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La Rana Bonanza

A Fodongo Second Anniversary Celebration

**CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS**

This November 3rd, 2025, Fodongo: A Free-Culture Comics Zine turns 2 years old!

To celebrate this momentous occasion I would like to CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A LA RANA eZINE. "La Rana" is this weird creature below.

November 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM

Fodongo

@fodongo.bsky.social

Today #Fodongo turns 2 years old.

Fodongo exists first and foremost thanks to its contributors, wonderful artists who have trusted the project and trusted me with their work, and agreed to be a part of this. I appreciate you all immensely, and I hope we can continue collaborating for a long time!

A drawing of La Rana holding a huge number 2 in its mouth.

November 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM

Fodongo

@fodongo.bsky.social

Not too halloweeny, but adorable! Read Sharvari Shah's "How to Nanana" now!

Read: fodongo.ca/comics/iss2/...

Get: geesegoose.ca/product/fodo...

It is pay if you want! All revenue is distributed among artists, so consider buying, or download it for free and share it far and wide!

#zine #drmfree

In this page a toddler is sticking a banana in his mouth, looking silly. He then squeezes the banana trying to drink the juice. Text reads:'Look ma, no hands. 1 Nanana, 2 bites. Cold pressed Nanana puree.'

November 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM

Fodongo

@fodongo.bsky.social

In the spirit of #spookyseason, how about a short #horror #comic from #Fodongo

fodongo.ca/comics/iss2/...

This is "Re Run", by Zach Acherman from Issue 2. You can read it in the site above.

#zine #indie #artist #noAI

First page of 'Re-Run', by Zach Acherman, licensed CCBYSA. First panel shows a person with a Cat head behind a screen, holding a pair of scissors, standing in front of a sign that reads 'Oscar the Cat variety show'. Narration reads: 'The 'Oscar the Cat' public access show quickly rose to popularity in our small town.' The second panel trucks out from the firstm showing the television with the same image as the first panel. Narration reads: 'It aired every Wednesday at midnight without fail. The catch of this show was that he would always name a new person to join the 'cast'.' The third panel has a concerned person walking in front of the TV, which now says 'Eli Rogers'. There is a silhouette of the cat head in the dark. The narration reads: 'And they would always vanish without a trace. The police could never figure out how to stop it from airing.'

October 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM

Fodongo

@fodongo.bsky.social

From issue 19, "To my partner", by Alpha Yu, is up on the site as well!

fodongo.ca/comics/iss19...

His other work: alphayu.wixsite.com/shoba

Get the issue and support the contributors!:
geesegoose.ca/product/fodo...

Thanks for reading and supporting #indieartists and #freeculture #zine #fodongo

First page of 'To my partner', by Alpha Yu. A man looks out of a window into the sky, where a giant space ship floats over a destroyed city. 'If in 50 years we ruin the world, would we turn Vancouver into a Spaceship and take to the stars? What would our home be?'. The Vancuver spaceship floats in space, and see images of life here, an alien buying dumplings, Science World against the void of space, the UBC clock tower touching the sky. 'Would the suns set because we rocket past them? Would we preserve the tastes of Chinatown for our alien neighbours? Would Science World look like just another planet? Would the UBC Clock Tower finally touch the stars?'

October 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM

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Fodongo

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📣 Issue #19 is OUT! 📣

fodongo.ca/Blog/2025/10...

Comics by @vinzul.bsky.social, Alpha Yu, @bootlegpotato.bsky.social (who also drew the cover) and @jectoons.itch.io!
🪿 geesegoose.ca/product/fodo...
👾 jectoons.itch.io/fodongo-issu...

Much solidarity to all!

#indie #zine #freeculture #drmfree

Cover for Issue 19 of Fodongo, drawn by BootlegPotato

October 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM

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Juanele

@juaneletamal.bsky.social

Mi reto de dibujo de octubre no ha sido público pero ha sido igualmente intenso: avanzar todo lo posible en el cómic que estoy trabajando para el proyecto del SNCA. Espero hacer un comic bien hecho y que salga bien. Ahorita estoy en la etapa de los bocetos, ¡aquí les comparto un avance!

A screenshot of a sketched page of my comic, it features scenes of a Mexican family in the US having a bbq at their backyard

October 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Leo Fox

@leoofox.bsky.social

October 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM

Fodongo

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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

Fodongo

@fodongo.bsky.social

📣 Issue #19 is OUT! 📣

fodongo.ca/Blog/2025/10...

Comics by @vinzul.bsky.social, Alpha Yu, @bootlegpotato.bsky.social (who also drew the cover) and @jectoons.itch.io!
🪿 geesegoose.ca/product/fodo...
👾 jectoons.itch.io/fodongo-issu...

Much solidarity to all!

#indie #zine #freeculture #drmfree

October 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Fodongo

@fodongo.bsky.social

Today, a comic about being dissatisfied. By @themountainwith.bsky.social, "My shape"

fodongo.jectoons.net/comic/my-sha...

- Ale's Instagram: www.instagram.com/themountainw...

Subscribe yearly to Fodongo: opencollective.com/fodongo/cont...

Thx!

#zine #comic #freeculture

September 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM

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piper bly

@piperbomb.bsky.social

coming soon to @assignedmedia.org

#wip #comics #art

The artist's hand hovers over a piece of inked comic art, portraying transmasc historical figures Lou Sullivan (a scruffy haired man with a sparse beard and longer hair) and Jack Garland (a short-haired masc figure in a wide-brimmed hat and wearing a turn-of-the-century suit.)

September 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM

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BootlegPotato

@bootlegpotato.bsky.social

This concludes the current batch of After Hours O'clock. The entire strip up to this point can be read on my website
www.bootlegpotato.com/comics/after...

#comicoop #WebComic #ComicStrip

Panel 1. Dani asks Stan "You are suggesting that Rob stopped me from getting a promotion sooner because I slept with his sister-in-law?"

Panel 2. Stan responds "Suggesting? He flat out said it." Dani asks "Why?"

Panel 3. Stan responds "He didn't want the two of you becoming a thing and having more of the office encroach on his home life."

Panel 4. Levi chimes in and says "Shit, I think I get that logic. Imagine seeing Stan at family functions." Stan shouts "Hey!"

September 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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Maritza Campos

@maritzac.bsky.social

Free.

www.patreon.com/posts/free-1...

What a JERK. >:(

#crfhcomic

September 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM

Fodongo

@fodongo.bsky.social

Now a #horror #comic for #HalloweenEve.
@unpocodetinta.bsky.social 's "The Letter" is now up.
⚠️Some graphic body horror on one page; reader discretion advised!

fodongo.jectoons.net/comic/the-le...

Iván's site : unpocodetinta.com

Yearly #zine Subscription: opencollective.com/fodongo/cont...

Thx!

First page of Ivan G Azuara's The Letter.

September 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM

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piper bly

@piperbomb.bsky.social

i imagine a lot of u fine folk know me primarily from my #photojournalism work (and hello! it is good to meet you) but #illustration / #comix work is very much What I Do

here's some work from the past few years

if you'd like to support me & my work, stay tuned: #commissions will re-open soon <3

An illustration of Kratos from God Of War, wielding the Blades of Athena from God Of War 2, kicking the hell out of a zombie-skeleton guy and trampling two more underfoot. A fourth reaches out from the shadows.

Page 1 for the as-yet-unfinished "Thirteen At Table" adaptation for Jectoons.

__Layout: three quarter spread with insets, with one long shot at the bottom.__

_Top of page-- a scroll with the opening caption on it unfurling with an inset image of the "master of the house" beginning to regale us with his tale, wearing evening garb and smoking a cigar._

In front of a spacious fireplace of the old kind, when the logs were well alight, and men with pipes and glasses were gathered before it in great easeful chairs, and the wild weather outside and the comfort that was within, and the season of the year--for it was Christmas--and the hour of the night, all called for the weird or uncanny, then out spoke the ex-master of foxhounds and told this tale.

And I, I once had an odd experience too.

It was when I had the Bromley and Sydenham, the year I gave them up--as a matter of fact it was the last day of the season. It was early April and we had drawn
blank all day, and at the last draw of all,

--the very last of the season,

_Lower right--inset panel with the fox's head visible, his eye clearly noticing the hunters behind him._

we found a fox.

_Caption for the bottom row of panels, depicting a CU of the fox breaking out into a run, with the horses close behind_

We settled down into a steady gallop--left the clay lands where the bracken grows and came to a valley at the edge of the chalk--

The artist's hand holds a detailed acrylic painting of a curly-haired femme figure, hiding her face behind an unfurling bundle of leaves. The moon sits behind her head, and the stars sparkle both in the sky above and in her hair and the lights of her eyes. To the left of the painting is the preliminary sketch for the piece, showing the layout of the leaves, face, and hair (and a selection of paints to place into the base layer) that form the artist's original concept for the piece.

The original page of comic art for the final piece on the previous image, depicting a trans femme walking along the Mississippi River banks with coffee in hand before lighting a meerschaum and sitting on a park bench.

August 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM

Fodongo

@fodongo.bsky.social

It's Friday, time to decompress & read a short horror story by Zach Acherman: "Only One", Check the first page now, maybe read the rest on the site!

fodongo.jectoons.net/comic/only-o...

(Or in the under-construction-new-site! fodongo.ca/comics/iss1/...)

#comic #zine #fodongo #horror #freeculture

First page of 'Only One' by Zach Acherman. In the first panel there's a kid looking into the fridge, backlit by it. A narration box says 'Daniel has been having trouble sleeping lately'. In the second panel an adult with a knife behind their back looks at Daniel from behind. The narration continues 'Buth this was the first time he's opened the fridge in the middle of the night... I had grabbed a knife thinking it may be an intruder. Not the best look, sneaking up on a kid.' In the third panel the adult kneels next to Daniel and talks to him. 'Daniel, why are you up so late?', he says. Daniel replies 'Mrs. Whisper is hungry'.

August 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM

Fodongo

@fodongo.bsky.social

We have a Community Mailbox section in our new (under construction) site. Come leave us a comment! Discuss some comics! Or you know, say hi :)

fodongo.ca/commubox/com...

Fodongo | Community Mailbox

fodongo.ca

August 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM