Yes! Visuals are part of the communication. Treating them as ignorable decoration completely misses the point and it’s not how they’re received by an audience

I'm a big Moomin fan: I love Jansson way of to see the transcendent and magical in the natural world, the weird, the goofy, the softness that can just as easily shift to mischievous, alien, unknowable.
"Sometimes we build things to be solid and lasting and sometimes to be beautiful, sometimes both."

What's your favorite page in the entire calendar? July.

#tostoini #lamentino #manatee #toughworldsoftmanatees #2026

Reasonable questions:
How big is it? It's 20x20cm, once opened it's 20x40cm. It's square, stapled in the center, has a handy hole for hanging. In short, it's a calendar-shaped calendar.

Method 2: On etsy
www.etsy.com/it/listing/6...

How to get it:
1) on patreon. The holidays come once a year, but in this way, in addition to the calendar, you also get monthly doses of sillines, occasional existential reflections, and items of varying degrees of absurdity. Just sign up for the Coastal zone tier.
www.patreon.com/cw/tostoini

At the heart of Everything Everywhere All At Once is an undeniable fact: we're all small and stupid. Everything else depends on how, and with whom, you tackle this RIDICULOUS Everything Bagel.

Just be a rock, and ENJOY THE BAGEL. 🥯

Today, USN Expo festival begins, with 28 short films in competition from 15 countries, five days of screenings, meetings, books (and, of course, a party) and 25 new works dedicated to the history of queer cinema.

I used this page for a workshop with middle grade kids, a cheeky role play game on digital literacy, critical thinking and learning to recognize true facts from dubious information (or outright ai slop) when you're working on book on animal THIS odd.

I've enjoyed the usual dive into a tunnel of archive photos and material culture to see how Welsh men and women dressed in the last century, I was inspired for the mountain character from the cabotain hat that Welsh woman donned with the traditional clothes.

#illustration #editorialillustration

The illustrations were inspired by the characters' nicknames, they're called "allomingius" in Sardinian: they're used to identify which Vincenzo you're talking about among twenty Vincenzis with the same first & last name, there are maybe three family names passed down from generation to generation.