Thrilled that The Last Comics On Earth 3: A Song of Swords and Stuffies landed on the USA Today bestseller list... #75! This series is bonkers in the best possible way, with the most fun team in books! #booksky #kidlit #thelastkidsonearth #graphicnovels #comicbooks

I'll be joining Max Brallier for a store signing to celebrate the release of The Last Comics On Earth: A Song of Swords and Stuffies next Tuesday at White Whale Books & Coffee in Pittsburgh, PA! (happened to be in town moving my son out of college for the summer! THE SWORD OF DESTINY HATH SPOKEN!)

The corpse is out of the bag... Coming this September, there's been an impossible murder, and it's up to YOU to solve it. YOU ARE THE DETECTIVE from @tenspeedpress.bsky.social @maureenjohnsonbooks.com and me! Thanks so much @briantruitt.bsky.social and @usatoday.com for the cover reveal! Link below!

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Check out the The Illustration Department's woefully wonderful podcast of Edward Gorey's 100th birthday up in Cape Cod. There was a plenteousness of mink coats. Bat-themed turbans portended doom to all. Subscribe to the podcast while you're there... ere you perish. #edwardgorey illustrationdept.com

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! Day 3/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! Day 2/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #20DayBookChallenge

I'm spending my Saturday graphic novelin' for @simonkids.bsky.social. The grown up artsy version of Saturday Morning cartoons... #booksky #graphicnovel

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! Day 1/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #20DayBookChallenge

If you are in LaGrange NY tomorrow, drop by the @LaGrangeLibrary for Take Your Child To The Library Day! I'll be drawing, and Diana Murray, author of Unicorn Day & Dinosaur Day, will be reading! (I gotta admit, she's more delightful than me by half.)

There's a tremendous amount of awful right now in this country, but this one is really personal.

After the Photoshoot (With apologies to William Carlos Williams) This is just to say I found the mints You loaned me At the photoshoot The next day In my jeans And which You were probably Saving for clubbing Forgive me They were So very minty And I had Really bad Coffee breath I’m sure

Thank you, @lucyvandrew.bsky.social for the kind words, and making our January a bit less bleak as well!

Been trying to tell your horror-obsessed bf or gf that Nosferatu ain't exactly your idea of holiday viewing pleasure? Well, this is your lucky day! Just print out this little form and check the right box so they finally take the hint already! #Nosferatu #Nosferatu2024 #maybeferatu

The 1979 version of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe fascinated me as a child. The scene where the scampering hordes of witches and goblins shave Aslan and kill him was TERRIFYING to me as a 5 year old. C.S. Lewis created such a rich layering of classic & Christian mythology in his books.

Let's talk about movies that SHOULD be Christmas classics, but aren't... First up is #youngsherlockholmes. Producer Steven Spielberg and director Chris Columbus weaved a delightful take on the Holmes lore & arguably the visual archetypes for A LOT of the cinematic Harry Potter. What are yours?

I'll have you know that an auditorium full of 4th and 5th graders today said I'm cooler than Taylor Swift. Not that it's a competition or anything.

Tomorrow I've been invited back to my home state of DE to speak at two libraries: the New Castle library on Rt 9 at 11, and then the Harrington library at 1:30. I'll talk about how I do what I do, share some stories, and WE WILL DRAW. Drop by! #delaware #delawarelibraries

There should be a long German word for the sorrowful feeling you have when you turn on the TV, immediately see the Rankin Bass logo that appears at the end of so many animated specials—you wonder what cool retro thing you just missed, and you look at the cable menu, and DAMN IT, IT WAS THE HOBBIT.

There's evidence of a furry squatter in our basement. Went to the Home Depot yesterday and asked, "Excuse me. Where are your rodent traps? I have to get Thanksgiving dinner ready." Associate did a double take & cracked up. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Getting funny looks on the train because of laughing loudly as I leave London for my home (in a quaint village). I thoroughly recommend “Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village” by @maureenjohnsonbooks.com If you live in one you will relate. Heed her words! 📚💙 #BookSky

Ryan Reynolds is producing a Mighty Mouse movie, and I just want to make sure someone is quietly repeating Bat Bat and the Bug Wonder over and over in his ear.

"Love is for the ones who love the work." Thank you @josephfasano.bsky.social this is perfection.

Your Guide To Not Getting Murdered In a Quaint English Village, by Maureen Johnson is in the UK this year from Raven Books (& in the US by original publisher Ten Speed Press). The art is an homage to the great Edward Gorey (though I try to make it my own and not just a copy). A sample!

Hello-o-o-o-o-o-o! Huh. Kinda echoey in here.