Dani Diaz

Animated a trailer for my debut graphic novel DREAMOVER（╹◡╹) Published by @topshelfcomix / @idwpublishing —out Jan 14 2025. 312 full color pages. Preorder if you dare 😳 Amber and Nico would make an odd couple. She’s a headstrong goofball with a temper. He’s a shy, self-conscious emo boy. But they’re best friends, and she can’t hide her feelings for him any longer. At the end of their eighth-grade beach trip, she confesses... and the feeling is mutual! Thus begins a glorious, blissful summer of first love. But once high school starts, life gets more complicated and stressful. Amber and Nico cling to each other and neglect their friends. Soon, Amber starts to wish she and Nico could escape from it all. One night, as they fall asleep playing video games, Amber gets her wish... Animation: Dani Diaz Music: Dreamwalking by OnlySoon #dreamover #graphicnovel #youngadultbooks #yaromance #comics

DREAMOVER/DANI DIAZ IS STILL BOOK TOURING!! And a huge congrats to @kaseyiris ’s for her debut graphic novel GHOUL… which I was absolutely thrilled to provide a blurb for: 
“Ghoul is a FEAST for your soul and a poignant investigation into the absences left by those departed. I was seriously spooked by Iris’s innovative and expressive art style and storytelling.” 👻 ★ May 17 Gold Coast Book Fair in Oyster Bay Long Island @goldcoastbkfair Panel: “Love, Magic, and Everything In Between” with author @lancerubinparty (16 Forever). 2-3pm and book signing after! ★ May 22-24 Thy Geekdom con (outside Philly) @thygeekdomcon artist alley ★ May 30 Barnes & Noble Oxford Valley @bnoxfordvalley 12-2pm signing!! ★ Jun 6 Chesapeake Children’s Book Festival @chesapeakechildrensbook - Easton MD ★ Jul 11-12 Columbus Book Festival Ohio @columbusbookfestival ★ Aug 8 Book Fair at Bel Air MD @bookfairatbelair ★ Sept 12 SPX @spxcomics I’ll be haunting around… 👻 @topshelfcomix @idwpublishing #ogn #ghoul #dreamover #topshelf #idwpublishing

MY NEXT GRAPHIC NOVEL from @topshelfcomix @idwpublishing — WHEN THE WORLD IS VAST 4 childhood friends attempt to reconnect as adults amidst a loneliness epidemic. A new-adult dark coming-of-age romantic dramedy. Hopefully out in 2029! I want to sincerely thank Chris Staros at Top Shelf for agreeing to take on this new project as well as my agent Julie Stevenson @mmqalit . Being able to make a book on a pitch basis is wild. I’m grateful to be here. Also meant to post this 2 months ago lol. But 1) I got side tracked by my corpo brainrot job, which I just quit a week ago(!) and 2) this app—which has become scarcely more than a parasocial dopamine casino—has become an anathema to me, and so I’ve been avoiding it. While this app may have benefited many artists’ (emphasis on artists, not “content creators”) careers (including mine, to some unknown but relatively trivial extent), I think that hopeful/helpful era has mostly ended. It’s not 2015 anymore. The app has reached a mature stage of enshittification (see Cory Doctorow’s book)—aka platform decay. Sure, there are benefits to this app—I’ve met (in person) hundreds of incredible artists in the last year and without this app it would be harder to keep track of them. It’s truly been an honor to meet everyone, as well as meeting kids, parents, librarians, and teachers who read Dreamover (and even random people from youtube and tiktok who saw/reviewed Dreamover). This app has shown it can be useful for organizing events and activism. But in order to even use this app, including to use it to “keep up” with our “mutuals”, we have to be subjected to an unbridled amount of targeted ads, of which there are so many that it far outsizes the finite (but seemingly infinite) reservoir of total daily eye-balls-on-app time (summed over the entire daily active user base). Not to mention that obviously everything, even these words, are auto ingested into meta ai so that your/my extended family can make extremely unfunny AI edits of family photos on The facebook. (rant continued in comments below)

Dreams in your hands 😶‍🌫 spotlight on Dani Diaz aka memoryfuel @memoryfuel Dani Diaz is a transfeminine Filipino-Argentinian American comic artist born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. Their debut graphic novel, Dreamover (2025), which follows a teenage couple magically escaping their lives through a shared lucid dream, received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and BookPage. Dani has also spent a decade working in the environmental sector in various science, technology, and public health roles. Sunday March 15 • 11am to 5pm • FREE • Heinz History Center #indiecomics #indiepublishing #comicsexpo #indiecartoonist #pie2026

The 1TH anniversary. Oneth year ago, my debut graphic novel Dreamover was published by @topshelfcomix / @idwpublishing . A lot has happened since then. I did a book tour with 20 events across 11 different cities across the US and Canada (and went to 6 weddings in 5 different states + Iceland lol). Since we published Dreamover in 100 different languages, we've fixed the literacy crisis worldwide. The book is now part of every high school curriculum in the world. Dreamover won every major literary prize as well as the nobel peace prize. Dreamover became the first book on Goodreads to reach a rating of 6.0 out of 5.0 stars. Dreamover sold so many copies NOT through Amazon that Bozos had to file for bankruptcy. Moreover, reading Dreamover made everyone realize that they don't need genAI and everyone stopped using it and went back to having fulfilling lives in the real world. This also caused everyone in Silicon Valley to get real jobs, which ultimately led to world peace, as sovereign nations could go back to ruling themselves instead of being ruled by the Facebook and Snapchat. It's been the honor of my lifetime to see how much the world has changed in the last year thanks to this humble YA graphic novel. MORE BOOK EVENTS IN 2026 TO COME AS WELL AS MORE EXCITING NEWS?!??!?!? #dreamover #graphicnovel

im in the city of la for @comicartsla table 48A 💋 the last and final (20th) stop in my 2025 DREAM(OVER) COME TRUE book tour 🧡 it’s been a treat #comicartsla

NEW TOUR DATES JUST DROPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jk a lot of these already happened ( @spxcomics @bkbookfest ), but here are some UPCOMING events I'm doing: ★ @graphicnovelfestival by @dreamersbmore this SAT!!! ★ @newyorkcomiccon - I'll be doing a talk at the @nypl on a SECRET (i.e. i dont know what yet lol) topic on 10/8 1:30-2:30 (putting this here so I remember lol). Also i'll be doing a signing at 10/9 1:00-2:00 with @idwpublishing / @topshelfcomix at the con ★ Fall author fair with @huxandhiro !!!!! That's a wrap on the 2025 portion of the tour (unless anyone has any other opps for me 👀)... never doing 19 events in one year again!!! (until the next book ^-^) #dreamover #booktour #graphicnovel #baltimore #wilmingtondelaware #nypl #nycc #cala2025

At small press expo 2022 I pitched Dreamover to @topshelfcomix … and now I’LL BE TABLING WITH THEM this weekend at @spxcomics , pretty very nice 👉😎👉 Also made a biz card for the first time in my life xd. On sale for ONLY $5 each (limited time discount from $20!) @idwpublishing #spx #spx2025 #smallpressexpo #dreamover

Double header last weekend, thank you @browseaboutbooks Rehoboth Beach for having me for the book signing and announcing the event to the store over the pa system every 15 min or so!!!!!!!! And thank you @literacynation_ala philly author fair for having me as well!!!!! Bonus - recent IN THE WILD sightings of Dreamover in Chicago @bookloftoakpark and @beverlypubliclibrary Mass 👀 #idwpublishing #topshelfcomics @topshelfcomix @idwpublishing

I'LL BE SIGNING AT @browseaboutbooks THIS SUNDAY AUG10 REHOBOTH BEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The beach that originally inspired my graphic novel... Swipe to see comparisons of scenes in Dreamover versus photos of the real life settings! Published by @topshelfcomix @idwpublishing 🧡 #browseaboutbooks #browseabout #indiebookstore #independentbookstore #authorevent #dreamover #graphicnovel #comics #idwpublishing #rehobothbeach #delaware #rehobothbeachde @visitrehoboth @capegazette

#alaac25 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (american library assoc annual conf 😳 ) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Feat. some tier 1 celebrities from @idwpublishing

TCAF THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you again @torontocomics for featuring me 😭 If ur feelin 🌶️ spicy 🌶️ come to the panel I’m on @ 1030 am “Graphic novels grow up” in which I will share EARTH SHATTERING insights about graphic novels. 😳 #tcaf #tcaf2025