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Joy Ang

@joyang.bsky.social

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NYT best-selling illustrator. Concept art, comics, animation & gardening ✦ Freelance ✦ Cover artist for WOF ✦ Past: Adventure Time, Valve, D&D, BioWare

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July 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM

Joy Ang

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I grew up reading and loving the books of fellow Canadian, Robert Munsch. So excited to now be working on this 🍑💨💨💨

Screencap of an announcement from Publishers Weekly that reads, "Tundra Books has acquired world rights to a new edition of Good Families Don't by Robert Munsch (l.) (Love You Forever), newly illustrated by Joy Ang. The picture book tells the story about a girl who finds a big, colorful fart lying on her bed. Publication is planned for summer 2026; the author was unagented, and Kelly Sonnack at Andrea Brown Literary Agency represented the illustrator."

To the left is a photo of Robert Munsch and next to it is a photo of me.

May 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM

Joy Ang

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The garden is coming alive 🥰

(L-R) Pansies, freshly planted basil I grew from seed and rhubarb stalks that are ready to be harvested

Picture of my garden where the morning sun back-lit pansies with various beautiful colors - purple ones with a yellow and black center while others are shades of lilac, pink and aubergine.

A picture of newly transplanted basil starts. They sit in fresh dirt in a medium-sized terracotta planter in the garden next to other larger black planters with roses that are just starting to put on leaves and a brown metal raised bed.

Close up photo of a rhubarb, highlighting the long red stalks amidst lush, large and verdant leaves. New leaves emerge near the base of the plant.

April 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM

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If you see this, post something 🌸 pink 🌸

April 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM

Joy Ang

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My current interior design style is ~ squiggly ~

April 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM

Joy Ang

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A piece I made for the 50th anniversary edition of Magic The Gathering's Monster Manual.

Thanks to AD, Fury Galluzzi - @furygalluzzi.bsky.social, for this very fun assignment!

A digital painting set in a dense forest with light sparkling through the trees shining on the following chibified monsters:

- A Red dragon near the top left
- A flying Monodrone Modron with a Rust Monster hanging on to its legs
- An Owlbear hanging on top of a beholder
- A Flumph looking surprised
- A displacer Beast
- And a Mimic with a dumb, open-mouthed smile and its purple tongue hanging out

The monsters are all looking over the shoulder of a young girl wearing an archer's garb as well as a boy in a wizard's hat holding a staff with a purple gem at its top. The children have a glow on their faces as they excitedly look at a massive tome bound in red dragon scales.

March 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM

Joy Ang

@joyang.bsky.social

Excited for when the garden will look like this again

March 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM

Joy Ang

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Me: ho cookies??
J: no cookies

March 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM

Joy Ang

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The seedlings grew vigorously and are now out in the garden. Hoping at least one of the 11 will produce more of this variegated look 🤞

Picture of the seedlings I grew from the mutated sweet pea seeds. They’re a few weeks old and in a small garden bed outside.

February 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Joy Ang

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Just finished inking my first graphic novel 💃. Very excited for this book that I'm doing with @caseyzakroff.bsky.social !

Screenshot of my worksheet with all the inked pages marked off as finished

February 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM

Joy Ang

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The horse obsession started young (3 yo here)

(Music: Waving to You feat. Rebecca Sugar)

February 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM

Joy Ang

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Just got some Betamax digitized - here’s baby me. We haven’t seen this footage for at least 25+ years 😮

February 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM

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Comparison between a regular Blue Shift sweet pea and the mottled version

February 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM

Joy Ang

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A few years ago I planted Blue Shift sweet peas. They normally look like the last photo, but I had 1 plant that produced beautifully-mottled flowers. Haven't seen anything else online like it. Just planted seeds collected from that special variety and hoping they produce more of the same 🤞