Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems! Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

What a moment.

oops I was much more on top of posting this on IG!! #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2026

cover reveal!😭💛 Nora At Night, my first PB as illustrator AND author! Daytime is so loud for Nora! What kind of sounds will nighttime bring? Many thanks to the best @janinele.bsky.social & everyone @kidscanpress.bsky.social Out Sept 1 2026! you can pre-order now wherever you get your books! #kidlit

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (USA Today), 1990 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136307

Such a good article in Maisonneuve on how Canada Post is being dismantled, management is rolling out tech to try to emulate Amazon, and what Canadians collectively lose if they’re successful in gutting this public institution.

wtf does this even do? They are paying them to steal their IPs? No one is gonna want to pay to see this shit, it will be literally everywhere and probably gross and vulgar. If it’s even “successful” it only devalues Disney’s worth, they give up legal control and quality control.

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/07/t... We’re still going! @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social #ConnectingGaza

all children and and all people deserve to be safe #freepalestine #fromtherivertothesea

2-for-1 today: #peachtober25 & #kidlitartpostcard 🌬️🪁 I'm finishing up my author-illustrator debut with Kids Can Press & I'm looking for illustration projects :) I'm rep'd by the best, Janine Le @janinele.bsky.social ! www.aprilmilne.com 🍃🎐 #kidlitart #peachtober #peachtober25kite #illustration

oops I meant to post this earlier!! doing a few of the #peachtober25 prompts this month over on IG. here is an acorn for the first day of October 🌰🍂 #kidlitart #illustration

something cute about vancouver is when people stream out of the bus at the end of the line and it's a sweet and uneven chorus of thank you!s to the bus driver :')

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it’s july!! and finally it’s been hot around here!! hope you are all staying cool as a freezie pop and sharing your treats 🧊🍦 i cleaned up a little comic from my sketchbook for this month’s #kidlitartpostcard :) #kidlitart #cankidlit #illustration #kidlit #canadianillustrator

really grateful to take the week off work to make progress on final art for my picture book, Nora at Night :')<3 #kidlit #kidlitart

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when I say I can't make it to a hangouts because "I'm behind on my book" and friends think that I'm talking about catching up on my reading! 😭 how can I be so bad at communicating that I'm illustrating.. a book.. that I wrote!! really need to work on my PR strategy lmao 🫠 #kidlit #kidlitart 🫠 help

should we bring this one back lads?

Simple and refreshing question from a gr.12 student yesterday, worth pondering: how do you feel before writing a poem, and how do you feel after?

Hey #KidLitArtPostcard, Chris here! I’m a mixed Korean-American author and illustrator. Very grateful for the stories I’ve worked on and the #kidlit community I’m a part of. Work: Chrisdpark.com Rep: @essiewhite.bsky.social @stormliterary.bsky.social

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm Abigail from Indonesia. Mischievous characters and fairy tales with goofy twists are my favorite things to draw! Rep: Tracy Marchini (BookEnds Lit.) 🎨 www.abigailtan.com

#kidlitartpostcard day! convalescing on my couch so reused an illo again, hehe 🌸 I'm a mixed Filipino-Canadian author-illustrator, rep'd by the loveliest Janine Le! @janinele.bsky.social 🌼cute portfolio: aprilmilne.com 🪐fun newsletter: mygutisacosmos.substack.com #illustration #kidlitart #kidlit

I think we're close enough to this now that I should start talking about it?? MAY 16th @ Lucky's!! I'm going to have a launch for both of my new books! Pls come!!!!!!!!! 🎉😈🎠🌈📚

we also commissioned @apricotjoy.bsky.social to make illustrations of a bunch of native plants in our community garden, I helped put together these labels with the word for each plant in the two most commonly spoken Indigenous languages in this area, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim and hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓

I had soooo much fun working on this map for the community garden at city hall!! :') felt like I was playing animal crossing LOL 💛 but seriously 🌝

a really cool thing I got to be involved with recently at my community garden is we commissioned @apricotjoy.bsky.social to do this lovely illustrated map, she did such an incredible job 🌿

this has been a very busy season of my life (day job, working on my PB, working on a book pitch, MOVING!), so no time for a brand new kid lit art illo... but I repurposed one of my sticker designs from last year into a postcard and I'm very happy with it!! 🙂‍↕️😌✨🪽

happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I'm a mixed Filipino-Canadian author-illustrator. Rep'd by the wonderful Janine Le! @janinele.bsky.social 🌟💫✨⭐ #illustration #kidlitart #kidlit

a discord is not a forum. I don't want to join your product's community; I want to read the solution to my technical problem from two posters who worked it out 4 years ago

that episode of severance had me standing up and walking around the whole room with anxiety.. wake my outie up when it's S3E1 please

have you pre-ordered @kagcomix.bsky.social new books yet!! I Hated You in High School is her first GN for adults 😎 I am excited and impatiently waiting for my copy hehe

i've fielded q's & worked on a couple of projects lately that made me realize i needed to check in with how much i charge for things 🙂‍↕️ remembered I have this very useful tome!! thank you past me for splurging!! the graphic artist's guild pricing handbook is a bible for illustrators! luxury wow

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new post of my illustrated newsletter yesterday, talking about my favorites of everything I consumed in 2024, aka the April Awards hehe 🌟🏆💫 #illustration #substack #newsletter #awardseason mygutisacosmos.substack.com/p/the-april-...

This is amazing. Love this economics lesson by way of children's book illustrations @mingwong.bsky.social and @markrendell.bsky.social // Drawings via @apricotjoy.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

I illustrated a comic-style article about the loonie for @theglobeandmail.com — it's out today in print and online 🪙✨ many thanks to AD Ming Wong! #illustration #comic www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

incorporating other interests into your illustrations is a very important part of keeping your passion alive !! in my case, it's beautiful shoes I can't afford, hehe 🤠👞✨ #illustration #comics

Everyday feels like a Veep episode that died on the cutting room floor. You're telling me a 20 year old who went by Big Balls is feeding American citizen's personal data into private third party servers?

I missed hourly comic day this year - first time in a looong time!! devastating. but I was too busy finishing the nursery mural this weekend 💛🥹 hard to photograph properly but I'm pretty happy with it! I added little sparkles to the whale eyes hehe ✨🐳 #illustration #art

Happy Lunar New Year!! Wish everyone can eat lots and lay around like this little snake in 2025 ❤️🧧⭐️🐍🔥 my first post on blue sky and first post on LNY 🥹 #yearofthesnake #lunarnewyear #新年快樂 #illustrator

This weekend I worked on an ocean-themed nursery mural I designed — for my pamangkin who is due in April! (I keep suggesting she should be called April Jr but my brother is not a fan of this for some reason! mystery!) can't wait to meet my little niece soon 🥹💛🦭🐳 #illustration #art

Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States. “I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”

This week I recoloured a personal piece from last year and I'm feeling pretty happy with it! it's so cold and crisp in Vancouver lately that it feels appropriate to share hehe 🌬️ #kidlitart #illustration #art #drawing #canadianillustrator #kidlit

drawn & quarterly is to me what a24 also is to me

illustrated an essay for the globe & mail last week - about pet sitting! had a lot of fun drawing this big cuties 🐕‍🦺🐕🐩🐾 #illustration #art #editorial #canadianillustrator #dogs

a couple weeks ago I posted 'Year in Review' of ilus projects on my substack then disappeared into the worst case of travellers d**rrh** that I've ever had in my life. I've now returned to full hydration & feel reborn! aka strong enough to post again! wow🤝🏼 mygutisacosmos.substack.com/p/year-in-re...

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