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Debbie Fong 🌲📬✨
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Eisner & Ignatz nominated cartoonist ✨ I make fun stuff at www.pommopress.com and work on books! Rep’d by Janna Morishima ✌️🇹🇼🇺🇸

🚌 NEXT STOP (2024)
🌲 THE FARAWAY FOREST: Wally’s Route (2025)
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Debbie Fong 🌲📬✨ @debbiefong.com · Oct 17
Hi, I’m Debbie 👋 I write & illustrate graphic novels! I also have a shop where I sell colorful prints & stationery 💖

shop 🎏 www.pommopress.com
my books 📚 bookshop.org/shop/debbief...
instagram 🎋 www.instagram.com/debbiefongdr...
newsletter 💌 mailchi.mp/30eafc1eda42...
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I need about $400 left for my tuition that’s due on the 18th 😬 which is exactly a week from today, so all my tutorials are on a 75% sale!! ko-fi.com/daitsaisan/l...
Any shares are highly appreciated
Tutorial page talking about realistic skin tones not being as saturated Tutorial page on colouring skin Tutorial page on length of arms, Tutorial page on perspective
February 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Frozen whiskers ❄️
My dog, Bene, a white Jindo, in the snow in the morning sun. Closeup on the ice built up on her whiskers
February 11, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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I did it. I finally made a fried egg in a stainless steel pan with no breakage. Feeling powerful today 😤

Mushrooms and onions in a black pepper sauce over rice for lunch.
Bowl of rice topped with cooked mushrooms and onions in a dark sauce, with a fried egg on top
February 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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galegalligan.bsky.social
so many kidlit people use substack. may I suggest: don’t
February 7, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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oliveoilcorp.bsky.social
BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA was a new type of personal project for me that I'm still very fond of. You can read it for free in this thread:
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or pick up the PDF here:
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Page 1 of the comic poem BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA. A Black woman stands in the middle of towering trees with large holes in their trunks. She wears a sheer slip dress and looks up at the orange sky. Caption: THE SKY HAS A CRACK IN IT. Page 2 of the comic poem BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA. Following the woman's line of sight, we're looking up at an angry-looking sky that almost looks split down the middle. The shot is framed by a pair of damaged trees. CAPTION: "A big gaping wound right there, in the middle." In the next panel, thick droplets of moisture run down a harsh cloudy-looking texture. CAPTION: "It leaks." Page 5 of the comic poem BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA. Panel 1: Sweat drips down the woman's face as she exerts herself. Panel 2: The woman is small against the backdrop of the fracturing sky as she climbs the steep cliffside. Panel 3: The woman has climbed to the top. She holds on for dear life at the edge of the cliff, trying to address a person standing there in front of her. The person shares the same exact shape as the woman, but their features are obscured by the same swampy textures that can be seen inside the crack of the sky. They are You. Caption: "I came to tell You about the crack." Panel 4: You turns their head up to gaze at the cracked sky. Page 5 of the comic poem BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA. Panel 1: Sweat drips down the woman's face as she exerts herself. Panel 2: The woman is small against the backdrop of the fracturing sky as she climbs the steep cliffside. Panel 3: The woman has climbed to the top. She holds on for dear life at the edge of the cliff, trying to address a person standing there in front of her. The person shares the same exact shape as the woman, but their features are obscured by the same swampy textures that can be seen inside the crack of the sky. They are You. Caption: "I came to tell You about the crack." Panel 4: You turns their head up to gaze at the cracked sky. Me and Mine carry damaged tree trunks on scarred shoulders with scarred hands and scarred bodies. "Me and Mine built a roof" Me holds a mallet and looks on as Mine and Our neighbors work to build a shelter from the timber. "to shelter from the Water."
February 7, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Some news in Publishers Weekly’s fall 2026 preview… 👀
List of upcoming children’s books from Chronicle including “The Faraway Forest: Hester’s Big Dream by Debbie Fong which finds night owl Hester wondering if she might meet new friends if she were awake when the sun is out”
February 7, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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kidlit411.bsky.social
Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (Feb 6): kidlit411.com/2026/02/the-... Inside: Annual Valentiny contest, How to Promote on Tiktok, MG craft tips, more. Thanks @debbiefong.com for the illustration, @cindyschrauben.bsky.social & Jennifer Butts for the PB giveaways.
The Weekly 411 (2/6/26)
A one-stop place for all your kid lit information needs.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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We found an igloo at the park this morning!
My white Jindo dog Bene sitting inside an igloo made of slabs of icy snow crust
February 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Personal hygiene hour
My dog and cat both grooming themselves, Murray (cat) licking his own butt with his leg sticking into the air
February 1, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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The awesome folks at Publishing For Minnesota have arranged a huge auction to benefit communities impacted by ICE raids, and I have a few items available to bid on!

The auction opens THURSDAY 1/29 and ends FRIDAY night 1/30—check out all the items here: www.32auctions.com/organization...
Item 1: A signed hardcover copy of THE FARAWAY FOREST, which comes with a postcard, sticker, bookplate, and two patches Item 2: A signed hardcover copy of NEXT STOP, which comes with postcards and a bookplate sticker
January 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Amid ICE’s violent crackdown, two publishing professionals will host an online auction January 29–30 to benefit nonprofits providing aid to Minnesotans and immigrants. More than 500 items and services have been donated by authors, editors, agents, and illustrators.
Industry Insiders Raising Funds for Minnesotans in Need
Amid ICE’s violent crackdown, two publishing professionals have launched an online auction to benefit nonprofits providing aid to Minnesotans and immigrants. Around 500 items and services have been…
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January 28, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Some facts below on the “problem” of immigration. #abolishice
“NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL”
January 28, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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mayor.nyc.gov
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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antlervel.vet
Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?
antlervel.vet Stella @antlervel.vet · 19d
People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
January 24, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
It is the misfortune of Minnesota’s ICE contingent to have invaded the state with the second-highest levels of social trust, trailing only Utah. Many activist networks were formed in 2020; we are seeing, Petrus says, Minnesotans call upon the “muscle memory” of the George Floyd protests. In mid-January, a neighborhood organization for a part of town called Whittier put out a call for a meeting to organize a “Neighborhood ICE response”; more than 800 people showed up at the local elementary school and formed a tidy line extending well beyond the door. (“Why a line?” I ask someone later. “Because we are in Minnesota,” he says.) In the cafeteria, in their big coats, adults struggled to get their legs through benches attached to long lunch tables. Because there were too many Minnesotans to fit in a single room, officials and parents and teachers went room to room giving the same speeches about how to help neighbors in hiding. They then gridded out the rooms, dividing the neighborhood into smaller subdivisions. Close neighbors met one another (“Oh, you live on the other side of the museum”) and formed hyperlocal Signal groups. At the first sighting of an agent, someone could ping the group and draw them outside. Their favored tactic was noise. They would make it impossible for ICE to conduct raids in secret.
January 23, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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esqueer.net
It's currently -10° in Minneapolis and they still got thousands of people to march and protest outside.

They picked the wrong city.
christopherterry.bsky.social Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 20d
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
January 23, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Thinking about 5-year-old Liam Ramos, who is no different than the kids I visited at an elementary school in Queens yesterday. I write books for kids like Liam. 1/
January 23, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Had a great time yesterday hanging out with the 2nd graders at PS361Q in Queens! They were such a thoughtful, engaged group and asked fun questions that I had to really think about… like: “What is Mr. Sternbill’s favorite color?” 😆
Flyer hanging outside their school library promoting my visit Me presenting to the group in the elementary school library
January 23, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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Today’s view:
Murray stretched out on my lap while I’m working on inking pages of my next book
January 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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Missing our morning walks in Florida 😌
January 13, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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For comics folks whose readership is often centered in libraries, this is important. From @ginagagliano.bsky.social www.tcj.com/books-are-go...
'Books are going to take longer to get to libraries': What Baker & Taylor's demise means for comics - The Comics Journal
Diamond’s disintegration is not the only crisis facing comics publishers these days. The latest distribution company ceasing to exist is the venerable library distributor Baker & Taylor. If you’re not...
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January 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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planetx.bsky.social
So glad her husband got that job so at least one cartoonist in New York can have health insurance.
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Jan 2
Another shot of Rama Duwaji and her date.
Zohran Mamdani and Rama Duwaji sitting at the inauguration. He's smiling. She's gazing towards the camera with her head tilted and a look of quiet regard? judgement? amusement? on her face.
January 2, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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I have been asleep by 10:30pm lately so this is aspirational for me 😝
chocolett.bsky.social (๑･̑◡･̑๑) @chocolett.bsky.social · Dec 30
I’ll see yall next year ✨
December 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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In Orlando visiting family for the holidays—every year I come to this same coffee shop (Lineage) to work on my current book. This year it’s inks for Stone Lion!

In 2024 it was thumbnails for Faraway Forest book 2. In 2023 it was inks for Faraway Forest book 1. In 2022 it was inks for Next Stop.
December 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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First look at "The Elephant" animated special (in 3 acts) by Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall), Ian Jones-Quartey (OK K.O.!), Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) and Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time).
Coming to Adult Swim on December 19.
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM