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Martina Stuhlberger @lamartinaart.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Hi #kidlitartpostcard ☀️ Greetings from Bologna to the kidlit community! I’m Martina, an Austrian illustrator with a passion for everything artsy, cultures, festivities and lush nature scenes. I‘d love to hear from you :) rep‘d by Anne Moore Armstrong at the Bright Agency martinastuhlberger.com

The picture shows a diverse range of children inside a bold and interactive museum. There are colorful, creative installations to touch and play with.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I have almost forgotten how to do this - #kidlitartpostcard, anyone? Wheeeee! I am Gila, author-illustrator from Germany. Quirky, cute, fairly commercial, currently querying a new dummy. Send chocolate! www.gila.be

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Back from vacation, have escaped my creative slump, now querying my (oh my gawd, so many😍) #PBParty requests... I guess I am back? :)

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Oooooh, my copies made it to Germany! Oy, Santa, written by Joyce Schriebman - terrific unique take on explaining why Hanukkah is not "the Jewish Xmas." Includes Mrs Claus in a bikini. And cats. Many cats.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

Not doing much social media these days. But... added to my real-life social life. Meet Mokka.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Happy #kidlitartpostcard! I am Gila, illustrator from Germany. I love drawing critters, foliage, and whacky funny stories. www.gila.be

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Getting my business cards (and dummies! and postcards!) ready for #bcbf24 - and #kidlitartpostcard. :) www.gila.be for more work.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Happy #KidlitArtPostcard day! I am Gila, author-illustrator from North Germany. I love getting lost in funny details, cute critters, and wild foliage. Available for picture and chapter books. www.gila.be #unagented #amquerying #kidlitpostcard #kidlitart

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

So where is everyone moving? My choices were always Germany, Netherlands, USA, Israel. Not in that order. I am f* everywhere. So GO - give me tolerant, liberal countries without extreme weather disasters.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Happy #Portfolioday to all who celebrate. :) I am Gila, kidlit illustrator from Germany. I like experimenting with media, as long as the end result is my kind of cute. Extra points if I get to draw cats. www.gila.be

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Kent Culotta @kentculotta.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Wow, it's the first #KidLitArtPostcard day for 2024! I'm Kent Culotta, an author/illustrator currently seeking representation, (hint, hint!) Check out my latest book Tow Truck 1,2,3. Written by Eric Ode and published by Kane Miller.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Let's start the year with a BANG! #kidlitartpostcard I am Gila, author-illustrator from Germany. I love critters, foliage, and hiding my cat in all books. #unagented, so agents, editors, art directors... get in touch! www.gila.be

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Saritza Hernández @litagentsaritza.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

SAVE THE DATE: I plan to re-open to queries in select categories starting January 8, 2024. Please note that I am not acquiring YA at this time. You can find what I'm looking for here: www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/sa...

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Bye, little clown. You were a good boi.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Jan 1, 4am, fat woman pushing stroller with paralyzed dog through village. Cars must have thought I am crazy. Cat broke down cat flap to escape. Nothing yet, will repeat search. Tuesday, I most likely have to let dog go. Happy fucking 2024.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Nephew (5) loves loves loves my xmas book this year. SIL isn't allowed to read anything else. 3rd time I made him one - my fav tradition. I might rewrite and redraw them for sub eventually... maybe.... #kidlit #kidlitart

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

I think every art director needs a Frameo app digital frame, and publish their code - then we can send them kidlit art to their desk! @brianlarossa.com (Setting up my mom's xmas present right now.)

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

2023. Went to Bologna & Israel. Illustrated one US trad book. Illustrated a lot of commercial things. Book, board game, activity book. Starting trad title this week, plus 1-2 commercial PB due in spring. And my agent quit. So basically, 2023 was me querying. #artvsartist2023 #kidlitart

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

My fav hobby is buying courses and never watching them. Off to at least start on Procreate Dreams.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

#kidlitartpostcard time! I am Gila, illustrator (and sometimes author) from Germany. Hit me up for anything pb or chapter book. :) #newlyunagented #kidlit

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

I am freeeeeeee. Managed to unstuck my frozen front door. Still no running water.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Last final art revisions today, just added a squirrel. Then finishing my nephew's xmas book. Still stuck inside, door still frozen. Dog has learned that he gets treats if I lift him back inside, instead of climbing out the window.

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

It's December! Which means... this month's #KidLitArtPostcard is this Thursday 7 Dec! Look forward to seeing everyone's postcards! Pls share this to remind your pals too! #kidlit #kidlitart

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

My front door is frozen shut. Two hours of heater didn't help. I don't care. My dog does. So I lift him out of the high window, then plan to lift him up again with bag. He does not understand. So yes, fat me with wonky knees just climbed out of a darn high and narrow window. And back.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Sudden winter with -13 C/ 8.5 F. Pipes froze. Heating down. I am hunkering down with heating blanket, duvets, and electric heater. #tinyhouserealities

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Knee-deep in final art... see you next week!

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 27/10/2023

I’d like to gift a FREE, one hour, portfolio review, coaching session exclusively here on Bluesky. 1. Reply with art samples. 2. Random winner. 3. No emails please. I will look closely at every reply. 💙❤️

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Mallory Grigg @mallorygrigg.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Hey #illustrators, I'm looking for a blockbuster MG artist who can create a powerful, inspirational cover for a non-fiction biography. Must be good with portraits. Who do you know? Reply here with image samples of your work and a link to your portfolio! #artistsearch #kitlit #kidlitart #scbwi

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

And just like that, I am fully booked again. 🥳 Who needs an agent? Pfffff.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

5am and awake. It's been a bit too much today. My mother is grateful that my license and vespa have been so time- and money-consuming this year. Otherwise, I usually try and spend sukkot or simcha torah in Tel Aviv. This was sukkot '19, day trip to Jerusalem.

Eclectic parade of idf soldiers behind large colorful butterfly wings

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

I am a generous liker and re-poster. My feed has more of you than it has of me. (I am also the author of 18 stories for kids' magazines and nine picture books for children.) So, best of all worlds, right? #kidlit #kiditart

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Proud brag here... my dummy made 2nd place in the SCBWI SoCal Fall Conference. 😍 Let's see if I can find it a good home next. #Kidlit

Cover for picture book We Are Many, papercut look with elephant, parrot, starling, lemur, and giraffe in green foliage

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Another day of being glued to the news, messaging my friends. My heart hurts.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Gas station, my pump was only giving droplets, so went inside. It showed that I had pumped already, had to pay before it unlocked. Well, droplets, so can be only cents, right? 107 euros. 😳 I have a vespa, with a 6 liter tank. Yeah, that wasn't me.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Yes, yes I am obsessed with pimping my vespa.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Happy spooky #kidlitartpostcard! I am Gila, author-illustrator from Germany. I love anything pb, texture, cute and critter. www.gila.be for full folio!

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Man... watching a romcom about a kidlit writer and an illustrator... that is not how things work! 😂 And you will still starve in NYC.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Scbwi prompt is up. 2023 Narrative Art Award Prompt: In honor of the 120th anniversary of the first successful flight of an airplane (on December 1, 1913), create a sequence of three or four drawings that tell a story of experimentation: the trial and error—perhaps the excitement— of invention.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 26/09/2023

Seeing lots of posts lately from illustrators struggling to start/continue their careers. I assign my students Milton Glaser’s “Perfect Day” assignment. Milton assigned it to me (my career didn’t start like a rocket)—it helped! I recommend giving it a try! eyeondesign.aiga.org/my-design-ca...

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Reaching for Resilience in the Time of Covid-19

A month ago, the brilliant designer Bobby C. Martin spoke to my typography students at Fordham University about his storied career. Everyone oohed and aahed. After class, my students poured back out i...

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Oh, looks like my next book was announced. :) "Oy, Santa" by Joyce Schriebman, coming in fall '24. It is soooo so good.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I gotta start dressing up and doing makeup. Riding an old vespa? Men 40+ are mesmerized. I get smiles and remarks wherever I go. Well, the vespa does.

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Rewatching The Matrix for the first time in ages. This movie does not feel 20+ years old? At all?

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Getting gas and MacDonald's. Such a nice ride. (Though this pic was taken when my vespa stalled for a sec... she is temperamental still.)

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Gila von Meissner @gila.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: Paper boy Waitress Bartender Call center Tech support Receptionist Marketing manager Bag designer Online sex toy shop College lecturer

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