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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙

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MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH (Holiday House). LIKE THAT ELEANOR (Cardinal Rule Press). #KIDLIT author/illustrator. Comics geek. Trekkie. Squirrel Girl enthusiast. “Endearingly sarcastic.” Rep: @tajmccoy.bsky.social Www.Authorkellymangan.com #NoAIArt

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 12d

It's #KidLitArtPostcard day!

I’m queer, neurodiverse #KidLitArt illustrator who favors
- sketchy lines
- painterly color
- playful patterns
- luscious lighting
- quirky characters
- tons of texture
- sweetly subversive humor

www.authorkellymangan.com/portfolio
Rep: @tajmccoy.bsky.social

A tiny autumn fairy-- in tweed pants, cap, and coat-- is carrying a heavy acorn and is about to fall because their pet ladybug is running between their feet.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 40m

Likenesses are SO HARD, and yet you do them SO well!

Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 42m

I can’t wait. It’s in my TBR.

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Sojung Kim-McCarthy @creativesojung.bsky.social · 45m

Happy #PortfolioDay! I’m a Korean illustrator based in the UK. I illustrate PB-MG & would love to work on stories about ordinary brave girls✨Finding & helping community✨Folktales!

Repped by Susan Hawk @ Upstart Crow Literary

🖼️ sojungkimmccarthy.art
✉️ [email protected]

#KidLitArt

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1h

B and C are the only acceptable answers, imho. A people are just eating chocolate cake.

Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 8h

Happy #PortfolioDay! I'm a #KidLit illustrator of the Kirkus-starred picture book LIKE THAT ELEANOR (written by Lee Wind), and author of the upper middle-grade novel MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH.

Tiny autumn fairy carrying a heavy acorn, tripping over her pet ladybug

A boy in a DnD tshirt surprised and delighted to see a tiny warrior elf popping out of his nintendo switch

Cover design for my picture book dummy, FLORA'S PERFECTLY FINE FACE

Two panel comic highlighting the similarities and differences in cat-calling when a girl is skinny vs when she is fat. In short, they both suck.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you!!

Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 20h

Finished it. I feel like I’m getting the hang of gouache.

Woman with fist in air and hair made of fire. The word resistance is all around her. Gouche on wood board.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

Found a wooden board in my pile of crafting stuff. Decided to paint on it some. Not finished yet. But you get where it’s going.

Woman with her fist in the air, her hair is made of fire, and the words “resist” and “resistance” in different fonts and sizes are scribbled everywhere.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

Like, after a grace period, I mean. Or people who are repeat offenders. Not trying to be an asshole.

Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh 100%. When they drop the watermark— or other companies reproduce their business model without one— then we are well and truly screwed.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

FYI, I will be blocking any accounts I see sharing AI video. And I recommend others do the same.

Take it as a reminder/warning to check sources before you share a post.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

In case you aren’t aware, any video you see with the label “Sora” is A.I. generated. It’s fake.

Do NOT make or share #AI videos. It contributes to misinformation, and to a larger culture of disrespect for truth and disregard of reality.

Plus it enriches capitalist techbros raping the planet.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

Reasons why you need a copy of WEIWEI’S WINTER SOLSTICE by @michellejingchan.bsky.social for your bookshelf:

1. Will make you look forward to colder weather
2. Sweet story about a girl celebrating Dongzhi
3. Themes of family, togetherness, & change
4. Gorgeous, glowy art
5. Yummy food & a recipe!

Me and my kids with a copy of WEIWEI’S WINTER SOLSTICE

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

a close up of a person 's face with the words nooo written below it

ALT: a close up of a person 's face with the words nooo written below it

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

Share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

“Here’s a story idea!”

Followed shortly thereafter by “We’ll split the profits!”

Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 2d

Mother-in-law’s rhyming picture-book manuscript

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh god. I just involuntarily shivered.

Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting this one from a couple weeks ago. So, if somebody is a falconer, but their bird is a phoenix, would they be a phoenixer? 🤔

Foreground: falconer with rear running down their face is releasing their phoenix. Midground: their friend watches, leaning on her walking stick and shielding her eyes from the sun. She has a prosthetic leg. Background: mountains

Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

Lorena Bobbitt knew how to handle men like that.

a man in a red apron is sharpening a knife with a sharpener

ALT: a man in a red apron is sharpening a knife with a sharpener

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 2d

Uggggh. That makes a sick sort of sense. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 2d

Sold.

Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 3d

Why do these people decorate the outsides of their houses? When they are so clearly like DONT EVEN CONCEIVE OF ME

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 3d

I loved that one. So heartfelt. Such great illustrations. I really need to pick up the next volume.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 5d

Right?? Love that one.

Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 5d

Right? A book encouraging a Latinx girl to run for president. So inappropriate. Also in the “They’re not even pretending it’s not racism” category, these 2 have been banned too. In a news story about it, one of the ban-supporting parents said the books “make white kids feel bad.” 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

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Bloomsbury Books US @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social · 7d

Happy #pubday to WEIWEI'S WINTER SOLSTICE by @michellejingchan.bsky.social!
This picture book introduces the customs and traditions of an important Chinese holiday, Dongzhì, in a story that bursts with color and light to warm even the darkest days of winter.
www.michellejingchan.com/weiweis-wint...

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