Dapo Adeola
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Children’s Book Illustrator/author and visual development artist. Immigrant. Views are my own. reps: 📚: @sallyanne_s 📺: @marcsimonsso
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🤩🤩ITS PUBLICATION DAY!!🤩🤩
Book 3 (.5) in the Rocket series is officially OUT NOW!!! 🥹
Make sure you pick up your copy and join Rocket and her friends and family on this brand new and exciting adventure to save her local Library! 💪🏿☺️
Ladies and gents and NB peeps…
ROCKET IS BACK!!! 🤩
And here’s the cover for mine and
@NathanBryon
’s next adventure with her. 🥹
We’re well excited for you to see what we’ve been up to with this one. ☺️
It’s available for preorder NOW and hits shelves this May 18th. ☺️😊
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Pre Meghan Harry hated the press with even more vim than post Meghan Harry, and for very good reason.
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How did this pic of my nephew get over 1.3M likes, but the dude who posted it failed to mention where he got it from or credit my brother??? The internet stinks man.
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“AI art gives people who can’t paint the ability to experience the joy of painting”
🙃
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Wow. White Russians invaded your country, forcing you to flee…but it’s the Black and Brown kids at your sons new school you fear? 🫠
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What freelancing as an illustrator/Creative “really” looks like.
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This is mad, because a few years back when Serena was upset and dared to show it… EVERYONE went off at her, yet this player displaying is FULL ON aggression at losing fairly and they’re giving her all the understanding. The double standard for Black athletes is crazy!
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David Oyelowo could have said all that without throwing Will Smith under the bus. If the progress of Black people in an industry can be set back by the actions of one Black man, no matter how famous, then it was never really progress to begin with.
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Hate to be pedantic, but the phrase “Say Her name” was coined to help the names of Black women who’s deaths at the hands of the police were left out of the commercial news/media to ring out and be heard. Sad as this murder is, it isn’t the same thing.
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I fully believe that AI art is the biggest threat to diversity in the creative arts. Not only will it cost minorities their jobs behind the scenes, but it’ll also replace the few visible POC with hollow, fetishised representations shaped around the white gaze. Peak times ahead.
all of the vogue brazil digital covers are ai generated, created by real life photographers
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🥴🥴 Seriously…American peeps…HOW ARE YOU SURVIVING OUT THERE WITH THESE HEALTHCARE PRICES??? 😵 This is insane 🤯 $10K to give birth??? 🥴🥴🥴
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Started following this TikTok where this young Black man who’s an aspiring architect goes around London breaking down the history and beauty of its social housing estates.
🥹 It’s so informative.
Check him out.
@
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The level of discomfort in the audience is palpable. No lies were told by her tho. 🤷🏿♂️
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Imagine not having to code switch on National Tv?? 🥹
My guy is paving the way. 👏🏿👏🏿
Awwww he made it onto CBBC, this is so cool
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Yesterday a whole load of companies offered ‘support” to BLM in the form of opportunities for work and employment. Just so you know, aaaaaalllll of it is so pointless if you haven’t fixed the racially toxic environments that you’re inviting them to work in.
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Maaan, I’m actually crying watching this 😞. What an impact this was (and Is). This role/film meant so much to us all as Black folk.
Legacy level stuff.
💚
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At first I laughed at this, and then It hit me like “hold up, why did they choose a random Black face to show unemployment???” 🥴🥴
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Me vs how I draw myself
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The craziest thing about today has been the messages from parents saying thanks for drawing a character that allowed their children to essentially go to school on
#WorldBookDay2020
as “themselves” 🥺
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Children deserve better than badly cobbled together STOLEN art and words. This is such a soulless cash grab.
I spent the weekend playing with ChatGPT, MidJourney, and other AI tools… and by combining all of them, published a children’s book co-written and illustrated by AI!
Here’s how! 🧵
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This is literally the FUCKING WORST advice I’ve ever seen on how to pay an illustrator for their work 🥴🥴🥴
$500???? For a whole ass picture book??? The cover design and formatting as well??? 😵😵😵
There is nothing “fair” about this at all.
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The argument that “Black (African) Children do well in school =Britain isn’t institutionally racist” is flawed by the fact that high levels of academic achievement don’t mean shit when it comes to actual employment. That inequality is what makes the country institutionally racist
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Last night while listening to Michael Morpugo talk at
#YLGConference
, he mentioned that him and his wife run a scheme that allows inner city children to visit a farm in Devon for a week. Turns out 10yr old me was one of those very children. Absolutely Wild! 😅
📸:
@rhicook
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🗣CALLING ALL FREELANCE ARTISTS 🗣
I get a lot of requests for freelance work which I can’t take on. If you’re a freelance artist looking for work right now, drop pics of your work/social media info below so I can send this on as a thread to potential clients.
Share/RT 🙏🏿
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I drew these girls back in 2017 and Lots of folks have been forever asking if they’ll be in a book or cartoon, and the answer is Yes…that’s the plan. I’m slowly crafting a story around their exploits whenever I have a second. Looking forward to sharing more with you lot soon. ☺️
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Allison Pearson wrote this in the
@Telegraph
🥴 I feel like she really thought she was doing something good here, but my God this is awful. It’s literally an example of the very same systemic racism she mentions. 😐
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Abolish asking artists to work for free Abolish asking artists to work for free Abolish asking artists to work for free Abolish asking artists to work for free Abolish asking artists to work for free Abolish asking artists to work for free Abolish asking artists to work for free
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I’m so torn about Pixar’s Soul movie. It’s a beautiful movie, funny and clever…but I can’t get past the fact that the Black lead spends 75% of the film dead and simultaneously as a Cat/middle aged white woman. It’s a step up from spending 90% of the movie as a frog I guess. 🤷🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
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The “Little People, Big Dreams” series is about people who over came adversity and succeeded in life in spite of the odds that were against them…not people who were literally born into “ruling” a nation.
This is a shameless cash grab. 😬
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3yrs ago to the day I posted these girls on my IG 🙂 I’ve been so busy earning my kidlit stripes I haven’t had the time I need to develop their story, but here’s a
#tbt
#blacktober
post to keep them fresh in your minds till I can drop some new artwork featuring them. 🤓
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“HEY YOU” IS OFFICIALLY OUT IN THE WORLD! 🥰
And I couldn’t have picked a better book to debut with. I’m so proud of what we’ve created here and I can’t wait for yous to all read it. 🥺
Your boy is officially a published author 🌚
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I started my character design development gig with Disney on Friday 😊
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Earlier this week, Disney+ dropped this AMAZING anthology of Afro Futurist short films made by African talent from various countries on the Continent.
It’s jaw droppingly gorgeous and not enough people are talking about it. 🥹
GO, WATCH IT…AND TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT TOO!!!
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Ok so, another big announcement that got made this morning is the my debut book as an author will be out this June via
@PuffinBooks
.
It’s called “HEY, YOU…” and here’s an unfinished bit of artwork from it below ☺️
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🤩THIS🤩THE🤩CUTEST🤩REVIEW🤩EVER!!!
This totally made my day man ☺️. I couldn’t find the reviewer on here but this vid is originally from her insta post.
We keep telling y’all that “REPRESENTATION MATTERS” 🤷🏿♂️ This right here is why. 🥰
@NathanBryon
@PuffinBooks
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I get asked “When will you do a book for boys?” A lot
My answer is i already do.
Important as it is to see themselves, it’s also important that they’re comfortable reading/enjoying books that don’t centre their gender.
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🥹😭🥹
The effort put into this
#WorldBookDay2023
look got me proper choked up earlier.
Cc:
@malorieblackman
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🌻🌻LADIES, GENTS AND NB PEEPS🌻🌻
I present to you the cover for my upcoming
@PuffinBooks
author debut…
🌻🌻HEY YOU!🌻🌻
A beautiful collaboration between myself and 18 AMAZINGLY TALENTED BLACK ILLUSTRATORS (check out the attached thread).
In stores 10.06.21
☺️
#Heyyoubook
COVER REVEAL THREAD:
So we’re gonna be revealing the cover for my upcoming author debut this Friday 🤩 in the lead up to the reveal I wanna introduce the AMAZING BLACK ILLUSTRATORS who helped me bring this book to glorious life. I’ll be dropping a few names a day. Here we go:
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The murder of this little girl in Croydon is heavy on my mind.
We have a huge problem with how we’re raising boys to men in our society. Women have been saying this for years, and each time one of them dies at the hands of a man, we have an uproar only to go backwards soon after
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The fact that Black people are expected to shoulder the burden of representing their whole demographic is the real issue here. Dismantling that expectation is where you start, not by leaning into its justification.
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Happy
#WorldBookDay
folks! To celebrate this year
@RoyalMail
have selected a few postboxes around the country to be decorated with picture book artwork…here’s ours 🤩.
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Nah…how are the side effects of the medicine in American ads more lethal than the thing they’re treating??? 😭
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Welp, this is gaining some momentum 😅 check out my debut picture book if you’re interested 🙂 nothing to promote other than that…be nice to each other. 😊
I got a package in the mail this morning from
@PuffinBooks
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@NathanBryon
WE DID THIS BRO! 😊👊🏿💚
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🗣 AGENT THREAD!
There’re a lot of agents asking Black talent to post their work for potential representation, well this thread is for agents to post their contact/submissions info below. My inbox is full of Black talent looking for representation. Let em know who you are below.
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If you have to imagine yourself in the role of brother, father, husband or family member before you understand why it’s important women feel protected…then it’s already too late.
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The next stage of this little career of mines is about to be 🔥🔥🔥
Super gassed about this! 🤩
Aaaaaand she’s off to the Bologna children’s book fair! 🥹🥹
Godspeed my precious little child…make your papa proud.
🥹😅🤞🏿
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Lol, so I guess the cat’s outta the bag. 🤷🏿♂️ our little girl’s been optioned for an animated Tv series.
@NathanBryon
and I will be dropping more info once the deal’s officially announced next month. 😊💚
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This dude got the attention of 1.3M+ people and he didn’t even school folks to help with the cause. 🙄 sigh. Y’all know what to do, hit the following links and show some love.
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Every artist needs to study this thread. Especially if you’re a non Black artist who draws or wants to draw Black people accurately. This’ll help you understand a few important things and get it right.
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No shade to Ashley, Black people have said this very same thing for the longest.
It’s crazy and telling that it only hits for white people when coming out of blond haired white mouths.
If she was Black she’d have been interrupted 20 times. 🙃
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I got a package in the mail this morning from
@PuffinBooks
… it was the advance copy of my 1st picture book…it’s flipping gorgeous! 🥰 She’ll be available to the world come June 13th, but for now here’s a vid of what she looks like.
@NathanBryon
WE DID THIS BRO! 😊👊🏿💚
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Dapo Adeola
Children’s book illustratation and character design are my drugs.
Insta:
@dapsdraws
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⭐️ 💫 NEW BOOK ALERT 💫⭐️
😎 Ladies, Gents and NB peeps…it’s with great pleasure that I present to you the cover for this AMAZING anthology project I’ve been working on with some of the most INCREDIBLY talented authors and Illustrators from around the entire world! 🥺🥰
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A parent just gave me permission to share this. 🥹
Honestly, this is the primary way I hoped this book would be shared between parent and child. 🥰
If anybody needs me I’ll be in the corner wiping my eyes. 🥹
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Fuckin idiot.
@ninaturner
I live in Africa and even here, no one is interested in watching a black mermaid.
Mermaids are white.
We have our own stories.
3000 distinct ethnicities and 54 countries and you couldn’t find an original, authentic African story?
Gerrarahia🖕🏿
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Ok so I just got an email from Disney 😳
I’m not gonna say anymore 🤐 but just know that 12yr old me is flipping his lid right now! 🤯😭😭😭
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Never forget that they fired Orlando Jones (arguably the BEST actor on the show) after 2 seasons of American Gods, because the folks at management felt he was “sending the wrong message” because of speeches like this…
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Every year since Grenfel happened I think about the people that died, I especially think about her and all that could have been for her.
💚RIP Khadija Saye💚
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How does anyone watch this and not feel absolute terror and dread? 😢
David Attenborough’s whole life has been dedicated to showing us the world, he’s clearly terrified by it’s current state. Our government’s are failing all of us on a global scale. 😤
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💫✍🏿BLACK BRITISH ILLUSTRATORS THREAD✍🏿💫
Rules:
Post a pic of your work or the work of a black British illustrator you know
A link to where we can find said work
A Comment about yourself (optional)
Retweet or share the thread so others can do the same.
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Someone from DreamWorks just reached out to me to have a chat about working together and I…
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I WON! 🥹😭
And finally... it's the Illustrator of the Year Award!
Congratulations to
@DapsDraws
, our first ever Laugh Out Loud Illustrator of the Year!
#Lollies2023
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🎄🎄Ok 🥺…now I’m in a festive mood. This is adorable. 🎄🎄
Watch till the end. 🤓
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I wanna gift 5 tickets for a Black teacher who wants to take 5 Black boy students from their school to see this amazing play. First teacher to hit me up with proof of a certified and organised plan to make this happen gets the tickets. The play ends in May.
RT and share. 🙏🏿
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Whoever wrote this headline for
@BookBrunch
has actively derailed the conversation I was attempting to get started about what is in fact a real issue in the illustration world. You’ve effectively labelled me with the “Angry Black Man” trope. Removing validation from my words.
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I’m writing an open letter to the BBC about properly crediting artists for their work. It’s something I’m gonna do anyway, but do let me know below if you’re an Author or Illustrator and you wanna add your signature to it. Pls RT this so other creatives can see it.
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Sat across from someone carrying the tote bag I designed 🥹 I’ve spotted it in the wild from afar a few times, first time I was up close tho. 😊
photo was taken with permission of course. ☺️
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😐 She really thinks she’s doing something in this video by talking like this, as if all the hand waving and the vague use of creative descriptors is gonna hide that this comp is TRASH!!
STOP BUMMING FREE WORK FROM ARTISTS!!!!
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I hope my career gets to overlap a time when picture books are accepted as quality literature for children of ALL ages, not just children under 7-8.
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This is actually evil. These dickheads have ruined this country for all of us…THEY did that…not Trans people. Building their campaign on the back of trans hate is disgusting, and counting on trans hate blinding people into voting for their own misery is just…wow. 🤮
'We shouldn't be bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be, they can't. A man is a man and a woman is a woman', says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Crazy how Dianne Abbott was suspended for saying that that anti Blackness and antisemitism aren’t the same problem…yet here we are seeing the truth of her statement in real time.
Do you think the media would waste anytime debating whether a clearly antisemitic comment was antisemitic?
In fact they want everyone to believe slogans calling for the liberation of Palestinians are antisemitic.
We’re seeing the hierarchy of racism play out in 4K.
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So…I just had my first meeting for a project I’m working on with Warner Brothers Animation. ☺️ can’t tell you what the project is 🤐 but I can say that it’ll be the first time I’m character designing for a major studio. It’s a small development job so my current deadlines are ok
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Ok Twitter, I need your help. I’m compiling a list of Black British writers and I need help to make it bigger. I’m looking for people who are “actively” writing. They can be published, unpublished, amateur or pro. Here’s my list so far. Pls share and help me grow the list.🙏🏿😊
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Please watch these and share them far and wide. She’s sending these updates from Gaza and apparently her and a few others have become targets because they refuse to be silent about what’s happening to them.
We can’t let their voices go out .
bisan’s latest updates from gaza :( she’s asked us to share them as much as possible
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🗣 ITS LAUNCH DAY BABAY!!!
Clean UP! Is officially published today! Nathan and I worked HARD on this and you guys can now enjoy it! 🤩
Please leave a review wherever you can and let us know what you think. Copies are available pretty much EVERYWHERE.
☺️
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@kianamaiart
Lmao! People in this thread talking about “BlAcKwAsHiNg” like the Mushroom kingdom is a real place with a nationality and everything. 🤦🏿♂️
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This reply is indicative of the different way missing people are prioritised according to their ethnicity In this country. It’s disgusting.
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@dontsmileattee
😅 Rah this is doing small numbers still. 👀
I wrote a children’s book the other day, check it out below.
😬👇🏿
🌻🌻LADIES, GENTS AND NB PEEPS🌻🌻
I present to you the cover for my upcoming
@PuffinBooks
author debut…
🌻🌻HEY YOU!🌻🌻
A beautiful collaboration between myself and 18 AMAZINGLY TALENTED BLACK ILLUSTRATORS (check out the attached thread).
In stores 10.06.21
☺️
#Heyyoubook
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The Art book of the Movie LUCA is AVAILABLE FOR FREE ONLINE!!!…for a limited time only, so don’t sleep on it. ☺️
This art book is phenomenal!
Spread the word! 🤓
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When we tell you that the vast majority of non Black countries are anti Black or/and racist…you need to start believing us.
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Charlie is ALL of us right now 🥺 poor kid, he’s an 11yr old adult.
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@guardian
The headline of this article has done more damage to what the people you interviewed were actually trying to say than you probably can imagine.
Not a single one of us said anything about David Walliams.
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🤩it’s with great pleasure that I get to finally show you the cover for Book 2 in the Look Up series 🤩 I worked HARD on this baby these last few months 😩 Nathan and I can’t wait for y’all to join her next adventure🥰 preorders available via link below😊
I got a package in the mail this morning from
@PuffinBooks
… it was the advance copy of my 1st picture book…it’s flipping gorgeous! 🥰 She’ll be available to the world come June 13th, but for now here’s a vid of what she looks like.
@NathanBryon
WE DID THIS BRO! 😊👊🏿💚
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I’m selling Prints of this image to raise money for donations to Black charities/bail funds/orgs both here in the UK and in America. It’s for a limited time until I’m out of stock, once they’re gone…they’re gone. Click the link below. RT’s appreciated 🙏🏿
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