When you're outside on this July 4th holiday, look at the magical transformations all around you.(Also, a new Kevin McCloskey book is about to come out of its cocoon!)

Art says: 'Diane Noomin died today. She was an important part of the San Francisco Comix scene in the 1970s. Intelligent, with a solid sense of humor, a feminist without the stridency. Her anthology, Drawing Power, was an important and moving anthology by women. I'll miss her.'

Tonight, I get to sit with the great Liniers. Will I find the source of his amazing creativity?

I'll be a judge at the 3rd pictoline Illustration Annual in Mexico City.

What do Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela have in common? Illustrators!

Meet the fabulous Aria Balraj, the new Assistant Editor TOON Books now over on Bluesky at #Moccafest2022 . Here with the equally fabulous TOON ambassador @KevinMcWho

music to my ears! And Yes! Black cowboys and someone like Mary Fields: that's history that is relevant to ALL kids. Would love to see it in every classroom.

Calling all fans of children’s comics: an incredible opportunity just opened up. Executive Editor, TOON Books pw.org/job_listing/ex…

Innovative and stunning work by @sergiogarciabd in Blancaflor, with nadja spiegelman bringing to life a classic latin American tale with relevance for every young girl today.

Cadeaux de la part de nadja spiegelman - jai adoré le dernier Leila Slimani en français et maintenant j’ai hate de lire le livre de Violaine Huisman

WOW I AM DOING MY DREAM

Author-editor nadja spiegelman to edit new literary magazine strib.mn/3dLVbb7 Astra House AstraQuarterly

💥💥💥 This will be the baddest, queerest, coolest, funniest, most literary publication of the century! Congrats to EIC nadja spiegelman, who is launching a new literary magazine along with Astra House! 💥💥💥

Wow! Adrian Tomine's cover for TNY this week has gone viral. He has gone to the other side of the camera and peered into our collective messy rooms. Great art can get at the emotional truth of what we're living through.

Delightful to watch this live Giuliani reaction, complete with useless theatrical appeal to a higher order... Trump sure knows how to pick them!