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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#kidlitartpostcard Here’s my #kidlitartpostcard I write and illustrate all sorts of books - with a mostly whimsical tone. My website is johnnez.com and lots more art here: linktr.ee/johnnez I’m quick, friendly and very efficient with Indesign bookmaking skills - real & digital & mixed.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It happened when the finish copies of my book about Twins was published and released. I had never seen a finished copy yet… but then the publisher mailed the package to a strange & incorrect address… about 4 blocks downhill from me. continued on johnnez.substack.com

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I write and illustrate all sorts of books. My art is at linktr.ee/johnnez I’m quick, friendly and efficient. Just email me if you see anything you like... thanks!

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Here's a closeup. It's a lot of fun having an ebike... last year, I have to say, I went every day when it wasn't actually raining downpours.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Got my new CityRun... and here I am putting it together, down in the basement! Yay! Some crook stole my bicycle last week... but now I have an even better replacement... so there! Soon those long agony uphill pedals will be like gliding downhill!

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I belong to that group of user who are digitally disabled... there are so many things that it's not worth my while to even try. These were some of my first sketches... ink on newsprint. I just taught myself to draw... art school didn't help. It was more fun to just do it myself...

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

That would be ideal if I could turn off the 2fa... but I see the choices are to just add more to an email. So that doesn't work. But when I come upstairs to the desktop, I can use bluesky. I remember when I first tried to sign on, it took me months to get on.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The message is for me to reply to their my phone... which is broken. I hate my phone... but I got my spouse's old iPhone and I still haven't even bothered how to use it. I hate how bluesky cuts off my typing... so Facebook works a lot better.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Nope... problem is my telephone broke. And it has been hell trying to patch back in... since the Bluesky is also not helping. And since they cut off my typing at like 25 characters, it's useless. But it works on the desktop.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Since I can't get Bluesky to sign me in on my iPad, I probably only see it when I'm on the desktop... which is sort of rarely. I wonder why Facebook seems to work better than all the other apps for social media?

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Here’s my #kidlitartpostcard #… I write and illustrate all sorts of books - with a mostly whimsical tone. My website is johnnez.com and lots more art here: linktr.ee/johnnez New email is john.nez@icloud.com #kidlitillustration #kidlitartist #picturebook

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

#kidlitartpostcard At last, it's my #kidlitartpostcard I write and illustrate all sorts of books. My art is at linktr.ee/johnnez I’m quick, friendly and efficient.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Or how about ‘Make A.I. Illegal… with prison sentences for publishers that use it.’

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I always forget to turn off the sound… so those weird noises are just me! And the last step is to scan the watercolor and then add the digital shading in photoshop. Sure saves a lot of time.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It’s a miracle to be able to post anything to an iPad in a forum… lol! I’m trying to find a photo of the large pile of dummy books of mine… lol! But here’s my cat watching over a book I started out in WC and finished in photoshop… historical non-fiction. And a TRUE story!

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Also, I have a whole stack of finished dummy books to send out to publishers. But it’s insulting to only get back a form letter “If we don’t hear back from you in two months, it means we aren’t interested…” lol! Here’s another sketch from a dummy…

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I get excited about just making paintings on canvas and not locking my creativity up with chains & padlocks by waiting for some editor to like it. Here’s a collection of some of my canvases.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

That’s like how the town of Aix hated Van Gogh and signed a 100 person letter demanding he never enter the town again. Only later, the same people were building relics to cash in on his paintings…

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

And of course the hand sharpening of charcoal pencil with exacto blades is often what I do. Sometimes it seems they’re the only thing that works.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I find that with many of the softer pencils with charcoal, a hand sharpener is totally required. The hand sharpener can be turned slowly so it doesn’t break the softer leads. But electric is nice for regular pencils.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

That one might be titled: The Deadline!

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

That’s good, since we have not seen them work together on hardly anything for years… It’s all Trump, Trump, Trump until the end of time… and the Media backing them up all the way.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The Bunker Buster in action?

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Yes… we need No Kings Autumn if things don’t change. Then No Kings Winter if they don’t change… Then No Kings Spring… etc.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Yes and he should be Impeached and arrested and put in PRISON!!!

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

And I’ll only be happier when it is revealed that he is a Pedophile and that they stole the election with MUSK.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

And I wonder if ICE shoved his face onto the concrete and pushed his back, like they do to all the brown people they handle?

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Nice turnout on Red Sqare at the UW in Seattle. Lots of protestors from the Vietnam Era. I heard one guy say ‘I’m so used to protesting, it brings it all back’. ‘Stop Being Evil!’ Good slogan and accurate.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Me too! I have never voted for a republican in my life… and I’ve been voting in every election since Nixon.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I have noticed on Facebook, that often my page will be inundated by 15 Musk threads… all pretending to present ‘interesting’ facts about Teslas. In total BULL and I delete every last one with the word Musk in it.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This is true and so profound…

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Many people feel this way… I do too. What I hate is how the big billionaire websites don’t spend any time or money helping users to use their damn software. And when I do see a video to help me make a website, it’s done by a 12 year old kid. It ought to be done by Adobe and updated every month!!!

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Cool! They’re good people… and I recall working on my book for them was a pleasure.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

No kidding. Many agents have zero understanding of file sizes and dummy PDFs. I finally found how to use a reduction size on photoshop to reduce a 12 mgb to under 5 mgb. But some agents think an entire 32 page rough artwork dummy can be reduced to 2 mb. lol!

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

In my experience, keeping everything real paints often led to disasters and me tearing everything up. And I also remember almost offering daily thanks to Photoshop for sparing me the remembered terror of how I used to have to tear things up. And all on a deadline… ouch!

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I’d guess that for Red Hats, the more dishonor, the better… because they are evil people to their core.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I’ve read that the LOC he fired was highly regarded in the library world. So typical of red hat dumbing down for America…

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I hope the silent majority Catholics are getting shook awoke out of their lifelong trump slumber…

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Just try a spoonful of coconut oil every day… helps eliminate hunger pangs all the rest of the day…

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Here’s a page from an old book dummy. I need to get back to dummy making. #kidlitart #kidlit

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Yes, but ironically, the overpriced Tesla cult still added 8% to the stock price. Unreal how Tesla has a P/E of 116! And Nvidia is only P/E 33. Totally unreal pricing for cult members only… some day they’ll have to move into the real world.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

And he only had to take it 45 times until it finally came out okay… that’s why his checkup took so many hours.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I think most of us suspect that Judge Janine requires at least 3 hard liquor drinks during her Fox News session - every day.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Unbelievable! I wonder what Judge Luttig would think of this…

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thanks, Judge Luttig, I hope you get to address the actions of Trump’s illegal ICE crews, who are causing great harm to innocent people. Old ladies are dragged from the cars to be arrested under the ICE program. This is the worst human rights abuse I’ve seen in America. It’s unreal.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I remember that Women’s March in 2017. That’s where after the giant crowd, trump said “If you’d only have voted for Hillary like that, you wouldn’t have had to march!” That was the largest public gather in Washington State History. And even so, Rose/Wade got taken away… Republicans are crooks.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is a brilliant poster!

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This is the strategy for Dems to follow! Considering that the whole GOP is one big coverup party of closet gays and hypocrites… Much opportunity to use leverage, that might counteract the leverage that trump has over them.

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John Nez @johnnez.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I agree that Roberts is as guilty as hell… and ought to face disbarment and step down. Never in my dreams had I imagined a SCOTUS could be so deeply corrupt and unamerican. So if Grok says there’s an 85% chance Trump is working with Putin, I believe that too.

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