Thanks

And More Thanks

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Thanks to you, Substack readers, for a great year of writing and drawing.

Thanks to the librarians who let me work in their quiet library corners and check out truckloads of books for free.

Thanks to my collaborators in the publishing world: my editors, art directors, literary agents, and marketing and publicity teams whose work is essential and often unseen.

Thanks to the booksellers who stock my books—especially face out in dramatically lit window displays that entice readers to open the pages to see what’s inside.

Thanks to everyone who’s recommended my books to fellow readers, created their own poetry comics, or read my books in the classroom.

Thanks to my family for supporting me through my creative ups and downs—for keeping my ego in check but also recognizing when it needs a boost.

Thanks to everyone who enables this wonderful, maddening life as an artist and writer.

Everything I’ve made, everything I’ll make in the future—I couldn’t make it without you.

Thanks.