iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chloë Green @okaychloegreen.bsky.social · 21h

We’ve been working on this for a while, felt quite daunting as there is so much to cover. But, after attending an event last week where I had a very rough time through their lack of info, I was spurred to finish it. Thank you @schnumn.bsky.social and Leeds Special Autism Services for their input!

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not doomed, I'm just late

A comic about feeling doomed. Bex is lay on the floor with her head down. She says, "It's too late for me... I fucked everything up... I took too long..." She suddenly lifts her head and says, "then again, I'm always late..." Sitting up, she says, "And it's usually fine..." Finally standing on her feet, she says, "So why am I worrying about it?"

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Jaws🎃 @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Birds of Sorrow 2026 Marshall

An illustration of a dark haired man with his back towards the viewer. He is surrounded by three bullfinches

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

AI is not an ethical accessibility tool and disability advocates have been yelling that from the rooftops since day one. Are you actually listening to us or just using us as a point in your argument because it sounds compelling and progressive if it's a road you already want to go down

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you're in Sheffield you'll be able to see it! Also Scarf con is next weekend (10th October) if you're about 👀

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They put my art on a BILLBOARD woah!!!!!!!! That's wild WOW

A photo of the poster for scarf con on a billboard in Sheffield

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Selkie Comic Awards @selkieawards.org · 02/10/2026

🦭 Announcing the shortlist for our 2026 Selkie Awards!🦭 Check out the link below for the details, and for information on how to sign up to our online award ceremony: 🦭 selkieawards.org/2026 🦭

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#DVPit #DVArt #GN #YA Nyaegling is an action packed but bittersweet fantasy adventure where ambition clashes with wellbeing. Will the pressure to live up to legacy overtake the bonds of a friendship forged in fire? Created by myself and Richard Bass Contact: schnumn@outlook.com

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#DVpit #DVArt #GN #A When pursuing her goals drives a violent wedge between Melody and her partner, she's torn between being a "good partner" and a "good artist." VIOLAPSE is about choosing yourself over a broken fantasy and breaking out of roles that other people give you.

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Jaws🎃 @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PLEASE pick up Bex's story! Because I wanna read it AND cover it on our podcast @theartofpod.bsky.social

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AW!! one day I WILL make it and you will be the first to get a free copy 💛💛💛💛

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#DVpit #DVArt #GN #A TW: physical abuse VIOLAPSE showcases the slow terror of trauma bonding in an abusive relationship. When violence becomes so normalised that it's almost unremarkable, do you trust in the promises that things will be ok in the end, or do you find a way to save yourself?

An illustration of a woman sat on a fancy couch in a dark room. She's looking creepily into the camera as if she's expected you

A black and white comic page. Zachary shrugs melody’s comforting hand off his shoulder. Looking back, he says, “don’t make fun of me, I really do feel bad.” She replies, “oh, sorry, I didn’t mean to-“ but he cuts her off with “I’m already having a terrrible day and the last thing I need is for you to make it worse. No offence.”

Melody apologises again and then tries to steer the conversation to something more positive, saying, “what’s wrong, is there anything I can help with?” But Zachary says no. He looks at his piano, dismaying that his deadlines are creeping closer while he still feels unable to create anything productive. He doesn’t know why he’s struggling.

Melody approaches Zachary but he slaps her in the face. She pauses to recover before saying "I have to clean the kitchen."

Melody’s doppelgänger tilts her head to the side and chastises her with a sarcastic and mocking smile, “wow, Melody, what a great idea! I wonder how that’ll go…” Melody glares at her unflinchingly, her left eye adorned with a bruise as her doppelgänger continues, “let’s just walk right in over and ask him very nicely to please not hit us anymore! He might even apologise!”

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aw Connor 🥺🥺💛💛💛 shucks!!!! Thank you 💛

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Connor Tierney @connortierney57.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m in constant awe of Bex’s work- if you’re looking for an amazing cover for your book, look no further!

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#DVpit #DVArt #A #GN VIOLAPSE explores the nuances of escaping a dangerous home when violence has become the new normal. Ultimately hopeful, VIOLAPSE is both an indictment and celebration of anger. Genre: adult thriller/horror schnumn@outlook.com schnumn.com/violapse

A black and white comic page: Melody, a young woman, sits alone on a train looking out of the window with a forlorn expression on her face. she holds her phone in her hand but taps her thumb against it restlessly. with a slight tremble in her hands, she picks up her phone and types into Google, "what to do when your partner is mad at you." She reads the contradictory advice with a doubtful expression before giving up and putting her phone face down on the train seat table.

A black and white comic page. Melody and Zachary are in an art gallery. Zachary is looking up at a piece of artwork while Melody bows her head with her hair obscuring her face. Zachary pretentious pontificates about the work, "A
a piece like this seems quite base on its surface. Its simplicity and wide appeal might lead one to consider this to be "low art." But looking deeper, one sees that despite the work's... what I'll call, "pseudo-corpo-digital" aesthetic, the idea it's presenting is one that cuts to the very core of our humanity. That no matter who we are or what we've done, love is an inherent right that no sin can strip away."

Melody glares at him in stunned disbelief. The painting is five simple words on a black canvas: you deserve to be loved.

Zachary concludes, "I won't deny I find some comfort in even as simple a message as this."

An illustration of a red-haired woman holding up a sheet of paper that's burning.

A black and white comic page depicting a woman washing dishes in an eerie way with a bruised eye. The final panel reveals a man tied up at her feet.

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#DVpit #DVArt #GN #A TW: physical abuse VIOLAPSE is a kitchen sink GN thriller with abstract horror elements, depicting life in an abusive home. A nuanced #OwnVoices take on the everyday horrors of domestic violence. Contact: schnumn@outlook.com Loose pages:

Melody is in her studio, working on a statue of herself for a project. she brings her chisel up to the statue's eye and trembles in anticipation

A comic page: Melody sits alone in her studio, creating a bust of herself out of clay. She begins to dissociate and suddenly sees a glimpse of herself in the glass window. only it isn't herself, it's something else. she reaches out to the clay bust in front of her and strangles it

A comic page showing a woman vomiting black tar into another woman's mouth

Zachary attacks Melody, grabbing her face and squeezing. She cries out in fear as cracks begin to spread across her face. Zachary recoils in disgusted surprise as Melody stares at her cracking hands

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#DVPit #DVArt #WFH #comms #illustrator Hey, I'm Bex! I'm looking for more book cover work in 2027. Previous clients include Macmillan, Andrews McMeel, Clarion Books Contact: schnumn@outlook.com

the front cover for Merry Christmess by Tegan Quin

the cover for Izzy at the End of the World by K.A. Reynolds

the cover for SENSORY: Life on the Spectrum

the cover for A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(Apologies in advance, I'm taking part in DVPit tomorrow and I'll probably be a little annoying ah)

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thanks for apologising, I hate that this is the state of things now, it's getting so hard to tell and I wish that it was not this way 💔💔💔

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Wow, my first ever AI accusation and it's for this? Jesus. You can even see how I'm showing my partner how the persoective tool in procreate works for the first few seconds. You really should learn what AI actually looks like before you come at someone for it.

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Haha! I knew you wouldn't do that to us 😂💛 I hope you had a good weekend despite the bangs!!

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A curtain??! Holy moly 😭

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh god yeah it's so obnoxious!!

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The wrestling is cool. The wrestling being so close to the vendors is not cool. It's really not that hard to understand.

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

MCM Birmingham inspired this post 😭😭😭 we were so close to it, it was so terrible 💔

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

When I'm working at my stall and I can't hear my customers and I'm getting triggered by loud sudden bangs and yelling less than ten metres away and people are leaving AA bc it's too loud like.... can this not be in another room??? Why does this keep happening 💀💀💀

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Why the fuck do conventions keep doing this

A diagram of a wrestling ring at convention right nextto artist alley. The wrestling ring is extremely loud and the wall in betweenit and the artist alley does nothing to reduce the noise. All the Autistic people are having a terrible time

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hard same!!!! It's so tough having to constantly and consciously be like :) but also not like overdo it to be like :D! or OuO

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I know god I wish I'd spent more time hanging out tbh!!! Next time 😂 the trying to look engaged is suuuuch a killer, it's so exhausting for no reason 🙈

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It was *grim.* our entire row was dead 💀 what a mess...

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thanks to everyone who made this weekend super lovely! It was a pretty quiet show but I feel so inspired and determined! Yeeeah!!

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I'm omw back from MCM Birmingham literally right now and what a difference a weekend makes 🙈 I drew the top part on the way down and immediately gave up. Now I feel like I could draw a whole book!!!! (or something smaller and more chill yknow). I really do love drawing.

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is the true convention magic

A sketchy comic with two panels. In the first panel, Bex is on her way to a convention, looking tired. She's holding her iPad and thinking about drawing but struggling to get anywhere. She thinks, "fucks me up how I don't wantto draw anymore."

In the second panel Bex is wearing her convention wig with her cat ears, on her way back from the convention. She looks alive and full of determination, and she's surrounded by a pink glow as she says, "what?? Of course I want to draw!!"

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🌿 Chris/クリス @ HOWLOWEEN table 7!!/thumbnailing ch18 🔍 @clefdesoll.cisumchronicles.com · 08/08/2026

HEHEHHEHEHE impulse catgirl art trade with @schnumn.bsky.social this was so much fun tysm nwn ❤️❤️❤️

Bex's cat girl and Yokoka on tiny little squares of paper inside sleeves

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