Johanna Taylor 👻 THE GHOSTKEEPER

proof copies of on starlit shores arrived 🥹🥹

Sonder, a short comic by Johanna Taylor

A little book of travels, a sketchbook zine by Johanna Taylor

Surprise, I’m actually releasing TWO zines on August 17, both will be available in my kofi shop!!

One is SONDER, my France artist residency project 💫

The other is A LITTLE BOOK A TRAVELS, a bunch of sketches of places I’ve traveled to, taken from my personal sketchbook ✈️

One more hat. Where do they keep going?
#art #kpopdemonhunters

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

In hindsight of all of human history, it’s amazing that this generation is the “first” at anything at all, let alone at radical acceptance of mental illness and self-help.

That is just… sooo many centuries spent with the main coping skill for mental illness to be “idk get over it”

Also the first generation to collectively realize and accept that we need therapy ✌️

a pixel art drawing of a cat with a heart in its eyes Alt: a pixel art drawing of a cat with a heart in its eyes

Every time I go to a con, I am filled with joy and excitement and pride for all my fellow artists, authors, creators etc because yall are ROCKING IT out here, working on such amazing projects and it’s so inspiring!!! 😭 🥰 💖 👏🏻

He really thought he had them with that one lol

Part of a comic page of a soul wandering between a french village and a beautiful tropical beach, looking contemptuously at their sleeping body at a desk. “Asleep, I am free. And I realize I've been starving for all the things I could not have before. I run as far as I can, drink deeply of the world, and leave parts of my old self behind. When I return, I bring someone else back with me. Someone who is allergic to my old life. And so I set out, again and again. Because I need more.”

Sonder, a short comic by Johanna Taylor

sonder (noun, neologism) The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living - despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.

SONDER

A soul consumed by wanderlust abandons their body while it's asleep to go explore the lives of other people across the world, and gets brought before the Clerk of the Dreamspace to plead their case.

Digital version releases
August 17 💫

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell What if We Nuke the Moon?

Also Kurzgesagt already showed us how this would pan out:

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Finally, a united nation.

The book cover for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, Edited by Kelly Hayes. The book cover features an artistic rendering of a person with long hair wading into a body of water at night in a wilderness.

Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...

A ragdoll cat making a rawr face

COUNTERATTACK

Golden tempura shramp 🍤

Thank you!! It did end up becoming a bit more of a proof of concept haha, I am definitely considering expanding it in the future!

Sonder, a short comic by Johanna Taylor

A little book of travels, a sketchbook zine by Johanna Taylor

Surprise, I’m actually releasing TWO zines on August 17, both will be available in my kofi shop!!

One is SONDER, my France artist residency project 💫

The other is A LITTLE BOOK A TRAVELS, a bunch of sketches of places I’ve traveled to, taken from my personal sketchbook ✈️

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THE GHOSTKEEPER contains:
—frank discussions about and depictions of the deaths of adults & children
—convos about grief, loss, trauma and burnout
—emotional abuse
—mental illness stigma
—brief scenes of body horror

I know it’s a spooky lil weird haunted room

I know this

I would still put my art studio in there, for those sweet sweet freelance tax breaks 🎨

a ceramic tray I a shape of a white and grey cat, with more loaf shaped trays in the background

the loaves have been baked 🍞🍞🍞

I bumped the sensitivity way up AND had to be very specific about picking a brush with a wide range of thickness that’s easier on my hands and wrists

Things Creating My Graphic Novel Made Me Google:

▫️ The history of clapping
▫️ Does Scotland have bears
▫️ Does Scotland have wolves
▫️ Victorian doorknobs
▫️ Can banshees only be women

Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition a book by Tee Franklin, Shawn Pryor, Gabby Rivera, et al. 2019, Texas Library Association's Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Amazon Book Review's Best Comics & Graphic Novels of 2018NPR's Best Books of 2018Newsweek's Best Comic Books of 2018The Advoca...

I just read BINGO LOVE, it’s so freaking cute you guys 😭 💕

It made me happy—to see a story abt older queer women in love, w/ a happy ending—and sad, knowing that in many ways attitudes toward LGBT couples are still the same as in the 1960s. Queer ppl deserve to love.

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A space musketeer lady standing on a pink crystal with a space princess behind her

An autumnal ranger dnd lady

A spooky faun wizard casting shadow magic

A young witch making soup in a cauldron

Happy International Womens Day, here are some women I’ve drawn 💅

I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)

12 New Agents Seeking Kidlit, Nonfiction, Thrillers, Women’s Fiction, LGBTQ, Fantasy, Science Fiction, YA and more Here are twelve new literary agents actively seeking clients. New agents are a boon to writers. They are actively building their lists, and ...

12 New Agents Seeking Kidlit, Nonfiction, Thrillers, Women’s Fiction, LGBTQ, Fantasy, Science Fiction, YA and more. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2025/07/12-n...
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The song of the summer is a bummer | CNN The most popular songs of the summer are either downers like “Ordinary” or holdovers from 2024, like “Die with a Smile.” Why is the music of 2025 so mellow?

Tell me you haven't listened to "Golden" without telling me you haven't listened to "Golden"

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Digital illustration of a blond girl with her hair in braids, looking through binoculars at a starling on the left, with one foot on a tree stump. Between them is text: August Adventures 1-7 august Bloom+Journey 8-14 august Meadow+Rain 15-21 august Ancient+Trinkets 22-28 august Sprout+Magic

I have some exciting news to share! A bunch of friends (and amazing artists) and I are hosting an art challenge this August 🌻

We put together a fun and chill prompt list and hope you’ll join us on this adventure hehe

More below 🐥

The Subway 💘

I'm in love