My cat is doing a new thing where she will gently bite me if she sees me lounging when I should be feeding her dinner
Vivian Zhou
@vivianz.bsky.social
🎨author + illustrator ✏️Upcoming: The Crow Princess👑 2027 📖Atana and the Jade Mermaid, Atana and the Firebird she/they 🏠 https://vivianzhou.ca/links 📘 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250292698/thecrowprincess/
I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰
My Patreon art-in-the-mail for September is here! A set of book beasts to prance across your page. A reading log notebook/zine, book plates, and a bookmark! 📚 Sign up on my Patreon by Sept 30 www.patreon.com/sfemonster #sfedrawing
8 months until THE CROW PRINCESS hits shelves but you can pre-order it now! If you're a B&N member the book is included in their 25% off pre-orders promo from now till Friday! :^) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-crow-p...
my next graphic novel is finally live! here's the cover!! it will be coming out May 25th, 2027 from First Second books : )
THE CROW PRINCESS, coming to shelves April 20th, 2027 from First Second!! With loose inspiration from Chinese mythology, THE CROW PRINCESS is a summery modern fairytale about what happens when you rescue an injured crow who turns out to be a princess from the mountains.
8 months until THE CROW PRINCESS hits shelves but you can pre-order it now! If you're a B&N member the book is included in their 25% off pre-orders promo from now till Friday! :^) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-crow-p...
My inbox is down to zero for the first time in months I feel so good
do you want me to be your mentor (threatening, pai mei from kill bill voice) then look below & apply, app window open open through 9/30! if doing middle grade comics: apply with sample pages, portfolio & plot outline for me to consider
Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com
Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · last mo.Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
southdartmouth.ca/articles/202... a nice look at DCAF 2026 from the South Dartmouth Post @dartmouthcomix.bsky.social
Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival brings a lineup of local heroes to the waterfront
A super team of cartoonists, illustrators, and storytelling alter egos assembled on the Dartmouth waterfront last weekend.
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Hope everyone who said sumthin' reads this: buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
Charity and Sylvia: the extraordinary claims of Rachel Hope Cleves
In early July, a dispute began between two writers; Rachel Hope Cleves, author of Charity and Sylvia; A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, (2014), and...
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DCAF this year was so special!! It's my last event of the year but I'm already buzzing thinking about next year's comic festivals
Little preview for a new 8 page riso zine I'm making :^) Debuting at DCAF @dartmouthcomix.bsky.social this Sunday! Come check it out if you're in Halifax
Little preview for a new 8 page riso zine I'm making :^) Debuting at DCAF @dartmouthcomix.bsky.social this Sunday! Come check it out if you're in Halifax
If you want to read a book and your library doesn’t have it, it is truly a massive favor to an author to request that the library acquire it. It really and truly is
taking 2-5 poca comms.. will have them done by saturday at the latest o|-< i need sum money rn lol oops 75 USD each,,,, will look approx. like this,,, please dm me if interested! will lock replies on this post to indicate slots are full!
Two weeks before DCAF and a second zine idea has hit
Vivian Zhou@vivianz.bsky.social · 3mo agoit's three weeks before DCAF and I suddenly have the inspiration for a new mini zine
it's three weeks before DCAF and I suddenly have the inspiration for a new mini zine
I am on the hunt for two artists to recommend for the two scripts I've just been contracted for through Scholastic, soooo...if you are a cartoonist who finds a sweet older midgrade romcom set in New England in the fall totes your cup of hot apple tea..MESSAGE ME. (before end of July)
drew a couple more last week while I was staying at an off grid cabin to teach a kids summer art camp
Vivian Zhou@vivianz.bsky.social · 3mo agowoe #makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026
drew a couple more last week while I was staying at an off grid cabin to teach a kids summer art camp
Vivian Zhou@vivianz.bsky.social · 3mo agowoe #makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026