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Katie Shanahan
@ktshy.bsky.social
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Story Artist/Director. Sometimes comics. 🇨🇦
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Cartoonists, I’d love to hear your stories! For local resources, please check out @defend612.bsky.social
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ICE OUT Cartoonists against ICE Calling on cartoonists and artists to tell your stories about the ICE occupation of your towns and cities! *4-panel comics* *3:4 Instagram format* Use this Blue: *There is a color drop block of blue to copy * Use these hashtags: #iceout[your city] #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics
January 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that. I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport. I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house. I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Sketchbook speed-run #studies July-Dec 💨 Big thanks to The Vancouver Artist group, zeet_studio_sketch, bodiesinmotion.photo #gesdrawparty for all the inspiration this year 🙏✨ Wishing everyone good vibes in 2026! 🐴
January 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Figure drawings referencing BodiesinMotion.photo #studies
December 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Quick ink study from the central library rooftop #studies
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Hades II: Silver Sisters 🌙 #hadesgame
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Swordtember Day 4: Scale 🗡️ #swordtember #swordtember2025
September 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Swordtember Day 3: Automaton 🗡️ #swordtember #swordtember2025
September 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Swordtember Day 2: Moss 🗡️ #swordtember #swordtember2025
September 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Swordtember Day 1: Shell 🗡️ #swordtember #swordtember2025
September 2, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden #studies
August 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Sunset beach park #pleinairpainting #studies
August 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Gesdrawparty 229- Koyo Yamamoto #studies
August 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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A few more #Jinx figure drawings with #zeet_studio_sketch #studies
August 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder: Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up. Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.
August 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Listen, I had to.
Anne of Green Gables kicks Frieza in the face.
August 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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How Hayao Miyazaki storyboarded the car chase in The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Tokyo Movie Shinsha
August 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Another fun and expressive Amita Hachidori session with #gesdrawparty #studies #sketchbook #figuredrawing
August 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Jinx figure drawing session with #zeet_studio_sketch #arcane #studies
August 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Sketchbook speed run Nov ‘24-July ‘25. Figure drawings referencing #zeet_studio_sketch #Gesdrawparty #studies
July 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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#gesdrawparty figure drawing #studies
July 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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#GesDrawParty figure drawings #studies
July 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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So many of the best trends in comics today can be traced back to the debut of Flight Magazine in 2004. Check out the reissue of that seminal anthology here inklorebooks.com/series.

They even reprinted my somewhat bizarre afterword (it was odd in 2004; it's even odder now)!
The cover to the newly reissued anthology Flight Magazine Volume #1 from Inklore Books, featuring a beautiful painting with a winged adventurer, blimp, biplane, fantasy city—you name it.
July 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Some Stranger Things themed figure drawings with #ZeetStudioSketch #studies #MikeWheeler
July 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM