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K. Briggs

@kbriggs.bsky.social

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Comics witch, teaching artist, zine-making forest hag 🌱they/she🌱 Pubs: Sycamore, a full text adaptation of Macbeth, The New Chapter Tarot, Triskelion, and more! 📍Greater Phil. area links: https://linktr.ee/withryn

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · Nov 14

A re-introduction for new folks on Bluesky: I'm Briggs, they/she, I make comics and art. My latest book Sycamore is a collection of all my short comics, available from @thirdbearpress.bsky.social or direct from me. I've also done a full text adaptation of Macbeth with @averyhill.bsky.social

Lady Macbeth comforts a bloodied Macbeth, right after he murdered Duncan

A collage featuring a starry sky, vintage drawings of trees, real flower petals, and drawings of sprouts

A layered drawing of a figure wearing a red deer skull, with the text "have I found the words yet? Or still just pictures and stories"

The High Priestess tarot card with the faces of three women representing Athena, Mami Wata, and Kali

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 2d

Ren Faire/Halloween test run

I’m wearing a Dread Pirate Roberts cosplay and holding a wooden sign that says “As You Wish”

K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 9d

East Vincent delays adoption of data center ordinance

“We the people bankrolled this guy and now he is trying to plow through this community.”

www.dailylocal.com

K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 9d

In an unspeakably dystopian move, the grounds of Pennhurst Asylum are the proposed site for a data center.

Sign the Petition

Protect Pennhurst from Data Center Development

www.change.org

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 9d

Reject modernity (nihilism)
Embrace tradition (being in your community, doing whatever’s within your power to make things a bit less shit)

Two tables full of snacks, food, toiletries, drinks, Narcan, and art supplies. One table has a banner that says “Solidarity Not Charity”, the other table has a banner that says “Food Not Bombs Montco”

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Radiator Comics @radiatorcomics.bsky.social · 11d

Philly Comics Expo in Philadelphia today!! partnersandson.com/pages/philly...

Philly Comics Expo

October 4th, 10am-6pm Presented by Partners and Son, the Philly Comics Expo will take place this year at Old Pine Community Center, 401 Lombard St, Philadelphia, PA 19147 Join us and over 160 artists/...

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 11d

It’s Philly Comics Expo at Old Pine Community Center!

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 12d

A short comic about Dad.

A grid with 8 panels and a spider drawn in pencil over a photo of the door to my Dad's woodshop. The text reads:"My father liked the number 8. Last digit of his birth year. In numerology, a mountain, a realist, an achiever. SAcred and balanced and infinite. Foundation of the Universe. He was a pillar of mine, at least."

A grid of 8 panels over a photo of a tiny spider on an apple, with a spiderweb dawn in pencil. The text reads: "The night he died I began seeing spiders everywhere. I am weaving a future without you, I am spinning the tale of your life. Over and over. Circling outward from the crushing intersection of your loss. Repairing. Creating."

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 26d

I’ll be at Philly Comics Expo on Saturday October 4th, with some of the phinest in indie comics

K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 26d

A guillotine in Piccadilly??

K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · 27d

A short comic about Dad www.patreon.com/posts/139191...

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Get more from K. Briggs on Patreon

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · Sep 11

Today is a good day to subscribe to some trans/NB writers and comic creators' Patreons. Some I can recommend: @eruditorumpress.com, @ballardiangorse.bsky.social , @teganoneil5000.bsky.social , @midnightpals.bsky.social , @alexandraerin.com , @smolrobots.bsky.social , @kbriggs.bsky.social .

Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · Sep 11

Every day I’m a little more glad to be a crowd-funded writer beholden to no corporate overlords.

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Fraser Geesin @frasergeesin.bsky.social · Sep 5

COMMISSIONS OPEN!
Waiting on some invoices so I’m opening commissions for the next few days. I’ll draw anything as long as it’s morally defensible. If you’re thinking you might get a portrait for Christmas then you might want to get in early before I get too busy. DMs open.

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · Aug 27

Sweden 2025. Incredibly grateful to have talented friends in beautiful places who organized us an art exhibition.

K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · Aug 16

Buddy would like to know if you have any ham for him?

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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.bsky.social · Aug 7

Recent additions to the Care Bear Sketchbook

True North Bear by @zeekayart.bsky.social

Work of Heart Bear by @kbriggs.bsky.social

The image features a hand-drawn cartoon bear, resembling a Care Bear, with a skeptical expression. Surrounding the bear are handwritten notes discussing the financial troubles of a company associated with an adult-oriented animated movie that affected its budget.

A black and white sketch of a bear with a heart motif on its side. The heart has small hearts within it and an arrow piercing through. The artist's signature and date are at the bottom right.

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · Jul 21

In loving memory of Ben Briggs, January 2, 1948 - July 18, 2025.

My Da passed away suddenly at his home on Friday evening, after spending a happy day puttering and playing horseshoes. He lived life on his own terms right to the end, I wouldn’t have had it any other way.

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · Jul 18

A public post this week on my Patreon! Some notes on Figure Drawing, with love to @adorkastock.com, since I've spent most of July running around to different teaching gigs.

Surprise Summer School | K. Briggs

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iolite Heart @iolite-heart.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy Non-Binary Day!

Sailor Uranus wearing an androgenous outfit while winking and waving, with a forum caption that says: "am i a boy? am i a girl? who knows!! but everyone finds me hot and that makes everyone gay

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · Jul 14

It seems that there's a lot of discourse around "can we afford the energy to have people not die to death of heat" and I refuse to even acknowledge this position because WE'RE GIVING AC TO THE SILICON THAT IS RUNNING GROK WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jul 13

People didn’t “used to be fine” without air conditioning during heat waves in the U.S. - a lot more people *just died*.

According to this study, air conditioning has cut heat deaths in the U.S. by around 80% since 1960.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century

This paper examines the temperature-mortality relationship over the course of the 20th century US both for its own interest and to identify potentially useful a

papers.ssrn.com

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · Jul 11

Tarot reading for the Full Moon in Capricorn: the Seven of Disks reversed and the Knight of Cups reversed. Detailed interpretation on my Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/133900...

Seven of Cups, reversed, tarot card from The New Chapter Tarot. A plow stands still in a field full of weeds, their roots can bee seen underground. Above The Plow constellation shines in the night sky.

The Knight of Cups, reversed, tarot card from The New Chapter Tarot. A figure in 15th century French armor holds a cup over-flowing with firey light beams. Behind them two horses leap in opposite directions.

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Illogical Volume @nearit.bsky.social · Jul 5

Extremely moved by the two pieces of guest art in this week's newsletter - @danmcdaid.bsky.social outpacing death and @kbriggs.bsky.social reversing the heartless.

Full images on the site. Best issue yet imo!

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The Black Racer, Jack Kirby by way of Final Crisis by way of Dan McDaid. But where's he going, and who has the pace to run with him this time?

Art that looks right out from the heart as drawn by K.Briggs.

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · Jul 5

A 4th of July pilgrimage

Me n my partner cool guying it outside the legendary Stone Pony.

Serving cunt in front of a giant Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ postcard

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Illogical Volume @nearit.bsky.social · Jul 5

Tremendous pack of comics and zines from @kbriggs.bsky.social waiting for me at home. Getting high with Herzog, reframing the past, self-discovery captured moment to moment - just the best stuff!

Photograph showing three works by Briggs: The Return & other shott comics, Let's Pick a New Name, and Warning Do Not Take Product If You Are Hyper Sensitive.

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K. Briggs @kbriggs.bsky.social · Jun 28

Books! Books! Books! Tabling at 2462 in Artist Alley this weekend for ALA’s annual conference.

A convention table full of my books! Macbeth, Sycamore, The Return, Anatomy of the (broken)Heart, Cradle of Civilization, Triskelion, Resistance. Plus zines and prints.

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