#picture book for adults

[warandpeas]

Cover Reveal – Once Upon a Workday

We finally get to show you the cover of our upcoming book Once Upon a Workday which will be released on April 2nd at the publishing powerhouse Andrews McMeel!

The book is different from everything we’ve done so far. It’s about the exhausting, the hopeful, the struggle and the beautiful of everday life. It’s about work-life balance, creative blocks and the overwhelming feeling of having a restless heart. While we know our way around a sleepless night pondering the uncertainty of the universe, we also know the frustration of formulating the right farewell in an email. No matter how big or small, you will find our musings on the creative’s life questions in this book.

Once Upon a Workday features the short story “A Job is a Job” that many of you loved and kept asking us about. You can preorder the book wherever books are sold and via this link list!

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

I love these shelves 🥰

[cluepoke-archive]

I haven't read down among the sticks and bones yet but I had to draw jack and Jill going through their door the first time they were my faves in the first book (wich you should check out!!! Its called every heart a doorway by seanan mcguire)

[rosepompadour]

She was like a porcelain doll - perhaps even more fragile than a doll, like a teacup she might drop, or a silk stocking she might tear.

Jo & Laurie, Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz

[skeletalheartattack]

a bestie can be anything. a bestie can be the 2007 roblox chain chomp face changer. ive known him since childhood. we grew up together. he literally changed my face and it was so cool. i hope he's still out there causing a ruckus and shit.

[ectonurites]

tom taylor 'stop posting screenshots of things to twitter that will inevitably lead to some of your 119.5k followers harassing 17 year olds with less than 1k followers' challenge failed once again

[movedtodykedvonte]

I think it’s be funny to have a Spider-Man that is genuinely just a kid, not like a teenager or a kid who understands the gravity of his abilities but a kid who does heroics simply because that’s cool to a kid.

The gimmick is that the villains think it’s a gimmick and Spider-Man(?) fucks with them by acting like a kid to make ‘em feel bad or embarrass them only for them to realize he’s a literal child due to a forced team up where they like offer him a brewski afterwards and he’s legitimately like “Mr I am 9 years old, I just do this cause my aunt can’t take me to the park every afternoon.” And they grill him on adult things and he sits there just blanking cause he’s fucking 9.

[dragonbadgerbooks]

Tarot October BPC: October 13, 2023 The Chariot - Anticipated Release

Iron Widow and Heavenly Tyrant (Coming April 30, 2024) by Xiran Jay Zhao Game of Thrones Tarot Deck

[stevelieber]

NEW BOOK FROM BILL WATTERSON!

"From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding. 

In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns.

For the book's illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate—a mysterious process in its own right."

If you're pre-ordering it, here's the Indie Bound link. Buy it local!

[majoringinsarcasm]

People hating on a literal child because she doesn’t physically look like a character in a book who we only ever saw in concept art and fanart vs me who was kinda sad when I realized book Percy wasn’t black because the description of a young boy living in New York who’s close with his single mother parent who is constantly seen as stupid troublemaker by both peers and teachers and his moms awful boyfriend and who’s only friend is the only other Outcast (non white) classmate who’s only ally is the literature teacher who then he finds also has doubts about him felt very if not fully black then at least mixed coded.

But then I moved on and enjoyed the story for what it gave me, can some of these people say the same 🤔

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

Had a week off, did some TBR shopping 🙊

[yasmeensh]

Inspired by the book "Growing Up in the Ice Age" By April Nowell. After reading the section on archeological evidence of novices (aka children) learning to make stone tools and being bad at it 😭. I had a little scene in my mind as I read that, so I drew it out.

[tibli]

who's the bitch that decided fiction novels aimed at older audiences can't have pictures?? I'm just realizing how fucking stupid that is.

[animehouse-moe]

Adult's Picture Book Volume 1: First and Last Name

In short, if you want an emotional punch to the gut via a man spiraling due to an obsession over a lost love, this is the series for you.

This first volume drives home that the synopsis is perhaps the weakest part of this story, as it dives incredibly deep into a cycle of heartbreak and comparison that sees Kudou (our main character) pull together a family to remind himself of his lost love to no avail. Like pulling together grains of sand to only have them slip through your fingertips, he faces an intense struggle of finding a way to live life and love the ones around him, and Kei Itoi depicts that in wonderful fashion. So much so that there's a world of stuff to talk about, which I mention in the full review on Animehouse.

[crimeronan]

we showed my mom the first two eps of shadow and bone last night. she'd read the books forever ago and LOVED the crows but had forgotten exactly Why & then we got to the calm callous "no businessman worth his salt bargains for what he can take" and she Laughed Aloud and was like "oh. there he is. i forgot how much i love him."

[k1rishiki]

it's 2023 and i'm still bitter about how kuroshitsuji, a complex slow burn mystery manga, got absolutely massacred by its shitty semi-episodic shota/fujobait anime adaptation