If this can happen to a social commentary video essay just imagine what a fragile thread all us degenerates hang by.

I posted earlier about how I had scaled back my YouTube because I just didnt have the time and energy for yet another thing, but this is part of why I think telling comix creators to make YouTube a central pillar of our online presence may be a mistake. 7 years, 1.4 mil views.
#YouTube

OK here's older drawing of bigfoots and Gabriel and Eva the Ghouls, plus front and back covers of recent comics.
#MOCQ #Moonstay #ArtShare

One. A woman with short black hair in a black shirt and a cord necklace is driving late at night.

Hayden pulls card zero, the Fool, and gives hammy annoyed grin to the camera. Hayden: whatever you guys set that up Reader: I assure you the cards have not been tampered with Hayden: OK, so thats my fool ass prancing off a cliff Reader: Oh there are much scarier cards you could have pulled Kallan and Alaine are inside a restaurant with round hanging lanterns and globe lights looking at menus Alaine: Hmm..what are you getting? Kallan: Uhh...maybe the tuna melt. Alaine: Hmm...

Doctor Wode continues to dream of the necklace changing hands in reverse to a Amazigh merchant, to a man in a toga and seashell crown, to a dark figure in shadow. A being with a mask like winged face and three or more visible wings hands a round jewel to a character wearing a simple mantilla and a tight full body covering resembling an anime girl or 90's Batman cartoon femme with two dark holes through which two white circle eyes can be seen. Inside a stone or mud brick thatch roof house the character turns to a man huddled between an older and younger woman and says "give back my coat" The man replies "fine" and tells the older woman "it's in the chest go get it". The character tells the younger woman "you there, help me" in the next panel the two white circle eyes and necklace are visible beneath the dark hood of a hand made coat, the tight covering now falls away in tatters and the character walks past a rosebush, along a beach, toward mountains, in the rain and snow. The older woman turns to the fourth wall and says "I guess you think that's pretty funny "doctor", but are you it's daughter...or ours?" as the Hag gang/cult's characteristic face tattoos appear on her face

Hayden: You gonna miss me? Her: Yeah...what time are you leaving? Hayden: That night, we're meeting up at seven. Her: Do you want to do something together that morning? Hayden: Yeah, sure. Doctor Wode dreams of the necklace chaning hands to the woman from the start of the comic, from a statue of an angel, from a bearded white man in a polo shirt and khakis on a plane, from an aboriginal young man in blue jeans, from an old time Chinese merchant in an office, from an Ethiopian merchant in a shop, from a Khoikhoi man, from a West African merchant in a market.

I have, in theory, finally finished editing Orbal Prism and put in an order for a proof copy! Here's preview pages, we'll see how the physical looks when it comes.
#Comix #DIYComics #HandDrawnComics #IndieComics #MiniComics #WebComics

The chupacabras and bigfoots: born, they are each whole species they're shown in families with children.
Hags: turned, they see themselves as spiritual, not genetic, heirs to boogeywomen
Ghouls: debatable, some believe they were accidentally back-bred from killer hominid DNA in modern humans #MOCQ

Infogram By Starkey Comics It starts with Egyptian Hieroglyphics then proto-Sinaitic then Phoenecian then Greek then Etruscan then from Etruscan branch both Latin and Norse Runes. It would have been awkward to wedge in there but Celts in the Alpine region were using a version of the Etruscan alphabet and that's one possible point of transmission, I mention that because it's frequently said that Celts never had writing. The Ethiopian script Ge'ez is on another branch coming off Proto-Sinaitic. Hebrew, Arabic, and a bunch of southeast Asian scripts also branch off Phoenecian.

I've posted this before but here's a diagram of said family tree.

Archaeologist vs Pagan Influencer: What’s Really Going On? YouTube video by Lady of the Library

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Its true what she says later in the video, you can look at the letters and just see that #runes are part of the same family tree as other western alphabets, it's kinda hard to miss ᚫA ᛒB ᚲC ᛞD ᛖE ᚠF ᚻH ᛁI ᛚL ᛗM ᛟO ᚱR ᛋS ᛏT ᚢU.

Chewie can hide by wearing a hoodie and not drawing attention to himself, but I wouldn't call it blending in so much as camouflage.
The bigfoots could not blend in with humans even if that were something that occurred to them to do. #MOCQ #OCQuestion #OCSky #Worldbuilding

Best I can do right now is "blue hair and pronouns coded" background couple with child from Orbal Prism (on the left).
#QueerPrompts

In Unclean Beasts an ancient Mesopotamian scribe is assembling a sort of proto-Book of Psalms, a compilation of "spell-songs" of "western people" translated to...maybe Sumerian or Akkadian? This is happening in the main characters dreams though, every quote from it is King James Version #<3OCWorld

It was a fantastic 8 years, but sadly Eme has left the project after completing this gem of a cover art. I'm looking for a new artist (paid gig) that can match the tone of his work for a 32 page comic. DM me if you'd like to read the script.

Mercury as a lady in black and white robes with a monkey or statue of a monkey on her crown, she is holding a brush and paper. This is part of the painting Tejaprabhā Buddha and the Five Planets comissioned by Zhang Huaiqing 897 CE

Planet Mercury is depicted in a Tang Dynasty painting as a lady magistrate in heaven wearing black robes, her hair pulled under a cap in the shape of a primates head, like a baboon or a lemur maybe I guess, holding a brush and paper

Altar of Selene ancient cylindrical marble altar. On each side of Selene we see the head and neck of a beardless male figures wearing a cloak or cape with a starburst over his head and a torch , one torch points up, the other down, each figure has an eight pointed star over his head. Hesperus and Eosphorus aka Phosphorus or in Latin Vesper and Lucifer.

Left: painting Hesperus, the Evening Star, Sacred to Lovers by Joseph Noel Paton . A Romeo and Juliet looking straight couple meet beside some trees in the early evening with a single star visible in the sky. Right: The Evening Star ('O Hesperus, thou bringest all good things') Robert Scott Lauder 1846 a woman in white and blue Grecian robes kneels on a red pillow in a lavish bedroom holding her baby. Through the orange curtains a dark sky with a single star is visible.

I've got nothing go post tonight, here's some art historical images of spear/distaff or Rule 63 (not 34) personifications of the planets Mercury and Venus just because.
#Astrology #Mythology #Venus #Mercury #Hesperus #ChineseArt #GreekMythology #RomanMythology #Neoclassical

Page 1 Guy 1, dark hair and eyes, stubble, stout. He says:Whats in the Green Giant Burrito? The worker taking his order says: It's got rice, black beans, pico, guac, Chamoy sauce and soy cheese. Guy 1: Soy? Worker: Yeah but we can sub in real cheese if you like. Guy 1: uhh...I'll just have the chicken tacos. Gabriel and Eli, the Ghouls, last seen in Unclean Beasts Gabriel: Their food tastes like shit. Eating when I'm "hungry" just makes me "hungrier". Eli whispers: Yeah, OK. Guy 1 eats his chicken tacos and washes down a good sized pill with a drink.

Page 2 Eli: but you gotta keep it together for a couple of weeks. Gabriel: Yeah, Yeah, I don't know man, I may need to go a couple of towns over and get a "snack". I'll still go hunting with you later but I don't know if I can hold out that long. Guy 1 walks out the door past some young men I black t shirts a skinny one with a mid part undercut and an eyebrow peircing, a skinny one with long curly hair and a chubby one with Buddy Holly glasses and a mohawk

Page three Young guy 1: You going to the Kloqtower show at Smith's Saturday Young guy 2: I don't know I've been feeling anxious. You guy 3 facepalms then says: God fucking damn it Baxter yes you are. Main guy: Hey buddy, where's your daddy at, huh? Little boy: Da-aaad Uncle Carl's here. Carl and his brother hug and say hey to each other Brother: How you been doin'? Carl pick his nephew up and says "I been doin' alright I guess" then snorts at the boys neck like a truffle pig causing him to flinch and laugh

Page four Rascal the dog barks from behind another screen doir leading to the back yard. Carl's brother: Rascal hush! Rascal, shut up! Carl's nepher: Hush Rascal! Carl: How about you, how you been doin'? Carl's brother : eh, alright I guess, I just been bummin' around the house with lil' man here today. Carl: how's work? Carl's brother: eh..,it's been alrightm I've been running deliveries all week, I'm glad to be off Carl's nephew: We went to the zoo! Carl: You went to the zoo?

Pages 1-4 reposted with inks.
#WIP #Comix #IndieComics #HandDrawnComics #DIYComics #WebComics

Weird Luck • 2.1.14: Black Sheep of the Family Weird Luck Comic Page 2.1.14: Black Sheep of the Family • Written by Nick Walker & Andrew M. Reichart. Art by Mike Bennewitz.

New page of Weird Luck is live, and it looks like Smiley may have glossed over a few details...

#comics #webcomics #indiecomics #oc #ocsky #comicsky #crime #criminals #urbanfantasy #fantasy #scifi #espionage #villains #interdimensional #wip #worldbuilding #weird

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Cover of my most recently finished comic Orbal Prism with the characters Javion, Thrud, and Hayden's faces in purplish brown on yellow against a red, gold, silver and blue abstract knife painted background and the title in turquoise cursive with lavender shadow on the lower right corner

OK I'm like a couple of pages short of having Orbal Prism edited I might post some previews this weekend or Monday and order a proof copy from the printers
#Comix #DIYComics #W.I.P. #OCArt #OCs

Page 1 Guy 1, dark hair and eyes, stubble, stout. He says:Whats in the Green Giant Burrito? The worker taking his order says: It's got rice, black beans, pico, guac, Chamoy sauce and soy cheese. Guy 1: Soy? Worker: Yeah but we can sub in real cheese if you like. Guy 1: uhh...I'll just have the chicken tacos. Gabriel and Eli, the Ghouls, last seen in Unclean Beasts Gabriel: Their food tastes like shit. Eating when I'm "hungry" just makes me "hungrier". Eli whispers: Yeah, OK. Guy 1 eats his chicken tacos and washes down a good sized pill with a drink.

Page 2 Eli: but you gotta keep it together for a couple of weeks. Gabriel: Yeah, Yeah, I don't know man, I may need to go a couple of towns over and get a "snack". I'll still go hunting with you later but I don't know if I can hold out that long. Guy 1 walks out the door past some young men I black t shirts a skinny one with a mid part undercut and an eyebrow peircing, a skinny one with long curly hair and a chubby one with Buddy Holly glasses and a mohawk

Page three Young guy 1: You going to the Kloqtower show at Smith's Saturday Young guy 2: I don't know I've been feeling anxious. You guy 3 facepalms then says: God fucking damn it Baxter yes you are. Main guy: Hey buddy, where's your daddy at, huh? Little boy: Da-aaad Uncle Carl's here. Carl and his brother hug and say hey to each other Brother: How you been doin'? Carl pick his nephew up and says "I been doin' alright I guess" then snorts at the boys neck like a truffle pig causing him to flinch and laugh

Page four Rascal the dog barks from behind another screen doir leading to the back yard. Carl's brother: Rascal hush! Rascal, shut up! Carl's nepher: Hush Rascal! Carl: How about you, how you been doin'? Carl's brother : eh, alright I guess, I just been bummin' around the house with lil' man here today. Carl: how's work? Carl's brother: eh..,it's been alrightm I've been running deliveries all week, I'm glad to be off Carl's nephew: We went to the zoo! Carl: You went to the zoo?

On one hand, I didn't want to post pencils two pages in a row. One the other hand, I haven't posted in several days and I have to get up in the morning.
#Comix #MiniComics #WebComics #IndieComics #DIYcomics #HandDrawnComics

Rusty Arbo on Instagram: "This is day 2 of placing 100 copies of my short stories in random places until someone contacts me. I don’t have much hope for this spot, but you have to try everything. ... 6 likes, 0 comments - rustyarboauthor on April 15, 2026: "This is day 2 of placing 100 copies of my short stories in random places until someone contacts me. I don’t have much hope for this spot, bu...

Watch for my name.
#Paleofiction #StonePunk #SciFi

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#drawing #art #heka YouTube video by Jerry Caleb Faw

Heres me drawing the Egyptian God Heka which is for some reason the second most popular video on my channel after footage of an emptg patch of grass with audible cicada chirping.
#EgyptianMythology #YouTube

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inking page thirteen. YouTube video by Jerry Caleb Faw

My only full length video now and it was only full length by accident, it's in short format.
#Comix #YouTube

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I've kind of scaled back my YouTube presence, it's only drawing shorts and unboxings on there now and I haven't uploaded in months. It's true, I don't have the bandwidth to be a YouTuber on top of everything else.

m.youtube.com/@JCalebFaw

Alvin's a dancer and musician. Hayden in a performer in the sense he does a video game stream in one timeline and a podcast in the other. Thrud plays guitar.
#QueerPrompts #Comix #Cryptids #ArtShare

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO | First Look Teaser YouTube video by GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO

It's only 48 seconds long so I can't comment on anything without spoiling it.
#Godzilla #GodzillaMinuZero #Kaiju #Daikaiju

m.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ND...

@spacearistocrat.bsky.social has an interview series of indie creators that's worth looking at
"Rusty Arbo" is more of a writer but he's done sone comics do I'm including him on hrre.

Obviously me of course.
@dr-nicky.bsky.social has an ongoing webcomic,Weird Luck.
William Keops Ibanez isn't on here but you should look him up just in general.
In the same vein here's a fantasy project called Earenduth by "Ace", that's worth checking out.

A new story that features two of my three Ghoul characters, Gabriel and Eli, in the "monster" role, in the Dracula/Michael Myers sense not the sympathetic King Kong/Shape of Water Sense. I don't think that too big a spoiler for anyone who's read stuff of mine w/ them in it
#Monstay #MOCQ #WIP #Comix

Liked only because their interpretation is always more conservative/right wing.

OK prev 2:
Orbal Prism is about a gem that flips interpersonal dynamics around and how that affects the characters in the story who come into contact with it.
Unclean Beasts is about a man investigating upside down geysers coming from the sky and the weird dreams he has during.
#Comix #IndieComics

kami (she/her, left) and cori (he/him, right) running together through the rain as cori holds an umbrella above them

cori and kami and spring rain 🌦

#art #oc #ocsky ❤️💙

Doctor Wode sees what she's doing as "saving" the world but she doesn't really think in terms of good and evil.
Gabriel doesn't feel bad about killing innocent people, he follows Ghoul social norms
In Signal Tower the loggers are doing their jobs, the bigfoots are fighting invasion
#AntagonistApril