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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630

@johannamation.bsky.social

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👻 BUY THE GHOSTKEEPER GN!👇 theghostkeeper.carrd.co Illustrator ✦ Comic Artist ✦ Writer ✦ Cottage-Goth ✦ TTRPGer ✦ 💖💜💙 Rep: Laurel Symonds (KT Lit) 🌎 Portfolio: johannamation.com

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Oct 12

Welcome new followers!! ✨
I'm Johanna, I'm an illustrator and comic artist! I created THE GHOSTKEEPER, a YA graphic novel about a therapist for ghosts, out now! I like video games & TTRPGs, and drawing about them ⚔️

👻 theghostkeeper.carrd.co
🎨 johannamation.com
🖼️ www.inprnt.com/gallery/joha...

Front cover of THE GHOSTKEEPER a graphic novel by Johanna Taylor

A grave cleric guiding the spirits of an owlbear mother and child through the snowy forest

The cast of Dungeon Meshi, Zelda TOTK and Frieren cooking monsters in a dungeon together.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 8h

I swear to God, Netflix saw those singing animated girls and got dollar signs in their eyes like that construction worker in the Looney Tunes short "One Froggy Evening"

"The sing-along version of KPOP DEMON HUNTERS will return to theaters for Halloween weekend"

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Lea @snuffymcsnuff.bsky.social · 8h

the underworld siblings 💀🌙

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 7h

“Nature’s Lootboxes: why are gen Z cracking open geodes”

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 1d

October is so frustrating bc I want to spend it being spooky and festive and autumnal, but it always ends up the busiest and most hectic month somehow, such that I’m lucky if I even manage time to cobble a costume together by the end of it 😢 🦇

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DecomposedMaw @decomposedmaw.bsky.social · 23h

cat and leaf boat #pixel #pixelart #animated

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 23h

Art should come with suggested song pairings. Like cheese and wine.

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 11h

I’m staging a walkout (into the woods)

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 1d

M-Maam 😮

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

I've never understood some men's obsession with having children (especially male children) as a form of leaving a legacy. Especially since those same men rarely want to help raise those kids. An individual person isn't a monument to your DNA. You didn't actually accomplish anything but reproduce.

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Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 1d

The 2024 numbers are crunched, data visualised, and insights SHARED!

Here's the findings of the 2024 Comics Worker Survey!

Anyone can read these findings on income, rates, royalties and more--online or as a PDF.

The Cartoonist Cooperative

Making comics better for everyone!

cartoonist.coop

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 1d

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

four simplistic drawings of a fluffy white dog rolling around in red, yellow, and orange leaves while exclaiming “leaf, leaf”

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Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 1d

I saw something recently that said a strategy for adhd is you just need to commit to doing 30%. The full scope of 100% of a project is just too overwhelming. So just start with some thumbnails or sketches for now and then commit to another 30% another day or week. Any progress IS progress

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Matthew the Spoopiest of Ducks @backwardsknight.com · 17d

It's the spookiest time of the year.

Meme image. Caption reads: When you've had a rough year but you're trying hard to enjoy Halloween. Bottom image is of a carved pumpkin that is collapsing in on itself.

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Oct 2

A spooky book a day keeps the ghosts away (because the ghosts are reading, too) 👻

#ghostober

Lucy the ghost girl and Muffin the ghost cat lounge against a headstone in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh. She's reading THE GHOSTKEEPER, my graphic novel. (Fun fact, I took this photo during a 2022 research trip for this same book)

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · May 29

Catch me at Lightbox Expo artist alley this year!!!

I’m so excited to see you all! I’ll be selling:

🎨 Art prints
🎨 Art books
📚 Graphic novels
📖 NEW! Short zine-style comics
🎁 Stickers, pins & more!!

#lightboxexpo #LBX2025

The Ghostkeeper front cover image with text:
Come see me at Lightbox Expo 2025
October 24-26 2025
Www.lightboxexpo.com

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Aug 21

One of my favorite (spoiler-free) scenes from THE GHOSTKEEPER, and a reminder to be patient with yourself today 🤍

📕👉 theghostkeeper.carrd.co

Dorian talking to a young ghost child Lucy about grief and healing her fears and burdens (represented with ghostly rot)

Dorian: "Take time to be sad. You're not a bad child, Lucy... you're a HURT child. Give yourself permission to grieve for the way things were, and then see if you can reach outside of your sadness to a more neutral place."

"Only then can the rot start to heal."

Lucy: "But... But I don't want to be sad OR neutral. I want to be happy."
Dorian: "You certainly deserve to be happy. But going from sad to happy isn't easy to do. That's like trying to climb a staircase from bottom to top in a single jump."

"And how do you climb a staircase?"

Lucy: "One step at a time."

Muffinf the cat climbs out of her arms with a jingle and a slunk.

Dorian: "One step, one moment at a time... you'll get there."

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Aug 27

ICYMI: My short comic SONDER is available to read on my ko-fi page, pay what you want!!

It's a high-concept story about dreaming, travel as a form of escapism, and how to find joy in an unsatisfying life.
It's also my first comic where the art is done 100% traditional!

🌃 ko-fi.com/s/0cc4d41a44

Two dream-like pages from a zine with lots of colorful, magical-realism imagery

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · Sep 8

I just realized that neither of the two books I signed on to today are actually A Secret.

BOOK ONE: Sleeping Wizards! My first with Iron Circus, despite being Iron Circus adjacent for quite some time. I'm incredibly stoked to be lettering over my pal @johannamation.bsky.social's incredible art.

Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Aug 6

‼️ NEWS 📰 ‼️

I’m doing the art for a new graphic novel with Iron Circus Comics!!

Written by @rustymarcum.bsky.social, it’s D&D meets Suicide Squad in a monster-filled labyrinthine dreamspace!! 🔮

SLEEPING WIZARDS releases in 2027!

Kel McDonald at Iron Circus has bought world rights for Sleeping Wizards by Rusty Marcum (I.), illustrated by Johanna Taylor (The Ghostkeeper), a YA graphic novel in which two comatose wizards' dreams manifest deadly monsters in each other's kingdoms, and a determined Keeper must navigate treacherous alliances and confront
ancient evils to protect her land. Publication is slated for spring 2027; the author represented himself, and Laurel Symonds at KT Literary represented the illustrator.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god..... I'm so sad, I feel like this guy only just retired recently, one of the greatest artists ever. The documentation about how he went about designing and illustrating his posters taught me so much. Go read up on it, as an artist you gotta. 😔

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

Just saw on IG that Drew Struzan has died. RIP to the man who painted my childhood.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom by Struzan

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