Rising on Substack this week: Art & Illustration

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

Zoë Yasemin

77k followers · #10 Art & Illustration Bestsellers

+27 in 30 days 61 in all

52 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Austin Kleon

385k followers · #7 Art & Illustration Bestsellers

+26 in 30 days 103 in all

55 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

George Bothamley

64k followers · #35 Art & Illustration Bestsellers

+19 in 30 days 54 in all

36 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Create! Magazine

15k followers · #97 Art & Illustration Bestsellers

+10 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 50 in all

15 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Gayety

263k followers · #1 Art & Illustration Bestsellers

+10 in 30 days 54 in all

33 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Lynn Peterfreund

1.1k followers

+9 in 30 days 16 in all

10 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Katy Hessel

80k followers · #30 Art & Illustration Bestsellers

+8 in 30 days 59 in all

17 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Beth Spencer

50k followers · #21 Art & Illustration Bestsellers

+8 in 30 days 61 in all

16 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Claire Venus ✨

41k followers · #18 Art & Illustration Bestsellers

+8 in 30 days 75 in all

13 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Ann Telnaes

176k followers · #2 Art & Illustration Bestsellers

+7 in 30 days 75 in all

11 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

The Art Bystander

5.3k followers · #52 Art & Illustration Bestsellers

+7 in 30 days 48 in all

16 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Luca Varano

2.3k followers · #8 Art & Illustration Rising

+7 in 30 days 8 in all

8 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live. Outlined weeks are incomplete: Substack lists only a publication's 50 newest recommenders, so for busy writers older weeks can't be counted, and a 30-day count marked + is a floor.