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Maritza Ruiz-Kim
@marzkim.bsky.social
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#KidLit Artist Writer. ND Fam.
Turtle on a marathon
💚SCBWI Co-RA, SF North & East Bay
...drawing writing gardening sewing...
Always Making Something.
https://maritzaruizkim.com
My name sounds like🧜‍♀️mer-izza🍕
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Late post for #kidlitpostcard day, a throwback to something i made for #FolktaleWeek 2022 when i worked on a mashup of Emily Dickinson X Cinderella.
November 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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YOU GUYS... I think I'm gonna go to a #NOKINGS rally tomorrow... I should make a poster... any suggestions? Maybe I'll modify an old art poster I made for the original protests in 2017.
June 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Tool: playing a lo-fi music calm animation YouTube channel in the background as I write & draw for my #kidlit projects in my studio :) It’s like I have a little friend reading next to me :) #author #illustrator
June 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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A present!!

1949 Underwood Champion typewriter, pretty much perfect condition as far as I can tell, got it at an estate sale yesterday!
Photo of a 1949 typewriter, model is Underwood Champion Words typed out on new (to me!) typewriter
April 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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My tortilla loves me.
Heart shaped tortilla
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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A Fast Comic :)

🔎 What is the size of federal workforce vs. US population, compared to 1980?
🔎 Who are “private contract worker” = “non-profit”? What about “for-profit”?
🔎 What “for-profit” industries contract with the federal government?
🔎 Where is good data (not anecdotal) on this & how defined?
Black & White Comic A child speaks with a man who says "You have too much, so I'm going to throw it all away." She replies "No" while hiding & protecting an object called Critical Thinking behind her back. Nearby, Security, Service, Stability, Statistics, and Support are in a Garbage can, and Peace, Public Health, Promises, and People are in a Waste Basket. A man at a desk has a pile of objects called Keep. Those items are: Easy Content, Self-Interest, and Polarization.
February 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Hello! Here's something I did this morning... whadayathink? 🧐

If you like this fast comic I made, please do the things that will let me know you like it (buttons, words, etc) otherwise I’ll just make em when I feel like it since I’ll wonder if people are seeing it 😜

Much luv, maritza
Black & White Comic A child speaks with a man who says "You have too much so I'm going to throw it all away." She replies "No" while hiding & protecting an object called Critical Thinking behind her back. Nearby, Security, Service, Stability, Statistics, and Support are in a Garbage can, and Peace, Public Health, Promises, and People are in a Waste Basket. A man at a desk has a pile of objects called Keep. Those items are: Easy Content, Self-Interest, and Polarization.
February 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Hello! I'm Maritza (sounds like 🧜‍♀️mer-izza🍕)

I love to illustrate spunky kids and luscious landscapes and spirited animals! I work in watercolor, brush & ink, and digital.

maritzaruizkim.com
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February 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Here's my own pic of Frances Hodgson Burnett's handwritten manuscript, from visiting NYPL collections at Bryant Park 😅 #kidlitchat
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NYPL blurry photo
February 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Soooo many cool things to see in their collection! The original Winnie-the Pooh and Piglet and Tigger and Roo and Eeyore! #kidlitchat
The original Winnie-the Pooh and Piglet and Tigger and Roo and Eeyore! NYPL collection
February 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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I was gonna share a pic I took at NYPL Bryant Park museum collection but turns out the pic was a video, a very unfocused video #usererror
But here! I found an online image instead! Frances Hodgson Burnett's handwritten Secret Garden manuscript!
I got to see it IRL last week 👀
#kidlitchat
Screenshot from NYPL website of The Secret Garden mannuscript handwritten
February 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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MacPaint 😂 #kidlitchat
a screenshot of the 1980s MacPaint app with a smiley face
February 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Thanks @mdashow.bsky.social! 
Here goes the #art train 🛤️

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Illustration in digital watercolor + line art style of young Emily Dickinson at a window in the nighttime, with poetic quote from her poetry that reads “Dreams are Couriers”. Three friendly mice keep her company. Illustration in traditional watercolor background with digitally painted character, girl sitting under tree surrounded by flowers and monarch butterflies. Illustration in traditional watercolor background with digitally painted character, boy in a meadow kneeling into ground with magnifying glass to look closely at insects Illustration in digital painting of girl with garland of flowers and muddy boots and a beagle that followed her inside with muddy paws.
November 16, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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@sallymkim.bsky.social 🤦🏻‍♀️ ok now I’m 100% laughing at myself because although I took a photo of my sketchbook for 1st post, I didn’t attach it hahahaha ok here you go 🤦🏻‍♀️. I was sketching during your presentation 😆
November 8, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Honestly, it’s hard for me to post political editorial illustrations, not just coz I’m a sensitive artist 😝 but because I fear adding to discontent… but I’m posting *because* I can’t stand the deceptive divisiveness, seeing people disbelieve the fascism or excusing it… 😞 #kidlitartist #votekamala
Illustration with word art, showing US president who presided over attack on US Capitol and incited his followers to violence
November 4, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Lulu doesn't want to go out. Meet new people? She just wants to stay home! But off they go. Sunlight gives way to starry Mojave skies as they drive. Finding comfort in playful imaginings, Lulu opens her heart to possibility of finding good in new places.
DESERT DRIVE IN THE NIGHTTIME
#skypitch #PB
October 23, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Here’s a little pic from the graphic novel pitch I posted to @KidLitGN’s 2024 pitch event😎

Moose & Slushie Solve a Thing
an early reader graphic novel :) 🐭🟢🔎

#kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidlit

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Moose and Slushie (a mouse and a slug) look at an object dug up from Slushie's back yard. It's a cell phone.
October 11, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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I'm watching this right now! (LOL- "official chisme session) Currently scanning bluesky to see if there are posts to share about the last Festival Friday of the Latinx KidLit Book Festival, watchable tomorrow live on youtube
www.latinxkidlitbookfestival.com/2024-festival
#LKBF24
October 11, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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Moose & Slushie gather all the undercover detective essentials.
:)
#scbwiArtober2024
Day 7= Hats
Mouse and slug characters getting dressed for detective work including Sherlock hat & cape
October 7, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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Here's my #scbwiArtober2024 Day 6, "Crispy"! :) :) This was the first thing that popped in my mind... Eating the crispiest crispies in a quiet movie theater 😆
October 7, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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Side-eye follower
#kidlitartist
Illustration of French bulldog giving side eye
October 5, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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I started this painting during that weekend ☺️
Watercolor of a beach scene with a mother standing with baby, bottle feeding
September 9, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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These two are ones I'm working with right now and I love them!
Moose & Slushie are a mouse and slug who are best buddies. They are at a park thinking about getting lunch. Moose & Slushie are a mouse and slug who are best buddies. They are at a diner and Slushie has social anxiety. Moose & Slushie are a mouse and slug who are best buddies. They are at Slushie's house and Moose has arrived with a gift. Moose & Slushie are a mouse and slug who are best buddies. They are at Slushie's house. Moose cheers up Slushie with a cupcake.
September 3, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Commodore 64 ⬇️
September 2, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Finally my crepe myrtles are flowering! Why are all my plants late bloomers? Why do they have to take after me?!? 😂 #garden
August 18, 2024 at 4:48 PM