Nadine Takvorian - ARMAVENI (March 10, 2026)

I’m so excited for this event at the Cartoon Art Museum! Come check us all out at this panel and book signing!

A blue background with a small author photo with the book title ARMAVENI on top. It lists a mini bok your with dates to four different bookstore events in CA during March and April.

I’m excited to announce 4 bookstore events where I’ll be speaking about ARMAVENI! I’d love to see you there!

Book signing at Green Apple Books on Clement St.

Mrs. Dalloway’s Books in Berkeley.

Linden Tree Books in Los Altos.

Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena!

RSVP links in bio!

I love it and I wanna dance!

Thank you so much for amplifying!

@deenamlv.bsky.social Oh, thank you for amplifying! I’m really excited to share this story with everyone.

Thank you to @armenianliterary.org for the post!

Thank you, @armenianliterary.org!

"IN OBSERVANCE & SOLIDARITY". Two black speech bubbles with white text read "HOURLY COMICS DAY IS NOW ON FEB 8TH. CARTOONISTS HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. FEB 1 - MAR 1". There is an illustration of a black silhouetted hand raised and holding a pen in the top right, and an illustration of a nib pen and an ink well personified on the bottom right. The nib and ink are bumping fists. A URL at the bottom is "hourlycomicsday.com".

Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

An image of a book cover titled Armaveni. Above is the word Kirkus and a star, indicating a starred review. Below the quote says, “Masterful storytelling… The art brilliantly captures emotion s through expressive body language, strategic use of negative space, and page turns that will leave readers breathless.”

We’ve got the first trade review for ARMAVENI and its a star from Kirkus!!! I can’t believe it. . . Thank you to Kirkus for this beautiful review, and a massive thank you to all the team at Levine Querido.

ARMAVENI comes out March 10th and it’s available for preorder now from your favorite indie!

Wow, thank you @comicbookyeti.com for such a thoughtful and lovely review. I am so grateful!

ICE OUT Cartoonists against ICE Calling on cartoonists and artists to tell your stories about the ICE occupation of your towns and cities! *4-panel comics* *3:4 Instagram format* Use this Blue: *There is a color drop block of blue to copy * Use these hashtags: #iceout[your city] #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics

Cartoonists, I’d love to hear your stories! For local resources, please check out @defend612.bsky.social
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THIS. This entire thread. Please read and understand why creating art for a graphic novel is undertaking a marathon.

Oh my god, Maggie.

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

GAH, this is gorgeous!

Ah, thank you so much for resharing! And my pub date was moved up to March 10!

A cover page with a black and white of a burning phoenix in a palm tree.

If you’d like to see a FREE sneak peek of my upcoming YA graphic novel ARMAVENI, just sign up for my newsletter!
You’ll also get character designs PLUS, a link to a Spotify playlist I created as a soundtrack to the story.

Click the link in my bio and sign up to get your free PDF of the goodies!

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

I just cancelled our Disney plus subscription.

Yay, Stan!!! 🎉

Noooooooo!

Thank you so much, Hrag! 🙏

An illustrated book cover with a decorative blue border and two girls’ faces gazing at us from within the border. A single white palm frond separates them.

✨COVER REVEAL✨ of my debut YA graphic novel ARMAVENI coming April 14, 2026 with Levine Querido.

☀️ A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

📚 PREORDERS are now available. Link in bio!

#armavenigraphicnovel #levinequerido #coverreaveal #graphicnovel #armenian

As someone who has family in Istanbul, I can say that Erdogan has ruined the country and everyone wants to leave.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Great thread. ⬇️ Read it!

Miniature of King David and decorative headpiece in an Armenian Saghmosaran (psalter) dating to 1651. (BzBz 00015)

Digitization & cataloging is complete for a subset of nearly 400 manuscripts at the Convent of Our Lady of Bzummār in Lebanon.

A significant portion of the collection includes rare volumes of homilies and biblical commentaries by renowned #Armenian vardapets. Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

When the ax came to the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us."
~ Armenian proverb

Երբ որ կացինը եկաւ անտառ, ծառերը ըսին. «կոթը մեզմէ է»:

My crit partner Freeman Ng’s book is on this list! Bridge Across the Sky. Check it out!

“This historical novel in verse is superb, conveying the magnitude of disrespect, hatred, and racist practices Chinese immigrants had to endure.”