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Bex Glendining 🍃

@lgions.bsky.social

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she/they | award winning uk illustrator and comic artist/colourist
https://www.lgions.com/

OGN On Starlit Shores - out now ✨
contact - [email protected] | Rep'd by Paige Terlip.

🚫 AI or NFT

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Bex Glendining 🍃 @lgions.bsky.social · Jun 30

my debut graphic novel 'on starlit shores' is available to pre-order in both the us (30th sep) and uk (6th nov) now! 🤩 bio.site/lgions

Bex Glendining 🍃 @lgions.bsky.social · Feb 13

So excited to share the cover for my debut graphic novel 'On Starlit Shores' coming 9th September '25 ✨

"In this YA urban fantasy graphic novel, Alex must return to the town where she was born to unravel the magical mysteries her late grandmother left behind."

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Jaws Stone - Art and whine

@jaws-stone.bsky.social

What happened?
2025

Mikhail coming back to his little ferret, Luca, after a messy day out.

An illustration of a big man holding a tiny woman in his arms. She's laying on a couch, surrounded by big pillows

December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM

Bex Glendining 🍃

@lgions.bsky.social

ahhh!!!! on starlit shores made it onto this list 😭💕

Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social · 3h

All the applause for the 17 ABLA titles included in Kirkus’s best books of 2025 lists! 👏🏽Congratulations to our authors, illustrators, and their agents on this recognition! We're beyond proud of all of you.

How many of these titles have you read?

For the full list of these titles, see our IG post.

Kirkus Best Books of 2025 lists include 17 ABLA titles!

December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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Charlot Kristensen

@zolwia.bsky.social

Giveaway fundraiser!
I’m giving away a copy of One day in June to 2 lucky winners.
To enter:
-Donate to the fundraiser - chuffed.org/project/rebu...
-Take a screenshot of your donation
-Email it to [email protected] with 'subject line' Pink June

Ends on 7th of January
Shipping cost covered by me

a photograph of myself holding 2 copies of One Day in June written by Tourmaline, illustrated by me. You can only see half my face behind the book covers.

December 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM

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Rex 💫

@rexpo.bsky.social

December 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM

Bex Glendining 🍃

@lgions.bsky.social

if you're in the uk and looking for xmas gifts you can still grab a signed copy of my debut graphic novel 'on starlit shores' from @happyreadingbooks.bsky.social ✨💕
www.happyreading.uk/product/-sig...

Happy Reading Children's Bookshop

www.happyreading.uk

December 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM

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Cathy Kwan 🍅

@completelycathy.bsky.social

NEW PRINTS & STICKERS are up on my Online Shop!! 🌟❤️‍🔥

If you like Let’s Go Karaoke and/or classic Hong Kong food, check out the new goodies!! 👀🥟🀄️🎤🎵🎶

US Shipping back!! Thanks so much 🫶❤️❤️

❤️ goodluckfriend.square.site ❤️

Photo of my new prints and stickers. Prints are from Let’s Go Karaoke and The Summer Hikaru Died. The stickers are of classic Hong Kong food, egg tarts, dumplings, lychee, jerky, fish tofu and siu mai.

Photo of stickers of classic Hong Kong food, egg tarts, dumplings, lychee, jerky, fish tofu and siu mai.

Photo of my art prints from my online shop

Photo of my gachapon stickers that are packaged in yellow envelopes that resemble Chinese protective talismans.

December 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Reza Afshar

@rezaafsharr.bsky.social

December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM

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Eileen Kai Hing Kwan 🦇

@whereiseileen.bsky.social

Thank you so much for all the amazing support and to everyone who’s made an order! 🙏🖤

My Online Shop is having a 10% Off Black Friday Sale all weekend long so don’t miss out ☺️🦇🖤

🦇 eileenkaihingkwan.square.site 🦇

November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM

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Sam Hogg

@thewhalergirl.com

Hey all, do I have any UK based concept artists following me (or who knows anyone) who would be up for a long term 22 month contract working on Dragonwilds at Jagex? Remote with a very occasional day in office in Cambridge. Development experience and fantasy genre work is a must. Mid level role.

November 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM

Bex Glendining 🍃

@lgions.bsky.social

i don't want to have to second guess if every image is ai!! i don't want to edit with ai!! i don't wait to generate anything!!!! i don't want to talk to an ai chatbot!!! go away omg

November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop)

@jambookshopuk.bsky.social

Just published a book.

Think it's good.

People say it is.

But really need to sell more copies.

Please grab one. Cheap!

davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...

November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM

Bex Glendining 🍃

@lgions.bsky.social

the handmaiden wip

screenshot of a wip sketch for the handmaiden movie. the two main characters are in an intimate embrace next to a fireplace

November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM

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Eileen Kai Hing Kwan 🦇

@whereiseileen.bsky.social

Reopening my Online Shop this Friday 28th at 1pm GMT with a 10% Off Black Friday Weekend Sale 🦇🖤🎁

Eileen Kai Hing Kwan 🦇 @whereiseileen.bsky.social · 18d

My Online Shop will be Reopening next week 🦇Friday 28th Nov-14th Dec🦇 with US Shipping available again + a 10% OFF Black Friday Weekend Sale 🖤

(Sorry I’ve been so quiet on here! 🙏 Life, work & running my family’s shop has been keeping me busy!)

eileenkaihingkwan.square.site

Photo of one of my VHD prints available from my online shop

November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM

Bex Glendining 🍃

@lgions.bsky.social

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a photo of a big fluffy cloud. there’s a lamppost and power lines in the foreground. the sky is muted blue winter sky

November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ available for work!

@nooskadraws.bsky.social

✨BUST COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!✨

to help me pay for extra expenses in preparation for top surgery in jan, i've decided to open up bust commissions! 🏳️‍⚧️

send me your beloved tavs, durges, dnd ocs, rooks, inquisitors, ocs, and more to: 🌿[email protected]🌿(pls don't dm me on here!) (rts = 💖🙏😭)

nooska's bust commissions are OPEN!
1 character: £45 / $59 (USD)
2 characters: £90 / $118 (USD)
contact: alex_dingley@hotmail.co.uk
payment through paypal invoices

Bust commission examples.
Left: A digital illustration of Sir Radzig Kobyla from Kingdom Come Deliverance (and also history). He has short cropped brown hair, a brush moustache and goatee. He wears his grey-beige hood lined with red, embroidered with plants and the Skalitz crest. He is surrounded by iris flowers.
Right: A digital illustration of Sir Hanush from Kingdom Come Deliverance (and also history). He has short cropped brown hair and a full dark beard. He has hazel eyes. He wears a breastplate adorned with gold metal details. He wears a blue and gold robe. He is surrounded by yellow gladiolus flowers.

Digital illustration of two character busts. One is a teal green skinned man with a pink curly moustache and red wavy hair. His eyes are black with blue irises. He grins in a wide smile at the person next to him.
The other person is a pink skinned tiefling with white horns. She has light pink long hair, pink eyes and dark purple lipstick. She wears a crown inset with a purple gemstone, and small silver hooped earrings.

November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM

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KristyQ01

@kristyq01.bsky.social

I did know that...because @lgions.bsky.social told me all about her when I asked them to choose a portrait subject for Wonderful Women of the World!

A beautiful portrait of a Black woman in an old-fashioned blue dress with white detailing and a lace collar. She's sitting in a pink room filled with green plants, with a model ship on the wall, and medicine bottles on the windowsill. Mary is holding a mortar and pestle, and some ingredients are waiting to be added: ginger root, an anise pod, and some green herbs (rosemary, maybe?).

Part two:
COMPASSION

Mary Seacole (1805-1881) could have been a nurse but her training in traditional Jamaican medicine wasn't recognized by the British establishment. Instead she served the wounded soldiers of the Crimean War in the 1850s by setting up a hotel where they could recuperate and be restored to health. When official recognition is denied, showing compassion
in direct ways can change the world.

November 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM

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Fanbase Press

@fanbasepress.bsky.social

Fanbase Press' "Between the Panels" Interview Series by @thatkevinsharp.bsky.social:

Writer @jamilarowser.bsky.social on Not Being Scared, FUBU Publishing, and Finding the Comics That Fit

Between the Panels: Writer Jamila Rowser on Not Being Scared, FUBU Publishing, and Finding the Comics That Fit - Fanbasepress

“Between the Panels” is a monthly interview series focusing on comic book creators of all experience levels, seeking to examine not just what each individual

fanbasepress.com

November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf

@queermedieval.bsky.social

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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Jenn Woodall

@funeralbeat.bsky.social

👩‍🌾 Grab your tools

An illustration of a young women yanking a weed out of a bed of marigolds. The primary colours of the piece are deep green and a saffron yellow, with some brown and moss green tones as well. The camera is looking up at the young girl with a forced perspective, as she pulls out the weed while leaning back. The text reads: PULL FASCISM UP BY THE ROOT.

November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM

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fa la la liz 🍉 ليز

@lizardry.bsky.social

Starting a new post and linking directly to the fundraisers because Bluesky accounts are getting deleted so often. I will then comment with the Bluesky account below the fundraiser so you can follow or chat with them and try to update as needed. I also fixed the graphic because it was bugging me.