🗣️An exciting Friday cover reveal for an upcoming CIVICS FOR ALL COMICS GROUP Hidden Voices comic, A STORY IN EVERY OBJECT!: An Asian American Comics Anthology with comics by Greg Pak shing yin khor Trung Lê Capecchi-Nguyễn (only kind of around) Nidhi SURFIN SHARKS 🌊🦈 MariNaomi (they/them) and Kolbe & Gene Luen Yang! Coming very soon‼️

I've never seen *anything* like Cecil Castellucci's Kickstarter, folks.

Fans of MariNaomi (they/them), D. (Dee-ana) Tamblyn, Scott Koblish, Pia Guerra, Nate Powell, Victoria Ying HUNGRY GHOST Out Now!, jo_pi, Hope Larson, Alison Sampson, Dan Santat, and @rachael take note!

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'Transgression requires a boundary in order to exist. Holocaust depiction and memory is often very boundaried, very controlled by propriety and solemnity, as it often should be.'

Read Leela Corman (MF 21) on VICTORY PARADE, in conversation w/MariNaomi (they/them): tcj.com/leela-corman-o…

It’s a new week, and we’re kicking it off with artist MariNaomi MariNaomi (they/them) interviewing Leela Corman, whose new book, Victory Parade, is out this week. Topics women’s wrestling, Yiddishkeit, and the power of transgressive art. tcj.com/leela-corman-o…

Author MariNaomi (they/them) knows Everyone Poops isn't porn. It's a fact of life. (And if you didn't know that, no shame! We have a book for you!) But city ordinance 4318 in Huntington Beach treats it like sexual content!

EveryLibrary PEN America

Thank you to Publishers Weekly for covering our press event w the Huntington Beach City Council members who voted against bans, Dan Kalmick, Rhonda Bolton 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 & Natalie Moser, along with Elana K. Arnold, Gretchen McNeil, MariNaomi (they/them) & Molly Knox Ostertag.

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Thank you, Los Angeles Times for covering the situation in Huntington Beach.

Elana K. Arnold, Molly Knox Ostertag, MariNaomi (they/them), and Gretchen McNeil all gave powerful statements to back up the hard work of Dan Kalmick Rhonda Bolton 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 & Natalie Moser.

Overturn 4318!

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I was busy while on vacation. Yesterday, in conjunction with AuthorsAgainstBookBans, Elana K. Arnold MariNaomi (they/them) Molly Knox Ostertag, maggie tokuda-hall (updates only) and I joined Huntington Beach council members to speak out again a recently passed ordinance aiming to restrict access to certain children’s books.

This just goes to show that book bans are a not only a red state issue.

In California alone, there were 38 ban attempts covering 78 titles in 2023.

Are you a book creator? Join the fight against book bans by signing up here:

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Authors Against Book Bans condemns Huntington Beach City Ordinance No. 4318, which takes away
the public's freedom to read, and unjustly targets LGBTQ books for removal.

Our CA members will fight this. Here's a letter from Dashka Slater:

HB Public Library, SupportHBPL, EveryLibrary

While the CA state legislature took action with AB1078 last session to help ensure that school
districts could not reject textbooks or school library books for discriminatory reasons, the passage of
Ordinance 4318 shows that book bans are still alive and well in CA. -MariNaomi (they/them)

Thanks to the contributors at THE COMICS JOURNAL who listed I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME and YOU ARE NOT A GUEST on their best of 2023 lists! MariNaomi (they/them)

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MariNaomi (they/them) I chose I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME as 1 of my fave graphic novels of 2023 in this year's COMIC NEWS INSIDER 'Best of 2023' podcast. #ComicNewsInsider

Wow! MariNaomi (they/them)'s I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME made it onto The Mary Sue's Best Comics of 2023 list! themarysue.com/best-comics-an… ❤️

dear book people:

please consider my queer-friendship experimental graphic memoir I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME when compiling your end-of-year lists 💜

pub Fieldmouse Press

starred reviews: publisher's weekly & foreword reviews

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pdf galley upon request

'Innovative...captivating...equal parts wistful and skeptical, wise and all too human.” – Publishers Weekly, Starred Review ⭐️

Now's a great time to get I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME by MariNaomi (they/them). Use code ITYLM5 at checkout and get $5 off your purchase, for a limited time!

Such a great work of art! Great for holiday prezzies, stocking stuffer!

dear book people:

please consider my queer-friendship experimental graphic memoir I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME when compiling your end-of-year lists 💜

pub Fieldmouse Press

starred reviews: publisher's weekly & foreword reviews

fieldmouse.press/shop/p/i-thoug…

pdf galley upon request

This tribute to my late friend Joe Matt by MariNaomi (they/them) gets at what him in equal parts irritating & loveable. patreon.com/posts/89494550…