Hello! I’m Arli Pagaduan, and I create stories through words, illustrations, and comics.
An Ode to Panels
Cat Cafeteria
Si Dottie at si Robert
Artwork for JFM Manila - Inspiring Resonance: SUKI x WA Project 2.0
The Artist's Calendar
Artwork for JFM Manila - Japan & Philippine Friendship for Me
Postcards for 'If Trees Could Talk' International Art Biennale
Stay, Comet
Starfish Funeral
I Like It Here in the Interim: Short Stories
Helen Children's Book by Eunice Alcala-Briones
You're Safe Now
Art in the Park 2022 Online Special Exhibit
Egg Soup Sunday
Ang INK - Art in the Park 2022 Online Regular Exhibit
Illustrations for Hinhin's The Trove
Kite, Please Fly for Me Tetraptych
Tiny Tutubi Stories
Fate of a Distant Future Book Cover Illustration Spread
Liwanag & Kadiliman Anthologies Book Covers
Set Sail Into Postcards for Circe Candle
The Things We're Afraid to Say
You Can Fly Too, You Know — INK Story Exhibit Artwork
Heart Like a Pond
Silent Nights and Happy Ever Afters Book Cover
I Wrote This To Remind You That...
Dear Dawn: The Podcast
I Miss My Friends: An Illustrated Poem by Dawn Lanuza
Mahaba ang Gabi by Drei Paliza Cover Art
Ginger
The Rain Reminds Me I'm Alive
'Yung Bahay na Maraming Aso
Dreaming of Butterflies
Flower Children of the Philippines
It's Not So Dark After All Series
Wild Animals of the Philippines
Divine Reminders
Curly-Haired Girl
Though She is Weak
This Child's Dreams
With the Dragonflies
Inner Magick Oracle Cards
Watch Where You're Reading
Everybody's Running Away from Something
Ang Mamumundok at ang Mahomanay
Le Monde en Roses
Family
Loving Yourself is a Journey
Seedlings: A Short Story Collection
We are Home
Pinwheels
Red
Surrender
Loop Animations
Check out my newest book, An Ode to Panels
An Ode to Panels is a celebration of how panels—the little squares, rectangles, and whatnot—welcome
our stories and teach us about life. They are small doorways that transport us to multiple worlds, and we are never quite the same after reading what’s in them.
Published by Anino Comics, it is available at Adarna House.
Welcome to Cat Cafeteria, my debut graphic novel
They’re called community cats—because it takes a community to care for them.
Kit and her Mama Mining feed community cats in their home at Barangay Buwan, Zambales. The cats arrive one by one as if lining up for food at a cafeteria! All is well and good, until one of the cats experiences health issues, funds start depleting, and a surly old neighbor, Mr. Simpatico, moves in next door. Kit quickly learns it takes a whole village to care for cats, and it can only happen when she starts asking for help from her community.
Published by Komiket as an Official Selection of the Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF), it is available at Komiket.
Invite me for author visits, talks, and workshops at schools, libraries, and bookstores
Let’s collaborate on building kids’ (and kids’-at-heart!) creative and drawing habits, storytelling skills, and joy for human-made art! Let's co-create a world where children are drawing, and art is created, sung, acted, written, and danced, instead of being generated.
You may check the topics and workshops I have facilitated in the past here.
Let’s work together!
Let’s work on illustrations, books, book covers, comics, webtoons, advocacy-driven projects, social media content, logos, and anything else you think might need a human touch!