Beware Flossie the comic book artist solicitator...

[shadowkat]

I should have posted this previously? If you get this comment anywhere, it's fraudulent.

[Comment left on "Buffy vs. the Buffy Comic Writers" on September 13, 2025]

Hello shadowkat67,
Hope you’re doing well.
I just wrapped up reading your story, and I truly couldn’t put it down. The imagery you create with your words is so strong that I immediately pictured it as a comic or animation.
I’m Flossie, an artist working mainly with comics, manga, and illustrations. What I enjoy most is collaborating with writers to give their stories visual life.
If you’re curious, I’d be glad to share some samples and talk about turning your work into a comic.
You can find me at:
Discord: floessie_the_artist
Instagram: flossie_the_artist
Email: floessietheartist@gmail.com

Looking forward to your reply :)
Cheers,
Flossie

They've contacted a lot of writers on Ao3.

I blatantly ignored them, after having read about them commenting on another social media friend's fic at Ao3 several months prior - that friend had already reported them to Ao3.

Although I didn't really consider mine a fic - so much as a meta-commentary of the comics. So, I rolled my eyes.

I've gotten a lot of these solicitations over the years. Folks? Don't solicit people that you don't personally know on social media platforms for work. Just don't. We aren't going to pay you. We don't trust you. It's a social media platform, we're all using pseudonyms. Hullo?

Comments

[kazzy_cee]

That's a clever message. Just enough that it seems genuine and flattering.

[shadowkat]

Yep, very clever, but only if you wrote a full-length or even a short story. What I wrote - well, it doesn't fit what I wrote at all, and is obviously generic.

I wrote a brief comedic bit - satirizing the comic books, mine is not a story, it's not suspenseful, and it takes a minute to read - so, why would you have issues putting it down? The flattery is so inappropriate to what I wrote - it's actually comical and glaringly generic.

That's how I could tell right off the bat - it was a scam. Also brithistorian wrote about it happening to them about two months prior - they had written an actual story - so the flattery almost fooled them. I can see it fooling a person who wrote a fan fic.

Not sure what the intent is exactly? Since folks have contacted them for a price or to do work and they've been non-responsive.

[tellshannon815]

That same one contacted me - even if I wasn't aware of the scam, the idea of the fic (well, drabble) in question being made into a comic was pretty laughable so it was obvious that this comment was not from someone who had read it!

Edited to add: the comment's now gone, so I think they've taken Flossie down.

[shadowkat]

Yep, same situation - mine was a drabble making fun of the Buffy comics - so I find the comment to be comically inappropriate and clearly the poster hadn't read it.

We had the same experience.

Took Ao3 long enough to remove them. Brithistorian got contacted by them way back in May or June, and immediately complained.