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Thrilled to see COPLAND on this list!

Why is my face in PW? Well well well... ☺️

Made a tiny stamp of Piccolo last night ❤️

Sorry Baby (my fave of the year) and No Other Choice getting snubbed while F1 (F1!!) is nominated for best picture is genuinely clinically hurting my brain

On my knees begging, pleading, cryinggg for publishers and authors to credit their cover illustrators online. help me help them get more work. please. please!

for my beloved Capricorns 🐐

"For too long those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." - Mayor Mamdani.

😜🥰🤩 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Delighted to find a very early copy of COPLAND at my door this morning! This book was a bit like printmaking: I wasn't sure how the pieces would come together until holding it in my hand! thank you to Lucia Baez & Kate Renner for lending your terrific design eyes 👁❤️ #kidlit #childrensbooks

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Hi #PortfolioDay ✍️ I'm Veronica Mang, a kids book writer and illustrator! Sharing snippets from my next book, Copland: A Story About America, out in February ❤️ Would love to tackle another book in collage! more at veronicamang.com ❤️

Found drawing from August (summer, I miss you!)

First review is in for COPLAND and it is a ⭐️ ! Thank you Kirkus! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Birthday card for my love <3

Found sketch, a tiny Piccolo in pink 💗

Emerging from a deadline with snippets to share ❤️ From my picture book biography of Aaron Copland, out next spring. More to share soon 💐

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"

Winter girl no. 2 #sketchbook

Winter girl no. 1 #sketchbook

Bringing it to 🦋 by request: People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.

Beep beep 🚗💨

Just a reminder for no particular reason at all

Study from my current work in progress ✂️✨ #kidlitart #kidlit #childrensbooks

Happy December 1st ❤️❄️🥨 Look, it’s me! #kidlitart

A seasonally appropriate work in progress 🍂 #kidlit #kidlitart #wip

🔍 #kidlitart

On the desk today ✨ #kidlit #kidlitart

Wishing I could just *poof* recreate my pre-Elon twitter feed here, RIP

Chugging along ✏️ loving this page ✏️

Big leap, too big for the cutting mat ❤️ #kidlit #kidlitart

Hi #kidlitartpostcard ❤️ I'm an author & illustrator of kids books based in Jersey City, NJ. Here's a study for my current book-in-progress (while I'm getting in the flow of my deadline!) Repped by Andrea Morrison @ Writer's House More at veronicamang.com ❤️

I’m so thrilled to finally share what I’ve been squirreled away working on ❤️ Thank you to my agent Andrea Morrison, my editor Tamar Brazis, and the entire Viking team who saw the very early seed of this idea and encouraged me to grow it. See ya in 2026 ❤️

Thicknthin is out TODAY! 16 lovely pressure-sensitive brushes for Procreate-- use em for personal or commercial work and tag with #megsthicknthin so I can see what lovely things you make! ko-fi.com/s/75c579b251

Procreate users: check out Meg's awesome brushes (and their super fun names, of course!)

sketchbook ✍️

Park painting (Ana + Lian) Ink + Yasutomo sumi-e watercolors (dare I say these are perfect for painting on the go??)

well holy shit

To whoever needs to hear it: time to sit with/step away from a project is good! I know there are limits and analysis paralysis is real. But in general, when I give a project space edits come faster and I can see the art clearer. Can’t always be slowpokes, but space is good!

Fresh newsletter all about collage, spring, and mess-making ✂️💌 veronicamang.substack.com

Prepping for a school visit, getting into the hard hitting realities of life as an artist:

The constant journey to find the perfect pink

Fueled by this:

First of an object portrait series 💙 to keep my playing in my sketchbook and sharing work while I hunker down on book projects 💙

Currently:

✍️❤️ #kidlitart

New dream project: design & illustrate a menu 🍸🧀 please? can someone make this happen for me?

From my Scholastic days, people watching in soho on my commute in and on my lunch breaks 🥲 ~2019!

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