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J. B. Bartram
@jbbartram.bsky.social
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Illustrator, ceramicist, graphic designer, studio gnome. She/her.

Pottery shop: heywitch.bigcartel.com
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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · Jan 14
Hi there, #portfolioday ! I’m an illustrator, graphic designer, and potter who specializes in book illustration (currently illustrating my 5th kids book & working away slowly at a graphic novel) & design/illustration for NGOs & other similar organizations!

📖 www.jessicabartram.ca
A spread from Ghost Water Kiss, a book of short stories I wrote & illustrated, published in 2019. The image is of a surreal underwater scene with colourful seaweeds & corals with a green & mossy mermaid-like creature swimming through it. A spread from Water Water, a picture book I wrote & illustrated (published in 2021). It’s a gouache & watercolour painting that shows a cottage at night with an illuminated window so you can see the living room within. Two ghostly giant fish (a musky & a sturgeon) emerge from the lake in the background & are floating over the cottage. A spread from a report I illustrated and designed for JCRT. It shows the life cycle of a cecropia moth along a lichen-studded branch with paragraphs of text below. A poster I illustrated for a local film festival — drawn in vibrant colours it depicts a crystal mountain nestled within a lichen-y / mossy landscape with a large salamander wrapped around the base of the mountain and a little furry guy at the top telling the text of the poster in a beam of yellow light.
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werd.io
Secure your own squid first before helping others.

(I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)
An airline security card but instead of oxygen masks, it's squid. Just roll with it.
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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jocelynanderson.bsky.social
A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
January 31, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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beccschampagne.bsky.social
Let's GO!
ottawacomicsfest.bsky.social OCAF @ottawacomicsfest.bsky.social · 2d
Official Poster #1 for OCAF designed by Rebecca "Beccs" Champagne! @beccschampagne.bsky.social
We have three illustrations made by stellar local artists! ✨️
Spot 'em around the city in these coming months.

#ottawa #ottawacomics #ocaf2026 #ottawacomicsfestival
A poster for a festival named OCAF Ottawa Comic Arts Festival to happen on April 4th 2026 from 10am to 3pm at the Gelebe Community Centre with a playful illustration of little gremlins stacked up to hand over a comic to a regular sized person.
February 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
jbbartram.bsky.social
All set up! It is so cold in here!!
A table of ceramics set up for a market Detail of the table showing the mugs shelf Detail 2 showing demitasses & blind boxes Detail 3 showing funky little critters
January 31, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Grumpbeak
A bird is singing on a crabapple tree in winter. In the second panel we see the bird is an evening grosbeak who says "What a gorgeous day!". The following panel he says "Why can't every day be like this" And in the final panel looks very upset.
January 30, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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jbbartram.bsky.social
Also, I’ll have a bunch of mugs and the market is called 613flea 👍
A promo image featuring the market info (613flea, Sat Jan 31, 10am-4pm, Aberdeen Pavillion, Ottawa) and three mugs. One has a funky medieval-inspired harpy on it, one has a cecropia moth on it, and the third has a river otter swimming through lakeweed A mug made from white clay with an intricate illustration of a seal swimming through kelp on it A mug made from brown clay with a toad and mushrooms painted on it Another brown clay mug with sea creatures inspired by medieval manuscript illustrations on it
January 29, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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jbbartram.bsky.social
Oh yeah, this is done now! And I am SO in love with it???? It’ll also be on my table at my upcoming market this weekend (see my last two posts for details!) even tho I don’t want to sell it, I just want to keep it in my house & stare at it forever.
January 29, 2026 at 11:41 PM
jbbartram.bsky.social
Oh yeah, this is done now! And I am SO in love with it???? It’ll also be on my table at my upcoming market this weekend (see my last two posts for details!) even tho I don’t want to sell it, I just want to keep it in my house & stare at it forever.
January 29, 2026 at 11:41 PM
jbbartram.bsky.social
Also, I’ll have a bunch of mugs and the market is called 613flea 👍
A promo image featuring the market info (613flea, Sat Jan 31, 10am-4pm, Aberdeen Pavillion, Ottawa) and three mugs. One has a funky medieval-inspired harpy on it, one has a cecropia moth on it, and the third has a river otter swimming through lakeweed A mug made from white clay with an intricate illustration of a seal swimming through kelp on it A mug made from brown clay with a toad and mushrooms painted on it Another brown clay mug with sea creatures inspired by medieval manuscript illustrations on it
January 29, 2026 at 5:58 PM
jbbartram.bsky.social
Oop, I’ve been slow to post about my rescheduled market this weekend — I’ll be at Aberdeen Pavilion (Ottawa) from 10-4 this Saturday, January 31st & these are some of the pals I’ll have with me!
A promo image with the info for the market (repeated in the post) and three ceramic creatures — a frog with a mushroom hat, a funky raven, and a selkie A mid-transformation selkie with a mottled grey-green glaze that looks like seal spots A frog with a pointy mushroom hat A funky raven with two heads, glazed in a seafoam green glaze with lots of speckles
January 29, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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pansybeast.bsky.social
ceramic grubs in their gribs (grub cribs) receiving their legs and soon to get more decor and become grub effigies
two cute grub charms sitting on their backs in a simply made clay cradle to support them as the adhesive attaching their metal legs dries.
January 29, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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ricksteves.bsky.social
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — and with masked troops in our streets, law-abiding neighbors being disappeared, a president othering and dehumanizing entire communities in our country, and big mysterious prisons awaiting his scapegoats, history is speaking to all of us.
Hitler, Jews, and the Holocaust
Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s problems. Over the years, the Nazis targeted Jews with increasingly evil treatment, leading to the "Final Solution" — mass extermination. We visit the Auschwitz-Birken...
classroom.ricksteves.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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theflytrapmedia.com
We decided to drop the paywall for this Heated Rivalry essay by @katelynburns.com so more of you could read it: www.theflytrapmedia.com/icy-hot-heat...
I Saw My Own Search for Sunlight in “Heated Rivalry”
'Heated Rivalry' dares to ask: Why should queer athletes be forced to choose between their identity and their sport?
www.theflytrapmedia.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:50 PM
jbbartram.bsky.social
Excuse the terrible camerawork (I was busy marvelling at how close it was), but!!! Raven finding a snack in a snowbank!!!!!!!!! I love living in a city with year-round ravens!!!!!!
January 27, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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gavia.bsky.social
Here it is: My thoughts on Heated Rivalry's fantastic adaptation of romance genre storytelling - and why this is such a bizarrely rare phenomenon on TV.
fansplaining.bsky.social Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 7d
"The real question here isn’t why Heated Rivalry is a hit—it’s why this kind of romance series is so rare in the first place."

The great @gavia.bsky.social returns to Fansplaining with an incisive piece on Heated Rivalry, romance publishing, and the TV industry. Read or listen to an audio version:
The Success of Heated Rivalry Should Not Be a Surprise — Fansplaining
Romancelandia understands why the show is a hit. Why is it so hard for Hollywood to get the message?
www.fansplaining.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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cartoonist.coop
Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd
"IN OBSERVANCE & SOLIDARITY". Two black speech bubbles with white text read "HOURLY COMICS DAY IS NOW ON FEB 8TH. CARTOONISTS HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. FEB 1 - MAR 1". There is an illustration of a black silhouetted hand raised and holding a pen in the top right, and an illustration of a nib pen and an ink well personified on the bottom right. The nib and ink are bumping fists. A URL at the bottom is "hourlycomicsday.com".
January 26, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
is it too late to call Bryan Fuller's Hannibal "Eated Rivalry"
January 26, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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diannalgunn.bsky.social
Uhhhh, Ontario?

We need to fucking raise hell about this globalnews.ca/news/1155832...
‘Fantastic news’: Ford welcomes ICE plan to order Ontario armoured vehicles | Globalnews.ca
Reports emerged this week of U.S. government procurement plans to order 20 Senator vehicles for its ICE officers, a move worth roughly $10 million.
globalnews.ca
January 25, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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ashponders.bsky.social
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)
January 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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lleyksie.bsky.social
let’s be primitive horses with mama
January 24, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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windowseat.bsky.social
Not in Minnesota & want to help? Check this out:
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

In MN & want to help? See:
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...

It's very cold! Help our unhoused neighbors:
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…
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January 23, 2026 at 7:54 AM
jbbartram.bsky.social
This protein panic is so funny as someone who was vegetarian for a decade and had to field one million concerned questions about whether I was getting enough protein. The stuff is not hard to get (especially if you are a cheese fiend like me!!)
January 23, 2026 at 6:21 PM
jbbartram.bsky.social
This jar is sosoclose to being done (just needs to be glazed!) & it feels like a true labour of love.
January 23, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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jessehawken.bsky.social
What’s funny about the Oscar race this year is the CHUDs are mad at One Battle After Another because it’s “woke” and makes fun of white supremacists but they can’t derail it from winning everything because then the big winner would be SINNERS which is woker and makes more fun of white supremacists
January 23, 2026 at 1:53 AM
jbbartram.bsky.social
I’m currently unable to donate due to comically low ferritin (boooooo stupid weak blood), so please go in my place!!!!
rattyfleef.bsky.social The Fleef🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇧🎨 @rattyfleef.bsky.social · 12d
Canadians go here! www.blood.ca/en room was v empty at my donation last week, plz go donate a bag of your wets if you are able
January 22, 2026 at 4:40 PM