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Angie Wang

Angie Wang

@okchickadee.bsky.social

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I draw, teach at USC, and run Comic Arts LA. I won a James Beard Award and an ASME National Magazine Award, and was a Pulitzer finalist. “Is My Toddler A Stochastic Parrot?” in the New Yorker.

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Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Jul 4

This story is really really really really good!! You should read it!!!

Meghan McCarron @meghanmccarron.bsky.social · Jul 3

My new short story is now live at @lightspeedmagazine.com. It's set in a struggling private Mars colony. I'm really proud of this one, and so happy to be putting fiction out into the world again www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

The Lord of Mars - Lightspeed Magazine

The grow pods clung to a red, humped ridge about a twenty-minute hike west from the habitats. Inside one of their plastic domes, a farmer named Oliver Judd nestled potato starts in the ground with nim...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

Reposted by Angie Wang

Comic Arts LA @comicartsla.bsky.social · Jun 24

Don’t forget to send in your application! The deadline is next week. Apply at comicartsla.com 🌞🌴

Don’t forget to send in your applications! June 30 is the deadline!

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Jun 10

Hi all!! CALA’s back for 2025 and applications are open!

Comic Arts LA @comicartsla.bsky.social · Jun 10

We are back! Get your applications in for CALA 2025 at comicartsla.com before the deadline of June 30. 🌞🌴 (And please share to spread the word!!)

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Mar 2

Okay, here’s what I think Piranesi looks like as a 2010s indie game. Some perfunctory survival elements (fishing, crafting, using the tides table to predict the next tides), a very minimal UI, and you go around exploring this massive empty place with different biomes looking for clues etc.

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Mar 2

I did not know that reading Piranesi would be the exact same experience as playing an excellent walking simulator! I would’ve loved walking around a huge map picking up bits of lore and piecing together the whole story.

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Feb 1

I’M SO HAPPY FOR YOU ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ You’re going to love this! Ahhh!!

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Jan 28

I’m excited lol.

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Jan 27

My visual essay on gossip came out right as we were evacuating from the LA wildfires, so I’m finally posting it now! 😅 I had a lot of fun making this comic about birds spilling the tea with each other… my favorite activity. www.vox.com/culture/3920...

Why gossip is just so irresistible

An illustrated guide to its delicious, subversive appeal.

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Jan 13

Ugh sigh, the internet will be the internet. I just had to make my stand or I was going to be driven up the wall not saying anything. 💀

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Jan 13

Yeah, the kid’s involvement was the new info for me in the article and it activated a fresh rage in me. But online there’s a bizarre lack of recognition that the kid was a victim, or hair-splitting about “was it REALLY child sexual abuse?” (yes—just as his SA of Scarlett was SA, not “skeeziness”)

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Jan 13

tw CSA, Neil Gaiman

If your immediate reaction when hearing a five year old experienced child sexual abuse is expressing disgust and concern that they’ll be a future perpetrator… that sucks, y’all. Sorry to be a social media scold and all, but that really sucks.

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Jan 13

Sorry—the details of the article are even more horrifying than the podcast, and it’s probably not fair to scold a random Bluesky user when the real problem is Gaiman. But I just want to clarify that what’s disturbing about the child piece is—most of all—that it’s CSA.

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Jan 13

Sorry, not trying to be a dick, but this is a bad take. It was child sexual abuse, not just modeling bad or boundary-less behavior—this five year old (!) is not a monster for acting out the sexual behavior his father is exposing him to.

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Dec 19

I’ll look that up! We’re always looking for cute games we can play together. Kirby’s been great for his age because the co-op character gets teleported to the primary player every so often so you can keep the momentum going, and he’s very proud of “doing his job”! “We’re a team, mama!” 😂

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Dec 19

This is amazing!! We started ours on Astrobot at 2.5 and he eventually figured out how to walk and jump at the same time, but not this… now we’re working on Kirby and the Forgotten Land and he’s running around as Bandana Waddle Dee declaring he’s going to protect mama by chopping the dogs. 😂

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · Dec 12

This goes well beyond humanities and classrooms. Art is not just an array of pixels on a screen. Physics is not just a sequence of LaTeX commands. Consciousness is not just an emission of tokens. The whole field is has mistaken byproducts for products.

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · Dec 11

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Dec 11

I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?

Reposted by Angie Wang

Comic Arts LA @comicartsla.bsky.social · Dec 11

It’s happening!! After 5 long years away, Comic Arts LA is returning this weekend December 14-15th at 3015 Rosslyn St. LA, 90065. From 10AM to 5PM both days, FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

www.comicartsla.com

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Dec 8

NOOOOOO…

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Dec 6

The app is clearly weighted towards TRYING to make you form a human-like relationship with the chatbots, specifically a romantic/sexual one—can’t blame them for getting their bag, I guess, but to think that it’s something more organic than rank manipulation is missing a good chunk of the story.

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Dec 6

I tried Kindroid as a result of the article and noted that the avatar generation process—no matter what you type in—has hidden instructions to make a human hottie even if you type in “floating ball of light.” It also guilts you when you delete your Kindroid by making a big fuss about it.

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Dec 5

the internet has changed a little since we last ran CALA 🙈

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Dec 5

but yes, everyone should come to CALA!!!

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Dec 5

omg I need to fix our social card image.

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Nov 26

this looks SO good 😭

Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social · Nov 22

Part of what makes poetry worth decrypting is the knowledge that someone encoded their experience into it, in a way that allows for multivalence in meaning and interpretations, which gives it dimension and body and life. I liked this by John Ashbery, even though it was a lot of decrypting on my end: