kotaline jones
@kotalinejones.bsky.social
cartoonist/illustrator/wants to meet your cat. assistant editor at ABRAMS ComicArts. she/they, opinions are my own. https://kotalinejones.com/
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kotaline jones
@kotalinejones.bsky.social
· Nov 15
A lot of you are here now, so quick reintroduction from me! I'm in editorial at Abrams ComicArts, I teach manga history at SVA, and I illustrate and draw comics in whatever free time is left over. I love medieval history, chatting about comics, fire emblem, and cats in no particular order. ✌️✨
If you want me to do some deep cut combo recommendations from our 15+ year backlist too, I’m game, but you all have to give me a descriptive word to go off of. ✌️
It's buy one get one 40% off for ALL our graphic novels from @abramscomicarts.bsky.social today! I'm going to list some of my favorite gift pick combos from this season—we make some great books! www.abramsbooks.com/imprints/abr...
Abrams ComicArts | ABRAMS
Abrams ComicArts
www.abramsbooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If you want me to do some deep cut combo recommendations from our 15+ year backlist too, I’m game, but you all have to give me a descriptive word to go off of. ✌️
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Check out this full look at The Essential Peanuts from @collectpeanuts.bsky.social
#Peanuts #Snoopy #Unboxing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F07s...
#Peanuts #Snoopy #Unboxing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F07s...
First Look! The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz - 75th Anniversary Book
YouTube video by CollectPeanuts.com
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Check out this full look at The Essential Peanuts from @collectpeanuts.bsky.social
#Peanuts #Snoopy #Unboxing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F07s...
#Peanuts #Snoopy #Unboxing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F07s...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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🛍️Black Friday is finally here!!
On abramsbooks.com you can grab 40% off of your order of 2 books or more!
Promo Code: BFCM2025
🏃♂️💨Run and grab your favorite Kana and Abrams ComicArts books at 40% off TODAY!
#BlackFriday #ComicArts #Sale #Manga #GraphicNovels #Books #Fantasy #GiftGuide
On abramsbooks.com you can grab 40% off of your order of 2 books or more!
Promo Code: BFCM2025
🏃♂️💨Run and grab your favorite Kana and Abrams ComicArts books at 40% off TODAY!
#BlackFriday #ComicArts #Sale #Manga #GraphicNovels #Books #Fantasy #GiftGuide
ABRAMS | The Art of Books Since 1949
ABRAMS | The Art of Books Since 1949
Abramsbooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🛍️Black Friday is finally here!!
On abramsbooks.com you can grab 40% off of your order of 2 books or more!
Promo Code: BFCM2025
🏃♂️💨Run and grab your favorite Kana and Abrams ComicArts books at 40% off TODAY!
#BlackFriday #ComicArts #Sale #Manga #GraphicNovels #Books #Fantasy #GiftGuide
On abramsbooks.com you can grab 40% off of your order of 2 books or more!
Promo Code: BFCM2025
🏃♂️💨Run and grab your favorite Kana and Abrams ComicArts books at 40% off TODAY!
#BlackFriday #ComicArts #Sale #Manga #GraphicNovels #Books #Fantasy #GiftGuide
It's buy one get one 40% off for ALL our graphic novels from @abramscomicarts.bsky.social today! I'm going to list some of my favorite gift pick combos from this season—we make some great books! www.abramsbooks.com/imprints/abr...
Abrams ComicArts | ABRAMS
Abrams ComicArts
www.abramsbooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's buy one get one 40% off for ALL our graphic novels from @abramscomicarts.bsky.social today! I'm going to list some of my favorite gift pick combos from this season—we make some great books! www.abramsbooks.com/imprints/abr...
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Heart-shaped Box of Memories: A "Princess Ai" Retrospective - Megan D explores the origins of Princess Ai, its cynical merchandising and multimedia plans, and its whimper of an exit from the market in a biting essay.
#manga #princessai
#manga #princessai
Heart-shaped Box of Memories: A Princess Ai Retrospective
What began as one of Tokyopop’s first forays into original English language content became a fandom-wide joke thanks to the company’s increasingly desperate attempts to make it a multi-media success. Twenty years have passed since its debut, so it’s time to face the music and trace its rise and fall from grace.
www.animeherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Heart-shaped Box of Memories: A "Princess Ai" Retrospective - Megan D explores the origins of Princess Ai, its cynical merchandising and multimedia plans, and its whimper of an exit from the market in a biting essay.
#manga #princessai
#manga #princessai
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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
If you see this, post an anime you love
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you see this, post an anime you love
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Just re-read this to procrastinate a little today and god is this comic so funny. The character relationships are incredibly nuanced and Cam is a comics genius! Please read Flying Saucer Video.
🛸Flying Saucer Video!!!🛸
Updates here and at flyingsaucervideo.com ✨
the tragic tale of 2019s best video rental store…
Updates here and at flyingsaucervideo.com ✨
the tragic tale of 2019s best video rental store…
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Just re-read this to procrastinate a little today and god is this comic so funny. The character relationships are incredibly nuanced and Cam is a comics genius! Please read Flying Saucer Video.
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We can start with this
Where do you physically/literally read the comics that you read?
-do you read the New York Daily News comics section on the number 6 train?
-do you have a stack of Deadpool comics in a rack next to your toilet?
-do you read graphic novels in an EZ chair?
Who ARE you?
Where do you physically/literally read the comics that you read?
-do you read the New York Daily News comics section on the number 6 train?
-do you have a stack of Deadpool comics in a rack next to your toilet?
-do you read graphic novels in an EZ chair?
Who ARE you?
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We can start with this
Where do you physically/literally read the comics that you read?
-do you read the New York Daily News comics section on the number 6 train?
-do you have a stack of Deadpool comics in a rack next to your toilet?
-do you read graphic novels in an EZ chair?
Who ARE you?
Where do you physically/literally read the comics that you read?
-do you read the New York Daily News comics section on the number 6 train?
-do you have a stack of Deadpool comics in a rack next to your toilet?
-do you read graphic novels in an EZ chair?
Who ARE you?
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im going to stop posting about comics now bc this is the first week off i've taken from work this year that hasn't been bc a relative died and i had to go to a funeral but anyway the point is that you should all read the comics we make so we can make more comics: www.abramsbooks.com/imprints/abr...
Abrams ComicArts | ABRAMS
Abrams ComicArts
www.abramsbooks.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
im going to stop posting about comics now bc this is the first week off i've taken from work this year that hasn't been bc a relative died and i had to go to a funeral but anyway the point is that you should all read the comics we make so we can make more comics: www.abramsbooks.com/imprints/abr...
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Chainsaw Man is simultaneously worthy of serious discussion for its heartfelt look at society and cycles of abuse and dehumanization, and it's also like, a fantastic nonstop barrage of shitposts
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Chainsaw Man is simultaneously worthy of serious discussion for its heartfelt look at society and cycles of abuse and dehumanization, and it's also like, a fantastic nonstop barrage of shitposts
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everybody is always asking me “Darryl Ayo, how do you save the comic book industry?!”
You know what? One leg at a time
You know what? One leg at a time
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
everybody is always asking me “Darryl Ayo, how do you save the comic book industry?!”
You know what? One leg at a time
You know what? One leg at a time
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the new shortbox comic from @bensears.bsky.social is getting a riso-printed physical edition, check it out and then pick it up:
Ben Sears does a biff bam pow with Young Shadow: Tunnel Vision
The cartoonist explores the expanses of hero comics.
doomrocket.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the new shortbox comic from @bensears.bsky.social is getting a riso-printed physical edition, check it out and then pick it up:
i've been doing a lot of graphic novel posting and reader enthusiasm isn't the magic bullet that's gonna fix comics but (MY VIEWS AND OPINIONS ARE MY OWN) it actually wouldn't take that many readers actively buying and talking about graphic novels to shift the adult graphic novel industry.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
i've been doing a lot of graphic novel posting and reader enthusiasm isn't the magic bullet that's gonna fix comics but (MY VIEWS AND OPINIONS ARE MY OWN) it actually wouldn't take that many readers actively buying and talking about graphic novels to shift the adult graphic novel industry.
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Love is the answer and unfortunately that's super fucking gay
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Love is the answer and unfortunately that's super fucking gay
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Sometimes you’re just from when you’re from.
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sometimes you’re just from when you’re from.
A lot of indie bookstores will buy 1–3 copies of a book, especially graphic novels as a test to see how they sell. If they sell even 1–3 copies, it opens the door not just for a reorder of that book, but for more books in that format in general.
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A lot of indie bookstores will buy 1–3 copies of a book, especially graphic novels as a test to see how they sell. If they sell even 1–3 copies, it opens the door not just for a reorder of that book, but for more books in that format in general.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
went to kinokuniya and came back home absolutely twisted with a load of books
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
went to kinokuniya and came back home absolutely twisted with a load of books
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Did YOU know that I'm posting all of Real Hero Shit #1 on my Patreon as a weekly webcomic?? It's TRUE! All paid subscribers get to read along with me providing insightful/dumb commentary page by page. This week's update features my fave drawing of Eugene in the book. www.patreon.com/posts/real-h...
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Did YOU know that I'm posting all of Real Hero Shit #1 on my Patreon as a weekly webcomic?? It's TRUE! All paid subscribers get to read along with me providing insightful/dumb commentary page by page. This week's update features my fave drawing of Eugene in the book. www.patreon.com/posts/real-h...
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Taking this opportunity to say again that Motherlover by Lindsay Ishihiro is one of my favorite books of all time! It's about two mothers falling in love with each other and learning to build a family together and it captures the energy of my life in a way I've seen no other book do
For graphic novels, especially adult genre fiction, it's incredibly helpful to review it online, talk about it, recommend it to a friend—adult fiction in the graphic novel space is difficult to place, and nothing convinces readers that they'll like a book more than the personal testimonial.
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Taking this opportunity to say again that Motherlover by Lindsay Ishihiro is one of my favorite books of all time! It's about two mothers falling in love with each other and learning to build a family together and it captures the energy of my life in a way I've seen no other book do
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Latest Episode: Comics legend Mark Evanier stops by to discuss his work on the amazing new book The Essential Peanuts. We discuss Mark’s life in comics including his relationships with icons like Jack Kirby, Jim Davis, and of course, Charles Schulz. pod.link/upackingpeanuts
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Latest Episode: Comics legend Mark Evanier stops by to discuss his work on the amazing new book The Essential Peanuts. We discuss Mark’s life in comics including his relationships with icons like Jack Kirby, Jim Davis, and of course, Charles Schulz. pod.link/upackingpeanuts
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