🧠 ➰ I say this to myself a lot.
Made some stickers for my shop that’s not here yet
#stickers #thinkingtime #irishillustration #northernireland #artistmarket
It meant a lot to me to be able to read my book to the kids in Ballymena where I am from.
Thanks a lot to Victoria for organising and @waterstonesballymena
And thanks to everyone for coming and my mum @karen.sung.351 for helping facilitate 😄
There’s a few signed Moon Moon Can’t Sleep books in the Ballymena Waterstones too!
#moonmooncantsleep #localbookstore #childrensbookillustration #picturebooks #irishillustrator
May you have the luck of the Cat.
I designed and 3D printed this critter for fun and to celebrate my (and maybe your) Chinese-Irish mixed race-ness, only in the most stereotypical way possible of course. It’s also celebrating the fact that all of our ethnicities and cultures are mixing all the time and always have been.
So I made a bunch of these, if you’d like one - get in touch. I’ll probably be selling them at markets. I made a small version too and ofc I’m doing one with a balaclava.
Swipe for some process / behind the scenes of me making this.
Anyway, in the words of my friend Christian,
draw on your roots.
#luckycat #3dprinting #wasian #luckoftheirish☘️ #irishchinese
🌙 Turn Bedtime into Sleepytime with Johnathan Sung! 🌙
Belfast animator, illustrator and debut author Johnathan Sung brings Moon Moon’s shadowy nighttime quest to life in a visually bold storytime and draw-along. Follow the wolf-boy into the dark forest, face bedtime fears, and join this comforting adventure.
📅 Saturday 23 May
🕰️ 11.30am
🎫Link in bio
Johnathan Sung helped launch The Belfast Book Festival at the iconic Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. The festival will take place at the @crescentartscentre from 4–11th June.
Head over to BelfastBookFestival.com to view the full programme of brilliant literary events, including a special picturebook event with Moon Moon, and grab your tickets!
Photo: Charles McQuillan #BBF26 #belfastbookfestival2026
A polaroid for posterity (great band name) Behind the scenes shots of a press call for the Belfast Book Festival programme launch - underneath glorious April skies and those landmark cranes.
The 16th Belfast Book Festival (BBF26) will take place at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, 4–11 June with tickets now on sale. 2026 sees a wide-ranging programme of poetry, fiction, workshops and lively discussions. A festival with its feet firmly and proudly in Belfast - welcoming the book world in🎉
Couldn’t be any prouder of my home city and all the wonderful creatives in it and from it.
With thanks to Lucy Caldwell, Jan Carson, Jonathan Sung and Babita Sharma for their help with the press call.
