Veronica Mang

Why is my face in PW? Well well well... ☺️

Made a tiny stamp of Piccolo last night ❤️

Sorry Baby (my fave of the year) and No Other Choice getting snubbed while F1 (F1!!) is nominated for best picture is genuinely clinically hurting my brain

On my knees begging, pleading, cryinggg for publishers and authors to credit their cover illustrators online. help me help them get more work. please. please!

for my beloved Capricorns 🐐

"For too long those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty."
- Mayor Mamdani.

I love that design isn't even in this

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Delighted to find a very early copy of COPLAND at my door this morning! This book was a bit like printmaking: I wasn't sure how the pieces would come together until holding it in my hand! thank you to Lucia Baez & Kate Renner for lending your terrific design eyes 👁❤️ #kidlit #childrensbooks

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Hi #PortfolioDay ✍️ I'm Veronica Mang, a kids book writer and illustrator! Sharing snippets from my next book, Copland: A Story About America, out in February ❤️ Would love to tackle another book in collage! more at veronicamang.com ❤️

Found drawing from August (summer, I miss you!)

First review is in for COPLAND and it is a ⭐️ !
Thank you Kirkus! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Birthday card for my love <3

Found sketch, a tiny Piccolo in pink 💗

Emerging from a deadline with snippets to share ❤️ From my picture book biography of Aaron Copland, out next spring. More to share soon 💐

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

(Important)

Winter girl no. 2 #sketchbook

Winter girl no. 1 #sketchbook

Who did you survey, lol

Bringing it to 🦋 by request:

People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.

Please be real for a second guys

Beep beep 🚗💨

Just a reminder for no particular reason at all

Study from my current work in progress ✂️✨ #kidlitart #kidlit #childrensbooks

A playful cartoon drawing of a mouse who is ice skating and holding a giant pretzel. The mouse is overjoyed! It is snowing all around him as he skates. His tail is flowing in the wind.

Happy December 1st ❤️❄️🥨 Look, it’s me! #kidlitart

Working like this is slow, sure! But my busy-body-ass cannot stare at a computer for months and that, above all else, is why I do not work digitally, lol. (That, and the quirks that come from working by hand! Look at that leaf! *mwah*)

It’s hard to figure out what materials to use for a project. What I’ve been asking myself (and what I advise students to consider) is: “can I sit and make work like this for months on end?”