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Jamila
@jamilarowser.bsky.social
Writer • Editor • Comic publisher blackjoseipress.com • Wash Day Diaries co-creator • LA Times Book Prize & Ignatz winner • Eisner nom’ed • Horror stan • Nana is my personality • Always in pain • Always tired • ✊🏾🇵🇷🇩🇴🏳️‍🌈 🥄•
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I’m an award-winning Black 🇵🇷🇩🇴 Queer and disabled comics writer, editor, & publisher @blackjoseipress.bsky.social. I love working in all genres, but slice-of-life has my 🩷.

I’m open and looking for work in writing, editing and more.

📧jamila@jamilarowser.com
🌐jamilarowser.com
It hasn’t been a day yet and miss my cats so much.
August 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I’m on the plane looking around at all these ppl not wearing masks. Nasty asses.
August 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Might fuck around and start using Bluesky.
August 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Any of y'all gonna be at #HeroesCon tomorrow? I'll be there! Excited to see the legendary @stephwilliams.bsky.social.
June 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Please enter. BLACK PANTHER: BLOOD HUNT would not exist if I hadn't won Milestone's talent contest and Farid Karami hadn't won Top Cow's. You never know what might happen unless you try.
June 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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It’s official the @cartoonist.coop has just announced our first paid digital residency!!!

More info at the link below ❤️

cartoonist.coop/digital-resi...
The Cartoonist Cooperative
Making comics better for everyone!
cartoonist.coop
May 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I’m scrolling through my following page on TikTok and am reminded that I went through a “hoof cleaning” phase for a week. jump scare 4 sure
May 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Idc how many songs thrashers know, they are bullies and attack the crow I'm trying to befriend. They need to LEAVE.
May 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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new Yazawa Ai illustration from Cookie’s 25th Anniversary issue!
May 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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jamila's heartbreaking book with trinidad escobar, 'ode to keisha', is also available at nif-shop.cartoonist.coop/products/ode... 🥲
Ode to Keisha
"Ode to Keisha" is an autobiographical comic that examines how race and identity shaped a fundamental childhood friendship.  Ode to Keisha is an autobiographical comic about friendship, racism, and id...
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May 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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sample pages for @jamilarowser.bsky.social & my minicomic 'REAL REALM', currently available until the end of this month at @cartoonist.coop's #nif2025 nif-shop.cartoonist.coop/products/rea...
May 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Thought I’d remind y’all u can buy the comic REAL REALM, created by 2 Eisner nominees, me + @btrcp.bsky.social at @cartoonist.coop’s #NIF!

nif-shop.cartoonist.coop/products/rea...

It’s a story of messy gods struggling to improve their image in the eyes of the mortals by starring in a reality show.
Real Realm
Real Realm is the story of messy gods struggling to improve their image in the eyes of the mortals by starring in a reality show. The comic takes place during a dramatic reunion episode of the reality...
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May 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Y'all, we've got just 10 days left of @cartoonist.coop's first Nib & Ink Fest and I'd love to make sure all the artists take away as much as possible from our first digital fest!

Would love to hear what you're enjoying from it, let's close this out right! #NIF2025
nif-shop.cartoonist.coop
Nib & Ink Festival 2025
The Nib & Ink Festival is a brand new online-only comics festival run by members of The Cartoonist Cooperative!
nif-shop.cartoonist.coop
May 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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!!!!! yes everyone should read this, it's truly a work of art! i ordered the original newsprint version years ago and it's seriously one of my favorite comics not only for it being puerto rican-made and about our revolutionary history, but for the sheer craft of it 😭💖
Not sure how I missed this in the initial Eisner announcement but John Meijas's The Puerto Rican War is up for Best Reality Based Work & it's roughly hundred pages of linocut comics that's taken him YEARS to execute. So impressive on a technical level!

www.unionsquareandco.com/978145495246...
The Puerto Rican War by John Vasquez Mejias: 9781454952466 - Union Square & Co.
Union Square & Co. is a talent-driven book publisher whose mission is to promote excellence and honor the vision of our creators. Headquartered in NYC, we're a subsidiary of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
www.unionsquareandco.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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You’ve heard right!! My oneshot is out today 🎉

If you’re on the hunt for a Josei webmanga to read, give mine a look! ✨

🔗 globalcomix.com/c/frambuesa-...
April 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I'm an Eisner-nominated Editor!!! Bringing this webcomic to print publishing with Radiator Comics was an amazing experience. And being able to work with @jamilarowser.bsky.social as co-editors was a dream. @btrcp.bsky.social you should be so proud of all the hard work you've done!!
Big big big congratulations to @btrcp.bsky.social for their EISNER AWARD NOMINATION! UM Volume One has been nominated for Best Graphic Album-Reprint! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...
May 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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If you are a comics professional (you make, sell, write about, etc comics), you can vote in the Eisners (and we hope you'll vote for UM Volume One! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2025 Eisner Awards Ballot Application
Please fill out this form completely if you wish to be considered as a voter in the 2025 Eisner Awards.
docs.google.com
May 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Congrats to @btrcp.bsky.social on their EISNER AWARD nom for Um!

✨ Opulence, they deserve everything!✨

Plus, me + @oheysteenz.bsky.social, the co-editors. It was such a fun & fulfilling experience.

Ofc, congrats to @radiatorcomics.bsky.social, one of the best publishers I've worked w/, deadass!
Big big big congratulations to @btrcp.bsky.social for their EISNER AWARD NOMINATION! UM Volume One has been nominated for Best Graphic Album-Reprint! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...
May 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The Nib & Ink Fest (NIF) is @cartoonist.coop's month-long digital comic fest where you can buy tons of great #comics + webcomics, including two I co-created: ODE TO KEISHA and REAL REALM.

#NIF2025 is the only place you can currently buy them, so get into it! nif.cartoonist.coop
Nib & Ink Festival
A brand new online-only comics festival! By cartoonists, for the people.
nif.cartoonist.coop
May 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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A look at the numbers for our first year of the Nib & Ink Festival #NIF2025 ! Thank you for all your support 🖤

NIF is still ongoing for the rest of the month - check out upcoming events and our marketplace here: nif.cartoonist.coop
May 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Yeahhhh boyyy!
The first trailer for ‘NOBODY 2’ starring Bob Odenkirk.

In theaters August 15.
May 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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!!! pick up a copy from Radiator Comics!
Last week we added @lilliejharris.bsky.social's newest comic, If I Had Known... an unsettling horror comic based on real historical horrors of white doctors stealing Black bodies "to advance medicine" and the lengths family will go to to protect loved ones. www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...
May 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Having short hair has changed my life.
May 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA won 💖

Thank you so much to the judges and @cartoonist.coop folks, and check out all the nominated works, they're amazing!
Really honored to share that BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA has been nominated for a Minicomic Award 🧡
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May 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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It's May! The @cartoonist.coop's Nib & Ink Festival—an online comics fest—starts today! Check out a ton of programming and buy comics from a ton of great cartoonists including @jamilarowser.bsky.social @btrcp.bsky.social @ashantifortson.com & @joebdraws.bsky.social nif-shop.cartoonist.coop
Nib & Ink Festival 2025
The Nib & Ink Festival is a brand new online-only comics festival run by members of The Cartoonist Cooperative!
nif-shop.cartoonist.coop
May 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM