iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

sara linsley @sara.pizza · 31/07/2026

4.5 months since we adopted her, and Sesame has finally become snuggly and actively seeks out my wife and I for pets 🥹 she was so shy/scared that she struggled at the shelter and had to be moved into a foster home. she still struggles with loud noises outside, but she’s slowly opening up day by day

Black shorthaired cat with yellow eyes and white patches on its chest sitting on a table and facing the camera

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 02/07/2026

Hana-Kimi and Banana Fish are available in the viz manga app now pls go read 🫡

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 28/04/2026

See y'all next Saturday ✨ nif.cartoonist.coop/event/automa...

A social media graphic promoting an event for NIF 2026, featuring mascots Inkling and Nibford! The event is "Automate Your Lettering, Save Your Wrists", hosted by panellist Sara Linsley on Saturday May 9nd @ 11AM PDT / 2PM EDT / 6PM GMT / 4AM AET on Zoom! Come check it out! Learn more at: nif.cartoonist.coop

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 07/04/2026

hell yeah one of my fonts is available by default in Procreate 🤘 help.procreate.com/articles/k7q...

Fonts added
The following fonts will be added to Procreate, Procreate Dreams, and Procreate Pocket in a patch in late March:
Anton
Galgo
RL Madena
Sora
Space Grotesk
Azeret Mono
TroubleSide
Chillside
SS Soapy Hands
Bold Pixels
Player Sans Mono
Dot Gothic 16
Tecnica

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 30/03/2026

one really cool thing about the new bookwalker website is that you can download the books and read them on other devices! this is huge for folks like me who use ereaders support.bookwalker.com/faq/can-i-do...

Can I download eBooks from BookWalker for other eReaders?
Yes — you can read your purchased eBooks on other compatible eReaders and reading apps.
However, the files are protected by DRM and cannot be shared, copied, or used as unprotected EPUB files.

BookWalker uses LCP (Lightweight Content Protection), a modern and widely adopted DRM standard, to protect eBooks while still allowing flexible reading across devices.

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 16/03/2026

I named her Sesame 🖤

Black cat sitting on a rug with yellow eyes staring at the camera. A wire and cardboard toy is wiggling in front of the camera, which is what the cat is probably actually looking at

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 10/03/2026

she’s so hard to photograph but i love her

A black cat laying on a rug on a wood floor. The cat looks relaxed and is looking at the camera with yellow eyes

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 07/01/2026

one of those “what comics I worked on in 2025” grids but ur a dev:

Screenshot from github, showing “1,591 contributions in 2025” and a grid-like graph illustrating code commits between January and May

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 07/01/2026

Chapter 11, Part 1 of Kamudo by Akira Himekawa is out now! Lettering by me, translation by David Evelyn www.viz.com/vizmanga/kam...

Two panels from Kamudo. The first shows a giant weed-like plant with the SFX, "SHWRRR". The second shows that weed with a monsterous mouth appearing from its bud, hovering threateningly over a boy, with the SFX, "SH-SHWAAA"

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 15/12/2025

TIL that ONIX has product format codes for flipped and unflipped manga. I wonder if anyone actually uses them

175 B602 Unflipped manga format
175 B603 Back-to-back book
175 B604 Flipped manga format
175 B605 Variant turn-around book
175 B606 Page progression LTR
175 B607 Page progression RTL

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 05/12/2025

As always, I love meticulously recreating Akira Himekawa's original SFX for English readers.

The first panel shows a boy leaping out of a giant toothy monster's mouth, with the SFX "SHUMP." The next panel shows him landing hard on the ground with a big "THUD".

Same image as the last, but the SFX are in their original Japanese

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 05/12/2025

Chapter 10, Part 1 of Kamudo by Akira Himekawa is out now! Lettering by me, translation by David Evelyn www.viz.com/vizmanga/kam...

Page 1 of Kamudo Chapter 10, Part 1
A giant magical tree, with the caption "At the northn-mest tip of Hinoaruchi... lies the home of demi-dragons, in a giant pulse tree. The land is called Ryujunkyo."

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 28/11/2025

some friends and I started a tradition of eating fried chicken on thanksgiving, and this year I hosted so I thought I’d try deep frying for the first time. it was so scary, but I’m proud of myself for doing it anyway! I don’t even eat meat, but friends said it was really good 🥹

A faux marble countertop, with a casserole dish full of scalloped potatoes, a sheet pan covered in fried chicken, and a bowl full of green beans.

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 09/11/2025

she’s still at the rescue, and I walked her today 😭😍💖

brown adult pit bull leaning up against a person’s legs for affection. her tongue is poking out of her mouth, and she’s looking at the camera with big happy eyes

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 19/10/2025

the Wired profile on Cybertruck owners did not disappoint www.wired.com/story/owning...

How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod?

People occasionally just flip [me] off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb. It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is. [Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 10/10/2025

really incredible lettering work from @cornpunk.bsky.social in Baki, Vol. 1 💖

KA-SHING of two wrestlers kicking each other

DMF DMF DMF, DM DM DM, and “OOOH!l from wrestlers grappling

Dude with a bruised cheeck and bloody nose going “HYOU!!!”

Ripped guy jumping up to kick someone in the face with the SFX “BA-SHOOM”

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 08/10/2025

The artists constantly use sharp, spikey SFX, which are really tricky to draw with curvy roman letters. I had to develop a new method for drawing SFX because of this series. It was a fun challenge!!

A page of Kamudo opened up on a wooden desk. The first panel shows a dragon crouched low and whipping its tail with the SFX “VWIIISH.” The next panel shows that dragon’s tail hitting another dragon’s tail with the SFX “VWAP.” Some dragons who were watching the fight flee as the tails strike each other again with a “KRAK.” A human boy looks joyfully at the fight. Finally, one of the fighting dragons has shaped its hand into a claw, and energy is emanating out of it with a “VWOOOO”

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 08/10/2025

The physical release for Kamudo vol 1 by Akira Himekawa is out now! Letters by me, translation by David Evelyn 💖 The cover is matte with spot gloss, and the book features color pages!!

Kamudo vol 1 laying on a wooden desk. The colorful cover features a demi-dragon boy holding a sword.

Kamudo 1 flipped open to a color page, laying on a wooden desk. The color page shows a young man standing in front of an erupting volcano, with the sound effects “GWOOO” and “DM DM DM DM” around him

Kamudo laying on a wooden desk, opened up to a black and white page. The page shows a group of dragons standing around a large shell that’s cracked open. In the next panel, the baby with a dragon hand who emerged from the shell is wailing “WAAAAAAHH”

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 08/10/2025

new font is being traced!!

The letters A B C D E F G written in gray script. The letters A through E are highlighted in red, because each stroke has been traced into vectors with a red fill

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 22/09/2025

she’s so cute 🥺🥺🥺

Side view of a brown pitbull standing on concrete, with a kennel and dog supplies in the background. The dog has her face towards the camera, and she has a very sweet expression with her tongue hanging out her mouth and one of her ears flipped up.

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 16/09/2025

I don't use imagetrace for my fonts because it doesn't do corners no matter what resolution the rasterized image is I also like to trace pen stroke by pen stroke to be able to make adjustments

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 16/09/2025

threw the glyphs in illustrator's imagetrace just to get an idea of what they look like together! i already went ahead and made a new G and M in CSP

The alphabet and a couple special characters written in black script on a white background. At the bottom, some of the characters have been reassembled to spell "Imagetrace!"

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 15/09/2025

isn’t that the inventor lady on youtube

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 14/09/2025

okay i'm trying this again in CSP! i've been really struggling how to make an outlined font in a way that I find interesting.

the uppercase alphabet and a few special characters, drawn with a marker in CSP

the previous image of the uppercase alphabet characters, where the previous letters are all light gray and A-N are now outlined in black block letters

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 25/08/2025

they’re here!! i am in love

A hand holding a 1” sticker from a small pile of stickers. The stickers show a cartoon pretzel with the text “Pretzel” on top of it

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 21/08/2025

for all the folks going to ANYC, the big scary escalators at Hudson Yards are down until tomorrow night, so avoid taking the 7 train to Javits unless you enjoy dizziness www.mta.info/elevator-esc...

2 of 16 escalators out of service
Repair: Upper mezzanine to lower mezzanine
Affected Lines: 7
Estimated return to service: Friday, August 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Outage reason: Repair

Repair: Lower mezzanine to upper mezzanine
Affected Lines: 7
Estimated return to service: Friday, August 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Outage reason: Repair
Friday, August 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 18/08/2025

I'm having some cute Pretzel stickers printed for ANYC, but I don't think they'll get here in time 😭🫠

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 17/08/2025

im not sure where im going with this font but its going somewhere

A notebook on a wooden desk. Various block letters are drawn on the notebook with pen and pencil. At the bottom of the page there’s the text “THANKS FOLKS”

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 17/08/2025

shoutout to MCR for absolutely fucking killing it last night in Philly when the weather made that stadium feel like a hot bowl of soup

A concert stage at night. The banner above the stage says “MCR” in the fictional Keposhka font. On the left and right sides of the stage are several-story-tall screens showing a close up of Gerard Way signing into a mic in a black jacket with white stripes

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 07/08/2025

Vols 1-5 of Hirayasumi by Keigo Shinzo are available now in the VIZ app! It’s such a lovely story, and I wound up reading all 44 chapters in one sitting. Translation by @jmitsu.bsky.social Lettering by Elena Diaz

Screenshot of the VIZ manga app. At the top is artwork of a young woman and man standing in front of a Japanese-style house. Beneath the artwork is the text:
“HIRAYASUMI
Story and Art by Keith Shinzo
Sometimes slowing down is the best way to move forward”

Beneath that are a list of chapters starting from chapter 1

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 27/07/2025

I didn’t even notice that aaaa 😭😭😭

CREDITS
APP CREATED BY HANK GREEN & HONEY B GAMES
CB-TECH CONSULTING GROUP LLC)
ART @EURAUU
NOELLE BRANDMIER (WEBSITE)
FONT
SARA LINSEY (SARA.PIZZA)
BACKGROUND MUSIC
SAMANTHA VAN DER SLUIS (WEBSITE)

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 25/07/2025

what did they do to my girl comic sans

“Preventer Rain!” typeset in comic sans, but the exclamation mark is skewed 45 degrees clockwise

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 22/07/2025

hey @animenyc.bsky.social — this panel is so disrespectful to all of the manga localization professionals going to the con. can you please clarify the wording to let all of us know you’re not actively endorsing unauthorized distribution?

Doujinshi Scanlation 101
Yaoi Edition (18+)
Aug 23, 2025 8:30 - 9:15 PM
Room 1A03
Description
Ever wonder how your favorite doujinshi go through the process of being translated for your reading pleasure? Well then come on down and learn about the techniques of scanlation!
From scanning to cleaning to typsetting we'll explore it all and play some games along the way, with doujinshi from fandoms such as Jujutsu Kaisen, SK8 the Infinity, My Hero Academia and more!

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 09/07/2025

Chapter 8, Part 1 of Kamudo by Akira Himekawa is out now! Letters by me, translation by David Evelyn www.viz.com/vizmanga/kam...

A panel from Kamudo. A boy is reaching his demi-dragon hand into the foreground. His face is obscured by shadow, and his eyes are glowing. He's surrounded by SFX that say "DM DM DM DM DM"

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 03/07/2025

nothing quite like being in the middle of a boss battle and accidentally pulling out these bad boys

The start screen from Wind Waker, showing rows of an inventory with items like a sail and a bottle with a fairy in it. The cursor is selecting a silver pair of boots, and a caption at the bottom describes them as “Iron Boots”

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 26/06/2025

My wife and I had to say goodbye to Tiki today. She was around 12 years old, and the goodest of girls. My font, Bean Burrito, was named after her. Her foster nicknamed her “Tiki Bean”, and she loved being completely wrapped up in blankets, so we‘d call that a “Bean Burrito.” I love her so much

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 23/06/2025

u can filter by genres in the apps + website now enjoy

A screenshot of the viz manga app. This is the browse screen, which has “Read Chapters” (selected), “Buy Volumes,” and “All” buttons. Below that row of buttons is another row with “Action,” “Supernatural,” “Romance” (selected), “School Life,” and “Horror.”
Below the buttons are a couple manga series listed, like Hot Gimmick and How Do We Relationship?
At the bottom of the screen are navigational buttons, like Home, Favorites, and Downloads.

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 21/06/2025

Why did they use Reggae on “ITEMS” and “Return,” but not “Choose”????

Screenshot of the Wind Waker start screen

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 15/06/2025

My newest font, Spicy Noodles 2 is available now for free 🌶️🌶️ It's the same Spicy Noodles you know and love, but with an updated design more glyph support. Find it here: ko-fi.com/s/1d57f7dbfb

A list of all the "Special characters", "Math", and "Manga Glyphs" in the font

"Contextual Alternates", showing examples like "<" + "3" = "♥"

Designed for use in comics, Spicy noodles 2 has a sharp design that will give your dialogue emotion!

This font includes all the features a comic letterer needs, and it would be perfect for any comic.

Spicy Noodles 2 has the spirit of the first version, but with updated glyphs that better match the font’s inspiration, Reggae by Fontworks.

Spicy noodles 2 also includes bold and bold italic, which weren’t available in the first version.

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 11/06/2025

Chapter 7, Part 1 of Kamudo by Akira Himekawa is out now! Letters by me, translation by David Evelyn

A panel from Kamudo showing a giant ornate gate with an ominous swirly object in the middle that’s blowing wind through the gate.

Text at the bottom of the panel: “Kamudo, Story & Art by Akira Himekawa, CHAPTER 7, PART 1”

A panel from Kamudo showing a scary dragon guy with his arms outstretched, blowing wind around him, with a huge SFX “BWOO”

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 10/06/2025

today marks 9 years since my wife and I adopted our dog, which means she’s around 12 years old. I love her more than anything. Please gaze upon this sweet, snuggly old lady:

Red and white pit bull sitting on a wood floor and facing the camera intently

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 09/06/2025

my airport read is Veil from @mangasplaining.bsky.social The lettering is lovely, and it complements the art and balloons so well

A page from Veil by Kotteri. The dialogue lettering is a handwritten-style font at a 25 degree angle.

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 01/06/2025

infinite screentoneys to whoever submitted one for my wife and made her smile!!!!

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