THIS IS SOPHIE WITH A CHICKEN NAMED HELEN.

Sophie is a cartoonist and writer who lives in Chicago.

Here’s a collection of Sophie’s published writing.
Here’re her cartoons slash comics.
Here’s stuff about the book she wrote.
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Sophie has made some videos and sounds, for humor. Here are those.
Here are sometimes-asked questions about Sophie that you may be embarrassed to ask her.
Is none of this enough? That is fine. Send Sophie an email at sophielucidojohnson@gmail.com.
By the way, Sophie is represented by Mackenzie Brady Watson at Stuart Krichevsky literary agency.
Below, see Sophie’s Twitter and Instagram. She loves followers.

Sophie Lucido Johnson

You Are Doing A Good Enough Job: Things You’re Allowed to Grieve https://t.co/2vyKdMhBYo
Apr 5, 2023, 2:59 PM

Happy Monday! Please enjoy this carousel of rejected cartoons. (More of these at @sophieandsammi !)

My hero is a murmuration of birds and I will not apologize.
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#womenwhodraw

I want to live in a world where people help each other. (And set boundaries, but that’s a different carousel.)
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#womenwhodraw #womenwhoillustrate #womenofillustration #maryoliver #helpeachother

Four rejects for a spring Monday!
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#cartoonistsoninstagram #cartoonistsofinstagram #newyorkercartoons

This is so weird and I am so sorry.

Occasionally, I write posts about language. When I do, there’s an inevitable backlash that goes something like this: “I don’t think we should be policing people’s language. This is a slippery slope.” I like language, and

I finally took my @newyorkercartoons calendar out of its box, and was pleasantly surprised to find some old friends in January and February. These cartoons from 2021 were written alongside @skullmoski and there are more at @sophieandsammi .
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#ne

An early spring repost of an old favorite. Original text: “This is a reminder I wrote for myself, when my Little Brain Guy goes, ‘You’re a bad person. Why can’t you just be a GOOD person?’ Which is something he says to m

Ours in @newyorkermag this week! Written with @skullmoski , and more at @sophieandsammi . Thanks to @emmaewallen and @craezy !
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#cartoonistsofinstagram #cartoonistsoninstagram #newyorkercartoons

The percentage of time I spend thinking about pigeons is over 55 percent.
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#coo #pigeonlove #pigeonfan #womenofillustration #womenwhoillustrate #lovecoo #pigeons🐦

You don’t have to know exactly why you’re feeling the thing you’re feeling. I promise that the feeling is there for a reason that makes perfect sense. Feelings are tremendously honest; there are a tidy million explanations. Everyone