Aria Villafranca

My comic for the newest UTOT! A love letter to families impacted by mental illness. Thank you for reading! (1/6)

I'm on the drill ship Chikyu for the IODP Expedition 405! Our goal is tracking tsunamigenic slip across the Japan Trench.

Team PP and rock physics measurements!

#chikyu #EXP405 #IODP #comics #comics #scicomm

Please send me your best wishes, I just finished Arcane 😔😔😔

MY LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

Love Sickubus is OUT NOW! Follow the fearsome succubus Sophia, as she fends off rival gangs, ducks the feds, and fights to protect her beloved from none other than herself!

If she’s not careful, this little thing called “Love” will be the death of her!

🔗https://shorturl.at/sU2aG
#webtoon #comics

The Penguin is so freaking amazing, but prepare to get your heart ripped out

Well done 🙌🙌🙌

Here is one small thing YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW.

The animation industry is very very queer and neurodiverse. You can support this brave little underdog of a union IN LESS THAN 30 SECONDS.

love your friends, family, love those in your community, the sun will rise and we have to keep going through the hurt; we have to refuse to give up

The Cartoonist Cooperative Making comics better for everyone!

If you're a cartoonist or someone who loves comics looking for somewhere to direct your energy right now and you're not already part of the Cartoonist Cooperative, we're fighting to make a sustainable comics industry for ALL OF US.

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Now more than ever is the time to stop clutching your pearls over queer art and fiction that you find "uncomfortable". You can, will, and have contributed to the mindset that queer art deserves censorship.

Let people be freaks. DEFEND your freaks. Embrace the freak you've been hiding inside.

You are allowed to celebrate good things that are happening today: your birthday, a book coming out, new baby, new puppy, seeing your favorite piece of art in person, etc.

Joy is the knife that stabs into the heart of despair & apathy.

Feel your joys, big & small, & share them widely & loudly.

I was recently asked to talk about being a “content creator” and I had to flat out say I am not a content creator

To reframe what I do as an artist to being a content creator is something the internet has been pushing for a while and I just refuse to give into it or allow my life to become that

Omg love the green 😭😭🎉🎉

Oooh got any recs?? 👀👀

B2B

🤣🤣 I went and bought a book and everything!!

Man I watch one WWE documentary and now I'm all obsessed with wrestling, RELEASE ME

🫡🫡🫡💕

Comic cover of High School Boy Prestige by Aria Villafranca. Two boys wearing backpacks fist bump in front of a crowd of other students. The boy in the front smiles hopefully while the other has a cool, neutral expression with a shadow cast over his face.

High School Boy Prestige by @ariajdv.bsky.social

Two best friends in a Hawai'i high school make a pact to rise to the top of their school's social standing...but at what cost?

ariavillafranca.com/high-school-...

An alternative poster for the film Everything Everywhere All At Once. Michelle Yeoh is at her desk full of receipts and clutter, underneath a massive bagel shaped mass of objects and people from the film

every disappointment, every rejection

let's go #CLUMPtober! fan art for the #failgirl & #girlboss squad traversing capitalist hell comic CLUMP, in this year's Shortbox fair!

A drawing of two characters, a white assassin an a black princess, where the assassin is hovering above the princess holding a dagger, but she has caught him by surprise and is hiding a dagger behind her back as well. They are framed by some curtains and flowers, and the palette is blue and pink.

Uploading my fav drawing from last year to get some art here, with my babies 🗡️💖👑 #art

I'm not sure why I'm getting a huge influx of new followers, but hello everyone!! I'm Aria, I edit and make comics, and I will try to post her more often haha!

#Comics BlueSky!

I'm actually making a list of comics folks (writers, artists, colorists, editors, etc) who have worked on and published MG and YA graphic novels and comics series. Please comment below or DM me if that's you and you'd like to be added to this list!

#Kidlit

be less afraid to create clumsy comics. awkward tangents. amateur lettering. weird sequentials and pacing. You Can Just Make it. you dont need to be trapped in a cycle of perfectionism and imposter syndrome when you could have a finished work instead. print that thing out and staple it!!!

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Maybe I'm old and just can't keep up, but I think one reason social media is unpleasant to me is because with ads, recommendations, replies, and reposts, my feed always feels very foreign to me and the posts by people I actually follow are rare in my own feed (on tw and ig)

Old lady yells at cloud

Can we talk about your tails? Here are just 4 suggestions that are standard practice in professional comic book lettering. #comicbook #lettering #blambot

A photo of my TCAF haul. So sorry there isn’t much energy for a descriptor. Pictured: Helen Jee, Rose Bousamra, Joni Miller, Winter J. Kiakas, the UTOT crew, Sunmi, Ann Xu, Cam Marshall, Kyla Aiko, Aria Villafranca, Sage Cotugno

I found these in another bag while packing, and of course it’s a photo of the lovely Nur Schuba and Adam de Souza.

My small TCAF haul! I didn’t have much space in my tiny suitcase to bring things back, but I was so excited to meet so many artists I admired through the weekend.

Sprocket goat design by Kimberly Wang, holding giant scissors and pens behind its back with a spine wrapping around a book centered above the goat.

We have 11 new releases coming this Fall and for the first time, you can get our entire season in one easy to order bundle!

As an extra thank you, we’ll throw in some gifts for your trust, like this exclusive 2024 riso print design by @kmbrlei.bsky.social!

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I saw this posted on twitter but I don't think that user is on BlueSky and I wanted to share it here... This interview with Ethan Hawke perfectly describes the importance of art.