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I wear many masks. Writer, artist, goth, polytheist. Societal misfits of all kinds are my people, for we share the same enemies. I am author of the webcomic Alcatraz High School, with some more novels forthcoming.

https://alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/
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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · Oct 11
Alcatraz High School: Celestial Daddy Issues
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You probably know by now that Harry doesn’t follow advice very well. But at least he’s not getting mixed up with Zeus and Hera.
You can find previous pages on
the official website:
alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com
#artsky #nephthys #webcomic
Harry bids Nephthys farewell, while Todd the Grim Reaper warns Harry not to get mixed up in the family drama of the Egyptian Gods.
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As Woot the Wanderer and Zinnia travel northward through Gillikin Country of Oz, they’re about to be ambushed by an old companion, Scraps.

#OzArt #ArtSky #Illustration #WizardOfOz
Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, waits behind a tree as Woot and Zinnia travel up the Yellow Brick Road of Gillikin Country, the shortest of the roads and a little off-route, but the easiest way through the wilderness. How dare they go on an adventure without Scraps!
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The map of Oz in my upcoming novel “Zinnia’s Wish”, as drawn in-story by Woot the Wanderer himself. Based in the maps drawn by Dick Martin and James E. Haff for the International Wizard of Oz Club.

#FantasyMap #WizardOfOz #ArtSky #Illustration
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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My wife sketched this drawing of the Egyptian Goddess Qedesh on paper, while I traced it, colored it and added shading/textures.

#artsky #Egypt #Kemeticism #Goddess
The Goddess Qedesh sits on a lion holding a bunch of blue lotus flowers, with Her name written in hieroglyphs beneath, against a papyrus background.
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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In this illustration for my upcoming Oz novel “Zinnia’s Wish”, Zinnia enjoys some pumpkin spice tea with Jack Pumpkinhead.
#WizardOfOz #Illustration #ArtSky #JackPumpkinhead
Ozma is Jack’s “father” because she was still a boy when she brought him to life, and Dorothy is his “mother”, both as a “Return to Oz” reference and because DorothyxOzma is the OTP, I don’t make the rules.
October 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Alcatraz High School: Celestial Daddy Issues
Page 8
You probably know by now that Harry doesn’t follow advice very well. But at least he’s not getting mixed up with Zeus and Hera.
You can find previous pages on
the official website:
alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com
#artsky #nephthys #webcomic
Harry bids Nephthys farewell, while Todd the Grim Reaper warns Harry not to get mixed up in the family drama of the Egyptian Gods.
October 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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This is the scene in “Zinnia’s Wish”, my upcoming Oz novel, where Zinnia first puts on her gloves, gifted to her by Ozma so that she doesn’t accidentally кill anyone with her “Touch of Death” that she wished upon herself. #WizardofOz #illustration #ArtSky #Ozma
In “The Magic of Oz” by L. Frank Baum, Glinda gifts Princess Ozma a dress made of “spun emeralds”. How she was able to make thread out of emerald is never quite explained, but let’s just chalk it up to magic. These long gloves are from that outfit, and Ozma gave them to Zinnia so she doesn’t instantly kill everything she touches with her hands. They’re supposed to be bright green, of course. I tried my best to make them still look shiny and sparkly in greyscale. It’s an important character development for her, adding the only real color to her wardrobe besides shades of grey, courtesy of Ozma herself. Symbolic of Ozma’s protection of Oz.
September 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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The latest illustration for my upcoming Oz novel “Zinnia’s Wish” is from the chapter where Zinnia is under house arrest in the palace after wishing for the power to bring death into Oz. The art on the wall is a redraw of a John R Neill illustration. #illustration #wizardofoz #ArtSky #Ozma
September 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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This is a scene in my novel where Zinnia and her friends stop to spend the night with a family of bee keepers, who’s problem is that when the spell that keeps people in Oz from aging took hold, it left their son a baby for over a century, not even old enough to safely eat honey. #WizardOfOz #ArtSky
The Winkie beekeeper Meghur declares about his son, “I wish he had been at least as old as this boy here when that spell hit.” Woot, across the table, gives a sheepish look, while Zinnia watches in mild amusement.
August 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I spent today working on this illustration for my upcoming Oz book “Zinnia’s Wish”, of Woot the Wanderer and Zinnia setting out on their journey from the Emerald City, consulting his map of Oz. #ArtSky #Goth #WizardOfOz #Illustration
Zinnia holds a map of Oz, wearing a weary expression in anticipation of their dangerous journey, while Woot looks on confidently.
August 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Alcatraz High School: Celestial Daddy Issues
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You can find this and previous pages on my Facebook page, as well as on the official website, where you can also check out some character bios and the official blog:
alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com
#artsky #webcomic #Nephthys
Harry pulls on Nephthys’ headdress only to find it’s connected by an elastic band which painfully snaps back onto Her head, embarrassingly. After this Nephthys drops a letter for Harry to give to Her son Anubis. Most people would just throw a bunch of random hieroglyphs together for this and call it a day, but I went out of my way to make it actually grammatically accurate, I have friend who studies ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs who helped me, B. Niall Bjørn Nielsen. I posted the whole grammatical breakdown on my webcomic’s website. So basically it says: This is your mother, Nephthys. I wish to speak with you. Please, meet me at the oasis. Love, Nephthys (Ending the letter like that is a bit of a joke of course).
August 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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An unfinished illustration for “Zinnia’s Wish”. This is Scraps the Patchwork Girl, a living dummy from L. Frank Baum’s “The Patchwork Girl of Oz”, and essentially my main character Zinnia’s complete opposite.
#ArtSky #WizardOfOz #PatchworkGirl #Illustration
July 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This is Lan and Zinnia, the first illustration for my upcoming Oz book Zinnia’s Wish. I was originally going to leave it as line art, but Zinnia just doesn’t look goth enough unless you shade her in. This is a rough draft. First illustration of many. #ArtSky #WizardOfOz #Illustration
Zinnia has just dug herself out from under an avalanche that she was buried under for twenty years (because you can’t die in Oz), and is in no mood for her neighbor Lan’s silly conspiracy theories about Glinda the Good being evil.
June 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Alcatraz High School: Celestial Daddy Issues
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You can find this and previous pages on the official website, and also check out some character bios and the official blog:
alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com
#ArtSky #Webcomic #GrimReaper #Medjed #Nephthys
Nephthys pecks at the window, as Harry presses his face against the glass and wonders why there’s a bird in an inferno. Meanwhile Medjed’s thinking about the bonus he could get from Osiris if he apprehended Set. The Grim Reaper (aka Gevatter Tod, or “Todd” for short) enters and explains that vacation he won at the end of Episode 4 has been cut short because the death rates are up and the Death Department is understaffed. He elects to bring Nephthys inside, which Medjed is not thrilled about.
June 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Been a while since I shared some art, as I’ve been working on the illustrations for my upcoming novel. But I haven’t completely neglected my webcomic. Here’s a sneak peek at Medjed, a ghost-like ancient Egyptian deity only mentioned in the Book of the Dead. #ArtSky #AncientEgypt #Kemeticism
Medjed uses his telekinetic powers to levitate a cup of coffee at the break room for the Death Department in the astral realm. Note the slacks and shoes, and necktie instead of belt.
May 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Here’s the cover art for my upcoming novel “Zinnia’s Wish” by Kamui Ayami. Set in Oz in the 2020s, and based heavily on the original book series, it tackles the issue of immortality in Oz and its many drawbacks.
#novel #coverart #wizardofoz
Zinnia, Woot the Wanderer, Scraps the Patchwork Girl and Chocolate Chunk the giant hamster make their way down the Yellow Brick Road in Winkie Country (where the land is yellow). Looming in the background is the hill across the border in Quadling Country upon which Zinnia’s hometown Flutterbudget Center rests, and the Emerald City can be seen in the distance.
May 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Page 4 of the Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is up. Progress has been a bit slow while I work on publishing my upcoming novel “Zinnia’s Wish”. Read more of the comic here:
alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/347/

#Webcomic #ArtSky #Sutekh #Wepwawet
The God Set confronts Wepwawet while Harry looks on in bewilderment. Set is hated for killing his brother Osiris, but Set accuses everyone of holding an unfair grudge over the whole ordeal that was thousands of years ago now.
April 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I’ve updated my “The Decades in Music” mega-playlist, it goes back to 1970 now. These are my favorite songs of each year from 1970 to today. And yes, there’s still a lot of great music coming out in the 2020s. 🎧
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The Decades in Music: 1970-2025 ~ Full Playlist
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April 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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In planning for illustrations for my upcoming book “Zinnia’s Wish” I dug up some drawings I did of Ms. Zinnia Gair from her appearance in my webcomic a couple years ago. I won’t copy them outright but they’re certainly helpful as concept art. #Art #ArtSky
Three drawings of the only goth in the Land of Oz, originating from Alcatraz High School: Episode 4. Four more drawings of the only goth in the Land of Oz, originating from Alcatraz High School: Episode 4. She’ll not be using a bulky 1990s cell phone in the novel of course, but I like that expression and might use it.
April 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Here are the ancient Egyptian and Armenian holidays I will be observing this month. It’s quite packed, and Hathor gets two overlapping month-long festivities.

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Armeno-Kemetic Holidays for April (Արեգի-Ահեկի, 𓂋𓈖𓈖𓆗- 𓐍𓈖𓇓)
Here are this month’s holidays by my calendar, a mixture of ancient Egyptian and Armenian holidays. It’s a busy month as you can see. Bewa...
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April 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Today is the Feast of Set, Lord of the Oasis. In celebration, here’s a drawing of Set from my upcoming comic page in Alcatraz High.
𓇼𓀢𓏛𓇓𓍢𓏏𓐍𓃩𓀭, Սութեխի պա՝ռք!
#Sutekh #Kemeticism #AncientEgypt #ArtSky #Art
The God Set wears a devious grin, clad in an usekh collar with an ankh amulet, and a dark red cape.
March 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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My art of a pissed-off Thoth. He’s a really nice guy until you steal his book.
The ibis-headed Thoth with glowing red eyes and lightning in the background.
March 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Some honest early impressions I have on BlueSky, both good and bad. Don’t worry, though imperfect this place is still better than Facebook in my opinion, and definitely better than the dumpster fire that is Twitter.

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Early Impressions on BlueSky
Follow me:  https://bsky.app/profile/surenity.bsky.social I’ve been on BlueSky since about January, after becoming fed up with Facebook’s ne...
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March 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Page 3 of the Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is up. Read more of the comic here:
alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/347/

#Webcomic #ArtSky #Thoth #Wepwawet
After Thoth dismisses the class for lunch break (clearly needing a break himself from Sid), Harry bumps into Anubis’ son and secretary Wepwawet in the hallway, only for Set to make an appearance to his chagrin.
March 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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One of my sketches from back in the day; it always bothered me in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West how Fievel could turn his hat inside out and it became a cowboy hat. So I drew what everyone else in the movie saw. #ArtSky #TraditionalArt #AnAmericanTail #Fievel
In this pencil sketch Fievel stands holding two cork guns and looking silly with his hat inside out, the implication being that it was only in his imagination that it looked like a cowboy hat. There’s a little tag on the inside of the hat reading Made in Russia.
March 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM