Angie Wang
@okchickadee.bsky.social
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.
This story is really really really really good!! You should read it!!!
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
July 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This story is really really really really good!! You should read it!!!
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Don’t forget to send in your application! The deadline is next week. Apply at comicartsla.com 🌞🌴
June 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Don’t forget to send in your application! The deadline is next week. Apply at comicartsla.com 🌞🌴
Hi all!! CALA’s back for 2025 and applications are open!
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!!)
June 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Hi all!! CALA’s back for 2025 and applications are open!
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.
March 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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.
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.
www.vox.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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...
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.
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.
January 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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?
December 12, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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.
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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
www.comicartsla.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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
www.comicartsla.com
The discourse about that paper on highly-rated AI poetry especially misses the point—because one of the greatest strengths of poetry is that it’s a person speaking to you intimately, illuminating a real experience you may have never seen anyone put words to before. Some pieces I’ve liked lately:
November 22, 2024 at 5:42 PM
The discourse about that paper on highly-rated AI poetry especially misses the point—because one of the greatest strengths of poetry is that it’s a person speaking to you intimately, illuminating a real experience you may have never seen anyone put words to before. Some pieces I’ve liked lately:
Oh I guess Bluesky has videos now and I didn’t even notice! Here’s my animation about eating my baby’s toes from a couple years back:
November 15, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Oh I guess Bluesky has videos now and I didn’t even notice! Here’s my animation about eating my baby’s toes from a couple years back:
Reposted by Angie Wang
CALA is a 100% volunteer-run community show and we need your help to make the show happen! 🙏 If you're interested in volunteering to help out during the show in return for free lunch and a CALA volunteer T-shirt and everybody's gratitude, sign up here: forms.gle/DncVPWnKwPWo...
October 15, 2024 at 8:34 PM
CALA is a 100% volunteer-run community show and we need your help to make the show happen! 🙏 If you're interested in volunteering to help out during the show in return for free lunch and a CALA volunteer T-shirt and everybody's gratitude, sign up here: forms.gle/DncVPWnKwPWo...
Sorry to be an internet shitpig again, but I dug a little to find out who’s running NaNoWriMo right now because that FAQ is full of grammatical errors, so it was clearly written with no oversight. It looks like the interim director Kilby Blades is pretty much the only person left at the office? 🧵
September 2, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Sorry to be an internet shitpig again, but I dug a little to find out who’s running NaNoWriMo right now because that FAQ is full of grammatical errors, so it was clearly written with no oversight. It looks like the interim director Kilby Blades is pretty much the only person left at the office? 🧵
Reposted by Angie Wang
New from 404 Media: we did it, we figured out where the waves of AI-generated spam like Shrimp Jesus on Facebook are coming from. Creators in India, Vietnam and the Philippines learning from YouTube/Telegram guides, using Bing's image creator, making $ from Facebook www.404media.co/where-facebo...
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.
www.404media.co
August 6, 2024 at 2:20 PM
New from 404 Media: we did it, we figured out where the waves of AI-generated spam like Shrimp Jesus on Facebook are coming from. Creators in India, Vietnam and the Philippines learning from YouTube/Telegram guides, using Bing's image creator, making $ from Facebook www.404media.co/where-facebo...
Nashville, 2013, tour bus. Is this Claire who made the new Gaiman allegation on the podcast Am I Broken? Survivor Stories? open.spotify.com/episode/47en...
July 29, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Nashville, 2013, tour bus. Is this Claire who made the new Gaiman allegation on the podcast Am I Broken? Survivor Stories? open.spotify.com/episode/47en...
A comic about my Chinese parents who drive me absoluTELY BUGSHIT UP THE WALL when feeding my child AKSHGKHJSG;HJA
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
Stop Stuffing the Kids Silly
But our parents have made up their minds—the grandchildren must be fed.
www.newyorker.com
July 26, 2024 at 10:55 PM
A comic about my Chinese parents who drive me absoluTELY BUGSHIT UP THE WALL when feeding my child AKSHGKHJSG;HJA
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
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"Being a brilliant writer does not elevate one above the common smallness of being a person."
Brandon Taylor on Alice Munro is a must read
blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-do...
Brandon Taylor on Alice Munro is a must read
blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-do...
what i'm doing about alice munro
why i hate art monster discourse
blgtylr.substack.com
July 10, 2024 at 8:53 PM
"Being a brilliant writer does not elevate one above the common smallness of being a person."
Brandon Taylor on Alice Munro is a must read
blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-do...
Brandon Taylor on Alice Munro is a must read
blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-do...
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I have seen multiple people say they do not like single source stories (by which they mean, instances where later stories are copied from another story), and this sticks in my craw for sexual assault stories, because this requires that victims of sexual assault speak to multiple reporters.
July 6, 2024 at 9:19 PM
I have seen multiple people say they do not like single source stories (by which they mean, instances where later stories are copied from another story), and this sticks in my craw for sexual assault stories, because this requires that victims of sexual assault speak to multiple reporters.
I want to add one more thing. My 20-year-old students, the moment I tell them they need to do something they anxiously go, “Oh no, oh no, you’re right, omg. Of course, totally. Totally!” And that’s me, a random adjunct teaching one of their classes, not a world famous writer who’s their boss.
July 5, 2024 at 8:15 PM
I want to add one more thing. My 20-year-old students, the moment I tell them they need to do something they anxiously go, “Oh no, oh no, you’re right, omg. Of course, totally. Totally!” And that’s me, a random adjunct teaching one of their classes, not a world famous writer who’s their boss.
Thank you!
I have listened to and transcribed the first episode of the Tortoise Media podcast series "The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman." This is NOT a certified transcript and should not be relied on for legal or journalistic purposes without confirming with original audio. drive.google.com/file/d/1Ql2b...
Tortoise Media The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman, Episode 1.pdf
drive.google.com
July 5, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Thank you!
Guys, the podcast is available on Spotify/Apple Podcasts, and as infuriating as it is that Tortoise funnels you into their fucking podcast instead of providing the information clearly via text, you should listen to the nanny's first-hand account before being like "TERFs be lying."
July 5, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Guys, the podcast is available on Spotify/Apple Podcasts, and as infuriating as it is that Tortoise funnels you into their fucking podcast instead of providing the information clearly via text, you should listen to the nanny's first-hand account before being like "TERFs be lying."
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In our new issue: Laura Preston attends an AI conference as its honorary contrarian speaker.
An Age of Hyperabundance | Laura Preston
Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversa...
www.nplusonemag.com
April 18, 2024 at 2:13 AM
In our new issue: Laura Preston attends an AI conference as its honorary contrarian speaker.
I did some layout analysis for different comics, and then I figured they’d probably be helpful for other people too. It’s really interesting how cartoonists can use different methods to create a sense of subjectivity or wrongness or slow time.
June 4, 2024 at 1:19 AM
I did some layout analysis for different comics, and then I figured they’d probably be helpful for other people too. It’s really interesting how cartoonists can use different methods to create a sense of subjectivity or wrongness or slow time.
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Hi! Our application period is now open! 💙
June 1, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Hi! Our application period is now open! 💙
Whoops, a lot of cartoonists have probably moved over to Bluesky. Just FYI, CALA is back and accepting applications!
June 1, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Whoops, a lot of cartoonists have probably moved over to Bluesky. Just FYI, CALA is back and accepting applications!