Yuko Shimizu
@yukoart.bsky.social
NY based Japanese illustrator. I did NOT create Hello Kitty. Yukoart.com
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I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.
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A little Solitude for the Soul, ahead of Holiday hang outs. Take some time FOR YOU--it's #MinillaMonday!
(Exquisitely rendered Minilla by the talented @yukoart.bsky.social )
(Exquisitely rendered Minilla by the talented @yukoart.bsky.social )
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A little Solitude for the Soul, ahead of Holiday hang outs. Take some time FOR YOU--it's #MinillaMonday!
(Exquisitely rendered Minilla by the talented @yukoart.bsky.social )
(Exquisitely rendered Minilla by the talented @yukoart.bsky.social )
My former air force personal trainer confessed to me that he loves K Pop Demon Hunters so much he watched it three times already and thinking of getting a part of a song tattooed on him is the most wholesome thing I’ve heard all week.
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My former air force personal trainer confessed to me that he loves K Pop Demon Hunters so much he watched it three times already and thinking of getting a part of a song tattooed on him is the most wholesome thing I’ve heard all week.
I woke up in the middle of the night feeling I’m making such bad work to disappoint everyone, they hate my work.
I’m usually pretty stable but when days get shorter it always gets me.
Just be open about it, and also letting you know if winter blues affects you, it’s ok, you or I are not alone. 🙏❤️🩹
I’m usually pretty stable but when days get shorter it always gets me.
Just be open about it, and also letting you know if winter blues affects you, it’s ok, you or I are not alone. 🙏❤️🩹
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I woke up in the middle of the night feeling I’m making such bad work to disappoint everyone, they hate my work.
I’m usually pretty stable but when days get shorter it always gets me.
Just be open about it, and also letting you know if winter blues affects you, it’s ok, you or I are not alone. 🙏❤️🩹
I’m usually pretty stable but when days get shorter it always gets me.
Just be open about it, and also letting you know if winter blues affects you, it’s ok, you or I are not alone. 🙏❤️🩹
Social-media-sphere slop thinks I made Hello Kitty.
Scam-call-sphere put me on a truck driver list.
Either way I can’t win, bombarded with truck insurance calls/texts, asking for autograph or help on making their incredible character design the next Kitty.
My phone’s is silent. Don’t look for me.
Scam-call-sphere put me on a truck driver list.
Either way I can’t win, bombarded with truck insurance calls/texts, asking for autograph or help on making their incredible character design the next Kitty.
My phone’s is silent. Don’t look for me.
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Social-media-sphere slop thinks I made Hello Kitty.
Scam-call-sphere put me on a truck driver list.
Either way I can’t win, bombarded with truck insurance calls/texts, asking for autograph or help on making their incredible character design the next Kitty.
My phone’s is silent. Don’t look for me.
Scam-call-sphere put me on a truck driver list.
Either way I can’t win, bombarded with truck insurance calls/texts, asking for autograph or help on making their incredible character design the next Kitty.
My phone’s is silent. Don’t look for me.
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AI43 Winner @yukoart.bsky.social
Cincinnati Opera has created Madame Butterfly from the 21st century point of view with all Asian creators and cast taking back the narrative from the Western gaze and exoticism toward Asian culture and people.
#madamebutterfly
#yukoshimizu
Cincinnati Opera has created Madame Butterfly from the 21st century point of view with all Asian creators and cast taking back the narrative from the Western gaze and exoticism toward Asian culture and people.
#madamebutterfly
#yukoshimizu
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
AI43 Winner @yukoart.bsky.social
Cincinnati Opera has created Madame Butterfly from the 21st century point of view with all Asian creators and cast taking back the narrative from the Western gaze and exoticism toward Asian culture and people.
#madamebutterfly
#yukoshimizu
Cincinnati Opera has created Madame Butterfly from the 21st century point of view with all Asian creators and cast taking back the narrative from the Western gaze and exoticism toward Asian culture and people.
#madamebutterfly
#yukoshimizu
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American Illustration 43 Winner YUKO SHIMIZU @yukoart.bsky.social
Newly re-released collection of Japanese classic ghost stories written by Lafcadio Hearn in the 19th Century.
#AmericanIllustration
#artwork #illustration #illustrator #lafcadiohearn #yukoshimizu
Newly re-released collection of Japanese classic ghost stories written by Lafcadio Hearn in the 19th Century.
#AmericanIllustration
#artwork #illustration #illustrator #lafcadiohearn #yukoshimizu
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
American Illustration 43 Winner YUKO SHIMIZU @yukoart.bsky.social
Newly re-released collection of Japanese classic ghost stories written by Lafcadio Hearn in the 19th Century.
#AmericanIllustration
#artwork #illustration #illustrator #lafcadiohearn #yukoshimizu
Newly re-released collection of Japanese classic ghost stories written by Lafcadio Hearn in the 19th Century.
#AmericanIllustration
#artwork #illustration #illustrator #lafcadiohearn #yukoshimizu
I don’t usually wear a mask, but I think I got something while teaching on Monday. I can’t stop coughing.
I’m doing this for you, not for myself.
I’m doing this for you, not for myself.
November 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I don’t usually wear a mask, but I think I got something while teaching on Monday. I can’t stop coughing.
I’m doing this for you, not for myself.
I’m doing this for you, not for myself.
Hey, I’m getting insane number of spam calls since yesterday afternoon. Are any of you experiencing the same!?
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hey, I’m getting insane number of spam calls since yesterday afternoon. Are any of you experiencing the same!?
Made appointments for my cataract surgeries.
January. Hope to finally see well.
Wish me luck
January. Hope to finally see well.
Wish me luck
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Made appointments for my cataract surgeries.
January. Hope to finally see well.
Wish me luck
January. Hope to finally see well.
Wish me luck
Time is running out. Fund Mattotti’s Gulliver on Kickstarter before it comes to an end!! @beehivebooks.bsky.social have been pushing the envelope for innovative and fresh take on traditional illustrated books.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bee...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bee...
The Illuminated GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Mattotti and Swift
The rollicking adventure and piercing satire reinvented as a vivid art book, with drawings from Mattotti & an intro from Patton Oswalt.
www.kickstarter.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Time is running out. Fund Mattotti’s Gulliver on Kickstarter before it comes to an end!! @beehivebooks.bsky.social have been pushing the envelope for innovative and fresh take on traditional illustrated books.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bee...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bee...
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If workers unionizing together didn’t work, CEOs wouldn’t be hiring entire firms to stop them.
Unions shift power, and corporate America hates that. Let’s keep up the momentum and give them more to hate.
Unions shift power, and corporate America hates that. Let’s keep up the momentum and give them more to hate.
November 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If workers unionizing together didn’t work, CEOs wouldn’t be hiring entire firms to stop them.
Unions shift power, and corporate America hates that. Let’s keep up the momentum and give them more to hate.
Unions shift power, and corporate America hates that. Let’s keep up the momentum and give them more to hate.
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
Also, I don’t have a Twitter account. There seem to be scammers pretending as me, but there is nothing I can do, just please be careful.
Also get off X. It’s a cesspool. You shouldn’t be on there it’s 2025.
Also get off X. It’s a cesspool. You shouldn’t be on there it’s 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Also, I don’t have a Twitter account. There seem to be scammers pretending as me, but there is nothing I can do, just please be careful.
Also get off X. It’s a cesspool. You shouldn’t be on there it’s 2025.
Also get off X. It’s a cesspool. You shouldn’t be on there it’s 2025.
Internet, please stop. Do your research.
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Internet, please stop. Do your research.
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Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"
Rest in peace, Tatsuya Nakadai
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Rest in peace, Tatsuya Nakadai
It’s snowingggg!!
Too early for this!
Too early for this!
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It’s snowingggg!!
Too early for this!
Too early for this!
On AmTrak. The dude next to me opened up his laptop with an iPad and Apple Pencil. So, I’m like, oh, a fellow creative!
I count have been more wrong! He’s watching sped up crazy math video while jotting down some mysterious math equations on his iPad.
😅😅😅
I count have been more wrong! He’s watching sped up crazy math video while jotting down some mysterious math equations on his iPad.
😅😅😅
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
On AmTrak. The dude next to me opened up his laptop with an iPad and Apple Pencil. So, I’m like, oh, a fellow creative!
I count have been more wrong! He’s watching sped up crazy math video while jotting down some mysterious math equations on his iPad.
😅😅😅
I count have been more wrong! He’s watching sped up crazy math video while jotting down some mysterious math equations on his iPad.
😅😅😅
I’m in a random hotel lobby working. Airdropping a photo of my sketch to my laptop, I see a random laptop near me open for anyone to airdrop. I have a strong urge to send random pic (which i’m not dojng of course.
Don’t have airdrop open in random places, people.
Thank me I’m not a pervert. lol
Don’t have airdrop open in random places, people.
Thank me I’m not a pervert. lol
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I’m in a random hotel lobby working. Airdropping a photo of my sketch to my laptop, I see a random laptop near me open for anyone to airdrop. I have a strong urge to send random pic (which i’m not dojng of course.
Don’t have airdrop open in random places, people.
Thank me I’m not a pervert. lol
Don’t have airdrop open in random places, people.
Thank me I’m not a pervert. lol
I woke up feeling hopefull for the first time in a year.
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I woke up feeling hopefull for the first time in a year.
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Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now
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The Boston Globe-Horn Book awards ceremony is on Thursday, and it sent me in search of some of the winning books that I haven't read yet! @thehornbook.bsky.social @clarionbooks.bsky.social @yukoart.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/04/b...
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
An email alerting me to the upcoming Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards ceremony coming up this Thursday, November 6, sent me on a search for some of the books that I hadn’t read yet. You can see …
kidsbookaday.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Boston Globe-Horn Book awards ceremony is on Thursday, and it sent me in search of some of the winning books that I haven't read yet! @thehornbook.bsky.social @clarionbooks.bsky.social @yukoart.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/04/b...
Anyone who is on B-1 visas in the USA. Here is a resource you may want to check out. Japanese embassy sent it to all the Japanese residents in the USA, and they said it is only published in US embassy of Korea at the moment.
kr.usembassy.gov/b1-visas-and...
kr.usembassy.gov/b1-visas-and...
B1 Visas and Allowable Uses Fact Sheet
kr.usembassy.gov
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Anyone who is on B-1 visas in the USA. Here is a resource you may want to check out. Japanese embassy sent it to all the Japanese residents in the USA, and they said it is only published in US embassy of Korea at the moment.
kr.usembassy.gov/b1-visas-and...
kr.usembassy.gov/b1-visas-and...
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"Red Book takes things international by focusing on extraterrestrial stories from Russia and China."--@fangoria.bsky.social features @jamesthefourth.bsky.social and @oeming.bsky.social's series in a roundup of 2025 horror to read this fall: https://bit.ly/4pAnOut
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October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Red Book takes things international by focusing on extraterrestrial stories from Russia and China."--@fangoria.bsky.social features @jamesthefourth.bsky.social and @oeming.bsky.social's series in a roundup of 2025 horror to read this fall: https://bit.ly/4pAnOut
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Variant: @yukoart.bsky.social