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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀

@justhanselart.bsky.social

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🇵🇭🌻 Whimsical comic artist and illustrator. Loves stories where the magical meets the mundane 📩 [email protected] 🖼 justhanselart.weebly.com Current projects: "Gemma & the Giant Owl" | "Starscaping"

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Apr 8

First time joining #PortfolioDay 🥳

Hi! I'm Hansel, a freelance illustrator from the Philippines who loves making comics and illustrations where the magical meets the mundane 🌻

I'm currently looking for work, primarily on comics, comic covers, and book covers.

www.justhanselart.weebly.com

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to everyone who gave my pitches a read! Rooting for all our stories to find their way into our shelves ✨🌻

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 1d

That's a wrap on #DVpit 2025!
Thank you to everyone who participated, volunteered, or supported!
Thank you to the agents & editors who showed up!
And thank you to our board @peterlopez.bsky.social & @katchowrites.bsky.social & @claribelortega.com who brought #DVpit to Bluesky!

Thank you
to everyone who pitched, supported, or volunteered for #DVpit 2025
follow @dvpit.bsky.social to stay in touch

Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · 1d

Treasure Planet x Castle in the Stars

Building a solarboat is not easy, esp. with a deadline. Feeling alone, Astro, a 10-year-old orphan boy, finds a friend in a fallen star, who helps him search his small mountain village for parts. Will he make it in time for All Souls Day?

#DVPit #DVArt #GN #MG

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · 1d

This is part of a pitching event, so likes/reposts are designated for agents/editors.

That said, replies and quote reposts are very much appreciated ✨

Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · 1d

“STARSCAPING” is a Filipino-inspired pastoral fantasy #GN about Astro, a 10-year-old orphan boy, who dreams of building his own solarboat and seeing his parents again. With the help of a local astronomer and a fallen star, can Astro finish building it on time for All Souls Day?

#DVPit #DVArt #MG

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Andrea! Hoping to see yours in the bookstores as well ✨

Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Olivia! Your words are so kind. Rooting for your stories to find homes in shelves as well ✨🌻

Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely. Rooting for this story to land in shelves someday ✨

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait to read this story in full someday!

Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · 1d

This looks amazing! Rooting to read your story in full someday ✨

Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #DVArt! I'm Hansel, a freelance Filipino comic artist and illustrator. I love drawing spec-fic and slice-of-life stories wherein the magical meets the mundane.

Looking for: Graphic novels, book covers, illustrations

💌 [email protected]
🌻 justhanselart.weebly.com

#GN #MG #YA #WFH #comms

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · 1d

Treasure Planet x Over the Moon

After losing his parents in a civil war, Astro, a 10-year-old Filipino boy with a knack for machines, must finish building his solarboat in time for All Souls Day to see them again—or risk losing them forever to the cosmos.

#DVPit #DVArt #GN #MG #POC

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Apr 16

(6/6) Thank you for reading my mini comic 💖 I thought it would be cool to parallel the concept of practicing magic to the process of creating comics, and just art in general, hence the witchy imagery.

How about you? What's your creative journey like? 🌻
#comics #art

Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Apr 16

"Fishing Stars" (5/6)
#comics #art

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Apr 16

"Fishing Stars" (4/6)
#comics #art

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Apr 16

"Fishing Stars" (3/6)
#comics #art

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Apr 16

"Fishing Stars" (2/6)
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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Apr 16

Sharing my new comic, "Fishing Stars" 🎏✨

It's a mini comic sharing a glimpse into my journey as a comic artist in the Philippines 😊 #comics #art #komiks

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Apr 13

Someday, I'll have my own graphic novel published--both locally and overseas 🌻

Reposted by Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀

Robert G. Reeve @robertgreeve.bsky.social · Apr 5

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead”

even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

On her first day in the facility, Becky asked for a scrap of paper and a pen, and began to draw the inmates on the table next to her. She was immediately inundated with portrait requests. A Mexican woman called Lopez, who had a photo of her children stored on one of the iPads, told Becky she would buy her some paper and colouring pencils from the commissary if Becky drew her kids. She soon became the dorm’s unofficial artist-in-residence, with women huddling around the dirty mirrors to make themselves look presentable before they sat for her. They would decorate their cells with Becky’s drawings, or send them to their families. Lopez declared herself Becky’s manager. “She kept saying, ‘Becky, you need to ask for stuff in exchange. Ask for popcorn.’ And I’d be like, ‘Lopez, I don’t need anything.’ I thought, I’m here briefly, you’re stuck here a long time. I’m not going to take your food away from you.”

A three by three grid illustrating in blue pen cartoon portraits of women in an ICE detention center. “Mrs Kailey,” Bana, Lewelyn, Ikram, Asil, ‘Auntie,’ ‘F.Z,’ Kseniia, and “P.A.” Two have light hair, three have glasses, one wears a hijab, one poses, and one holds a drink.

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Apr 13

Can't agree with this more. I get asked this a lot in the PH, where most people never even imagined working in comics full time. For us, it's the stuff dreams are made of.

The entire community thrives on the backs of creators who love the form so much they continue making it despite all the odds.

Raina Telgemeier @goraina.bsky.social · Apr 11

I used to average a book every 2 years, but that isn’t realistic anymore! Please know that graphic novels are a labor of love, an absolute gauntlet, and that most of us do it because we can’t NOT do it.

And of course I’m working on a new book right now. While I’m on tour for the current one. 😂

Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Mar 28

When you feel so happy and blessed to get work, but you're also kind of dying with time management and deadlines 😂😭

Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Mar 28

Sharing my list of events for the second quarter of the year 😊🌻✨

#komiket #freecomicbookday #7lakeskomiksfestival

Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Mar 21

Hoping to be more active here and post more of my artworks and works in progress. Do give me a follow if you'd like to see more of my stuff 😊🌻

Hansel is pitching✨🌻🍀 @justhanselart.bsky.social · Mar 21

First post here on Bluesky 🥳 Here's my first personal artwork for 2025, "Overflow" 🌊 #art #artist

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