#It was going to be a graphic novel!!

[dahldahlbills]

Gonna talk about my writing project but in typical ‘dahl talks about their wip’ fashion it’ll be extremely vague and won’t make any sense lol I just really need to say this, especially now that I'm so close to the end and it’s been something I’ve been feeling for a while too

so the further I get into the project, the more I feel like I've ventured so far from the original inspiration of this story and it makes me a little bit sad.

I wrote the original version in 2021 and looking back at it, it’s a completely different story than what I’m writing now. it was silly and lighthearted which… is not at all what its current state is like. I’m not entirely upset about it, because this new version has so much more substance and I'm extremely proud of it. I feel like I'm finally saying something and the message overall is really meaningful to me.

last night, I realized how I should title the story. Usually that’s a great feeling. Titling is one of the hardest things after all. But honestly it just left me even more conflicted. For the longest time I thought I knew what the title would be: something very similar to the original title (cryptlandia, the reason why i often refer to it as ‘cryptids wip’, which is extremely ironic bc the story doesn’t even focus on cryptids much anymore). That plan won’t work anymore though, because it no longer fits the tone of the story. Another reminder of the story’s evolution. I’m debating something different now, something more sincere, which has me feeling like I’ve completely lost the heart of the story.

Idk on one hand I’m really happy and proud of how this story’s evolved, but ngl it also hurts to see it shift so far from what i originally wrote.

[gejnialnie]

new reaction picture just dropped!

[shadowmoonarts]

How it started

How it’s going

[bunni-art]

now that Lup's got a canon design in the graphic novel, i feel okay sharing the speculative GN!Lup designs i've done!

being identical to taako makes it pretty easy to assume what she looks like, but it was fun to think up hair and clothes for her!

(also many of these poses were traced from taako in the graphic novel so credit to carey for that!!)

[samuell-art]

I don’t know why, but I drew this BEFORE rereading the novel for the 10th time and didn’t even realize that this is KIND OF a panel redraw of this lmao:

Aaaannnndddd here’s a little bonus :3

SMOOOOOCHHHHHH <333333

[yeehawpim]

From thumbnail to completed page

[eunnieboo]

IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING!! ✨

hi everyone, i’m so excited to share the cover and release date for If You’ll Have Me!

IYHM is my debut graphic novel, a YA sapphic romcom about insecurities, growth, and the tender uncertainty of new love. it’s the kind of story i wanted to read in college - something sweet, comforting, and a little silly too. i can’t wait for you to discover who these girls are and what makes them fit together so well ❤️

the book comes out october 17, 2023 and you can preorder it right now!!

[robochai]

here is what i've been up to!!

FRESH START is a semi-autobio graphic novel (with THE most gorgeous colors from karen czap!!!!) about a kid who moves around a lot… and LOVES IT! Embarrassing stuff happens? Just flee the country! Friend fight? Hit the bricks!!

BUT THEN…. JUST IN TIME FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL…

SHE HAS TO MOVE TO AMERICA.

It’s got friendship feelings, gender feelings, sibling feelings, AND mixed kid feelings?? And it’s funny????

Idk man I really put everything I had into this one!!! Here is a drawing by Real Life Tween Gale.

FRESH START is going to be in bookstores on JANUARY 7th and ahhhh!!! book!!!!!!!!!! a very personal book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please ask your library to preorder it, or a friend, or yourself if it sounds like your jam THANK YOU

[papyskellington]

I've been gnomed once again...

BUT AT WHAT COST

I'm gonna go cry in a hole now actually I CAN'T COPE RN HE LOOKS SO PERFECT WE FINALLY HAVE OUR CAPTAIN BACK

[gansey-like]

i cannot wait for tumblr to get its hands on the raven cycle graphic novels like you're telling me we're going to have a whole BOOK of art of gansey? blue? ronan and noah and ADAM! all the fox way women !! it's going to be extraordinary

[longlostlorian]

Maelstrom's plan, aka, that's it that's the book in a nutshell. MAELSTROM: A PRINCE OF EVIL is available now!! Go read the graphic novel random people (and my friends also) are calling cute/funny/enjoyable/etc

[pdalicedraws]

sometimes your own self loathing makes you a real pain in the ass to people around you, ask me how I know (no don’t)

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[snowbuff]

I've been listening through TAZ: Balance and I have Blupjeans brainrot.... I'm still figuring out designs these were just some doodles while I was on the phone ✨

[dumbbullet]

I am hunting something, and in return, that same thing is hunting me. The beholder, the void beyond, I am the Line Between I am the Teeth of God

[nerdby]

Incels are just going out of their way to embarrass themselves today. Alan Cumming said X-2: X-Men United is the gayest film he's done so far because of the political subtext and the fact that the X-Men are a metaphor for marginalized communities, and there are just a million dudes saying he's insane. Meanwhile I'm sitting here wondering if we're all watching the same movie.

This scene is a direct reference to Bobby Drake/Ice Man coming out as gay in the comics and as a queer person, yes, I have absolutely been asked similar questions in real life.

[radio-silents]

it is currently 3 weeks and 3 days until you can own your own copy this book that I illustrated!? literally insane.

preorder the FIRST TEST graphic novel adaptation wherever you like to get your books, out July 2nd!