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Hazel Newlevant
@newlevant.bsky.social
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Cartoonist and editor 🤪 they/them ⚧️
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a Lost Boy and their fledgling!🩸🩸
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Someone on Reddit figured out where to bulk source all of the sip valve components! This way, I’ll have them to hand out at events or share with other organizers.
October 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I made these simple “respirators required” signs for a friend. Anyone can download the PDF:
drive.proton.me/urls/5Y68VXK...
Two signs taped to a door, with a zip lock bag full of Blox respirators hanging between them. The signs read: DEAR VISITORS The resident of this apartment is highly medically vulnerable. Airborne diseases including COVID-19 can spread and linger like smoke. Such diseases are often spread by individuals before they show symptoms. Therefore, visitors are required to wear a well-fitting respirator mask at all times while in the apartment. [Sign 2, starts with a graphic of an N95 with a check mark, and a surgical mask with a red X] Surgical masks are not sufficient to prevent airborne infection transmission. Please take and wear a respirator mask if you do not have one already.
October 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Many years of instant portraits. Judging by the hair, the earlier ones are from 2013-2014 and 2017. I guess I could try raising the price???
July 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I made a new Instant Portraits sign for vending at the Lez Night Out takeover of Boyfriend Co-Op tomorrow! To remind you that you can slay your portrait in a mask. If you don’t want that, I can work from an unmasked selfie!
Myself, wearing a black mask with a sip valve, holding up a self portrait drawing that looks very similar to myself. The drawing says: INSTANT PORTRAITS “Done before you know it!” $10
July 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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What if a dyke was transmasculine and also had new nose jewelry?
July 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I’m stoked to sell comics and draw portraits at Boyfriend Co-Op from noon to 6pm this Sunday, as part of a Lez Night Out cc lesbian takeover!

See @LezNightOut on instagram for all the deets:
www.instagram.com/p/DMee-aIM04...
Lez Night Out presents… COVID CONSCIOUS LESBIAN TAKEOVER @ Boyfriend Co-Op [double Venus symbol] [trans symbol] Mingle & make new friends! Support one of our favorite lesbian bars/cafes! Play games and do crafts! Shop from our local lesbian vendors! (Swipe for lineup0 FREE MASKS + COVID TESTS! SUNDAY JULY 27 12-6PM - 1157 MYRTLE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY MASKS (KN95 OR BETTER) REQUIRED + PROVIDED SWIPE FOR ACCESSIBILITY INFO VENDORS Be sure to check out our vendors! Support your local lesbians and grab some goodies for yourself! ;) Newlevant is selling print goods and offering live portraits!!! Remember this zine we pass out sometimes? This is their work!!! [Picture of the cover of my zine, “What’s Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition] [Photograph of me vending at an outdoor comics fest. I’m wearing a Flo mask and throwing up peace signs. In front of me are my comics IF THIS BE SIN, SUGAR TOWN, CHAINMAIL BIKINI, NO IVY LEAGUE, TENDER-HEARTED, and QUEER UPRISINGS, as well as a sign advertising instant portraits for $10 each, and a box of free COVID zines.]
July 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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This is a plug for apps like SnapShot Postcard, where you can take a photo and write a message and have it mailed as a printed postcard, for about $1 apiece.

I’m sending my cute cat and garden photos as postcards to my grandparents, and it’s been amazing for our relationship. Highly recommended.
Screenshot of the interface of SnapShot Postcard, showing a custom postcard with a photo of my cats cuddling.
July 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I was so geeked to see @mrmobdick.bsky.social talking drag king history on the latest #KingOfDrag ep, and giving props to Diane Torr!
This show is everything and thankfully it’s free on revry.com.

(Page from my upcoming book QUEER & HOW WE GOT HERE which includes a brief history of drag kinging 🤠)
Comic page from Queer & How We Got Here. The page uses a limited palette of dark blue and orange, and borderless panels. PANEL 1: Diane Torr, a stout drag king with orange hair, a mustache, and a suit and tie, walks authoritatively through the center of a circle of newly-minted drag kings. Torr: "As I walk, I OWN each piece of the floor, for the second my foot rests there." Caption: "Wherever Torr gave the workshop, new drag kings were born." PANEL 2: Mo B. Dick, a drag king with a giant blond pompadour wig, wearing a shiny Elvis-like jumpsuit with treble clefs on the chest, shouts joyfully into a microphone. Mo is in front of an orange curtain backdrop. Caption: "Kings like Mo B. Dick, who started the first weekly drag king night in 1996, created spaces that encourage new performers." Mo B. Dick (shouting): "The drag kingdom has come! HALLELUJAH!" Caption: "Drag kings became a regular part of lesbian night-life."
July 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The resemblance is eerie.
Me, pouting and scowling, next to the book cover of MICK JAGGER by Philip Norman, propped up on a bookshelf. I look rather like the cover photo.
July 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Guess what…I turned in the art for my upcoming book. I’m holding an ultra-advance copy of QUEER & HOW WE GOT HERE.

310 pages of graphic memoir and graphic history. Five years in the making. Cover art TBA. Coming out May 2026 from @littlebrown.bsky.social.
My hand holding a preview copy of my upcoming graphic novel QUEER AND HOW WE GOT HERE. Only the outside of the pages are visible. Background is a leafy garden. A rainbow shines across the image. Photo of a comic page. Panel 1: A skinny white person with hairy limbs and a bright pink two-block haircut, wearing a pink T-shirt and cutoffs, lounges at their drawing table and winks at the reader. There are shoujo-style roses in the background. “Oh, hi there! Didn’t see you come in.” “I’m Hazel, your cartoonist and shameless narrator.” Panel 2: Same person making kissy lips and cradling a surprised tabby cat. Another tabby looks on, cluelessly. “How come you’re such a little baby? I’m gonna eat you like a muffin!” Photo of a comic page. Panel 1: City street scene at night, with a marquee saying “SAVOY MASQUERADE BALL," with music notes, over a lit-up entrance. In the foreground are two young Black women walking shoulder-to-shoulder, laughing and smiling. They both kind of look like Ethel Waters—one wears a flapper hat, fur coat, and dress, and the other wears a bowler hat, jacket, vest, shirt, and tie. Further back, two queens in flapper attire walk together. Caption: As America urbanized in the early 20th century, it got easier for lovers of the same sex to find each other and form communities. Panel 2: Two white women with bobs sit together at a cafe table, leaning together conspiratorially. One wears a men’s-style hat, jacket, and pants. The other wears a wide-brim har with flowers and feathers, and a v-neck dress. Caption: They started slyly referring to themselves as “gay,” which to the mainstream meant “carefree” or “sexually uninhibited.” Caption in typewriter font: “They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, and the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.” —Gertrude Stein, “Miss Furr and Miss Skeen,” 1922. [hand-lettered promo graphic with sunset-colored gradient lettering on a light green background] Queer and How We Got Here Coming out MAY 2026 From L B INK
July 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I’m visiting the Newlevant Portrait Gallery
Me (androgynous, white, skinny, short brown hair) standing in front of a framed watercolor self portrait, in which I have short pink hair. I’m wearing the same shirt (abstract botanical button-up short sleeve) as in the self portrait. Me standing beside a framed watercolor self portrait, in which I have mid-length hair with a grey patch in the bangs. I’m wearing the same shirt (Hawaiian button-up short sleeve) as in the self portrait.
July 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Irene wearing one of my favorite shirts 🤩
May 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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My publisher sent me a 7-page list of every historical/public figure and every term used in QUEER & HOW WE GOT HERE, and it’s getting me so hyped to look at 🥹
April 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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🚨GOV HOCHUL IS TRYING TO SNEAK A MASK BAN INTO THE STATE BUDGET 🚨

Mask bans are a new pretense for stop-and-frisk, for criminalizing protest, and for pushing disabled people further out of public life. And they’re a public health nightmare.
TELL YOUR REPS NO NY MASK BAN [“mask ban pipeline” flowchart showing how mask bans collude to direct marginalized people into prison, institutions, or the grave]
March 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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IMPORTANT ZINE UPDATE:
One of the only clinical trials supporting nasal sprays as a COVID preventative was recently retracted by the publisher. The other studies have major issues too.

FOR MASK BLOCS and others sharing: the printable PDF at Newlevant.com/covidzine has been updated.
BAD NEWS ABOUT NASAL SPRAYS MARCH 2025 UPDATE [drawing of a nasal spray bottle, crossed out] These have been much-discussed as an extra layer of COVID protection, but 1 of only 2 RCTs backing them up has been withdrawn by the publisher.[53] Nasal spray studies have the glaring flaw that spray ingredients themselves could potentially cause a false-negative COVID test.[54] There are other major issues, too. XYLITOL (RCT 1)[crossed out] This study was retracted by the journal in March 2025. IOTA-CARRAGEENAN (RCT 2) Study participants who were lost to follow-up were presumed NOT to have gotten COVID, possibly skewing results.[55] NITRIC OXIDE (Enovid) Participants had to request the spray, suggestions they might take more precautions. No placebo group. Mouthwash In the studies finding that gargling reduces viral load in the mouth, the reduction isn’t statistically significant (may be chance). [56] S. Salivarius K12 Small number of participants and short duration. No placebo group.
March 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Scarlet runner beans are getting big! I’ll def have a few to give away at the 3/22 plant swap.
March 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Taking my seedlings on a walk ;3
March 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Very stoked on gardening right now
Me(white androgynous person with shoulder length brown hair) wearing rose colored sunglasses, a black baseball cap with white eyes on it and a tank top that says “BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW!” I am making a peace sign
March 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I’m hosting a seed & plant swap at the lovely @comeforever_ mutual aid space on Saturday, 3/22! Just in time to get ready for that last frost in early April 🧑‍🌾
I’ll be giving away blank seed packets, various seeds, compostable seedling pots, spider plant babies, and DIY self-watering containers.
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Flyer with handwritten text over a photo of growing seedling trays. Text reads: CFE Social Club Presents PLANT & SEED SWAP Saturday 3/22 1-3pm At Come Forever A masks-required mutual aid space 342 Hewes, Brooklyn Seeds - Cuttings - Plants - Supplies
March 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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It’s @flamecon day 2 and I’ll be at table I-96 with my wares until 6pm!
Me behind my table at FlameCon. I’m white, with a brown shag haircut, wearing a Flo mask and a green plaid shirt. In front of me are my wares: Free COVID zines If This Be Sin Queer Uprisings Becoming Who We Are Sugar Town Tender-Hearted No Ivy League Embodied Comics for Choice
August 18, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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I’m at FlameCon table I-96 with a stack of BECOMING WHO WE ARE! Next to my buddy @shinyluvdisc.gay
Selfie with sunglasses and a Flo mask Stack of copies of the book BECOMING WHO WE ARE FlameCon show floor map, showing I’m at table I96
August 17, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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Here's where to find me at FlameCon.
FlameCon exhibitor map. It says "Main Show Room" then I've circled table I96 and drawn a line to a bubble with a drawing of myself. Underneath the bubble, it says "Hazel Newlevant I96"
August 10, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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I'm tabling at FlameCon next weekend, August 17-18, at table I96!
I'll have the new anthology BECOMING WHO WE ARE: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans, plus all my old classix ;)
Hope to see you there! (FlameCon is masks required, love that for us flamecon.org/covid-19/)
FlameCon exhibitor graphic On the top it says: "FlameCon X created by Geeks Out FlameCon.org" Then the exhibitor graphic window, showing the covers of two of my books: BECOMING WHO WE ARE (left) and SUGAR TOWN (right). On the bottom it says "August 17 & 18" and there are two orange-skinned, orange-haired FlameCon mascot characters.
August 10, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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Sadly, thanks to the vagaries of the economy, my longtime gig as social media manager for A Wave Blue World has ended.

Here are some other things you can pay me for, to help make ends meet!

-Talks and workshops
-Freelance editing
-Thesis advising
-Cat portraits
-Order my comics
Me in a red shirt and a Flo Mask, giving a presentation inside Fantom Comics to other masked people. I’m pointing to a projector screen that says “I write and draw lots of comics about my life!” and shows the covers of my books NO IVY LEAGUE and SUGAR TOWN. The whole image is a screencap from an instagram story by @hellojesslevey, on which they wrote the text “Great presentation by @newlevant on making autobio comics and finding the stories to tell!” Stack of comics with a sign on top saying “(some of) my editorial work.” Titles from top to bottom: Becoming Who We Are Puerto Rico Strong Comics for Choice Chainmail Bikini Diana: My Graphic Obsession The Hazards of Love: Bright World The Greatest Thing The Mars Challenge Scullion Wrapped Up vol. 2 Wrapped Up vol. 1 Photo of a tortoiseshell cat named Bearcat, sitting on a green velvet couch, posed next to a portrait I painted of the same cat on the same couch. They look very similar.
July 3, 2024 at 7:28 PM