#Cartoonber2025

A wordless comic where at the top Hitoshi is showing Will how to cook bacon properly after he burned it previously. He does mess it up again, but on his third attempt he actually manages it! Though he does almost drop the pan which scares everyone.

I totally forgot about posting this third part of our collab for #Cartoonber2025 Maybe we'll eventually finish that 4th part but MAN December got hands. No text on this one which is fun!

Script & Backgrounds - @weirdghostparty.bsky.social
Colors - @vistrology.bsky.social

#Art #OriginalCharacters

I had the privilege to collaborate with some absolute legends during #Cartoonber2025. Thank you @aaronsegman.bsky.social, @gwinga.bsky.social, and @trippgustin.bsky.social for your incredible work!

A page from the short comic "Hot Couture". Panel 1: EXT: A store with a banner that says "Halloween Store". Juan: There it is, Morbert. The savvy penny-pincher's secret to HOT COUTURE! Panels 2-4: Juan Jotters, a man that looks like a cross between John Waters and Raul Julia's Gomez Addams, raises his arms excitedly. He wears a white tiger stripe suit and a hot pink shirt. Beside him is Morbert, his stoic androgynous assistant, who carries a clipboard with a pencil behind their ear. They are wearing a purple suit and opaque glasses, and never show any expressions. Behind them, two passersby look at the strange characters with suspicion and delight. Morbert: HAUTE couture, sir. Juan: Can't you FEEL it, my friend? Commerce! Celebracion! AMERICA!!" Panel 5: Juan calls out to Kevin, the retail drone. Kevin is a short and stout man with red hair and a beard, wearing an orange vest and carrying several boxes. Kevin yells out in shock. Behind them are several racks of sexy costumes, most of which look like Catwoman. Juan: MY GOOD MAN! Kevin: AAA! Juan: Pray tell, where are your lounge lizard costumes? The ones formerly in Aisle 6, where the revealing super-heroic costumes are currently situated? Panel 6: Kevin: We're not selling lounge lizard outfits this year. The "revealing costumes" are "situated" over half the store. They're our biggest seller. Juan: SCANDAL! Why, a store that abandons its staple offerings will sink in the shifting sands of popular faddery! Where is the LOYALTY to longtime CUSTOMERS? Panel 7: Kevin: Hey man, all anyone wants to spend MONEY on is sexy costumes. Panel 8: Juan: Money, you say...? Panel 9: Juan: Do you realize what this MEANS, Morbert? Morbert: You can't buy a new jacket, Sir? Juan: Pish-posh! When I'm done, we shall bathe in a pool of the FINEST jackets! Panel 10: Juan: For if the lucre flows to sexy costumes, then we shall open our own store... of nothing BUT sexy costumes! Kevin: Sir, no planning rival businesses in the store...

The second page in the comic "Hot Couture". Panel 1: The exterior of the same storefront from the previous page, now with a vibrant pink banner that says "Trick AND Treat". Panel 2: The interior of the store, in which several sexy costumes are showcased. Sexy Bride and Groom! Sexy Pirate! Sexy Ghosts! Sexy Cthulu! Sexy Bernie (Sanders)! Juan carefully tailors the train of the sexy bride. Panel 3: A montage of the ways Trick and Treat has helped Juan, Morbert, and a poached Kevin rise to fame and fortune. The three of them pose on the cover of Boo Business magazine, which reads "Juan Jotters! The New King of Kink!". Juan dives into pool filled with the finest jackets, accompanied by Kevin and Morbert. Juan guzzles champagne in a jacuzzi that is also filled with champagne. Panel 4: Morbert approaches a hungover-looking Juan, holding out a piece of paper. Beside him is a bottle labeled "Sweet Regrets Breakfast Champagne". Panel 5: Juan looks at the paper, eyes bloodshot and panicked. We see what he is looking at: a 12 month lease signed in his name. Juan: Oh, ye GODS!

The third page in the comic "Hot Couture". Panel 1: Juan Jotters, Morbert, and Kevin stand in Juan's tackily ornate office. Juan is pacing frantically while his employees stand to the side. Juan: By all the cats in CHINA Morbert! Why didn't you tell me I was signing a twelve-month lease?! Morbert: I TRIED to review the terms with you, Sir. Juan: Whatever shall we do? A retail establishment that exists ALL YEAR? How against type! How anti-hip! Shall we be GROCERS, Morbert??? Panel 2: Kevin: Well, we can't sell Halloween costumes anymore. As soon as Halloween's over people immediately start thinking about Thanksgiving, and they..... you're doing that THING again, aren't you? Where something I said gives you an ide-- Panel 3: A close-up of Juan's face. His word balloons cut off Kevin's dialogue and extend into the next panel. Juan: That's it, Morbert! Kevin: Kevin. Juan: Sexy THANKSGIVING costumes! Panel 4: A montage spread of several different sexy costumes with accompanying text. The text for each costume reads: Sexy Black Friday shopper! Sexy football player! Sexy Cornucopia! Sexy Turkey! Sexy Pumpkin Pie! Sexy Pilgrim! Sexy Native Ameri... actually nevermind. SEXY MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE BALLOON!!!

A comic page from "Hot Couture". P1: Two news anchors with similar features, Bob and Tina, smile at the camera. Bob: In other news, the Sexy Thanksgiving costume trend is sweeping the nation! Tina: That's right, Bob! P2: A scene from the white house, which is decorated to look like the film 1984 with Big Brother overhead. Donald Trump is in a sexy turkey costume being served by workers in Prole costumes. Tina's VO: The President followed up his Halloween Great Gatsby Gala with a Turkey Day Bash based on another classic novel... P3: A wide shot of the Turkey Day Bash, showing many attendees in sexy Thanksgiving outfits (pilgrims, wishbones, gravy boats) being served by Prole workers. Tina's VO: Guests were decked out in the latest holiday fashion, showing SKIN as tantalizing turkeys and provocative pilgrims! P4: A scene of Juan Jotters, Morbert, and Kevin celebrating in Juan's office from the previous page. Morbert pours them all champagne as they watch the news broadcast. Morbert: We are a hit. I must admit that making Thanksgiving sexy was marketing genius. Kevin: Aww, thanks Morb-- Juan: Merci beaucoup, Morbert! Your faith sustains me! Bob's VO: I guess they were showing GRAVY skin, Tina! Tina's VO: Trying too hard, Bob. P5: Juan taps his chin in thought as the three discuss the problem. Juan: But we've still ten more months of wretched obligation to our conniving landlord... Morbert: We've probably made enough at this point to just buy the building. Kevin: Or we could just expand our operations to other holida-- P6: A small popout panel of Juan emoting excitedly. Juan: IT JUST CAME TO ME! Kevin VO: Goddammit. P7: A spread of more sexy holiday costumes, arranged by date. We see a sexy Santa, Father Time, Groundhog, Cupid, Leprechaun, and two Easter bunnies humping behind a "CENSORED" bar. Juan's head pops out of the page excitedly. Juan: Now to keep profits coming in year round! Sexiness knows no season! FIN

Happy #Cartoonber2025 with the @cartoonist.coop!!! Our team told the short tale of Juan Jotters and his quest to expand sexy costumes beyond Halloween (and get rich doing it)

Script:
@aaronsegman.bsky.social
Pencils:
@strandedcomics.com
Inks:
@gwinga.bsky.social
Color/Lettering: Me!

#comicoop

A comic page from "Hot Couture". P1: Two news anchors with similar features, Bob and Tina, smile at the camera. Bob: In other news, the Sexy Thanksgiving costume trend is sweeping the nation! Tina: That's right, Bob! P2: A scene from the white house, which is decorated to look like the film 1984 with Big Brother overhead. Donald Trump is in a sexy turkey costume being served by workers in Prole costumes. Tina's VO: The President followed up his Halloween Great Gatsby Gala with a Turkey Day Bash based on another classic novel... P3: A wide shot of the Turkey Day Bash, showing many attendees in sexy Thanksgiving outfits (pilgrims, wishbones, gravy boats) being served by Prole workers. Tina's VO: Guests were decked out in the latest holiday fashion, showing SKIN as tantalizing turkeys and provocative pilgrims! P4: A scene of Juan Jotters, Morbert, and Kevin celebrating in Juan's office from the previous page. Morbert pours them all champagne as they watch the news broadcast. Morbert: We are a hit. I must admit that making Thanksgiving sexy was marketing genius. Kevin: Aww, thanks Morb-- Juan: Merci beaucoup, Morbert! Your faith sustains me! Bob's VO: I guess they were showing GRAVY skin, Tina! Tina's VO: Trying too hard, Bob. P5: Juan taps his chin in thought as the three discuss the problem. Juan: But we've still ten more months of wretched obligation to our conniving landlord... Morbert: We've probably made enough at this point to just buy the building. Kevin: Or we could just expand our operations to other holida-- P6: A small popout panel of Juan emoting excitedly. Juan: IT JUST CAME TO ME! Kevin VO: Goddammit. P7: A spread of more sexy holiday costumes, arranged by date. We see a sexy Santa, Father Time, Groundhog, Cupid, Leprechaun, and two Easter bunnies humping behind a "CENSORED" bar. Juan's head pops out of the page excitedly. Juan: Now to keep profits coming in year round! Sexiness knows no season! FIN

"Hot Couture" 4 of 4: REVIVAL

The conclusion to the tale of Juan Jotters, Morbert, and Kevin. Sexiness knows no season!

Script:
@aaronsegman.bsky.social

Pencils:
@strandedcomics.com

Inks:
@gwinga.bsky.social

Color/Lettering: Me!

#Cartoonber2025 #comicoop
@cartoonist.coop

The third page in the comic "Hot Couture". Panel 1: Juan Jotters, Morbert, and Kevin stand in Juan's tackily ornate office. Juan is pacing frantically while his employees stand to the side. Juan: By all the cats in CHINA Morbert! Why didn't you tell me I was signing a twelve-month lease?! Morbert: I TRIED to review the terms with you, Sir. Juan: Whatever shall we do? A retail establishment that exists ALL YEAR? How against type! How anti-hip! Shall we be GROCERS, Morbert??? Panel 2: Kevin: Well, we can't sell Halloween costumes anymore. As soon as Halloween's over people immediately start thinking about Thanksgiving, and they..... you're doing that THING again, aren't you? Where something I said gives you an ide-- Panel 3: A close-up of Juan's face. His word balloons cut off Kevin's dialogue and extend into the next panel. Juan: That's it, Morbert! Kevin: Kevin. Juan: Sexy THANKSGIVING costumes! Panel 4: A montage spread of several different sexy costumes with accompanying text. The text for each costume reads: Sexy Black Friday shopper! Sexy football player! Sexy Cornucopia! Sexy Turkey! Sexy Pumpkin Pie! Sexy Pilgrim! Sexy Native Ameri... actually nevermind. SEXY MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE BALLOON!!!

"Hot Couture" 3 of 4: Persistence

In which Juan Jotters and the gang think outside of the pumpkin.

Script:
@aaronsegman.bsky.social

Pencils/Color/Lettering: Me!

Inks:
@gwinga.bsky.social

Main Cast Character Design:
@strandedcomics.com

#Cartoonber2025 #comicoop
@cartoonist.coop

CARTOONBER 2025 #3 - Persistence Panel 1: A POV shot looking down at a large pile of rubble. Hands reaching out and attempting to lift and move the broken cement and rebar. Text: What do you do when your life is seen as lesser? What do you say when your neighbor deems you as vermin and a menace? Panel 2:The hands grip and pull at some rubble, additional sets join them as they dig. Through an opening in the debris, an arm can be seen, the skin torn and coated in dry blood and dust. Text 2: How can you be heard when your voice is endlessly muted and drowned out? When the blue sky turns red and burns over your head, where can you run for shelter? Panel 3: The main subject now holds the barely alive girl in his arms. She is badly hurt from the building collapsing on her, but her eyes are open. She is young, around 9 years old. Her face is sunken and thin, showing signs of starvation. Text 3: How can you be seen when your killers can bribe the world to turn a blind eye to your suffering? How can you fight back when any forceful effort is used to justify your starvation and suffering? How can you fight back when any forceful effort is used to justify your starvation and suffering? Panel 4: The first subject carried the girl threw the rubble of a street, but around them are others working together to pull people free. A truck nearby is being unloaded, with bags of supplies and food being passed out. A medical tent is being constructed at the end of the street, as everyone around them works together to try and keep each other safe. The Palestinian flag flies from a section of a bombed building overhead, tattered and damaged, but still fluttering in the breeze. Text 4: You refuse to die. You shout louder, you call out to anyone who will listen. You remind the world you are human. Because humanity can not be stripped from you, so long as your heart beats and your lungs draw breath. And you push ever onwards. From the river to the sea. Until you are free.

Co-op Cartoonber 25 #3 - Persistence

Free Palestine

✍️- Scotty Calcote /🎨 -
@sunnycomix.bsky.social

#cartoonber2025

Co-op Cartoonber 25 #2 - Fall

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

✍️- Scotty Calcote /🎨 - @sunnycomix.bsky.social

#cartoonber2025

Fall - Samhain - Cartoonber 25

Me and @swanmice.bsky.social are back with another 1 page comic for #cartoonber2025 for the @cartoonist.coop
It's a story about Samhain and stars our favourite Flamey little flame

Second comic page depicting burnt bacon and Will looking over it distraught that he entirely fucked up. Taro tries to comfort him, and Will laments that Nate is going to divorce him. They are not even married. Nate does come over to also comfort Will, though Nyameow the cat is not pleased her bacon was ruined. Hitoshi scolds her for being mean, and Will only grows more distraught as the fire alarm starts to go off as smoke billows in the kitchen.

I totally forgot to post this yesterday for #Cartoonber2025 even though we were literally finished!!! 😭This is for the second prompt Fall.

Script & Backgrounds - @weirdghostparty.bsky.social
Colors & Lettering - @vistrology.bsky.social
Sketches & Lines - Me!

#Art #OriginalCharacters

The second page in the comic "Hot Couture". Panel 1: The exterior of the same storefront from the previous page, now with a vibrant pink banner that says "Trick AND Treat". Panel 2: The interior of the store, in which several sexy costumes are showcased. Sexy Bride and Groom! Sexy Pirate! Sexy Ghosts! Sexy Cthulu! Sexy Bernie (Sanders)! Juan carefully tailors the train of the sexy bride. Panel 3: A montage of the ways Trick and Treat has helped Juan, Morbert, and a poached Kevin rise to fame and fortune. The three of them pose on the cover of Boo Business magazine, which reads "Juan Jotters! The New King of Kink!". Juan dives into pool filled with the finest jackets, accompanied by Kevin and Morbert. Juan guzzles champagne in a jacuzzi that is also filled with champagne. Panel 4: Morbert approaches a hungover-looking Juan, holding out a piece of paper. Beside him is a bottle labeled "Sweet Regrets Breakfast Champagne". Panel 5: Juan looks at the paper, eyes bloodshot and panicked. We see what he is looking at: a 12 month lease signed in his name. Juan: Oh, ye GODS!

"Hot Couture" 2 of 4: FALL

In which Juan Jotters and the gang see great sexy success, but may have bitten off more than they can chew...

Script: @aaronsegman.bsky.social
Pencils: @strandedcomics.com
Inks: @gwinga.bsky.social
Color/Lettering: Me!

#Cartoonber2025 @cartoonist.coop

A page from the short comic "Hot Couture". Panel 1: EXT: A store with a banner that says "Halloween Store". Juan: There it is, Morbert. The savvy penny-pincher's secret to HOT COUTURE! Panels 2-4: Juan Jotters, a man that looks like a cross between John Waters and Raul Julia's Gomez Addams, raises his arms excitedly. He wears a white tiger stripe suit and a hot pink shirt. Beside him is Morbert, his stoic androgynous assistant, who carries a clipboard with a pencil behind their ear. They are wearing a purple suit and opaque glasses, and never show any expressions. Behind them, two passersby look at the strange characters with suspicion and delight. Morbert: HAUTE couture, sir. Juan: Can't you FEEL it, my friend? Commerce! Celebracion! AMERICA!!" Panel 5: Juan calls out to Kevin, the retail drone. Kevin is a short and stout man with red hair and a beard, wearing an orange vest and carrying several boxes. Kevin yells out in shock. Behind them are several racks of sexy costumes, most of which look like Catwoman. Juan: MY GOOD MAN! Kevin: AAA! Juan: Pray tell, where are your lounge lizard costumes? The ones formerly in Aisle 6, where the revealing super-heroic costumes are currently situated? Panel 6: Kevin: We're not selling lounge lizard outfits this year. The "revealing costumes" are "situated" over half the store. They're our biggest seller. Juan: SCANDAL! Why, a store that abandons its staple offerings will sink in the shifting sands of popular faddery! Where is the LOYALTY to longtime CUSTOMERS? Panel 7: Kevin: Hey man, all anyone wants to spend MONEY on is sexy costumes. Panel 8: Juan: Money, you say...? Panel 9: Juan: Do you realize what this MEANS, Morbert? Morbert: You can't buy a new jacket, Sir? Juan: Pish-posh! When I'm done, we shall bathe in a pool of the FINEST jackets! Panel 10: Juan: For if the lucre flows to sexy costumes, then we shall open our own store... of nothing BUT sexy costumes! Kevin: Sir, no planning rival businesses in the store...

Happy #Cartoonber2025! I partnered with some killer @cartoonist.coop talent to tell "Hot Couture," in which Juan Jotters takes the world of sexy costumes by storm.

Script: @aaronsegman.bsky.social
Pencils: @strandedcomics.com
Inks: @gwinga.bsky.social
Color/Lettering: Me!

1 of 4: RISE

It's #Cartoonber2025 @cartoonist.coop Prompt 1: RISE

Imagine John Waters' and Gomez Addams' love child is about to take the Halloween retail world by storm 🔥

Script: @aaronsegman.bsky.social
Pencils: Hey, it's me
Linework: @gwinga.bsky.social
Color and Lettering: @trippgustin.bsky.social

Happy Halloween!

Part 1: Rise ❄️
(Writing & lines by Erik Monk-Steel ericmonksteel.artstation.com
Color & lettering by me)

@cartoonist.coop
#cartoonber2025 #comicsky

A 4 panel comic. Panel 1 -The sky in the mid/late evening hangs overhead. Rooftops can be seen looming in from the left and right of the panel. Mid town vibes, rather than central city, smaller story building, not exceeding 4-5 stories max. Glow of streetlights surround the frame, as does rising smoke and gas trails. Arms raise into the air, showing a protest. Narration Box 1: The city is loud tonight. A chorus of voices cry out for change. Box 2: Ears ring and head pounds. Home seems so far away, a distant desire to flee back to safety. Panel 2 - A low shot, showing a large crowd from the knees down. The road is covered in loose pamphlets and trampled signage. The smoke and gas swirls around on the ground, small stains from pepper shot impacts streak along the tarmac. The distance obscured by the crowd. Box 3: Everything hurts. Nostrils sting with toxic fire. Joints ache and beg for rest. Box 4: The ground shakes. Threatening to swallow you whole. Sensations overwhelm. Panel 3: A figure reaches down, offering a hand to the PoV character, who reaches out to grasp at it. The figure has their mouth and nose covered by a fabric mask and is wearing standard civilian clothing, with some extra padding of a jacket. More protesters can be seen marching across the frame, yelling and waving signs. Some point forwards, others hold up closed fists. Box 5: They say we do not belong. That we are unwanted and outsiders. Alien to this land. Less than Human. Box 6: But our hearts still beat. Our lungs draw breath. Our minds race with thought. We feel. Panel 4: It now looks over the heads of the crowd, their own arm extended and pointing. Over the crowd a ground of riot gear cops are visibly backing up and down the street, plastic shields and riot guns held tightly. The wall of bodies pushing towards them, not in assault but in defiance. Box 7: We are one. We are many. We have a voice. We have a purpose. Box 8: And so we rise. Together. Unbroken.

Catoonber 2025 #1 - Rise:

If we stand together, We cannot be silenced.

📝- Scotty Calcote / 🎨 - @sunnycomix.bsky.social

#cartoonber2025 #FuckIce #NoKings

A five panel colored comic depicting four people, Hitoshi, Taro, Will and Nate, on a double date. On this page, Hitoshi is showing Nate how to make a Japanese rolled omelette, which he executes flawlessly. Only for them to notice a burning smell in the last panel, presumably caused by Will and Taro who said they would take care of the bacon part of breakfast.

So excited to be participating in #Cartoonber2025 with my wifey @weirdghostparty.bsky.social and bestie @vistrology.bsky.social !!! This is for the first prompt Rise! A double date of our silly OCs. 💖

#Art #OriginalCharacters

1 page horror comic about an alien parasite

page made for @cartoonist.coop's comic creating challenge #cartoonber2025 • ROUND 1 : RISE (art by me, written by @loosechangeling.bsky.social )