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Chrissy Williams

@chrissywilliams.bsky.social

Poet & Comic Book Writer | GOLDEN RAGE from Image Comics ("Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls”) | BEAR & LOW from Bloodaxe Books | PERVERSE magazine editor | https://open.substack.com/pub/chrissywilliams

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this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

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BACK ON MONDAY!

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It’s finally here!
You can now buy the trade paperback of ARCHAIC, about a badass single mom who’s put in charge of a sentient island and its mythological Inhabitants. Come for the Mesopotamian goddess of the dead, stay for the 9-yr-old who saves the day w/birdwatching skills.
bit.ly/Demonde

08.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 44    🔁 30    💬 0    📌 6

I love this cover so much. This collected edition is out next month!

08.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

WITCHES ❤️❤️

03.10.2025 13:04 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
ee cummings 

all nearness pauses, while a star can grow 

all nearness pauses, while a star can grow 

all distance breathes a final dream of bells; 
perfectly outlined against afterglow
are all amazing the and peaceful hills 

(not where not here but neither's blue most both)

and history immeasurably is wealthier by a single sweet day's death:
as not imagined secrecies comprise
goldenly huge whole the upfloating moon.

Time's a strange fellow;
more he gives than takes
(and he takes all) nor any marvel finds

ee cummings all nearness pauses, while a star can grow all nearness pauses, while a star can grow all distance breathes a final dream of bells; perfectly outlined against afterglow are all amazing the and peaceful hills (not where not here but neither's blue most both) and history immeasurably is wealthier by a single sweet day's death: as not imagined secrecies comprise goldenly huge whole the upfloating moon. Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all) nor any marvel finds

hullo, national poetry day

02.10.2025 08:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A digital illustrated book cover of Cruise Life - Raining Cats and Dogs by Reese Eschmann. It shows a Black girl chasing dogs and cats on the deck of a cruise while her big brother tries to catch up while holding a cat in his arms.

A digital illustrated book cover of Cruise Life - Raining Cats and Dogs by Reese Eschmann. It shows a Black girl chasing dogs and cats on the deck of a cruise while her big brother tries to catch up while holding a cat in his arms.

A digital illustrated book cover for the title Unfadeable by Maurice Broaddus. It portrays a mixed Black girl walking by with her pit bull pet, a bridge is seen overhead her, with some cranes in the background and some key characters in the book watches her from a distance.

A digital illustrated book cover for the title Unfadeable by Maurice Broaddus. It portrays a mixed Black girl walking by with her pit bull pet, a bridge is seen overhead her, with some cranes in the background and some key characters in the book watches her from a distance.

A digital illustrated book cover titled The Season of Styx Malone
It shows a Black boy with a cap and sunglasses on, her smirks to the viewer, and within his glasses you see the reflection of 2 other Black boys, one smiling back at him with enthusiasm while the other smiles more hesitantly.

A digital illustrated book cover titled The Season of Styx Malone It shows a Black boy with a cap and sunglasses on, her smirks to the viewer, and within his glasses you see the reflection of 2 other Black boys, one smiling back at him with enthusiasm while the other smiles more hesitantly.

A digital illustrated book cover of a picture book titled Bessie the Motorcycle Queen. 
It shows Bessie Stringfield on her iconic Hogs (Harleys) against a backdrop of the Grand Canyon.

A digital illustrated book cover of a picture book titled Bessie the Motorcycle Queen. It shows Bessie Stringfield on her iconic Hogs (Harleys) against a backdrop of the Grand Canyon.

I'm back from maternity leave and in desperate need of some work. If you're looking for some fun colourful cover designs I'm your guy! Here are some book covers I loved illustrating
Contact me at charlotk@hotmail.com
See portfolio link below

Shares & some reassuring words would be much appreciated

30.09.2025 22:40 — 👍 290    🔁 195    💬 6    📌 4

I’m mostly feeling Dog Rosie today, so that could be worse.

01.10.2025 12:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Check out GOLDEN RAGE: MOTHER KNOWS BEST! @imagecomics.com @chrissywilliams.bsky.social @sofiedodgson.bsky.social @beccasee.bsky.social @joamettegil.bsky.social + this awesome cover from the talented @laurenknight.bsky.social
A epic series to add to the collection!! #comics #graphicnovel

30.09.2025 16:33 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

GORGEOUS RAGE ❤️

30.09.2025 14:43 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Summoning my darkest inks for mine & @chrissywilliams.bsky.social witchy tale. GET SIGNED UP or miss out!

29.09.2025 20:11 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Cannot wait to show folks what @chrissywilliams.bsky.social & I have been brewing for WITCHING SEASON
This is going to be a glorious anthology. GET SIGNED UP

25.09.2025 20:05 — 👍 29    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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ANNOUNCEMENT: WITCHING SEASON - A Witch Horror Comic Anthology LAUNCHES on Kickstarter October 14th!

"A 150+ page Horror Anthology filled with stories about WITCHES, WARLOCKS, and FAMILIARS from some of the biggest names in comics!"

www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

25.09.2025 16:31 — 👍 257    🔁 89    💬 5    📌 34

Excited to bring more GOLDEN RAGE action to this year’s Thought Bubble waaaaahhhhhh! TELL YOUR GRANDMA ❤️

24.09.2025 14:44 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
A picture of a hand holding a picture book. The front cover shows a Black child smiling to the viewer while her hair gets done.

A picture of a hand holding a picture book. The front cover shows a Black child smiling to the viewer while her hair gets done.

Happy book birthday!

Salon Saturday is officially out today!

Written by Janelle Harper
& Illustrated by me

It tells a story of a young child's first visit to the hair Salon with her Grandma, mam and sister.

It's a celebration of Black hair culture

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705386...?

23.09.2025 13:36 — 👍 90    🔁 42    💬 8    📌 2
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Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

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❤️❤️

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Thanks so much to everyone for coming to the workshop, and congrats to @mereida.bsky.social and the team for organising such a friendly busy brilliant day at Zinezilla! You can watch the full video of the collective piece here: www.instagram.com/p/DOVhMZBCtd...

08.09.2025 09:43 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
White sheet of paper with hand written lines saying "THE TRUEST THING I KNOW IS..."

White sheet of paper with hand written lines saying "THE TRUEST THING I KNOW IS..."

A room of participants from the poetry comics workshop at Zinezilla 2025 lining up to read everybody's collective piece.

A room of participants from the poetry comics workshop at Zinezilla 2025 lining up to read everybody's collective piece.

Had such a great time running this poetry comics workshop at Zinezilla yesterday. One thing I asked participants to do was complete the sentence “The truest thing I know is…” then boil their original art / collage for it down to a simple single shape, then lay it all out into a single group piece...

08.09.2025 09:43 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Today!

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Preview
FUNeral Home: a 30 Page One-Shot Comic A story about chosen family, processing grief, and sapphic assassins. It's not burying your gays if your gays are burying everyone.

one thing about FUNeral Home that you might not know is that it is only $59 from fully funding.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cer...

05.09.2025 18:46 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2

This Sunday at Zinezilla in Bristol - a poetry comics workshop!

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That's right! @chrissywilliams.bsky.social will be running a wonderful workshop at Zinezilla where you can learn all about poetry comics and start making your own. Not to be missed! 🌟

All workshops included in £3 zinezilla ticket :)) hdfst.uk/e123090

31.08.2025 08:51 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

This looks great!

29.08.2025 10:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums

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The Surreal-Absurd Reading Marathon An online reading marathon celebrating the launch of Mercurius Press' new anthology, The Surreal-Absurd, out now

I'll be reading as part of this, all of us sharing our "strange work", at 6pm on Sunday - all online and free to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-surrea...

21.08.2025 14:15 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Total Recall of the Heart is now in the "hours remaining" countdown - 📣 70 HOURS TO GO!! 📣

70 hours to grab the first issue of a grungy, sexy, queer cyberpunk story that your local payment provider FOR SURE doesn't want you to see. Fight fascism, back comics!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...

20.08.2025 09:13 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
The Lost – Dante’s Inferno, Canto 1
lines 1-3

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
che la diritta via era smarrita.

At one point, midway on our path in life
When I had journeyed half of our life’s way
Half way along the road we have to go
I came to in a gloomy wood
In the midway of this our mortal life
Midway upon the journey of our life
Midway along the journey of our life
I came around and found myself now searching
Through a dark wood, the right way blurred and lost

I found me in a gloomy wood, astray
I found I was in a dark forest
I found myself within a forest dark
I found myself obscured in a great forest
Bewildered, and I knew I had lost the way

Halfway through the story of my life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood
Gone from the path direct
For I had wandered off from the straight path
For I had lost the path that does not stray
Midway in our life’s journey
The straightforward pathway had been lost

 

Chrissy Williams

The Lost – Dante’s Inferno, Canto 1 lines 1-3 Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita. At one point, midway on our path in life When I had journeyed half of our life’s way Half way along the road we have to go I came to in a gloomy wood In the midway of this our mortal life Midway upon the journey of our life Midway along the journey of our life I came around and found myself now searching Through a dark wood, the right way blurred and lost I found me in a gloomy wood, astray I found I was in a dark forest I found myself within a forest dark I found myself obscured in a great forest Bewildered, and I knew I had lost the way Halfway through the story of my life I woke to find myself in a dark wood Gone from the path direct For I had wandered off from the straight path For I had lost the path that does not stray Midway in our life’s journey The straightforward pathway had been lost Chrissy Williams

Waking up to being lost - I'm so grateful to Michael Mackmin for thinking about about my poem for @rialtopoetry.bsky.social www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2025/0...

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Amazing. See also:

16.08.2025 18:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh to be in Edinburgh at 11.55!

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