Susanne Reece

No subsidies for us, 2 freelancers in our late 50s/early 60s. Going up from almost 1700 total to about ~2200 for a silver plan. It was already our largest expense BEFORE the increase.

A haiku comic called Early November with a full color large drawing of Palmer Cemetery in Philadelphia overlaid with 3 panels featuring line drawings. Panel 1 is a rotting jack-o-lantern. Panel 2 is a dead tree with eyeball ornaments hanging on it. Panel 3 is a creepy owl sculpture in window box. The hand lettered text reads: fake spider webs float/dead leaves on the ground/winter creeps closer.

I made a thing. After months and months of not making anything.

I had been wondering what the story was behind this project, and now I know. Thank you!

Hand writing in journal with rainbow of colors

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I’m offering a graphic memoir course online this fall for New York’s School of Visual Arts. Starts 9/24. More info here: sva.edu/academics/co...

I'm angry and also worried. The 9:00 PM "curfew"/shut down that starts Jan 1 is going to be very bad for very many people.

Why You Should Still Build Your Raft of Art in the Sea of Slop A little cri du coeur about working on your work and avoiding all the noise

I've been thinking a lot about what I want to make and what I don't want to make anymore and why and feeling a bit what's the point of any of it. This post by @thelincoln.bsky.social was a little life raft for me: open.substack.com/pub/counterc...

Something similar happened to me at a party several years ago. I was asked what I did and I replied, I’m a copywriter. And the person thought I was an IP lawyer who dealt with copyright issues. This was at a party in NYC, so there was really no excuse for it.

You there. Fetch me my “casual Rolex.” I may encounter some poors today, and I don’t want anyone to accuse me of being insensitive.

It’s from like 2012, but I still teach Emily Carroll’s The Worthington because it’s a great example of a story reason for its interactivity www.emcarroll.com/comics/worth...

This me, except my shoulder after a couple of months of twice-weekly yoga and now I can do yoga no times a week.

Leeches for everyone!

A More Prefect Union A graphic essay

I posted a new graphic essay over on Substack:

Poetry Comics as Diary Comics with Susanne Reece 5/6 + 5/20 - FRIEDA Do you like to write and draw? Do you like keeping a journal or diary, writing from life, or writing poetry? Join Susanne and learn to make short, simple comics about the beauty, heart, and humor of d...

Hi! I'll be leading a couple of poetry comics evening workshops at FRIEDA in Philadelphia on 5/6 and 5/20. More information here: frieda.community/programs/poe...

first page of a handlettered journal entry about anti-trans legislation in the UK and US with illustrations of pink and blue butterflies

second page of a handlettered journal entry about anti-trans legislation in the UK and US with illustrations of pink and blue butterflies

Weeks 24 and 25 of Document, a 4-year illustrated journal project

Hand lettered illustrated journal entry about the past week's tariff chaos and things feeling like pandemic all over again. Drawings of Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, and Freddy Kruger are included.

Week 23 of Document, a 4-year weekly journal project

Hand-lettered journal entry documenting the week of 3/28-4/3, 2025. Text is about the tariffs imposed by Trump yesterday. Drawings of a jackhammer, sticks of dynamite, and a dynamite blaster.

Handwritten text of an illustrated journal entry, second page about the Trump tariffs with an illustration of a crane with a wrecking ball.

Latest illustrated weekly journal entry in a 4-year project

Handlettered illustrated journal entry documenting the past 2 weeks focused on Hannah Arendt's concept of the banality of evil-first page. Images of Arendt and the cover of her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem.

Second page of a handlettered journal entry documenting the last 2 weeks. Text is about everyday acts and evasions of Germans during the 1930s and 40s. Line drawings of people walking based on street photos from Berlin in the 1930s.

Third page of a handlettered journal entry covering the past 2 weeks concentrated on acts of individuals. Mentions the Jim Crow South and events in Washington, including the capitulation of both Columbia University and the law firm Paul, Weiss. Line drawing of a 1950s middle-class family seen from the back, and of a young man hunched over looking at his phone.

Weeks 20 and 21 of a 4-year documentary journal project. I lumped 2 together because it was a struggle this time and I am wondering if I even want to keep going with it? Meanwhile, this war plans group chat thing seems sticky enough to not just go away?

Handwritten journal entry about Trump shilling for Tesla in front of the White House, the arrest of a Palestinian student involved in the protest movement at Columbia University by ICE, the tanking stock market that Republicans are spinning as a good thing, and measles for everyone! Illustration is a stack of old tvs with static on their screens.

Latest entry for an illustrated journal project documenting the next 4 yearsHand

Thanks for this kind note!

Love this! Look forward to seeing more of your work on here.

Handlettered journal entry about the State of the Union address and the Democrats weak protest of it, with illustrations in pink of a cocktail, an auction paddle with FML on it, a victorian fainting couch, and a flamethrower

Week 17 of a 4-year illustrated documentary journal project

A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

Handlettered journal entry about protest/resistance in the US with illustrations of hippies.

Second page of a handlettered journal entry about protest and resistance with illustrations of a Montgomery Alabama bus from the 1950s and of civil rights leader John Lewis

Week 16 of Document, a 4-year journal project

Page 1 of handwritten journal post about what happened this week with black and white drawing of Munich, Germany, in ruins in 1945

Page 2 of handwritten journal post about what happened this week with black and white drawing of Munich, Germany, in ruins in 1945

The latest for Document, a 4-year weekly illustrated journal project

First page of a hand lettered journal entry about events of the past week with hand-drawn illustrations of a crown, scepter, and Louis XVI of France.

Second page of a hand lettered journal entry about events of the past week with hand drawn illustrations of a medallion of Louis XVI of France and of Louis and an advisor poring over a large map.

This week's entry in Document, a 4-year project

I think this is worth a try, and I would like to see it. It’s what LBJ would have wanted.

Love to you and mamma.

Page 1 of a 2-page handlettered personal journal entry about wishing the Democrats would do something, anything! With illustrations of boxing gloves and a Bozo the Clown children's inflatable "bop" doll.

2nd page of a handlettered journal entry about feckless Democratic party leaders and some inspiration for potential small personal acts of rebellion. Illustrated with a boxing diagram, boxing trunks and boxing gloves.

The latest weekly journal entry in a 4-year project