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How it Feels

How it Feels is a visual journal exploring how it feels to be a person.

Newsletter · By Emily Fishman · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Sep 24, 2026
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Jul 16, 2026

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 24, 2026

    We’re All Just Muddling Through It (opens the original)

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    It’s been a while!I’m proud to say I’ve been MIA due to being what I’m calling, “Busy”. Being busy is something we take for granted, resent even, but when you haven’t been that busy in a while it’s a thrill.The seeds I’ve been planting have finally started to grow into a luscious garden of mildly lucrative flowers and I am tending to them all to see what happens. Fruit is being bared, roots are growing, etc etc. The metaphor provides!My weeks are a flurry of my own creation. I’m designing clothe

  2. Issue · Aug 30, 2026

    How it Feels to Draw Like a 3 1/2 year old (opens the original)

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    Last weekend, I accepted my annual invitation to Martha’s Vineyard as a guest of my friends Kate and Alex. It was the typical perfect east coast weekend filled with lobster, farmers markets, cooking around a big kitchen island, and playing with happy kids except for one flaw: it was rainy and grey the whole time. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uPfn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.c

  3. Issue · Aug 20, 2026

    I Lived it: A Family Vacation Without Social Media (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Aug 4, 2026

    10 Summer Things that are Better than Dating (opens the original)

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    I’m really loving hanging out with my girlfriends this summer. College friends, friends I’ve had since I was 4, old colleagues, new neighborhood friends, I even have a friend I made a few months ago while interviewing for a job I didn’t get. It’s just so fun every time!<div class="image2-inset

  5. Issue · Jul 23, 2026

    How it Feels to be Published (opens the original)

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    They day has come. My first published long form comic is LIVE and I’m here to tell you allll about it. But first, *here it is* on the brand new Lit Mag called IN REVIEW MAGAZINE: https://www.inreviewmagazine.com/articles/deep-listening<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0TJh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazon

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