Jarod Roselló

Graphic for PEN America report titled 'Banned in the USA: The Normalization of Book Bans'. Features a stack of colorful books in front of a blackboard with '22,810 books banned in U.S. public schools, 2021-2025' written in chalk.

🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.

Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...

I AM A SLIME MONSTER will be here in just a couple of months!

Hugo and Dino face off against a Slime Monster from outer space who intends to take over the planet.

Its plan? Destroy all the books on Earth to shrink human brains and make them easier to conquer.

Out 12/16 from Random House Graphic

I don’t have to draw anything right now, so I have time to play around with different styles #kidlit #childrensbooks #picturebooks

Seven ites play hide and seek, with one covering its eyes and counting, while the other six run to go find hiding places

SEVEN days left until the Isle of Elsi Book Three Kickstarter launches!

The prelaunch page is up if you want to click the "Notify me on launch" button:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lon...

#kickstarter #selfpublishing

Just finished penciling my next book: RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3!

Right now it’s at 221 pages. It took me about 3 months to pencil it all. I spent a month before this thumbnailing out the visual composition, so I could focus on design in pencils.

#comics #kidlit #childrensbooks #graphicnovels

I love that book! John was my first creative writing teacher!

So cool, Cheryl! I hope they enjoy it!

It is! And thank you! I’ve always loved quiet, image-text experiments. I’m actually working on a book-length one (and have been for like 10 years, so who knows when I’ll finish…)

Thanks, Nick! Glad to hear that comic is still working. I was thinking about it whole making these!

How to Write for Children #3

#webcomic #kidlit #childrensbooks

How to Write for Children #2

#kidlit #childrensbooks #webcomic

Four-panel comic titled “How to Write for Children #1” that shows a sequence of abstract imagery along with the text: “Don’t just rely on your own memories / Your childhood happened a long time ago / In another time and space / your memories are probably wrong anyway”

How to Write for Children #1

#kidlit #childrensbooks #webcomic

Let the erasure begin

More reasons to be anti-AI

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

No Kings Day in June:

5-6 million people
2,169 communities
27 countries

The sequel is going to be even bigger.

Text reads: 20 sapphic graphic novels to read during Sapphic September at Proud Geek www.proud-geek.co.uk

20 book covers for queer graphic novels with sapphic main characters: ▪️ S.I.R. by Fell Hound & Eleonora Bruni ▪️ Leap by Simina Popescu ▪️ Grand Slam Romance by Ollie Hicks & Emma Oosterhous ▪️ Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell ▪️ Heavy Vinyl Complete Collection by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva & Irene Flores ▪️ The Girl From The Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag ▪️ Thieves by Lucie Bryon ▪️ The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All by Sumiko Arai ▪️ How Could You by Ren Strapp ▪️ The Strange Case OF Harleen And Harley by Melisa Marr & Jenn St-Onge ▪️ Galaxy The Prettiest Star by Jadiza Axelrod & Jess Taylor ▪️ Hollow by Shannon Watters & Branden Boyer-White ▪️ Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer ▪️ The Avant-Guards Complete Collection by Carly Usdin & Noah Hayes ▪️ Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky ▪️ Belle Of The Ball by Mari Costa ▪️ Waves by Ingrid Chabbert & Carole Maurel ▪️ Succulent edited by Niki Smith, Ollie Hicks & Tab Kimpton ▪️ Mooncakes by Wendy Xu & Suzanne Walker ▪️ Specter Inspectors by Bowen McCurdy & Kaitlyn Musto

Are you taking part in the #SapphicSeptember readathon and looking to add some graphic novels to your TBR? Here’s a list of 20 queer graphic novels with sapphic main characters to add to your bookshelf:

(There's a list of book titles, authors in the alt text)

#booksky #sapphicbooks

Same!

This is an essay about illness, near-death, recovery, and comics. And it's really sweet and tender and a reminder of how much Tom loved us all.

A couple of my favorite excerpts:

The Comics Reporter

We had our first not-as-hot day in Florida, which, for some reason, always reminds me of my favorite Tom Spurgeon essay from The Comics Reporter, "All of These Things That Have Made Us."

www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/si...

How To Touch Grass A comics anthology about "touching grass", because it's a lot harder than it looks.

I just backed How To Touch Grass on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...

Only 50 pages left to pencil! Here’s a scene from pretty late in RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3.

The dogs do a lot more shape-shifting in this one.

#graphicnovel #kidlit #childrensbooks

Definitely!

And, finally:

And:

A couple more gems from this essay:

From Jeanette Winterson, “Imagination and Reality”

Two stacked books: What it Is by Lynda Barry and volumes 3 and 4 of The Calvin & Hobbes portable compendium.

Prepping for my fall class, The Ends of Imagination, in the Honors College at USF.

This is the first step towards creating a one-party state. If it works in Texas, they’ll do it all over the country. Bye, democracy, it was a nice idea while it lasted.

Action sequences usually take me a few different passes to get right. I’m not a natural action/fight scene drawer, so my first couple sketches aren’t always exciting or interesting enough for me. #kidlit #graphicnovels #childrensbooks