Well, hello there.
I’m Veronica Guzzardi. I’m a fine artist, cartoonist, and designer.
This is my personal website and blog.
Well, hello there.
I’m Veronica Guzzardi. I’m a fine artist, cartoonist, and designer.
Welcome to my personal webiste and blog. Stay a while. STAY FOREVER.
Raccoon Waving
I do not know why social media is so bad at accepting animated gifs that didn't originate from a repository like giphy or tenor, but I can't upload this guy to Threads. So I'm posting it here.
Self-Publishing Your Children’s Book and Hiring an Illustrator in the Year 2025
Hey Writers and Illustrators! Can we hit the reset button on our relationship when we’re looking to work together? After a dozen or so years producing books for private clients, and illustrating children’s books as well, I’ve got some opinions. Let’s get grounded in mutual respect and reality so we can make something we’re all proud of. Link to my essay in bio.
How to Retain Your Humanity in The Darkest Timeline
Back in 2001, I got my first Wacom tablet for digital drawing. I was in college, and I was eager to explore the medium and I had to argue for the legitimacy of completing drawing class assignments in Photoshop with my professors. They were concerned it was somehow...
Latest Comic
I Went to Japan and Ate EVERYTHING (except natto)
I've been drawing food cartoons of some of the best meals I had in Japan when I visited in early January 2025. I'll be updating this post as I complete them:
Questionable Poetry
Feral
I sympathize, but I don’t have it in meto be more than this hissing, spitting creature, recoiling even as I crave to warm myself near you. It has been too many freezing rainy nights in the dark to remember what it’s like to rest in the halo of that fire. Which is not...
Optimism
I told you once about the inevitable heat death of the universe, that there is nothing we can do to slow or stop the dissolution of all matter; it is coming. In the meantime, I find no concept that deepens my hunger so well for my share of joy and pleasure and awe. I...
Grifo de California*
*The title comes from a painting I saw several years ago by Walton Ford. I don't think this poem is actually finished, or particularly good, but I wanted to mark the passing of our P-22 in some way. We are very clever. We can build our way into any...









