Landlord: You're not getting your deposit back
Me [petting one of my penguins]: Why

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EW Illustrator Highlight: April showers bring May flowers A sample of the work of East West Literary Agency's talented illustrator clients.

APRIL showers bring MAY flowers --#Illustrator Highlight mailchi.mp/eastwestlite...
Featuring
@heatherbrockmanlee.bsky.social
@shihopate.bsky.social
@kirkreedstrom.bsky.social
@dowphumiruk.bsky.social
gelakalaitzidis.bsky.social
@lucianaillustra.bsky.social
@k8cosgrove.bsky.social & more!

I had a great time as a featured author and panelist at last Saturday's @coteenlitcon. Pictured are event sponsor Louise Campbell from The Booking Tree (my booking agent) and fellow @scbwirockymtn member, keynote, @leslie.vedder, pictured in my #outofcontextnotes

#ctlc2026

don’t invite me to your party unless you have a mystery for me to solve

plaque on a bench in loving memory of me. I'm not dead yet, just self centered.

aged twat with a partial walrus tash.

Low key self portrait.

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Fabulous!

Squirrel Draws BIG Feelings @erindealey.bsky.social @lucianaillustra.bsky.social @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social

Just Flowers @k8cosgrove.bsky.social Sleeping Bear #kidlitmegafeed #skybrarians

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Nonsense meme with a close up of a fish

Suspicious….

I met a woman today who named her child Lettuce. So that person exists

"Gen AI" is not politically neutral, even & especially when using it against political opponents. This isn't some "tying a hand behind your back" situation, this is literally harming yourself and everyone else by giving legitimacy and credence to a deeply dangerous technisocial paradigm. So stop it.

Some of you haven't devoted your lives to creating value for the shareholders and it shows.

I enjoy the versions that vaguely insult me for having the nerve to exist without their robot marketing skills.

Group photo of society of Illustrators and 4 artists who they sponsored for Bologna Children’s Book Fair, diverse group of men and women standing together in front of a pink wall

Pink haired white lady b/w dress - selfie in front of an illustration of a child brown with black hair carrying a dog and a flashlight exploring moths on purple flowers

Name & book plate info of my art piece in the Society of Illustrators Bologna Book Fair Exhibition

I'm clearly a @soi128 superfan... but thank you isn't big enough for how grateful & fortunate I am to know them.
My Pollinator Garden by Jordan Zwetchkenbaum, art by me (Kate Cosgrove) pub by holidayhouse
#kidlit #societyofillustrators #bolognachildrensbookfair #originalartexhibition #nytbs

Pink haired white lady in b/w dress holding a microphone

Portrait of pink haired white lady by illustrator@MOHAJEK

Positive review from an artist who attended my workshop

Bologna Children’s Book Fair catalog description of my drawing workshop

Having my own workshop, thanks to @soi128 at
bolognachildrensbookfair was BEYOND cool...
I was blown away by the talented, sensitive & kind artists from all over the globe, in that room with me!
An extremely special experience that I will never forget!
#kidlit #illustratorsurvivalcorner #kidlitart

That’s why we get along 😆

Dangit!!! That would be so cool! But then I’d never want to leave the UK & 5 years later you’d find me laying on the rocky shore- dressed like an octopus.

I love this!!! You look simultaneously old timey & contemporary. 🤘🖤🔥

Portrait of the artist as an aging twat. bald and bearded with a 8x10 camera

oh hey what's this behind your ear [pulls out a Friday night]

‘That’ll be the end’: actor Sam Neill joins fight to stop controversial goldmine near his New Zealand vineyard Neill says ‘one of the most beautiful and remote places in the world’ will be permanently changed if Bendigo-Ophir wins fast-track approval

‘That’ll be the end’: actor Sam Neill joins fight to stop controversial goldmine near his New Zealand vineyard

i need authors and agents to be much louder with their publishers how much they hate gen ai and make it embarrassing/financially harmful for publishers to be associated with it at every level (incl marketing, publicity, and sales)

Art by Micah Player. B/W drawing of small Muslim Iranian child holding a sign that says People Live.

Art by Micah Player

Kate Cosgrove on Instagram: "Wonky Moth ©2026 Kate Cosgrove I felt like doodling with my favorite BIC Xtra Sparkle Mechanical Pencil. @bic.create #humandrawing #kidlit #ASMR #nytbestseller #penci... 41 likes, 6 comments - k8cosgrove on April 3, 2026: "Wonky Moth ©2026 Kate Cosgrove I felt like doodling with my favorite BIC Xtra Sparkle Mechanical Pencil. @bic.create #humandrawing #kidlit #ASM...

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I’m exhausted & disgusted by psychotic monsters.

Drawing to distract my brain from crumbling in on itself. Here’s a wonky moth in pencil.

Screenshot of a tweet by Rep. Ted Lieu stating that U.S. military law prohibits war crimes, including strikes on civilian infrastructure that cause disproportionate harm. The tweet warns that service members must disobey illegal orders and could face prosecution by a future administration if they commit war crimes.

Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.