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Rebecca Horner
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Cartoonist, colourist, and youth worker! I make comics and support young people to make their own comics. Views my own. She/her 🌈

Website: rebeccahorner.com
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I worked it out. Rebecca coded characters.
February 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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It was indeed only a matter of time, and when I redecorated a starter house the game crashed when I went to save. 🥲
February 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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It's Hourly Comic Day! I spent quite a bit of this week wondering how dramatically different today's hourlies might be because of fun medical reasons, then straight up forgot what today was for a few hours.

#hourlycomicday #hourlycomicsday
Hourly Comic Day Page 1, very scrappily drawn. 6.30am: In bed playing Pokemon Trading Card Game on phone. Oblivious to the fact that it is Hourly Comic Day. Wearing a tie dye Mandy t-shirt as a pyjama top. 7.30am: Staring at Norrie like a creeper. Still oblivious to the Hourly Comic Day of it all. 8something: Luna (cat) peeking around the corner of the door frame judgementally while I get ready. 9.30am: Me considering "Do I get The Sims 1 + 2??" which has just been rereleased. I will. It's only a matter of time. 10.15am: Norrie chilling on the couch with Luna, me with Tiny on the cuddle chair. The sound of Robbie Williams' "Millenium" comes from Youtube on the TV. We watch a lot of 90s/00s pop videos, which are now considered old to some people. 10.30am: Walking outside in the freezing cold, messaging Nel to ask what people wear at the theatre. I'm still oblivious to it being Hourly Comic Day Meanwhile, in my brain: Two little doofy representations of brain stuff converse about sending me a signal that it is in fact Hourly Comic Day. "Sir, I am preparing the reminder." "Jolly good". Both brain stuffs have glasses, and one has a moustache. Hourly Comic Day Page 2, still very scrappily drawn. 10.41am: DOH. (A loud thought, not said out loud). 10.42am: I've realised what day it is. I'm making a :< face, as I realise I am 1. Outside, 2. Without paper, and 3. Without pen or pencil to draw with. 10.45am: I quickly move past this revelation onto more important matters - what is "Rebecca core"? The latest chain post on Bluesky is people posting photos of characters that are like them. I have many thoughts on this. 11ish: I arrive at my Dad's house. He asks how I am feeling, and I say "Good!" My uncle and my future sister-in-law arrive soon after. 11.48am: We eat lunch - chicken stew with mash. Dad goes against his cardinal rule of not eating lunch before 12pm, because they have things to do. I'm just here for food! 12.50pm: My uncle doesn't realise he's not giving me a lift home, so I go to the driver's seat and open his door to say goodbye. 1.10pm: I invade Norrie's office while he is doing a proper drawings to have a moan about comics. The cats also invade because they've heard me arrive home, but not seen me yet. A travesty! Hourly Comic Day Page 3, drawn at a weird angle so the panel borders are even wonkier than the previous two pages! 2pm-4pm: Three panels. Panel 1: Luna looking VERY sad, saying "LOVE ME!". She didn't like me depriving her of my lap to draw hourlies. Panel 2: Relaxing with Coral Island, finishing a podcast episode (Why Won't You Date Me), and eating Proper Chips. I don't really get anywhere with any of it, because... Panel 3: I fall asleep. Relaxing makes me pass out. Turning off the TV specifically to have a nap makes me wide awake. It's a curse! Now: A swirly pattern with the caption "After the medical drama of the past couple of weeks, I am grateful for the mundane." Last panel: Cuddled up on the couch with the cats. "It's reminded me of what really matters." (Cats matter the most. This message was brought to you by Luna and is endorsed by Tiny, who disagrees but wouldn't dare to go against Luna's wishes. She would actually say that biscuits matter the most.)
February 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Some of my #comicsdna! There are more, but these ones made the biggest impression on me at an early age. I still want to live in a Richard Scarry world. 😅
A page from the Nausicaa manga by Hayao Miyazaki. The cover of It's a Magical World, a Calvin & Hobbes collection by Bill Watterson. A page from a Richard Scarry book. The first collected volume of Fables.
January 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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VIDYA GAMES

Thank Goodness You're Here! (One of my favourite gaming experiences ever, an absolute joy from start to finish!)
Balatro
Dredge. (I, a thalassophobe, loved it 🦑)
Lil Gator Game

Bonus: Hades 2 early access. It will probably be on my 2025 list!
December 31, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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TV SHOWS

Kaos 🥲
Fallout
Delicious in Dungeon
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (we haven't watched all of the episodes yet, but I'm enjoying it so far!)
December 31, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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2024 in things what I liked!

MOVIES

Godzilla Minus One
Poor Things
Conclave
The Fog (1980)

Bonus: The third act of Queer, which will live in my brain forever.
December 31, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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I had a brief flurry of doing finished doodles a few months back. 🚀🌈
December 16, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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4 albums that sound like winter. ❄️

This was hard! Winter for me generally equals the sads and I tend to avoid listening to music that evokes the sads cuz it makes me sad (deep, I know). Bits of Skyrim and Light Song are in my regular rotation though.
December 15, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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Got a bunch of new brushes for the iPad so did some mindless doodles (including my younger siblings). ✏️
A page of drawings of faces, skulls, and shapes. Purple line work on a pale pink/purple background.
December 14, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Choo choo chooing back to Dundee! My Thought Bubble haul is mighty and my heart is full. 💖
November 19, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Choo choo chooing to Thought Bubble 🚂
November 15, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Snippets of comics and general art I did for work last year! Young people genuinely come up with the greatest story ideas.
9 cropped images from comics and illustrations. 1. A spooky tea party with a human, a skeleton, ghost, pumpkin, and zombie. 2. A person sat in bed wearing a VR headset. We see them exploring three different video game worlds with distinct styles. 3. An astronaut floating upside down in space saying "huh" 4. Three teenagers looking enthusiastic about comics. 5. A self portrait of Rebecca holding a tortoiseshell cat. Big white/clear glasses, big red earrings. 6. A busy lunch queue where a teenage girl looks nervous. 7. Two sticker designs - one of a raccoon holding a pile of books saying "Comics 4 All" and one of a cat sat on two books that say "Comics Youth" 8. A group of anthropomorphic animals - a cassowary, a blue macaw, a cheetah, and a leopard hanging out at the beach next to a boardwalk. 9. A group of dolphins walking on land having escaped their tank. The leader says "we're leaving"
November 14, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Introduce yourself with
One book 📚
One movie 🎥
One album 💿
One tv show 📺

I also like Greek mythology vidya games. 🫣
November 8, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Esmerelda Rabblerock, my last DnD character ✨️
October 20, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Having any kind of social media presence in this decade truly feels like wading through murky water.
October 18, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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I sometimes think about my masters comic (from 6+ years ago 😳). I did a print run of it that maybe 3 people bought, but I found it and reread it recently and it's not too bad! This was the point that I realised I just want to draw abstract shapes rather than anything remotely realistic.
A space god holding a magic orb. Panel 1 shows a house burning while the surrounded area is engulfed in flames. Panel 2 shows a space goddess with a staff in the smoke looking for survivors. Angled photograph of a page from the comic. An isolated panel showing a space god with a cosmic skull above them.
October 9, 2023 at 8:45 AM
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Tell me where you're from with a food pic

🇧🇪 - Speculoos, the greatest biscuit of all time

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - It wasn't invented here but a Fisher & Donaldson fudge donut is a local icon (and the days when it was 98p for one are long gone 😭)
September 7, 2023 at 4:34 AM
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Comics Youth SCIO's first project is officially DONE! Launched the zines at the weekend, typed up my longest case study to date and did a peppy wee write up for our website with lots of nice photos from the summer school. Also got a new tattoo last week so check them bird claws on me wrist!
August 21, 2023 at 12:24 PM
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I'm Rebecca! My favourite things to draw are the stories my young people at work come up with. My best work is in one of our upcoming books, so here are some sneak peeks plus an older page from Hospi-Tales!

Tagging @norrie.bsky.social, @drolliehicks.bsky.social, @ashlingdraws.bsky.social
A wordless comic about a boy travelling in a fantasy world to find the broken pieces of a dagger. While collecting the pieces he meets a brown horse wearing pink booties, a sleeping lion, a giant sandworm, and goes fishing with a penguin. He then puts the dagger back together using a magic crystal. An in-progress drawing of an anthropomorphic blue macaw wearing a red and white striped t-shirt, orange shorts, red and white sandals, and bright yellow glasses. He is jumping in the air exclaiming "YES!" An in-progress drawing of a suspicious looking astronaut making a :< face. He is wearing a space backpack that says "BLACK HOLE" on it with a power level beneath. A hot desert scene with a golden temple sitting upon a red rock base, with many golden stairs leading up to it. Two characters are standing at the bottom of the stairs pointing up. The sky is a mixture of blues and purples with red and purple clouds.
August 19, 2023 at 7:57 AM