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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL
@rachelordwayart.bsky.social
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Cartoonist, letterer, poster of silly stuff. She/her.

Email @ [email protected]

Portfolio, shop links, commission info, & links to other social media @ https://rachelordway.com/

#art | #comic | #commission | #lettering | #sketch
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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · Nov 15
I try to challenge myself with every #comic , so I went all-out with the action choreography and #lettering (hand-drawn SFX + digital dialogue and balloons)

#traineryellow #pokespe #pokemon

Commission info: rachelordway.com/commissions/

Buy the zine: ko-fi.com/s/2d027b0f18

(2/?)
A black-and-white comic page. Yellow smiles, clenching their fist, then points dramatically in the air, declaring, "Okay! Today we're definitely going to catch a Pokémon!" They're "surfing" a life preserver across the ocean, out from Vermilion Harbor. Yellow's clutching a fishing rod and Pikachu crouches on the float beside them. Yellow rears back, preparing to cast the fishing rod, looking nervous. Yellow murmurs to themself, "All right...if we play it smart, no one has to get hurt...so just stay calm—" The lure at the end of the fishing rod, a Pokéball, splashes into the water. A moment later, Yellow is pulled halfway off the life preserver by a giant YANK on the fishing line. Pika pulls Yellow back, and the fishing rod flies out of Yellow's hands. An angry Dragonair erupts out of the water with a BLOOSH, then slams its tail down onto the life preserver, breaking it in half (KRUNCH) as Yellow and Pika leap into the ocean. Yellow is treading water, Pika crouching on Yellow's hat, growling and emitting sparks of electricity (ZZT ZZT). Yellow frantically gasps, "Pika, no! The water will conduct the electricity! Try to draw its attention with Quick Attack while I—" Pika has already leapt into the air as they realize Dragonair's horn is glowing, charging up for an attack. PSHOOOOO! Dragonair shoots a laser beam directly at the spot Pika was just in—but Yellow has grabbed Pika's tail and slammed Pika down into the water, both of them going under and holding their breath. Yellow and Pika surface for air, Yellow thinking to themself, "Dragon Rage? That doesn't make sense—" Dragonair's tail stabs into the water, barely missing Pika, who's quickly yanked out of the way by Yellow with a cry. Yellow and Pika frantically swim away, Yellow thinking, "Dragonair sightings are rare because they usually run away. What would make this one attack so aggressively?" The Dragonair flies into the air, swooping in front of Yellow and Pika, blocking their way. But looking at it head-on, Yellow realizes Dragonair's pulling the fishing rod around with it, the rod's Pokéball lure stuck in Dragonair's mouth. Yellow leaps toward the fishing rod as it whips past, yelling, "Pika! We have to get the lure out of its mouth!"
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For today only (Dec 14) All Systems Red (1st book in The Murderbot Diaries) is on sale across all US ebook retailers for $2.99 (published by Tordotcom, edited by @leeharris.net cover art by Jaime Jones) www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Pitchy Patchy!

Once a highly decorated Akan military commander, the man who would become known as Pitchy Patchy was stolen from his home and enslaved in Jamaica, but he was able to escape to freedom... 1/
Watercolored drawing of a man carrying a long-handled whip will a bell on it, covered in a costume of thousands of colored strips of cloth
December 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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idoodleonmargins.bsky.social
New sticker sheets debuting at #animeweekendatlanta next Thursday! So happy with how they came came out #stickerapp #apothecarydiaries #kpopdemonhunters #anime
December 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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A soldier and a pig man in a movie theater. The subtitle reads “Better a pig than a fascist.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Furballs No. 276! Thanks for reading! You can read new comic strips three times a week, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, so be sure to follow along so you don't miss a single strip!

This comic is for all ages. 🐶🐱

#comicstrip #comic #webcomic #pets #dogs #cats #animals #cartoon #snow #sled
Panels 1 -3 Red and Blue are sitting on a sled, slowly passing a small twig in the snow Panel 4 Blue: "Maybe we should find a steeper hill--" Red: "SHUT UP."
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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ALIENS (1979)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 23” x 14”

The concept here is that the aliens and the lone human-—who is an alien to the others—are posing for a group photograph, with the photographer being out of view to the right. 1/4
A group of aliens surround a bearded human as they strike a pose for a group photo. The aliens resemble Earth animals ranging from lizards, birds, and fish to more wildly imagined creatures.
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
“One interesting thing about Phantom of the Opera is that the novel has a distinct throughline about the joy of the simple life and the triumph of the commoner over the rich and powerful, and none of the films address that,” I stammer, pretending I’m not thinking about half of Gerard Butler’s face
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
“[Christine] told us in a few hurried words that Erik had gone quite mad with love and that he had decided ‘to kill everybody and himself with everybody’ if she did not consent to become his wife.”

Now #ThePhantomOfTheOpera novel is quoting memes at me from 1910?!
December 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Ugh, I’m officially 0 for 4 on trying to accomplish adult life stuff and feeling very “What a week, huh?” “Lemon, it’s Tuesday” about it. Maybe I should just hibernate til New Year’s
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The image in my header is a drawing from a trip to north Wales, where I hiked up to the top of that mountain where Merlin saw the red and white dragons fighting.
I fell off the top of said mountain, but not very far (broke my easel, though).
Image is a watercolored drawing of hill with a windswept hawthorn tree on top, stones and rocks, some winter grass, and a man in no shoes painting at an easel, a pipe in his mouth. There is a label with a white dragon and a red dragon framing it that says "Dinas Emrys - Gwynedd/Snowdonnia 6 April 2023." Other arrowed labels say "the foundations of the ruins of Vortigern's tower," "The hidden glade with the dragon pool," and "spot where, discalced, I took a pretty rough tumble, slipping on the wet grass and doing some mischief to my hand and ribs."
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Some quick art of my new centaur Pathfinder character, Cinthy, for her game token. Alas, her horse half is not visible.
digital drawing of a very pink Uma cowgirl with a pink open collared shirt over a green fringed bikini top. The shirt is tied under her big booba. She also has a long pink three-toned braid with flowers in it. She's holding a flintlock pistol and winking cutely.
December 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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The book version of Erik remains my favorite because he's such a funky little weirdo
(though of course I'm using the 1925 film designs)
#ThePhantomOfTheOpera #sketch
A page of cartoony pencil sketches of the 1925 silent movie version of The Phantom Of The Opera. 1: Christine, looking unnerved, looks down and holds her hands comfortingly against her chest. There's what looks like a wedding ring on her left hand. She mumbles "He horrifies me...but I do not hate him." In one corner, a small cartoony Erik has an exaggeratedly ponderous thinking face, stroking his chin as he thinks "...I can work with that." In another corner, a small cartoony Raoul (a young white man with slicked-back short hair and a small mustache) sobs enormous tears, wailing "But Christiiine...!" 2: Two sketches of Erik wearing his "Masque of the Red Death" masquerade costume, a very swashbuckle-y outfit with a feathered broad-brimmed hat, a skull mask, and a long cape draped over his shoulders. We see him from the front, posing like a model, one hand on his hip and the other swooshing the cape out dramatically. Then we see him from the back, still posing like a model, but now we can see that the words "Don't touch me" are embroidered on the back of his cape. 3: A 3-panel comic. 3a: Ledoux and Erik argue loudly, Ledoux gesturing with one hand, Erik with both hands in fists at his sides. Ledoux insists "Christine is your PRISONER! She does not LOVE you!" Erik spits back "SHE DOES TOO! I'll PROVE it!" 3b: Erik nuzzles up to Christine, clasping her hand between his and pressing his face to it, gazing mournfully up at her with sparkling sad puppy-dog eyes. He asks "Cwistine…? You wuv me, don't you…?" Christine's standing awkwardly straight and says through a tightly clenched smile "Of c-course, d-dear..." 3c: Erik has jumped up to embrace Christine cartoonishly with both arms AND legs wrapped around her, triumphantly yelling back at a tired Ledoux "See?! I told you!" Meanwhile Christine cringes away from Erik and sweats, muttering "oh god oh man"
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
Some Claude Rains #ThePhantomOfTheOpera cus he's so ~Relatable~
(feat. Susanna Foster as Christine)
#sketch
A page of pencil sketches of the 1943 film version of The Phantom Of The Opera, starring Claude Rains as the Phantom Erique Claudin and Susanna Foster as Christine. Erique is a broad-shouldered man in his 50s with gray hair swept in waves to his right, wearing a tuxedo and (as the Phantom) a smooth sculpted mask that covers the upper half of his face from hairline to nose. 1: Erique wearing his mask, seen from slightly below, glaring coolly off to one side. 2: Erique without the mask, his face lined with age and anger, gritting his teeth and hunching his shoulders with frustration. 3: Erique and Christine, a pretty young woman with blonde hair in carefully arranged curls, wearing a ballgown and elbow-length gloves. Erique has her wrist in his hand, as if preventing her from touching his mask, nearly face to face with her as he pushes her against a wall, screaming in anguish, "I did it for YOU, Christine! Why won't you LOVE ME?!!" Christine looks frightened and disturbed, cringing away from him. 4: As if a moment later, Erique and Christine are identically posed, but Christine is touching her chin with her free hand, eyes raised as she thinks in confusion, saying "Who are you...? Wait, did you play the cello or something...?" Erique is stunned, tears running down his face in hurt frustration.
December 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Mrs. Claus!

Mrs. Claus was once better known by her given name, Alba. She was the nymph of the silver fir tree, a captain in the retinue of the goddess Artemis, and she first met Saint Nicolas when he came to do battle with her Lady. 1/
Watercolored drawing of a woman with white braided hair wearing laplandish buckskin and a cloak made of fir tree branches.
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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While looking up the Pink Panther Strikes Again scene where Herbert Lom plays the organ in a very Phantom-like way, I discover Herbert Lom PLAYED the Phantom in a 1962 film version…which begs the question…how far down the rabbit hole will I go…how many times will I re-consume the same dang story
December 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Mad dash to get merch made and ready for AWA coming up real soon! #kpopdemonhunters #huntrix #howitsdone
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
“obsessively doodle #ThePhantomOfTheOpera” was not at all on my 2025 bingo card, but it’s nice to feel the urge & joy of obsessively doodling again

#sketch
A pencil sketch of the Lon Chaney version of The Phantom Of The Opera, a balding skull-faced man wearing an opera cloak. He’s drawn cartoonishly small in the background of a cropped-off drawing of a woman, with a funny-looking expression of intense thought, eyes closed and a hand on his chin as he thinks “… I can work with that.”
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
Me: What was the name of that musical…they made a movie with Johnny Depp—

My brain: Edward Scissorhands

Me: NO

Me: The…the guy that killed people…the Barber of Seville…? Wait! “The demon barber of Fleet Street”?!

My brain: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

Me: NO!!!
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
OK, so, the Phantom Of The Opera novel sets up the “Angel of Music” concept with a beautifully-written backstory about Christine’s relationship with her late father, a violinist who told her stories about an Angel of Music visiting musicians and elevating their talent, so her belief in The Angel…
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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The Phantom of the Opera is there inside my mind, apparently
#sketch #ThePhantomOfTheOpera
A cartoony pencil-sketched 2-panel comic of the 1925 Lon Chaney version of The Phantom Of The Opera. Panel 1: Christine, a young woman with dark curly hair dressed in a fancy gown, stares bewildered up at Erik, a tall man wearing a tuxedo and large bow tie. His face is covered by a half-mask sculpted and painted like a human face, with a veil coming down from it to cover the mouth. Erik poses sternly, shaking his finger at Christine as he tells her, "The number one rule is, don't touch my mask." Panel 2: Erik and Christine are in exactly the same poses, only now Christine is clutching his mask and Erik's face has been revealed, with sharp cheekbones, sunken eyes, fang-like teeth, and a missing nose. Erik says, "What did I JUST f***ing say?!"
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I’m reading The Phantom Of The Opera for the first time & I’m obsessed with the fact that Erik wrote “also the Opera Ghost gets his own private box and an allowance of 20 francs a month” into the Opera’s business charter & keeps writing the new owners sternly worded letters when they don’t deliver
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I'm gonna post a lot of things I have for sale and in stock today, so bear with me, I don't do it often!
My most recent art book, A DREAM OF SWORDS, is the result of my visiting sword collections to sketch them in Paris, Leeds, Vienna, NYC, Graz, Cleveland, etc.
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A Dream of Swords
A handsome hardcover collection of 130 monotoned watercolor drawings from the arms holdings in museums that Chris visited in 2023 and 2024,...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Blambot's biggest sale of the year is finally here! Use code CYBERWEEK at checkout for 25% off your orders from Dec. 1st to Dec. 8th 2025! blambot.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Everything in the @papercutzgn.bsky.social online shop is 50% off right now (digital AND physical), so now’s a great time to check out Flash Gordon Adventures!

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November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Looky here! Got the first batch of books from the printer!

Still time to place your order! Get the book now at ko-fi.com/s/cdec8cd7c7
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM