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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 8d

Ahhh! Thank you Elaine! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I can’t wait to share Book 2 and continue the adventure. (I’m working on Book 2 right now…)

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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 8d

Folk Remedy arrived!! I meant to just do a quick flip through, but accidentally read through the whole thing and AHHH BOOK 2 WHEN??
It was so cute, everyone was so expressive, the whole book design & colors @jemyoshioka.bsky.social you did a fantastic job!

Everyone, go pick it up!! #comics

The cover of Folk Remedy by Jem Yoshioka

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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 12d

HEY Happy National Comic Book day!!!! Ya'll should check out Dani & Bree's comic, their awesome recs, and if I might add a few more, you gotta check out @alakotila.bsky.social @kaijubean.bsky.social @bob-artist.bsky.social @jemyoshioka.bsky.social and @kodyisover.com if you haven't yet!!

Dani Carr @itsdanicarr.bsky.social · 13d

Apparently it’s National Comic Book Day! Go support your Friendly Local Comic Shop & if you’re interested in webcomics, check out Sable: A Ghost Story by @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social or Side-Quested by @alepresser.com or even The Witch Wolf by myself and @larkspurns.bsky.social! (thewitchwolf.org)!

The Witch Wolf

A webcomic about love and magic - and the complications of both. Updates every full moon. By Dani...

thewitchwolf.org

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 8d

At the moment two books are confirmed, which tell a full story.

I definitely have more stories I’d like to tell with these characters and this world, but nothing is confirmed yet!

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 15d

🍂AUTUMN EQUINOX🙏

Today is Shūbun-no-hi (秋分の日 'Autumn Equinox Day’)📿
Typically falling on September 22nd or 23rd, this time of year coincides with the Buddhist observances 'Shūki Higan-e' (秋季彼岸会 'Autumn Equinoctial Services'). It has been a national holiday since 1948.

#autumn #Kyoto #秋分の日

A moment to enjoy the autumn colours in the tea room.

A statue of Jizo holding a baby watches over the cemetery at Taizo-in.

Higanbana, red spider lilies, bloom at this time of year, and are deeply associated with the dead.

Konkaikomyo-ji's cemetery is one of the city's largest...filled with thousands of gravestones, stupas and Buddhist statues.

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 14d

I’m honoured!

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Chantalle Smith @chaneyz85.bsky.social · 14d

Oh, I just remembered that I needed to add the sticker that @jemyoshioka.bsky.social gave me when we passed on the street the other day to my work laptop!

It’s now in good company ❤️

The top of an HP laptop. There are 4 stickers showing. A Public Service Association one that says Stand Togethet. Below that is Jem’s sticker with characters from her recent graphic novel. Beside tjese are 2 photos of a boy. The top photo has him buried in sand up to his armpits, he is giving 2 thumbs up to the camera. The second photo is the same boy cuddled with his legs up into a oodie decorated with Grogu, and he is sitting on a bed

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 14d

It’s up for sale at all the places. If you know someone who loves adventure stories, strong-willed heroines, folk tales and mysteries, then Folk Remedy might be the story for them!

publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/folk-re...

Folk Remedy: Book 1 - Andrews McMeel Publishing

The world is changing…can you keep up? Meet Maple, apprentice apothecary who unearths a lost yokai with questionable motives and a penchant for mischief. Fans of Netflix's ONI: Thundergod's Tale and...

publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 14d

Happy Book Birthday to Folk Remedy! I’m so happy to see this story’s made its way onto bookshelves and into people’s homes!

It’s been a long journey, but we made it! Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered, bought, read, reviewed, or requested it from your library. It all means so much!

A photo of folk remedy on a wooden table

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Rachel Smythe @rachelsmythe.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations to the team that worked on the Knights of Guinevere. The pilot is amazing <3

knights of guinevere fanart. Guinevere is at the top, with a sad city below.

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 20d

Sign me up! (And I did, I signed up.)

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suspu @suspu.bsky.social · 22d

New comic drop on Patreon:D It's a for fun project I'm drawing on a sketchbook, very fast and loose and silly.

The Tattletale Fool is a fantasy comedy about an elf sent on a mission into the very heart of a human kingdom!

www.patreon.com/posts/139026... 8 pages up on Patreon for 2+ members!

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 21d

FYI relay dinner is real and I’m pretty sure I did invent it. (If you did I’m sorry for claiming it, but also let’s be friends because we obviously both have excellent ideas.)

Too difficult to get all the food on the plate at same time? Don’t! ✨Relay dinner✨

Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 21d

Regular meal advice: Do meal prep so you have easy meals to hand when you’re low on energy!

ADHD meal advice: So I invented this thing I call “relay dinner” where instead of cooking a whole meal at once I prepare and eat the components of a balanced meal one after another. Dunno why but it works.

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 21d

Regular meal advice: Do meal prep so you have easy meals to hand when you’re low on energy!

ADHD meal advice: So I invented this thing I call “relay dinner” where instead of cooking a whole meal at once I prepare and eat the components of a balanced meal one after another. Dunno why but it works.

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · Jul 30

Folk Remedy Book 1 releases on September 23!

You can pre-order right now!

An image with the cover of Folk Remedy Book 1. Releasing on 23 September! Pre-order now!

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 27d

That was how I felt this morning!

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 28d

That’s SO MANY PAGES!

(I say as I sit down to Book 2, another 240+ pages….)

Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 28d

C1! That’s fun!

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 28d

Illustrating a 240-page graphic novel means I have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to character expressions.

Which character matches your mood today? I’m feeling like C3. ✨☺️✨

All the expressions are from Folk Remedy Book 1, which releases September 23!

A mood chart of character expressions with 3 rows labelled ABC and six columns numbered 1-6. The expressions are of cartoon faces with a range of emotions.

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 28d

Mood. Hope it’s nearly over for you!

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 28d

Get some sleep. (Do as I say not as I do)

Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 28d

Fair! This is me most days.

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 28d

Find a pre-order link for your country here: site.andrewsmcmeel.com/folk-remedy-...

Folk Remedy Links

Pre-order your copy of Folk Remedy by Jem Yoshioka today!

site.andrewsmcmeel.com

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 28d

Illustrating a 240-page graphic novel means I have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to character expressions.

Which character matches your mood today? I’m feeling like C3. ✨☺️✨

All the expressions are from Folk Remedy Book 1, which releases September 23!

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