@okieelliott
portfolio: rachelelliott.me luvs comedians tacos comics queer kentucklahoman teacher she/her/y’all author-illustrator of THE REAL RILEY MAYES (harpercollins 2022) and ZEB AND BEL (harpercollins 2026) all views and expressions are mine, not my employers’
Kelly Norman Ellis, Dorian Hairston, Nita Jade, & yours truly, upfromsumdirt...
everyone but Nita has at least 1 publication out ‐ so please search for their work, either at your local library, fave bookstore, or order directly from their publishers.
was a good poetry night - 35 years of the Affrilachian Poets; 17 poets read work, including: Nikky Finney, Crystal Wilkinson, Frank X Walker, Jeremy Paden, Randall Horton, Gerald Coleman, Joy Priest, Amy Alvarez, Makalani Bandele, Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Ellen Hagan, Parneshia Jones, Danni Quintos,
well you never know
now you are relieved .
oh dear! i hope you get some good rest 💜
i mean like two dimensional photos
not actual real life bodies
heads cut and pasted onto other bodies are so funny
I have a question that might be answerable by someone affiliated with NASA — it's for a wish kid
If that might be any of you, could you DM me?
“i’m gonna put you on saxophone.”
“you mean speake-“
🎷😌 🎶 🎵
it could be more effective all around
Small baby goat smelling a tortoise's eye
Meeting Uncle Jeremy
Bella, a brown and white short haired tabby, lying on her back with her paws curled up and her eyes closed
Wow!!!!!! She's perfect??
i misread “speakerphone” as “saxaphone”
they can handle anything.
"WAS THE GOAT DRINKING ORANGE JUICE AFTER BRUSHING THEIR TEETH!!??"
"i love how you made the dash to get hot dogs go on and on."
"wouldn't the clown bear pause between the question and the punch line of the joke, to give the man in the elevator time to answer or say " i dunno"?"
"It took me awhile to understand this sentence, is he CALLING the person "pilgram", like John Wayne?"
HOLY COW!!!! congrats!!!
Promotional image for Speaking in Pictures by Neil Cohn
Happy Book Day! My graphic novel Speaking in Pictures is finally out in the world! I planned this book for over 20 years and spent 7 years writing and drawing it, so I hope everyone enjoys reading it as much as I did creating it 🥳 www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip
All the usual suspects are already well-represented in the replies: Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side, Bloom County, Fox Trot. So I'll toss out Wallace the Brave, which I've only been reading for a couple of years but which has been consistently delightful.
www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-...
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
A graphic announcing the Cartoonist Cooperative’s Anti-Censorship statement. Art shows the Co-op's mascots Inkling and Nibford busting through a wall of black bricks, revealing red comic panels behind it. Text in a word balloon reads "Free Expression Now!"
In the second image, black text reads “The Cartoonist Cooperative Demands Free Expression: A Statement Against Censorship in Comics and the Arts” on a background of whited out red comic panels.
The third image shows the same whited-out red comic panels and reads “The Cartoonist Cooperative is committed to forging a world where all are allowed the freedom to create and partake in art where all are free to choose and engage with a wide range of political, moral, and aesthetic ideas, beyond those held by any single institution, government, or religious group. Censorship is always a tool of the state to suppress dissent, fracture communities, and instill ignorance and fear. The Cartoonist Cooperative is firmly anti-censorship in all forms.”
The Cartoonist Cooperative collectively stands against censorship and views it as our communal responsibility to fight for freedom of speech. We are committed to forging a world where all are allowed the freedom to create and partake in art!
Read our full statement: cartoonist.coop/anticensorsh...
Pittsburgh and nearby friends! I am having a book launch and short talk at The Big Idea Co-op Bookstore on March 28th, it is free, and you should totally save the date and come listen to me run my mouth about how to fight burnout. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative
i hope he got released and i hope that’s a Stillwater Milling hat
*in Meryl Streep voice* NOW open for public comment?!
guyz guyz guyz … ….
things come in threes