Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster

@emilyriesbeck

⚧️ she/her. A mixture of delicious and freak; fearfully, wonderfully made. Author: It's Your Funeral, Mountain, The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl (Out NOW!!!). Repped by Au Literary Management. Website:

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Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· 21d

Do you like playing with DOLLS? Do you like taking your dolls apart, piece by fragile piece? If so, CHILDISH THINGS by @binaryandlove.bsky.social and I is for you! Check out our short comic here: emilyriesbeck.itch.io/childish-thi...

the cover for Childish Things by Emily Riesbeck and Julie Jerche. A rag doll with button eyes holds open the jaws of a pair of scissors that threaten to cut her.

Page 5 of Childish Things by Emily Riesbeck and Julie Jerche. The rag doll struggles against a hand that reaches to one of her button eyes and pulls it right from her face. Then, the same hand brandishes a pair of scissors, threatening to cut her.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· 22d

ok i finished volume 1 today and I'm gonna start on volume 2, which has THIS CYBER DOLL GIRL ON THE COVER. I am about to become diseased about this girl. She is literally me fr fr fr fr fr.

BLAME! Volume 2, with an alluring, jointed robot doll-girl on the cover who looks sooooo cute.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· 22d

you ever read a book that makes you go "man i wish i had read THIS before i wrote THAT?" Anyway I'm reading Blame and going "damn this would have gone soooo hard if i read it while working on Mountain"

the cover of BLAME! volume 1 by Tsutomu Nihei. Protagonist Kyrii is featured in tactical gear, holding his iconic gun in hand.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· 22d

Happy Book Birthday to It's Your Funeral!! For the anniversary of it's release, It's Your Funeral is 30% off today at Iron Circus! store.ironcircus.com/products/its... If you like workplace comedies, lighthearted sci fi, and protagonists who don't just magically "get better," this is for you!

Marnie Winters was going to turn her life around; get out of the house, make friends, no more “Miserable Old Marnie!” Everything was going to plan, but then, of course, she died. Now, Marnie’s a ghost trapped on Earth, and the only one who can help her is the overenthusiastic, alien social worker, Xel, whose job is to help ghosts “close their file” and pass on. Are you ready for a sweetly nostalgic trip through Marnie’s life, correcting mistakes and righting what once went wrong? Well sorry, this isn’t that story! Xel has a much better idea to soothe Marnie’s troubled spirit: an internship in the hopeless bureaucracy of the trans-dimensional Department of Spectral Affairs!

An early page of It's Your Funeral. Marnie, a ghost, finds her own corpse in front of her computer, with a hole blown through her desk chair. She rages in frustration about her death, and opts to wait in the hopes that she hasn't fully died yet.

Xel makes her way through the office of the earth branch of the Department of Spectral Affaris. Along the way, she hands some files off to Carol, a tentacle monster who speaks only in bizarre predictions of doom.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· 22d

Best I could do

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· 25d

It's true, this is the face of evil

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jul 12

Trying out a new choker

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 30

Fuck this. I'd rather be my Darktide OC and have a 100% chance of violent death

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 28

Pride was nice and now in chillin

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 28

Catch me at the pride parade wearing my new turnkey doll necklace

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 24

Happy #makeaterriblecomicday2026 I spent my lunch break doodling this comic about donkey kong please enjoy

a 4 panel terrible comic by emily riesbeck.

Panel 1: Donkey Kong from Smash Bros, swining his arm around to charge up a punch.

Text: "What if everyone on earth could charge their punches? Like Donkey Kong in Smash?"

Panel 2: A woman holds up a sparkling fist, while a man nervously holds his non-sparkling hands in front of him.

Text: "Our fists would sparkle when charged, so you can clearly see who has a DK punch in the tank. And who didn't."

Panel 3: The woman is swinign gher arm around to charge up a punch.

Text: "would we charge up a punch to have ready all the time? just to be safe?"

Panel 4: The woman and the man, both with charged punches, eye each other nervously while they pass.

Text: "Is that a world I want to live in?"

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 23

finale plus this fancomic i'm writing has me questioning everything

omni man saying "i think i miss my wife" but its been edited to say "i think i ship jax x gangle"

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 22

get it twisted this is my line in the sand.

a picture of protagonist Dan from the show Dan Vs, saying: "I dont care who the early 20s pre-hrt trans girl sends. I am not pretending 'hon' is an insult."

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 22

GODDESS I LOVE having tits let's all clap and applaud my surgeon for giving me the breasts I deserve

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 19

It's alarming how charming I feel.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 9

Sorry Mrs Aster we didn't listen.

painting of a knight using a tower shield to guard a maiden from rotten fruit thrown by a furious crowd. THe maiden is labelled "the american public." The shield is labelled "Caroline Schermerhorn Aster" and the crowd is labelled "JP Morgan"

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 6

Goin to see the amazing digital circus so here's the fit; thought about wearing my maid dress and calling it a jax cosplay but I don't wanna sit in that shit in public for two hours

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 3

Happy pride I love my wife I love my city I love this dress and I love you too

Me and Angie in front of the mirror she looks cool but I look like a goof cuz my brain short circuits when she holds me

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Jun 3

thinking about playing with power dynamics in this gilded age fantasy story i'm working on. dont let your dreams be dreams this pride month

i am going to create "yuri" that is so toxic,

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· May 29

This dress is a STRUGGLE to put on post-breast-aug and breathign in it is a LITTLE uncomfy but God DAMN does it look good on me

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· May 20

The Boys tv finale was whatever but the whole show gets an F- for being too pussy to include Hughie's clocky tranny friend. Justice for Bobbi

Big Bobbi, a character from the boys. She is a trans woman depicted as hyper-mascline, practically a "man in a dress with a wig" trope. You're just going to have to trust me that this depiction of transfemininity manages to include some nuance and insight but i dont blame you if you don't believe me.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· May 17

i feel i might be doing something wrong 🤔

UFO 50 but none of the games were touched except party house which was mastered.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· May 14

publishing is fun

i prefer not to speak, if i speak, i am in big trouble

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· May 13

Thank you for your service.

A yard with a home depot skeleton decoration, with a sign stating: "this house is protected by Catherine Zeta Bones"

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· May 10

when the edibles say "take one gummy and then wait two hours to adjust your dose"

parks and rec meme. A lowe's employee asks Ron Swanson "is there a project you're working on?" Ron callously responds "I know more than you."

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· May 9

Mt kinda saturday

Emily in a sunny sidewalk wearing a white sundress with postcards printed on it

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· May 3

It's spooky day at Iron Circus, and It's Your Funeral is on sale for 30% off. Come get this ghastly workplace comedy about being stuck in a dead-end job after you already died. I promise there's a whole chapter about Carol the tentacle monster. Check it out: store.ironcircus.com/collections/...

the cover of It's Your Funeral by Emily Riesbeck, Ellen Kramer and Matt Krotzer, featuring the red, one-eyed alien Xel holding back a mountain of paperwork as the sweatered ghost Marnie knocks on the door she is braced against.

A comic page from It's Your Funeral. An impossible large storm pierces the multiverse, connecting paths between worlds that spirits are flowing to and from. Overlaid in bubbles are Xel and Marnie, as Xel explains the purpose of the department of spectral affairs is to help guide these souls to the afterlife.

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· May 1

*logging onto work laptop to start the day* Dont say "good morning everypony" in the teams chat Dont say "good morning everypony" in the teams chat Dont say

guy pointing at himself in mirror and glaring meme

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Apr 23

its so funny to see this toy shooting a laser because Lana Linguini is DEFINITELY more of a "you guys do the dangerous stuff, i am not getting involved" kind of NPC, but she was always asking the etch-e-sketch to draw her doing various violences against other toys, so it's very in-character.

Lana Linguini, a brightly colored, noodle-armed doll, fires a shoulder-mounted laser cannon. Art is by @ingforart.bsky.social

Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster@emilyriesbeck· Apr 23

For my birthday a few months ago @bycharlottefinn.bsky.social commissioned this wonderful piece from @ingforart.bsky.social for the mini-campaign of Threadbare I've been running for my wednesday gaming group, Escape From The Island Of Misfit Toys. I love them 🥺