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Lucy Knisley
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My new picture book, Searching for Wocks, is out June 9! You can preorder it now!

This book is about the joy of discovering tiny objects, and the beauty of what turns up on a toddler’s pockets!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760970...
The cover for “Searching for Wocks” by Lucy Knisley, featuring a small child in a yellow hooded coat, crouching to pick up one of many small objects scattered across the cover.
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A cozy conversation with an old friend on Monday, for a crowd of 1200+! @goraina.bsky.social came to town with her new book, Facing Feelings, and we had a chat about it, about comics, being comics buds for 20 years, and snakes. You can read more about it on my patreon! www.patreon.com/cw/lucyknisley
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Yesterday, on a holiday where kids go door to door connecting with their community, my sweet town was terrorized by government-backed thugs. Our schools locked down. We patrolled the streets, warning vulnerable people to stay inside. Helicopters circled incessantly. ICE get out.
A graphic that reads: Hey ICE, get out of Evanston. We do not want you here. Stop trying to terrorize our community and go away, you pathetic losers.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Get ya some buds to go to the re-screened movie from 16 years ago, who will support and assist your very specific costume that will be the *only* costume anyone is wearing at the theater, and therefore the best.
Lucy is dressed like Alice Cullen from the twilight movies (the baseball scene) and is attempting a very badly executed high kick pitch stance with the aid of her friend Abby holding up her foot The scene of Alice Cullen playing baseball with a doodle of a person holding up her leg Lucy attempting to show off her face glitter along with the Alice costume A screenshot of a group photo of a bunch of rad kooks at the twilight screening
October 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Coming home the other night: I was feeling’ not great, but then I glimpsed an angel in my very own tree!
Sketchbook drawings of an adorable possum walking up a branch, Lucy looking on in awe. Far away photo of the possum in the tree Zoom enhance, it’s a cute possum in a tree Another angle of the possum in the tree
October 31, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Me and my buddy.
Lucy standing next to a homemade Halloween yard decoration of Enoch from over the garden wall.
October 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Happy Halloween from Pottsfield, IL.
Lucy holding up a giant Enoch head from over the garden wall
October 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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A whole ton of new THINGS available on The THINGS Project!
Www.lucyknisley.com/things
October 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Yes! I have two— baguette and brioche.
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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It’s a great day to pick out a bunch of THINGS for your loved ones! Here’s Johnny with his THINGS print. Maybe I should add “excellent beard” to the THINGS database.
Www.lucyknisley.com/things
A bearded cutie holding a print of cartoon things
October 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I launched The THINGS Project IRL last night at a gallery opening at Twilight Kitchen in Roger’s Park! The owner, Christopher Sullivan, threw an incredible party for the opening. Wonderful folks came to eat great food and celebrate THINGS! Go see the show at T.K.’s market every Sunday from 10-3!
October 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Announcing The THINGS Project!

www.lucyknisley.com/things
Comic explaining The THINGS Project
October 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I am so glad I systematically fangirled my way into @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social ‘s good graces to get this new one months in advance! I looooved it! Sucks y’all gotta wait ‘til spring for it!
A galley of TJ Alexander’s “a lady for all seasons” book
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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This will be the fourth year I’ve made a MICHY minicomic to give out (along with candy) on Halloween! We’re not as great as “the caramel apple house,” but I’ll take “the comic house!”
A sneak peek at part of the cover of Lucy’s annual Halloween minicomic, titled MICHY #4, the Lake Michigan monster in The SPOOKY SWITCHAROO.
October 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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A few in-person events I’ll be doing in the next couple of months!

Pop Con
Green Bay, WI
10/4

Banned Books Litworks
Hardwood Heights, IL
10/11

EPICFEST
Charlotte, NC
11/8

In Convo with Raina Telgemeier
Downers Grove, IL
11/10
Pop Con Green Bay, WI Saturday, October 4th 10-4pm Brown County Central Library www.browncountylibrary.org/PopCon/ Banned Books LitWorks Harwood Heights, IL Saturday, October 11th 10am-2pm Eisenhower Public Library https://eisenhower.librarycalendar.com/event/banned-litworks-8816 EPICFEST Charlotte, NC Saturday, November 8 10am-3om https://www.cmlibrary.org/epicfest In Conversation with Raina Telgemeier Downers Grove, IL Monday, November 10 7-9pm https://www.eventcombo.com/e/author-event-with-raina-telgemeierfacing-feelings-76739?fbclid=IwY2xjawNIyoJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFYMVNVeXNKaUdwcHdkV1NPAR6yq1-FyyQKXaEjqD8kKMxhLg0IrAIe8YKIDIL9CWSpmBNO_lKUA-3nJfo6sg_aem_TJBcdlqLfYe0SN2rGxn-5A
September 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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September 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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So excited to be at @cartooncrossroads.bsky.social this weekend! Come to a great show and come say hi to meee!
Drawing of Lucy leaning on her CXC convention schedule. 9/20: 12pm: Understanding (Kids’) Comics: The Business and Craft of Kids’ Comics Metropolitan library main branch, auditorium Signing to follow
September 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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This past weekend was our local Evanston Folk Fest— a gorgeous time by the lake with friends and great tunes. Tons of amazing artists, but my faves were @tuneyards.bsky.social and Loudon Wainrwright III. Special guest: cool moon over Lake Michigan.
The band, Tune-Yards, playing to an outdoor music festival The musician, Loudon Wainwright III, playing to an intimate stage at an outdoor music fest An orange moon rising over a Lake Michigan beach
September 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Went to a lovely book/dinner club last night, featuring my book, Relish!
Menu inspired by Lucy’s book, Relish, on a place setting
September 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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The daily drama of the top bunk.

I did a huge cat-related sketchbook post on my patreon, today! If you like my dumb cat drawings and supporting an artist, you should join!

www.patreon.com/lucyknisley
A sketchbook comic about two cats fighting over the upper of two suction-cup window cat beds. A photo of the real life cats crowded into the upper cat bed, the lower cat bed unoccupied.
September 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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The pancakes I make for my kid and their sleepover friend, the pancakes I make for myself, and the pancakes I make for my partner. 🧑‍🎨🌹🍑
Pancakes in the shape of Kirby Kitty cat pancake Pink pancakes in the shape of a rose and a butt.
August 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Taking measures to provide my new loaf of Polish rye with sanctuary from Baggy’s insatiable bread greed.
Bread in a plastic bin with a post it depicting a cartoon of Baggy the cat with a cross over it and the letters B.A.G. Barrier Against Gremlins Baggy the cat Garfield the cat looking at his crossed portrait with the subtitle: “huh. I wonder who that’s for.”
August 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Tonight, Seattle area! At Brick and Mortar Books! Come out and say hi!
August 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Gotta say…
Sketchbook comic. Panel 1: a disembodied voice says “I KNOW a.i. is ethically, ecologically and esthetically awful, but I just gotta say…” Lucy is reacting with a ._. Face and thinking “do ya? Do ya really GOTTA?” Panel 2: Lucy’s thought bubble reads: “do you just GOTTA recite some tired anecdote using the phrase ‘I just typed it in!’ That just amounts to you admitting that your cheapness, laziness and poor taste outweighs your unexamined ethical code?” Sketchbook comic page 2: Panel 1: Lucy’s thought bubble reads “and, at the very least, do you GOTTA say it to ME?” She is turning away, saying “ok I’m gonna go, um, get a snack.” Panel 2: another disembodied voice is saying “Lucy! You’re an artist— whattaya think about a.i? Ya know, it may be bad, but I JUST GOTTA SAY…” Lucy is startled, dropping a chip. Sketchbook comic page 3: Panel 1: Lucy is surrounded by speech bubbles and text, repeating the phrase “gotta say…” she looks terrified. Panel 2: she is fleeing the repeated “gotta say”s, yelling “you gotta live with yourselves, but I don’t gotta!” A note with a heart at the end reads “stop doing this I will not absolve you.”
August 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Book events for Sugar Shack begin Tuesday in NYC! Come say hi! 🍁
August 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM