Lauren Davis

I’ll be at LumaCon this Saturday with @laurendavis.bsky.social and @melhilario.bsky.social!! It’s a really cool show if you haven’t been. We’ll have lots of Agent Cupcake copies and I’m makin some more keychain comics too 🎉🎉🎉

Graphic with the cover of Agent Cupcake (including a cartoon child giving the peace sign with their fingers next to a blue cartoon unicorn in a trench coat) as well as photos of the three authors and the GirlTalkHQ logo cropped circular over a light pink/yellow gradient background. There is a pull quote from the article that reads: "'Agent Cupcake blends real world knowledge about secret messages, social engineering, spyware, and lock picking with a world where a mermaid can run a spy agency, a griffin can help you break into a safe, and unicorns use their magic to craft horrifyingly cute plushies,' she said. And at the same time, 'it’s a very human story about learning how to fail, transforming passion into action, and figuring out where you fit in,' said artist Katie Longua." [end of quote]

Great interview in GirlTalkHQ with AGENT CUPCAKE creators
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#interview #graphicnovel

Exclusive: Celebrate Agent Cupcake with a Fantastic Song from Katie Longua Agent Cupcake—a middle-grade graphic novel full of spies, secrets, and a touch of sparkle—is out now from Oni Press!

Exclusive: Celebrate Agent Cupcake with a Fantastic Song from Katie Longua #comics #graphicnovel #kidlit @oni-press.bsky.social @melhilario.bsky.social @katiesaurusrex.bsky.social @laurendavis.bsky.social

If you think Katie's Agent Cupcake theme song is delightful, you should definitely check out the book!

A copy of Agent Cupcake (with a human boy and a unicorn in a trench coat on the cover) sits on a cutting mat with a pink cipher wheel and a clear lock, a torsion wrench, and a lock pick

Happy Book Birthday to AGENT CUPCAKE!!!

@melhilario.bsky.social, @katiesaurusrex.bsky.social, and I are so excited to finally share our unicorn spy (and her kid sidekick) with the world!

Learn about secret codes, lock picking, & social engineering while Cupcake and Miguel track down magic thieves!

Agent Cupcaketober Day 5 is Dragon! Howie Timmons is a dragon well suited to modern life, especially when it comes to accumulating a hoard.

Follow @melhilario.bsky.social and @katiesaurusrex.bsky.social for more Agent Cupcake art!

A green unicorn magically controls a needle and thread while a boy dressed as a Labubu eyes the needle uncertainly

Agent Cupcaketober Day 4 is Magic! In the world of Agent Cupcake, each unicorn has their own particular magical ability. The green unicorn is Jalebi, whose magic could help you with your Halloween costume, provided your tastes lean Labubu.

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In AGENT CUPCAKE, griffin Larry Moskowitz tinkers with spy gadgetry for the Mystical Beast Bureau. See more of him at @katiesaurusrex.bsky.social and @laurendavis.bsky.social

Agent Cupcaketober Day 3 is Griffin! Larry Moscowitz was a top field agent for the Mystical Beast Bureau, but now he works on the technical side of things (and he’s trying to get better at baking).

Check out @melhilario.bsky.social and @katiesaurusrex.bsky.social for more mystical spy drawings!

#cupcaketober day 3 is griffin!

Keepin it to just ink for today. Larry is forever my favorite, he’s such a silly guy.

Check out @laurendavis.bsky.social and @melhilario.bsky.social for their drawings too!! We’re going all month to celebrate Agent Cupcake 🦄🔎

Day 2. #Cupcaketober #Inktober
Go check out @katiesaurusrex.bsky.social and @laurendavis.bsky.social for drawings that obey the laws of physics.

Our graphic novel AGENT CUPCAKE is out NOVEMBER 4!

#Cupcaketober as #Inktober. Ok, @katiesaurusrex.bsky.social and @laurendavis.bsky.social said this wasn’t too bad.

Day 2 drawing soon…

Agent Cupcaketober Day 2 is Signal! I’m espionage, operatives sometimes communicate through signals that other people wouldn’t notice, like a piece of laundry hung out to dry, a symbol written in chalk on a walk — or, in this case, a sticker on a window.

Happy #inktober! We at Triple Dream Comics are doing a custom prompt list for Agent Cupcake!!! (Out Nov 4th ahhh)

Day one is unicorn, so I had to start with Cupcake herself!

Check out @laurendavis.bsky.social & @melhilario.bsky.social for more drawings and feel free to join in

It’s Inktober and just a little over a month before “Agent Cupcake” arrives at bookstores and libraries near you! So @melhilario.bsky.social, @katiesaurusrex.bsky.social, and I are doing Agent Cupcaketober!

Day 1 is Unicorn. Feel free to join in and draw mythical spies along with us!

An Agent Cupcake themed prompt list: 1. Unicorn 2. Signal 3. Griffin 4. Magic 5. Dragon 6. Secret 7. Fairy 8. Cyclops 9. Disguise 10. Lock 11. Mermaid 12. Crystal 13. Ambrosia 14. Informant 15. Centaur 16. First day 17. Cerberus 18. “Oops!” 19. Giant 20. Gorgon 21. Tracking 22. Basilisk 23. Explosive 24. Pegasus 25. Stakeout 26. Chimera 27. Hidden 28. Jackalope 29. Candy 30. Phoenix 31. Spy

Coming this #inktober: a very special Agent Cupcake prompt list! Join me, @laurendavis.bsky.social, and @melhilario.bsky.social on our quest to complete daily drawings leading up to the release of Agent Cupcake on Nov 4 🦄💕

Join in with #cupcaketober, I would love to see some mystical beasties 💕

Agent Cake book cover featuring a tween human boy and a unicorn in a trenchcoat. Text reads "Pre-order AGENT CUPCAKE from Barnes & Noble 4/23-4/25 for 25% Off"

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I very much need children's books about @bart.gov and @rideact.bsky.social for all the kids I know who point in delight every time a train or bus zooms by.

I have tiny child hands and my husband has large adult hands and we both love our Steam Decks. A lot of controllers don’t fit my hands, so I was relieved this did!

Oh nooooooo

Pass it on.

We had an outbreak of measles here before COVID and I raced out to get the MMR.
Get a redo of your MMR if you were born in the below time frames.
Measles can cause permanent brain damage and death.

Oh! I was born before 1984 and I found out a few years ago that I didn't have rubella antibodies and ended up getting re-vaxxed. I assumed I was an anomaly. I didn't realize the immunity could fade!

My art students are much smarter than I am: one of my Character Design students suggested that I make a movie (to demo to my Animation class) about a tennis ball that comes to life. Because it’s a simple sphere and it’s easy to get a real tennis ball to reference the stripes!

I lived near him on Cape Cod for a while and he often paired this with a fantastic straw hat

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Agent Cupcake Go undercover and crack the case in Agent Cupcake, perfect for fans of Mac B. Kid Spy and Spy School!Twelve-year-old Miguel Mangayayam has always l...

AGENT CUPCAKE is available for preorder! It's about a boy who is recruited by an intelligence agency run by mystical beasts and teams up with a unicorn spy to track down thieves stealing unicorn magic! We had so much fun making this book!

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I want to make so many hangout comics with Larry and Cupcake just chilling around their apartment

Since the Agent Cupcake sample pages are out I can now make a LARRY APPRECIATION POST!! #1 roommate, retired field agent, and appreciator of shiny things.. this griffon quickly stole the Cupcake show, he’s my favorite supporting character 💕

Label: January 28, 2025 "Holds" Panel 1: Lauren looks up at a towering shelf of books and says, "I really should read the books I own instead of borrowing new ones." Panel 2: Lauren looks at monitor and says, "Oh but that new Iron Circus book is on the hold shelf. I'll grab it when I go to Baby Bounce." Panel 3: The Libby icon pings next to an iPhone. Lauren says, "Oh! I've been wanting to read that Naomi Kritzer book." Panel 4: The Libby icon pings again. Lauren says, "Ooh, and 'The Route of Ice and Salt.'" Panel 5: The Libby icon covers Lauren's face as she looks at her phone. Lauren says, "And that Chuck Tingle novel!" Panel 6: Lauren is now tapping on her phone surrounded by word balloons that say "Hold." Lauren says, "OK, I give up."

I've been engaging with @sophieyanow.bsky.social's #gentlecomicshabit for a few weeks now. Most of the entries are too diary-ish to share, but I quite like this one: