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⭐ BOOKLIST GAVE BUNNYBIRDS A STARRED REVIEW! ⭐

"In this magnificent, hilarious, and heartwarming adventure, readers follow Princess Aster of the bunnybirds as she teams up with Carlin, a rogue bunnybird turned thief, on a quest to rescue their missing flock beyond the cliff...With its richly developed characters and vividly depicted world, [Bunnybirds] captivates readers and leaves them eagerly anticipating the next installment."

You can read the full review here!

#FJAKDLSJFALKSJDLA #I'M!!!! NOT FREAKING OUT (I'M TOTALLY FREAKING OUT) #colored pencil #2024 debut #graphic novel

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Some more preview pages! Carlin has quite the explosive personality.

[Preorder available here!]

#bunnybirds #2024 debut #colored pencil #graphic novel

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In Princess Aster's world, bunnybirds live in contented isolation, keeping themselves detached from the world in order to practice magic. Nothing is ever wrong, and no one is ever angry...even as Aster's people seem to be slowly disappearing. When her father is next to vanish, Aster resolves to find and rescue the missing bunnybirds—even if it means journeying over the rim of the world itself!

My middle grade graphic novel is officially available for preorder! Bunnybirds is a story about trauma, friendship, and my experience with autistic masking. It was drawn entirely with Prismacolor colored pencils and Pandafly markers, with Photoshop applied for color enhancement and text.

Check it out maybe! :D

That last panel with Carlin (the brown bunnybird) facing the corner was directly inspired by this wonderful TMA comic by @nubs-mbee!

#colored pencil #2024 debut #graphic novel #if you're wondering whether the bunnies are gay #of course they're gay who do you think I am #they get a lil face-lick kiss as the end of the book #and Carlin is explicitly referred to as Aster's girlfriend in book two #there's poly on the horizon as well if my publisher allows it! Keep your fingers crossed for me y'all

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how to erase pencil guidelines from under ink

1. wait until you’re absolutely sure the ink is dry

2. wrong

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More adventures in cafe body doubling! This cafe let me hunker down with a cold brew caramel macchiato and churn out pages like 3-4 days of the week...I owe that store my LIFE, I tell you!

This panel became a big part of page 117:

#comics #colored pencil #2024 debut #graphic novel

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I got SUPER burned out about 2/3 of the way through Bunnybirds, but I discovered I could still make myself work when I brought my supplies to a cafe (apparently there's a productivity strategy called "body doubling!").

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Page 43! The wonderful graphic designer assigned to my book (shout out to Chris!) thought to use this page in the place of a traditional book summary on the back of the hardcover addition! What a great idea! I feel like this page really captures the conflict between Aster (the white bunny) and Carlin (the red-orange-brown bunny) without giving too much away. I also like that the wind makes an appearance, since the wind holds a lot of spiritual significance for these characters.

#comics #colored pencil #graphic novel #the wind gets brought up more in book two #but yeah #the wind is kind of a fickle reaper #it 'takes you' whenever it wants #which sometimes means you die early...or that you can't seem to die at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #sorry Potenmitt and Edwin lol #the wind can also carry the voices of the deceased #the characters are able to take refuge amongst 'the whistling stones' in book one (like...the wind whistles through these stones) #because it's well-known that like #if you hunt in that particular area #the spirits of the dead will follow you when you leave

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December 2023 update! "Bunnybirds" is officially available for preorder, with its release slated for May 2024!

Pictured: Princess Aster (white bunny), Carlin the rogue bunnybird trickster (brown bunny), and Feet the sand dog (screaming)

In Princess Aster's world, bunnybirds live in contented isolation, keeping themselves detached from the world in order to practice magic. Nothing is ever wrong, and no one is ever angry...even as Aster's people seem to be slowly disappearing.

When her father is next to vanish, Aster resolves to find and rescue the missing bunnybirds—even if it means journeying over the rim of the world itself!

Preorder here: 🐇

#colored pencil #2024 debut #graphic novel #middle grade graphic novel #bunnybirds

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Update from several years later?!? Holy cow, the book is drawn and sent to my editor. Just gotta fix a couple typos here and there and we should be good to go. What a wild couple of years!

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The fact that the concept for the Weaver and the geysers came from my unfinished Gravity Falls fic...whEEZE

#never let anyone tell you fanfic isn't helpful lol

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Sent in the first draft of the script two days ago! EEEEEEEEEEE

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Me every five minutes:

#…I’m looking back at this post years later and realizing I should specify that I’m talking about a character named Feet lmao

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-Thinks about my last post- OH MY GOD AM I TRYING TO WRITE CARLIN LIKE JUNO STEEL

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This entire script-writing process is just me sitting at my escape room desk trying to motivate myself with various snacks and thinking, “Kabert would’ve come up with a better gag here” over and over and over