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Lorena Simbelmina | 𝔹𝕆𝕆𝕂𝕎𝕐ℝ𝕄𝕊
@simbelmina.bsky.social
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Comic artist, illustrator. (she)
📖 Literary Fantasy
🗝 Historical Aesthetics
🌿 Botanical & Strange
✨ Occasional Fanart
Bookwyrms: bookwyrmscomic.com
Portfolio: lorenasimbelmina.com
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Lorena Simbelmina | 𝔹𝕆𝕆𝕂𝕎𝕐ℝ𝕄𝕊 @simbelmina.bsky.social · Nov 22
Hi! I'm Lorena, creator of #Bookwyrms, a fantasy comic about rebel librarians.

Comic and its newsletter:
📖 www.bookwyrmscomic.com
📨 mailchi.mp/c90dae90d6c9...

I'm also on Instagram as lorenagarcia_art, where I post more regularly.

#webcomics #comics #graphicnovels #indiecomics
Cover art for Bookwyrms comic Volume 1, depicting characters Hedy, Arabelia, Suzzen, Kveld, Rogier and Dylion at the Undine Library Hall staircase.
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Bookwyrms pages are back! And today's the comic's 10th anniversary! 🎂 I'm celebrating with a giveaway ✨
See how to take part, and the latest comic page, here: www.bookwyrmscomic.com/comic/page374/
Bookwyrms 10 year anniversary giveaway
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I'll be at MCM London Comic Con next week! 👀
Event info laid out: MCM London Comic Con, happening October 24-26 at Excel Centre. My table will be K-17, and I'll bring Bookwyrms comics and Compendiums of Curiosities zines, plus postcards, prints, sticker sheets and more!
October 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Also: The comic will resume updating pages on November 27th! Which is also #Bookwyrms' 10th anniversary 🎂✨
September 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The Anatomist 🫀

#stickers #anatomy #bookwyrms #skeleton #skull #heart #brain #illustration #art #comics
Sticker sheet design around the Bookwyrms character Dylion, in the center, holding a book that reads "Anatomy" on the cover, with elements around him following the theme: a skull covered by a glass dome, some bones in jars, skeleton and heart models, notebooks and posters featuring anatomical drawings, a pile of books with a skull and an eye model and a brain in a jar.
September 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Kveld the Cosmologist 🪐

#art #bookwyrms #illustration #astronomy #orrery
Portrait of Kveld, a bold, purple-dyed haired librarian who studies to become a cosmologist. She's looking straight ahead, determined, holding some books, with an orrery just before her and a celestial chart behind.
July 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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The Historian 📜

#art #stickers #bookwyrms #history #illustration #scrolls #manuscrips
A sheet of stickers containinig the Historian portrait and: scrolls, illuminated manuscrips, a writing ball, books, clay tablets with runes aa globe, quills and inkers.
July 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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I cannot take them home with me so I draw them and keep them that way.

#sketchbook #art #rocks #meteorite #crystal #fossil
Open sketchbook with drawings of rocks, fossils, meteorites and crystals made with pen and pencil.
July 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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More Stickers! The Botanist 🌿

#art #stickers #botany #illustration #bookwyrms
Sticker sheet including a portrait of Suzzen in the centre, a flower press, some journals, specimen jars and bottles, an open herbarium, tea, and a pile of books with a small fern inside a glass dome.
July 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Thank you CAA for such an inspiring Intro to Astronomy course, and @cambridgeastro.bsky.social for hosting it! I will miss the weekly lectures 💫
Closeup to one of the IoA telescopes at Cambridge
June 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I have a new series of sticker sheets in the works 👀 Bookwyrms character-themed!

#art #stickers #dnd #storyteller #bookwyrms
A sticker sheet containing Rogier's portrait in the centre, and 10 items surrounding it: an open book with a map, a mask, an opening chest, a poems book, a star/light in a bottle, a pile of fantasy books, a broken sword, a lyre harp, a chained book and a suspended tower.
June 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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My website got an update! lorenasimbelmina.com
Logo image reads "Lorena Simbelmina". Next to it, the linework for a little tower illustration. All in purple-ocre shades.
June 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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It's been a while! But I have some new art I can share until the new Bookwyrms pages arrive. Today, Dylion's portrait, "The Anatomist" 🫀

#bookwyrms #heart #anatomy #art
Portrait of Dylion Lyall, sitting at his desk, holding an Anatomy book, all framed and decorated with skeleton hands and a heart.
June 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Bookwyrms updated! Someone is back at last!

📖 www.bookwyrmscomic.com/comic/page373/

#comics #graphicnovel #webcomics #indiecomics
Close up to Suzzen, staring, surprised.
April 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Making so many little drawings like this lately, and enjoying it so much. #bookwyrms #botany #art #digitalart
Photo of a digital drawing, with a tower of decorated books, a small bell with some ferns inside, and a branch falling over the books. All inked.
April 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Bookwyrms updated! What would you rather be?

📖 www.bookwyrmscomic.com/comic/page372/

#comics #graphicnovel #webcomics #indiecomics
Suzzen turns to look at Dylion, surprised.
March 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Current sketchbook bag.

#art #supplies #pencase
March 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Bookwyrms updated! Oh, Suzzen...

📖 www.bookwyrmscomic.com/comic/page371/

#comics #graphicnovel #webcomics #indiecomics
2 close-up panels show Professor Hemlic's severe expression against Suzzen's upset one.
March 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Bookwyrms updated! More surprises! 👀👀

📖 www.bookwyrmscomic.com/comic/page370/

#comics #graphicnovel #webcomics #indiecomics
Split panel with close-ups to Suzzen, Rogier, Arabelia, Dylion, Merula and Thatch, where we can only see one eye for each of them, turning, surprised.
February 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Hi!
I'm Miikka! I draw a webcomic called "Year In Hereafter", which is a fantasy-adventure. I generally draw original characters and stories, mostly in fantasy setting. I've done some commercial work as well for indie writers. :)
Here's some of my stuff, share me some of yours? ^^
#webcomics #art
December 22, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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The kickstarter for the anthology I'm a part of is now live!!
It would mean so much if you reading this could check it out, and share it around!

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thegreatcomictree.bsky.social The Great Comic Tree Anthology @thegreatcomictree.bsky.social · Feb 19
Our #Kickstarter is live! Help us bring our book to life & pre-order your copy ✨🙌 'The Great Comic Tree Anthology: Stories through the Seasons' collects the works of 16 UK-based artists and storytellers.
4 seasons, 16 artists, 120 pages. #indiecomics #publishing
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The Great Comic Tree Anthology: Stories through the Seasons
Explore the seasons through the eyes of 16 storytellers and comic makers!
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February 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Exhibited 2 pages of Bookwyrms recently in Cambridge! ✨

#bookwyrms #art #exhibition #comics
Myself trying to act natural, standing next to the 2 framed Bookwyrms pages at the Cambridge local creatives exhibition.
February 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Sundays are for drinking my favourite tea 🫖
Green pumpkin-shaped teapot, patterned mug and pot, along with mirror, inking set and comic books in the background.
February 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Bookwyrms updated! A unexpected visit 😬

📖 www.bookwyrmscomic.com/comic/page369/

#comics #graphicnovel #webcomics #indiecomics
Suzzen is not having a good morning. Close-up to her face in room bathed by the morning light.
February 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM