Art by Emily K

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Want some comics The New Yorker didn't want?

patreon.comNew Zine: "White Supremacist Settler Colonialism..." | Emily KThe title is awkward, but I wasn't going for subtlety.

In time for election season in Israel - something I didn't plan, honestly - my new zine that guarantees everyone will find a reason to yell and/or nitpick at me. Everyone can read the first 3 pages. Patrons get to read the whole thing now. www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts...

Tomorrow on my Patreon, I publish my latest zine, one which will probably make half the people who read it very angry and the other half telling me this or that thing I got incorrect, because I was trying to tackle a massive subject in 8 sections of a letter-size page. Well, we'll see!

It’s quite upsetting honestly. And recently, fake Gen Ai “New Yorker” cartoons have made the rounds to the consternation of the artists they’re ripping off.

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson.bsky.social

If I was a freelance New Yorker illustrator, learning the art director was really good at using Claude would be a red flag

Yikes on bikes. Blacklisted.

Rodrigo Baeza@rodrigobaeza.bsky.social

Oh, shit. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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patreon.comNew Yorker Rejects - October 2026 | Emily KConde Nast didn't want 'em, so you get 'em. As of this posting, this comic is still technically a comedic exaggeration.

Well, The New Yorker didn’t want em, so they’re yours now. Up on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts/172487295?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=ios_share_custom

patreon.comNew Yorker Rejects - October 2026 | Emily KConde Nast didn't want 'em, so you get 'em. As of this posting, this comic is still technically a comedic exaggeration.

Well, The New Yorker didn’t want em, so they’re yours now. Up on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts/172487295?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=ios_share_custom

Now public: "Local Watermelon" The Hebrew says: "Not by might and not by power, but by my spirit says the Lord of Hosts — there shall be peaceful counsel between them both." (Zechariah 4:6/6:13) www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts...

Read more at the Patreon link, which is public. The original poster was so striking to me because it is one of historic Hebrew national pride made up of colors and symbols used to express modern Palestinian national pride. I knew I had to make something out of it.

Sneak peak at the new zine coming down the pike

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patreon.comNew Illustration: אבטיח ארצי / Local Watermelon | Emily KIn recent years, the watermelon has come to symbolize the struggle of the Palestinian people to achieve self determination and safety in the

New Illustration for the Patrons: “Local Watermelon” I found a Mandate Palestine era poster from the 1930’s encouraging people to “buy Hebrew watermelons,” ones produced by the kibbutzim. My interpretation of it scraps the original Hebrew for verses from Zechariah. www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts...

Every so often I walk by a tree pit that has been buried in volunteer vines

Now public, my new illustration "By The Hand Of A Woman." Read more here, and consider sponsoring me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts...

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Women in political spaces, like women in EVERY space considered "serious," are often overlooked, devalued, and mocked. But they have shown to be the most stalwart, reliable workers on the ground - especially retirees, but definitely those who are not slotted in with the "Youths."

"Evelyn Normielib" is a meme for a reason. Renee Good was a minivan mom. Judith herself was a widow - not some young femme fatale. Her act demoralized the other side. That's what will win - turnout on our side coupled with a demoralized opposing side.

Now public, my new illustration "By The Hand Of A Woman." Read more here, and consider sponsoring me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts...

A little bit of background, although please do click through to the post: I hesitated to lean into the "No Kings" branding, for lack of a better term. But they have put forth the largest pro-democracy protests in American history, and I wanted symbolism that reflected people from across the nation…

…They also use colors that are quite striking and non-partisan. Maybe the more radical folks in my audience balk at the idea of using an organization that has so many "Liberals" (as opposed to "Leftists"), but the fact is these people are moving mountains, largely thanks to women on the ground.

patreon.comChanges Are Coming To Memberships | Emily KI will be sending this in a general message as well, but here is a public post. For the entirety of my Patreon, I've been billing on a "per

Regarding upcoming changes to Patreon membership: www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts...

A woman in the Seattle area protesting with one of my prints!!

patreon.comNew Illustration: "By The Hand Of A Woman" | Emily KThis is my first work in a long time that incorporates Yiddish revolutionary song lyrics. This time it's "Arbeiter Froyen" ("Working Women")

New Illustration on Patreon: "By The Hand Of A Woman" www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts... An homage to the women in this political moment, featuring Judith, who beheaded the Assyrian general with his own sword.

This work is the first in a while that incorporates Yiddish, specifically from the song "Working Women." The Yiddish language has been tokenized in a disturbing way in the years since Oct 7, as a language that, unlike spoken Hebrew, is untouched by "Israel's ethno-supremacy" or whatever.

All Jewish languages are manifestations of ethnic solidarity and there is no "pure, non-problematic" piece of modern Jewish history you can latch onto. We are a complex people, like every other people on earth.

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12 Oct 2025

From my “Ner Tamid” Series, this illustration is of a Holocaust-era Jewish partisan. She holds a lulav rather than a rifle, but there is a grenade rather than an etrog (citron). The words say “Let us not go like sheep to the slaughter!” And “We will outlive them”. Available as a print.

Chag Sukkot Sameach! Time for my annual airing of "A Charlie Baron Sukkot"

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A Charlie Baron Sukkot This comic is based on a friend's COVID sukkah building experience. He had very little to work with, and when he posted a photo, people said it looked like "Charlie Brown's sukkah." A kind rabbi reassured him, and I used his comment in the speech near the end.

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27 Oct 2025

It's finally starting to feel like Fall in Philly.

11 Sept

L'Shana Tovah - When the shofar sounds, it sounds for justice.

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New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS" This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.

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7 Sept

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

patreon.comPen Illustrations from Outdoors | Emily KOne challenge I give myself is to draw an outdoor scene with only pen. There are ways to lay out a scene by looking at all the relationships

28 Aug

New illustrations up for the Patrons. www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts...

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patreon.comCandid Ink Portraits | Emily KI'm continuing to explore more pen-only work. Here I use a couple pens that give a brush-style stroke. A lot of them are looking down, becau

26 Aug

New for the Patrons: Candid ink portraits. www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts...

patreon.comCandid Ink Portraits | Emily KI'm continuing to explore more pen-only work. Here I use a couple pens that give a brush-style stroke. A lot of them are looking down, becau

26 Aug

New for the Patrons: Candid ink portraits. www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts...

patreon.comNew Wood Engraving: "Santa Cruz Sea Lions" | Emily KThis was my first block that I carved outside of a wood engraving class. I decided to continue with the urban wildlife theme I had going, an

24 Aug

I was so charmed by the sea lions at the Santa Cruz Wharf that I made them the subject of my second-ever wood engraving. Now up for the Patrons. www.patreon.com/emilyk/posts...

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14 Aug

New Comic: Based on the infamous scene from the movie School Ties, this is a common experience when we try to get people - Jewish and non-Jewish - to address antisemitism. Patrons saw this comic first. Please consider supporting me there. www.patreon.com/emilyk

Since this person disabled replies etc I’m not gonna share their identity but I think what they wrote is spot on. I would t be shocked to find out Cleves’s Tech VP husband said “comics make bank at the movies, where’s YOUR piece?” Without knowing those same creators die penniless.

Never mind that nobody is making movies based on comics about complex women’s lives, let alone lesbians, let alone with a big budget. If Walden gets a modest option fee that’d probably be the best she could hope for, and Cleves is owed NONE of that.

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J Bogart

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something interesting in the Cleves/Walden debacle is the pervasive assumption that comics are a) necessarily an inferior, derivative form that can't be credited with the diligence of research or scholarship, and b) so vastly popular and lucrative that "real writing" must be protected from them

Barry has read both Cleves and Walden's books, and afaik, is the only person weighing in who has done this. I've read all of Walden's but only bits of Cleves, but I'd easily recommend either, depending on what you seek. Walden's is a comic w/ fictionalizations; Cleves' is purely text and fact.

Barry Deutsch@barrydeutsch.bsky.social

This has come up again in conversation this week, so I thought it might be worthwhile to examine the specific claims made by Cleves against Walden. Cleves accuses Walden of taking, without credit: 1) Title. 2) Cover. 3) Four story events. Let's tale a look.

11 Aug

"Retro Music" I made this before iPods were discontinued. Although, people are picking them back up again... -- See fresh comics at Patreon.com/EmilyK!

10 Aug

I read SPX’s statement on their inability to participate in the Marriott boycott and I think it’s a sound one. Anybody upset about will be taking a nihilist route, one that literally leads to SPX’s destruction.

9 Aug

"Target Demographic." Based on a true story.

7 Aug

Now that we got Lebron, maybe it'll come true.

7 Aug

It is the most obviously Ai thing that ever Ai'ed. It's like they're daring everyone to call them out

Faith Erin Hicks@faitherinhicks.bsky.social

Ugh. My provincial writers' federation used A*I for the cover of their magazine, but when I tried to go to the website to see the new cover (and an apology I assume!!!!) all I got was a 404.

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4 Aug

I was accepted to a comics anthology about how our animal companions interact with our work! Support "Adorable Assistants" when the campaign drops! I'll be sharing a lot about it here! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

27 July

There is conflicting information regarding this slide, and I just want to say this: If the ATLA arts team uses ChatGPT for RESEARCH, of all things, that is such a sad degradation of their process. They hired an actual martial artist to design their bending styles--

Rick@combattlerrickv.exportaud.io

I dont know if this is brazen or it has just become so normalized that people who use the stuff don't see it anymore but the text that opens the final paragraph on the right on the big slides for your sdcc presentation is WILD

27 July

--and a master calligrapher to make a lot of their Chinese title work. One point of mockery of the Shyamalan movie was that in one part they eschewed actual Chinese characters for nonsense symbols. This is a world that cares so deeply about its connection to IRL historic Asian cultures.