Dapo Adeola

Aaay, didn’t even know this was out yet. 😊

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HBD Kip! 🥳🥳🥳

Lots of learning & fun today with #BookWeekScotland 📚.
- Travelling Assembly presented by P7’s ✅
- Book quiz ✅
- Live Lesson with @dapsdraws.bsky.social ✅
- Sketching a book character ✅
Well done P3 & thank you P7s! #antoliteracy @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @mrstoddp7.bsky.social 👫🙌👫

Thought Bubble Festival starts today!

A week-long celebration of comics held across Yorkshire! With social events, workshops, talks, and loads of comic goodness for you to enjoy.

See the full programme of events here: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/festivalprog...

The issue is that we've normalized greed and marginalized caring for others. That's it.

some Terror of Mechagodzilla for Goji day

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

Had a little time zone mix up so we’ve moved this to 7:30 pm. Soz for any inconvenience. 😮‍💨

This was proper spiritual. 😮‍💨🥹😭

This Black History Month, we’re celebrating books by Black British authors, favourites in our reading projects. These books reach:
✨ Prison reading groups
✨ Books in the Nick & Books for First Nighters
✨ Family Days
✨ Raising Readers
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Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚

Twice in one day I've seen authors promote their books (on TV and Socials) and not mention the Illustrator.
We're all magicians trying to create magic.
#PleaseRememberYourIllustrator

About Us ~ Shelf Editions ~ - Curating & sharing a love of picture books for both kids & adults. Founded and run by Helen Hancocks. Based in Lincoln, UK.  Find us on the first floor at: 4 Saltergate, l...

This Live is bought to you by the amazing Shelf Editions bookshop 🥰 the UK’s most artist friendly children’s bookshop (in my opinion), a space that champions a very prolific variety of beautiful children’s books.

Go check them out and show some love. 😊

www.shelfeditions.com/pages/about-us

The image is of an advert for an Instagram Live event. It contains a picture of myself (Dapo Adeola) and my guest (Matthew Forsythe), as well as the date (October 28th 2025) and time (7pm GMT) the event will be taking place. There’s also an image of the cover of Matt’s latest picture book (Aggie & The Ghost) in the bottom left corner of the image.

Join myself and the insanely talented Matthew Forsythe in convo this October 28th at 7pm (gmt).
🤩

We’ll be talking about his journey from comics to animation to absolutely epic children’s books.
It’s gonna be a vibe, be sure to get your drinks and snacks ready and put the date in your diary.

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I’m super excited to be on @streakofpith.bsky.social’s panel giving an early preview of the findings from the 2025 UK Comic Creator’s Survey, alongside the amazing @pondi.bsky.social & @dapsdraws.bsky.social, on Sunday at 13:30! I can’t wait to discuss this!

So excited to join @streakofpith.bsky.social @markbradley.bsky.social and @dapsdraws.bsky.social
to talk about the current industry landscape!
Can’t promise I won’t go on a rant either 😘

Here’s the full article.

www.animationmagazine.net/2025/10/guil...

Image shows a picture of director Guillermo Del Toro alongside the Netflix logo, with a caption underneath that reads “Guillermo Del Toro and Netflix will open a new stop motion studio”

This is music to my ears, and it’s gonna be a feast for my eyeballs too. 🥹

Why? Because your readers do. The literary world is full of people wanting to write children’s books, who haven’t looked at a children’s book since the 60s. Or people who want the sales associated with romantasy (or cosy crime, or sci-fi), but don’t actually know the genre, or want to read any.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

I need more artists and creatives to clock this for what it is and stop self identifying with this DEAD trope.

It’s bad enough the rest of the world upholds this narrative, you don’t have to willingly do it to yourself.

This is the reason why you won’t be able to reach me today! 😮‍💨

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I laughed a bit too hard at this 😅😭

Coming soon!

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

A drawing of an anthropomorphic goat and sheep, the goat is saying “THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE FORCE OPPOSING HOPE IS DESPAIR. THE DESPAIR WE FEEL IS MANUFACTURED. AND WHAT HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED CAN BE TAKEN APART.”