Sophie Yanow
@sophieyanow.bsky.social
Eisner Award-winning Cartoonist | Comics Prof. | MLIS in Progress | The Contradictions (D&Q) | What is a Glacier? (Retrofit) | War of Streets and Houses (Uncivilized) |
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Sophie Yanow
@sophieyanow.bsky.social
· Dec 30
This time last year I got sick of not being able to draw comics. So I made a plan… I came up with a “gentle comics habit.” If you are a person who is trying to gently kickstart your comics drawing in the new year, I wrote a blog post for you. www.sophieyanow.com/a-gentle-com...
It's #Inktober! If you're looking for something a little slower paced... I like to repost the #GentleComicsHabit:
This time last year I got sick of not being able to draw comics. So I made a plan… I came up with a “gentle comics habit.” If you are a person who is trying to gently kickstart your comics drawing in the new year, I wrote a blog post for you. www.sophieyanow.com/a-gentle-com...
October 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
It's #Inktober! If you're looking for something a little slower paced... I like to repost the #GentleComicsHabit:
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This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work.
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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October 6, 2026 at 4:43 PM
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work.
unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Today at #sdcc 3pm looking forward to moderating an amazing conversation with some of the top comics memoirists in the biz including @mimipond.bsky.social , @shamirk.bsky.social , @lisahanawalt.bsky.social and @sophieyanow.bsky.social , thx to @dandq.bsky.social
July 24, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Today at #sdcc 3pm looking forward to moderating an amazing conversation with some of the top comics memoirists in the biz including @mimipond.bsky.social , @shamirk.bsky.social , @lisahanawalt.bsky.social and @sophieyanow.bsky.social , thx to @dandq.bsky.social
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Want a more personal touch to your lettering without spending the time to hand letter? Join us on July 18th to learn how to design your own font!
June 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Want a more personal touch to your lettering without spending the time to hand letter? Join us on July 18th to learn how to design your own font!
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Fliers are so punk rock
June 8, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Fliers are so punk rock
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#DHWU Update 🚨
Today, we and @DarkHorse.com have signed a Voluntary Recognition Agreement.
We will now begin the collective bargaining process.
Please stay tuned to our social media channels for updates in the future! 🐴✊
Today, we and @DarkHorse.com have signed a Voluntary Recognition Agreement.
We will now begin the collective bargaining process.
Please stay tuned to our social media channels for updates in the future! 🐴✊
June 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
#DHWU Update 🚨
Today, we and @DarkHorse.com have signed a Voluntary Recognition Agreement.
We will now begin the collective bargaining process.
Please stay tuned to our social media channels for updates in the future! 🐴✊
Today, we and @DarkHorse.com have signed a Voluntary Recognition Agreement.
We will now begin the collective bargaining process.
Please stay tuned to our social media channels for updates in the future! 🐴✊
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To anyone reading this - we are ACTIVELY SEEKING someone to cover indie comics as a regular beat...but everyone is making 15 minute videos now and it's hard to get them to put down the camera. I get that we need both platforms.
Anyway who wants to write about comics, DM me.
Anyway who wants to write about comics, DM me.
June 9, 2026 at 3:28 PM
To anyone reading this - we are ACTIVELY SEEKING someone to cover indie comics as a regular beat...but everyone is making 15 minute videos now and it's hard to get them to put down the camera. I get that we need both platforms.
Anyway who wants to write about comics, DM me.
Anyway who wants to write about comics, DM me.
I'm trying to locate a research paper I read that found that filing nonfiction graphic novels under Dewey by subject had lower circulation -- I believe even when faced out in that section -- relative to circulation when in a separate graphic novel section. #libcomix #educomix #comicslibrarianship
June 9, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I'm trying to locate a research paper I read that found that filing nonfiction graphic novels under Dewey by subject had lower circulation -- I believe even when faced out in that section -- relative to circulation when in a separate graphic novel section. #libcomix #educomix #comicslibrarianship
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I'm kind of tired of not drawing anymore I am gonna try doing this possibly maybe (please make me)
This time last year I got sick of not being able to draw comics. So I made a plan… I came up with a “gentle comics habit.” If you are a person who is trying to gently kickstart your comics drawing in the new year, I wrote a blog post for you. www.sophieyanow.com/a-gentle-com...
May 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I'm kind of tired of not drawing anymore I am gonna try doing this possibly maybe (please make me)
Oh, a Harry Potter boycott is afoot? If you like wizard school can I interest you in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Wizard of Earthsea.” Media for children that is also beautifully written!!!
I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you
March 30, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Oh, a Harry Potter boycott is afoot? If you like wizard school can I interest you in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Wizard of Earthsea.” Media for children that is also beautifully written!!!
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GAR chapter 3 is available to read free today ! The whole comic is 81 pages so far. Tell ur friends! tysm Linktr.ee/spiderbabby
February 23, 2026 at 5:08 PM
GAR chapter 3 is available to read free today ! The whole comic is 81 pages so far. Tell ur friends! tysm Linktr.ee/spiderbabby
The pebbles… the pebbles…
April 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The pebbles… the pebbles…
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I'm going to do the #gentlecomicshabit started by @sophieyanow.bsky.social because I want to try actually making comics, but I need to begin small. Here's a one minute comic. A comic can just be words and pictures, right?
March 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I'm going to do the #gentlecomicshabit started by @sophieyanow.bsky.social because I want to try actually making comics, but I need to begin small. Here's a one minute comic. A comic can just be words and pictures, right?
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my fellow Californians of good moral character…
trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting
PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE
trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting
PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE
March 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
my fellow Californians of good moral character…
trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting
PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE
trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting
PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE
The other day. #gentlecomicshabit www.sophieyanow.com/let-it-ride
February 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The other day. #gentlecomicshabit www.sophieyanow.com/let-it-ride
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just finding this now. really lovely. I aspire to do this.
This time last year I got sick of not being able to draw comics. So I made a plan… I came up with a “gentle comics habit.” If you are a person who is trying to gently kickstart your comics drawing in the new year, I wrote a blog post for you. www.sophieyanow.com/a-gentle-com...
February 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
just finding this now. really lovely. I aspire to do this.
❤️
We had a comics meetup on Saturday and one of the presenters mentioned gentle comics habit! ^^ it definitely feels more inviting and less scary than many art prompts out there
February 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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![[ID: six panels in color. Panel one: Dean Spade is saying “I’m hearing a lot of people struggling with hopelessness right now”. Beneath him a fiery landscape with birds flying in all directions. Panel two: “and I’m thinking it may be the moment to shift what we have hope and faith in“. A blue room with a figure packing a bag. The open window shows a fiery landscape with two birds flying. Panel three: “it’s actually appropriate to be letting go of the false promises of liberalism“. The image of a hand with sand running through the fingers. Panel four: “the idea that billionaires or tech solutions or legislation or court cases or elected officials will save us “. An image of trees burnt by fire, surrounded by a red sky. Panel five: “instead of recognizing that no one‘s coming to save us. That it’s on us.” An image a red bird describing birds flying from a fire to four blue birds that are surrounding and listening to them. Panel 6: “that we really only have each other in our ability to care for one another”. Five red birds soaring into a blue sky.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k5k4onsiac2jfrrjkkion6na/bafkreib6ajeien6n5qoewegtjdcnlj5jvqwnsgnlgeep4jirbemzokf7ie)
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Hope everyone has fun on #hourlycomicsday! If you (like me) struggle with hourlies but still want to put some wind in your comics-making sails, the #gentlecomicshabit is an alternative to try!
This time last year I got sick of not being able to draw comics. So I made a plan… I came up with a “gentle comics habit.” If you are a person who is trying to gently kickstart your comics drawing in the new year, I wrote a blog post for you. www.sophieyanow.com/a-gentle-com...
February 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Hope everyone has fun on #hourlycomicsday! If you (like me) struggle with hourlies but still want to put some wind in your comics-making sails, the #gentlecomicshabit is an alternative to try!
Hope everyone has fun on #hourlycomicsday! If you (like me) struggle with hourlies but still want to put some wind in your comics-making sails, the #gentlecomicshabit is an alternative to try!
This time last year I got sick of not being able to draw comics. So I made a plan… I came up with a “gentle comics habit.” If you are a person who is trying to gently kickstart your comics drawing in the new year, I wrote a blog post for you. www.sophieyanow.com/a-gentle-com...
February 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Hope everyone has fun on #hourlycomicsday! If you (like me) struggle with hourlies but still want to put some wind in your comics-making sails, the #gentlecomicshabit is an alternative to try!
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The Comics Journal wrote about my move to writing my little mutant comic books—and further aspirations.
www.tcj.com/matt-bors-on...
www.tcj.com/matt-bors-on...
Matt Bors on leaving political cartooning for Justice Warriors and Toxic Avenger - The Comics Journal
Matt Petras talks to cartoonist Matt Bors and his collaborators, Fred Harper and Ben Clarkson. about his new projects.
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January 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The Comics Journal wrote about my move to writing my little mutant comic books—and further aspirations.
www.tcj.com/matt-bors-on...
www.tcj.com/matt-bors-on...
The concept of “rope burn” came from a Jack Kornfield dharma talk that I listened to a few months ago. Suffering as rope burn. www.sophieyanow.com/holding-the-... #gentlecomicshabit
January 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The concept of “rope burn” came from a Jack Kornfield dharma talk that I listened to a few months ago. Suffering as rope burn. www.sophieyanow.com/holding-the-... #gentlecomicshabit
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Day 10 | 10 min #gentlecomicshabit @sophieyanow.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Day 10 | 10 min #gentlecomicshabit @sophieyanow.bsky.social