Hello 👋… my name is Jacob Souva and I’m an illustrator and author of books for kids. I’m rep’d by Jen Rofé of Andrea Brown Literary Agency. ✨ www.twofishillustration.com/links ✏️ https://open.substack.com/pub/jacobsouva
5 things from the studio: 1. I built a rocket w my teenager 2. Worked on some simmering picture book ideas 3. Entering into your #kidlit project w passion 4. A small step in an old book project changed how I work 5. An excellent read on Ai and bookshops 🚀 open.substack.com/pub/jacobsou...
Failure to Launch5 things from the studioopen.substack.comLots of jobs for computers, not a lot for real people Kevin.
Aaron RuparHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
We can push to adopt solar and wind and batteries and make war profiteering over oil something our children read about and our proud to have overcome
Marisa Kabasoil and gas companies profit off of human suffering and environmental ruin and their executives should all be tried at the hague 🫶
One of my favorite times of the year - beautiful work by my agency peers. 👀 (My page features some art for a forthcoming picture book that I'm super proud of.🪼)
Andrea Brown Literary AgencyOur updated and expanded 2026 Illustrator LookBook is now live! This year's edition features more than 140 of our very talented artist clients. Check out the Lookbook at this link to view their incredible work!
These guys, feeling the trumpy headwinds that they enabled, are trying to play the hits. “Be mad and angry and scared of government like before!” Concerted effort to talk about pandemics and Fauci so they don’t have to talk about Iran, Epstein, grocery prices, gas prices, healthcare costs, etc
Aaron RuparSen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."
New post! Talked about how when you’re working alone in a creative industry can lose track of how you’re doing. How do you grade yourself? #kidlit #kidlitart Give yourself an “A” open.substack.com/pub/jacobsou...
Giving Yourself an "A"How do you know if you're succeeding in your creative life? Who is doing the grading?!open.substack.comMoney = power = inevitable shitting on the rest of society to get what you want Unsustainable open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Democracy in an Age of PowermaxxingThe billionaire backlash has finally arrived. But is it too late?open.substack.com