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Arkholt
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I draw funny pictures: https://arkholt.com | http://dribbble.com/arkholt | https://new.thebirdfeeder.com

I also write about funny pictures: https://blog.arkholt.com | https://notes.arkholt.com
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Today on the winter blog, Cicero's cat takes a walk on the frozen side: blog.arkholt.com/ciceros-cat-1
A comic panel with a cartoon cat carefully sticking its paw out onto the ice
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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In truth, it's actually more sophisticated to try and figure out what exactly it is you like about the thing and say that, and it's even more of a compliment. "I like this!" is great, but "I like this, the colors are so vibrant!" is better
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Today on the winter blog, Herman tries to sell apples while evading the law (I may have mixed the comic strip character up with the cartoonist there).

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A man in winter clothing stands out in the snow. In front of him is a table with a large box full of apples. A sign in front of the table reads, "APPLES, 7¢ EACH"
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Today on the blog, Lee Wright Stanley shows us how to get even colder this winter:

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A cartoon drawing of a boy in winter clothes holding up a very rigid, frozen set of long underwear.
December 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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COMIC: Cadbury Chocolate
PANEL 1: A short man in glasses wearing a suit, stands next to a tall thin woman pumping her hands in the air. MAN: Hi kids! When we at Kraft bought out Cadbury Chocolates, we immediately set out to make your chocolates worse! WOMAN Hooray! PANEL 2: The man holds his hand up to his mouth as if he’s whispering a secret, while the woman puts both thumbs up. MAN: Cadbury was once famous for rich, delicious chocolate that ranked among the best in the world. But we knew if we worked REALLY hard… WOMAN: And LASER-FOCUSED on cheapening the ingredients…we could do it. AND WE DID! PANEL 3: On a all blue background, the KRAFT logo floats. Below it is text in yellow that reads: …Ask us what we consider “cheese”! ——— Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Today on the blog, Scamp the dog does little to nothing to help his fried Cheeps stay warm this winter: blog.arkholt.com/scamp-1
A comic strip panel, featuring a bird flying in and saying, "G-g-gosh! I hate it when it's c-c-cold!" A puppy is sitting on the grass and responds, "How come, Cheeps?"
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
Panel 1. Scientist making a presentation to the board: "We have developed an exciting new technology that will allow the company to make a much better product at no extra cost!" Panel 2. Board member 1: "Could we use this tech to make our current product more cheaply?" Scientist: "In principle, yes.... And pass the savings on to consumers?" Board member 2: "Haha. No." Panel 3. Board member 2: "How about we make a worse product, with a higher profit margin and just use the tech to make it seem exciting and new?" Scientist: "Um..." Panel 4. Board members: "I'll take that as a yes!" "High five!!" Scientist: "Sob!"
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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I was recently commissioned to draw an offline/banner image for the Twitch channel SaltCommittee, featuring the four main members doing what they do. Had a lot of fun making it, and I think I captured their essences quite well. Take a look on my portfolio site:

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SaltCommittee Banner
Photo SaltCommittee Banner: The offline image and banner for the Twitch channel SaltCommittee.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
Two pigeons on a London street, pecking at crumbs. Pigeon 1: "I'm sorry you missed out on the Booker prize. I thought your novel was wonderful." Pigeon 2: "It’s a stitch up! They always give it to a human!" Pigeon 1: "It’s nice they considered it." Pigeon 2: "Nobody cares about the longlist, Janet!" Pigeon 2 again: "Zadie Smith had a bestselling novel and an armload of literary prizes before she was 25*." Pigeon 1: "You’ve got to stop comparing yourself to Zadie Smith" Pigeon 2: "Why?" Pigeon 1: "We’ve all got to find our own path through the world. Plus, it’s much harder to type with claws." pigeon 2: "That’s true." They both go back to pecking. Pigeon 2: "I’m glad you liked my book." *Pigeon 2 is 3 years, 11 months and 22 days old, the equivalent of 42 in human years. https://pigeonpedia.com/pigeon-years-to-human-years-calculator/
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A gentle reminder from Guadalupe that love and memories never fade — they just grow brighter. ✨ #DiaDeLosMuertos #Macanudo #CelebrateLife #ComicsKingdom
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The newspaper comic strip Krazy Kat, created by George Herriman, premiered on October 28, 1913. The characters had previously appeared as a side strip to The Dingbat Family. Krazy Kat ran until Herriman’s death in 1944.
A black and white photo of Herriman at his drawing table with a doll of Krazy. A panel of Ingnatz throwing a brick at Krazy's head while Officer Pupp yells "Transgression!!!" A panel of Ignatz asking Krazy "so you are a dual personality, eh?" Krazy responds "oh, shoe - dollin- I'm a prektigill a twin."
October 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Halloween costume ideas for birders.
A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.
A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Gordo by Gus Arriola, October 30 1966:
October 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I agree with the large majority of this, but he lost me at the part where he said he still uses AI, just not AI art. I'm assuming he means an LLM of some sort. It makes me wonder why he thinks that's okay while thinking AI art is not.
October 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)
October 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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"The Internet From 20 Years Ago" is still there. Blogs and personal websites are still a thing (and are easier to set up than ever). Webrings are still a thing. I mean, even things like Finger and Gopher protocol are still things. All you have to do is start using them.
danacorn.bsky.social uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · Oct 5
Is it terribly “old person” of me to say I want the internet from 20 years ago back?

Blogs! Websites! Forums! All that!
October 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I find it odd that any time I hear anyone talk about "webcomics" they're more often than not talking about comic book style, full page, continuity comics and newspaper style comics are never brought up. There are just as many of both styles. They are both just as valid.
bakertoons.com Charles Brubaker (NEW BOOK OUT!) @bakertoons.com · Oct 4
1. I wish people don't dismiss four-panel, newspaper style strips as "lesser". The medium is just as valid as graphic novels.

2. I hate the mentality that comics must be printed in color in order to sell. Like, you guys do know that most mangas are printed in B&W and they sell like hotcakes, right?
liammcguire.bsky.social Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · Oct 3
Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?
October 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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As much as I like Peanuts, I have to admit that the space allotted to Peanuts reruns would be better used to give exposure to strips that are still creating new material, whether they’re new strips or reboots of legacy strips. The entire run of Peanuts is readily available in books and online.
October 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Here's another old Chuffers comic for people who are chuffed about trains and model railroads. #chuffers #modelrailroaders #modelrailroad #modeltrain #trains #trainlovers #lynnjohnston
A woman opens the front door to find a crowd of tiny people standing outside. She asks her model railroader husband if he remembers putting an ad in the paper asking for half-inch scale people. They've arrived.
September 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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My copy of Hogan's Alley 24 arrived, but it was bent in the mailbox so it's underneath some heavy (and appropriate) books to flatten it out some
A copy of the magazine Hogan's Alley, issue 24, underneath a reprint collection of Percy Crosby's Skippy comic strip, and a biography of cartoonist Milton Caniff.
September 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.
A three-panel comic. The first panel is a scrap from a dictionary that says crypsis, noun: patterning or coloration that allows a bird to remain concealed by blending in to its environment. In panel 2, labeled effective crypsis, an american bittern blends in with a marsh full of tall plants. In panel 2, labeled ineffective crypsis, an american bittern fails to blend in among some short plants, next to a wet floor sign, and behind a stop sign.
September 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Irruption.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, two people are standing outside, facing each other; one is wearing an orange tshirt and one is wearing a green tshirt and a pair of binoculars. The first person says "I heard there's going to be a Red-breasted Nuthatch eruption. Should I be worried?" In panel 2, the second person says "No, it's an irruption - an unusual movement of birds into areas where they aren't usually found. It's great for birders." The first person says "No, I think they said-" In panel 3, both people look alarmed as the ground beneath them begins to rumble. in panel 4, the ground erupts and hundreds of Red-breasted Nuthatches shoot into the sky, lifting the two people into the air.
September 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Remember: the medium of comics is the printing press.
katiecandraw.bsky.social Katie Cook @katiecandraw.bsky.social · Sep 20
Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.
September 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM