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Art and comics by eggplant celebrity Ariel Slamet Ries. I made Witchy, Cry Wolf Girl, and Strange Bedfellows. Some may consider me the godfather of Bowuigi.
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hi! i'm a novice comic artist and a big fan of your work :) i was wondering if you'd be willing to share a little sample of what a comic script looks like for you?
Sure! I'll share below the cut because it'll get a bit long.
(this turned into a longer post on my scripting process for comics, so do click through if you are interested in more than just a sample)
Here's the script for the opening pages of Bedfellows. The images have alt text so you can read it straight, but i'm posting screencaps because there's no way to share the exact formatting otherwise. Here's the pages themselves, for comparison:
I didn't write the script in any specialty software, just google docs, and for formatting I just memorised the different shortcuts for left/center alignment and indentation. I need a program that I can open up on any device and have my project synced across all devices because I actually do a fair amount of quick drafting on my phone, so a lot of professional script writing software doesn't work for me in this regard.
Though I wouldn't recommend any google product on principle. I hear Ellipsus and Proton Docs are less evil and programs that work just the same.
For my latest project, Surface Tension, I also set up paragraph styles for certain types of text. In this screenshot the blue text indicates flashbacks, and the green highlighted text indicates narration:
paragraph styles are assigned shortcuts, so once I memorise those I can shift into the style I want immediately:
It's worth noting that these are scripts I use in a professional context that an editor has to come in and read, so I keep them tidy and more detailed than scripts that are just for me.
Here's an excerpt from the Witchy script:
[LOUD SCREAMING AND GROANING FROM OFF-SCREEN BECAUSE IT'S REALLY EMBARRASSING LOOKING AT OLD WITCHY SCRIPTS]
Okay I'm not going to show it here but it's a lot lighter on description, and there's not a lot of information about the character acting during dialogue. It's honestly how I prefer to write, but when working with an editor there are just times you need to explain to them what things look like. You can sometimes also just draw them a picture.
You'll note that I don't demarcate page numbers anywhere here: I just really don't like to write and think about pages at the same time. That's what thumbnails/layouts are for. I have enough scripts behind me now that I can estimate roughly how many pages something will be from word count.
If you are doing things with a competent editor, or just working for yourself, you also don't have to script things formally like this if you don't want to. I would actually say that the vast majority of artist/writer cartoonists that I know work from an outline and script directly onto their thumbnails/layouts.
Sometimes I'll throw in a few thumbnails while scripting so I remember how I want to execute something, but largely my brain is not big enough to think about writing and drawing at the same time.
Also, while it doesn't really work for my needs, comics peer and former Witchy editor Steenz has developed a standardised comics script template alongside Camilla Zhang that is worth looking at if you're working with a larger collaborative team: https://www.oheysteenz.com/scs-template
Shoutout to @arielries for making me absolutely lose it with the timing of this bit:
WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP.
God tier cartooning.
If you’re looking for an absolute stunner of a queer graphic novel to get lost in, go check out Strange Bedfellows! It’s rich and beautiful and original and emotionally punchy, but also SO funny?? I absolutely loved it. You can buy it here or check out loads of preview pages on Ariel’s tumblr.
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HOTBLOOD! VOL. 2: THE VALLEY OF KINGS
SEPTEMBER 8, 2026
"After a fire, you can see farther. Everything is red."
Alta California, 1880: Evander Rook–alias John Davidson–is a centaur on the run. When his trail leads to two unidentifiable corpses in the ruins of a house fire, it’s the job of US Marshal Iban Zarco to bring him in, dead or alive...but it's not that easy. As he gets closer to his quarry, what started as a routine investigation will lead Zarco to the edge of everything he’s ever known.
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How is the Mad Cave edition different from what was printed for the 2018 Kickstarter? The script was rewritten, every page was redrawn, the page count has doubled to accommodate the new story, and even the trim size has changed.
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Hi 👋 hello did you know today was the first year anniversary of Strange Bedfellows' release? I can't believe it's been that long already! To celebrate I am finally releasing the official Strange Bedfellows playlist. You can listen to the playlist through these links:
Youtube Music | Qobuz | Spotify (avoid if possible but I know people still use it)
enjoy the playlist but haven't read the book? I gotcha.
I think it is a pretty banger playlist and also! the songs roughly follow the arc of the book. try figuring out which songs play in specific moments…👀
Full track list below the cut:
Ojai - Young & Sick
Boredom (feat. Rex Orange County & Anna of the North) - Tyler, The Creator ; Rex Orange County ; Anna of the North
A Fever Dream - Everything Everything
Ghost in the Machine (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) - SZA ; Phoebe Bridgers
Hate That You Know Me - Bleachers
Paprika - Japanese Breakfast
Bad Friend - Rina Sawayama
In Dreams - Empress Of
Pink Light - MUNA
Strangers - Sigrid
May I Have This Dance (Remix) [feat. Chance the Rapper] - Francis and the Lights ; Chance the Rapper
Saturdays (feat. HAIM) - Twin Shadow ; HAIM
Heat Waves - Glass Animals
Geyser - Mitski
Gwan - Rostam
Friends - Extended Version - Count Counsellor
You've Got To Feel - Empress Of ; Amber Mark
Everything Now (Todo Ya) - Remix por Bomba Estéreo - Arcade Fire ; Bomba Estéreo
Maker - Anjimile
Hi 👋 hello did you know today was the first year anniversary of Strange Bedfellows' release? I can't believe it's been that long already! To celebrate I am finally releasing the official Strange Bedfellows playlist. You can listen to the playlist through these links:
Youtube Music | Qobuz | Spotify (avoid if possible but I know people still use it)
enjoy the playlist but haven't read the book? I gotcha.
I think it is a pretty banger playlist and also! the songs roughly follow the arc of the book. try figuring out which songs play in specific moments…👀
Full track list below the cut:
Ojai - Young & Sick
Boredom (feat. Rex Orange County & Anna of the North) - Tyler, The Creator ; Rex Orange County ; Anna of the North
A Fever Dream - Everything Everything
Ghost in the Machine (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) - SZA ; Phoebe Bridgers
Hate That You Know Me - Bleachers
Paprika - Japanese Breakfast
Bad Friend - Rina Sawayama
In Dreams - Empress Of
Pink Light - MUNA
Strangers - Sigrid
May I Have This Dance (Remix) [feat. Chance the Rapper] - Francis and the Lights ; Chance the Rapper
Saturdays (feat. HAIM) - Twin Shadow ; HAIM
Heat Waves - Glass Animals
Geyser - Mitski
Gwan - Rostam
Friends - Extended Version - Count Counsellor
You've Got To Feel - Empress Of ; Amber Mark
Everything Now (Todo Ya) - Remix por Bomba Estéreo - Arcade Fire ; Bomba Estéreo
Maker - Anjimile
2025 in art! it's been a minute since I've been able to fill one of these out. also i probably forgot to post several of these on here.
wrote like a 30k word script + drew about 300 thumbnails and pencilled/started inking and colouring a 35 page comic. not bad for a year of work. ESPECIALLY since i found out this year that I've been rawdogging a chronic illness for um potentially half my life.
looking forward to starting meds this year and seeing how much i can do with the training weights off 💪
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hello, I'm a queer author and, being very disabled and often too ill to watch TV or get out of bed, I read A Lot. This year, after deciding to stop reading anything I wasn't enjoying right away, I ended up reading SO MANY amazing books that really got me through it.
If YOU want to read more cool and/or gay books, I wrote some proper blogs about my favourites, what exactly I was most obsessed with, and whether you might like them too:
More books, nuance and yelling at the links:
My favourite graphic novels /
Favourite books read in 2025
is Surface Tension in the Ghost Dust universe, or is it is own thing?
It's its own thing. It's basically set in our present day world with some magical realist elements, but Garagula is a fictional town with a purposefully vague location because I didn't want to have to ground the story in a specific place other than nebulously on the East coast of Australia.
The next story set in the ghost dust universe will be ghost dust Proper, which I would like to start in the next uhhh decade
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