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Jamila

@jamilarowser.bsky.social

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Writer • Editor • Comic publisher blackjoseipress.com • Wash Day Diaries co-creator • LA Times Book Prize & Ignatz winner • Eisner nom’ed • Horror stan • Nana is my personality • Always in pain • Always tired • ✊🏾🇵🇷🇩🇴🏳️‍🌈 🥄•

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · Jan 9

It’s #PortfolioDay!

I’m an award-winning Black 🇵🇷🇩🇴 Queer and disabled comics writer, editor, & publisher @blackjoseipress.bsky.social. I love working in all genres, but slice-of-life has my 🩷.

I’m open and looking for work in writing, editing and more.

📧[email protected]
🌐jamilarowser.com

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · Sep 2

lol guess not

Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · Aug 21

It hasn’t been a day yet and miss my cats so much.

Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · Aug 20

I’m on the plane looking around at all these ppl not wearing masks. Nasty asses.

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · Aug 20

I’m going to #AnimeNYC this weekend, so I’ll actually be doing more than my usual routine of going to the dr and lying in bed in pain with my cats.

Now I’ll be *walking* around these NYC in pain!!! ☺️☺️

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · Aug 20

Might fuck around and start using Bluesky.

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · Jul 9

Big yes. I love me some Space Dandy and the OGN is SO DAMN GOOD. I have the CD. 🙏🏾

Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · Jun 21

Oh cool, I'll come by.

Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · Jun 21

Any of y'all gonna be at #HeroesCon tomorrow? I'll be there! Excited to see the legendary @stephwilliams.bsky.social.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · Jun 6

Please enter. BLACK PANTHER: BLOOD HUNT would not exist if I hadn't won Milestone's talent contest and Farid Karami hadn't won Top Cow's. You never know what might happen unless you try.

Mad Cave Studios @madcavestudios.com · Jun 6

It's time... 👀✨

We’re thrilled to announce that one of our favorite traditions, our annual talent search, is back for 2025, with submissions open from now through August 29th!

Details: bit.ly/43v2Dkq

Mad Cave Studios Opens Submissions for 2025 Talent Search - Mad Cave Studios

The moment you’ve been patiently waiting for has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce that one of our favorite traditions, our annual talent search, has officially returned!

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · Jun 4

I thought you might relate lol

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Losty @aaronlosty.bsky.social · May 31

It’s official the @cartoonist.coop has just announced our first paid digital residency!!!

More info at the link below ❤️

cartoonist.coop/digital-resi...

The Cartoonist Cooperative

Making comics better for everyone!

cartoonist.coop

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · May 31

I’m scrolling through my following page on TikTok and am reminded that I went through a “hoof cleaning” phase for a week. jump scare 4 sure

Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · May 29

Idc how many songs thrashers know, they are bullies and attack the crow I'm trying to befriend. They need to LEAVE.

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Ōsaki Nana’s arctic fox fursona, Niamh 🍵🎼 @foxmomnia.exportaud.io · May 23

new Yazawa Ai illustration from Cookie’s 25th Anniversary issue!

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · May 23

🩷🩷🩷🩷

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🌼 @btrcp.bsky.social · May 23

jamila's heartbreaking book with trinidad escobar, 'ode to keisha', is also available at nif-shop.cartoonist.coop/products/ode... 🥲

Ode to Keisha

"Ode to Keisha" is an autobiographical comic that examines how race and identity shaped a fundamental childhood friendship. Ode to Keisha is an autobiographical comic about friendship, racism, and id...

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🌼 @btrcp.bsky.social · May 23

sample pages for @jamilarowser.bsky.social & my minicomic 'REAL REALM', currently available until the end of this month at @cartoonist.coop's #nif2025 nif-shop.cartoonist.coop/products/rea...

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · May 22

AND Ignatz-nominated ODE TO KEISHA, created by me + Trinidad Escobar, is for sale at #NIF2025!

It’s an autobio #comic that examines how race and identity shaped a fundamental childhood friendship.

⏰ The digital comics fest ends at the end of this month.

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Ode to Keisha

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · May 22

If you’re a comic pro (make, sell, write about, etc.) you can register here to vote for the Eisner Awards: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

2025 Eisner Awards Ballot Application

Please fill out this form completely if you wish to be considered as a voter in the 2025 Eisner Awards.

docs.google.com

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · May 22

And all of the CONGRATS to @btrcp.bsky.social on their Eisner nomination for UM Volume One! 🎉

I loved co-editing UM with @oheysteenz.bsky.social and working with one of my favorite publishers, @radiatorcomics.bsky.social! 💖

Buy UM here: www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg... ✨

UM Volume One | Radiator Comics

Radiator Comics distributes, produces, and promotes hand-made, self-published and small-press comics that focus on self-expression and storytelling. At the core of our mission is a commitment to incre...

www.radiatorcomics.com

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · May 22

Thought I’d remind y’all u can buy the comic REAL REALM, created by 2 Eisner nominees, me + @btrcp.bsky.social at @cartoonist.coop’s #NIF!

nif-shop.cartoonist.coop/products/rea...

It’s a story of messy gods struggling to improve their image in the eyes of the mortals by starring in a reality show.

Real Realm

Real Realm is the story of messy gods struggling to improve their image in the eyes of the mortals by starring in a reality show. The comic takes place during a dramatic reunion episode of the reality...

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · May 21

Y'all, we've got just 10 days left of @cartoonist.coop's first Nib & Ink Fest and I'd love to make sure all the artists take away as much as possible from our first digital fest!

Would love to hear what you're enjoying from it, let's close this out right! #NIF2025
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Nib & Ink Festival 2025

The Nib & Ink Festival is a brand new online-only comics festival run by members of The Cartoonist Cooperative!

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Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez looking for a new agent @artofnickyrdrgz.bsky.social · May 22

!!!!! yes everyone should read this, it's truly a work of art! i ordered the original newsprint version years ago and it's seriously one of my favorite comics not only for it being puerto rican-made and about our revolutionary history, but for the sheer craft of it 😭💖

MK Reed @mkreed.bsky.social · May 22

Not sure how I missed this in the initial Eisner announcement but John Meijas's The Puerto Rican War is up for Best Reality Based Work & it's roughly hundred pages of linocut comics that's taken him YEARS to execute. So impressive on a technical level!

www.unionsquareandco.com/978145495246...

The Puerto Rican War by John Vasquez Mejias: 9781454952466 - Union Square & Co.

Union Square & Co. is a talent-driven book publisher whose mission is to promote excellence and honor the vision of our creators. Headquartered in NYC, we're a subsidiary of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.

www.unionsquareandco.com

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · May 22

It’s psyops for sure

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Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social · May 21

It’s been 3 years, too! 😭 Living rent free in her head. Why now?

I guess that’s why all of them left the LA Times Book Prize ceremony right after the comics category was called. And we were all in the front row. Disrespectful.