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Sara L. Jewell
@saraluna.bsky.social
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comics maker & appreciator
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patreon.com/saraluna

My debut graphic novel SOUVENIR is out now!! https://tinyurl.com/jewellSOUVENIR
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New post on Patreon!
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tinyurl.com/3zp2aks8
Patreon tile for a post displaying a cup of coffee and a small avocado tree by a sunny window. The title text reads: "In the studio + slow comic progress", Sara L. Jewell | saraluna, patreon.com/saraluna
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
Anthy standing by Utena after she became a car, from The Adolescence of Utena film.
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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artists, what's your favorite part to draw? quote this post!

Mine: faces!
Colorful portrait of a woman Colorful portrait of two women Colorful portrait of a woman Pencil portrait of a woman
October 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Incredible sunset on a great weekend 🌇
September 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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BOOKS - really good ones!!
September 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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So many other wonderful artists signing today on this packed slate! Don't sleep on it
September 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Small press expo day 2! I'm signing Souvenir today again at the @fieldmouse.press table 4:30-5 come throuughh!
September 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Today's the day! I'm signing Souvenir at the @fieldmouse.press table 12:30-1:15. Come say hi!
September 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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On the way to Bethesda for SPX!
The open road! Sky! Clouds! Bridge!
September 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Where to find me at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social this weekend!
September 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Constantly think about this quote from The Prophet
Quote from Khalil Gibran's 'The Prophet': " And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the overprudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city? And what is fear of need but need itself? Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?"
August 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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SOUVENIR, my debut graphic novel, is officially available for purchase through the @fieldmousepress.bsky.social website! :)

tinyurl.com/jewellSOUVENIR
cover of the graphic novel SOUVENIR. Resembles corrupted image file with a close-up of a woman's face fragmented by bands of intense color, with error messages superimposed overtop.
May 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Last night's watch - this film was exquisite, watch it if you can!
Poster for Payal Kapadia's 2024 film "All We Imagine As Light".
May 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Drinking the dewdrop's
mystery
Tiny purple flower against a verdant background of forest greenery.
May 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Finally read this beautiful book by Breeze Hu from @bulgilhanpress.com - sublime, such a visual feast.
Cover of "A Night Ride to the Day" by Breeze Hu. Two people race through city streets hand in hand, a pair of red trainers in the foreground. Page of "A Night Ride to the Day" by Breeze Hu. "people rephrasing the same prayer in a thousand ways... May sorrow, pain and death never come." A page of "A Night Ride to the Day" by Breeze Hu. A kaleidoscopic array of colors and swirling imagery, a man in a suit in the foreground.
May 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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My library ordered Kayla E's Precious Rubbish for me and I am so excited to read it!! Libraries are the best!!
A copy of the graphic novel "precious rubbish".
April 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Sorry but it's true
Tiny image of pichu from Pokémon. Accompanying text reads: this is me btw. When you're being mean to me, this is who you're being mean to
April 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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How it started>>how it's going
A large Florida avocado on a cutting board, sliced in half with the pit to the side A small avocado sapling in the sunlight, growing in a white pot with a little face on it, the top of the avocado pit visible peeking out of the soil
April 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Lmao
Poor ballpoint pen drawing of a horse. Has a cute little smile though.
April 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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It's surreal that a cartoonist I admire as much as @newlevant.bsky.social read my book, let alone said such kind things about it!

Pick up SOUVENIR alongside some other fantastic books as part of @fieldmousepress.bsky.social Winter 2025 season here!

crowdfundr.com/fmp-winter2025
Advance praise for SOUVENIR "Intimate and enigmatic, with inventive layouts and mixed media - Souvenir is a treasure." -Hazel Newlevant, author of No Ivy League, Becoming Who We Are --- The cover image for the book features a woman's face illustrated in coloring pencil to look like a corrupted image file, with bands of wild neon colors fragmenting the image and error messages popping up over it.
April 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Art is a product of context, human experience, and craft. Without those things, an image ultimately means very little.
screenshot of photographer Jingna Zhang responding to one of her photographs being replicated, with some differences, by OpenAI's image model, which has been prompted to open the closed eyes of the model in the portrait. Her response reads: "Someone passed my photo thru OpenAl's new image model, and no matter their intentions being well-meaning, seeing this as the original artist just makes me feel like shit. I did this series when my work wasn't being as accepted and was viewed as neither commercial nor fine art enough for either worlds. So I shot in my apartment, with flowers one of the few props I could afford. And for this shoot I sat with a team and applied petals onto the model, one by one. The final work is a crystallization of that experience and memory of those times, it's proof of the days l'd lived. An Al didn't sit there placing petals onto my model, and it feels like an insult to the memory when people go "Al can do this!", like no actually, I did that. (I think this person wanted to show that images with glaze/NS aren’t protected in new models—but I and everyone in the space know this. I just don’t need a reminder of how easily people can remove my watermark, bypass glaze, or do whatever they want with my work against my wishes.) I can respect how far current gen Al has come from a purely technological point of view—credit to the researchers & scientists, not the marketers, not the prompters—but genuinely, what do we need this so badly for, that it would outweigh all the humanity, stories, and history being stripped away from our lives?"
March 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Cover art reveal!!

Tomorrow Fieldmouse launches their winter 2025 season crowdfundr. My debut book is one among five brilliant new graphic novels that you'll be able to pre-order as part of this campaign. (1/x)
Cover art for the graphic novel "SOUVENIR" by Sara L. Jewell. A face illustrated to look like a colorful corrupted image file, with error windows superimposed over top.
March 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Picture of a TV playing the film "Wings of Desire", paused on a scene of empty train tracks, the VO subtitle reads; "The peace and quiet of Sunday."
March 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Blue Heron, 2022
Illustration of a blue heron flying over a wooded lake, rendered in bright geometric shapes
March 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
🐟🌊🪸
illustration of a blue mermaid, mid-shift between human and fish, perched atop a rock at sea and looking dispassionately down at a desperate human hand reaching out of the water
March 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM