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alimaza.bsky.social
Ali Maza ✨
@alimaza.bsky.social
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✏️ 26 yr old queer cartoonist, writer and Venezuelan immigrant
🤞currently on sub for my contemporary YA graphic novel + now working on a Middle Grade Fantasy
🌈 she/he/they (i prefer you alternate but any are fine!)
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another diary entry in my #sketchbook #artjournal #doodles #comic
A sketchbook page is open on a diary entry from Feb 27th, 2025. It says: Power went out today for two hours But at least I spent it with Mariaco (pink heart) shthey're staying over and it's so fun! We're drinking tea and drawing together! Illustrations are done in black pen and bright colored pens and include the two cups of black tea, drawing supplies and sketchbook, a lightbulb against a black background, and a drawing of me and my friend laying on top of each other on our phones, looking cozy.
March 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
alimaza.bsky.social
i was introduced to 90s Irish pop semi-recently and now everyone has to deal with it #music #queer
March 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Starting a new project is so fucking exciting:') my agents haven't had luck so far shopping my debut around so while it's not over yet it's good to get started on Book #2!!

here's a very early sketch of one of the characters! #writingcommunity #amwriting #kidlit #graphicnovels #queerwriters #comics
A drawing of a dark skinned Black teenage girl with a natural hairstyle featuring two top buns, wearing blue glasses, a bright jacket with a hood, long yellow striped socks, a bandaid on her knee, jean shorts and a blue t shirt that says "FANDOM SAVED ME". She's sitting on the floor with her legs crossed, holding an open comic book with one hand, licking a pink lollipop with the other, looking down and reading. The drawing is sketchy and the colors are quite saturated against a white background.
February 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Me: sometimes I like to quickly sketch out the #comic page I'm writing on my tablet, laptop or paper, to get a clearer sense of the format I'll use!

The sketch in question:
Some scrappy lines of vaguely shaped panels and humans and speech bubbles, not very intelligible to anyone but me
February 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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revisions are so daunting, but I've now added 49 pages to the existing document and there's still a good chunk left to edit before I send to my agents 🫠 oh the life of R&Rs #writingcommunity #author #amwriting #booksky #authors
A picture of my novel in progress, a Google Docs list of document tabs shows various pages, highlighting one that says PAGE 150 / CHAPTER 8
February 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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What's been up with my life lately. #artjournal #journal #art #comics #comic #soup #sopita #moms #funny #sick
Illustrated journal done in black pen and colored pens, reads: I just spent 3 days traveling and got to my mom's house 2 days ago in Venezuela. Obviously I have a lot of emotions right now. But mostly what I've felt is... [drawn in big green letters] SICK! ... vomiting, diarrhea, fever, chills, so much abdominal PAIN. [illustration of Ali, a light skinned person with curly hair and tattoos, face colored green to indicate nausea, covering their mouth like they have to throw up and saying HURK!] At least my mom is here with me, though her methods/advice are sort of bewildering sometimes... [Illustration of Ali's mom's arm holding out a bowl of soup while Ali is on the ground, clutching their stomach and groaning in pain] Mom: You need to drink more soup... Ali: I don't need SOUP. I need a DOCTOR. Mom: The doctor will probably just tell you to eat soup though... Pen handwriting reading: I swear, one of these days, it's like... [Illustration of Ali gasping and clutching their bleeding arm while on their knees] Ali: Mom... I got shot! I'm bleeding out! [Illustration of her mom staring at her blankly] Ali: Please help me... [Her mom then smiles and silently whips out a bowl of soup labeled SOPITA] Ali: NO.
February 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
alimaza.bsky.social
this is what it's like to #bi

#doodle #comic
February 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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stared at my art journal thinking of documenting the horrors of life currently and then drew this instead (which is very real)

#comic #comics #drawing #humor #doodle
February 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Why do these pictures of me and my dog have the exact same energy? #dog #twin
January 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
alimaza.bsky.social
Comic #art train!

Share one of your earliest panels or pages vs one of your latest.

The first is from 2018 when I was making short silly #comic strips, and the second one is a recent page from a much more serious project I've been working on 👀 aka age 19 versus age 25 [dialogue mostly redacted🤫]
January 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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...welp I wasn't winning anyway #cats #everdell #boardgames #cat
January 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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I'm Ali, a cartoonist and writer, and I am so new to Bluesky I just somehow accidentally deleted a post showing a snippet from my art journal so I'm uploading it again! Do hashtags work here? Someone teach me how this app works! #comics #art (Full comic on my substack: tinyurl.com/alimaza)
January 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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I have reoccurring dreams. This snippet from my art journal is about one of them. Four more pages are available on my Substack:)) Bluesky isn't ideal for posting multi-page comics unfortunately. Substack: shorturl.at/xXjrO #comics #art
January 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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guess where I went today #museumofsex #nyc
January 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM