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Lainey Williams
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lesbian, comic artist + writer, sleepy ttrpg + star trek enjoyer. chicago based. she/any
portfolio: laineywilliams.com
webcomic: crashcoral.com
everything: bio.site/laineywilliams/
agent: @ litagentsaritza
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

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Meme that says "actually I don't really give a duck what people buy with their food stamps if you do it's because you're a fucking loser" in various fonts with a picture of a chubby kid in sunglasses doing finger guns
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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The art vs the artist's hands

(I don't have any good close up pics but this was a hand reference photo)
Colored comic page from The Hearth by Lainey Williams. Two white woman, Marika (short blonde hair) and Ása (long dark hair) sit eating soup of blood, jerky, and pine nuts. Marika invites Ása il to the bed. They lay together, and Marika confesses that she thinks they're going to die. A picture of a white woman in an embroidered jacket looking down at her hands. The view is from above, and an iPad with keyboard is in front of her on a paint covered desk
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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The Hearth (17/21)
A colored comic page from the Hearth, by Lainey Williams. Panel 1: Two white women embrace, kissing in a soft bed under a quilt. The one on the left has short blonde hair—Marika—and the one on the right has long dark hair—Ása. She also has a wound on her left arm, whose wrappings are loosening. P2: Ása’s hand, which is becoming more birdlike and clawlike, moves up under Marika’s dress. P3: Marika moves Ása’s dress down to suck on Ása’s breast. P4: Ása leans up, reaching down between Marika’s legs, though we can’t see her hands. Marika gasps, eyes wide. P5: Marika presses her face against Ása’s chest, her face turning redder than ever. Her hand is gripped around Ása’s arm, just beneath the wound. P6: Marika plunges her face down into the wound and begins to eat. Ása leans back, her expression a mix of pain and ecstasy as her blood flows over the sheets.
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The Hearth (16/21)
A colored comic page from The Hearth by Lainey Williams. Panel 1: a cabin at night in a clearing is surrounded by howling wind and a snowstorm. sound effects: woooooooOOOO Panel 2: Close up on two bowls of soup—a thin red broth of blood and jerky with some pine nuts mixed in. the person on the right, Marika, says “That’s the last of it.” Panel 3: Marika leans back and drinks the hot soup at the long wooden table by the hearth. Next to her, Ása leans down and scoops soup into her mouth. Panel 4: Marika looks sidelong down at Ása, who’s shivering conspicuously. Marika’s stomach rumbles. Panel 5: Same angle, but Marika looks away toward the hearthfire. Ása is looking away, but smirking, and her pupils have dilated and are reflecting light. Marika: It’s warmer above the hearth. Ása: Oh? Panel 6: Marika and Ása lay facing each other in the bed above the hearth. Ása looks gaunt, but is leaning toward Marika, smiling, while Marika huddles with her hands on the pillow. Marika: I think we’re going to die here. Ása: Oh?
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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The Hearth (15/21)
A colored comic page showing a monstrous, pale goose woman (Ása) speaking to a blonde, short-haired woman (Marika) with a bleeding ear. Panel 1: Marika: No, I— Ása: Lying to a witch. Unwise. Panel 2: Marika looks at her bloody fingers. M: … M: …I was hungry. Panel 3: Close up on Ása’s flat, animalistic face. Her eyes reflect sunlight/firelight like a dog’s. A: I see. Panel 4: Ása holds out her injured arm. Ása: Continue. Panel 5: Ása stares at Marika as she works anxiously to wrap the wound. Ása is smiling, showing pointed teeth. Panel 6: As Ása looks down at Marika, Marika blushes and passes her hand across Ása’s arm, marveling at its softness and warmth. Panel 7: Marika catches herself and moves away, looking up to catch Ása’s eye as she does. Ása has suddenly transformed back into her fully human form. Marika blushes harder.
October 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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literally 1
Qrt this with how intimidating YOU think you are on a scale of 1-10 and let other ppl reply to it with how intimidating THEY think you are
October 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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The Hearth (14/21)
A colored comic page from The Hearth by Lainey Williams Panel 1: Ása, a pale, dark haired woman, lays on the floor of a cabin, mumbling in old Norse. Marika, a blonde white woman, tends to her with a rag. Marika: I cannot understand you, I am sorry. Panel 2: Zoom in on Ása and Marika. Ása: (quietly) I c’not understand ya Marika: What? Panel 3: Zoom in further. Marika leans down to try and hear Ása. Ása: I am sorry. Marika: Please, a little loud— Panel 4: Ása lunges and bites into Marika’s ear hard enough to draw blood. Panel 5: Splash image of Ása, partially transformed into a feathery goose woman, smiling with blood on er mouth and chin. Ása: Now you understand me, yes? I am the witch Ása. You shot me.
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The Hearth (13/21)
A colored comic page in which a womandresses another woman’s wound, then licks the blood off her hands.
October 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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The Hearth (12/21)
Colored comic page from The Hearth by Lainey Williams. P1: close up on a woman’s hand reaching for a puukko knife P2: Close up on a half-transformed goose woman’s face as she stares up at the blade in the other woman’s hand. P3: Marika (blonde, kneeling) forces a bag of herbs onto Ása’s (laying down, struggling) face. Marika says: Shhh. I’m sorry. Shhh. Just…just sleep. Around them, the afterimage of a goose spirit arches. P4: Close up on Marika’s face Marika: Please. I’m trying to help. Don’t…don’t curse me. It’s just herbs. For sleep. P5: Close up on Ása’s face, human once more, as she drifts to sleep. P6: Marika’s knife strains against the tourniquet tied around Ása’s arm. P7: The tourniquet is cut.
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The Hearth (11/21)
A colored comic page. Panel 1: A pale woman, Ása, with an arrow shaft sticking out of her arm, begins to transform into a goose monster, her hair becoming feathers and her jaw unhinging to reveal a long tongue with serrated teeth on either edge. She hisses at a woman off-panel, who is holding onto Ása’s wrist. P2: Close up on the other woman, Marika, as she holds Ása’s arm still and pours some kind of herbed tea onto the wound. Ása screams. P3: CU on Marika’s hand wiping a cloth across the wound to clean it of blood. Her fingers are reddened with blood. Ása hisses. P4: CU on Marika’s hand as she holds Ása’s arm down and yanks out the rest of the arrow shaft. Ása screams. P5: Splash panel with a close-up on Marika’s hand brushing blood away from the cleaned wound, which has formed an oblong slash shape with visible musculature and fat. Marika’s fingertips are stained with blood. P6: Closeup on Marika’s face as she stares down at the gash. She looks transfixed. Her stomach rumbles.
October 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I love her
Photo of Gilly, a long haired tortoiseshell cat licking her paw on a crocheted rag rug cat bed. She's a little chunky and very cute
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The Hearth (10/21)
A colored comic page from The Hearth by Lainey Williams. P1: a woman lays in front of a mother oven under a quilt, on a ryijy-style blanket. There is an arrow protruding from her left arm. Behind her, a blonde woman in a white peasant blouse and green dress sits working with a mortar and pestle. P2: The woman by the fire wakes up and attempts to push herself up using her hurt arm. She cries out in pain. P3: The blonde woman drops her mortar and pestle, startled by the noise. She’s blushing and looks terrified. P4: The blonde woman approaches the woman on the floor, who asks a question in old Norse. P5: The blonde woman kneels next to the injured woman, pouring mashed herbs from the mortar into a small bag. P6: the blonde woman lifts up the other woman’s injured arm, taking hold of the side with the arrowhead. The injured, dark-haired woman yells more in old norse. P7: Close up on the blonde woman’s hand as she snaps the arrowhead off.
October 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The Hearth (9/21)
A comic page with two large main splash panels separated by a series of much smaller panels. The smaller panels alternate between illustrations of the plants on which different western russian/northeastern finnish plant remedies are based and close up shots of a kettle, a boiling pot full of rags, a hand wrapping a rag around a stick, a bouquet of dried flowers, a mug, a knife cutting fabric, a mortar and pestle crushing herbs, an arm with an arrow wound. The first large panel is mostly blue, and shows a woman in a skirt (Marika) dragging another woman (Ása) on a sled through the snowy forest toward a cabin. The second large panel shows Marika, a blonde woman with short hair, dressing Ása’s wound with a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. from the Hearth by Lainey Williams
October 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Hi #portfolioday! I’m Lainey Williams, a cartoonist and illustrator. I love to write and draw queer romance, surreal fantasy, and strange horror comics.

portfolio: laineywilliams.com
agent: @litagentsaritza.bsky.social
Color comic page showing a woman in front of a forest of trees lit red and shadowed blue by the setting sun. She looks out at the sun, then turns back toward her sled filled with pinecones. As she does, there’s an insert panel of a goose’s wings pressing down in flight. The woman, Marika, turns back toward the setting sun to see the goose’s silhouette. Her stomach rumbles. She grips her bow and begins to short-ski up a snowy hill toward the goose and the setting sun. A page from the webcomic Crash Coral, written by Randall Avilez and drawn by Lainey Williams. Panel 1: a teen girl in a sweatshirt pours syrup on her pancakes. “I—I think—No, I am gay. I’m gay.” Panel 2: her dad shoves food in his mouth while her mom sips coffee. They’re in a diner. Dad: …ok. Mom: Are you…Did you realize this only recently? Is…someone bullying you or something? Panel 3: Coral, the teen, slides down on her vinyl seat, looking frustrated. Coral: No no one’s bullying em. I woulda just punched them. Dad: Right. Coral: But yeah, I just found out or whatever at the show…on friday? Panel 4: Coral looks up at the ceiling fan turning above her head. Coral: And I think I’m in love with ricki… Panel 5: Her parents stare at her, frozen for a moment. Dad’s mouth is still full of food. Panel 6: Same composition, but Dad is grinning arrogantly and Mom is rolling her eyes with a smile. Mom: Don’t even say it. Dad: Wasn’t gonna— Mom: I don’t know how you even knew. Comic page showing three girls walking into a mock Guitar Center called Monster Music. Panel 1: From left to right, they say “Wow!” “You guys seriously haven’t been to Monster Music before?” “Nope!” Panel 2: Mikey, the white girl on the left, says “They have everything!” Kira: “Including a backup generator.” None of them acknowledge the huge floaty rift in reality crossing through the ceiling Panel 3: Kira looks on as the other two girls wander away. Kira: We still have a lot of stuff to unpack… Daniela: I just wanna look around for a second. Mikey: Yeah, be right back. A comic page without text, rendered in bright pinks, cyans, oranges and yellows. P1: a roadside diner at sunset with a pink mountain range in the background. IT’s called the redwood diner, ad the sign is backed by a stylized cloud with a sun peeking out behind it. P2: Two white women sit at one of the tables at the diner. One has long brown hair in an updo and is wearing a pink dress. She’s in the middle of putting a fry in her mouth. Her friend is looking over at her. She has wavy, short green hair and a trench coat on. P3: View over the girls’ heads. An orange doorless jeep is visible pulling off of the mountain highway into the parking lot of the diner. P4-5: The two women run down behind the diner into the redwoods that surround it. There’s an insert panel of a blonde white man in a letterman’s jacket shouting at them—apparently the driver of the jeep. P6: The brown-haired girl runs ahead, but looks over her shoulder at the green-haired girl.
October 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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The Hearth (8/21)
A colored comic page in which one dark-haired white woman lies in the snow, bleeding from an arrow wound, and another pale woman with blonde hair and a cloak on runs toward her. The blonde drops to her knees, her breath fogging around her as she weeps in despair, then looks up from her mittened hands as she realizes the dark-haired woman is still alive. The last panel shows her dragging the injured woman into the shadow of the setting sun. Dialogue: P1: No no no no I don’t— P2: I swear to you I did not know—I was only hungry, please—I cannot bear a witch-curse. I cannot—
October 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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The Hearth (7/21)
A full splash colored comic page, showing a woman, Asa, with long dark hair. She’s nude, splayed out in the snow with imprints of wings on either side of her. her arms are laying where the wingprints are. Her left arm has been pierced through with an arrow, and she’s bleeding into the snow. There’s a fisheye effect leading to the bottom of the page, where we see Marika standing among snowy and red-sunlit trees, holding her bow in front of her and breathing into the cold winter air. Above her, the sunset is slowly turning to purple dusk.
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The Hearth (6/21)
A colored comic page that’s mostly a full splash. A woman stands before a snow-covered frozen lake at sunset, raising a bow and arrow over her head as a goose flies in her direction. Two inset panels show the underside of the goose as it flies and the arrow speeding through the air. between these panels is a sound effect: thwip. The last panel/section shows the goose has transformed into a goose-winged woman, pierced by the arrow through one wing, falling through the air above the surrounding hills and red clouds.
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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sometimes u just gotta get cute for no reason
Picture of a white woman with long wavy brown hair. She's wearing a green bandana, honeycomb earrings, and a faded soccer mommy shirt under an orange corduroy shirt. She's got makeup on and is looking directly at the camera. You can see a small portion of a messy living room with zines pinned on the wall
October 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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The Hearth (5/21))
Color comic page showing a woman in front of a forest of trees lit red and shadowed blue by the setting sun. She looks out at the sun, then turns back toward her sled filled with pinecones. As she does, there’s an insert panel of a goose’s wings pressing down in flight. The woman, Marika, turns back toward the setting sun to see the goose’s silhouette. Her stomach rumbles. She grips her bow and begins to short-ski up a snowy hill toward the goose and the setting sun.
October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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The Hearth (4/21)
A color comic page showing a pale woman on short skis standing on snowdrifts among snowy trees. She aims a bow and arrow up above her, her breath making clouds around her face. She hears the flapping of a bird’s wings and turns to try and shoot it, but it’s gone, leaving a few red feathers in its wake. She stands still for a moment and looks over to see a few pinecones hanging from a nearby tree. In the last panel, the sun has started to set, and she stands in the distance, collecting further pinecones.
October 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The Hearth (3/21)
A colored comic page showing a pale woman walking on short skis over snowdrifts. The world around her looks blue and cold. She holds a bow in her mittened right hand. There is a rustle to her right and she looks up, her face red with the cold. Text inserts read: every stomach is empty this deep in winter—and you know not whose eye you may catch. from The Hearth by Lainey Williams
October 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The Hearth (2/21)
A comic page in color showing a series of panels within a dark cabin. The front door is open, which is casting a bright light on a note on the table in the middle of the cabin, which is next to a russian/finnish stove and in front of a ryijy tapestry. the cabin is empty of food and comforts. outside the cabin, we can see some wood piled. In the final panel, we see a cloaked woman walking away from the cabin, into a snowy forest. The note reads, in a series of small inserts: Marika. I have gone south to hunt. There are three weeks’ rations in the larder. Should I fail to return, light the rotted wood from the bottom of the heap. Istrin will see the blank smoke and come riding. Whatever you do, do not leave the cabin.
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The Hearth (1/21)

A sapphic horror comic about witchcraft and hunger in the dead of winter.
An illustrated cover for a short comic called The Hearth by lainey williams. A cabin sits in a clearing in a snowy forest. The small windows in the log cabin are lit yellow and there is a trail of blood through the snow leading to the door. Smoke rises from the cabin’s chimney to surround the title. On either side of the smoke are illustrations in the style of Karelian embroidery, showing stylized geometric patterns in red thread. On the left side embroidery section, there is a depiction of a woman kneeling. her hands are stained red and she wears a headscarf. Opposite her is a woman standing. Instead of a left arm she has a wing. Over the top of the image, two geese shaded in red fly over the cabin and smoke. The trees all around the cabin are shaded in dark blue.
October 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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concept illustration I did a year and a half ago for the hearth (sapphic horror romance comic I'll be sharing throughout October)
Surreal image of a snowy forest with two women in it: one is standing in a clearing holding a bow up, having just shot an arrow, and the other imposed on the yellow sky looking down in surprise or fear. She wears a green embroidered cloak. Flying around her, facing the opposite way, are two geese. There are motifs of simplified goose icons on either side of the main illustration.
October 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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i’ve been doing the same thing so i copied u
small digital ink drawing of a white woman with two buns and bangs drawing on her ipad. she’s wearing a big knit sweater and holding her pencil in a way she probably shouldn’t. her expression is flat
September 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM