Hey mate! :)

Hey #portfolioday ! I'm Izzi, a fantasy illustrator and comics artist with a particular love of making DnD character art, fantasy illustration and cosy slice of life comics 📚✨

I've been seeing a few people complain about accounts who very frequently repost, and I'm sure Portfolio Day is especially aggravating. But sharing IS the right thing to do especially as we're all rebuilding on a new site with no algorithm. So for those people, I dunno... Read a book or something.

I hope so! It's definitely been a lovely few years as a bookseller seeing more and more published and hitting more of a mainstream; we've gone from having a handful for kids to having 2 whole shelves (this doesn't sound like much but in my shop every shelf must be fought for tooth and nail)

The only way they'd get in trouble is if they'd broken an embargo (which are almost always for massive titles, like the new Sally Rooney or like. The fuckin boris johnson memoir out tomorrow.) I don't think I've ever seen a graphic novel under embargo though!

If the bookshops have put it on sale, it's fine! We have lists of what shouldn't hit the shop floor yet, and most of the time we're pretty good about making sure what's out is meant to be out :)

If it's not embargoed by the publisher (doesn't happen often; mostly for new releases by Very Famous People or latest hardbacks from well known authors) most books can arrive and be on sale up to two weeks before their official publication date! (I love having ✨bookseller inside knowledge✨)

We got it at my teeny tiny bookshop on Monday, I imagine it's already out there in lots of places 👀

I'm having a great time reading I Shall Never Fall in Love (created by the marvellous @haridraws.bsky.social)

probably my favourite two-panel sequence so far from the comic I'm working on! It's tentatively titled "Rowan Avari's Guide to Pre-Made Spells" and is an urban fantasy/slice of life comic about a normal guy working at a magic library.