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cooklin
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zillennial cartoonist • author of ACE OF HEARTS • CCE comics professor at clark college • volunteer docent at nw museum of cartoon arts • vancouver, wa • she/her

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Portland/SW Washington folks…

Just plugging that I’m teaching a beginner’s comics class for six weeks starting next Wednesday! It will be at the new Clark College campus in Ridgefield and we’re gonna have a lot of fun!!!

To register: www.campusce.net/clark/course...
January 30, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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I worked for the news in Portland for the latter half of 2025. For the #iceoutcomics project, I shared my experience dealing with the public relations teams at ICE and DHS. Spoiler: they suck.
I worked for a local media outlet in Portland for the latter half of 2025. Few ICE detainment stories we covered stuck with me quite like the story of 27-year-old Jose Paniagua Calderon. His arrest on Fourth Plain Boulevard in Vancouver, Washington was recorded from two different angles. Both videos show Jose’s vehicle being driven away by ICE agents, but not before rising and falling while Jose screamed. According to his family, the visible bump was his foot being run over. After local media outlets picked up the story, DHS posted a statement on X: By Tricia McLaughlin: Never happened. ICE did NOT run over this illegal alien's leg. Pure theatre. No Injury.    After ICE officers applied wrist restraints, Paniagua launched into an Oscar-level performance, dramatically screaming while officers simply moved his vehicle off the roadway. He walked around normally immediately after without issue and received a full medical evaluation including multiple X rays that showed ZERO fractures, dislocations or injures. This statement was surprising not because of its contents but because it existed at all. ICE and DHS ignored almost every inquiry I sent them. When they did respond, it was usually weeks late, short, and/or rude. This is not normal for government communications. One night, after dealing with ICE and DHS’s deliberately terrible communications teams for months, I was unfortunately privy to a Jesse Watters segment about all the horrible illegals ICE has been getting off the streets. I wanted to throw up listening to it. After most of my inquiries to ICE and DHS being ignored, it filled me with rage to see the way they were so obviously in cahoots with right-wing media, feeding them all of their “success” stories while leaving local journalists high and dry. I no longer work for the news, so I feel at liberty to say this. Be assured, the only people putting on an Oscar-level performance are the public relations goons at ICE and DHS. They so blatantly and repeatedly lie. They ask the American people again and again to deny what they can see with their own eyes. And somehow, people all over this country eat it up.
January 29, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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First comic reading I ever did at @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social in August 2022 vs. my reading at BwP for my debut graphic memoir on Saturday 🥲
January 26, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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the duality of cat
January 24, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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TONIGHT with @erikamoen.bsky.social at @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social !!!!!!
January 24, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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So honored to have an excerpt of ACE OF HEARTS up on the @crucialcomix.bsky.social website!!

It’s the part of the book where I finally realize I’m asexual after years of confusion and hurt and compulsory sexuality. I hope y’all will check it out 💜💚🙂
January 17, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Y'ALL! IMPORTANT UPDATE!

The venue for my author event has CHANGED.

It will be taking place at BwP's SE Division location instead.

Date, time, and awesome guest @erikamoen.bsky.social remains the same!!!

Updated flyer below. I hope y'all can still make it!!!
January 17, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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it is ACE OF HEARTS RELEASE DAY, BABY!!!

this is my debut graphic memoir about my experiences with love while coming of age as an asexual person.

booklist gave it a starred review which apparently means it’s good!!

if this sounds like your kinda book, check it out and let me know what you think 🥲
January 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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I think an elephant moved into the apartment above mine
March 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Hey, Mark. I just printed out the passage of the handbook on changing out group photos. Just might be good to peruse when you're between things.

#severance @benstiller.redhour.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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excited to announce that my debut graphic memoir, ACE OF HEARTS: LESSONS IN LOVE FROM AN ASEXUAL GIRL, published by Street Noise Books, will be out in February 2026! 🖤🩶🤍💜
February 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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me when I’m on hold for an hour an a half
an old tweet from Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce from 2011 that reads, “Haha this song selection is out of control”
February 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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irving b stans rise
February 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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hourly comic day 2025 (5/5)
panel labeled HOURLY COMIC DAY ‘25 cooklin holds Winnie. Winnie says “mrow.” cooklin says, “thanks for reading!”
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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hourly comic day 2025 (4/5)
7pm-8pm: DINNER AND A MOVIE A POV view of the TV with dinner in front. The TV reads SATURDAY NIGHT. on the table in front of them, there are two bowls, arrows indicate they are COSTCO ROTISSERIE CHICKEN AND HOME FRIES. a short glass on the left reads DIET DR PEPPER. a tall can next to it reads WHITE CLAW. a pastry on the right on a napkin reads BLONDIE (THEY TURNED OUT GREAT!) 8pm-9pm: WATCHING THE MOVIE cooklin and Eric sit on the couch with their beverages. Eric says, “Wait. Is Nicholas Braun ALSO playing Jim Henson?” cooklin says, “He sure is.” 9pm-10pm: WATCHING ERIC PLAY CYBERPUNK 2077 cooklin and Eric sit on the couch. Eric has a game controller in his hands. cooklin thinks, “WHAT THE HELL IS THIS” 10pm-11pm: MOISTURIZING BEFORE BED cooklin, her hair in a bun and a towel around her, puts lotion on her face as she looks in the mirror. she thinks, “If I do this consistently I should be like Dubya getting the shoe thrown at him… I’ll never get old!”
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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hourly comic day 2025 (3/5)
3pm-4pm: BAKING SOME BLONDIES cooklin stands in front of a counter with a stand mixer, pouring something into a measuring cup. An arrow points to the AirPod in her ear reading “an audiobook about the 1872 gubernatorial election in Louisiana, actually” 4pm-5pm: NAPPING WITH WINNIE cooklin lies on her bed next to her cat Winnie. They are both asleep. 5pm-6pm: WALK WITH ERIC cooklin and Eric walk happily in a downtown area. 6pm-7pm: MAKING DINNER cooklin stands in front of a kitchen counter, knife in hand, ready to chop potatoes on a cutting board. An arrow points to the potatoes reading POTATOES. An arrow points to where an AirPod would be and reads NO AIRPODS. ALONE WITH MY THOUGHTS. DANGEROUS.
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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hourly comic day 2025 (2/5)
11am-12pm: UNLOADING Eric and cooklin walk through a hailstorm, with arrows pointing to the hail reading VIOLENT HAIL. Eric holds packages of paper towels and toilet paper while cooklin wheels a cart that balances a large box on top. cooklin says, “we got home just in time.” 12pm-1pm: MORE CHORES cooklin now folds her laundry on her bed, the arrow pointing to the laundry basket reading LAUNDRY. She wears an AirPod and an arrow points to it reading SAME MURDER PODCAST. 1pm-2pm: CHECKING INSTA cooklin sits on the couch, on her phone. She holds a hand to her head. She says, “oh shit, its hourly comic day!” 2pm-3pm: DRAWING COMICS cooklin hunches over her iPad, drawing vigorously. A thought bubble reads, “alright, I’m committed now…”
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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hourly comic day 2025 (1/5)
7am to 8 am: Doomscrolling cooklin lies in bed on her phone. Her cat Winnie lies next to her. Her partner Eric shouts from the next room “hey, why don’t you get out of bed!!!” 8am-9am: CHORES cooklin holds a laundry basket as she walks toward her in-unit washer/dryer. she smiles and she has an AirPod in her ear. an arrow points to the laundry reading LAUNDRY. an arrow points to the AirPod reading ANOTHER MURDER PODCAST. 9am-10am: RIDING TO COSTCO cooklin and Eric ride in a sedan on the highway. Eric says, “this is going to be so expensive.” cooklin says, “but remember, we will save more in the long run!” Eric says, “so true.” 10am-11am: SHOPPING AT COSTCO cooklin and Eric walk with their very full shopping cart. This time, the roles are reversed. cooklin says, “this is going to be so expensive.” Eric says, “but remember, we will save more in the long run!” cooklin says, “so true.”
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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replica of the shoe thrown at george w. bush in a new york museum
February 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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my emotional journey watching the new episode of #severance tonight
January 31, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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went to an art party tonight
mirror selfie of me! backwards mirror selfie! letter stickers on a sheet of white paper in varying sizes that read “worm? worm.” and a little worm sticker a poem made from little scraps of paper with words written on them. it reads, “Hell goddesses are cool but electric parrots girl why”
January 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Text message from my mother that reads, “Hey! Have you heard of the lemonade stand!! Hey!! You got any grapes?” My response is, “Oh my god. I’m sending this to all my friends.”
January 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Donald Trump’s first presidential portrait from 2017. He is smiling and looks friendly. Top text reads ME WHEN and bottom text reads ME WHEN IT’S CHICKEN NUGGET DAY. Donald Trump’s second presidential portrait from 2025. He looks evil probably because he is. Text reads CHICKEN NUGGETS ARE GONE
January 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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🥺
January 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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telling my kids this is Aly & AJ
January 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM