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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder
@nilahmagruder.com
she/her. aka n. romaine white. making books and animated shows. master gardener.

OUT NOW: Creaky Acres.
UP NEXT: Hex and Havoc, Reel Love.

Work and stuff: nilahmagruder.carrd.co
Was looking over editorial notes on my in-progress middle-grade GN about fishing and ended up just reading it. It's my big baby ace story that is also full of yearning, which is my preferred narrative weapon of choice.

And also worms.
January 16, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Hi I worked on THREE 57th NAACP Image Award nominees. Yes, that's how busy I am. Congrats to my crew mates on Ariel and Weather Hunters, and congrats to my partner in horse crimes @calistabrill.bsky.social!
January 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Welp, don't like that!
January 14, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Hi #PortfolioDay, I'm Nilah and I'm available for children's book #kidlitart illustration. Picture books, chapter books, middle-grade and YA!

Animation studios, I'm also happy to chat about storyboard revisionist and writing opportunities. 👀

contact: [email protected]
nilahmagruder.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:16 PM
This is such a small thing in the face of everything else going on...

but the 57th NAACP Image Awards nominations were announced today and they left off the illustrators of four out of the five graphic novel nominees.

I remain dissatisfied with how comic artists are treated.
January 12, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Literally any.
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Ohhhhhh.

They might actually be punishing me bcuz I'm a new account and I haven't posted anything yet.
January 6, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Yes IG I think you're a mistake
January 6, 2026 at 3:26 AM
...... *looks at camera*
January 1, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Oh bless, I thought I lost the photographer's name after so long. His name is Jamie Pham. This photo is a classic meme now and gets shared everywhere but without credit. A real live photographer took this photo. He was at the zoo when I visited so I got to meet him too!
jampham.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:58 AM
What was your biggest impact on the internet?

LA Zoo invited me after hours to meet their gorillas for this one.
January 1, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Stories like this are an engagement farmer’s dream bcuz there’s no source and no way of verifying whether it’s real. No definitive Google results except accounts sharing the same story verbatim across LinkedIn, Facebook, and now Bluesky, all copy-pasting with no indication of origin.
December 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
12-year-old Nilah thought there'd be way more drawings of talking animals in her future

then Sailormoon happened
December 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The only way I'm getting done my next graphic novel on a part-time schedule (cuz I have a day job) is if I spend an average of 30 minutes per page. 1-2 hours on the sakuga pages.

(these were 45 minutes and 30 minutes)
December 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
okay I finished a page
December 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
In a certain light, it's a little funny that Toonboom sent a notification of price increase and then sent an apology email saying, "Sorry, we sent that previous price increase by mistake. We actually meant to charge more."
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Fun fact, indie booksellers are always happy to order books, even if they don't have them in stock, for you to pick up in-store or have shipped. Heck, you can even ask faraway indie bookstores to ship a book, or you can purchase through bookshop.org and support indies across the US and the UK!
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Here’s Adobe’s AI tool suggesting I not read my own novelette bcuz it’s too long. The central purpose of many of these gimmicky AI tools is saving users time, which doesn’t get at the actual problem: that we’re so crushed by the weight of capitalism that we lack time for meaningful pursuits.
October 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Me writing characters that readers don't like
October 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Drawing comics is so funny. I just happened to glance at this panel and realize I did not draw Dizzy's neck. Got literally everything except the neck.

Anyway buy Creaky Acres, now with 2% less neck!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558467...
August 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Hey #GenCon2025, I’ll be joining the Good Morning Gen Con show bright and early Saturday at 9 am! You can find us at the Streaming Stage or YouTube at Catalyst Game Labs.

www.youtube.com/@catalyst-ga...
August 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
On my way to #GenCon2025! Packing at the last minute, per my usual. Here's where you can find me. See you there!

www.gencon.com/gen-con-indy...
July 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I normally don't do character redesigns but Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School has been living rent-free in my head for thirty years and I finally decided to do something about it. #illustration #characterdesign
July 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Look at this bumblebee sleeping on a coneflower.
June 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Decided to take a career quiz and this is honestly peak comedy.
June 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM