Debbie Fong 🌲📬✨

@debbiefong.com

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Eisner & Ignatz nominated cartoonist ✨ I make fun stuff at www.pommopress.com and work on books! Rep’d by Janna Morishima ✌️🇹🇼🇺🇸 🚌 NEXT STOP 📮 THE FARAWAY FOREST: Wally’s Route 🌲 THE FARAWAY FOREST: Hester’s Big Dream 🔗 debbiefong.com 📍 brooklyn she / her

7.30-8.1 • Stationery Fest BROOKLYN, NY - Marketplace POMMO PRESS 8.20-8.23 • Anime NYC MANHATTAN, NY - Artist Alley POMMO PRESS 9.26 • Brooklyn Book Festival BROOKLYN, NY - Author Panel & Signing 10.3 • Glen Rock Children's Book Fest GLEN ROCK, NJ - Author Signing 10.8-10.11 • NY Comic Con MANHATTAN, NY - Artist Alley POMMO PRESS 10.23 • Library Event (w/Live Owls!) SMITHTOWN, NY - Book Event & Signing 11.19-11.22 • NCTE PHILADELPHIA, PA - Author Panel & Signing
Screenshot of some thumbnails of cute newt Jomi who wears glasses and loves books
My Maine coon mix cat Murray rolling around on our blue rug
Both previous books laying open to pages including a certain character, the pine marten librarian Martine
Crop from the print of Momonga, the flying squirrel, engaging in some mischief
Chiikawa post office riso print
Crop in part of the print with a small Open-chan balloon figure and text: Open Chan FreeDom Flight 12.16.2022 // 13km
Graph showing age distribution of Chiikawa Searchers (2022-2023) with the highest percentage of searchers in their 30s
Riso print design in scarlet / yellow / blue, featuring OPEN Chan (dog alien w rainbow hair?) surrounded by classic Taiwanese convenience store snacks
Screenshot from Google Translate translating from Japanese "ダンダダン" to English "Dandadan"
Peek inside Wally and Bo’s burrow inside of a tree trunk from the end of my early reader graphic novel THE FARAWAY FOREST: WALLY’S ROUTE
Cute blender model of my owl character Hester, wearing a purple cloak
Stack of 10 copies of Next Stop, a middle grade graphic novel about a desert road trip
Big sky over waves and sand on a sunny morning. My dog Bene is trotting happily across the beach
Wally and Hester character trading cards
Graphic showing images of the preorder goodies: a set of Wally & Hester trading cards, a 3” Hester sticker, and a special Faraway Forest envelope & postcard
My white Jindo Bene bouncing on the beach in the morning, with a pier in the background
Old sketches and wip ideas on paper
My white Jindo dog Bene and tabby cat Murray sitting close together and looking at me
SOI wall of art celebrating 125 years
Two stacks of my new book The Faraway Forest: Hester’s Big Dream in the foreground, lots of tables full of people chatting about books in the background, in a warm exhibition space with art all around
BEST PUBLICATION FOR EARLY READERS: All the Hulk Feels, by Dan Santat (Abrams Fanfare/Marvel) The Faraway Forest: Wally's Route, by Debbie Fong (Chronicle Books) The Fire-Breathing Duckling, by Frank Cammuso (TOON Books) Night Light, by Michael Emberley (Holiday House) Steve, A Rare Egg, by Kelly Collier (Kids Can Press)
The Faraway Forest: Wally’s Route is a 2026 Eisner Award Nominee for Best Publication for Early Readers
Me opening a mailer containing a copy of The Faraway Forest: Hester’s Big Dream!
Screenshot from site showing Faraway Forest images an book descriptions
Me and Ms. Youssif the middle school librarian, holding some of my books at a table in the library
Selfie in front of the main gates of TAS
The rainbow “Taipei” pride road at Ximending
My dog racing in the snow this morning, mouth open with crazy joy
A panel from the book: Hester’s strutting her stuff out in the daylight, wearing sunglasses and big pink headphones
Cover of THE FARAWAY FOREST: Hester’s Big Dream, featuring sweet owl Hester looking out of treehouse window at night, gazing up at the night sky longingly, holding her owl plushie Pippin
My dog, Bene, a white Jindo, in the snow in the morning sun. Closeup on the ice built up on her whiskers
Bowl of rice topped with cooked mushrooms and onions in a dark sauce, with a fried egg on top
List of upcoming children’s books from Chronicle including “The Faraway Forest: Hester’s Big Dream by Debbie Fong which finds night owl Hester wondering if she might meet new friends if she were awake when the sun is out”
My white Jindo dog Bene sitting inside an igloo made of slabs of icy snow crust
My dog and cat both grooming themselves, Murray (cat) licking his own butt with his leg sticking into the air
Item 1: A signed hardcover copy of THE FARAWAY FOREST, which comes with a postcard, sticker, bookplate, and two patches
“Immigrants, regardless of citizenship status, are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than U.S. born citizens. —National Bureau of Economic Research”
“Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars annually in state, local, and federal taxes while receiving no federal benefits. —IRS data from 2019”
“Being undocumented in the United States is not a felony. It is not even a crime. It is a civil infraction (like getting a parking ticket).”
“NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL”
A panel from The Faraway Forest showing Mr. Sternbill, a stork wearing a colored shirt and vest, looking unamused at Wally
Flyer hanging outside their school library promoting my visit
Murray stretched out on my lap while I’m working on inking pages of my next book
The book Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shang-Zi
My dog Bene, a white Jindo, running towards the camera from a distance down a snowy, wooded path.
My ipad and AirPods on a library table with a script document open
Bunch of people standing in front of the Bay Ridge branch of the Brooklyn Public Library