Happy 2026

Neighbors got sick. Delivering food.

I’m face blind (for real, diagnosed), and I can’t tell differences between Pam Bondi and Karoline Leavitt. But now I think of it, i can barely tell differences between them and some of the Trump daughters. Is it because I’m face blind, or are they all morphing into one mass of a Mar Lago face?

All of these “missed” Trump redactions that DoJ is redacting after the fact makes me think there are heroes “forgetting” to redact his name here and there.

I’m on a big deadline, and file got corrupted. It’s ok this happens, I went into Time Machine, but I cannot find the backup. Whyyyy!? 😭😭😭 Currently I’m waiting for my IT person to reach back to me.

The Author Immortal Vol. 1 will be in shops this April from me, @morganbeem.bsky.social, @arden.rip, @sievish.bsky.social, Hassan Otmane-Elhaou, and @imagecomics.com with a gorgeous @yukoart.bsky.social cover. Please consider ordering from your local comic shop or book store!

Wow, this ancient Egyptian linen shirt is the world’s oldest known complex woven garment. Known as the Tarkhan Dress, it was cut and tailored to fit some 5,000 years ago! 📷 Petrie Museum. : antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/ste... #Archaeology

IMOGEN by @epartridge.bsky.social , illus. by @yukoart.bsky.social (Viking/ @penguinkids.bsky.social @penguinschoollib.bsky.social ) is on our #Fanfare25 list. Congratulations! #BestBooks #KidLit #HBMag #HornBookMagazine #HBFanfare25 #Nonfiction #HBFanfare sbee.link/upb6ma4wrf

I could have gone my entire life without seeing a Trump-branded condom, but here we are.

I just finished and gotten approval for a book jacket illustration. OMG, it is for one of my ultimate favorite author’s upcoming release. I’ve been illustrating for 20+ years, but there are still times like this, when things feel like a dream. 🥺

⭐ #Nonfiction #HBReviewoftheWeek IMOGEN by @epartridge.bsky.social; illus. by @yukoart.bsky.social (Viking/ @penguinkids.bsky.social): "Shimizu’s illustrations perfectly capture the historical period...More importantly, they also capture Cunningham’s indomitable spirit" www.hbook.com/story/review...

@randomhousekids.bsky.social @emmykastner.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social @taekeller.bsky.social @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social @epartridge.bsky.social @yukoart.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social @4nikkolas.bsky.social

Want my autographed books 20% off? Take advantage of @bookculture.com sale! www.bookculture.com/blog/2021/05...

Preview Jan/Feb #HBMag w/ striking original cover by #BGHB winner Matt James (Porter/Holiday) + #Fanfare25 #HBFanfare25, #BGHB25 speeches by @blackbookbruja.bsky.social @randyribay.bsky.social @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social @ohtruth.bsky.social @yukoart.bsky.social, + more! www.hbook.com/story/previe...

Book Advent #9: "Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea" by @rchetypes.bsky.social is about the real life pirate Shek Yeung with speculative/weird elements. Featuring gorgeous writing, this novel meditates on the effects of power and the efforts to cling to it. And another cover from @yukoart.bsky.social!

We gotta be nice to the Amazon delivery people. It’s 7:00AM and they are already working. 😭

The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S. Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V

Trump worked hard to conceal the back of his right hand today but Chip Somodevilla of Getty got a shot of it

The cat prints are sold out but we still have some of these. Remember you can gift, then wipe someone’s medical debt 🙏

Sold out! Thank you! And Redhook Dog Rescue says they are very thankful! 🙏🙏💖💖 we will start shipping this weekend.

question to those who have mailing list and newsletters: I have never done it, and since social media reach has tanked, I am feeling the need. 1) do you have a platform you can recommend? 2) do any of you have multiple mailing lists, like one for a shop, one for self promo?

Book Advent #5: "Lone Women" by @victorlavalle.bsky.social is a wonderful exploration of the monstrous among women in the Old West of Montana. It builds tension so skillfully and seamlessly that you don't realize it's happening until the end. This edition has a lovely cover by @yukoart.bsky.social.

We also have a small number of artist proofs of this sold out print from last holiday release. We donate to RedHookDogRescue where my dog was adopted from. yukoart.bigcartel.com/product/new-...

Giving Tuesday charity print sale is live! Help wipe out medical debts for those in need while buying presents. Also help my assistant get paid good seasonal hourly rate! yukoart.bigcartel.com/product/new-...

Did someone say something www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

99% of the world is dead. In a small Minnesota town, 1 woman writes the monthly local paper but it’s actually an epic horror story mailed to your door. THE END TIMES. Brilliantly conceived by @benjaminpercy.bsky.social , published by @badhandbooks.bsky.social. 1 issue in and I already love it.

Like… what!?

I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.

A little Solitude for the Soul, ahead of Holiday hang outs. Take some time FOR YOU--it's #MinillaMonday! (Exquisitely rendered Minilla by the talented @yukoart.bsky.social )

My former air force personal trainer confessed to me that he loves K Pop Demon Hunters so much he watched it three times already and thinking of getting a part of a song tattooed on him is the most wholesome thing I’ve heard all week.

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling I’m making such bad work to disappoint everyone, they hate my work. I’m usually pretty stable but when days get shorter it always gets me. Just be open about it, and also letting you know if winter blues affects you, it’s ok, you or I are not alone. 🙏❤️‍🩹

Social-media-sphere slop thinks I made Hello Kitty. Scam-call-sphere put me on a truck driver list. Either way I can’t win, bombarded with truck insurance calls/texts, asking for autograph or help on making their incredible character design the next Kitty. My phone’s is silent. Don’t look for me.

AI43 Winner @yukoart.bsky.social Cincinnati Opera has created Madame Butterfly from the 21st century point of view with all Asian creators and cast taking back the narrative from the Western gaze and exoticism toward Asian culture and people. #madamebutterfly #yukoshimizu

American Illustration 43 Winner YUKO SHIMIZU @yukoart.bsky.social Newly re-released collection of Japanese classic ghost stories written by Lafcadio Hearn in the 19th Century. #AmericanIllustration #artwork #illustration #illustrator #lafcadiohearn #yukoshimizu

I don’t usually wear a mask, but I think I got something while teaching on Monday. I can’t stop coughing. I’m doing this for you, not for myself.

Hey, I’m getting insane number of spam calls since yesterday afternoon. Are any of you experiencing the same!?

Made appointments for my cataract surgeries. January. Hope to finally see well. Wish me luck

Time is running out. Fund Mattotti’s Gulliver on Kickstarter before it comes to an end!! @beehivebooks.bsky.social have been pushing the envelope for innovative and fresh take on traditional illustrated books. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bee...

If workers unionizing together didn’t work, CEOs wouldn’t be hiring entire firms to stop them. Unions shift power, and corporate America hates that. Let’s keep up the momentum and give them more to hate.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

Also, I don’t have a Twitter account. There seem to be scammers pretending as me, but there is nothing I can do, just please be careful. Also get off X. It’s a cesspool. You shouldn’t be on there it’s 2025.

Internet, please stop. Do your research.

Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"

Rest in peace, Tatsuya Nakadai

It’s snowingggg!! Too early for this!

On AmTrak. The dude next to me opened up his laptop with an iPad and Apple Pencil. So, I’m like, oh, a fellow creative! I count have been more wrong! He’s watching sped up crazy math video while jotting down some mysterious math equations on his iPad. 😅😅😅

I’m in a random hotel lobby working. Airdropping a photo of my sketch to my laptop, I see a random laptop near me open for anyone to airdrop. I have a strong urge to send random pic (which i’m not dojng of course. Don’t have airdrop open in random places, people. Thank me I’m not a pervert. lol

I woke up feeling hopefull for the first time in a year.

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now