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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wrapping up colors on book 3 of RED PANDA & MOON BEAR, and sneaking in some foreshadowing for book 4! This is for those kids who notice all the tiny background details. #comics #kidlit #childrensbooks

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today’s work-in-progress from RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3!

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The opening chapter to #Nostos #Unflattening 2 is a 22 page, 15 foot long continuous sequence that is a retelling of the Odyssey. It’s been done since 2019 and I’ve been pushing to have it released as a standalone since to no avail, & really hoping before this movie, but here we are. A sneak peek…

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Comics Summer Camp starts next week! There are still spots open. Message me or email me at Jarod.rosello@gmail.com for more info or to register!

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Here’s a detail of a panel from RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3. This drawing would have been impossible for me to do in book 1. I just didn’t have the skill to pull it off effectively, so I would have written the transformation completely differently, or done something else entirely.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

How to Write for Children #4: Make it Like You Mean It The fourth comic in my irregularly-updated comics series on writing for children’s media.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

How to Write for Children #4: Make it Like You Mean It The fourth comic in my irregularly-updated comics series on writing for children’s media.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I really enjoyed Hamish Steele's GO-Man. It's campy and sweet in all the right ways. And it totally scratches that Astro Boy/50s-60s manga itch.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Only 99 pages left to ink on RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3! This book will be out next year, so now’s your chance to catch up on the award-winning series, and see what all the fuss is about! #comics #kidlit #childrensbooks

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

One of my most anticipated books of the year! Can't wait to get my copy. Mike's comics are some of my favorites.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is my cat. Named by my then-seven-year old. He has not lived up to the name. Little to no destruction. Not a fighter. Just a good potato. Still, I do catch him from time to time staring into the abyss, suppressing something awful.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Comics Summer Camp starts June 22nd! What happens at Comics Summer Camp? Week 1: Make sure the story you want to tell is designed properly for the medium. Questions? Ready to enroll? Message or email me at jarod.rosello@gmail.com #comics #comicbooks #cartooning #graphicnovels #kidlit

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

One of the things missing from the discussion around AI in creative contexts is the necessity of constraints. All art is constraint-based. It's necessary to find things you can't do, won't do, or just suck at. That's how learning and growth happen.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Okay, but has anyone actually read Lynda Barry's novel, Cruddy? It's a great book!

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Here are just some of the comics students in my undergraduate Making Comics course produced this semester, along with the anthology (Personal Space Invader) we put together for the Tampa Zine Fest. I'm really proud of the comics they made—many of them for the first time. #comics #cartooning #zines

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Today’s page-in-progress from RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3. They’re up against their largest monster yet! #comics #kidlit #childrensbooks #middlegrade

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I just finished my 20th year as a teacher. I started as a public high school teacher in Miami, a job I got because I wasn't really sure what else to do. And it completely changed my life. It's not an easy job—and it gets harder every year—but my classroom is still my favorite place to be.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I’m hosting a Comics Summer Camp—for Adults! If you’ve been putting off making your graphic novel, zine, or comic book, then this is the camp for you! #comics #cartooning #kidlit #graphicnovels #comicbooks

Flyer for Comics Summer Camp. Details include: $500, June 22nd-July 17th, Weekly virtual lessons, work on your own project, individual critiques and feedback, with award-winning cartoonist and comics professor Jarod Rosello

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Jen de Oliveira @jendeoart.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I’m doing a book giveaway on my Substack! Leave a comment on the latest post for a chance to win a signed Pip & Pals ARC 🦦🚀❤️ jendeoart.substack.com/p/a-pip-and-...

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A Pip & Pals book giveaway!

Plus, May workshops and some Reggie news

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

In 1999, I bought a bootleg version of Photoshop off Craigslist to use on my friend's good computer so I could make cooler flyers for my band. Whatever version that was is the best Photoshop.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Students in my undergraduate Making Comics course put together their first anthology zine, Personal Space Invader. Our class is tabling at a zine fest this weekend, so they'll also get a taste for all that sweet, sweet zine money.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Full-time college professor, which affords me about 1 day a week to make comics. Two kids. Spouse with a full-time job. I work in small bits here and there. Set realistic goals, one project at a time, assume it will take you longer than you think, find an editor/publisher that gets it (Top Shelf ♥️)

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The problem with even a comic writing award is that a significant portion of what you think the writer did was actually done by the artist, or created collaboratively off the page. Read a couple of comic scripts and see for yourself.

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The immense popularity of “Calvin and Hobbes,” often called “the last great newspaper comic,” can risk obscuring its many inspirations & antecedents. In both style & content, the strip is very well-versed in the rich history of comics and often pays tribute to its influences. 1/12 #CalvinAndHobbes

An image of Calvin and Hobbes reading comics in their living room.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

A panel from today’s work-in-progress. Taking a quick break from Red Panda & Moon Bear 3 to work on some new Hugo & Dino comics! I haven’t talked about this project yet, but I’ve got something cool in the works!

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Today’s page-in-progress: In RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3, the dogs give cartooning a try and release their own comic book. Here’s a page from the comic-within-a-comic. #comics #kidlit #childrensgraphicnovels #mglit #childrensbooks

A comic book page drawn by dogs from within the world of the comic, so it’s simplistic, showing evil, sentient green slime taking over their living room.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I used to get the bulk of my school visit requests during Latinx Heritage Month, but even that’s dried up. And regardless, I’ve never been invited to a paid school visit, only ever free volunteer visits, mostly virtual. A career day if I’m lucky.

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Stergios Botzakis @stergbot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Check out I Am A Slime Monster by @jarodrosello.bsky.social! All three of my kids have read and loved it, especially the titular slime monster. My kids are really into villains, it turns out, and fun, vivid comics. The latest entry in the Super Magic Boy series certainly entertains :)

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Super Magic Boy Book 3: I Am A Slime Monster

In this third volume of the Super Magic Boy series, Hugo has just finished the second book of his favorite series, Sponge Man, and wants to...

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

soundinvestmentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/injust... Super into this SkyTigers album. Just awesome thrashy hardcore punk. Put it on and make some art!

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Injustice For All, by SkyTigers

9 track album

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Today’s page-in-progress for RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3. No dialogue to avoid spoilers. This page is inked and ready to be colored. #comics #kidlit #graphicnovels #childrensbooks

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

New children's book in the works. Just a classic defeating evil story. Publishers, hit me up if you want this one. #comics #graphicnovels #kidlit #childrensbooks

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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 24/01/2026

Excited to announce that ✨THE MOONLIT SPIRAL✨, my first creator-owned original graphic novel since Cleopatra in Space, arrives in shops 10/6/26 from Candlewick Press. 🩵

Cover for Mike Maihack's upcoming fantasy graphic novel, THE MOONLIT SPIRAL. Out in shops 10/6/26 from Candlewick Press and available for preorder right now!

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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.com · 28/12/2025

I am founding a not-for-profit website where independent comic creators and small publishers can easily sell their works to libraries, plus provide other services. Called (for now) the Comics Librarian Commons, this will be an online hub bringing independent creators and librarians together.

A two panel cartoon done in sketches introducing a not-for-profit, online hub for librarians to shop for independent comics

A two-panel cartoon explaining the Artist Alley section and how to shop

A two panel cartoon explaining how the works are sold and shipped and how the site will be promoted

A two panel cartoon calling for folks to volunteer for the board of directors

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It's pub day! I AM A SLIME MONSTER is officially out in the world today! This is book 3 in the SUPER MAGIC BOY SERIES. Hugo and Dino have to stop an evil slime monster from making humans dumb by destroying all the books in the world. Can they do it? Or will this be the last book you ever read?

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3 might have our same old heroes, but it’s got all new villains. #comics #kidlit #childrensgraphicnovels #middlegrade

An out-of-context comics panel drawn in black and white. Moon Bear hugs Red Panda while Red Panda says, “That’s right! We’re heroes! We can’t let gravity win!”

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The birth of our solar system - at last, closing up the penultimate page of this mammoth chapter exploring the origin of the universe in all its swirls of different sorts... It's been a long trip. And there is, to be sure, a lot going on on this page :) Onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2

A comics page in 30 (ok, technically 33) panels - arranged five wide by six tall. We see the birth of the solar system unfold - beginning with a gas cloud in space, which is then shocked into collapse by a supernova explosion far off. The gas collapses on itself and begins to swirl. We see it gather material into its center, which heats up - and a thin disk spreading outward - with rock close to it and ice and gas and rock spread farther out. (this was the first two tiers of panels). Third tier - we see bits of dust and rock and ice stick together, then get to bigger pieces and collide, and eventually turn into planetesimals. Next row, a bigger one of these collects tons of gas and ice to itself and becomes the first planet (Jupiter) and we see the others (and some that are no longer around) form. Fifth row - these planets clear remaining dust and rock from their orbital lanes, but still pretty chaotic. a panel split into four - showing in half the collision that turned Uranus on its side, and the other showing the collision that stripped Mercury of its outer layer. We also see diagrammatically how Jupiter and Saturn moved in closer to sun at some point and then moved back outward - which among other things caused Neptune and Uranus to switch orbits, and then for row 6 - trigged the late heavy bombardment where rocks and ice and gas are flung inward at the inner planets - devastating them - but also bringing gases included water. Finally, the planets reach the more or less current configuration. I drew Saturn with a ring, which it probably didn't have - but only so people knew what it was. I drew earth with one giant continent as it might've been - but you can't really tell anyhow, the drawing is too tiny. I would've put water on Mars but I felt that would confuse everyone.

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Jarod Roselló @jarodrosello.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Comics meditation with Tom Spurgeon. This is a line from one of my favorite essays by Tom, “All of These Things That Have Made Us” from 2011 on The Comics Reporter. #comics #graphicnovels

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