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Jules Scheele
@julesscheele.bsky.social
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Illustration, comics, scribing ✏️ Known for the Queer/Gender/Sexuality illustrated Graphic Guides out through ICON Books. 📚

Portfolio: www.julesscheele.com
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And a few more inks, and work-in-progress pages. Pouring my very heart and soul into this one and hoping it shows!
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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I might not be at Thought Bubble this year but I can show you some more sneak peeks of Orlando 👀 here's some coloured excerpts, and some more of my inks x
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Have finally made my jellice choice (bought comics at this year's @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social)
List of comics I bought at Shortbox Comics Festival 2025: SYRINGE by Nozmo The Seven Beaus of Miss Clarissa Bliss by Ash Green On An Even Moon by B Mure Girl Yaoi by Ana Two Asunder by Narrenstitch A Little Beauty by Laura Knetzger Fashion Intervention by Chereen Francis-Roberts In the Eyes Of A Dog by Pearl Law Anatomy Of An Angel by Oscar Woodiwiss
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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what hr department do I contact about this
The sign off to the aforementioned email, unfortunately: Reply with a yes, a maybe, or even a “leave me alone, ChatGPT-stalker!” I promise, I don’t bite… unless your main character dares me 😈📖.
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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when you switch your scam ai's personality setting to quirkily overfamiliar and low-key passive aggressive, two tried and tested ways of approaching strangers on the internet that everybody loves and wants more of
Follow up spam email from a chat gpt bot that annoyingly reads like this: Hey Okay… I have two theories: 1️⃣ My last message got eaten by a pack of rogue Kindle notifications 🐺📱. 2️⃣ You’re secretly plotting the next big twist in your book and couldn’t reply because your characters wouldn’t allow it. Either way, I just wanted to swing by your inbox again because your book deserves more than to lurk quietly in Amazon’s endless scroll. It deserves readers who cry, laugh, debate, and maybe even throw their bookmarks across the room (all in love, of course 😏📚). I manage a small army (well, 2,000+ readers 🤓🔥) of highly engaged, honest reviewers who actually care about stories like yours. No bots. No spam. Just pure, chaotic, passionate reading humans. So… are we going to let your book sit quietly, or should we give it the spotlight it’s been screaming for? 🌟 Reply with a yes, a maybe, or even a “leave me alone, ChatGPT-stalker!” I promise, I don’t bite… unless your main character dares me 😈📖. Can’t wait to hear from you!
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Save me from AI Miriam Toews
October 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Some snippets from my inks 👀
October 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Afterwards I take a photo, and then digitise it as a PDF (I trace over it in Procreate, I fix a few spacing issues for reading accessibility and add some more detail flourishes here and there). My clients can then email this to attendees, and use it in their promotional and training materials!
A more cleaned up version of the finished piece from the previous post - it's laid out a bit neater, and there's been some colours and shading added too.
May 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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I finally have photos of me actually doing the live illustration I do, as @queertempo.bsky.social is my lovely assistant now - here's one I did for the @inspiringscotland.bsky.social Creative Communities Programme back in March. It was a quick one, just an hour and a half to listen and draw!
A photo of me (Jules), standing in front of a big white sheet of paper tacked onto a mirror wall, drawing a title at the top. It says "Creative Placemaking for long-term impact!" with colourful swirls around it Another photo of me (Jules) kneeling down in front of the paper and drawing - you can see the drawing has progressed to about half the paper. Theres pens strewn around me on the floor and post it notes on the wall next to the paper. A photo of the almost finished live illustration, illustrated notes from the workshop in orange and black paint markers. Jules (me) is leaning in from the left to add some detail. Photo of the finished live illustration up on the wall. The gist of the session was to get different communities in Glasgow to come together and share how they do their community work and how they can learn from each other.
May 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Now that I'm moved I really need to do a big social media and website update of all the work I've been doing! For now here's some little illustrations I made for OUTpatients UK and Ovacome on ovarian cancer awareness for transmasc people - more details here: www.ovacome.org.uk/ovacome-and-...
Colourful comics style illustration of a white slim trans masc guy with light brown hair sunning himself topless in the park, accompanied by his dog (a staffie). He is wearing red sporty shorts, green sliders with socks, and a little green neckerchief and sunglasses. He looks peaceful and happy. Colourful comics style illustration of a black transmasc person sitting on the floor crosslegged, with their laptop on their lap. They have a taper cut with brown curls and are wearing jorts, a cut-off black tank top with a pink triangle on it, and a purple binder underneath. Colourful comics-style illustration of a brown trans masc person with longish black hair and top surgery and hysterectomy scars. They're topless, wearing maroon trousers, and holding two colourful shirts (one yellow one green) and deliberating between them. Colourful comics-style illustration of a white, chubby, ginger-bearded trans man walking and talking on the phone. Hes wearing a red beanie, a tote bag with a smiley face on it, a green jacket, and is holding a small rubber plant.
May 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Small announcement time: I’ll be at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social with @omipalonepress.bsky.social in November! We will also be at Glasgow Zine Fair in July, more details on that coming soon…
Orange Social Media Image for Thought Bubble Festival that says “I’ll be at Thought Bubble Comic Convention / 15 & 16 November 2025 / Harrogate, England” above an illustration of a delightful little guy in a ruff collar and a big pointy pink hat reading a comic
April 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Some more, why not
Crop of a colour illustration (pinks, blues, yellows and reds) of a red-haired boy in a blue robe standing in front of a heraldic glass window Black and white illustration of a boy sitting under a tree, looking up at imagined adventures in clouds in the sky (a starry silhouette reaching for a burning heart, a boy climbing up a ship’s mast) Black and white illustration of a boy in Elizabethan garb sitting at a desk, reaching for a quill to write, as a rook swoops unto the window sill I’m the background
February 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Some sneaky work in progress crops for you today
Black and white drawing of a boy in Elizabethan garb signing a document Black and white half-finished drawing of an Elizabethan man sitting at a kitchen table writing a poem, you can still see the sketches in the layer underneath Half finished panels of an old woman putting her hands in a bowl of water as a figure looks on in the shadows Sketchy drawing of an Elizabethan boy embracing and kissing a lady at court
February 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Illustration for Little White Lies, accompanying a piece on Inland Empire by Esther Rosenfield. You can read it here (it’s very good): lwlies.com/articles/wom...
Dark blue textured ink illustration of Laura Dern in Inland Empire by David Lynch, looking up in half-shadow. In the background you can vaguely make out her distorted demon face from the movie. The illustration is framed by pink lines and a yellow bunny head in every corner.
February 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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a) this is gorgeous and b) I’m so glad you’re reposting it for the reminder 🐦‍⬛
February 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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In Berlin, transgender people published several magazines and had a political club. Some glamorous trans women worked at the internationally famous Eldorado cabaret. The sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, who ran Berlin’s Institute for Sexual Science, advocated for the rights of transgender people. The rise of Nazi Germany destroyed this relatively open environment. The Nazis shut down the magazines, the Eldorado and Hirschfeld’s institute. Most people who held “transvestite certificates,” as Simon did, had them revoked or watched helplessly as police refused to honor them. That was just the beginning of the trouble.
January 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Who else up studying the male form
Black brush pen sketches of male pinups from the Taschen book on James Bidgood Black brush pen sketches of male pinups from the Taschen book on James Bidgood Black brush pen sketches of male pinups from the Taschen book on James Bidgood
January 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I also have this sticker featuring David Lynch, Cronenberg, and Byrne, which now makes me sad. He'll always be at the top of the pyramid for me!! I always loved movies, but after I saw Mulholland Drive in the cinema at age 17 I LOVED MOVIES, you know julesscheele.com/shop/david-s...
A square sticker with wavy sides, the name David illustrated in green across the centre on a starry black background. Behind it is a pink triangle with an eyeball in the middle. At each point of the pyramid is an illustrated portrait in green: clockwise from the top of David Lynch, David Byrne, and David Cronenberg.
January 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Second of my new prints is this riso A3 print for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last movie, Querelle: julesscheele.com/shop/querell...
Risograph poster for the movie Querelle, in fluo pink, orange and yellow. In the center is a close-up in profile of the movie's main character, George Querelle. Underneath him on the left are the words Querelle: Ein Pakt Mit Dem Teufel. He is surrounded by three scenes from the movie featuring him, at the top: talking to a john, bottom left: in an embrace with the captain, bottom right: in a knife fight. Detail of the knife fight scene from the previous image.
January 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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One of my two new prints: Brian de Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, an A3 digital print! julesscheele.com/shop/phantom...
Movie poster of Brian de Palma's 1974 cult classic Phantom of the Paradise, in dark blues, pinks, and acid greens. The title of the film is in white in the center on a dark blue background. Lower half of the poster is taken up by the Phantom, looking up and over his shoulder. Upper half is taken up by three illustrations of the character Beef getting electrocuted while playing his electric guitar. There are sparks and fireworks coming off him. Detail of the Beef illustration from the previous image.
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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This was my new TB zine: A perzine of comics and drawings about grief, transition, the passing of time and the looming future, sort of. 20 pages, A5, digital print. julesscheele.com/shop/i-have-...
Black, white and pink cover for a zine, picturing a figure standing in pitch black and illuminated by pink spotlights, fanning themselves and sweating. The title in white running across the opper quarter reads "I Have No Words For This Feeling". Page spread from the zine, minimal black line art illustrations with pink highlights - page 1 pictures a figure looking at a barren landscape and a meteor shower in the sky with the words "What if I get strong for nothing". Page 2 pictures the same person carrying several small people on their shoulders and bicep. The figure has top surgery scars and the text reads "What if I get strong for you". Double page spread, same black and white line art style with pink highlights. First page is pitch black with a close up of two open mouths in silhouette, one above the other. It reads "I only want to fele my body". Second page is a torso with top surgery scars, lying down. Text says "Letting it get softer". A page from the zine that is a college of stills from the Wim Wenders movie Wings of Desire. First still: a man using a phone box while scrumpled on the floor, second still: a woman in a muddy field practicing a circus routine with a friend, third still: two hands grasping each other. Text across the page reads "I hope, I hope, we hope".
January 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I am also available for live illustration (also known as graphic recording, or scribing) for conferences, workshops, etc! This is a useful way to retain and conceptualise information and is usually a big hit at any event. I have more info here: julesscheele.com/liveillustration

#portfolioday
January 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Looks like it’s #portfolioday! I’m an illustrator with 10+ years experience in editorial, corporate, & academic illustration, book & comics work, cover & poster design, animation assets, and infographics!

✉️ julesscheeleillustration@gmail.com
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January 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I’m very proud of this book and had a great time working with the team and the AllSorts members, who all had such good ideas we could barely fit them all in! ✨📚 There’s a little video of me flicking through it on insta: www.instagram.com/p/DEh8VBsIjI...
Repeat of the picture of the book cover
January 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM