Jarod Roselló

A six panel comic strip, featuring a human boy named Hugo and his dinosaur best friend named Dino. Hugo finds a magic rock and tries to figure out what powers it grants him. First he tries to fly, but it doesn’t work. Then he thinks it makes him invisible, but it doesn’t. Frustrated, he tosses the rock away. It smacks Dino in the had. Hugo has a revelation: “Oh, it gives me the power to throw rocks!” Hugo replies from on the floor after getting hit: “Hooray, we figured it out.”

A SUPER MAGIC BOY comic strip to start off your week. #comics #graphicnovels #kidlit #animation

Yeah! He gets it! Has he read I Am a Slime Monster? If not, I can bring you one for him!

A panel from today’s work-in-progress. Taking a quick break from Red Panda & Moon Bear 3 to work on some new Hugo & Dino comics! I haven’t talked about this project yet, but I’ve got something cool in the works!

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A comic book page drawn by dogs from within the world of the comic, so it’s simplistic, showing evil, sentient green slime taking over their living room.

Today’s page-in-progress: In RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3, the dogs give cartooning a try and release their own comic book. Here’s a page from the comic-within-a-comic.

#comics #kidlit #childrensgraphicnovels #mglit #childrensbooks

I used to get the bulk of my school visit requests during Latinx Heritage Month, but even that’s dried up. And regardless, I’ve never been invited to a paid school visit, only ever free volunteer visits, mostly virtual. A career day if I’m lucky.

Thanks! Me too!

Cartoon drawing of Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

A little Donatello warm-up drawing to get the day started! #comics #ninjaturtles #tmnt #graphicnovels #kidlit

This looks so good!

Super Magic Boy Book 3: I Am A Slime Monster In this third volume of the Super Magic Boy series, Hugo has just finished the second book of his favorite series, Sponge Man, and wants to...

Check out I Am A Slime Monster by @jarodrosello.bsky.social! All three of my kids have read and loved it, especially the titular slime monster. My kids are really into villains, it turns out, and fun, vivid comics. The latest entry in the Super Magic Boy series certainly entertains :)

Injustice For All, by SkyTigers 9 track album

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Super into this SkyTigers album. Just awesome thrashy hardcore punk. Put it on and make some art!

Thanks man! These were fun books to make!

So glad you and your kids enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing the book!

Today’s page-in-progress for RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3. No dialogue to avoid spoilers. This page is inked and ready to be colored.

#comics #kidlit #graphicnovels #childrensbooks

New children's book in the works. Just a classic defeating evil story. Publishers, hit me up if you want this one.

#comics #graphicnovels #kidlit #childrensbooks

Cover for Mike Maihack's upcoming fantasy graphic novel, THE MOONLIT SPIRAL. Out in shops 10/6/26 from Candlewick Press and available for preorder right now!

Excited to announce that ✨THE MOONLIT SPIRAL✨, my first creator-owned original graphic novel since Cleopatra in Space, arrives in shops 10/6/26 from Candlewick Press. 🩵

Young in Iran A collection of 32 personal and emotional memoir comics by Gen Z comic creators in Iran.

I just backed Young in Iran on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/saw...

Can't wait to read it!

FUN TIME OMNIBUS Vol. One A 72 page omnibus collecting issues 1-3 of the self-published FUN TIME 'zine series written and drawn by Mike Dawson

I just backed @mikedawson.bsky.social's FUN TIME OMNIBUS Vol. One on www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Beautiful cover! Looking forward to reading it!

And we are all the better for it!

Looks awesome! Is this the Destiny dragon story we've all been waiting for?

A two panel cartoon done in sketches introducing a not-for-profit, online hub for librarians to shop for independent comics

A two-panel cartoon explaining the Artist Alley section and how to shop

A two panel cartoon explaining how the works are sold and shipped and how the site will be promoted

A two panel cartoon calling for folks to volunteer for the board of directors

I am founding a not-for-profit website where independent comic creators and small publishers can easily sell their works to libraries, plus provide other services. Called (for now) the Comics Librarian Commons, this will be an online hub bringing independent creators and librarians together.

Thanks, Destiny!

It's pub day! I AM A SLIME MONSTER is officially out in the world today!

This is book 3 in the SUPER MAGIC BOY SERIES. Hugo and Dino have to stop an evil slime monster from making humans dumb by destroying all the books in the world.

Can they do it? Or will this be the last book you ever read?

Awesome! Congrats! I've always loved The Rumpus comics!

An out-of-context comics panel drawn in black and white. Moon Bear hugs Red Panda while Red Panda says, “That’s right! We’re heroes! We can’t let gravity win!”

RED PANDA & MOON BEAR 3 might have our same old heroes, but it’s got all new villains.

#comics #kidlit #childrensgraphicnovels #middlegrade

A comics page in 30 (ok, technically 33) panels - arranged five wide by six tall. We see the birth of the solar system unfold - beginning with a gas cloud in space, which is then shocked into collapse by a supernova explosion far off. The gas collapses on itself and begins to swirl. We see it gather material into its center, which heats up - and a thin disk spreading outward - with rock close to it and ice and gas and rock spread farther out. (this was the first two tiers of panels). Third tier - we see bits of dust and rock and ice stick together, then get to bigger pieces and collide, and eventually turn into planetesimals. Next row, a bigger one of these collects tons of gas and ice to itself and becomes the first planet (Jupiter) and we see the others (and some that are no longer around) form. Fifth row - these planets clear remaining dust and rock from their orbital lanes, but still pretty chaotic. a panel split into four - showing in half the collision that turned Uranus on its side, and the other showing the collision that stripped Mercury of its outer layer. We also see diagrammatically how Jupiter and Saturn moved in closer to sun at some point and then moved back outward - which among other things caused Neptune and Uranus to switch orbits, and then for row 6 - trigged the late heavy bombardment where rocks and ice and gas are flung inward at the inner planets - devastating them - but also bringing gases included water. Finally, the planets reach the more or less current configuration. I drew Saturn with a ring, which it probably didn't have - but only so people knew what it was. I drew earth with one giant continent as it might've been - but you can't really tell anyhow, the drawing is too tiny. I would've put water on Mars but I felt that would confuse everyone.

The birth of our solar system - at last, closing up the penultimate page of this mammoth chapter exploring the origin of the universe in all its swirls of different sorts... It's been a long trip. And there is, to be sure, a lot going on on this page :)
Onward!
#Nostos #Unflattening 2

Wow! That is so good!

Comics meditation with Tom Spurgeon. This is a line from one of my favorite essays by Tom, “All of These Things That Have Made Us” from 2011 on The Comics Reporter.

#comics #graphicnovels