One of my teachers explained to me that inking is moving a drop of water across the paper. This is a really helpful way to look painting washes of color. Just move the drop of water from one end to the other before it dries out. So here I am dragging a globule of water over the white and making sure to keep some parts dry and cloud-shaped.
I will be drawing Moomintrolls with families at the Brooklyn Public Library this Saturday. I discovered Moominvalley when I was in fourth grade. I found these old cloth-bound copies of the books on the shelves. The titles were strange and I cracked them open and fell in love with the illustrations and the characters. No one else I knew had read these books. Was I the only person in the world who wanted to wake up to the smell of Moominmamas breakfast and stand in the garden looking at the mirror ball? Turns out not at all! I’ll make sure to post some of the Moomins we draw.
Here are events I will be at in October:
Moomin Drawing at Brooklyn Public Library
Saturday, September 27⋅12:00 – 1:00pm
Mika will be drawing Moomins at Central Library in Brooklyn.
NY Comic Con Panel
Thu, Oct 9, 2025 Panel 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM/ Book Signing 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
I will be moderating a panel of cartoonists as they play Lost in Illustration: An Interactive Live Drawing Telephone Game
Afte the panel, she will be signing books at Hall 1A: Author Signing Tables
Morristown Book Festival
October 11, 2025 10 AM - 4 PM
I will be at Kidfest, part of the Morristown, Festival of Books signing the new Henry chapter book! Henry’s Picture-Perfect Day!
American Association of School Librarians Conference
ST Louis MO. Oct. 17, 9:30 - 10:30 AM Random House Children’s Books Signing #1023.
1:30-2:30 PM Junior Library Guild Signing #TBD
4:20-5:10 PM Program: Drawn to Story with Daniel Miyares and Judd Winick
Night Chef Halloween Book Launch
Oct. 31, 2025, 4:00-6:00 PM
Join Mika Song at World’s Borough Bookshop in Jackson Heights on your trick or treating run. There will be costumes, a reading, mini comics giveaways and I will be signing copies of Night Chef.
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And of course Night Chef is still available for pre-order from Worlds Borough Books they tell me. We have not yet cracked 100 orders! I will see them this weekend and find out how many we Night Chefs I have to draw so far and report back to you.
