Hi #kidlitartpostcard! I’m Veronica, sticking my head up every once in a while from coloring GN pages to see what everyone’s up to. I love sci-fi, fantasy and adventure! This is from a comic where 2 cousins find powerful mecha and need to save their city while the local superhero guardian is away.

Eep! I almost forgot it's #KidLitArtPostcard day! Here's a spread I did from from LIKE THAT ELEANOR (a picture book written by Lee Wind & illustrated by ME!) of Eleanor and her papi booping noses. Portfolio: www.authorkellymangan.com/portfolio Rep: @tajmccoy.bsky.social #KidLitArt #KidLit

Happy #kidlitartpostcard! I love creating characters with rich backstories. I love ice cream even more. 😁

Hi all! I’m looking to hire a #comics flatter immediately. I’m working on a sci-fi OGN for kids in CSP with a deadline coming up soon. Please DM with samples of flatting/color if interested. Thanks!

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

Reading Parable of the Talents now by Octavia E Butler. Found this passage relevant to our times. Actually this entire book is relevant to our dystopian reality. #booksky #booktok

Black History Month reminds us that the fight for justice and equality is ongoing. As we honor the trailblazers who paved the way, let’s remain vigilant against those who seek to undermine our progress. Our history teaches us resilience; our future demands our action. #BlackHistoryMonth

A fact I like to point out in my classes is that by the beginning of the Civil War, every white-controlled Christian denomination in the American South had developed a pro-slavery theology and adopted it as their official position- except for the Quakers.

Teachers and schools need to know that we are not required to give up our kids. We do not have to open our doors to ICE or the police. Morally, obviously, but also legally. We are our students' legal guardians when they are in our care and we should be making the right call for students' safety.

Trippy panel I inked today from my upcoming OGN, Marty Milagros DOOMS the Earth. #kidlitart #kidscomics #kidlit #scifi

Thanks for this, Debbie! My author-illustrator debut PB will be out on 13 May & is available for preorder now 🤗 BINNA’S DALGONA by Sojung Kim-McCarthy www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/749060...

My author debut…. MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH Author: Kelly Mangan Cover artist: Dion MBD Date: April 15, 2025 Publisher: Holiday House More info: holidayhouse.com/book/maeve-m...

My Illustrator debut…. LIKE THAT ELEANOR Author: Lee Wind Illustrator: Kelly Mangan Date: April 1, 2025 Publisher: Cardinal Rule Press Pre-Order: cardinalrulepress.com/products/lik...

Thank you for doing this Debbie! My author-illustrator debut WILL & KRILL is out on June 10th and is available for preorder here! staceybyer.com/books

Thanks Debbie! My debut middle grade fantasy graphic novel, LU AND REN’S GUIDE TO GEOZOOLOGY, is coming out May 27. It’s open for preorders! bookshop.org/p/books/lu-a...

Happy bird-day!

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Read books, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts and plays and lift up those artists who are doing the things that make you happy, because it will help, then, make other people happy too, and fill the internet with things other than just that guy and what he’s doing

Okay revised the starter pack description to make it clearer. If u r a designer or illustrator please boost this to help me find other hiring directors. If u r an art, design, or creative director who hires designers and/or illustrators, raise your hand—I’ll add u. go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

I love this! Beautiful work Kelly!

Yay! It's #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Alice, a Seattle-based illustrator & cartoonist. I love to draw kids with big personalities and kids wearing beanies. I'm working on my debut graphic novel and I'm open to new projects! #kidlit #kidlitart #comics ❄️ www.alicechu.com ❄️ Rep'd by Marietta Zacker

When making art is intimidating:

This is a brave but savvy move by Amazon workers. A lot of folks will be tempted to cross the line for the 'deals' but equally Amazon relies heavily on this weekend. If the union can dint the takings (if we can show them our solidarity for one weekend) it will make a big difference. Stand with them

So @samiw.bsky.social linked to this in the comments and it's a very straightforward summary of "If X then Y" in tariff costs and outcomes.

Aishwarya has been working with me on my first OGN, and does great work! 💯

After the election this week, protecting the freedom to read is *even* more important and *even* more under threat. I want to shout-out @authorsagainstbookbans for continuing to rally our community, thank you for commissioning me to illustrate this banner for Banned Books Week 💙 (1/)

Jimmy Carter stared down the freaking Reaper to be able to cast his vote for Kanala Harris. I think the rest of us can get off our asses to do the same. And vote early to avoid the lines! meidasnews.com/news/jimmy-c...

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard! I’m happy to be able to write an illustrate picture books. I would love to also illustrate MG & YA. I enjoy playing with characters, color, textures and bringing a bit of magic to the world. I’m rep’d by @swekstein.bsky.social See more: www.tracivanwagoner.com #kidlitart

Ngl, I’m actually kinda proud of the inking on this one

The pitch pages are open at kidlitgn.com. #kidlitgn #pitchevent

We’re considering going ahead with a picture book pitch event in a few weeks, on Wednesday 10/23 - I hope everyone can craft a good pitch by then! More info at boringstorybook.com/skypitch #skypitch #kidlit #picturebooks

Today marks the start of the Bell Riots. One of the most important events in the history of Star Trek, the riots, ensuing brutal crackdown, & backlash were directly responsible for global unification & the abolishment of most of USA's/Earth's social problems and abolishment of global capitalism.

Tadaaa! We've been cooking this up for months now, and I'm so excited to finally be able to talk about it!! An online, months long comic fest!! You'll be able to buy comics and attend some great online panels and workshops, even if you're not a member!!

3 months until KidLit GN's pitch event opens. If you have an agent or editor, we'd love for you to tell them about the event, and of course, pass it on to other GN creators. Looking forward to some awesome pitches this year: kidlitgn.com #kidlitgn #graphicnovels #illustrators #kidlit #pitchevent

Look, streaming exec, whoever you are, let me make alternating seasons of SHARPE and MASTER AND COMMANDER and I shall deliver unto you the Dad Audience for a decade. It will make REACHER look like a ripple in a pond.

I need #book recommendations! Here are some I’ve loved recently: A Sorceress Comes to Call by @tkingfisher.com, Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson, & Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer. Looking for adult, YA or MG #sci-fi, #fantasy & #horror.

The world building sounds really fun!

"childless woman" is such a 19th-century-ass insult. what else you got. do I render inferior tallow? do my cabbages grow pale and blemished? does the quality of my sock-darning bring shame upon my father's name?

If you like the work of an artist, a writer, a reporter, anyone creative, TELL THEM. Email, skeet, Instagram comment, or even a note in the mail. I can remember so many times when I received a positive message about my work and it felt like a buoy during deep moments of doubt and struggle.

I told a bunch of teens that included my own kid the other day that we fixed the ozone layer problem years ago with government policy they were all like WHAAAAAT tell the kids!!!! this shit works

Kamala Harris' campaign noticed yesterday's Trump's speech.

I have been doing my best to stretch out the #StarTrekProdigy episodes to make them last, but it’s HARD. This show is so good. Where my #Trekkies at?

Fellow white women: it's long past time to step up and learn how to protect Black and brown women every chance we get.

The United Farm Workers is proud to endorse VP Kamala Harris for President. Dime con quien andas, y te digo quien eres. Kamala Harris stood with farm workers as CA’s Attorney General, as US Senator, and as Vice President. There is work to be done, and we’re ready. Sí, se puede!

“It’s not *my* bigotry but everyone else’s that I’m worried about” STFU you can’t control that you can only advocate for what you know is right and get people caught in the bigotry that they’re using as an excuse. Democracy is on the line: They can be racist or they can be free.

Thinking real hard about The Good Place Committee today.

oh hey it might be Prime Day, but Bookshop dot org is offering free shipping! bookshop.org/p/books/piec...

If dispelling doom for the sake of dispelling doom does not appeal to you, perhaps try dispelling doom out of spite, is what I’m saying.