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Ariel Slamet Ries

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Ariel Slamet Ries is a Naarm-based, Ignatz-award winning cartoonist and author of the comics Witchy, Cry Wolf Girl, and the newly released Strange Bedfellows. After studying animation in Denmark for 4 years, they lost their degree in the post and unceremoniously bumbled into making comics for a living. They’re interested in using a fantastical lens to examine the mundane, and curating empathy for flawed characters.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 9,061 ratings · 1,588 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Witchy, Volume 1 (Witchy, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 6,640 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witchy, Volume 2 (Witchy, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 1,113 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Bedfellows 3.99 avg rating — 887 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cry Wolf Girl 4.03 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Real Folk Blues: a Cowboy Bebop Fanbook by Zainab Akhtar (Editor), Nick Dragotta, Ron Wimberly 4.20 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bowuigi Zine 4.60 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fresh Off the Vine 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green Rain really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snood Girl really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Witchy - Witchy Volume 2 is OUT NOW!

New comic!
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Hello everyone! It's been a while! I'm just dropping in to promote the release of the second print volume of Witchy for those of you who aren't on twitter.

A huge shoutout to my editor Shawna Gore and designer Sarah Rockwell for helping me pull this book together--the print edition is absolutely gorgeous and I'm so proud of how it came out!

Witchy still remains on hiatus, bu

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

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The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)

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3.5. I've only read the Earthsea books and LHoD, so it was interesting to see how Le Guin tackled a contemporary (ish) setting. The narrative voice was a departure from her other works I'm familiar with, and I was impressed with her ability to so smo ...more
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“If others pull you from the darkness, it's because they believe your life is worth living. Don't push them away because you don't feel you deserve it.”
― Ariel Slamet Ries, Witchy, Volume 1

tags: depression, hope

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“We aren't the mistakes we made in the past. We're the choices we make going forward. And, when we can, we use the power we're given to help the people who matter to us.”
― Ariel Slamet Ries, Strange Bedfellows

tags: inspirational, mistakes, past, power

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