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Jonathan Ya'el Eden
@jonathaneden.bsky.social
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✶ he/it ✶
🪰 trans illustrator creating queer horror comics
🪲 embracing monstrosity + liminality
🪱 lover of parasitic worms
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In a completely unexpected & surreal turn of events, I was asked to illustrate a thank you gift for My Chemical Romance's Seattle performance! It feels completely unreal to have had the opportunity to make something a band I love got to receive! 🥹 #mychemicalromance #mcr
Black and white digital illustration of My Chemical Romance performing, done in the style of vintage comic book covers. Circular panels highlight each member of the band along the left side of the page, while the central illustration shows them performing against the backdrop of T-Mobile Park.
July 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Fairy among the foxgloves
Illustration of an unsettling fairy with brown skin and dark, symmetrical patterns over their eyes and mouth. Their eyes flash purple and their dark hair is braided back, with curled tendrils framing their face. They wear a shawl reminiscent of butterfly wings, and dark butterflies and bright stars fill the grey sky behind them, under an arch of purple foxglove flowers.
June 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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☀️ 🌙
Warm illustration of two men of colour against a blue and cream background. Cool illustration of two men of colour against a purple and grey background.
May 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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🖤 ⛓️ queer as in f*ck you ⛓️ 🖤
Black and white poster of two queers with dark curly hair and multiple eyes kissing. Both have multiple piercings and one of them has a split tongue body modification. Poster text reads "queer as in fuck you" in gothic lettering.
April 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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centipede doodle
Illustration of a white house centipede against a black background.
April 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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🪲
Surreal black and white illustration detail of the underside of an insect with a human face. Its features are obscured by symmetrical black patterns.
April 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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seeing stars 💫
Illustration of a Black woman with looking wide-eyed to the side in saturated orange, green and purple. Stylized tears fall from her eyes and stars dance above her head. A large orange star is positioned over her face like a flash of light. The image is split diagonally, with subtle glitch effects throughout.
April 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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My illustration for @novamali.bsky.social's And They Were Monsters 2024 art book 🪱
Illustration of a trans man with long curly hair sitting on his knees in a cozy, candlelit bedroom. He is wearing lingerie and a dark silk robe, which he opens to reveal a hole in his chest from which a large parasitic worm emerges. He gently holds the worm and the two almost kiss. Behind him on the wall are oval portraits of the two of them.
April 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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haunted (2024)
Green and black horror illustration of a trans man sitting by candlelight, surrounded by darkness. Behind him, a shadowy apparition of himself holds onto the back of his chair.
April 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Line art for a page from my webcomic, Every Time I Die, I Wake Up Here.
Line art of a gothic horror comic page. A mixed Black trans man in Victorian era clothing turns slightly in his chair, holding a pair of scissors that cut an empty dialogue bubble. Behind him, a Black and Asian man leans tentatively against a door frame.
April 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Celestial centipede ✶ 2023
Black and white gothic illustration of a centipede surrounded by stars.
April 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS PEOPLE WILL LIVE FOREVER 🏳️‍⚧️

A (belated) drawing for trans day of visibility last month ✊🏽 ✨
I love us so much and we deserve to thrive 💜
Illustration of three trans people of color supporting one another. In the center, a Black trans woman with long grey curls is embraced by a Black trans man with feed-in braids and an Asian non-binary person with short curly hair. Background text reads “trans people will live forever.”
April 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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progress
April 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Bodies of Possibility 🏳️‍⚧️ 2023
Painting of a mixed Black trans man from the 19th century facing forward on a chaise, sitting powerfully. He is dressed in dark pants with suspenders and a light shirt that's partially open, revealing his naked chest in a moment of trans power and joy. "He/him" is written in large gothic font at the top, and "bodies of possibility" is written in small print at the bottom.
April 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Language of Flowers (2022) 🥀
Illustration of white poppy flowers against a black background. "Poppy" and its meaning in the language of flowers, "oblivion" are both written vertically along the border in gothic font. Illustration of white hemlock flowers against a black background. "Hemlock" and its meaning in the language of flowers, "death" are both written vertically along the border in gothic font. Illustration of white foxglove flowers against a black background. "Foxglove" and its meaning in the language of flowers, "falsehood" are both written vertically along the border in gothic font.
April 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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leeches 🪱
2022
Black and white horror illustration detail of a smiling woman with long, dark, wet hair. Multiple leeches feed off her body. Her eyes and fingers are stained with decay.
April 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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details
Illustration detail of a celestial being lovingly held by a disembodied black hand. A flame erupts over their heart. Eyes open up along their body like scars and stars fill the sky behind them. Illustration detail of a nude celestial being kneeling forward in agony, impaled by swords. Their long black hair cover theirs face in grief. Black teardrops fall from the night sky around them.
April 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Fortunate Fall 🗡️🌑
2022
Illustration of a celestial being lovingly held by a disembodied black hand beneath a solar eclipse. Its touch burns holes in their skin. A smaller version of the figure knees forward in agony below them, impaled by swords. Their long black hair hides their face in grief.
April 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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🩸🪱🕯
2020
Illustration detail of a vampire with warm brown skin, smiling with a mouth full of blood.
April 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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For the goths and ghouls 🥀

An old one of the Addams Family from #Blacktober 2020 I remember people enjoyed. :~)
Illustration of the Addams family as Black. A dark-skinned Morticia stands next to Gomez, who has warm brown skin and short curly hair. Wednesday stands in front of them, her hair in four thick braids. She is holding a headless doll. Pugsley stands beside her and smiles, his hands behind his back. Illustration of Lurch from the Addams family as Black. He poses proudly and holds a black rose in between his teeth. Illustration of Cousin Itt from the Addams family as Black. He is wearing sharp, angular yellow sunglasses and a dark green hat. The hair that covers his face and body is dark blue and wavy. He seemingly rests his head on his hand, which has emerged beneath his long hair. His long acrylic nails are painted black.
April 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Hello 👋🏽 I'm Jonathan Ya'el, a queer writer + illustrator exploring monstrosity and memory through speculative fiction. Currently working on a myriad of horror comic projects.
Illustration of a pale woman wading into a dark lake at night, her white hair falling around her. Her head is bent at a disconcerting angle. She smiles eerily and cups water in her hands, offering it to us. Painting of a sinister figure suspended upside down. An emperor moth is laid over their face, the eyespots of its wings covering their eyes. Multiple mouths smile across their neck. They are wearing a dark dress and their hair radiates behind them. Comic page from my webcomic, Every Time I Die, I Wake Up Here. Vincent, a Black trans man from the 19th century, encounters a shadowy apparition of himself in the night, its body crawling with maggots. Narrative text reads, "Like I've lost something precious and no amount of grief will bring it back. As blood circles the drain and maggots take to flesh, it waits for me from across the room. Rotting." Black and white illustration of figure with long dark hair. Maggots and centipedes crawl over and out from their face.
April 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM