Sen ⚢
@dresdencodak.com
A. Senna Diaz (she/her)
Cartoonist | PDX | Dialectical Material Girl ☭
Creator of Dresden Codak/Dark Science
Comic: https://dresdencodak.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dresdencodak
Contact: dresdencodak(at)gmail(dot)com
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Cartoonist | PDX | Dialectical Material Girl ☭
Creator of Dresden Codak/Dark Science
Comic: https://dresdencodak.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dresdencodak
Contact: dresdencodak(at)gmail(dot)com
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Sen ⚢
@dresdencodak.com
· Nov 28
Hello new followers, my name's Sen and I make comics! If you want to check out Dark Science, my queer cyberpunk series that's sort of "Metropolis + Ghost in the Shell + Discworld", you can read the whole thing here! dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/d...
So this is the only Paru manga I've read, but fridging your one explicitly queer character with a magic disease that kills you for having sexual desires that's never mentioned again, and writing off her love interest, who used to be the other lead, for the remaining 70% of the story seems homophobic
So I finished Sanda and I gotta say that's a really excellent manga with compelling themes and characters for the first volume or so... and then the rest of it happens.
January 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
So this is the only Paru manga I've read, but fridging your one explicitly queer character with a magic disease that kills you for having sexual desires that's never mentioned again, and writing off her love interest, who used to be the other lead, for the remaining 70% of the story seems homophobic
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PSA to the folks affected by this Hiveworks crap: if you want to signal boost a project of yours or just want to connect with a webcomics veteran who's made a living Despite Everything, feel free to DM me!
It's wretched when artists get screwed like this. Just know my door's always open.
It's wretched when artists get screwed like this. Just know my door's always open.
January 13, 2026 at 2:34 AM
PSA to the folks affected by this Hiveworks crap: if you want to signal boost a project of yours or just want to connect with a webcomics veteran who's made a living Despite Everything, feel free to DM me!
It's wretched when artists get screwed like this. Just know my door's always open.
It's wretched when artists get screwed like this. Just know my door's always open.
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Every friend group, am I right
March 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Every friend group, am I right
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There's an obscene amount of architectural references in Dark Science, with the most overt one probably being that the now-buried "Parade of Progress" is based on the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, while the modern Nephilopolis is heavily inspired by the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
September 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
There's an obscene amount of architectural references in Dark Science, with the most overt one probably being that the now-buried "Parade of Progress" is based on the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, while the modern Nephilopolis is heavily inspired by the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
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The interior, though, is based mostly on the Ennis house, with a few rooms and corners taken from the Hollyhock house and a couple others.
I wanted the Kusanagi home to have a feeling of familiarity, but with an architecture that doesn't quite fit together, like in a dream.
I wanted the Kusanagi home to have a feeling of familiarity, but with an architecture that doesn't quite fit together, like in a dream.
September 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The interior, though, is based mostly on the Ennis house, with a few rooms and corners taken from the Hollyhock house and a couple others.
I wanted the Kusanagi home to have a feeling of familiarity, but with an architecture that doesn't quite fit together, like in a dream.
I wanted the Kusanagi home to have a feeling of familiarity, but with an architecture that doesn't quite fit together, like in a dream.
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Dark Science fun fact: the "Kusanagi" house is largely based on the Vandamm house in Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
Kusanagi's architecture is Frank Lloyd Wright inspired, so it felt appropriate for the mostly nonexistent Kusanagi to have a composite FLW-style home that never existed.
Kusanagi's architecture is Frank Lloyd Wright inspired, so it felt appropriate for the mostly nonexistent Kusanagi to have a composite FLW-style home that never existed.
September 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Dark Science fun fact: the "Kusanagi" house is largely based on the Vandamm house in Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
Kusanagi's architecture is Frank Lloyd Wright inspired, so it felt appropriate for the mostly nonexistent Kusanagi to have a composite FLW-style home that never existed.
Kusanagi's architecture is Frank Lloyd Wright inspired, so it felt appropriate for the mostly nonexistent Kusanagi to have a composite FLW-style home that never existed.
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"The author's barely disguised fetish," is a funny trope until you realize *my* fetish is reflective surfaces with environmental details that that no one can even see at web resolution.
October 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"The author's barely disguised fetish," is a funny trope until you realize *my* fetish is reflective surfaces with environmental details that that no one can even see at web resolution.
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There is nothing gayer in comics than people having hands.
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
There is nothing gayer in comics than people having hands.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Let me take over Dilbert, it's not like Scott Adams will need it in Hell. I've got a ton of great ideas to turn that comic around!
Step 1: rename it DILFbert.
Step 2: after a year, rename it MILFbert.
There is no Step 3.
Step 1: rename it DILFbert.
Step 2: after a year, rename it MILFbert.
There is no Step 3.
January 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Let me take over Dilbert, it's not like Scott Adams will need it in Hell. I've got a ton of great ideas to turn that comic around!
Step 1: rename it DILFbert.
Step 2: after a year, rename it MILFbert.
There is no Step 3.
Step 1: rename it DILFbert.
Step 2: after a year, rename it MILFbert.
There is no Step 3.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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My gf made the mistake of asking whether I had distinct voices for the DS cast in my head, because of COURSE I do, have you met me?
Kim has a mostly PNW accent, with a lot of vocal fry but kind squeaky. Kind of like Teen Titans Raven but higher pitched.
Kim has a mostly PNW accent, with a lot of vocal fry but kind squeaky. Kind of like Teen Titans Raven but higher pitched.
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My gf made the mistake of asking whether I had distinct voices for the DS cast in my head, because of COURSE I do, have you met me?
Kim has a mostly PNW accent, with a lot of vocal fry but kind squeaky. Kind of like Teen Titans Raven but higher pitched.
Kim has a mostly PNW accent, with a lot of vocal fry but kind squeaky. Kind of like Teen Titans Raven but higher pitched.
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Skinny watercolor paper continues its reign of terror!
One of the plots from the Sailormoon manga I legit love is the whole Sailor Quartet/reformed villainesses turned superhero THING. I think they're neat :)
#sailormoon #fanart #watercolor #amazonessquartet
One of the plots from the Sailormoon manga I legit love is the whole Sailor Quartet/reformed villainesses turned superhero THING. I think they're neat :)
#sailormoon #fanart #watercolor #amazonessquartet
January 8, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Skinny watercolor paper continues its reign of terror!
One of the plots from the Sailormoon manga I legit love is the whole Sailor Quartet/reformed villainesses turned superhero THING. I think they're neat :)
#sailormoon #fanart #watercolor #amazonessquartet
One of the plots from the Sailormoon manga I legit love is the whole Sailor Quartet/reformed villainesses turned superhero THING. I think they're neat :)
#sailormoon #fanart #watercolor #amazonessquartet
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Speaking as someone who mostly likes drawing monsters, what are babies if not a kind of monster?
December 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Speaking as someone who mostly likes drawing monsters, what are babies if not a kind of monster?
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My favorite homophobic complaint in Dark Science was, after years of gay subplots, heroic left wing terrorists and canonically trans characters, when Kim finally confessed to Ling, a guy commented "wow so even *you're* trying to score woke points now"
October 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
My favorite homophobic complaint in Dark Science was, after years of gay subplots, heroic left wing terrorists and canonically trans characters, when Kim finally confessed to Ling, a guy commented "wow so even *you're* trying to score woke points now"
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I like when Kim is trying hard to be sweet but is still kind of a Creature.
December 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I like when Kim is trying hard to be sweet but is still kind of a Creature.
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So I'm realizing that 2025 may have been my most successful year ever? Dark Science Vol. 1 was a smash hit, that and the DS Companion are coming out next month, with the DC Minis series I now have weekly updates for the first time, and I put out more pages of Dark Science than ever? Huh.
December 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So I'm realizing that 2025 may have been my most successful year ever? Dark Science Vol. 1 was a smash hit, that and the DS Companion are coming out next month, with the DC Minis series I now have weekly updates for the first time, and I put out more pages of Dark Science than ever? Huh.
PSA to the folks affected by this Hiveworks crap: if you want to signal boost a project of yours or just want to connect with a webcomics veteran who's made a living Despite Everything, feel free to DM me!
It's wretched when artists get screwed like this. Just know my door's always open.
It's wretched when artists get screwed like this. Just know my door's always open.
January 13, 2026 at 2:34 AM
PSA to the folks affected by this Hiveworks crap: if you want to signal boost a project of yours or just want to connect with a webcomics veteran who's made a living Despite Everything, feel free to DM me!
It's wretched when artists get screwed like this. Just know my door's always open.
It's wretched when artists get screwed like this. Just know my door's always open.
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On a more positive note, many of the creators from Hiveworks came together to create the Chimera Comics Collective - a place where we could maintain the 'webring' aspect of Hiveworks and continue supporting each other.
Please follow us here! 🦁🐐🐍
@chimeracomics.bsky.social
Please follow us here! 🦁🐐🐍
@chimeracomics.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
On a more positive note, many of the creators from Hiveworks came together to create the Chimera Comics Collective - a place where we could maintain the 'webring' aspect of Hiveworks and continue supporting each other.
Please follow us here! 🦁🐐🐍
@chimeracomics.bsky.social
Please follow us here! 🦁🐐🐍
@chimeracomics.bsky.social
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The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement at:
cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...
cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...
January 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement at:
cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...
cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...
January 12, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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I’ve been posting boards from the pilot on my Patreon. Here’s a lil peek.
January 12, 2026 at 3:54 AM
I’ve been posting boards from the pilot on my Patreon. Here’s a lil peek.
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From the great Ryoko Kui
January 12, 2026 at 5:02 AM
From the great Ryoko Kui