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Michel Vrana
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Award-Winning Book designer • Comics publisher • Fuji photography enthusiast • He/him • http://linktr.ee/michelvrana
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I'm pumped to share the perfectly unsettling cover (designed by @michelvrana.com) for my novel THE PEACE THIEVES, out June 16, 2026 from @thistledownpress.bsky.social! Details and preorder info here: www.brentvans.com/books/the-pe... #canlit #fiction #novel
October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
I didn't know Mamdani's wife was a comics nerd! New York, you have to vote for him now because I need at least one person in comics to have good health insurance.
October 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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In my timeline I’m seeing that @rachelgilmore.bsky.social is getting death threats, and @karenattiah.bsky.social has been fired from the Washington Post, both for measured and reasonable writings about last week’s violence. Egregious and appalling.
September 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Happy Pub Day to THE EVIDENCE IS LIFE by Anne E. Pfister! Visit our website for more information on the book, including how you can get your copy: gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T/The-...

Cover design by @michelvrana.com ✨📚👌

#NewBook #ReadUP
Cover of The Evidence Is Life is centered with a thin black border. Cover description: Background of multicolored rectangles with contrasting uppercase text that makes up the title, subtitle, and author’s name. From top to bottom, the text of the title rezo students with short spiky hair and their backs to the camera. To the right of “Is Life” is an image of two students chatting in a courtyard. Below that on the left is a self-portrait of a student holding a camera in front of his face, where he is framed by a mirror with a brick wall in the background. To the right of the photo is the subtitle: DEAF PILGRIMAGES TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITY IN MEXICO CITY. Below the subtitle is the author’s name: ANNE E. PFISTER. In the background of the graphic are the same students who appear on the cover.
August 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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The radio was playing at my 85 yo Dad’s place earlier and his ears perked up and he said “I love this song!” He didn’t know the name or the artist. I pulled out Shazam since I didn’t recognize it either. Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan.
August 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Excited to share that ‘The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey: An East-West Memoir’, a work of narrative nonfiction set in the Middle East, will be released this September. Cover art by @michelvrana.com. Many thanks to Canada Council for the Arts + Ontario Arts Council for their support. bit.ly/4o84UdH
July 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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So sad to hear about Malcolm-Jamal Warner. Just this weekend was enjoying his performance in Sneaky Pete on Netflix. Gone too soon.
July 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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My now nineteen year old son drew me this Superman when he was five. It's one of my favourite pieces of art.
July 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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As I downsize for the next chapter of my life, my apartment is approaching an almost nostalgic level of minimalism. Mattress on the floor and folding card table for meals. Part time digital nomad life is in my sights.
July 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Nice! It looks like the Kanopy app now streams at least at 1080p on AppleTV. Makes the viewing experience so much more pleasant.
July 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Montreal, are you okay? Reddit is replete with posts about stolen/missing pad thai and somehow both the Concordia Library and Communauto are involved. Whaaa? www.reddit.com/r/montreal/
July 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Ah, Facebook marketplace, where you can have interactions where someone messages at 12:30pm to say they’ll know soon if they can make it before noon that same day but that it looks good.
June 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I can't be the only one who's thinking Liquid Glass is Aqua 25th Anniversary Edition...
June 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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A perfect start to Friday. Fantastic new album by Little Simz. Loving 'Lotus' so far. Find it on your favourite streaming service and give it a listen.
June 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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File under: I never thought it would be an issue until I tried. Adobe Illustrator has no trouble exporting a PDF with layers intact, but importing the same PDF reduces everything to one layer. Affinity Publisher roundtrips the file just fine.
June 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Good news: Japanese researchers may have found an explanation for long Covid and a possible treatment for it.
A Twitter post by CarolAnn Barrows @frogess33. "Japanese researchers have found a possible explanation for long COVID. They discovered that small fragments of the coronavirus's genetic material can remain deep behind the nose, in an area called the epipharynx, for at least six months after infection. These viral remnants irritate the immune system and may cause fatigue, coughing, dizziness, and "brain fog." The researchers used an old Japanese treatment called epipharyngeal abrasive therapy (EAT), where the area is swabbed once a week with a cotton swab dipped in 1% zinc chloride solution. After three months, the patients showed: - significantly fewer viral remnants - lower levels of inflammatory substances - noticeably reduced symptoms The treatment appears to both remove the lingering virus and calm the inflammation. A larger clinical trial is now underway in Japan to confirm the results. This discovery could lead to more targeted treatments that address the root cause of long COVID symptoms instead of merely managing them."
June 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Get! Off! Substack! I won't read your links! If they're on substack!
May 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Gaze upon these Sci Fi reissues from MIT Press with cover illustration and design by Seth:

mitpress.mit.edu/search-resul...
May 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Would love to know what’s happening in Lightroom on iPad: importing compressed Fuji raw files from a SD card reader and there are no previews, but those same files from the directly connected camera show previews. Is the camera doing something here?
May 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Love this cover! And kudos to @johnchu.bsky.social for crediting the illustrator and designer!
johnchu.bsky.social John Chu @johnchu.bsky.social · May 6
My novel, The Subtle Art of Folding Space, has a cover!
Read about repairing physics, unreasonable parental expectations, and great Taiwanese food! Out on April 7, 2026. Pre-order now: t.co/0nz8JuNhwf
Art credits: Jacket art by Weston Wei, Jacket Design by Katie Klimowicz.
Cover of The Subtle Art of Folding Space, coming April 7, 2026 Four sets of bamboo steamers going from the top of the cover to the bottom. The top one holds steamed bao. The contents of each steamer below it get progressively more surreal. One has bao with the universe as a filling. The next steamer below it has planets. The last steamer is filled with gear works. Two hands holding red chopsticks reach for the first and third steamer. The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics. Ellie's universe, and this one, is falling apart. Her ailing mother is in a coma; her sister, Chris, accuses her of being insufficiently Taiwanese between assassination attempts; and a shadowy cabal of engineers is trying to hijack the skunkworks, the machinery that keeps the physics of each universe working the way it's supposed to. Daniel, Ellie's cousin, has found an illicit device in the skunkworks-one that keeps Ellie's comatose mother alive while also creating destabilizing bugs in the physics of this universe. It's not a good day. If she can confront her mother's legacy and overcome her family's generational trauma, she just might find a way to preserve the skunkworks and reconcile with her sister...but digging into her family's past is thornier than it seems, and the secrets she uncovers will force Ellie to choose between her family and the universe itself.
May 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Anyone else experience preja-vu, that feeling that deja-vu is just about to occur?
May 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
Reminder: Please join MQUP and McGill Libraries TOMORROW for a panel discussion on The Art of Book Design.

📅 Tuesday May 6, 2025
🕓 16:00 to 18:00
🏢 McLennan Library Building, Rare Books, 4th floor, Colgate Room
📍 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal
➡️ buff.ly/GuGifEZ
May 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I don't doom scroll, but I follow so many interesting accounts on social media that time can slip away quickly while browsing... there's so much good stuff, but probably too much to process during any given session. Not sure what the solution is!
May 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Sad to hear about the passing of Jackson “Butch” Guice. One of my favourite comic book artists when I was a kiddo. Between him and Michael Golden, I’ll always have fond memories of The Micronauts. (I didn’t connect with Gil Kane at the time!)
Original inked black and white artwork by Butch Guice for The Micronauts #58 published by Marvel Comics.
May 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Thanks C.J. Looking forward to having a move leisurely read of the book once it’s printed!
cjlavigne.com C. J. Lavigne @cjlavigne.com · May 1
We have COVER ART!! So thrilled with this beautiful work by @michelvrana.com. THE DROWNED MAN'S DAUGHTER: a heartwarming tale with almost no cannibalism, coming from @newestpress.bsky.social in Sept. 2025. #booksky
Green eyes superimposed over a painted ocean background; a book cover with text reading, "The Drowned Man's Daughter: a novella." The author is C. J. Lavigne.
May 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM