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Trung Le Nguyen
@trungles.com
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Minneapolis. Cartoon fellow. Author and illustrator of the award-winning OGN, The Magic Fish. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. He/him, They/them

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 6d
Hey, I’m Trung! I’m a comic artist and author. Here are my books! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2192...
Angelica and the Bear Prince’s cover is blue featuring a dark-haired girl in a red cardigan and pink skirt holding hands with a blond non-binary person with short hair. The Magic Fish has a green cover fearing a young boy in tattered jacket reading a book. A mermaid is behind him.
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SHOP OPENING ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪
SAT November 22nd @ 12pm EST

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As a thank you to my followers for all of your support this past year, please use the code: SNOW15 during checkout to receive 15% off your entire order! No minimum required! :-)

Happy holidays~
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I kinda casually observed that it took me forty minutes to get into downtown Denver from the airport on Threads, and a bunch of people were very upset with me about it, in case you need to feel like you’re doing okay.
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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I bought a slice of cake and took it back to my hotel room so I can eat it after I shower, as a treat
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Wow I’m older than Ray and Debra Barone when the series starts
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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btw the source of this info is Hannah Frank's excellent Frame by Frame (2019)
The cover of a book by Hannah Frank called "Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons."
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you
A post from twitter with a screenshot from 101 Dalmatians. The caption says, “A lot of animation snobs will say that the sketchy linework of Disney movies in the 60s and 70s was sloppy and cheap, but man I adore it. The shifting outlines do just enough to remind you that every single frame of the movie was made by a human being.”
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Wanted to do museum and gallery work, then the state government shut down the summer I interned at our local historical society, so I lost the internship, had a breakdown, and started posting drawings and cartoons on tumblr
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 11d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
pogonr.bsky.social Pogo 🎨 COMMISSIONS OPEN @pogonr.bsky.social · 16h
heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
Gmail's Smart Features option in the settings
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I also block anyone disphitted enough to blanket condemn USAID - no, you do not have to hand it to mass-murdering ghoul Elon Musk, actually
charlesxavier.bsky.social Charles Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 18h
I have heard this a lot whenever anyone posts about USAID, and I’ve just decided that anyone who badmouths USAID gets blocked on sight. Life is too short.
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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You do not hate these people enough
I arrived in South Carolina the next morning. Mark’s brief challenge to Trump for the GOP nomination was long over, but he was an eager and popular source for the many reporters then descending on the state to cover the Democratic primary a few days later, including me. Oblivious to their tryst the previous evening, I texted Mark and asked him to get lunch with me and Olivia, which I later learned had sent her into a panic. She called Mark, explained that I was her boyfriend, and asked him not to meet with me. Among other things, her recklessness detonated my relationship with a good source in a key state. Mark politely told her not to contact him again until she was single and had her life figured out, which is why a few days later, when she was at the Kimpton Hotel in Nashville, she kept writing and re-writing those notes of apology that she stuffed in the backpack she later threw on our bedroom floor. Olivia had written a tabloid-style news story about how “sources in Washington, D.C. and Charleston have been buzzing recently about an unexpected romance: Mark Sanford and Olivia Nuzzi,” who was described as “one of the most famous political reporters in America,” a “blonde beauty” who “gained critical acclaim as a skilled profile writer, gaining access to the powerful and the mysterious and turning it into pure journalistic gold.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:

- Right-click
- Unpin

Gone!
screenshot of the Gemini button in Google Chrome, below it is a prompt saying "unpin" if you right click
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Applications for CAKE 2026 open December 1st!
The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) returns May 2nd and 3rd at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago’s Mayfair neighborhood. We can’t wait to see you there!
CAKE save the date image featuring two cloud-shaped figures. One is exploding in rainbows
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Hey I’m here at NCTE this weekend! I make a few appearances and have a couple signings, but my workshop is on Saturday evening! 5:45pm to 7pm. Check your programs!
NCTE graphic for 2025. It features colorful abstractions of trees and mountains against a starry night sky. It reads: NCTE. Dream Boldly. Denver 2025. Annual Convention. November 20-23. A graphic of me, smiling in front of my old garage and chicken coop, with the timestamp for my seminar on Saturday November 22, at 5:45pm until 7:00pm
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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my feed did a little something
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Sometimes you’re just from when you’re from.
The Frieren meme where an inexperienced artist has trouble drawing Frieren, a silver-haired elven woman with pigtails and red earrings, from a difficult angle. I offer my own take on her based on how goofy anime from the 90s used to do it.
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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My article went up in @teenvogue.com — it was so great to work with such fantastic editors ✨
teenvogue.com Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Oct 10
"Slightly less covered is the wealth of Boricua history that makes his art as powerful as it is, including over 100 years of fraught Puerto Rico-U.S. relations that led to his arrival. This history is crucial for understanding the significance of where Bad Bunny stands now, & where he is going next"
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Could Finally Spotlight Important Boricua History on the Mainland
Bad Bunny is perhaps the only pop star fully equipped to take on the current American sociopolitical ecosystem and the fact that a show must entertain.
www.teenvogue.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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The TL is so funny right now
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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commission wip ⚔️
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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My Online Shop will be Reopening next week 🦇Friday 28th Nov-14th Dec🦇 with US Shipping available again + a 10% OFF Black Friday Weekend Sale 🖤

(Sorry I’ve been so quiet on here! 🙏 Life, work & running my family’s shop has been keeping me busy!)

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Photo of one of my VHD prints available from my online shop
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Free post on Patreon! Just a quick little update with a couple drawings www.patreon.com/posts/144107...
My tour ended, kind of! | Trungles
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November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Alrighty, off to Colorado. See you soon, teachers of English 🫡
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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In part inspired by the strange metaphysical flowers that ghosts eat in order to sustain their existence in Alan Moore's JERUSALEM, this was drawn to illustrate a short story written by @seananmcguire.bsky.social. This and free webcomics available on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/carlaspeed...
Black and white illustration of a spiky, thorny, thistle-like flower, the petals of which look like paper dolls. Paper dolls that would bite, probably.
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM