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shazleen
@shazleenmkhan.bsky.social
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Illustrator & comic maker
Author of Ignatz award winning webcomic BUUZA!! & artist on Eisner & Harvey nom SAVING SUNSHINE 🌸 First Second / Hachette / Simon & Schuster/ PRH / Abrams / Bloomsbury
📍London, UK
🪷they/them

www.shazleenkhan.com
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I am organising direct action against Reform UK to fight against their racist misinformation. Posted more about it over on my insta, but here's the main bits!

Find out more: www.instagram.com/sticker_up_f...
Grab a PDF of the zine: www.shazleenkhan.shop
sticker up for immigrants f*ck reform too many people i love are being victimized by nigel farage and i am going to mobilise the entire uk comics industry to fucking defeat him and protect myself, immigrants and refugees our target is the 2026 local council elections. through targetted sticker and flyer campaigns i aim to destroy reform UK's momentum in vulnerable constituencies throughout the UK this is a link to resources. I am sorry people who use screen readers I am not able to transcribe everything. I am one guy and I am doing this on voluntary basis. if you use a screen reader and have mates who would be willing to help me convert my text posts into readable formats please link us up
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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FYI my shop is open and I've got some new zines and stickers on sale!!! (including this one about jrpg characters I think are trans)

www.shazleenkhan.shop
September 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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You can pre-order the zine this is from now btw!!
trump wont stop me (from shipping goods to you) The cover of my zine (the lightmeter on my slr is lying to me)
September 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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USA SHIPPING IS BACK, and I’ve updated my store !! Drop by for some new zines and stickers!!

www.shazleenkhan.shop
Trumps tariffs mean nothing to royal mail three cute pictures of digimon!! Its gatomon biyomon and palmon and they are adorable Four cute quatic pokemon - shiny wooper, lotad, horsea and poliwag
September 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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ai will never defeat me also i gotta do more “make a zine in a day” challenges for myself
It is a picture of a picture of a pitcture (it is a scanned painting of a study of a tree, and the original photograph was also printed out and painted over and then scanned as well. The branches are winding and knotted and pale, the leaves are are sparse and intermingled with large palm leaves creating a multilayered canopy. In the distance you can see the suggestion of a greenhouse window)
September 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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I can finally say BUUZA!! is going to be PUBLISHED BY ABRAMS BOOKS!

I've had to keep this under wraps for SO LONG, but the Pre-Order links went up today, so it's official!!

BUUZA!! Vol. 1: Good Morning Salwa will be available in the USA on 14th April 2026!

www.abramsbooks.com/product/good...
the cover of my graphic novel
August 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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my favourite child my goodest boy he has never caused me 1 problem as a writer or an artist my sunshine no 1 good boy (nonbinary)
my original character do not copy except he's literally just a tall young person with dyed blonde hair
August 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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also sometimes i get worried about posting my ocs who are all brown but like the light skin ones but then i look at my pfp on here and
i am not a dissimilar colour from the characters I draw but I am desaturated as fuck. When people meme on artists that use too grey / desaturated colours to draw brown and black people they don't know that...it's me....I'm the desaturated asian. RIP. Everyone pray I can leave the house and see the sun and reach my true goldeny form. (I am making jokes at my own expense shada manoush dni)
August 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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my trans as hell gay ass muslim comic
the characters are sitting around a counter top. one asks if the other two are fasting they both are and they return the question to the first character. the first character is not fasting today because they are on their period. one of the others says he doesn't get break days anymore BECAUSE HE'S TRANS
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Cant believe when i started drawing my comic i predicted my own sapphic northern desi x tamil relationship waow
its a screenshot from my comic
July 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Here's a bit more of Across the Pond, my new zine about my own struggles with imposter syndrome, pseudo survivors guilt and feelings of disconnect from the wider illustration industry.

You can pre-order it here on my shop!
www.shazleenkhan.shop
June 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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While new people are here, please go buy stuff from my shop including my new zines BROWN GIRLS ARE EVERYTHING and ACROSS THE POND
Picture of my new zine Across the pond which includes stickers Picture of my other new zine brown girls are everything
June 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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I have been and continue to be at MCM this weekend !!! Help me literally recover from financially supporting my family by buying my stuff 🫠

At table E-02 Artist Alley!
It is me smiling behind my comic con booth filled with lots of colourful prints books and zines , but inside i am dying because I have so many bills to pay
May 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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I'll be at MCM London this weekend!! Here's some of the stuff I'll be bringing with me : )
i'll b at mcm london comiccon table e-02 here are some books im bringing here are some zines im bringing picture of several fish stickers im bringing
May 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I finally designed a new business card / promo sticker…
its a business card sticker design. There are several illustrations layered upon each other to create a digital collage style with text showing my website and shop links. Text is as follows, roughly: Shazleen Khan , Illustrator Comic Author Zine Maker Www.shazleenkhan.com Www.shazleenkhan.shop shazleen.jpeg on instagram @shazleen on tumblr Read buuza!! On tapas and webtoon
May 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Updated events calendar for spring & summer!
SPRING EVENTS DUPLICATE PUBLISHING FAIR Saturday 3rd May Birmingham Eastside Projects 🌼FINE LINES FESTIVAL Saturday 10 May Cheltenham University of Gloucester Park Campus 🌷MCM COMIC CON 23-25 May London Excel Centre SUMMER EVENTS LDN QUEER MART Sunday 1st June London Depford Lounge MACC-POW! Comics art Festival Saturday 28 June Macclesfield Town Hall Building SEQUENTIAL SCOTLAND Saturday 3rd August Glasgow Double Tree Hilton
April 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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little portraits with markers and pencils
a girl drawn in pastel peah, lime green and a little rainbow coloured pencil a girl drawn with peach markersand purple-blue coloured pencil. under there is a drawing of a plant.
April 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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parrots!!!
its a macau with bright teal and yellow plumage more birds!
April 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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final vs sketch!!!
a woman stands over her partner hitching her leg on an unseen object; her partner leans forward to rest on her knee. Behind is a building lit by twilight, snowy branches and the moon.
April 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Throwback to this now super old image set of my characters from my webcomic BUUZA!!!! Should I remake these someday?
a smiling woman surrounded by pink gladiolus flowers a nervous man surrounded by peonies a smiling man with long hair surrounded by jasmines a quietly confident young person surrounded by marigolds
April 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Paintings of my grandmas house
its a watercolour painting in a loose sketchy style depicting a bangladeshi living room its a watercolour painting in a loose sketchy style depicting a bangladeshi living room
April 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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final vs sketch :3
a digital picture of two femmes sitting against a somewhat abstracted background of wves, lotus plants and mosques. The colours are warm and sunsetty. a sketch of the same image as before
April 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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woodrow i am so sorry i have engagement baited you. This is engagement bait i already have a secret third version that i perfected the colour balance on
Image from instagram
April 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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more sketchbook drawings???
a drawing of a woman and a persimmon
April 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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sketchbook drawings
it's a very sketchy sketchbook page the main figure is a woman running away from the camera. Behind her is a study of a man sitting, and below, a strange pointy star. the page is decorated with abstraced doodles of plants, and the entire scan is in pastels
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM