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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · 14d

🎃🎃PAROXYSM VOL 5: HAUNTED is now live on Kickstarter!🎃🎃Check out our featured contributors, our rewards, special add-ons, and more on our page! Live from Oct 1—17 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mys...

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · 19d

Yes! They have this Zoom link and on their website too us06web.zoom.us/j/8976709610...

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · 19d

Looking forward to running this virtual panel on queer horror and healing for @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social tomorrow @1—2PM EST!

MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Sep 2

In addition to tabling this month for @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social I will be doing a virtual panel on healing within the horror genre, with a focus on community catharsis and queer horror. I hope you can join us and participate in the other workshops and events they have going on all month long!

Black and white image featuring a closeup of a digitally inked illustration of a boy with flowers coming out of his face and chest. To the lower right is text announcing a virtual panel for Queer Zest Zine Fest called "Horror as Healing: Building Community by Queering Horror, a virtual panel with MystoPress".

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Sep 10

The prelaunch page is LIVE for our upcoming Kickstarter! We're live October 1st so please follow and stay tuned for more sneak peeks at our latest Paroxysm volume. Our contributors have knocked it out of the park with this one! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mys...

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our Kickstarter is just a little over a month away! With 15 contributors and more comics and art than ever, I'm so excited for you to see what we've been cooking all these months.

The prelaunch page is live so please head over to give it a follow so you'll be notified the moment we go live!

A black, white and red promotional graphic with a grid of several black and white illustrated drawings and comic panels in the background. In the foreground is text announcing the upcoming anthology with an image in the middle of the book cover, along with three pages of comics as a preview for the contents of the book. The text reads "Paroxysm Vol 5: Haunted" above the preview images, and below is a QR code to follow the prelaunch page.

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh my gosh thank you so much!! I really appreciate your feedback!

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Sep 5

That would be fantastic, thank you!

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Sep 2

In addition to tabling this month for @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social I will be doing a virtual panel on healing within the horror genre, with a focus on community catharsis and queer horror. I hope you can join us and participate in the other workshops and events they have going on all month long!

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Aug 22

I'm really excited to participate in @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social this year AND hosting my very first panel on healing and horror comics. Join me and many more great zinemakers next month via this virtual zine fest!

Queer Zest Zine Fest @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social · Aug 22

Natalia Lopes (Mysto) is a queer Latine working comic artist and micropublisher with over 6 years of publishing, editing, crowdfunding, and printing queer horror comics through their label MystoPress.

@mystopress.bsky.social
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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Aug 21

LOVERS LAKE, an illustration I recently finished for Paroxysm Vol 5 coming to Kickstarter October 1st. I've got a short comic and a few other goodies for this anthology so look out for more teasers and our other contributor features soon!

Black and white digital illustration of a siren luring a victim into the lake using a human puppet with its tail. The creature is seen under the water with an open mouth ready to strike.

Close up of the victim with the siren puppet whose head and chest are barely above water.

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Aug 21

We've been hard at work behind the scenes and can't wait to share our featured creators this year including folks brand new to Paroxysm like the fabulous @bowsully.bsky.social Stay tuned!!!

Bow @bowsully.bsky.social · Aug 15

I've been quietly working on my submission for a while now...excited to see it all come together soon! 👻

MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 2

IT'S OFFICIAL: PAROXYSM VOL 5 will be launching on Kickstarter October 1st! Get ready for horror comics, art and writing centered around the theme of HAUNTED made by our largest lineup of contributors yet. If you want to support indie/marginalized creatives, stay tuned for more campaign info soon!

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jul 24

Really excited to come back to Wilmington in just a few weeks for Stone Soup, so if you’re in the area and want to grab zines/trade, I’ll be there and at 2 more events. Unsure what things will look like event wise for me in the future, but I know I’m not the only one who had to scale back this year.

MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 17

MystoPress will be returning to Stone Soup Zine Fest August 9th in Wilmington, NC! Presented by the good folks at @milkandhoneycomics.bsky.social be prepared to see some amazing artists and fellow zinesters! I also hope to have a new thing printed by then. Hope to see you there!

Poster for Stone Soup Zine Fest featuring a stylized illustration of animals walking through a forest and perusing tables with zines. There are banners behind a couple of the tables with information on when and where Stone Soup will be held, and a list of sponsors of the zine fest on the bottom right corner.

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jul 10

A peek at the very first contribution by @artofddraik.bsky.social to Paroxysm Vol 2 (so long ago!) as we gear up for their work in the upcoming Volume 5!

Danielle Draik @artofddraik.bsky.social · Jul 8

Working on my project for Volume 5 of Paroxysm Horror Anthology (published by @mystopress.bsky.social) and found my notes and storyboards for my first go around in Volume 2: Possession with my experimental comic project, “The Path”, which you should totally read.

Sketchbook pages by Danielle Draik of their comic, “The Path”. Hurried storyboard doodles and notes.

Two larger sketches/drawings for pages of the comic, “The Path” by Danielle Draik.

Sketchbook pages by Danielle Draik of their comic, “The Path”. Hurried storyboard doodles and notes with a larger drawing on the right side.

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jul 6

Just A Regular First Date accordion-folded mini now available at the fabulous distro @radiatorcomics.bsky.social along with most of my other comics & zines, come and get emmmm

Radiator Comics @radiatorcomics.bsky.social · Jul 2

We recently added Just A Regular First Date by @mystopress.bsky.social to our distro! Natalia kills at small quick gags that flip horror tropes on their heads! www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...

Just a Regular First Date | Radiator Comics

Radiator Comics distributes, produces, and promotes hand-made, self-published and small-press comics that focus on self-expression and storytelling. At the core of our mission is a commitment to incre...

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 17

Also thank god I'll never have to draw an easel ever again after this comic.

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 17

(3/3) It's kind of funny how the bug reveal was initially drawn to be much smaller (more maggoty) & I was nearly done inking that penultimate page before scrapping the whole thing and starting over. I want to draw gorier things in future comics, because inking blood is fun. I hope you dig this one!

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 17

(2/3) When I say this is prob some of my best work, it's because of how concise I was with visually translating the story. Each beat escalates from page to page and the apprehension of what you'll see with each page turn feels solid. I was closely looking at Junji Ito's work for his pacing.

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 17

It's been a while since I've shared a longer form comic from years past on here. "Muse" has to be one of my favorites, featured in Paroxysm Vol 2 back in...2020. Damn. It's kind of a love/hate letter to art school, inspired partly by a horrible rash I had on my hands during that time. (1/3)

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 17

MystoPress will be returning to Stone Soup Zine Fest August 9th in Wilmington, NC! Presented by the good folks at @milkandhoneycomics.bsky.social be prepared to see some amazing artists and fellow zinesters! I also hope to have a new thing printed by then. Hope to see you there!

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 10

Glad you’re feeling better tho!

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 10

Amazing how not having to worry about your own survival on a daily basis improves mental wellbeing.

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 9

In case you aren't aware, I have a newsletter! Receive monthly(ish) updates on newest releases, upcoming appearances and shop sales courtesy of Gumbo, our trusty mail slug. Currently working on archiving all my entries as this newsletter is now a year old! Sign up here www.mystopress.com/newsletter

Black and white illustration of Gumbo, the mail slug, a slug with many eyes and a postal worker hat and bag full of mail.

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 9

It’s something I need to remind myself of every now and again too, so you’re not alone!

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 8

Sometimes we grow out of certain motifs or techniques, which imo means we’re growing in our visual vocabulary and in what makes us feel joyful/authentic about our own work. I go through phases like that every few years, so be encouraged about finding new ways to get joy out of your work!

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MystoPress @mystopress.bsky.social · Jun 7

I’ve seen campaigns list them individually but sometimes that can get overwhelming to look at, especially with how small the preview images can be. But I’ve only done them as an add-on item I contact someone about later to figure out which one they want.

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