Author: Brian Kirby
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Break up with your X.
*Post originally published July 6, 2024 on boringstorybook.com I’ve been in Marketing with a capital M for a couple of decades, and have worked on large-scale online campaigns for companies like Taco Bell, Wendy’s McDonalds, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Dannon, Toyota, and many more. I have experience looking at engagement data for huge companies,… Read more
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THE KIDLIT MEGA FEED!
The amazing Debbie Ridpath Ohi and Charlene Chua teamed up with me to pool our resources, creating a way of connecting quickly and easily with the kidlit community on the BlueSky social media platform: THE KIDLIT MEGA FEED …pulls in kidlit content from moderated lists compiled by multiple members of the community! Find out more… Read more
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#kidlitartpostcard June 2024
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#kidlitartpostcard May 2024
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#kidlitartpostcard April 2024
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#PBParty 2024 Finalist
I participated in Mindy Alyse Weiss’ #pbparty last year and was announced as a finalist! I submitted my story FOR SHENANIGANS ONLY as an author/illustrator and was one of 25 entries chosen for the illustrator’s showcase. The event itself was a great experience, with or without the finalist result. I was paired with 6 other authors… Read more
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A Spooky Doodle
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Movie Night Campout!
One of the indoor activities my kids loved during the isolating years of the pandemic that we continue to do every so often is a movie night campout. Staying up late building pillow forts and watching monster movies without any mosquitos or hungry bears around is the best. So I made a National Parks-style poster… Read more
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Goofball
One of the ways I brainstorm characters for my stories is to draw them over and over until I feel like I know them. My favorite original characters to draw are Noodle and Goofball, who appear in a few of my stories. They are toddler twins with different birthdays and ambitions to avoid bedtime and… Read more
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Drawing Another Noodle Doodle
Sharing a Procreate doodle video of my character Noodle. She is a pre-school kid who gets a little overstimulated and diabolical before bedtime, so I was inspired by the manic characters in old sugary cereal commercials when I was designing her. Her hair is a spiky, like spines and horns on a monster dinosaur. Her… Read more