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Whitney
@soberrabbit.bsky.social
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Cartoonist, enby, sober, etc. (they/them)
Arkansan in Chicago | I draw Sober Rabbit 🐇
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Sometimes you win cool things from being a tremendous nerd on @letterboxd.social. Thanks, Letterboxd and Mubi! Go see The Mastermind and any Kelly Reichardt movie, really.
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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I don't post on here as much because I'm struggling to stay afloat but here, it's dangerous out there. Take these:
a very large wild isopod -- gray with little yellow flecks -- on a light green piece of water lettuce A pale hand holding a very tiny glass jar of Nutella
October 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Today! Bring a mask and your notebook and come draw from 2-4 pm at @howlingpages.bsky.social, grab a bite to eat next door, then there's a comics reading at 6. Make a day of it!
Sober Drink & Draw. A monthly, booze free hangout! Masks required. Free NA beer/seltzer. Second Saturdays. 2-4 pm. Howling Pages, 4354 N. Milwaukee, Chicago. www.soberrabbit.com/news-events
May 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Hyped to be exhibiting in @cakechicago.bsky.social!! Second time! See y'all in June. Also: I did the silly trend. #NoAI
Lush green block letters with colorful flowers and foliage growing out of them in front of a purple background spell out "CAKE," a.k.a. The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo. Drawing of Whitney as an action figure in a 90s-style plastic containers affixed to cardboard. Whitney has superhero proportions and is wearing a Bubbles Fan Zine shirt and black jeans. Their accessories include an iPad and a cane. In the background is a drawing of Whitney drawing on the iPad as well as Brenda the Pigeon and Sober Rabbit. Text says: Mild Mannered Basement Dwelling Independent Cartoonist and Made in Arkansas.
April 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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We saw a squirrel carrying a dead mouse, a drug deal and this perfect creature within a 5 minute span. Spring is coming, Chicago!
View through a restaurant's glass door of a black pug in a blue and pink pastel outfit just outside.
April 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Tomorrow I'll also be showing some new originals, like this one called "Some Worries," for the release show of Agitator Comics #5 at Agitator Collective on Fullerton. Come say hi!
Comic panel of Sober Rabbit holding an expensive invoice for broken bone imaging. Their word bubble says "Jeeeeesus!" Agitator Comics #5 Release Party, Sat. March 8 from 7-10 pm, Agitator Gallery, 3851 W. Fullerton. Art by Whitney Wasson. Large painting of Rabbit, bathed in low blue light, dreaming of horrors! A giant oroborous encircles fire, plane crashes, murder hornets, sick babies, a fascist president and a fleet of secret service agents behind him, moldy food, pills falling from the sky, tornadoes and more.
March 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Delighted to be part of Agitator Gallery's fifth volume of comics. My first Sober Rabbit story in an anthology! Come say hi at the release party on March 8. 🐇
Text: Agitator Comics Volume 5 - "Healthcare." Release party March 8, 7-10 p.m. 3851 W. Fullerton. Comic panel: A black and white line drawing of a paw, holding up an MRI bill with lots of lines of numbers and at the bottom, big text that which reads "due immediately."
February 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Journal comics are up on Patreon. Also a free coloring book: soberrabbit.patreon.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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I long to be the humble corydora. No work, no taxes. Just blub blub.
Close-up photo of an albino corridor, catfish lounging on a rock in an aquarium.
January 10, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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This Saturday, skip whatever else you have planned and come draw with some weirdos! We'll have NA beer, LaCroix and maybe even the fan favorite - SQUIRT. Squirt is underrated. Bring your drawing supplies and a mask to @howlingpages.bsky.social!
Watercolor drawing of a baby hippo drinking LaCroix. Sober Drink and Draw at Howling Pages. A monthly, booze-free drawing hangout! Masks required. Free NA beer/seltzer. December 14, 2024. 2-4 p.m. Howling Pages, 4354 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL. www.soberrabbit.com/news-events
December 11, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Somehow it's December, which means a new Sober Drink & Draw at @howlingpages.bsky.social on 12/14 from 2-4 pm! Details and a link to more info below.
Sober Drink & Draw. Drawing of a fat baby hippo standing in a shallow pond drinking sparkling water offered by her handler. A monthly, booze-free drawing hangout. Masks required. Free BA beer/seltzer. December 14, 2024 from 2-4 pm. Howling Pages, 4354 N. Milwaukee, Chicago. Www.soberrabbit.com/news/events
December 4, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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November 21, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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I'm in Humboldt Park at Bendicion today, selling my wares. Swing by (2540 W. Division) and say hello. Leave with great NA drinks AND my new comic, "Crippled on a Bus in a Plague." It's about public transit and the pandemic and accessibility! 🐇🎸
Lots of pretty bottles of non-alcoholic drinks in a retail display shelf. Photo of Whitney sitting in front of a pride flag. They're a white person with short cropped dark brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a cream colored Nancy comic shirt. Photo of fingers holding up a glittery sticker that says "read more books, drink water, go to therapy" in hand drawn bubble letters. Behind it is a cold case of non-alcoholic beers. Photo of a tiny toy hand with tattoos (a staple of Bendicion's promo photos) holding up an orange comic with a cover which reads CRIPPLED ON A BUS IN A PLAGUE. Behind the text is a drawing of a lot of animals packed onto a city bus. Rabbit, a white masked rabbit, is barely visible in the corner. In the background of a photo is NA beer cans and a Christmas tree with silver tinsel.
December 3, 2023 at 9:10 PM
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alas!
Photo of an oil painting that has been memed: a couple asleep cozily in a bed with text over them that says “us happily waiting”; on the bed frame, text: “the Ticketmaster queue for Mitski tickets”; above them on the wall, a comically large spider with text on it: “scalpers”
October 4, 2023 at 4:38 PM
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welp. found my new alias.
photo of various, inexpensive bras hanging for sale at a store. on the waist band of the bras, the text reads JENNIFER SPORTS
October 3, 2023 at 9:21 PM
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Today I enjoyed spending all day at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum, listening to wonderful comic people talk about comics. Tomorrow (today!) I will finish my Sober Rabbit mini-comics in preparation for the expo on Saturday and Sunday. Cartoon Crossroads Columbus is a hoot!
Whitney, a white person with brown short hair, back to the camera, is wearing a denim jacket with Fleischer Studios characters (Bettie Boop, Koko the clown) embroidered on the back, looking at a big tapestry with embroidered cartoon characters.
September 29, 2023 at 5:49 AM
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On a lighter note, my latest Sober Rabbit mini-comic is finished, just in time for #CartoonCrossRoadsColumbus, baby! I will have several more illustrated treats with me, too. See y’all there tomorrow!
A bouquet of spring prairie flowers in a glass vase sits next to a small square comic with a white cartoon rabbit lying on its back, both atop a wooden tabletop. Rabbit has big blank eyes as if they’re disassociating and the wispy gray crosshatched background behind them gives off a gloomy feel. The title above the illustration: How to be Sad, a primer on grief and loss by Whitney Wasson. The comic is bound with small black brads.
September 26, 2023 at 7:00 PM
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I am celebrating 7 years of sobriety this week by getting absolutely pummeled by life.

I will be SO INTERESTING soon from all this character building.

Update tho: I ordered hella LaCroix, San Pellegrino and some other new-to-me sparkle waters.
Four comic panel. In the first, Rabbit sits at a 12 step meeting, looking worried. There is a thought bubble above their head: “how will I ever survive this?” In the next panel, Rabbit sits on the couch with their foot in a cast. “How will I ever survive this?” they think. In the third panel, Rabbit clutches a pillow, looking devastated. Their phone is beside them, as is Wolf, their spouse. “How will I ever survive this?” they wonder. (Readers of the comic know that Rabbit’s best friend died in 2020.) in the last panel, Rabbit looks inside an open fridge, their back to us. There is a dotted line outline of a sparkling water box, indicating that they can imagine where the box would be, but they’re out! Thought bubble: “how will I ever survive this?”
August 22, 2023 at 8:27 PM
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this one’s dedicated to anyone who dumbly monetized their love of drawing
Three panel meme made out of a screencap from the movie Donnie Darko: 1) Donnie looks at his mom. “I drew 6 pages today.” 2) His mom looks at him incredously. “Inked and colored or ugly, unreadable thumbnails? 3) Donnie, same blank expression, says “ugly, unreadable thumbnails.”
June 25, 2023 at 3:38 AM