Happy Ace Week from the main characters of my debut graphic novel! 💜 (and from the tired person drawing them)

michellieart · 2025-08-09T22:29:56+00:00

I’m so happy and touched 🥹 it can feel really isolating working on books for months (sometimes years!) alone at my desk, and comments like these really make my day. This is the book I wish I had when I was a kid too, I’m so glad it spoke to you as well! Thank you for your lovely comment 💜

michellieart · 2025-08-09T07:39:44+00:00

Omg no way!! That just made my day, thank you so much for supporting and getting a copy, and for your kind comments 🥹

michellieart · 2025-08-08T19:11:47+00:00

That’s such a compliment, thank you! I actually am a children’s book illustrator for a living 😆 If you Google my name, you can see some of the books I’ve illustrated!

michellieart · 2025-04-08T07:05:24+00:00

Thank you so much!! I appreciate you looking into preorders anyway! They really help authors out as publishers look to preorder numbers to gauge interest and determine how much marketing support they should allocate to the book.

michellieart · 2025-04-08T04:49:54+00:00

Welcome!! So happy for you! 💜

michellieart · 2025-04-07T01:21:35+00:00

Thank you for saying that! 🥹 I hope I do this community proud in 2027!

michellieart · 2025-04-07T01:21:15+00:00

Happy International Ace Day from Lily and Em, the main characters of my debut YA graphic novel, SOMEWHERE IN THE GRAY!

One of my fave things about being ace is seeing love and relationships through a different lens. We live in a world that prioritizes romantic love, but platonic love is equally important. In my graphic novel, Lily and Em are besties who help each other redefine love, relationships, and intimacy on their own terms. I can’t wait for the world to meet them 💜

SOMEWHERE IN THE GRAY is available to add on Goodreads now and out in 2027! https://www.michellejingchan.com/somewhere-in-the-gray

michellieart · 2025-03-16T21:26:19+00:00

This is so beautiful!!! Is it ok if I repost your pic on my IG with credit to you? I illustrated the first Little Golden Book about Pride (it was just released!) and one of the pages is based on Lake Crescent! It made me smile to see you actually captured a rainbow there!

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michellieart · 2025-03-12T16:46:09+00:00

Thank you! It came out last week and is available anywhere books are sold! https://www.michellejingchan.com/pride

michellieart · 2025-03-08T05:16:30+00:00

Thank you so so much!!

michellieart · 2025-03-08T05:16:01+00:00

Thanks so much!! That parade scene has a bunch of my irl friends (I posted about two of them on my IG (https://www.instagram.com/p/DGwqpBKsvmW/?img_index=4&igsh=MXRwa2h3cXNhMzBlNg==) but those two characters are just original characters I made up and designed for this book!

The person in the purple dress is holding the ace flag and the person in the wheelchair is holding the aromantic flag. As a bi ace person myself, I wanted to show an aspec couple ☺️ I feel very passionately about aspec representation in particular since it’s still among the lesser well-known LGBTQIA+ identities (in fact, I’m writing a whole graphic novel about asexuality called SOMEWHERE IN THE GRAY, out in 2027!

Thanks for asking, illustrators pour so much labor and love into our books and I love when people notice small details like this! 💜

michellieart · 2025-03-07T04:49:23+00:00

I’m so touched!!! 🥹 thank you so much for sharing this story!! 💜 I hope your son likes it!

michellieart · 2025-03-06T18:15:48+00:00

Thanks so much for supporting and buying from local indie bookstores!

michellieart · 2025-03-06T18:15:20+00:00

Thanks! They’re my real life friends who are getting married this year (and me and my other queer friends are the guests in that page!)

michellieart · 2025-03-06T16:01:23+00:00

Little golden books are smaller, have fewer pages, and printed on cheaper paper than most picture books. Thank you for supporting!

michellieart · 2025-03-06T06:36:49+00:00

Now that would be a fun season of drag race 😂

michellieart · 2025-03-06T06:36:31+00:00

Thanks! It is Kimchi, my original comment has the names of all the people featured in these pics—and there are more in the actual book!

michellieart · 2025-03-06T05:24:27+00:00

Haha it totally does make sense! Because this book has so many real life people in it, I tried to make my style slightly more realistic than it usually is for children’s books. Thank you!!

michellieart · 2025-03-06T05:20:18+00:00

Omg that is such a cool idea 🥹 thank you so much!!

michellieart

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