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october + november 2025

Have been in extreme tabling preparation mode for these couple months...


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A riso-printed cover for Formless Formless by A Liang Chan: the title is in spiky vertical almost illegible lettering in gold-brown, under small panels in black with snippets of scenes.
#39
December 4, 2025
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shop open until nov 15 (US + some int'l shipping)

Hello! My online shop is now open until Nov 15. I’ve added a few copies of my 2022 Dream Journals + the 1st edition of Skinning (extremely limited) since I’m almost out of the print runs for those, as well as print editions of Everything You Will Forget + the Shapeshifter zines. New 8×10 prints from my residency this past summer are also available. As a note if you're interested in anything with low stock I'll be announcing the store opening on social media on Monday.

Currently, I have shipping set up for the US, Canada, and Australia - if you are outside those places, and not in the EU/UK, contact me and I can get shipping set up for you as long as USPS can deliver (though it will probably cost 20+ USD). Unfortunately I cannot ship to the EU or UK. There may be more difficulties with international mail due to this horrible country but if anything comes up and for whatever reason I can't mail your order I'll refund you. (I've also unfortunately had to increase US shipping a bit because of holiday price increases.)

Orders will be sent out within 1-2 weeks. Once mailed, estimated delivery times are 1-2 weeks within the US, and anywhere from 3-6 weeks (or possibly more) outside the US.

#38
October 23, 2025
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august + september 2025

It’s technically autumn here which I’m ready for… a lot going on but we’ve at least made it to this point in the year.


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1 gathering / 2 winding
#37
October 1, 2025
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june + july 2025

Have been pretty busy these past 2 months working on my residency project… which I’m not even technically done with yet… hopefully I’ll have a full write-up by the next newsletter but in the meantime here’s some sparse other updates.


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a risograph print: the hazy shadow of a figure is barely visible in the blurry reflection of a hand-held mirror. a pattern of dots & lines radiates from where an eye might be.
#36
August 4, 2025
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shop open until aug 1 (US + some int'l shipping)

a riso print of a twisting tiger, claws out and fangs bared

Hello! My online shop is now open until Aug 1. Most of my riso prints still in stock are available, as well as a 7×10in version of the passage print, a larger/new colorway of this tiger print, + my new zine Acrophobia. Currently, I have shipping set up for the US, Canada, and Australia - if you are outside those places, and not in the EU/UK, contact me and I can get shipping set up for you as long as USPS can deliver (though it will probably cost 20+ USD). Unfortunately I cannot ship to the EU or UK.

Orders will be sent out within 1-2 weeks. Once mailed, estimated delivery times are 1-2 weeks within the US, and anywhere from 3-6 weeks (or possibly more) outside the US. As a note, I had some issues with tracking info getting sent out last time so if you don’t see any updates after 2 weeks try checking for an email from pirateship.com, or feel free to reach out.

Please let me know if there's any issues with the storefront! Just finished setting up everything today and hopefully everything's working but you never know... There's also limited stock of items mostly so I can keep things manageable on my end but (with a few exceptions) I'll be able to restock most items in the extremely rare event anything sells out.

#35
June 18, 2025
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april + may 2025

Here’s what I’ve made in the last 2 months. Before that a quick preview of news for the next 2 months: I’m doing a residency at the SVA Risolab this summer… which means I’m taking a break from tabling for a bit which means I’ll open my online store again soon, stay tuned. Also have always been meaning to write a little more in these newsletters and so finally wrote up some thoughts about getting asked “are you making any new comics” at the end.


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a risograph print: on the left in golden-brown ink, lightning strikes amidst billowing clouds. on the right, oval frames contain a kaleidoscope of colorful, abstract glimpses in soft blurs.
#34
June 3, 2025
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jan + feb + mar 2025

Another 3 month update because I forgot… thanks to everyone who signed up for this newsletter these past few months, and sorry if you didn’t and I just entered someone’s email in wrong :’)


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a riso print in dark blue: a snake coils in a labyrinthian design, overlaid with the shadow of a branch, a halved plum in the upper right corner. crop & registration marks in red from a previous project are visible on one edge.
#33
April 4, 2025
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oct + nov + dec 2024

it’s 2025 so sending the update I forgot to send covering the rest of 2024, + some new year event updates…


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a riso print: in the main image, foliage hangs around a looming cave mouth—total darkness hides whatever may be inside. in a small panel above, slashes of red spill out into swirls of teal & ochre.
#32
January 6, 2025
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august + september 2024

hello! been doing a lot of riso printing these past 2 months, and appreciating what i can of the start of autumn here.


i’ve been trying to redistribute part of the profits every time i table - it’s not a lot because tabling is a large part of my income at the moment, but something i want to do regularly. if you’d like to join me and need a place to start, here’s some lists of fundraising efforts:

  • gaza funds

#30
October 2, 2024
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art updates june + july 2024

hello again! still pretty quiet on my end. thank so much to everyone who stopped by my june events (also thanks to everyone who signed up for this newsletter, and sorry if i typed in an address incorrectly and you’re getting this by mistake… hope it’s not too annoying.)

art ✎

a riso print: the arc of a closed eye in red over grey static; a symbolic shape of an eye over twisting blue pine branches in reddening skies; and then a cutout of the scene framed by the same eye shape below.

03 / 24-06 / silhouettes across your eyelids

#29
August 1, 2024
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may 2024 + june markets

sending an update since i have a bunch of nyc events coming up in june!

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a riso print in light blue-greens & sunflower yellows: bushy trees rise on the edge of a lake, fading blue into the distance, a crumbling arched structure among them & the sun hanging overhead in a misty sky. reflections fade out past a sandbar. below the scene is a tied cord with 3 beads, one yellow like the sun.

02 / 24-05 / trace - may’s riso print. printed with mist, sunflower, and sky blue.

#28
May 30, 2024
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march + april 2024

a very short one this time:

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a riso printed spiral bound book sits on a cutting mat, trimmed metal coils around it. the cover features fire against a blue sky, a figurine of an animal missing its head, and the title "skinning" in spiky red lettering.

have been busy with deadlines and then spent a solid few weeks working on the print version of my new year comic - here’s the fancy new title page. + also a title, skinning, taken from one translation of hexagram 49 革 (which is variously also named molting, transformation, reform, and revolution).

#27
April 29, 2024
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patreon riso print club open!

a riso print: a 3-legged magpie flies across a window shaped frame, yellow-orange sunset hues fading into twilight blue. a frame in the corner shows a handheld mirror, a strange fruit, and flames.

hello! just an update to say that my riso print subscription tier is open on my patreon @ 15 USD / month! get a mini print (~6x4in - 5x7in) mailed to you every month. more detailed info is in this post.

including a preview of the 1st print (in bisque, sunflower, bright red, + blue ink) for april! in the future prints will be made during the month they're paid for but wanted to have something to announce this. sign up by march 31 to get this print - it'll ship out in april.

i've really enjoyed starting to work more with riso, and freelance has been really rough, so this is a way to maybe give me a little more room to play around with printmaking! this will also be a way for me to be more experimental with my art - prints might be more abstract like this piece, or otherwise not in my typical full illustration style (and maybe sometimes not even a drawing? who knows).

#26
March 20, 2024
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january + february 2024

hello! some more riso printing + a bunch of tabling announcements.

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willows hang like curtains over a once-grand white hall, now sinking into still dark water, grasses growing by its edges. below, a white egret-like bird, 2 heads alert and a 3rd missing from a bleeding neck, perches on twisting orange growths arching from the water.

AND IN THE END YOU SHALL OUTLIVE THEM - aka i really wanted to draw something with hanging flora/willows and also return to my roots of weird birds.

#25
March 5, 2024
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red envelope collab with the washi station

a red envelope with gold foil design of a carp jumping up an embossed waterfall

hello! something quick to let you know that i designed some red packets as part of the washi station's lunar new year collection, out now. decided to do a carp to double dip on zodiac independent new year fish puns so you can use these whenever + the myth of carp that manage to leap up waterfalls becoming dragons for something year of the dragon appropriate. you can also use code FORMYTHS to get 10% off your washi station order (with or without my designs).

3 red envelopes with gold foil carp designs
#24
January 29, 2024
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goodbye 2023 / hello 2024

this was supposed to be the december recap email but the only thing i worked on was my annual new year's comic so here it is.

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text: someone once told us that someone once told them that biting through a carrot was like biting off a finger. sometimes, we rest a finger between our teeth and dream of a life as something sharp and cunning— panels show ambiguous models of four-legged animals, finger bones, teeth, a view of clouds through a window. text: gleaming eyes and sparking nerves and coursing veins, emerging from deep beyond surveillance cameras and multilane highways and stock markets. (something so perfect so as not to need to reshape themselves with their teeth.) panels show the darkness beyond the trees, ancient depictions of wolves, a set of sharp teeth, a border of neurons. text: we lay down the traps. we gnaw off our legs. we can't sleep and in the glow of our phones at 1am we type "do animals really bite off their legs in traps". we read through a long list of creatures in a tongue neither of us should have to be named. panels show a fang, a knife, a framed landscape painting, mouths shaped to different sounds. text: the veil grows thin, the storm looms on the horizon. the shape of the beast draws near in the fog. one of our teeth aches in the cold, and we imagine each one falling out like seeds into the dust. panels show a widening view, a cracked eggshell, lightning & heavy mist, an ancient rabbit carving. text: our rooms settle around us like a new coat, elaborate tombs to be unearthed a thousand years later. we feel each joint in our fingers, every loose seam. one day we’ll remember. panels show a figure on a tomb-like bed flanked by carved animal panels, strange vessels, glimpses of a bedroom. text: the course sweeps us along: lay down our body on the altar, prophesy the fall from the cliff, read the cracks in our ribs. the night cools our lungs. centuries whirl overhead and catch us in their gaze. we weigh our choices, we bite our tongue. there’s blood in our teeth when we wake. panels show blood dripping into a strange chalice, patterns of bones and teeth, a globe in a darkened room. text: we long for the dream of the pack. our many many feet wear down our paths through the ruin, and we make ourselves new homes. panels show the legs of a running pack, the shadows of broken columns, stars & roots. text: we are a small desperate creature caught under the vast expanse of the sky. but everything, in the end, will share our fate— panels show movement in the grass, silhouettes of claws & a finger on the trigger, a rotting apple, a toppled statue, fire, a carving of a sleeping creature. text: and the sky unfurls above us— a panel widens out into empty space.

also up on my site if the formatting ends up weird on here. i usually put my year end/new year comics together from bits of writing i've collected in my notes over the year, and they're usually very abstractly about time/ death/ cycles/ change/ renewal which conveniently are both themes i'm interested in and topical for a so-called new year.

#23
January 2, 2024
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2024 calendar prints - store open (US only)

hello! i've put some leftover 2024 calendar riso prints up on my store. US shipping only this time, will be up until dec 14 or until they run out (there's less than 10 left so sorry if you end up seeing this too late). all orders will be shipped by dec 15 which is technically before the USPS holiday cutoff but i can't guarantee delivery by any specific date :') thanks for looking!

a riso printed 1-page calendar in bright pinks, lime green, and blues. a twisting tree grows up one side, and a shooting star strikes above. birds with mask-like faces perch & fly above, a fungi-like plant with a strange bud emerging below.

— a / formyths

#22
December 6, 2023
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october + november 2023

hello! still have not been drawing much but did do some riso printing, + a tabling announcement.

first though:

A border of olive branches surround bold text on a black background that reads "Palestine will be free," between drawings of river ripples & sea waves. The illustration is on a bright red background.

i support a free palestine (as anyone who still checks social media has already noticed). made hires versions + 3 color riso separations of this poster available if you want to print, just don't sell them.

#21
November 30, 2023
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august + september 2023

hello! another short (and late.....) one.

art ✎

looking down a series of greco-roman-inspired marble halls, waves crashing in the furthest doorways and spilling down to white foam in the foreground.

fan art for piranesi, by susanna clarke, + a mock book cover:

#20
October 13, 2023
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june + july 2023

hello! here's what i've been working on (not a lot) + some more tabling news.

art ✎

a utilitarian platform rises from a field, equipment and antenna sprouting off of it. a person in an orange vest & long coat stands on it, gazing at a ruined concrete structure in the distance. red-pink fungi-like tendrils rise through it, supporting a star-like growth in the yellow sky.

growth

#19
August 2, 2023
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