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Xiaoyi @cleefouti.bsky.social · Nov 10
A bad time.
Four frames of a comic in a cartoonish style about a woman trying to cope with a bad time. First frame: the woman is in bed, staring at nothing. She's surrounded by darkness and a white spiral. Frame two: the woman is walking with an empty expression in the street. Frame three: she enters a grocery store by slamming the door. Frame four: a close up of her face as she loudly asks for cheese.
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"Gauze", the 7th 2025 Gobelins graduation short, is now online, and is inspired by the events in Gaza.
Directed by Noran Fikri Alezabi, Nicholas Arujah, Xinyue Ma, Yulin Yue, Xiaonan Zhou.
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsBa...
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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A recurring dream I had as a child:
A comic about how I used to dream there was a bathroom behind the mirror of my small family bathroom. The text reads: "My bathroom used to be blue. Every night for a very long time, I'd dream about going in, and see.." . A small child with a stripped pajamas is shown opening the mirror above the bathroom sink. The bathroom is bathed in blue. This page of the bathroom comic shows a pink bathroom, much larger than the blue one, with a bathtub in the middle. The text reads: "Behind it was a pink bathroom, bigger and warmer and prettier." The third page of the comic shows the child taking a bath in the big pink bathroom bathtub. The child closes their eyes. The text reads: "And as I took a bath there, I would wonder whose bathroom this was. Sometimes I thought maybe, they dreamt about mine."
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Watching modern horror films
A four frames comic about modern horror films. The first frame shows an old woman. The text : "Aaah welcome, I'm your old crazy neighbor." The second frame shows the old woman naked. The text: "I'm a witch but more importantly I'm NAKED, which is true horror.". The third frames is a close up of her face as she opens her mouth and reveals one tooth. The text reads: "Wrinklyyyy, Wrinklyyyyy". The fourth frame shows someone watching a movie on their computer, looking with suspicion. The text reads: "I feel this is trying to tell me something.
September 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Monday
A four frame comic drawn on post-it about how tired I feel today. The text says : I'm very tired. It's monday. My eyelid is twitching to bad too. At my desk, I start dreaming of a warm baguette. It's beautiful.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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When the fish left the river:
A four frame comic about the Cambodian genocide. In the first frame, a man can be seen from the back, looking at a window. The text reads: "I never ask my father about Cambodia." In the second frame, a silhouette of the father can be seen, screaming in his sleep, arms reaching into nothingness. The text reads: "What could he say, really, that he didn't already scream in his nightmares?". The third frame shows the father pondering on something, expression neutral. The text reads: But sometimes he would say "It's funny, when it happened, all the fish left the river. They never came back." . The fourth frame shows the father lowering his head, thinking. He says: "I guess they knew." The second page of the comic on the Cambodian genocide, and everything to come. The first frame shows the daughter, young, silent and unsure of what to say. The text reads: "I didn't say anything then." In the present, the daughter, now an adult, looks at the Seine in Paris. The text reads "But I often think of it now.". The daughter then crouches near the Seine to see if there are any fish left. She says: "Are you still here?".
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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No.1 Dutch cowboy booster @cleefouti.bsky.social said "what if Revolver Ocelot [Metal Gear Solid 1998-2015] really looked like Lee Van Cleef"
September 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Columbo
August 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Someone asked if my pfp was from Paranoia Agent and it is! I drew Maromi a long long time ago and never posted it here so:
A bunch of doodles of Maromi, a dog shaped plush from the Satoshi Kon anime Paranoia Agent. She's pink with big eyes and long black ears.
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Successful therapy
A four frame comic about my experience with a terrible therapist. In the first frame, there is a barren room except for three stiff and unwelcoming chair. The text reads: "Ten years ago I want to a therapist to deal with extreme anxiety. The room was empty except for three terrible chairs." In the second frame, the therapist can be seen, a woman with glasses and a stern expression. The text reads: "The therapist never said anything or smiled. I had to talk and talk for a whole hour.". The third frame shows me struggling to talk as Jeopardy can be heard from the other flat. The text reads: "This was difficult because her neighbour watched Jeopardy with the most advanced Dolby Surround System ever created. I couldn't hear my own thoughts. I could only think of JEOPARDY. Another text describes that I am sitting on the least bad chair. The Jeopardy presenter yells "THE FINAL CATEGORY IS SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES." The four frame shows me calling the therapist to cancel therapy, as a one ton weight flies off my shoulders. The text reads: "When I called to tell her I wanted to stop therapy, I felt a weight leave my shoulders. I guess she did help."
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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The craziest thing I have to deal with now re: AI is what I call App Men. Every now and then, someone will come to the library and tell me they want to make an app "with AI", like "I want to make an app to identify plants, with AI". And every time, they don't know anything about plants or AI.
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Captain Torture
A four frame comic about Captain Torture. The first frame shows the sign "BREAKING NEWS" and the drawing of a man, with the words "CAPTAIN TORTURES PASSES AWAY" near him. The second frame shows a journalist holding a mic, as she says "A controversial and divisive figure, Captain torture will be remembered for his key role in history." The News title is "Mourning day for Captain-". The third frame shows three posts on social media. The first one is by a man called Paul James @Paulitician. He writes: "I didn't always agree with Captain Torture but he sure was a man who believed in something." The second post by James Paul @Avegetable reads: "I pay my respects to Captain Torture and his family. His heart was in the right place- with our country." The third post is by SonicVomit @SonicBleh , and reads "HE TORTURED PEOPLE". The fourth frame shows an interview on TV. An angry man on the right is saying: "Let me tell you something, Jen. I think it's SICK to celebrate Captain Torture's death. These people should be LOCKED UP, and also tortured-". The news below says: "Every president on earth pays homage-".
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This film has a little Frankenstein rat with little Frankenstein scars and they put it in this giant tube to revive it and it made me laugh so hard I cried
The Frankenstein rat from the 2014 film I, Frankenstein
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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There are many ornithology books - but none will ever be as beautiful as the d'Orbigny to me:
An illustration of a pipra rupicola, a bird with vibrant orange feathers and a little hoop on its head. A closeup of an illustration of a Paradisca regia, a bird with red and green feather and a white belly. Closeup of an illustration of a lophophorus regulgens, a bird with green, red, and yellow feather. Ornismya ornata illustration. A small, vivrant green and brown bird.
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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There are many ornithology books - but none will ever be as beautiful as the d'Orbigny to me:
An illustration of a pipra rupicola, a bird with vibrant orange feathers and a little hoop on its head. A closeup of an illustration of a Paradisca regia, a bird with red and green feather and a white belly. Closeup of an illustration of a lophophorus regulgens, a bird with green, red, and yellow feather. Ornismya ornata illustration. A small, vivrant green and brown bird.
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Saw someone still working as I went home tonight. We waved to each other. I couldn't see their face at all.
A four frame comic. First frame, a woman sees a shadow in the window of a skycraper and realizes someone is still working late at night. Frame 2, she waves from the ground, far below. Frame 3, the shadow hesitates. Frame four, the shadow waves back, surrounded by yellow light now clearer in the night.
November 4, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Grandma fiction:
A four frame comics about the fact grandmothers read a lot of messed up fiction. First frame shows the Agata Christie's novel "The Big Four". The text reads: my grandmother read a lot and would often give me her books. There were the classics: . The second frame shows a period romance book with a woman and a castle. The text reads: "But most of them were, to my child eyes, unhinged." The book is about: 1910s romance, murder, Horny MC and Frigid Husband, cheating, 20% is wedding description, "they ALL die", and multiple wars. The third frame shows a book entitled "Blooming Iris" with a smiling woman on the cover, her hair flowing. The text reads: "I was fascinated by the insane, constant drama:". The book descriptions reads: "Dying farm", "A level of incest not seen since the birth of Charles II of Spain", and "She wants to DANCE ballet in ILLINOIS", "They almost all die". The fourth frames shows a book called "Ghost Twins". The text reads: "She was born in 1920, when the Eiffel tower was only 31 years old. To me though, she was forever young." The book description reads: "Woman solves her twin's murder WITH her twin", "Also incest", "More gore than in SAW".
November 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Out of fashion
A four frame comic about aging and feeling old. The first frame shows me in front of a LUSH cosmetics store. The text reads: "Mm my hair is getting grey...maybe I should buy henna.". The second frame shows a lush seller, apologetic. The text reads: "Oh I'm so sorry but we don't sell henna anymore...". The third frame shows the seller, smiling a bit awkwardly, as she says: "It kinda went OUT OF FASHION...". The fourth frame shows me with very visible wrinkles, feeling older than ever.
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I'm not saying that the SAW puppet isn't iconic but I think if it looked like Chiikawa SAW would be even more popular
November 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Steamboy (2004), Katsuhiro Otomo
A screenshot from the animated film Steamboy (2004). The protagonist's grandfather says: "An invention with no philosophy behind it is a curse."
October 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Cataloged many bats illustrations for halloween:
Bat illustration from Histoire naturelle by Buffon, 1749 Bat illustration from Cuvier's Le Règne Animal (1816) Bat illustration from Cuvier's Le Règne Animal (1816) Bat illustration from Cuvier's Le Règne Animal (1816)
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Knights of Guinevere (2025) / Satoshi Kon's Paranoia Agent (2004)
October 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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To celebrate @realgdt.bsky.social 's Frankenstein I spent the day cataloging anatomy books at the Alfort Library.
Anatomical illustration of a man's profile split in two to reveal its insides, from Atlas d'anatomie descriptive du corps humain by Bonamy and Broca, 1866. Black and white anatomical illustrations from Andreae Vesalii anatomia by André Vésale, 1604. Anatomical illustration from Andreae Vesalii anatomia by André Vésale, 1604. Illustration from Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain by Winslow, 1776.
October 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Last Halloween I was in a comic about getting stuck in the catacombs and it's still great, check it out !
cleefouti.bsky.social Xiaoyi @cleefouti.bsky.social · Nov 15
I'm in a new horror comic about the catacombs, drawn by my very good friend @anadapta.bsky.social ! You can read it here: shop.treasuryofbritishcomics.com/catalogue/RC...
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Remember: eight hours a day keeps the wrinkles away
June 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Me reading a 17th century book : hey it's that guy from the video game where you're stuck in a cauldron
Illustration of Iaponiorum Numen Triceps from Kircher's China Illustrated (1667). Possibly inspired by Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, or Manjushri. It shows a man with eight arms and three heads. His torso ends in an awkward ball surrounded by sunrays.
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM