Redwood, Flower, Weeping Willow: PW Talks with Ricky Lima Lima pulls back the curtain on his latest comics collaboration, Undergrowth, and how working in publishing prepared him to release a book of his own.

NBCC board member @tobiascarroll.bsky.social spoke with @kingkrule.bsky.social about his new graphic novel for Publishers Weekly:

Hey Sam your table is p173

It'll be good to chat!

I have an artist Alley table so it's a different process. I got an email. But if I see a post with your table I'll let you know man.

My table at March comic con is A2104!! Will you be there? Come say hey.

Hey friends. I wanted to show off the cover to issue 3 of Soda Pop Pirates. This features a dope cover by einkstein and a brand spanking new logo by my bud Marcus. And of course the interior art features alkmerlin still killing it! Book three will be out for the March comic con.

You're the best.

Whoa undergrowths first nomination for something! Cool!! Thanks for always being a champion of comics Holly!

So proud to see Deja Ross Speaks to Freaks, Undergrowth, AND Wolfpitch on this incredible list of nominees from CBY. 💙 @topshelfcomix.bsky.social brings quality titles, every single year, and these were three of my personal faves.

Congrats to all the nominees!

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That's a solid list! No notes

Good good!

What's important is that you take care of yourself!

Dude! What did I just say in the panel?! Haha be kind to yourself. You got it up and it's awesome. Great job. Doesn't matter when you got it up.

Ricky Lima

I was at the recent MCX event and I recorded
the @kingkrule.bsky.social panel Be Kind to Yourself: A Guide to Surviving the Creative Process. It is @ thecomicbooks.com/audio.html#M...

Thanks so much for recording this!

Okay, so there’s one more signing event to cap off the year. And look at all these really cool Toronto creators?!

Damn yeah what's the point! Haha

Hahaha 😤 I got this!!!

Teach me how to be strong!

Rejection hurts me 😭

Are those free?

Thanks man. I appreciate the responses!

That's what I'm seeing too. I guess it'll just take time.

100%!! We don't need permission from anyone to do something. Haha sounds like we have the same view on things. *High five* haha

Makes sense... Now to do some soul searching on what I want to do exactly!

Oh dude! That's such a great point! I love that. It's so true! People get obsessed with that and dont make things. It's sad to see.

Is it worth the cut they take?!

Would you say it's worth the trouble though?

That makes a lot of sense. Hmm I think at the end of the day I'd want to get into the book market, but not necessarily exclusively in the YA space. Is that doable? Haha feels like the book market is dominated by YA.