Some drawings from Away sketchbook innards from a month in China and Japan

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drawings from Shanghai and Japan!

Some sweet ones from Pat 🏔️

Hourly Comics Day 2026 pears for days

Hourly Comics from last week! open.substack.com/pub/verabee/...

That is a perfect skull.

Hahaha! Career highlight.

Aw thank you!

I wish I could be in two places at once! 🥲

Guilty as charged. 💅

I am at the Gaithersburg MD Book Festival tomorrow (free! Come!) and was just stopped in the elevator by a total stranger. “I know you. You have a reputation. You were the only person at the Decatur Book Festival who could get an Oreo from their forehead to their mouth with no hands.”

Heck yeah!!! Thanks Gabe!

California friends! I’ll be chatting it up with my buddy @thiendog.bsky.social at Bookshop Santa Cruz tomorrow at 4pm! Come say hi!

Yay! Books for days! Was the letter still minty?

this was a treat!

Return to Return to Sender words about words.

Return to Sender is out today! I wrote a little bit about it and where it came from (and where I came from!) over here: verabee.substack.com/p/return-to-...
Take a look, pick up a copy, share it with a kiddo. <3

Book is a very pretty object. Book has sprayed edges and embossed things and spot gloss and I love it. I hope you like it too. 🥲

It’s book! Hooray book. 🥰Consider pre-ordering book at your local independent bookstore!

Look! @VeraBrosgol.bsky.social and I made it into @publisherswkly.bsky.social’s IN BRIEF!
@01firstsecond.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social

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Talking to my pal Betsy about my new book!

I recognize your rods and cones are telling you it’s orange.

Nice hat. Though it’s not orange.

Adak Island the last island, the last post.

A last Rat Cruise post, as we finally reach Adak Island: open.substack.com/pub/verabee/...

Humidity, boss!

Today at Powell’s Books, with the amazing Maria van Lieshout! Come say hi!

I'm talking to my friend Vera about her book at the B&N in Hillsboro on 5/9 -- come on out!

I’m going on tour for my very first novel! Come see me! 🌟

Please come to the legendary @powells.bsky.social in Portland where I will be in conversation with the talented picture book creator, Caldecott Honoree and graphic novelist @verabrosgol.bsky.social about Song of a Blackbird. Hope to see you there!

#powellsbooks #graphicnovel #ww2 #authorevent

Portland Walks: South from Colonel Summers Park This is the second post in a series of walks around Portland, Oregon. I walk through the city every day anyway, so I figured…why not bring you with me? Once a month, or maybe a bit more often, you’…

I love a good walking blog.

"I pass a house where maybe ten years ago I saw a woman in her early sixties playing with a large, fluffy dog in the side yard. I remember specifically thinking about how happy she looked, how at ease."

@cariluna.bsky.social

She’s making ceramics now.

Photo of the Pants Press table at San Diego Comic Con 2003, L-R: Bill Mudron, Vera Brosgol, Clio Chiang, Jen Wang, Erika Moen, Karen (don't know last name), and Dylan Meconis.

For my free patrons: How my teen friends and I started making photo copied black and white minicomics, going to conventions, meeting our heroes, and eventually got For Reals published: www.patreon.com/posts/122891...

He lets me pick his plum tree every summer, too, and that is delicious also. 💜