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👻 BUY THE GHOSTKEEPER GN!👇 theghostkeeper.carrd.co Illustrator ✦ Comic Artist ✦ Writer ✦ Cottage-Goth ✦ TTRPGer ✦ 💖💜💙 Rep: Laurel Symonds (KT Lit) 🌎 Portfolio: johannamation.com

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Oct 12

Welcome new followers!! ✨
I'm Johanna, I'm an illustrator and comic artist! I created THE GHOSTKEEPER, a YA graphic novel about a therapist for ghosts, out now! I like video games & TTRPGs, and drawing about them ⚔️

👻 theghostkeeper.carrd.co
🎨 johannamation.com
🖼️ www.inprnt.com/gallery/joha...

Front cover of THE GHOSTKEEPER a graphic novel by Johanna Taylor

A grave cleric guiding the spirits of an owlbear mother and child through the snowy forest

The cast of Dungeon Meshi, Zelda TOTK and Frieren cooking monsters in a dungeon together.

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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 7h

It’s Saturday here, so I am once again tapping the sign to remind you that my DMs are open to all new comics creators looking for feedback or advice on writing, art or the industry at large!

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 1d

Little moments of joy this week:

🐈‍⬛ Spending extra time in the mornings to snuggle my kittycat
🍎 Going to a local farm to buy fresh fruit and cider and pet the sheep
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Taking a cozy autumn walk with my gf
💇 Getting a masc haircut that gave me a small hit of gender euphoria

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 5h

This duck looks like the sad Charlie brown music plays wherever it goes

a man in a black jacket is walking on a dirt hill

ALT: a man in a black jacket is walking on a dirt hill

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Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 12h

Guillermo del Toro and Netflix have announced plans to form a new stop motion studio that will be both a studio and a school to push the medium forward and will develop plans to make Del Toro's next stop motion project after Pinocchio. I'm very hyped to see what this leads to!

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 8h

Some writers that made me:

Bruce Coville
JRR Tolkien
Lois Lowry
Eoin Colfer
Markus Zusak
Ray Bradbury
CS Lewis
Mary Pope Osborne
Suzanne Collins

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Mar 22

who are some of the writers that made you?

jrr tolkien
libba bray
jd salinger
ken follett
cs lewis
joanna campbell
lemony snicket
richelle mead
stephenie meyer
kurt vonnegut jr
eva ibbotson
se hinton
lois duncan

you? 📚💙

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · Mar 22

who are the five writers that made you?

Matt Christopher
Sam Kieth
Kevin Smith
Denis Johnson
Brian Evenson

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Oct 10

Happy World Mental Health Day 🌱 I hope you are extra kind to yourself today, but if you need some extra kindness, my book has been described as a warm ghostly hug 🤗

theghostkeeper.carrd.co

A young man and his ghost, the grandmother walk-through a row of graves in a rainy cemetery

THE GHOSTKEEPER book review:

“This candid, affirming look at mental health and the importance of taking care of yourself includes attainable coping mechanisms that'll benefit plenty of readers, not just the undead. A vibrant graphic novel with the gentle, feel-good vibes of House in the Cerulean Sea.”

—Emmy Widener, American Booksellers Association

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Oct 11

Today is World Mental Health Day 🪴

It’s okay to not be okay. You’re doing the best you can in a hostile and difficult world, and I’m proud of you for that.

Take time to do something kind for yourself today 🩵

Comic panel of a man with an umbrella and a ghostly little girl feeding crows together

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 19h

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this page on TROUSER CREASES, by the talented @simodasketch! Remember that we’re essentially folding a TUBE, which will cause the compressed fabric to SPIKE OUT in creases at the EDGES of the bend. #anime #manga #drawing #characterdesign

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 19h

From "Niccolo". Animation by David Florian (Gobelins).
www.instagram.com/p/DPokMAEDFtY/

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George @hannahtempler.com · 19h

a loose digital sketch of a little polar bear throwing a small white dogbear into the blue sky happily

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Bryan Teoh || Score Slinger 🎹 @bryanteohmusic.bsky.social · 16h

IT'S OUT!!!! I'm super excited to see this released to the world as well as all the things to come!
Shout out to @thequeencryptid.bsky.social for the fantastic lyrics and sultry singing, @lackadaisy.bsky.social and @fablepaint.bsky.social for bringing me on board this project!
youtu.be/BHq4ppmUPsA

LACKADAISY - Last Call

YouTube video by Lackadaisy

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 15h

Netflix partners with Gobelins school and Guillermo del Toro to launch a stop-motion studio in Paris.
variety.com/2025/film/gl...

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 16h

That's when I just flip the table and walk off into the woods 😣

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MAF @ MCM London M-14 @velnna.bsky.social · 18h

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Aug 17

I love thumbnailing comics, but it's also pretty mentally taxing... it's like playing 4D chess with yourself, translating the script into comic panels 😩

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Aug 7

Something I wasn’t prepared for is how much *audacity* it takes to be an author—or even an artist—in publishing. You gotta be ready to pitch yourself to anyone at any time, arrange & set up your own events, build your own hype, all while burying your insecurities. It’s a shockingly extroverted job.

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Feb 25

This is my brain

The meme of tzekel-khan from road to El Dorado, face looking astonished, and and a more translucent version of his face behind him with an evil grin. Both heads are labeled, “me” and “also me”

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 18h

And don’t forget that you can still get 20% off on select banned and challenged titles on our site through October 19 using code BBW25 at checkout!

Keep reading. Keep fighting the good fight. I’ll see you soon. 💜

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Jess Fink🍉🌈🎃 @jessfink.bsky.social · 19h

Happy birthday to the woman who let me in on the fact that I was queer 🌈

Rumic World @furinkan.com · 1d

A very happy birthday to Rumiko Takahashi! Born on October 10, 1957 in Niigata, she is entering into her 47th year as a mangaka! Happy birthday, sensei!

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Lio 🌿 Gravehearts out now! @kroovv.bsky.social · 20h

Gravehearts chapter 1 is now live on itch! 🪦💛

kroovv.itch.io/gravehearts

and an illustration of 3 characters surrounded by an orange autumnal tree and graves. One character is a cat clown doll floating above the right shoulder of a large buff man with a beard and overalls, then floating over the man's other shoulder is a slightly transparent cowboy with green hair and heavy scars.

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E = mily² @emily.news · 2d

Meme image in which Princess Daisy says, "Are you tired of going apeshit? Don't you just want to be nice?" Her face looks softly dejected.

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 20h

LMAO 🐸

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Oct 12

Happy Halloween from THE GHOSTKEEPER fam! Dorian is definitely winning the costume contest this year 🧙‍♂️🎃

Lucy (ghost girl), Brody and Dorian from THE GHOSTKEEPER dressed as characters from WITCH HAT ATELIER for halloween---Dorian is a dead ringer for Qifrey.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 21h

And hey, while I've got my soapbox out this morning, there is absolutely no excuse for the percentage of women creators on top books in mainstream comics still being this low.

Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · Apr 9

2014
“comics are for everyone”

2017
#MeToo

2020
“Men In Comics Say No” #ComicsPledge

2024
Only 12% of the Top 50 Comics of 2023 were created (written or drawn) by women

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