creator in Australia and following me: applications for MAKE Comics Festival's Market Day is closing THIS FRIDAY NIGHT!! My friends and I will love to have you there!! makecomics.com.au/apply

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Bleak⋆Squeak @bleaksqueak.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It seems people are often afraid of liking their own art work due to the worry of being perceived as egotistical or conceited, but you can still love your work and have a huge driving force behind that acting as a love for learning and improving. You can be proud and seek joy while you grow.

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Reimena's work is so delightful! If you have critter friends and want them to look extremely cute on paper, go thither.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 12/07/2026

🦜 My pet portrait commissions are open for the summer until August 30th! reimenayee.com/commissions Check out my portfolio of 1000+ pet portraits: reimenayee.com/pet-portraits/ #art

Custom pet portrait commissions for all animals

Familiar style $50 per pet, pet portrait with a special floral and star background

Normal style $40 per pet, pet portrait on a plain background

Group portraits on a single shared background is $40 per pet with $10 top up for a familiar style

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Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“Lettering is supposed to be invisible” is a little simplistic. If the letterer is doing their job w/ skill, and in harmony w/ the art, it elevates the comic even though you might not register HOW. Bad lettering is more noticeable because it drags the art & writing down with it.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 08/07/2026

The fun part with making historical fiction is that I get to learn about and include a facet of history that is underfeatured. In this case: the Georgian Era proto-gay/queer/drag subculture of the Molly Houses. 🎀 The World in Deeper Inspection webcomic update: alcottgrimsley.com/comic/c2007-...

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Kiara Valdez @dezinpub.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

You know what’s so funny, when I acquired this I knew I was on the ace spectrum (demisexual) which is a major reason I loved it. But only last year did I realize I’m fully ace. I may no longer be the editor but I can’t wait for this book to get to the hands that need it most (me included).

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the double life of véronique emma houxbois @emmahouxbois.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

you should want to honor and compensate the people who empower and enable your work, especially when we’re talking about queer works. at some point we have to break the cycle of our elders, activists, and archivists dying in poverty and obscurity.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

if we want to be treated with any kind of respect or rigor as an art form we need to extend the same consideration to others! ESPECIALLY right now when ai is flattening our collective work, the devil is always in the details & proper attribution matters more than ever

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In my experience (as an editor of several nonfiction graphic novels/memoirs), these issues have largely been navigated by instinct! Ben will tell you, like @natepowell.bsky.social and other cartoonists, that he developed a stronger sense of historiographical responsibility *while* making the book

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 02/07/2026

Chris is so good at articulating my own thoughts about this situation.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 02/07/2026

I had always wondered how to produce multi-page (8+pages) citations together with the full-colour 300+ page graphic novel. The best I could come up with is a cheap tiny booklet that’s stapled to the front or back, like those supplementaries in a school textbook

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

comics are already a multi-discipline quagmire of conflicting word and art definitions. there not being any kind of established standard bumping up against a precise world of acknowledged permissions is going to cause issues without a little more grace

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Also, to stick up for my fellow cartoonists, there is a lot of transformative work involved in taking material from a primary or secondary source and turning it into a page of comics/sequential art that is almost impossible to reflect in a citation

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 01/07/2026

The thing is, I like digital delivery and digital ownership, I don't need stacks and stacks of plastic waste. But all of these companies turned what could be a social good into a ruinous capitalist hellscape and that's a problem that persists through the ENTIRE pipeline, not just the point of sale.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 01/07/2026

Forever grateful to my mentor/consultant Richard Stoneman for being so generous and kind with his life’s work and time for Alexander Comic 😭 (I am slowly building up the strength to continue the work soon)

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 01/07/2026

Historical fiction comics discourse: this exact scenario is why I have this anxious academic (dressed as vigilant) tendency to need the receipts for where all my sources and creative decisions came from 💀😭

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Patrick A. Reed @djpatrickareed.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

TBH, this isn't uncommon w/ historical GNs, though this case is especially extreme... Most comic editors aren't familiar w/ best practices for nonfic; creators approach as artists, not journalists/historians. (And yeah, a comic adaptation IS "transformative", but it's still built on others' work.

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You May Whistle For Me @youmaywhistle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The World In Deeper Inspection is updating again! I'd call it a glorious mess, a comic version of primordial soup. It's a creation that has itself spun off the lovely book The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya. Could happen again, who knows? Great time to read the archive, then hop into new pages.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 27/06/2026

Srsly tho my actual advice to young cartoonists is that it's not always wise to do your first comic as an epic especially if you haven't had any practice making/finishing writing or drawing comics before, but if you want to gamble on it, then you'd need to accept or be aware of some things

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✂┈𝚟𝚐𝚎 @vgeportfolio.com · 27/06/2026

but also like i genuinely think it's fine to start a big epic project you won't finish. finishing something < learning abt yourself, what you actually want to do, improving your skills, figuring out your work pace, making friends with peers. i think those are the goals of an early creative career

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✂┈𝚟𝚐𝚎 @vgeportfolio.com · 27/06/2026

tsuch a great insight on making long comics as a young cartoonist. i don't regret making balderdash! (my own little epic) as my first big project & i genuinely think it's fine to pursue long projects you never finish. but this 👇 is very likely to happen & it did to me! it's okay to pivot

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Good thread. People don't start creative projects anymore cause they think they have some big sweeping thing simmering in them. Then they start and realize making big things is a lot of work. Then it never gets done. Also because this thing is their first thing, they they're kinda mid at making it.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 27/06/2026

Cartoonists advise to not begin your first (web)comic with the grand epic you came up with as a teen, but like 18 Year Old Me you can also disregard that and somehow have it be the thing that built you up to a publishing career and the one project that keeps your sanity intact

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 27/06/2026

My first webcomic, The World in Deeper Inspection, is out of hiatus. alcottgrimsley.com/comic/chapte...

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 25/06/2026

I am running a brand new comics festival! Melbourne Alternative Comics Expo (MAKE) is a 3 day celebration of comics makers across Victoria and wider Australia! 🤩 In addition to organising, I designed the branding and this year's poster! Check us out: makecomics.com.au

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Looking for some medievalist creative-critical entertainment for the coming weekend? Join @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social for their FREE workshop 'The Craft so Fast to Learn: Modular Haiku Comics' (open to Guild members only) 🕐2:00pm-3:30pm BST 📆Sat June 27 📍Online

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 21/06/2026

I love it when my artist friends and peers start or return to blogging. I LOVE ARTIST BLOGS!!! I love reading things in big chunks of text and photodumps!!

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 16/06/2026

Happy to be once again be the editor for Moz’s newest work!! It’s gonna be fun - go check it out!

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 15/06/2026

Wild that 15 years ago you're a teen appreciating art from people you admire who seem so distant in craft/geography/age milestone to you and then today they are your online mutuals sharing a space together making cool things. 🙈

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 15/06/2026

Missed this live cos of timezone hell, but I needed to say that RB was one of the first webcomics (besides Hanna is Not a Boy's Name) I read as a young teen and got me inspired to make my own! My career, craft and love for comics wouldn't exist without Evan paving the way and being a role model

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 09/06/2026

The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya Webcomic Rerun! 🦇 Book Two: The Vampire begins. Zeynel goes on a business trip that starts out okay, until he gets lost and encounters another helpless traveller, who may or may not be sus. Update starts here: thecarpetmerchant.reimenayee.com/comic/tcm10v...

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 03/06/2026

Hyped to announce BEE'S GUIDE TO APPLIED ROMANTICS: a teen romcom graphic novel with an #asexual heroine!! 💜🖤 I'm excited to be making this with my friend Erica Eng. Bee loves all things romance but has never been asked out. When one of her BFFs asks her for help to win a crush... (1/4)

Cover of Bee's Guide to Applied Romantics. Bee ponders as stickers of Dev skateboard over her head. The cover is in the style of Y2K collage scrapbook with the stickers of stars, hearts, flowers and butterflies.

Calista Brill, with Kiara Valdez, while at First Second, acquired Bee’s Guide to Applied Romantics by Reimena Yee (l.) and Erica Eng, a YA rom-com graphic novel about Bee, an a-spec teenager and her experience dating her classmate Dev; Kat Vendetti will also edit. Publication is scheduled for 2029; Jennifer Linnan at Linnan Literary Management sold world rights.

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Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I'm not sure if folks know that all the art for Neopets Magazine was still done by the in-house Neopets art team! Very little was outsourced back then when it came to merch/tie-ins, which was kinda unheard of at the time. A couple of my spreads, from my last summer working at Neopets:

Spread from The Official Neopets Magazine, issue 25 (full alt text available here: https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/704a4c52-09f7-40c2-a3e1-1d5b34468642)

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 02/06/2026

Oh hey 👀 post incoming haha

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Maris Wicks @mariswicks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

@reimenayee.com @scottmccloud.bsky.social @nsousanis.bsky.social and @neilcohn.bsky.social had some great thoughts (and resources!) on making and teaching comics. (My notes are paraphrased - I tried to do my best!)

Pencil drawings of the cartoonists from the webinar: Reimena Yee, a person with glasses and long dark hair, wearing a white shirt, is on the top left, asking "How has picking apart the form of comics improved your practice of making comics?" Below, on the right is Scott McCloud, a person with glasses and short grey hair, wearing a black t-shirt with a plaid flannel over it, saying "With comics, I don’t think we’re dumbing down complex topics; I think we’re broadening their accessibility."

Pencil drawings of cartoonists from the webinar: Nick Sousanis, with glasses and very short dark hair, wearing a t-shirt that says "protect trans kids" is on the top left, saying "How you think is more important than how you draw." Neil Cohn, who has a beard and is bald, wearing a plaid button-up shirt, is saying "The images in comics are not additive; they are essential."

A pencil drawing of me and my partner watching the webinar on a laptop. On the laptop screen, Nick Sousanis is saying about comics "You’re making thousands of decisions…all in a matter of minutes." In response to that, I’m saying "Ooooh that’s why I’m so tired."

A pencil drawing of Scott McCloud in the middle of the page, saying "I mean, you have to be a generalist to be a cartoonist. There are so many skills you need to make comics!" At the bottom left is me, nodding so aggressively that my head falls off and rolls across the page.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I was delighted to join @scottmccloud.bsky.social @neilcohn.bsky.social & @reimenayee.com yesterday for an absolutely invigorating conversation on comics & education! Appreciate the good folks @cartoonist.coop for hosting & making the recording available! Listen here! www.youtube.com/live/gymwh40...

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The Study of Comics in Academia (Understanding Comics)

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 31/05/2026

For anyone who missed this or want to relive the panel, the recording is up on Youtube: youtube.com/live/gymwh40... 👀

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The Study of Comics in Academia (Understanding Comics)

YouTube video by Cartoonists United

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Aubo 🏳️‍⚧️ @aubryjoi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Just let me draw pictures!! 🚫🗯️ [ #cuteart #illustration ]

A stylized doodle of a spiky-furred black cat with a pencil in its mouth, arching its back and looking disgruntled and angry. Around it it says “I don’t want to make videos….i just want to draw” and the background is bright yellow-green.

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