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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday we celebrated the 5th bday of Rise x Workshop at the Brooklyn Children's Museum! As a special treat, I traded portraits with readers (big and small). Grateful so many visitors were brave and willing to play—the results were surprising and very, very lovely.

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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · 19d

See you soon Chappaqua! #chappaquabookfestival #childrensbooks

Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · 19d

About last weekend! 😁 #bkbookfest

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Children's B🎃🎃kshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · Sep 4

Coming soon: new projects from @diterlizzi.bsky.social @tanisiateemoore.bsky.social @nikismithcomics.bsky.social @studioroxas.bsky.social + more buff.ly/9sPHt6A

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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Jul 25

I love comics and I love the USPS, so I am excited to know that they are releasing a set of Chris Ware stamps!!! 😍https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/22/us-postal-service-needed-stamps-to-celebrate-its-250th-anniversary-local-cartoonist-chris-ware-delivered/

USPS Needed Stamps For Its 250th Anniversary. Local Cartoonist Chris Ware Delivered

Ware, a contributor to The New Yorker who began his career in Chicago’s alt weeklies, designed a sheet of 20 stamps that show a mail carrier's neighborhood journey. The stamps go on sale Wednesday.

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John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social · Jul 11

Hey, @kewrites.bsky.social and @studioroxas.bsky.social! Look what I saw in a bookshop at LaGuardia Airport

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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Jul 24

Aw man! So awesome!! Thank you John!!

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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Jun 14

Yay and congratulations to us! :)

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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thrilled to learn *LEO'S FIRST VOTE* was selected to be on
@bankstreet.edu list of Best Children’s Books of the Year! What an honor! Thank you :)

Full list: www.bankstreet.edu/library/cent...

#picturebooks #YoungReaders #elections #kidlitbestlit #currentaffairs #readyourworld

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John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social · Jun 7

"A rhinoceros is a ton of fun to draw, especially the rambunctious, naughty kind. Our blue Rhino is practically all belly—you can hear him galumphing into a room!" @studioroxas.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/06/neve...

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John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social · Jun 4

"Never Take Your Rhino on a Plane’s illustrations were created using cut paper, crayons and pencils." — @studioroxas.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/06/neve...

Never Take Your Rhino on a Plane by K.E. Lewis and Isabel Roxas

Happy Wednesday from Alaska! I'm grateful K.E. Lewis and Isabel Roxas stopped by to finish my sentences. We discussed Never Take Your Rhino ...

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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Jun 4

NEVER TAKE YOUR RHINO ON A PLANE is out in the wild! We're celebrating with a milkshake or two (or three!) #funnybooks #summerreading #cautionarytales #kidlitbestlit

Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Mar 25

RHINO has just received a lovely review from Kirkus and we are thrilled!

AVAILABLE TO PREORDER - NEVER TAKE YOUR RHINO ON A PLANE Words by K.E. Lewis Pictures by Isabel Roxas

#kelewis #isabelroxas #clarionbooksfyr #kidlit #childrensliterature #picturebooks #funnybooks #humor #silly #airplanebook

Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Mar 25

“The comically over-the-top illustrations, created with cut paper, oil pastels, and acrylic, will arouse guffaws; the bright blue rhino is quite endearing, and readers will easily forgive him for his naughty behavior.
A hilarious flight of fancy.”

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School Library Journal @slj.com · Mar 7

“In 2020 everybody sprinted to hire diversity candidates, and…you can’t sustain a sprint for five years. We’re now seeing as a publishing community that we need to be in it for the long term. This takes stamina, consistency, intentionality, strength, and commitment.” - Andrea Davis Pinkney

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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Feb 4

Join us for a FREE panel on creating a graphic novel on ZOOM Sat, February 22, 2025 1:00 P.M. libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...

Events: Lay it on the Line: Creating a Graphic Novel with Angela Dominguez, Jamar Nicholas, and Isabel Roxas

In November 1964, Richard Kyle coined the term graphic novel in Richard Kyles Wonderworld 2, written for the second issue of the comics fanzine Capa-Alpha. In his essay, Kyle used the term to describe...

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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Jan 9

Sad to be deinstalling this show, but so happy &grateful to have shared Team Pom with Brooklyn Public Library friends & community for most of 2024. It was a huge honor & loads of fun! Fingers crossed our little show will travel. If you have a library or store with free wall space, get in touch!

Curator Cora have a wee chat with Ruby model in Central Brooklyn Public Library.

Vitrine with a model small model of Roberta being held up by a tentacle. Palette ideas and sketches for Roberta and the Crane claw; poem The Snowman by Shel Silverstein—inspiration for Team Pom's doomed Synchronized Swimming routine

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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Jan 3

The Holiday boar wishes you and yours a prosperous, snack-filled and cozy New Year!

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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Jan 3

Thanks for sharing @louiestowell.bsky.social Happy New Year!

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Isabel Roxas (Isabel Raw-hass) @studioroxas.bsky.social · Nov 26

How Squid Happened, a behind-the-scenes look at The Adventures of Team Pom, has been extended thru January 4, 2026. Youth Wing, Central Brooklyn Public Library.

Exhibition of work-in-progress sketches of The Adventures of Team Pom at the Youth Wing of Central Brooklyn Public Library. Display of characters—Ruby, black girl with glasses and an afro, Roberta a small asian character with a top knot, and Agnes, a Mexican American girl with pigtails. Vitrines contain sketches, several versions of Squid Happens covers.

Handwriting specimen for conversion into typeface. Scale model of Ruby (young black girl with glasses, afro and wearing a red-orange tracksuit) made of wool, fabric and clay. Background contains artwork from Team Pom volume 2: The Last Dodo, as well as sketches.

Young children (one white, one black) looking at Team Pom display of scale model of Mr. Gilbert and Monsieur Georges (rats in suits) made of white polymer clay. Digital printouts of a subway chase scene from Team Pom Volume 2: The Last Dodo in the background.

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