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Knack🦇 @ seeking work!
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Nakata “Knack” Whittle - they/them - ✍️Cartoonist, Vampire Enjoyer 🧛 -Rep’d by Britt Siess
🌟Colored THE HILLS OF ESTRELLA ROJA (2023)
🌙 drew #4, 6, & 8 of Sweet Valley Twins for PRH (2024-6) ➡️ NYT Bestseller
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Hello #portfolioday, I'm Knack Whittle and I'm actively looking for work!

I recently finished my time with the NYT Bestselling series Sweet Valley Twins, and I'd love to work on other IP (the spookier the better) or any of my original pitches!

Links to everything: linktr.ee/whittledraws
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Castle Ravenloft 🏰 For MtG Secret Lair x Dungeons & Dragons: Strahd's Descent. AD Anthony Garzzona
February 4, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
February 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
February 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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My debut graphic novel JUST BETWEEN US is coming out Febuary 24th! It's a figure skating graphic novel about the rivalry, and romance, of star figure skaters Lydia Chen and Elaine Yee the year leading up to the Olympics! @penguinteen.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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ICYMI:

SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1 IS LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!

Our Sapphic Vampire Noir debut funded in the first 12 hours and has smashed 2 stretch goals but we are absolutely still taking pledges and you can nab your copy now (and help the creative team get paid more!)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
January 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Stream schedule for the week! Solo voicing DELTARUNE CHAPTER 1 on Tuesday, and also...I dunno...getting groceries with Illya or something on Friday. I'm sure nothing bad will happen.

Links below!
January 26, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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BOY SKIN | physical copies are out of stock atm, but if you missed it, a digital copy is 7 bucks. an erotic exploration of form and transness, synthesised into a short piece about some tortured guys seeing each other for a moment.
superpose.itch.io/boy-skin
January 22, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
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 11:40 PM
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To all the artist that either just joined or became more active recently, listen!

USE HASHTAGS!!!!!
If you want your art to have reach, make sure to use them, you won't get punished by John Algo like on Xitter!

Also you can hide hashtags when posting on deck.blue if you want
December 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Little truth for y’all: A big part of shooting your shot is knowing when and where to shoot it, and when and where not to. Reading the room, knowing the space you’re in and what’s going on there is critical.
January 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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✨🏳️‍⚧️ Belated Pride Comic (1/4) 🏳️‍⚧️✨
September 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe, born on this day 1809 🫀🐈‍⬛💀

Here are some of the illustrations I made for the Poe sticker book for Macmillan Books in 2024
January 19, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Considering taking a commission or two of wood burning / pyrography, be that of dnd characters, OCs, whatever you fancy, starting at $150 maybe (including shipping)?

(Hard to know how to price these) Thoughts?
January 19, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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HELL YEAH!!

Look at what we did TOGETHER! Comic-con has quietly changed their language and will NOT allow GenAi imagery in their art show!

And this happened because you all wrote letters, and shared your concerns! Speaking up works EVERY time!

So congrats friends! We did this together!!!
🙌🙌💖💖💖
San Diego Comic-Con will no longer allow AI 'art' to be displayed at their event

"Material created by AI either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show"

This follows backlash from artists after SDCC initially indicated AI-generated work would be permitted
January 14, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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jan 15th is my birthday which means you must look at my dog sphinx and his weird little guy
#widderwood
January 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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The cover of The Library of Memories has been revealed and @lazyfishy.bsky.social and I can't WAIT to welcome you to the world we created!✨

You can pre-order the book and join the newsletter to get any upcoming news first here: www.thelibraryofmemories.com

OUT AUGUST 25TH, 2026!📚
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM
having the accreditation of "NYT Bestselling Illustrator" is very weird to have bc all my life seeing people with that moniker i thought surely they must be rich or at least well off, but here i am negotiating payment plans w my loan companies and having a negative bank account balance
January 15, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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Your regular reminder to put your RPG character in a hat. No. A BIGGER hat.
January 14, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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We are one week away and 25 folks away from hitting FIVE HUNDRED EARLY SIGN-UPS which feels absolutely absurd and also an achievable number I would love to hit because that number will scratch my little goblin brain
A little early gift for all of you...

KS launching on 01/20/26:

SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1. A sapphic vampire noir following Corsica Smith, a disgraced Chicago PI working for scraps, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
January 13, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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From the great Ryoko Kui
January 12, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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Making a 🧵 to help people get context on Hiveworks:

The Hiveworks Guild statement from Cartoonist Co-op. Make sure to check the "How You Can Help" tab
The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement at:

cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...
January 13, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Hello #portfolioday, I'm Knack Whittle and I'm actively looking for work!

I recently finished my time with the NYT Bestselling series Sweet Valley Twins, and I'd love to work on other IP (the spookier the better) or any of my original pitches!

Links to everything: linktr.ee/whittledraws
January 14, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Hi #portfolioday !

My name is Lucy and I’m a mangaka and illustrator from NYC ✍🏼🍎🗽

I’ve done concept and cover work for Monster High New Scaremester, My Little Pony, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and a Kodansha House Mochikomi Selectant ✨
January 13, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Every day I get closer to deciding “newsletter instead of social media, full stop” tbqh
(In the sense that I have stuff I’ve experienced or made or etc that I want to tell my friends and colleagues about but man… even just opening the apps gets me tense sometimes )
January 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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WE DID IT!

The Kickstarter is officially complete, and our update is posted:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pan...

If you think you missed the window: Late pledges are enabled for most backer tiers, so there's still a chance that we'll reach some more stretch goals in the coming weeks!
January 9, 2026 at 2:02 PM