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Tostoini
@tostoini.it
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Illustrator with a soft spot for odd creatures, graphic recorder, friend of manatees, anthropologist, ND. I wrote&illustrated Fossili Viventi published by Aboca Kids. She/her www.tostoini.it
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At the heart of Everything Everywhere All At Once is an undeniable fact: we're all small and stupid. Everything else depends on how, and with whom, you tackle this RIDICULOUS Everything Bagel.

Just be a rock, and ENJOY THE BAGEL. 🥯
Lower half of the variant poster for Everything Everywhere All At Once And the words: nothing mothers! We are all small and stupid! Enjoy this quite RIDICULOUS Bagel! #tostoini #illustration #everythingeverywhereallatonce #variantposter #neuroqueer
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Today, USN Expo festival begins, with 28 short films in competition from 15 countries, five days of screenings, meetings, books (and, of course, a party) and 25 new works dedicated to the history of queer cinema.
Upper half of the alternate poster for Everything Everywhere All At Once
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Ten years ago, I was in the first edition of Uno Sguardo in Mostra for USN Expo with an illustration dedicated to But I'm a Cheerleader. Ten years later, I chose a new movie for a variant poster of a classic of queer cinema: Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie close to my heart (and my brain)
Alternate poster for Everything Everywhere All At Once by Tostoini with an illustration of a Everything bagel dotted with googly eyes, half black and white and half with rainbow sparkly colors
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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🪱 Who, me? NAH, I'm just a worm. 🪱
A pink earthworm with sunglasses surrounding the words "the day is long but I am longer" #tostoini #illustration
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I used this page for a workshop with middle grade kids, a cheeky role play game on digital literacy, critical thinking and learning to recognize true facts from dubious information (or outright ai slop) when you're working on book on animal THIS odd.
A spot illustration with different gar species from the Pesce Caimano double spread from Fossili Viventi written and illustrated by Roberta Ragona Tostoini #garweek #SciArt A spot illustration with the etymology of garfrom the Pesce Caimano double spread from Fossili Viventi written and illustrated by Roberta Ragona Tostoini #garweek #SciArt A spot illustration with a gar fossil from the Pesce Caimano double spread from Fossili Viventi written and illustrated by Roberta Ragona Tostoini #garweek #SciArt A spot illustration the research from archeologist on gar with the latest discoveries on gar scales used as tattoo and scarification implements from the Pesce Caimano double spread from Fossili Viventi written and illustrated by Roberta Ragona Tostoini #garweek #SciArt
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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In honor of #garweek, here's the page for Pesce Caimano from Fossili Viventi!
(It's in Italian, but I think that if I did my job right as an illustrator you can guess the contents just looking at the pictures!) #SciArt
A double spread on gar or Pesce Caimano from Fossili Viventi, written and illustrated by Roberta Ragona (Tostoini) with a big gar in the middle and a number of fact and informations, maps an timeline all around the main illustration #garweek #SciArt
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Illustration of sitting woman in traditiknal welsh clothes with top hat with face shrouded by clouds
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I've enjoyed the usual dive into a tunnel of archive photos and material culture to see how Welsh men and women dressed in the last century, I was inspired for the mountain character from the cabotain hat that Welsh woman donned with the traditional clothes.

#illustration #editorialillustration
A spread from Versanti Magazine with a woman character with traditional welsh clothes and a face shrouded by clouds illustrated by Tostoini. A spread from Versanti Magazine with a woman character with traditional welsh clothes and a face shrouded by clouds illustrated by Tostoini The cover of Versanti Magazine with a black cat head checking it out because you can't do anything in this house without the cat being nosey
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The illustrations were inspired by the characters' nicknames, they're called "allomingius" in Sardinian: they're used to identify which Vincenzo you're talking about among twenty Vincenzis with the same first & last name, there are maybe three family names passed down from generation to generation.
A spread from Versanti Magazine with three characters illustrated by Tostoini A spread from Versanti Magazine with a characters illustrated by Tostoini with a cauliflower head A spread from Versanti Magazine with three characters illustrated by Tostoini, a woman in traditional clothes from ecuador with the faxe shrouded in clouds A spread from Versanti Magazine with a character with a mutton head illustrated by Tostoini
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Today in the the letterbox I found the issue #3 of Versanti Magazine. I've illustrated "Climbing the Hill and Descending the Mountain" an article by Tommaso Ciuffoletti, a story that begins in Wales and ends in Ecuador, with everything in between.
A spread from Versanti Magazine with two characters in workers clothes illustrated by Tostoini, one with a mutton head and one with a barrel head A tipsy character in workers clothes illustrated by Tostoini with a barrel head A characters in greengrocer's clothes illustrated by Tostoini, with a cauliflower head A character in workers clothes illustrated by Tostoini with a mutton head
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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This is of course inspired by that old manatee meme with the manatee face-planted in a lettuce head. Sometimes I wonder what I could accomplish in life if most of my neurons were not busy hanging on for dear life to memories of old memes and weird jingles.
A old manatee meme with a picture of a manatee face-planted in a lettuce head.
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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This idiom is so odd. I have so many feelings any given day, the idea of eating them sounds so appealing: bitter feelings and sweet feelings and umami feelings and salty feelings and sour feelings, WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE? (And why I feel it just another way of policing other people's food intake?)
An illustration of a manatee face-planted in a lettuce head surrounder by the words "eat my feelings sounds DELICIOUS"
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Strong Locutus of the Borg vibes
Locutus of the borg and the borg queen in star trek next generation
September 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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I guess it's not that big of a surprise that I'm a big Moomin fan: I love Jansson way of to see the transcendent and magical in the natural world, the weird, the goofy, the softness that can just as easily shift to the mischievous, alien, unknowable.
an illustration inspired by a moomin one by tove jansson with manatee diving to the sea floor with some deep ocean sea watching and some coral-like creatures watching curiously in blue
September 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The Palestine sunbird (Cinnyris osea) is a small bird of the sunbird family, Nectariniidae. In 2015 the Palestinian Authority adopted the species as a national bird.
From every river. To every sea. 🍉

#globalsumudflotilla #cinnyrisosea #palestiniansunbird #sciart
An illustration of a small blue iridescent palestinian sunbird perched on a slide on watermelon on a green background #sciart
September 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Luglio dei Fossili Viventi fin qui:
Date tour luglio fossili viventi
July 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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La newsletter tostoina di luglio, cotta per voi ad alta temperatura nelle più pregevoli isole di calore della nostra penisola! Contiene le date del tour dei Fossili Viventi di luglio, un libro irresistibile e un sacco di puzze.
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Card newsletter tostoina di luglio
July 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Fossili Viventi tra i libri consigliati nella puntata di oggi di Ci Vuole Una Scienza, il podcast de @ilpost.it Post di @emenietti.bsky.social e Beatrice Mautino che ogni venerdì mi spiega come funzionano *le cose* (ampio gesto con le braccia). Daje!
June 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Pagella politica la spiega bene pagellapolitica.it/articoli/ref...
Screenshot pagella politica
June 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Che male vi ha fatto l'ordine alfabetico veramente non s'è capito
Registri elettorali
June 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Ho mandato la newsletter di giugno che contiene i primi appuntamenti in libreria di Fossili Viventi - 10/6 alle 19.00 da Alaska Libreria con Leonardo Mazzeo e il 19/6 da Scamamù alle 16.30 - t-shirt eccellenti, arte drag, ornitorinchi e antropologia. Si legge qui: lnkd.in/dyS_RDXp
card di preview della newsletter tostoina di giugno con una foto di tostoini sorridente che regge una copia di fossili viventi e la scritta "la newsletter tostoina a giugno va in libreria - in cui i fossili viventi vengono finalmente introdotti nel loro habitat naturale: le librerie e le case delle persone." foto di cosimo maffione
June 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The monthly manatee for my patreons is up, at the latest possible moment as usual. If you want to finance my quirky habit of eating every day, and getting a plethora of manatees and other odd animals in exchange, come join us here: www.patreon.com/tostoini
Patreon card with a fish swimming in pristine waters
May 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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E aggiungo che il librino verdazzurro lo porto in giro altrettanto volentieri tanto quanto i miei amici Fossili Viventi, arriva anche lui con una bellissima attività di laboratorio abbastanza mani in pasta. Librerie amichevoli, festivalini: io ve l'ho detto.
Che Cosa Senti?
May 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Il fatto di avere prestato le mie illustrazioni per raccontare alle bambine e ai bambini il lavoro di Sciola è una cose di cui sono molto fiera. E la domanda del libro, Che Cosa Senti?, ha una sola risposta possibile: sento un sacco di cose.

#checosasenti #santarte #pinucciosciola #tostoini
Una pila di Che Cosa Senti?, il libro illustrato dedicato a Pinuccio Sciola al Giardino Sonoro di San Sperate per l'edizione 2024 di Sant'Arte che mostra la copertina con Pinuccio Sciola di spalle che suona una pietra sonora. Foto di Ettore Cavalli
May 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Oggi a San Sperate inizia l'edizione 2025 di Sant'Arte, con un programma ricchissimo. Queste sono le foto di Ettore Cavalli dell'edizione 2024, durante la quale io e Daniela Palumbo abbiamo presentato Che Cosa Senti? nella sua casa, il Giardino Sonoro di San Sperate.
Tomaso Sciola, Tostoini e Daniela Palumbo con le illustrazioni interne di Che Cosa Senti? dedicato a Pinuccio Sciola al Giardino Sonoro di San Sperate per l'edizione 2024 di Sant'Arte. Foto di Ettore Cavalli Chiara Sciola, Tostoini e Daniela Palumbo con le illustrazioni interne di Che Cosa Senti? dedicato a Pinuccio Sciola al Giardino Sonoro di San Sperate per l'edizione 2024 di Sant'Arte. Foto di Ettore Cavalli Maria, Chiara e Tomaso Sciola, Tostoini e Daniela Palumbo al Giardino Sonoro di San Sperate per l'edizione 2024 di Sant'Arte. Foto di Ettore Cavalli
May 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM