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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie)

@ligerlillie.bsky.social

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Writer/Artist | talks about comics, queer stuff, and Gothic/19th century fiction a lot | they/them (or ze/zir or even "HEY YOU" if you're in a hurry) | No AI/NFTs 🚫 https://ligerlillie.portfoliobox.net

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · Oct 8

Happy #PortfolioDay !

I'm Lillie and I love to draw weird & spooky stuff. I also write a variety of things including comics and essays about comics. Please keep me in mind for future projects!

Portfolio (& contact info): bit.ly/2IJn6vl
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ligerlillie

The back of a black jacket with a white line drawing of a skull in a furry aviator-style hat. The eyes of its ski goggles have crosses through them and it is wearing earmuffs over the hat which have joysticks where the puffs of the earmuffs would be. The illustrator's name (Lillian Hochwender) is signed underneath. The jacket is on a bright orange background.

A black and white illustration of a gas lamp emerging from fog. The sky is black but filled with flurries of snow. Flakes accumulate on the lamp. The lamplight illuminates a tentacle emerging from the fog and winding itself around the lamp's base.

A blond-haired knight looks upwards at an ethereal yellow flame floating over their head, their hair caught in an unseen breeze. Layered over their silver armour is a singed white garment with a picture of two four-pointed stars. Over that is a dark red cloak with a darker turquoise interior, gold detailing and fur around the collar. There are images of crescent moons on either side of the cloak. There are two yellow plumes coming from their silver helmet. The background is a black arch shape surrounded by a dusky grey-blue.

A headline saying "Bringing the Past to Life: Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein at 40"

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Angela Wu - Schedule Full @li-vermin-il.bsky.social · 5h

✨Hey apparently it’s #portfolioday again ✨
I’m Angela a cover artist whose clients include - DC, BOOM! , IDW, Vault and Titan Comics. My schedule is full for this year but you can enquire for next year ~

📩 [email protected]
Portfolio: www.artstation.com/angela_somet...

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 11h

Ughhhh I’m very familiar with the hand pain = can’t draw (or hand write) experience & very sorry you’re dealing with it, too. 💜

Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 12h

Did Shaggy basically name his dog Milk Bone?

Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 12h

In Scooby-Doo canon, Scooby Snacks seem to be a strange mass-produced wafer cookie/dog biscuit hybrid, which is weird enough on its own, but one thing I’ve wondered since childhood: did Shaggy name Scooby-Doo after the snacks or did Scooby get extremely famous early on and sign a licensing deal?

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 17h

For clarity, I’m someone who *loves* picture books and both comics and picture books are forms of sequential art. But to me a series of sequential illustrations with accompanying narration and no panels is about as picture-book-y as it gets.

Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 17h

Forever thinking about Ultimates #11 and the question of When Does A Comic Become A Picture Book?

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 17h

If film and television can do it and art museums can do it, comics—ESPECIALLY big publishers like DC and Marvel—can and should do it.

Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 17h

Last one (for now): if something is described in relation to Booktok hype or influencers, I will want to read it less.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 17h

Comics should come with the downloadable equivalent of closed captions — not an audiobook novelisation — so visually impaired people can enjoy them.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 17h

I genuinely think both “I wish to exclusively read YA and complain about the lack of Spice” people and the “I don’t read books for children 🤢” need to expand their reading diets

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 17h

More adults should read children’s & YA literature, regardless of if they have children — and do so without trying to make themselves the target demographic or eschewing books meant for adults. Read widely!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 5d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 1d

I am organising direct action against Reform UK to fight against their racist misinformation. Posted more about it over on my insta, but here's the main bits!

Find out more: www.instagram.com/sticker_up_f...
Grab a PDF of the zine: www.shazleenkhan.shop

too many people i love are being victimized by nigel farage and i am going to mobilise the entire uk comics industry to fucking defeat him and protect myself, immigrants and refugees

our target is the 2026 local council elections. through targetted sticker and flyer campaigns i aim to destroy reform UK's momentum in vulnerable constituencies throughout the UK

this is a link to resources. I am sorry people who use screen readers I am not able to transcribe everything. I am one guy and I am doing this on voluntary basis. if you use a screen reader and have mates who would be willing to help me convert my text posts into readable formats please link us up

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 20h

Is this a pigeon meme, guy is gesturing to a butterfly captioned "never ending parade of tasks" and is saying "is this a life?"

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Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 1d

things done in solitude

#WIP, #comics

Four black and white comic panels in a 2x2 grid. Each appears to depict a mirror frame, reflecting a pretty person applying mascara to their eyelashes, messing up their hair and pouting, then wiping their mouth and grimacing, and finally turning around, looking over their shoulder.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 1d

tetris worlds, print ad, imagery (2001) archive.org/details/nint...

a red t tetris piece with legs is running towards a man, holding a bunch of flowers on a beach. text: tetris is back
smaller text: if you love it then, you'll love it even more now.

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 1d

Here you go!

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 1d

The terrible temptation to pitch an article called “Peter Thiel is Bad At Comics Criticism: Silicon Valley and the Death of Media Literacy”

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 1d

Watched a billionaire do my job badly (comics criticism)

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 1d

This post was brought to you by me reading Peter Thiel’s really terrible comics criticism

Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't say he did! ;)

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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 2d

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 2d

Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —

An image of Papa Smurf, a small blue man with a white beard. He’s wearing red trousers that lead into shoes and a red cap that slouches forward.

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 3d

Justice for the blue flowers!! (Congrats on all the rest selling!)