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kip alizadeh
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Lambda Award finalist. Illustrator, author ✏️ they/she. rep Mandy Suhr at Storywise. 📍 Belfast
Portfolio → kipalizadeh.net ✍︎
Shop → shop.kipalizadeh.net
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kip alizadeh @kipalizadeh.net · Nov 18
COVER REVEAL TIME!!
Here is the cover for my next book, written by @joshfunkbooks.bsky.social 🦋
Out in the US in March '26 😊
Pre-order here
www.bloomsbury.com/us/a-celebra... or at your local bookshop in the US 😊
#KidLit #KidLitArt
The cover of A Celebration of You by Josh Funk and Kip Alizadeh showing a young girl and her white cat sitting in a tree looking in wonder at butterflies flying past them The cover of A Celebration of You by Josh Funk and Kip Alizadeh showing a young girl and her white cat sitting in a tree looking in wonder at butterflies flying past them
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ani-obsessive.bsky.social
Background paintings by Sylvia Liu for The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show (2015–2017), DreamWorks Animation Television
January 17, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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pauljholden.com
A deeply deeply underrated part of the comic creators working process is finding the time to be bored.
January 17, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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trungles.com
Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that. I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport. I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house. I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
kipalizadeh.net
feels like a gut punch tbh. A queer elder who should absolutely know better and probably thinks she’s being edgy when she’s just being stupid.
djolder.bsky.social Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 1d
I read an interview today where Alison Bechdel talked about using chatGPT for a panel of her recent comic -- she prompted it and copied the results -- and I still don't know what to do with that. It genuinely feels in moments like this like so many of our art elders are failing us.
rj-palmer.com RJ Palmer @rj-palmer.com · 1d
Catching up with what James Gurney, the Dinotopia artist, is up to these days. Pathetic.
January 16, 2026 at 1:48 PM
kipalizadeh.net
holo!!!
A photo of Kip’s hand holding a holographic sticker with their logo on it
January 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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joshgondelman.bsky.social
Solidarity with the people of Minnesota bravely standing up for their vulnerable neighbors against some of the stupidest fascism the world has ever seen.
January 15, 2026 at 6:12 AM
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victoriamaderna.com
Scanning glossy/textured surfaces: scan twice, the 2nd time rotating your paper 180º. Put the two scans as layers in PS, then Edit>Auto-Align Layers. Set top layer to Lighten for texture, Darken for glare, or Normal at 50% opacity.

More on this old blog post: pigswithcrayons.com/process/bits...
January 15, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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clarascintilla.bsky.social
River fauna ⭐️🐟
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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wardjenkins.bsky.social
From La Montagne (1966) - illustrated by Alain Grée.

#wardsmorguefile #moreartlessdoom
Nice bright, colorful illustration by Alain Grée of two young skiers going down a snowy hill.
January 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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jimmymakepeace.bsky.social
Hello #portfolioday

My name is Jimmy Makepeace and I'm an illustrator who likes fantasy and pulp!

I am available for freelance work this year, email in bio!
A barbarian stands surrounded by skeletons in an ancient throne room, lit in red. A knight with glowing eyes in 15th century armour and a pretty red cape. A knight on horseback with a lance and a sheild, covered in sun motifs, surrounded by a floral border A dragon swoops over a blasted landscape, on it's back an archer takes aim.
January 13, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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victoriamaderna.com
Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Victoria, an Argentinian illustrator living in France & I'm looking for new projects!

✉️ [email protected]
💻 victoriamaderna.com

Open for animal painting commissions too:
victoriamaderna.com/animal-paint...

Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...

#illustration #kidlitart
Painting of a boar in a sweater with a mushroom basket, holding and smelling a mushroom. Painting in gouache and watercolor by Victoria Maderna of Studio Ghibli's Kiki, flying on her broom with Jiji. Painting in gouache. A little witch holding an armadillo and a staff made of cardón wood. Her look and attire are inspired by the Colla people and their culture, and she stands in a landscape with features of the Puna region of South America. Digital painting by Victoria Maderna. Frog in a tutu with wings and a sparkling wand in a pond with waterlilies in the moonlight.
January 13, 2026 at 10:33 AM
kipalizadeh.net
🐱 👦 #KidLitArt
Watercolour illustration by Kip Alizadeh of a little boy with ginger hair bending down to pet a ginger and white cat, they both look content and happy
January 12, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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matiasbergara.bsky.social
At the mountains of madness.
By HP Lovecraft
January 9, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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smallwildshop.bsky.social
Hitting the site today at 1:00pm (pacific)

daniellepedersen.com
An assortment of handmade blue and white ceramic pendants with gold details.
January 11, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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debbieohi.com
How do YOU discover books to read? Have your reading habits changed in past year? Pls take a few minutes to answer this anon, multiple-choice informal survey:

reading-2026.paperform.co

I'll post results on my blog. One goal: to help book creators. Thank you! 🩷📚
#BookSky #EduSky #KidLit
A mug of tea casting a curved shadow on paper, with a drawing of a seated child reading a book positioned on the paper to make it look like the child is sitting on the shadow, leaning against the handle of the mug. Art by Debbie Ridpath Ohi.
January 11, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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shannonhale.bsky.social
Books don't tell readers who they personally are or who they are supposed to be. They do show readers a variety of characters. Implicit in that is this: "Here are some ways of being." Kids books aren't altering your kid to be someone new. They are simply showing them parts of humanity.
January 10, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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superaenbow.bsky.social
art of a little black and white kitty sitting in a big yellow chair in their living room and reading. it’s in a scribbly kid lit style.
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
kipalizadeh.net
a long run then a hot bath >>>
January 10, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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celestineandthehare.com
Mouse has been buying more wool from the Mouse Emporium, and now they are in their way home to cosy up and knit and drink tea for the rest of the day.
Living the dream, little Mouse, living the dream.
January 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
kipalizadeh.net
paint a cat with me !
music from classicals.de
#KidLitArt #watercolor
January 10, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
January 10, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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nyazsche.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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einegeniesserin.bsky.social
i think the reason transphobia is the gateway drug to many other evils is because it's still a halfway socially acceptable outlet for treating people with open contempt, and once you develop a muscle memory for that, you just start flexing it for its own sake
January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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trungles.com
Time to resume drawing Endora for my morale
A drawing of Endora from Bewitched—with her half-bob, half-bouffant hairdo, bright blue eye-shadow, and red lips, and wearing a lavender dress with a long green cape—casting a spell while her green cape billows dramatically behind her.
November 16, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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patnlewis.bsky.social
Any illustrators on here have a business card? Can I see it? I thought it might be nice to carry a sample of my work to hand to people I meet IRL but I am spending WAY too much time stressing about what it should look like.
January 9, 2026 at 2:53 PM