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Queer Writer, Bestselling, Eisner & Ignatz nominated, fairy tales and lady knights enthusiast | She/Her 🇩🇴✨🏳️🌈 Work: THE LIBRARY OF MEMORIES (out 2026), TO DANCE THE MOON AND STARS (out 2026), THE CARDBOARD KINGDOM SERIES + OTHERS bio.site/mustachebabs
"Knowing that any reader may catch a thread ... that could lead to a new budding interest beyond the page is an awesome reward as a writer for young readers," Barbara Perez Marquez told @fanbasepress.bsky.social in an interview on a new volume in our YA #STEM graphic novel series, The Curie Society:
A graphic about the panel Tell Me a Tale: Creating Comics with Depth!
Coming to Awesome Con? Check out "Tell Me a Tale: Creating Comics with Depth" Saturday March 14th at 6:30pm in Room 206 and learn how creators write stories with emotional heft!
Featuring:
@smyercomics.bsky.social
@mustachebabs.com
@nikacomics.bsky.social
And moderated by myself @yukiclarke.com
a graphic with stationary items and a picture of the cover of the upcoming graphic novel "To All the Boys I've Loved Before the Graphic Novel" denoting 2 months until the book is out, it is also available for pre-order
We're two months out until To All the Boys I've Loved Before the Graphic Novel is out!✨
If you're a reviewer or have access to @netgalley.bsky.social, the eARC is available now!👀
Day 9 and 10 have been overshadowed with admin and rest, necessary but we trudge on, current deficit is at -11,568 (I hate it, but I understand it)
A black and white line drawing. The image shows a giant snake with a swastika for an eye. The snake is being killed by two medieval style knights, there are three downward facing arrows piercing the snakes neck. The caption reads: Teamwork.
Always a good day to make new friends
So awesome, congrats!!!
Thanks so much to @fanbasepress.bsky.social for having me for this lively chat, can’t believe The Curie Society: Game of Code will be out this month!
Check out the interview and don’t forget to pre-order! 👾🎮
PSA that if you started writing a page a day today, you’d have a full 5-issue series by June 17.
We are LIVE! We have next week off! We just stopped a murder at a cabaret (yay!) while we were supposed to be in hiding from the police (oops...)
twitch.tv/deuxdel
bookstores are getting increasingly conservative in their actual book buying numbers, so 1000% preorder that book you're excited about please. Every single copy helps.
Phone wallpaper if you want it
Day 8 was met with recovery needs so very little was achievable on the word count front, so today I am aching and on Day 9 at -9,778 😔 (this is also normal and fine and we will see where we land)
cover preview image for Hallowed Ground by Kevin Wada
HALLOWED GROUND
An Afterlife Horror Comic Anthology.
110+ pages, 12 stories of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, from LGBTQIA+ Creative Teams.
Launching March 23rd on Kickstarter:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
My full interview with @bjkicks.bsky.social about the critically-acclaimed comic NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE: THE DAKOTA INCIDENT from @dc.com and Milestone!
THE 2ND PRINTING IS COMING!
PRE-ORDER IT AT YOUR COMIC BOOK SHOP!
THE DAKOTA INCIDENT 100K CHALLENGE CONTINUES!
youtu.be/iTIKDLFPlpg?...
Women’s Day! Support Women and support women’s stories!!!💯💯💯
since it's international women's day y'all should send us women all your money tbh we deserve it
Us making sure the monocle stayed on the correct eye for Lawrence all thru The Library of Memories 😭
This was one of my big reminders over AWP: I need more women writers, more women artists, more women in creative roles!!! 🗣️
Women’s Day! Support Women and support women’s stories!!!💯💯💯
A bright orange background. A young woman dressed as Marie Antoinette. Huge curly pastel pink hair pinned up rococo style. Extravagant dress with some tears and stitches. She is carrying a big tray covered with a dome, with blood dripping down and a bloody hand print visible on the dome.
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
GO EXPLORE YOUR RAGE OK
have a nice one xx
Flat tire on the way to practice…hmmm…
This panel was so amazing and I know we could have talked for 3hrs more!✨
Had a lovely lunch with the Manhattanville MFA crew after, so could not have asked for a better end to AWP! 💯
Their sensibilities, Jen!!!
1hr until this!✨
H.R. 7661 would harm so many publishers, authors, and readers. Only the smallest sliver of human experience would make it onto shelves. If you think kids deserve the world, you are against this bill - please read this article and call your reps.
Sleeping wizards kickstarter at $11,111 with 11 days left
Make a wish!! 👀
🧙♂️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
Marvel, DC, WEBTOON, Skybound, Disney, HarperAlley, and more are hiring. #ComicJobs (March 2026)
Full list: www.thepopverse.com/comics-jobs-...
A graphic with a rowhome graphic in the background and Lawrence the palmchat on the foreground, it says information about the following panel: AWP26 Baltimore Where Ya at? “Home” in BIPOC Graphic Novels Saturday, March 7 at 12:10pm
Today at #AWP26: Join us to talk about home in BIPOC stories, I’ll be talking all about The Library of Memories and more!
See you at 12:10 in room 316!✨
@awpwriter.org
Yessss
A graphic with a photo of Barbara and the cover for the book “The Curie Society: Game of Code” denoting some of her other work and that she’ll be at Awesome Con Jr.
Next week, it’s @awesomecon.bsky.social time!✨
I’ll be tabling, running a daily workshop all about creating cool characters, and I’m on a panel Saturday evening!🚀