Lucy Knisley

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Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Jun 30

Free to download, and printable on standard Avery 5164 shipping label stickers. Enjoy!

Hand drawn text reading: Oh no! ANOTHER HIDEOUS GENERATIVE AI FLYER
Looks like they:
-don’t care about the harm to the planet and our drinkable water
-devalue human artists and creativity
-lined a billionaire’s pocket instead of hiring a local artist
-want everyone to become more lazy, stupid and misinformed
HOW EMBARRASSING

The text image from the other image in this post, printed six times to fit on mailing label stickers when printed

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Jun 19

The WOCKS PARTY is tomorrow! 10:30am at Art Maker’s Outpost in Evanston. BYO wock to showcase in the temporary Wock Museum! Plus, an author storytime, lots of free goodies and wock painting!

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Jun 10

I SEE WOCKS (I See a Wock) This incredible remix by @johnhorstman.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of “Searching For Wocks,” out today!

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Jun 8

I’ve included portraits and paintings of contributions from Patreon Patrons in the last two endpapers of my picture books! Become a patron to participate in the next one. Patreon.com/lucyknisley

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Jun 5

You can tell how serious I am from the necktie. Submit your wocks to the Museum of Wocks!

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Jun 3

A book for your little wock collector! @penguinkids.bsky.social @bookedevanston.bsky.social

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Jun 1

Check out a few pages of the original art from Searching for Wocks!

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· May 29

I hit the streets to ask folks about their favorite wocks!

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· May 28

Here’s a quick speed-paint of my WOCKS character, to illustrate how I did the art for Searching For Wocks. I use watercolor, gouache and colored pencils. Using all these gave the art a lot of vibrancy and texture, which is perfect for a book about examining and admiring things closely.

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· May 27

The original inspiration for Searchibg For Wocks (you can probably guess who).

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· May 26

Searching For WOCKS comes out in two weeks!

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Apr 23

Happy Indie Bookstore Day weekend! I’m partnering with my local indie, @bookedevanston.bsky.social, to celebrate! #ibd

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Feb 28

Goop fuel generator.

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Feb 28

Gooplicator.

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Feb 16

A fun project from a couple weeks ago: Riso cards I made at @saravaron.bsky.social’s studio, given to my neighbors for Valentine’s Day.

A risograph printed card layered pink and mint colors. Four buildings spell out the word “LOVE” followed by “, your neighbor!”

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Feb 15

The poster I drew for a local activism group, raising opposition to the detainment centers for *children.* Feel free to print more to share. www.uhohelonmusk.com/everykid-page

A black and white poster of drawings of children playing around the text
“Every kid everywhere healthy safe and free”

The art from the first photo printed on bright pink paper, taped to a wall

The art from the first photo printed on bright pink paper, taped to a CTA station

The art from the first photo printed on bright pink paper, taped to a pole

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Feb 7

This sketchbook comic made my kid laugh harder than anything else I've ever drawn, so I am currently considering it my finest work.

A comic.
“We used to have a smart speaker, but we replaced it with our kid’s Furby.”
(drawing of a furby)

Speech bubble: “Hey Furby, play music by “They Might Be Giants.”
Furby: Lee koo
The furby is wiggling while it replies.

“It ran out of batteries a while ago.”
Speech bubble: Ok Furby— What’s the temperature?.. Cold? Yeah.”
The furby is doing nothing.

“Honestly, it works about as well as the robot we used to have,”
(image of furby face close up)
“…AND it doesn’t spy on our conversations to sell our data— BONUS."

“I’m thinking of putting it in the window by the door.
(Image of the furby in a window of a front porch)
“(For security)”

“FURB HOME>SMART HOME”
The furby is drawn large with slogans across it’s visage:
“whimsical”
“retro”
“retains vague menace of smart tech but lacks actual menace to spy for govt. and corporations"

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Feb 5

"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics

A comic in black/white/blue.
Lucy rolls her bike through an alley, by a crew building a fence.
Narration: My neighbors hired a crew to rebuild their fence.
Crew member: "Do you need us to move our stuff out of the way?"
Lucy: "Oh! No, you're all good, thanks!"
Lucy: "Have a good one!"
Crew member: "You, too!"

Narration: I was teaching when my phone started lighting up with alerts from the rapid response network and neighbor chat.
Lucy's back is to us as she shows a group of enthusiastic children something on a notebook. Behind her, her phone in her bag is buzzing.

Narration: By the time the lesson was over, they were already gone.
Lucy is reading messages on her phone.
Messages:
Alert: black SUV
Sighting: be on alert for...
Confirmed abductionL alley between ----- and ----. SUV plates...
We tried to get them inside, but it was too...
...Contacting an I.R. lawyer. Heading to Broadview later today.

Lucy is riding her bike home.
Narration: On the ride home, I kept thinking "If I'd been there, could I have warned them? Would my ICIRR* training have helped?"
*Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Get trained and know your rights at ICIRR.org.

Narration: I'd taken the training after Halloween, when the violent ICE raids had locked down our schools and driven our neighbors indoors.

(Image of a halloween bucket in the shape of a jack-o-lantern)

Narration: Halloween is fun here-- The community filling the streets and opening our doors to one another. But this year's was tense, frightened and subdued. Haunted.

Lucy is standing in the alley, staring at the newly built fence.
Narration: When I got home, it was all done. The other two guys who had gotten inside in time stayed and finished the build.

The new fence is superimposed with the brief exchange from earlier in the comic ("Have a good one" You, too")
Narration: I see it every day and think about how those guys built this in the spot where strangers in masks took their friend.

Narration: How many other places in our communities are similarly haunted?
(Drawings of sidewalks, buildings, streets and windows)

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Jan 27

Very glad to receive an honor for outstanding comic series from @libcomix.bsky.social for the Peapod Farm series!

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Jan 21

My little matched bookends.

A photo of two tortico cats sitting in a window seat of a room with bookshelves, looking back over their shoulders towards the camera.

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Dec 15

(3/3)

A comic where a step-family eats latkes and celebrates the holiday season.

A photo of a graphic novel (Sugar Shack by Lucy Knisley) against a buffalo check background with a bell and a wax spattered menorah base visible.

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Dec 15

(2/3)

A comic where three kids are celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas together

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Dec 15

Happy mishmash, everybody! An excerpt from Sugar Shack, available at your local bookshop, library, and wherever books are sold! (1/3)

Comic page in which three children make latkes

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Nov 23

I found a big sign at the thrift shop with some live/laugh/love stuff on it, so I painted over that with my to-do list. Feel free to make it yours, too.

A painted pink, black and white sign that reads:
To Do

Build community
Shop small and local
Speak up and speak out
Practice empathy
Protect the vulnerable
Give to good causes
Care for the earth
Be brave and loving
Investigate
Read and listen
Abide no fascism

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Nov 18

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the child I was at 15.

A sketchbook comic featuring drawings of a young teen, where the author is writing to their 15 year old self

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Nov 18

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Nov 14

I’ve got a minicomic collecting all four issues of my annual Halloween comic in this show! The MEGA MICHY collection, about the Loch Mich Monster, Michy! Come check it out!

Flyer for a “Chicago cryptids” group art show opening at howling pages comic shop, nov 14 from 5-9. The graphic is a Northman atop an L train.

Lucy Knisley@lucyknisley· Nov 14

My kid has this bear that I refer to as “topless bear,” which infuriates my kid because they insist that “it’s wearing a shirt!” So I put it to you: what’s up with this bear?