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Announcing @runefruit.bsky.social to the exhibitor lineup1 Rowan is an Iranian-Canadian illustrator who loves rock climbing, telling stories, and doodling their OCs. They like to write about blurring the lines of good and evil, childhood friendships, and anything fantasy!

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Welcoming Zainab Almahdi to the fair! Zainab Almahdi is an illustrator and comic artist from Bahrain, a ridiculously tiny island in the Middle East. A crime reporter by day and artist by night, Zainab’s comics narrate stories from Bahrain’s rich folklore and history.

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Welcoming @bskynirenren.bsky.social to SB Comics Fair! Renren Galeno is an award-winning comic book artist and illustrator from the Philippines. She really loves drawing.

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Delighted to welcome Margaret Spencer to this year's fair! Margaret Spencer is a story and comics artist living in the Bay Area, CA. Her comic work is auto-fiction. She is currently working at Pixar.

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Announcing @raoon.bsky.social to our exhibitor lineup! Raoon (Sofia De Rosa) is an Italian comic artist and illustrator with a soft spot for morally ambiguous queer characters and weird creatures. Her assistants are a black cat and a snail.

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Welcoming @inkpangur.bsky.social to the fair! Nina is an independent artist currently working in visual development for animation and the reboot of her webcomic Lilith’s Word. She graduated Moscow Architectural University, but moved onto comics and character design after graduation.

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Welcoming Smileyfaceorg to SB Fair! Janelle (any pronoun) is a Chinese Canadian artist who loves vampires, angst, Dnd, Chinese Indie rock, and most importantly Robespierre from the French Revolution. Their works and comics are usually about one of those topics or a mix of them.

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Dead Horses, this autumn

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Announcing @vincentlalalau.bsky.social to this year's lineup! Vincent Lau is an artist from Seattle, now residing in Los Angeles. He usually spends his summers watching baseball and his winters losing at chess.

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Announcing @vincentlalalau.bsky.social to this year's lineup! Vincent Lau is an artist from Seattle, now residing in Los Angeles. He usually spends his summers watching baseball and his winters losing at chess.

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Welcoming @apple-toast.bsky.social to the fair! Serena Ci is an Italian comic artist and illustrator. She mostly works with traditional media and spends all of her free time thinking about life and other pointless things.

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Announcing @astriferious.bsky.social to our exhibitor lineup! Dominique Evans is a visual development artist for animation by trade and an illustrator by study. She loves building a world from scratch, especially when witches, astrology, and or food is involved.

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A bunch of college kids that'll eventually have to... uh... save the world?? Introducing you to the main cast of my current comic wip for this year's @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social !! Slowly but surely the story is coming together, so I'll be sparing details here and there (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠) stay tuned!!!✩

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Delighted to welcome Paloma Carvajal to this year's fair! Paloma is a self taught, autistic illustrator whose work centers around the journey of learning to be an adult as a neurodivergent person, both autobiographically and through different characters, themes and stories.

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jk for my shortbox comic this year i’m going to make a berserk fancomic i can’t get out of my head. look forward to it

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Welcoming @sloint.bsky.social to SB Fair! Lauren Lee is a storyboard and comic artist who makes little comics about her life (and big comics about other people's lives). When she's not hunched over her tablet, she can be found pickling cabbage and taking too many pictures of her dog.

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Welcoming @sloint.bsky.social to SB Fair! Lauren Lee is a storyboard and comic artist who makes little comics about her life (and big comics about other people's lives). When she's not hunched over her tablet, she can be found pickling cabbage and taking too many pictures of her dog.

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Announcing @nabeelrooshan.bsky.social to our lineup! Nabeel is a multidisciplinary artist from Islamabad, Pakistan. In his free time, Nabeel is trying to clear his bucket list of all the story/comic ideas he's accumulated over the years and trying not to suck at Street Fighter 6.

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Welcoming @khimulee.bsky.social to the fair! Khushi is an artist and Illustrator based in India. She brings a unique mood to each of her creations, often getting inspired by nature and human emotions. She finds beauty in everyday things and hopes her art makes people feel something.

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shortbox2025 coming along👁️‍🗨️

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Welcoming @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social to this year's fair! Shazleen Khan is an illustrator and author based in London. Their notable works include Ignatz award winning webcomic BUUZA!! & Eisner and Harvey nominated middle grade graphic novel Saving Sunshine.

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Welcoming Torianna Jacque to SB Fair! Torianna Jacque is an animator and storyboard artist from Wisconsin. She enjoys telling sentimental, character-driven stories.

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Pleased to announce Marginooo to our 2025 exhibitor lineup! Debuting with a comic series about daily life with her dog, the artist has been consistently creating and publishing independent comics since 2022.

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Delighted to welcome Tooth Decay to this year's fair! Tooth Decay is a Cairo-based dentist and comic artist, she shares quirky and sometimes dark comics about her life as a hijabi. She creates comics, stickers and clay tooth products.

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Welcoming Willem Hampson to the fair! Willem is an illustrator and cartoonist based in London. He has made artwork for the likes of Magic: the Gathering, Sub Pop Records, The Guardian, and many more. Willem is working on The Holos, a sci-fi noir series written by James Vincent.

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Welcoming @lauraknetzger.bsky.social to SB Fair 2025! Laura Knetzger is the author and illustrator of several graphic novels, including the Ignatz-award nominated Bug Boys. She is also the illustrator of the Eisner Award-winning Bigfoot and Nessie graphic novel series.

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Pleased to announce Guillermo Saavedra to our exhibitor lineup! Guillermo Saavedra is a cartoonist from the Canary Islands, currently living and working as an illustrator in Madrid. He's in love with small press, and enjoys making zines with friends.

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Pleased to announce Guillermo Saavedra to our exhibitor lineup! Guillermo Saavedra is a cartoonist from the Canary Islands, currently living and working as an illustrator in Madrid. He's in love with small press, and enjoys making zines with friends.

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Announcing @bennizone.net to SB fair! BENNIZONE is a lesbian artist whose work explores themes of the self, connection, obsession & possession. Sometimes eerie, at times funny, often sexy! When reading her work, you can expect lots of woman-creatures; weird, warped, wacky & wonky.

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I’ll be back at sbcf this year with a medieval gl comic about ghosts haunting two weird girls who work among the mass of ladies-in-waiting to an unseen princess.

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Welcoming @theoplum.bsky.social to this year's lineup! Theo is an illustrator and Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist based in the American Midwest. He likes drawing historical fiction, fantasy, and romance.

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Welcoming @bispau.art to the 2025 fair! Ian is a transmasc comic artist from Spain who runs a small business for a living. With a passion for coloring, he thrives on crafting vibrant, imaginative worlds, drawing inspiration from the things he loves the most.

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Pleased to announce Hobactea to our exhibitor lineup! Hobactea is a comics / story artist born in South Korea. When she is not drawing she is cooking for leftovers or crying over fictional ladies.

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I'm working on a new comic and I'm excited to be a part of Shortbox for the first time this year!

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Welcoming @kruttika.bsky.social to the fair! Kruttika is an illustrator and cartoonist from Andhra Pradesh, India. Her practice ranges from making comics about animals in the gig economy to making picture books and designing toolkits for community-engaged organisations.

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Announcing Lunwënd to our 2025 exhibitor lineup! Lunwënd is a french illustrator and animator freshly out of school. They enjoy a soft blanket, their cat's company, and always wish they could start a new creative project.

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Welcoming @pazpazpaz.bsky.social to this year's fair! Paz is an animator and comic artist whose work revolves around the queer experience, often taken to the farthest corners of the galaxy and the most forgotten recesses of time.

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This year I'll be joining @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social !!! AAAAAAAAAA I can finally share it! 😭💖💖💖

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Announcing @mariabrennmb.bsky.social to our lineup! María Brenn is a Spanish illustrator and (quite recently) comic book author. Her art mostly deals with fantasy, childhood and the sense of wonder and discovery that comes with time and age.

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For people asking about applying to next year's fair, I'm taking some time off so there'll be no SB Fair next year, but I hope to be back in 2027 inshallah. Thank you 🌷

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So pleased to welcome @muta-a.bsky.social to SB Fair! Yuki Shibata is an illustrator and manga artist based in Japan. They mainly create characters based on animal motifs, and are the author of 'MAMIE TAILOR' for KADOKAWA "Aokishi" magazine, and 'My First Taiwan Delicious Adventure.'

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Welcoming @kelpienet.bsky.social to SB Fair! Jaye is a comic artist who follows their heart! Said heart likes stories about androids, other worlds, and the power of love, so here we are.

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Delighted to announce @lilyresh.bsky.social to our exhibitor lineup! LILYRESH is a queer comic artist and illustrator from the very orange city of North Caloocan, Philippines. She loves to draw the whimsy, the fun, and the chaos of everyday life in motion.

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Welcoming Sébastien Martinez to the lineup! Sébastien Martinez is a weird guy from Belgium who studied illustration, he loves to read comics and naturally makes some! He spends most of his time outside to get inspiration (instead of working...)

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Announcing @kohiu.com to our exhibitor lineup! Often known for their strong drive to follow through spontaneous creative endeavours, Kan Pham (KOHIU) likes to create bold expressions in both monochrome and coloured artworks.

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Welcoming @geezmarty.bsky.social to this year's fair! Marty is an italian comic artist and illustrator living in the UK, she enjoys scifantasy, RPGs, and bright colours. They are constantly thinking about putting fictional women in situations.

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Announcing @hannahlock.bsky.social to our 2025 lineup! Hannah Lock is a freelance illustrator from West Yorkshire, Sheffield. She studied at the Cambridge School of Art, and works traditionally with coloured pencils.

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Welcoming Yara Elfouly to this year's fair! Yara is an animator and comic-maker with a background in painting and printmaking. Her work draws upon her multicultural upbringing, and she enjoys blending historical fantasy and shared mythologies with the whimsical in life.

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