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🍁 Melissa Escobar 🍁
@melissaescobarart.com
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Illustrator & author. Creator of all things cute, whimsical and magical. Horse girl!

Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social of The Seymour Agency.

Portfolio: www.melissaescobarart.com/
Links: https://linktr.ee/melissaescobarart
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I would love to do a Halloween themed book! I love illustrating horses, animals, plus cute & magical things with heart.
Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency
Website: melissaescobarart.com
@cbignyc.bsky.social
Cute kid witch with a ghost and bats making her halloween potion. It also features candy corn bubbles and is designed and illustrated by Melissa Escobar.
October 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Tis time!!! 🕷🎃👻🦇💀🐈‍⬛🌕
a bunch of pumpkins with faces carved into them and the words happy halloween angel above them
Alt: a bunch of pumpkins with faces carved into them and the words happy halloween angel above them
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October 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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The look on that dog's face on the second picture...😂😂😂
weratedogs.com WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · May 15
This is Louie. He got a really bad haircut. And also a villain origin story. 13/10 (TT: maddiehilaski)
a cavapoo with long hair in various shades of gray sits and poses for the camera. his mouth is open and his pink tongue sticks out, his curly hair situated every which way on the top of his head. text on the image says, "the dog i dropped off." a photo of the cavapoo with text that reads, "the dog i picked up." the pup's luscious fur has been trimmed all the way down, leaving him with a skinny body, but fluffy ears and tail. the pup looks at the camera with an uncanny human expression of disgust. he looks very angry about his new hairdo.
May 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Yes, this! 💯%%%!
friedbaens.bsky.social Gus! 🌱🔜 LIghtBox Expo 2025 @friedbaens.bsky.social · Mar 28
A BLATANT reminder that I will NEVER support Al or use it.
March 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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😂😂😂😂😂
stephenking.bsky.social Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · Mar 24
Why can’t you play hide and seek with a Pokemon?
They always Pikachu.
Not very good, I know.
I’ll show myself out.
March 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, you name it! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart.

Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency
Website: melissaescobarart.com

@cbignyc.bsky.social
Five quarter horses with different coat colors are talking about how much I love to draw horses. Coat colors clockwise are: Strawberry red roan for the baby, Palomino, Skewbald, Buckskin and Dapple Gray. All draw by me Melissa Escobar. :D
February 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Happy Year of the Snake all! Although this post is a bit late, I still wanted to do this because I'm a snake on the chinese zodiac. So needless to say, I'm very excited about this year!
Cute snake art for the year of the snake 2025. Reds and golds are featured. By Melissa Escobar
January 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Hello, hello all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart.

Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency
Website: melissaescobarart.com

@cbignyc.bsky.social
Illustration showing a map of a land in my story in the shape of a dragon by Melissa Escobar
January 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Look what I spotted in the wild at the Barnes N Noble store in Walnut Creek, CA @charlenedraws.bsky.social!!!
Right up front too where you come in.
😀😀😀😀
Picture of Amy Wu and the Ribbon Dance and other books at Barnes N Noble.
December 22, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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If you see this, post a unicorn you've painted/drawn 🦄

OMG of course!
#kidlitart
Blue unicorn with red, orange and yellow gradient mane in a cloud background with a rainbow at the top by Melissa Escobar.
December 13, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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Stupid tech bros. I hope the AI just collapses onto itself. These books will be so completely awful.
marcorinaldi.bsky.social Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · Nov 25
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮
November 25, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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I just realized this morning that this next Sunday is December 1st.
Anyone else feel like this: 🫨😮

It just made my mind go 🤯! I'm like, no wait! I haven't done all the things I want to do! Someone hit pause, lol!
November 25, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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“Joy is a form of resistance.”
November 12, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, you name it! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart.

Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency
Website: melissaescobarart.com
@cbignyc.bsky.social
Map of creative pitfalls and how to navigate them. Has a creative train of thought, roads and a river of dreams. By Melissa Escobar.
November 7, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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Today is a good day for self care if you need it, like this cat, hiding behind flowers & biding her time. Hope this brings some joy if you need a pick-me-up. I do.

3" x 3" acrylic & Posca painting on stretched canvas.

#selfcare #cats #blackcat #flowers #painting #acrylic #posca #stretchedcanvas
black cat with big yellow eyes and a pink heart nose hiding behind tall pink and yellow flowers. striped yellow sun, blue sky, and green grass in the background.
November 6, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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The reactions & questions my 2 sons had after waking up to the news this morning reinforced my strong belief that children are incredibly sophisticated in their thinking, and only lacking in answers that experience will give them. Never talk down to a child. Always help them reach the best answer. ❤️
November 6, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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The one thing I’m certain of this morning #kidlit is that books matter more than ever.
November 6, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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You are not alone, by far. 💙“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear.” - Toni Morrison. #kidlit #illustration #art #artist #artists #fight #lgbtqrights #womensrights #kindness #tolerance #freedom
November 6, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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Keep making art. Keep writing your stories. Even if they must exist in secret for a time, they are important - each of them a little act of rebellion.

Most of all, keep on living. If you can muster no other motivation on some days, then do it out of righteous spite for those who want you gone.
November 6, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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lvadams.bsky.social
I find myself clinging to stories I love this morning, and messages of hope. I am scared, more scared than I’ve been in a long time, but trying to convince myself we will get through this, and make it out the other side.
November 6, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, you name it! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart.

Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency
Website: melissaescobarart.com

@cbignyc.bsky.social
Spiders swinging on a web trapeze and one spider has done my name and a pumpkin in his web. For Halloween by Melissa Escobar.
October 3, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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This was exactly my sentiment today as I realized it's October 1st! How????? And hooray spooky season!!!
boringstorybook.com Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com · Oct 1
It’s alive! 🎃
Cartoon of a girl dressed as the bride of frankenstein screaming at a wall calendar showing October 1
October 2, 2024 at 12:25 AM
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Well said, very well said.
irritatingoysters.bsky.social Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · Sep 18
This is a thing of beauty.
September 19, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #357,650! Well, I'm in the first 10%! Very cool!
My user number is 357,650 and I was in the first 10% for Bluesky.
September 17, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Hi all, happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Melissa, a PB auth/illustrator! I love illustrating horses, animals, nature, maps, you name it! Plus cute, magical, whimsical things with heart.

Rep: @joycesweeney.bsky.social at The Seymour Agency
Website: melissaescobarart.com
@cbignyc.bsky.social
Map of what it's like to be creative and all the challenges that come with it. Has a train of creative thought, a river of dreams and features all those dead end cul-de-sacs we artists sometimes end up in. By Melissa Escobar.
September 5, 2024 at 3:40 PM