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BootlegPotato
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DM Larson
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✏️ Cartoonist
💬 Comics
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🌐 www.BootlegPotato.com

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BootlegPotato @bootlegpotato.bsky.social · Mar 9
I'm DM Larson, also know as BootlegPotato, and I make weird comics. Some of them are about robots, witches, office workers, aliens, and barbarians. Most of them are free online.

I think they are neat and I invite you to take a look.
www.bootlegpotato.com
A single panel comic of an office working in a cubicle farm yelling "Oh god I'm 40! I can't relate to the youths!" with a caption that says "Life comes at you hard." A panel from a comic strip featuring an alien against a stary sky wiggle their butt. It is a "mooning" or "Uranus" joke. It make more sense in context. The cover of a comic called F.I.I.D.K. Artisanal Comix for a Refined Palate. The illustration on the cover is a picture of a sentient slice of pizza saying "I'd eat me." A page from the comic Saturday Tales feature two panels of Plum the witch walking in a garden at night. The first panel shows Plum carrying a candle stick and tea pot while stepping out of a building. The second panel show Plum walking through the garden away from the door they just exited.
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Chocolate chip cookie and pink donut food faces. Drawn on sticky notes and colored/textured digitally.
An illustration of a chocolate chip cookie with a happy face on it. An illustration of a pink donut with colorful sprinkles, buck teeth and a happy face.
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Every molehill feels like a mountain in the morning.
#comicoop #WebComic #comic
Panel 1. Buddy walking up to Pal says "Arg, the traffic on the way to work this morning was terrible." Panel 2. Buddy with a inquisitive look says "You work from home." Panel 3. Buddy with a bit of anger in their eyes says "Look, I can call tripping over the cat as "traffic" if I want."
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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tiffhudson.com
"Remember, Remember the 5th of November!"
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Completing this little comic with a stroll through a cemetery.
#Comicoop #witch #cemetery
Plum the witch walking up to a cemetery gate with the name Hallows' End above the gate. Plum walking through the head stones with the starts above them. Plum finally sitting at a table, sharing their tea with five ghosts with brightly colored eyes.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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realitysnapped.bsky.social
Did somebody say Over the Garden Wall fanart?

This is my first piece of fan art in my clay style! A commenter on my TikTok suggested it and it honestly came out better than I expected!

This is available on my print shop now!

#photography #polymerclay #artsky #overthegardenwall #fanart #kawaiiart
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Halloween might be over but any season with witch season. Here is the first half a silent comic with Plum the Witch.
#Witch #Comic #Comicoop
Panel 1. Plum the witch steps out of a door holding a candle and tea pot. Panel 2. We see the door leads out side to a back yard path. Plum walks down that path. Panel 3. The path continues along the side of a hill. Panel 4. The path turns into stone steps up the side of the hill. Light from Plum's candle casts shadows on the steps.
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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bradguigar.com
Coffee doesn’t make the art—you do. Coffee just makes you slightly less feral while doing it. 🐺☕
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
When you jam an AI submission in the @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social inbox, you tell me two things.

-You don't particularly value or pay attention to details in your own work, and

-You genuinely don't care about comics. And not just in a "You don't enjoy creating them" way. You also don't read them.
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
More coloring pages. Candy Jack and the Lantern King inspired my 2020 Halloween comic The Perils of the Lantern King.
www.bootlegpotato.com/pages/pumpki...
#Art #Illustration #ColoringPages
An illustration of a pumpkin character wearing a devil costume with the words Candy Jack underneath it and a bunch of decorative candy illustration that includes candy corn and suckers. An illustration of a pumpkin character wearing a cape and a crown floating over their head. The words "Lantern King" appear above the illustration and below is a decorative illustration of a jack-o-lantern with a long pumpkin vine coming out of its stem.
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Last page of my zine about getting old and growing up queer without role models. Thank you everyone who read it. It means a lot to me. The full comic zine is here:
bootlegpotato.com/comics/elder/
#comicoop #zine #comic
Panel 1. The author's older and younger self staring at each other confused. The captions read "I'm old but I don't know if I'm a role model because I'm still finding role models. I'm finding them in a community of creatives. A community of strong enough to be seen. It makes me less anxious." Last panel. The author standing among the silhouettes but now they have taken shape. One of them turn is the author's husband. The final caption reads "Everyone who put themselves out there is my hero. I cannot express my gratitude enough to the artists, entertainers, essayists, and educators who share their work. If you draw, dance, paint, talk, sing or just express yourself, Thank you for being seen."
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Ali didn't make enough appearances this year. That is a shame.
#comicoop #webcomic #comic #aliens
Panel 1. Ali the alien is standing across from Pal wearing a short haired wig and 70s style dress. They say "I miss the Carol Burnett Show." Ali is clearly dress as Carol Burnett. Panel 2. Pal looks up from their phone at a smiling Ali. Panel 3. Pal looks back down at their phone and says "I'm just going to roll with this."
October 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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thatmagicpanda.bsky.social
"Hoho, you're right, this place has all kinds of buttons to choose from~ What did you say this shop was again, Grimm? "
"Graves, It's a haberdashery! It's a gentlemen's paradise!"
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#inktober2025button #inktoberbutton #inktober2025 #inktober #button
#thatmagicpanda
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Get your Halloween coloring pages! Got a Jack-o-lantern witch and cat for ya this week.
www.bootlegpotato.com/pages/pumpki...
#Halloween #Witch #Cat #Coloring
Coloring page featuring a pumpkin headed witch with the words Witch O'lantern below them with a mini illustration of them flying across the moon. An illustration of a pumpkin headed cat with the words Cat O'lantern above them with paw prints.
October 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Page 6 of my zine about getting old and growing up without role models. This page elaborates how things got worse. Flagging this page for the implied violence.
#comicoop #zine #comics
Panel 1. An illustration of the artist in grade school close their locker and look over to someone out of frame. The caption reads "Where I grew up, queer was used a slur to dehumanize and demoralize." Panel 2. The depiction of a group of bullies. The caption reads "It also often preceded by violence" Panel 3. Illustration of the artist rubbing their arm. The caption reads "I won't say I got the worst of it but I still flinch when I hear it said. And when I'm writing it right now."
October 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
We learn a little bit more about Buddy every day.
#comicoop #WebComic #Comic #ComicStrip
Panel 1. Buddy, looking at their phone, says "Wait, people pay to see other people naked?" Panel 2. Pal responds "Yeah, on the internet." Buddy has a perplexed look on their face. Panel 3. Buddying looking all skeptical says "And here I've been doing it for free all this time."
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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nikrinear.bsky.social
"Cyclical"

#personalwork #comic #onepagecomic #sequentialart
September 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
A couple more Halloween coloring pages.
www.bootlegpotato.com/pages/pumpki...
#Halloween #Coloring #Pumpkin
Coloring page of a pumpkin in a pumpkin patch with a skeleton face on it and skeleton fingers below it. The words Skeleton Patch appear below the illustration with decorative skulls blow that. A coloring page of a ghost with a jack-o-lantern face. Above it the words Boo-pkin appear and below it there are graves that say Boo, Drac, and Wolf Man on them.
October 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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cartoonist.coop
The 2024 numbers are crunched, data visualised, and insights SHARED!

Here's the findings of the 2024 Comics Worker Survey!

Anyone can read these findings on income, rates, royalties and more--online or as a PDF.
The Cartoonist Cooperative
Making comics better for everyone!
cartoonist.coop
October 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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fodongo.bsky.social
Ahh what a beautiful day. Do you hear the birds singing? 🐦 🪶 🐦‍🔥

Here's "Dilly Dally", @vinzul.bsky.social's latest for Fodongo!

fodongo.ca/comics/iss19...

Her work: www.artstation.com/marizba

Get this issue and support us!

> geesegoose.ca/product/fodo...
> jectoons.itch.io/fodongo-issu...
First page of María Izquierdo Barri's 'Dilly Dally'. A bird is building a nest.
October 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Page 5 from my zine about getting old and growing up without role models: www.bootlegpotato.com/comics/elder/

This would have been the early or mid 90s despite drawing my mother's hair like it was the 80s.
#comicoop #zine #comic
Panel 1. the caption read "My mom tried" and the panel depicts my mother and myself sitting on a couth reading. I turn to turn and ask "Can boy marry boys?" Panel 2. My mother looks surprised at the question. Panel 3. The caption readers "Same sex marriage was totally not legal." Panel 4 She simply tells me "Yep" and the caption reads "It could have been a lot worse."
October 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
It is confusing when you age out of an audience that you didn't know you could age out of. #comicoop #webcomic #ComicStrip
Panel 1. Buddy, holding a paper back book, tells Pal "Romance novels are so good. Listen to this." Panel 2. Buddy reading from the book says "He didn't have the good looks of a young man. He was in his 30s." Panel 3. With a confused look on their face Pal exclaims "Excuse me?"
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Yay! My Fodongo cover!
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
More Halloween coloring pages. Burn through your orange. www.bootlegpotato.com/pages/pumpki...
#Halloween #Coloring #Art
A coloring page featuring a pumpkin character with bat wings above a drawing of a castle and the words Count Pumpkula. A coloring page featuring a pumpkin character named Pumpkinstein with electricity arching behind them.
October 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Page 4 from my zine about getting old and growing up without role models: www.bootlegpotato.com/comics/elder/
#comicoop #comic #zine

I know there was better representation to be found but, as a kid in the 90s, I didn't have means to find them.
Panel 1 the first caption reads "The only elder queer representation I remember growing up was the Birdcage." The illustration depicts Robin Williams and Nathan Lane with arrows pointing to them that say 44 and 39. The second caption reads "And the other representation I got to see was interesting." What follow is a grid of characters from various movies. The list is Hanks from Philadelphia, Duane Whitaker from Pulp Fiction, Jaye Davidson from the Crying Game, Greg Kinnear from As Good As it Gets, and the scene from the movie Heather where the father says "I love my dead gay son!"
October 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
Mornings am I right?
#comicoop #WebComic #ComicStrip
Panel 1. Buddy is squinting their eyes. Pal asks "What your problem?" Buddy responds "The sun is too spicy." Panel 2. Pal raising their eyebrow asks "You mean bright?" Panel 3. Buddy grimacing more says "Sure."
October 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM