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A really neat post from the great @jacobsouva.bsky.social!
27.05.2025 12:58 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
popeye comic panel
it's cartoonist day. yeah, that's so
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The full character set of Staatliches.
I’ve seen Staatliches used in the wild but I’ve never seen anyone make full use of the discretionary ligatures, which by the way aren’t available in the Google Fonts version of the typeface.
www.typebrut.com/work/staatli...
I was thinking a lot about the connective tissue between #kidlit work I’m drawn to, the #kidlitart I aspire to, and what I write. It led me to name my kind of creative ethos.
☀️ open.substack.com/pub/jacobsou...
This Saturday April 26th is Independent Bookstore Day!
Now more than ever, the @americanbookseller.bsky.social and independent bookstores everywhere need our support.
If you have time this weekend, visit and support a local independent bookstore in your area.
www.bookweb.org/independent-...
GOOOOOOOOO!
16.04.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
JUST ONE WAVE is out today! I'm sharing some of my favorite details from the book on the blog: 100scopenotes.com/2025/04/15/6...
15.04.2025 13:40 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 2Sometimes I wish I drew weirder.
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Ask me to do a trick!
11.04.2025 10:39 — 👍 34 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
“A.I. makes art accessible.” Art has always been accessible. There was like a six month period where I drew all the sketches for my comics with a lined notebook from the grocery store and a random green marker.
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If we're doing Poetry Month then by gum we're gonna do it right. And 2025, for whatever reason, is already FULL of shockingly good poetry. Here's a taste. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/04/02/t...
02.04.2025 13:37 — 👍 29 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0When your agent's like "Write a script with THIS theme and pick an artist!" and you're like "HELL YEAH LET'S DO THIS!"
But just because...y'all know anybody with a fun midgrade style who is currently looking for GN work? Feel free to put your own names in the hat (plus portfolios!)!
This Sunday in Middletown, CT! Looking forward to seeing all my kidlit comics peeps there!!!! 😍💖
28.03.2025 12:27 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An illustration of a cute Gnome and friendly rat jumping on a tree stump, surrounded by flowers. They sing a stump-jumping song: "Let's go jump, upon a stump, that used to be a tree! It's fun to jump, upon a stump, so come and jump with me!"
Happy Jump-on-a-Stump Day! 🎉
Celebrate this gnome holiday with #GnomeAndRat:
1. Make up a stump-jumping song!
2. Find a stump! (A rock or a particularly nice square of sidewalk is good too!)
3. Get your excitement high and JUMP!
Happy spring!
This is SO GREAT
12.03.2025 19:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Let’s make books handout for kids, detailing various roles in making books; author, illustrator, editor, designer, marketing/publicity, librarians/booksellers/teachers and finally readers.
Two worksheets, “be a writer” with a writing mad lib, and “be an illustrator” with some drawing prompts.
Two more worksheets, “be an editor” with editorial marks to practice on some editable sentences, and “be a cover designer” with four books needing covers.
Two final handouts: “be a librarian, bookseller or teacher” with six kids and six books to match, and “be a reader” with preferences in genre and types of books to narrow your reading preferences to help find more books to enjoy.
Here is a handout I made for my kid’s class last week, when I went in to talk to them about making books. I Frankensteined together a bunch of art I already had to make it, and filled other stuff in. But it was a big hit, so I’m sharing it here in case you know any kids interested in making books!
12.03.2025 15:38 — 👍 782 🔁 200 💬 37 📌 5
BANNED TOGETHER is out today 🔥💪 I’m proud to have played a small part in this powerful anthology about book bans and censorship—now more important than ever.
📚 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768794...
Playing in Paris.
#kidlit #illustration #picturebooks #childrensbooks #kidlitart #MyYellowUmbrella #seekingrepresentation #read #drawing #MYU #playinginparis #digitalart
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Graphic of Gnome and Rat celebrating their second book, TIME TO PARTY!, appearing on a list of Best Graphic Novels for Children
Cue the confetti: GNOME AND RAT: TIME TO PARTY! is on the list of @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social GNCRT’s Best Graphic Novels for Children 2024! 🎉
www.ala.org/gncrt/2024-b...
A sketch of my neighbour, who became a painter in her seventies
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An illustration of a Gnome spinning on his pointy-hatted head in the snow, creating Snow Donuts, while a Rat throws sprinkles overtop.
🍩❄️❤️ Snow day with #GnomeAndRat!
29.01.2025 15:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Weakness #251: bugs doing people chores
28.01.2025 20:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Library True Fact!
WE are, all of us collectively, The Library.
When everything is returned at the end of the school year, I have tons of shelves and sections totally overflowing with books that have to be stacked up on top of the shelves because they will not fit.
Graphic showing two Gnome and Rat books on Betsy Bird's 2024 best of Comics and Graphic Novels for Kids and Older Funny Books for Kids lists
TWO #GnomeAndRat books on TWO Betsy Bird lists means I get ice cream for breakfast!?!?
afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/19/3...
Coffee! Comics! Connecticut (and adjacent)! Come join this chill group!
22.01.2025 15:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wrote a bit about setting myself up for #kidlitart #kidlit artistic moments instead of playing it safe.
“I know it will be ok, maybe even great in the end — but it feels a bit like doing a rubik’s cube in oncoming traffic.”
😉 open.substack.com/pub/jacobsou...
A bear with an arm from another universe interacts with a small round rabbit in a series of spot illustrations
03.01.2025 15:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An illustration of two cute baby tapirs
Two Tapirs!
13.12.2024 20:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A character made mostly of brown hair holding a cup of warm beverage and wearing red high sneakers.
Warm.
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustration
