Detail from a spread I just completed. This one took me awhile but it was fun. This is Ricky Raton telling his students a scary story about his most dangerous foe the grotesque Doctor Feo. This will appear in the sixth El Toro and Friends book which will be titled Thank You Coach.
Raul the Third
@raulthethird.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling Illustrator and 4x Pura Belpre award winner. Creator of the World of Vamos books and the Snips. Published by Harper Alley and Little Brown Ink.
Most kids get distracted with iPads and video games My 6 year old? He snuck off to read a chapter book by his favorite artist @raulthethird.bsky.social #Stuntboy instead of getting dressed for school this morning. #momlife or mom win?
Feliz Día de Los Muertos! Pages from ¡Vamos! Let’s celebrate Halloween and Día de Los Muertos Published by HarperStacks
Trying to type Akroyd and my phone keeps changing it to aloud. Now I don’t even remember what about Aloud I was going to say!
I didn't truly realise that authors were real people - and that I could be an author, too - until an author came to visit my school in grade six. Author visits are really important.
Children’s Authors Feel Impact of School Budget Cuts
Authors tell PW they are booking fewer school visits this year as school districts across the country face budget cuts and a climate of book banning.
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Baby Watchalito enters the New World BIC pen on paper
Mictlantecuhtli as I drew him in Lowriders to the Center of the Earth published by Chronicle Books and written by Cathy Camper
Had a lovely time visiting schools in Omaha, NE thanks to the Omaha Public Library! I can’t help but share with students drawings I’m working on while on the road. Here’s one I’m holding up at my Drawing Workshop at the Cornerstone at Southside, hosted by Canopy South. Drawn with ballpoint pens
I’m proud my work has been featured in @twomorrows.bsky.social COMIC BOOK CREATOR #46 featuring DARWYN COOKE: a bust and full figure sculpt of Darwyn Cooke’s version of PARKER. Plus, an article about Chip Zdarsky features my sculpture of HOWARD THE DUCK as designed by @joequinones.bsky.social.
**COVER REVEAL -- ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to School by Raul the Third** Yes, @raulthethird.bsky.social!! The sixth picture book in his Eisner Award Nominated World of ¡Vamos! series, is coming soon. Learn all about the new book and the series here: theauthorvillage.substack.com/p/cover-reve...
COVER REVEAL -- ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to School by Raul the Third
A New Picture Book is Coming Soon!
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Check this out!! Thank you @theauthorvillage.bsky.social
**COVER REVEAL -- ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to School by Raul the Third** Congrats to @raulthethird.bsky.social. The sixth picture book in his Eisner Award Nominated World of ¡Vamos! series, is coming soon. Learn all about the new book and the series here: theauthorvillage.substack.com/p/cover-reve...
Watchalo, Papa, Watchalo This was the sketch which I kept and later turned into a painting. It is in the collection of RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Island. Acrylic on paper 9by12 inches
I read AI as Al so it always takes me a while to catch on. What can I say?
Just received my royalty check for these two books which has been happening twice a year for over a decade. Thanks for your support! Lowriders in Space books are published by @chroniclebooks.bsky.social since 2014.
Does the operator actually keep the dime? Just a question that’s bugged me ever since I was a kid.
As I am currently working on a new Lowriders in Space book so I thought I’d share this spread from Lowriders Blast from the Past. These books published by Chronicle Kids are drawn with ballpoint pens.
💫 GRANDMA FINA'S WONDERFUL UMBRELLA has received a starred review! Congratulations, Raúl the Third! Read the full review from School Library Journal! ⭐ Out on September 29 and available for preorder now! 📚 @raulthethird.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social
Proud to be in the inaugural exhibition of this incredible museum!
The new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens to the public on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
September is here, gente! We are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with picture books that focus on Latinx history and experiences! 7. GRANDMA FINA'S WONDERFUL UMBRELLA, 2026 Author: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjami... Illustrator: @raulthethird.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙 #picturebooks
I drew the cover for Lowriders Blast from the Past published by Chronicle Books on three separate layers with BIC ballpoint pen.
Holding my Lowriders in Space merch available from the @lucasmuseum.bsky.social ! Lowriders in Space is published by @chroniclebooks.bsky.social