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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Good Families Don’t is now out 🎉! Written by Robert Munsch, I had the pleasure of illustrating this new edition. Here are some of my favorite pieces. Hope you enjoy my flatulent art 💨 Big thanks to wonderful art director @johnmartz.bsky.social, Tundra Books, & agent @ksonnack.bsky.social

A square format cover - In the upper half of the page is large text that is illustrated to look like a translucent gas that is translucent. Partially behind this text is a woman with medium-brown skin holding her bichon frise furiously waving one hand in front of her disgusted face, she wears a blue long sleeve top with a v neck and khaki pants with a black belt. Next to her is a white-looking man with large square glasses , blonde hair that comes to a point, and a beard. He is pinching his nose, mouth open and tongue out - also in disgust. He wears a muted green sweater with a collared white shirt beneath and khakis as well. In the foreground center bottom of the page is an elementary-aged girl with big shiny eyes, nearly black long hair, straight bangs, a headband, dressed neatly in a purple top and skirt with her hands folded in front of her. She has a sweet smile. More gas that matches the look of the title text emerges from her skirt. To the left of her and on top of the gas is thick pink san serif text that reads, "by Robert Munsch", to the right of her is "illustrated by Joy Ang". The background comprises of shades of pink gas.

A scene with a gaseous fart monster in the front and center of the page. It is the same style as the green gaseous text on the cover. It has long bubbly whiskers above its tubular purple mouth. Round, cartoonish yellow teeth that sparsely fit in its large bean-shaped mouth. The monster also has a large bulbous nose. It has long noodle-y arms and legs with large hands, feet, and cracked grotesque brown nails. The monster is lying on its back on a bed in a little girl's room reading her purple-color diary. It's laughing with its eyes close and its left hand clapped on its forehead. Gaseous bits can be seen emitting from its head and "tail" as well as more transparent gas that radiates throughout the room. The girl from the cover, now in form-fitting purple poka dotted pjs is just above center of the page. She's opened the door into her room and has a terrified expression as she sees this monster intruding in her space. One hand is still on the doorknob of the open door. Her hair spikes out like a ghibli film when a character is frigtened. The room is shades of pastel purples, pinks, blues and cream. There is a soccer ball on the floor and a poster of a silly narwhal that states "Make a splash!". At her vanity is an arched mirror with a ribboned sunhat on top of it. There are polaroids tucked into the mirror below the hat and a blue 1st place ribbon on the other side. The wall where the headboard sits against has long vertical stripes of blue and pink. The headboard is another shade of pink with a wavy top design. There are white FX lines that radiate along the whole of the page centering the girl and monster.

The same monster from the last image is now in an energetic pouncing position with eyes open and a large smile on its face. Its right eye has a purple swirl instead of a pupil, the left one has a dark purple dot as a pupil - the monster has yellow sclera. It holds the diary in its right hand. The monster is pouncing on the man from the cover. He is now in a green house coat with a white v neck shirt beneath and green shorts. He has 3 cartoonish leg hairs, white socks, and teal bubbly slippers. He looks shocked and terrified with his mouth wide open as he falls backwards from the monster.

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Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

✨ Happy book birthday to these three amazing stories! 🦜ALIGHT 💨 GOOD FAMILIES DON’T ✨ WHITE LIGHTS Available now at your local library and wherever books are sold! 🥳 @literaticat.bsky.social @ksonnack.bsky.social @joyang.bsky.social @ljrennert.bsky.social

Happy book birthday to ALIGHT and GOOD FAMILIES DON'T!

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Lots of new flowers stocked in my online shop. From fine art prints to large originals. If you are looking for a little color for your space, consider checking out my store. nimasprout.shop

Original painting of roses and butterfly

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Alexandria Neonakis @beavs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hey all I'm looking for work! I'm experienced in character design and costume for games and film as well as illustration for books and TTRPGS. I'm based out of BC Canada looking for freelance or full time. My portfolio is linked in the first comment, thank you for shares!

white knight in the woods with a dragon hunting him

character concepts from the last of us part 2

character concepts from a catan expansion

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Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

🎨 Illustrator spotlight on Joy Ang! Joy is represented by Kelly Sonnack and interested in illustrating picture books, covers, and graphic novels. Check out Joy's illustrator page! @joyang.bsky.social @ksonnack.bsky.social

Four panel comic of four kids buckling their seatbelts in a car. In the first panel, one girl, Nami, says, “We’re learning about where cephalopods actually came from!” In the second panel, one girl says, “They came from space, Nami.” In the third panel, a boy leans toward Nami, who has a frustrated expression, and says, “Pfft. They came from a magic dimensional rift deep in the abyss.” In the final panel, the driver, Nami’s sibling, says, “Alright, seatbelts everyone!”

Credit: from SCIENCE COMICS: CEPHALOPODS, © 2026 written by Casey Zakroff and illustrated by Joy Ang, First Second/Macmillan

One comic panel in which four kids and one teen, viewed from the back, stare in awe at a wall of mollusk fossils while other museum-goers pass by. They say, “Whoa.”

Credit: from SCIENCE COMICS: CEPHALOPODS, © 2026 written by Casey Zakroff and illustrated by Joy Ang, First Second/Macmillan

illustration of a girl opening the door of her bedroom, only to see a giant fart monster lying on her bed laughing and reading her diary

Credit: from GOOD FAMILIES DON’T, © 2026 written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Joy Ang, Tundra/PRH Canada

illustration of a girl running down the stairs and flapping her arms in panic

Credit: from GOOD FAMILIES DON’T, © 2026 written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Joy Ang, Tundra/PRH Canada

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I grew up reading and loving the books of fellow Canadian, Robert Munsch. So excited to now be working on this 🍑💨💨💨

Screencap of an announcement from Publishers Weekly that reads, "Tundra Books has acquired world rights to a new edition of Good Families Don't by Robert Munsch (l.) (Love You Forever), newly illustrated by Joy Ang. The picture book tells the story about a girl who finds a big, colorful fart lying on her bed. Publication is planned for summer 2026; the author was unagented, and Kelly Sonnack at Andrea Brown Literary Agency represented the illustrator."

To the left is a photo of Robert Munsch and next to it is a photo of me.

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The garden is coming alive 🥰 (L-R) Pansies, freshly planted basil I grew from seed and rhubarb stalks that are ready to be harvested

Picture of my garden where the morning sun back-lit pansies with various beautiful colors - purple ones with a yellow and black center while others are shades of lilac, pink and aubergine.

A picture of newly transplanted basil starts. They sit in fresh dirt in a medium-sized terracotta planter in the garden next to other larger black planters with roses that are just starting to put on leaves and a brown metal raised bed.

Close up photo of a rhubarb, highlighting the long red stalks amidst lush, large and verdant leaves. New leaves emerge near the base of the plant.

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

If you see this, post something 🌸 pink 🌸

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

My current interior design style is ~ squiggly ~

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A piece I made for the 50th anniversary edition of Magic The Gathering's Monster Manual. Thanks to AD, Fury Galluzzi - @furygalluzzi.bsky.social, for this very fun assignment!

A digital painting set in a dense forest with light sparkling through the trees shining on the following chibified monsters:

- A Red dragon near the top left
- A flying Monodrone Modron with a Rust Monster hanging on to its legs
- An Owlbear hanging on top of a beholder
- A Flumph looking surprised
- A displacer Beast
- And a Mimic with a dumb, open-mouthed smile and its purple tongue hanging out

The monsters are all looking over the shoulder of a young girl wearing an archer's garb as well as a boy in a wizard's hat holding a staff with a purple gem at its top. The children have a glow on their faces as they excitedly look at a massive tome bound in red dragon scales.

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Excited for when the garden will look like this again

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A Moonbow 12x16" ink on claybord

a black and white scratchboard drawing of a mountain range at night
in the foreground, bright moonlight shines on rocks
in the background tall rocky mountains are illuminated by moonlight and between the foreground and the background there is a faint moonbow and raindrops shimmering in the light

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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Revised the ol' "Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents" lecture. 1/2

Text: TANGENTS
In geometry, a tangent is when a line touches a curve at a single point.
(images illustrating this, with a curve and a circle touching the lines)
The point where they touch is called the tangent. in a drawing, this is what I call a “bump-up” tangent (more on that
later), but the term “tangent” is a bit more flexible when applied to visual art.
When an artist (or art critic, or art teacher, etc) mentions a tangent, they’re generally referring to any relationship between lines (or elements) in a drawing that interact in a way that the artist didn’t intend.
When I was a teacher, I found it helpful to differentiate the various offenses that fell under the catch-all term “tangents” and give them each a name, to make identification of problem areas in a drawing easier.

An earlier version of these examples was published online in 2011 under the title “The Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents.”

Text:
Long-Line Tangent
The “long-line” tangent is when the line from one subject in the drawing leads into the line of another.
(image where the line from a figure's wide-brimmed hat"becomes" the line of the roof)
See how the hat of this fella runs into the line of the roof? that’s bad!
(image where they do NOT intersect)
Not so bad!
Try to avoid near-tangents, too! Even if a line doesn’t actually connect with another, “close” isn’t great, either.
(image illustrating this point using the same iconography as above)

Text:
Bump-Up Tangent
A bump-up tangent is when one element of a drawing bumps up against another.
(image where the outside a figure's elbow touches a wall)
When the bump-up is the result of different subjects touching, correct it by making one clearly overlap the other.
(Same image repeated twice, but in one the elbow is in front of the wall, and in the other behind it)
Either of these works just fine!
Sometimes using the principle of “what’s closer?” overlap won’t always be the best solution. you can do that (like the nose in the example) or you can just redraw the offending lines (like the lapel).
Images: a drawing with tangents, and that same drawing with the tangents eliminated

Text:
Beyond just the drawing itself, make sure to avoid bumping your image against the formal components of the comic: word balloons, sound effects, panel borders, etc. They’re in the image, therefore, regardless of what stage they’re introduced into the art, they’re PART OF THE COMPOSITION, and need to be treated as such.

(Image: example drawing where the balloon and panel borders are creating bump-up tangents with the drawing)

There are many publishers who insist on live (editable) balloons and dialogue text to make easier foreign sales and online publishing; I vehemently disagree with this approach, because it makes flexible what should be the sole purview of a cartoonist: the intersection of lines in the art, and lines in the art, like it or not, iNCLUDE the lines that surround a word balloon.

For this reason, LETTERiNG SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE iNKS. Then your inks can accommodate the balloons. This was standard practice until the advent of digital lettering, and while there’s nothing wrong with digital lettering, its placement in the pipeline order generally results in a poorer overall comic than would be the case were it done between the roughs/pencils stage and the inks.

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Just finished inking my first graphic novel 💃. Very excited for this book that I'm doing with @caseyzakroff.bsky.social !

Screenshot of my worksheet with all the inked pages marked off as finished

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @ ASC @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

gofund.me/4824d711 Please help me do whatever I can to save my girls, and to make sure the rest of my kitties survive. Share this link, and kiss your pets on the head and tell them how much you love them because you never know how quickly they might leave.

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Donate to Help Kiki Save Her Indoor Kitties From Suspected Bird Flu, organized by Christine Knopp

I thought Tuesday morning was the worst day of my life. I was… Christine Knopp needs your support for Help Kiki Save Her Indoor Kitties From Suspected Bird Flu

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Just got some Betamax digitized - here’s baby me. We haven’t seen this footage for at least 25+ years 😮

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Anna Nikonova @newmilky.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hi there! I decided to try this app👋 Here is the art I made in 2019

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

A few years ago I planted Blue Shift sweet peas. They normally look like the last photo, but I had 1 plant that produced beautifully-mottled flowers. Haven't seen anything else online like it. Just planted seeds collected from that special variety and hoping they produce more of the same 🤞

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The Ancient Horfs have helped me get all the descriptions/measurements into the shop so everything is good to go for Sunday! Thanks equine pals! See all the stuff here: heywitch.bigcartel.com

A small herd of wee ceramic horses stand on a laptop, looking at my upcoming shop update.

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Was organizing old photos and came across this comic my kid made. For clarification, it says "dont swallow gum"

Image of a stapled comic my kid wrote - the cover shows a stick figure looking upset/elated with the words "dont swallow gum" but the G in gum looks like a C

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hourly Comic Day 2025 8 & 9 am

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

a very proud Merychippus! just another one for the early horses. #paleoart #sciart

A digital drawing of Merychippus, running proudly. It's a male, and he has quite a lot of different old scars. So this one is a survivor. Or a little asshole of the herd - that's up to you to imagine. He's dark brown and white, with some dark stripes on all the legs and tail. The background is dark and simple, and there's a crescent moon above the horse.

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Some OOTDs from 11 years ago :o

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sarah webb! @sarahwebb.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

there was a mouse living in the oven mitt on our porch 🍂

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Foal studies - I love how gangly they are

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Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The #Yakuza brainrot CONTINUES: "What if Goromi was more in line with Majima's personal style post-Zero and also from the 1980's" was a thought I followed to it's inevitable conclusion last night 👍🏼

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Throwing in some Pegasus too 🪽🪽

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Kim Smith @kimillustration.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

A little preview of what’s coming to my online shop on Tuesday!

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Chibified D&D monsters & foliage for Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. Such a fun job to do.

4 spot illustrations. A playful puppy version of the hellhound, a sphix, mimic, and dark mantle

2 myconids, a confused looking Flumph squishing its face, a gibbering mouther, and a beholder

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Visit From a Messenger. A piece from 2019 done with gouache, pencil & digital edits

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Wanted to do something special for this group of holiday mushroom ornaments...so trying out glass glitter details on parts of them. Wood, paper clay, Acryla gouache and glass glitter + adhesive

Yellow mushroom with glass glitter on edge.

Blue and purple mushroom with glass glitter

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Just before things started to nosedive on twitter, I posted a thread that walked through the massive body of work I did over the last three years (on an inspiring team) on the cancelled Project Dragon aka Everhaven. For posterity I reckon I'll repost that thread, piece by piece, over here ✨