I just backed SLG Publishing 40th Anniversary" Don't Call it a Comeback!" on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...

I’m doing a book giveaway on my Substack! Leave a comment on the latest post for a chance to win a signed Pip & Pals ARC 🦦🚀❤️ jendeoart.substack.com/p/a-pip-and-...

I just backed the comics anthology, HOW TO TOUCH GRASS, edited by the amazing @joamettegil.bsky.social over at @powerandmagic.bsky.social. Don't miss this one! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...

In 1999, I bought a bootleg version of Photoshop off Craigslist to use on my friend's good computer so I could make cooler flyers for my band. Whatever version that was is the best Photoshop.

Students in my undergraduate Making Comics course put together their first anthology zine, Personal Space Invader. Our class is tabling at a zine fest this weekend, so they'll also get a taste for all that sweet, sweet zine money.

Full-time college professor, which affords me about 1 day a week to make comics. Two kids. Spouse with a full-time job. I work in small bits here and there. Set realistic goals, one project at a time, assume it will take you longer than you think, find an editor/publisher that gets it (Top Shelf ♥️)

The problem with even a comic writing award is that a significant portion of what you think the writer did was actually done by the artist, or created collaboratively off the page. Read a couple of comic scripts and see for yourself.

The immense popularity of “Calvin and Hobbes,” often called “the last great newspaper comic,” can risk obscuring its many inspirations & antecedents. In both style & content, the strip is very well-versed in the rich history of comics and often pays tribute to its influences. 1/12 #CalvinAndHobbes

A SUPER MAGIC BOY comic strip to start off your week. #comics #graphicnovels #kidlit #animation

A panel from today’s work-in-progress. Taking a quick break from Red Panda & Moon Bear 3 to work on some new Hugo & Dino comics! I haven’t talked about this project yet, but I’ve got something cool in the works!

Today’s page-in-progress: In RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3, the dogs give cartooning a try and release their own comic book. Here’s a page from the comic-within-a-comic. #comics #kidlit #childrensgraphicnovels #mglit #childrensbooks

I used to get the bulk of my school visit requests during Latinx Heritage Month, but even that’s dried up. And regardless, I’ve never been invited to a paid school visit, only ever free volunteer visits, mostly virtual. A career day if I’m lucky.

A little Donatello warm-up drawing to get the day started! #comics #ninjaturtles #tmnt #graphicnovels #kidlit

Check out I Am A Slime Monster by @jarodrosello.bsky.social! All three of my kids have read and loved it, especially the titular slime monster. My kids are really into villains, it turns out, and fun, vivid comics. The latest entry in the Super Magic Boy series certainly entertains :)

soundinvestmentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/injust... Super into this SkyTigers album. Just awesome thrashy hardcore punk. Put it on and make some art!

Today’s page-in-progress for RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3. No dialogue to avoid spoilers. This page is inked and ready to be colored. #comics #kidlit #graphicnovels #childrensbooks

New children's book in the works. Just a classic defeating evil story. Publishers, hit me up if you want this one. #comics #graphicnovels #kidlit #childrensbooks

Excited to announce that ✨THE MOONLIT SPIRAL✨, my first creator-owned original graphic novel since Cleopatra in Space, arrives in shops 10/6/26 from Candlewick Press. 🩵

I just backed Young in Iran on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/saw...

I just backed @mikedawson.bsky.social's FUN TIME OMNIBUS Vol. One on www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

I am founding a not-for-profit website where independent comic creators and small publishers can easily sell their works to libraries, plus provide other services. Called (for now) the Comics Librarian Commons, this will be an online hub bringing independent creators and librarians together.

It's pub day! I AM A SLIME MONSTER is officially out in the world today! This is book 3 in the SUPER MAGIC BOY SERIES. Hugo and Dino have to stop an evil slime monster from making humans dumb by destroying all the books in the world. Can they do it? Or will this be the last book you ever read?

RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3 might have our same old heroes, but it’s got all new villains. #comics #kidlit #childrensgraphicnovels #middlegrade

The birth of our solar system - at last, closing up the penultimate page of this mammoth chapter exploring the origin of the universe in all its swirls of different sorts... It's been a long trip. And there is, to be sure, a lot going on on this page :) Onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2

Comics meditation with Tom Spurgeon. This is a line from one of my favorite essays by Tom, “All of These Things That Have Made Us” from 2011 on The Comics Reporter. #comics #graphicnovels

Happy Thanksgiving! #comics #kidlit #graphicnovels

A great early Spy vs. Spy strip by Cuban cartoonist (and creator) Antonio Prohías. This strip leverages the grammar and form of comics to tell the story, which is a hallmark of the SVS comics. Really inventive, playful, imaginative cartooning.

Here’s a little comic strip featuring Hugo & Dino. Apologies to Bill Watterson! If you’ve read the Super Magic Boy books, you’ll know Calvin & Hobbes was a major influence! #comics #kidlit #calvinandhobbes

It’s application season! Come make comics with us in the MFA program in Creative Writing at USF. For cartoonists and comics writers! 3-year program with no tuition, an annual stipend, health insurance, and teaching opportunities. Questions? Email me at [email protected].

We might only be halfway through fall semester, but I’m already getting ready for spring.

🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...

I AM A SLIME MONSTER will be here in just a couple of months! Hugo and Dino face off against a Slime Monster from outer space who intends to take over the planet. Its plan? Destroy all the books on Earth to shrink human brains and make them easier to conquer. Out 12/16 from Random House Graphic

I don’t have to draw anything right now, so I have time to play around with different styles #kidlit #childrensbooks #picturebooks

Just finished penciling my next book: RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3! Right now it’s at 221 pages. It took me about 3 months to pencil it all. I spent a month before this thumbnailing out the visual composition, so I could focus on design in pencils. #comics #kidlit #childrensbooks #graphicnovels

How to Write for Children #3 #webcomic #kidlit #childrensbooks

How to Write for Children #2 #kidlit #childrensbooks #webcomic

How to Write for Children #1 #kidlit #childrensbooks #webcomic

Let the erasure begin

More reasons to be anti-AI

No Kings Day in June: 5-6 million people 2,169 communities 27 countries The sequel is going to be even bigger.

Are you taking part in the #SapphicSeptember readathon and looking to add some graphic novels to your TBR? Here’s a list of 20 queer graphic novels with sapphic main characters to add to your bookshelf: (There's a list of book titles, authors in the alt text) #booksky #sapphicbooks

We had our first not-as-hot day in Florida, which, for some reason, always reminds me of my favorite Tom Spurgeon essay from The Comics Reporter, "All of These Things That Have Made Us." www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/si...

I just backed How To Touch Grass on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...

Only 50 pages left to pencil! Here’s a scene from pretty late in RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3. The dogs do a lot more shape-shifting in this one. #graphicnovel #kidlit #childrensbooks

From Jeanette Winterson, “Imagination and Reality”

Prepping for my fall class, The Ends of Imagination, in the Honors College at USF.

This is the first step towards creating a one-party state. If it works in Texas, they’ll do it all over the country. Bye, democracy, it was a nice idea while it lasted.

Action sequences usually take me a few different passes to get right. I’m not a natural action/fight scene drawer, so my first couple sketches aren’t always exciting or interesting enough for me. #kidlit #graphicnovels #childrensbooks

Today’s work-in-progress. The family takes a trip to the new space museum! #kidlit #graphicnovels #childrensbooks

Today’s work-in-progress. The family takes a trip to the new space museum! #kidlit #graphicnovels #childrensbooks