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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026

Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 15/09/2026

Now it's time to rec my books to your friends—hello! Do you like gay hockey, or body swapping, or a screwball comedy about art kids, or DC Comic superheroes? www.ngoziu.com/books 📚

The covers of the graphic novels Check, Please! books 1 & 2, FLIP, Bunt!, Barda and Orion.

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e.k. weaver @bigbigtruck.com · 10/09/2026

Front cover reveal!! Huge shout out to Sunny Lee for her masterful design work on the titling and layout

Front cover of SHOT AND CHASER, showing Tre and Olly in front of a storm cell

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e.k. weaver @bigbigtruck.com · 11/09/2026

Thank y'all for sharing this far and wide today! Please check out the preorder options at the link. Had the flu/covid vax update combo today so I'm gonna go to bed early and shiver, but happily!!

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 06/09/2026

They're incredible labors of love, seriously

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 06/09/2026

The problem with worldbuilding for over a decade...I will forget more about Check, Please! than anyone will ever know!!! 😭

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 06/09/2026

Me: (checking the check please wiki) wow dex and nursey are both 6'2". interesting. Me: how tall is chowder again? Me: HE'S FIVE-ELEVEN???? omgcheckplease.fandom.com/wiki/Check_P...

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 03/09/2026

Yes, it's like grounding the characters!!

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 03/09/2026

Digging Up the Depths of Desire Make your characters want a little thing a lot. A sip of water. Surviving a bully. Finding out what that sound is. Their cousin's apology. Next make them want another thing—ideally whatever stops them from getting the first thing. bsky.app/profile/ngoz...

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 03/09/2026

The Fine Art of Where to Start Start your scenes later. Start with conflict. Get to the point. Honestly, start right before things make sense to the reader, and if you're feeling spicy, start after that point. Hurry up. Get to the meat. bsky.app/profile/ngoz...

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 03/09/2026

Quote-posting twice because it's that important. The three most important resources that I give comics students are linked in this thread. 1. Mad's breakdown of COMIC PANEL VARIATION (@madrupert.bsky.social) 2. How to start stories by Darin Strauss 3. I need you to understand character motivation

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 03/09/2026

comix mega-lord mad rupert speaks!

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Gannon F. Jaspering @gforgannon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ulla is your boss and you play as the overworked "Sweetie".

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 02/09/2026

love how she holds her hands in front of her whenever she runs faster!

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Flock-o'-Lantern @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

pulled the video so you don't have to go to X we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men

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Ryan Dunlavey > NYCC table L-24 @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 25/08/2026

wow! you pronounced my name perfectly!

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 19/08/2026

you ever just sit down and translate regular english to kirby new gods speak >>> "We can't all write like Kirby—but we can TRY!! Take a SEAT! Pick up the PEN! Turn your 'MODERN THOUGHTS' into the speech of 'ANOTHER WORLD'!" omfg should I start a thread lmao

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 19/08/2026

See Orion! His rage here dulled by a more gripping emotion—shame!! For only he knows the outer reaches of his destruction... ...and what it feels to be of DARKSEID!!! 🔥 #orion #orion2026

Orion looks down at a Mother Box-created vision of himself as a baby held by his mother.

Orion attacks the vision, dispelling the image.

Orion falls to his knees and covers his face.

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 19/08/2026

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION ✨ If you're reading this, you can probably vote for FLIP to win a Harvey Award! Fellow comics creators, retailers, educators, librarians, and members of the press are all eligible. You can sign up to get a ballot below! 🗳️ conventions.leapevent.tech/f/3c27f9d1-8...

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Context Literary Agency @contextliterary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Any former anime club presidents out there? 🥰 "As former vice president of my high school anime club, I give this book five stars!" —Ngozi Ukazu, New York Times bestselling author of Check, Please! @ngoziu.com #graphicnovel #kidlit #booksky @mallowboo.bsky.social @diggymungo.bsky.social

photo of the book President of the anime club by Stephanie Evangelista Fukuda and Daigo Fukuda

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ananth @ananthhirsh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One million... you guys are crazy

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 09/03/2024

I paid Boostle tax by making Boostle fanart for the Boostle Discord I'm Boostle part of

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 31/07/2026

it was under option last year, but it's back on the market 👍

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 31/07/2026

Someone should adapt Check, Please!, a gay hockey romance (teen).

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 30/07/2026

THANK YOU ALL FOR LISTENING TO MY WEEKS-LONG RANT i worked on this book for years I just have a lot of thoughts about it!!! 🌞🙏 (And about BARDA!) Thank you!

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 30/07/2026

Yeah! We open on a flashback! Orion's first act on New Genesis! The moment that defined him forever. Someone analyzed Orion's Dropping of The Knife scene in a post on Tumblr—that site of great depravity and yet also great wisdom—it is the most important scene in understanding Orion/the New Gods.

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 30/07/2026

epic poems are popular these days—the first word(s) of ORION is "rage" because of the illiad and how it opens on rage in some translations. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so that's fun! bonus: when i pitched this book I suggested orion & lightray had a relationship like achilles and patroclus. (jim was like "ok cool")

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Lee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

*standing up on the plane* okay so the first thing you need to consider when interrogating if Frodo and Sam from Lord of the Rings are an example of romantic love is to understand Tolkien's context; what did same sex love mean to an academic and a veteran of world war one in the middle of the 20th c

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

job perk: sometimes when i sob about desperately wanting to read a book my editor says YOU KNOW WE CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN @vgeportfolio.com IT’S PERFECT

Photo of a bookshelf with an ARC of Victoria Grace Elliott’s SWEET REVENGE facing out.

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

omg, thanks, I appreciate this correction! Yeah, I will not even pretend to know hebrew but I know those letters and that phrase are vaguely connected. 🙏

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

Okay one last tidbit since the Lightray/Orion stuff was popular. IT WAS SO FUN WRITING ABOUT THEM AS BOYS. building mother boxes! stealing shit! just fucking hanging out. Lightray absolute woke Orion up like "I FOUND A DEAD BODY RED EYES LET'S GO POKE IT"

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

Another Darkseid thing, playing on the phrase "Darkseid is" — Darkseid later says "I am who I am" which is a direct reference to the Bible. In Hebrew, yahweh/יהוה translates to "I am who I am". The to be verb doing a lot of work there. Very convenient. (I hope Kirby would like the Exodus pull.)

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

Orion's "Tyrant! Slave driver! King of holocaust!" is some of my favorite dialogue because it's very fun to roar out loud (try it) plus Darkseid just owns it. He's like "Yup! Yes to all three!" 🥰 man poor orion so confusing to have two dads and two moms wtf

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

O'Deadly Darkseid...where do I even begin? Darkseid is fun to write because he...simply believes that he's entitled to enslave the universe. No frivolous sob story. It's his job to rule over all of life and he's gonna do it. Out of all the New Gods...he ACTS like a god. Gotta love it!

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

omg cindy...she will NEVER be able to live this down...

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

three orions yowling at the moon and everyone's like "who gave that to him???"

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

this is devastating he's like "uhhh .... Cheryl?"

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

ORION (2026) fellas is it—

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

Oh yeah! Orion's festival clothing/lounging clothing??? Listen, I'm not the most adept character designer. In a later scene, I decided that the sun symbol means "Orion"......but Orion has a sun on his tunic? So is he walking around in a tunic that says his name? Loser behavior.

The caption "Orion" followed by a simple design of a sun on a white background.

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

I wish we had more room, because he probably has epithets for everyone and everything. 😭 Like can you fucking imagine discovering what Orion's epithet for you was??? After he got to know you? 😭😭 ("Lively Ngozi, dreaming Ngozi?" I'm INSANE.) The astro-harness is "swift astro-harness"! :)

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

I'm back with more ORION tidbits. A little dialogue quirk that's not totally Kirby-esque: Orion's use of epithets! He mostly does this when referring/speaking to Lightray. He calls him "Gentle Lightray" to underscore Lightray's nature. Tender Lightray, sweet Lightray...

from ORION, Lightray stands and Orion sits on a ledge and holds his wrist.

from ORION, Orion sits on the ground of an apartment while Lightray lounges on a couch

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28/07/2026

HEY! You're a genius.

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 22/07/2026

Where did the astro-harness come from??? How did Orion get it? Did he build it??? Find it? These are questions a True Dork like me pondered for months.

Two panels from ORION (2026) which show Orion discovering the astro harness in a deep dark cave.

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Sara | Bodice Tipplers Podcast @bodicetipplers.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just spent my day off reading @ngoziu.com’s John Rich and the Big Picture - genuinely delightful rom-com, and it’s free to read but only until the 25th.

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John Rich & The Big Picture

An m/m webnovel.

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Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Truly, @ngoziu.com's New Gods stories are some of the best that have ever been published.

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