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Reimena Yee 🦇

@reimenayee.com

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Historical fiction comics skeleton with a whimsigoth vibe. Academic-practitioner & comics taxonomist. Co-founder of the @cartoonist.coop I am just chilling here when I am not making my (web)comics or blogging about craft. reimenayee.com #art

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · Nov 17

[📚ABOUT ME] I'm a Malaysian illustrator, writer and comics educator/organiser. Author of several award-winning/nominated graphic novels and webcomics. Creator, curator and webmaster of the Comics Devices Library. Co-founder of the Cartoonist Cooperative. Open to work!

More about my books/projects ⬇️

All of my graphic novels and webcomics in print. You will find out more about them down the thread.

Poster for the creator's guide to comics devices, or the comics devices library.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 3h

I keep having extremely busy 4 day weekends which I am grateful for since half of those days are with friends, but I am missing my long periods of solitude!!! (anyway, going to my first academic comics conference this Friday aaa)

Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 4h

Had fun with the design of the layouts for these two dreams! In fact this whole chapter will be interesting to look at as we do a tour of the hype and legends surrounding Alexander's birth. Next update's going to take us into Persian/Ottoman illumination

Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 4h

Alexander retells the strange dreams his parents had before his birth
👁‍🗨 Alexander, the Servant & the Water of Life
4 Page Update, start here: alexanderromance.com/comic/chapte...
About: reimenayee.com/alexander
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The card is supplementary to the post, but it's just a preview of the latest page (Alexander's mother with her eyes closed like Sleeping Beauty), links to the website, and some little blurbs reminding folks the printed edition of Book 1 is available and that they can also support me on Ko-fi. The card is framed by drawings of angels and artists from across eras, including a portrait of me, the sun and the moon, foliage, and Alexander, Bucephalus and the Servant riding atop a fish.

“Philip had a dream, too.
In his dream, he placed a seal on my mother’s womb.
The mark which emerged was none other than a lion’s face.”

Alexander’s storytelling is interrupted by cries from the Greek chorus – female oracles, who are attending to the scene between young Philip and Olympias.

“This is no empty promise, Philip.
Your wife carries the exalted one.
The lion of Macedon. Euai!”

Cheers of Euai ring across the chorus as they receive the seal from Philip’s hand and inspect the auspicious lion’s head, passing the seal down one
by
one
until the last of the chorus oracles delivers the seal to Philip’s heir, Alexander.

“Impressive!” cries the Servant. “So many omens in anticipation of your arrival!”

Alexander smiles as he tosses the seal back to the chorus.
“Right? And you know that’s not all!”

The Servant replies,
“Ah, indeed!
The thunderbolt and the seal are not all there is to your provenance. There is, of course, the story of the egg… Come!”

The Servant dutifully escorts Alexander and the pregnant Olympias away from the scene to a room behind a curtain…

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · Sep 9

My October piece for The Washi Station’s 2026 Risograph Calendar, available to pre-order. www.avivamaiartzy.com/thewashistat...

An orange, dark blue, white and pink stylised illustration of an owl flying through some poisonous flowers, ivy and pumpkins in a starry graveyard.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 18h

Already seen lmao you know i am always 24/7 with my crush

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23d

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23d

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

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krad @kradeelav.com · 3d

in the last few weeks i've been rediscovering the sheer joy of digging around for links and sites. been living on personal sites, dreamwidth, and RSS feeds again. there's a lot of meaningful, quiet places to discover and nurture if you go off-roading.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 4d

Today is Love Your Bookshop Day!! If you are in Australia/New Zealand you can buy 2 Penguin books to get your own exclusive little guy… and guess what two books can also qualify you to penguin ownership 😝
I will be signing my books throughout the day in Melbourne CBD!

Signed doodle in gold pen for Seance Tea Party

Signed doodle in red pen for My Aunt is a Monster

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 6d

Not only have editors prevented me from showing my ass in public, so has hiring sensitivity readers. I’m a big fan of both. Having someone be honest with you while also keeping your best interests at heart is something to be valued not dismissed

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 8d

Knight in shining armour
Halloween Pet Portrait Commissions (reimenayee.com/commissions)

A tuxedo Cornish Rex in a knight costume and sword vanquishing his plush toy dragon, in a background of autumnal leaves and berries and ghosts.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 8d

Speaking of the well-deserved death of social media, I've started using Newsblur as my new RSS reader (had to clean up a depressingly large number of dead links, including to sites that still publish but no longer have RSS feeds) and that does still in fact provide a source of good internet

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 8d

Knight in shining armour
Halloween Pet Portrait Commissions (reimenayee.com/commissions)

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 9d

Listen, I really love being connected with everyone but it is starting to seem any social media out there just forgets that Nazis are bad and marginalized folks are culture as soon as they hit a dozen million users.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 10d

Ivy and Thistle | Pet Portrait
Commissions for Halloween/Fall Style portraits are open until Oct 31 reimenayee.com/commissions #art

Two tabby cats curled up in an orange background of thistle and ivy (their namesake), pumpkins, candles, ghosts and stars.

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 10d

Ivy and Thistle | Pet Portrait
Commissions for Halloween/Fall Style portraits are open until Oct 31 reimenayee.com/commissions #art

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 10d

I spent my daylight savings clock-forward to articulate about this situation that keeps happening to my adult comics and why I want people to stop. blog.reimenayee.com/i-get-pissed...

I get pissed off when my adult comics are put in the children’s section - Blog - Reimena Yee

Or perceived as only suitable for children and not the parents or guardians/cool adults who I actually crafted the comic for in the first place. I explain why I am annoyed.

blog.reimenayee.com

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 10d

Also my contribution to the comics hot take thread going around, I guess... though this is the latest published one out of many thoughts in my blog. And it just so happened this incident popped up.

Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 10d

I spent my daylight savings clock-forward to articulate about this situation that keeps happening to my adult comics and why I want people to stop. blog.reimenayee.com/i-get-pissed...

I get pissed off when my adult comics are put in the children’s section - Blog - Reimena Yee

Or perceived as only suitable for children and not the parents or guardians/cool adults who I actually crafted the comic for in the first place. I explain why I am annoyed.

blog.reimenayee.com

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shivana @heyshivana.bsky.social · 11d

my hot take is some of y'all need to stop only reading comics. read prose, go to a museum, learn scrimshaw, wtfever. go be an interesting person first because i can TELL when people don't ingest anythiinnggg else but comics

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 12d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 11d

And like they complain about their clothes falling apart so frequently (in addition to clothes being of poor material) cos they wash AND dry their clothes with so much chemicals 🤨

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kotaline jones @kotalinejones.bsky.social · 11d

Comics schools need to beef up their comics writing and professional practices classes + we urgently need more platforms and journalism to support original graphic novels + more people who know about comics should apply their skills to parts of the publishing industry besides design and editorial.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 12d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 11d

- We need cheaper printed black and white comics for the love of god
- Comics for adults could do crazy numbers if they actually had support, pubs are leaving money on the table
- Prose authors shouldn't be hired to write comics based on prose chops alone
- Cartoonists should be paid 700x more

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 12d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 11d

Familiar Series (1/?) Barn Owl | Mysterious, gentle and silent

Barn owl posing in front of some lily of the valley and celestial motifs.

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