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Joshua W. Cotter
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ND Secular Humanist ♾️ Cartoonist When I’m Able 🫀 Fix Your Hearts or Die
https://www.joshuawcotter.com/ -or- https://bio.site/joshuawcotter
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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · Nov 6
A drawing of an anthropomorphic goat and sheep, the goat is saying “THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE FORCE OPPOSING HOPE IS DESPAIR. THE DESPAIR WE FEEL IS MANUFACTURED. AND WHAT HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED CAN BE TAKEN APART.”
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A panel from ‘Goat & Sheep by the Well’, 2024
A loose pen and watercolor drawing of a still from the J6 insurrection with text that reads “WHILE WE’RE LEFT TO DEAL WITH MEDICAL DEBT, SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, A HOUSING CRISIS, AN UNAFFORDABLE COST OF LIVING, RAMPANT WILDFIRES + FLOODING, CONSPIRACY THEORIES, AUTHORITARIANISM, ROTTING INFRASTRUCTURE, GENOCIDES, DEATH CULTS, BANKRUPTCY, PANDEMICS, HATE + INSURRECTIONS. / ALL SO AN UNFATHOMABLY WEALTHY FEW CAN DEFEND THE WEALTH THEY 'LEGALLY’ STOLE FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”
January 6, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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A panel from ‘Goat & Sheep by the Well’, 2024
A loose pen and watercolor drawing of a still from the J6 insurrection with text that reads “WHILE WE’RE LEFT TO DEAL WITH MEDICAL DEBT, SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, A HOUSING CRISIS, AN UNAFFORDABLE COST OF LIVING, RAMPANT WILDFIRES + FLOODING, CONSPIRACY THEORIES, AUTHORITARIANISM, ROTTING INFRASTRUCTURE, GENOCIDES, DEATH CULTS, BANKRUPTCY, PANDEMICS, HATE + INSURRECTIONS. / ALL SO AN UNFATHOMABLY WEALTHY FEW CAN DEFEND THE WEALTH THEY 'LEGALLY’ STOLE FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”
January 6, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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ajschumacherart.bsky.social
An homage of a sanity sketch to welcome the new year. Happy 2026!
January 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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@barnesandnoble.com is running a huge preorder sale! If you want to preorder MY BELOVED OTHER and get 25% off, join their free rewards program and use code PREORDER25 at checkout! Please share! #BookSky #comics
#BNPreorder #MyBelovedOther
@01firstsecond.bsky.social @macmillanusa.bsky.social
MY BELOVED OTHER cover - 25% off pre-orders at B&N until Jan 1 25% off pre-orders at B&N until Jan 1 A frame from My Beloved Other (c) Nick Abadzis & Angela Watson, 2025, 2026, all rights reserved. “Why are we so obsessed with the idea of “Difference”? “What IS difference, anyway?” Two hands make a heart shape - oen black, one white. “THANKS!”
December 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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A strip I made for a friend for the holidays, done in watercolor and pencil.
3 panel comic done in pencil and watercolor. First text block reads “KANJI ARE COMPOSED OF INDIVIDUAL RADICALS AND COMPONENTS.”, then gives three visual examples - kemono/animal, kusa/grass & ta/field. Together they make the Kanji ‘neko’, which means cat. Third panel text reads “THIS CAME TO BE BECAUSE IN THE EDO PERIOD CATS WOULD HIDE IN GRASSY FIELDS WHILE THE SAMURAI DID THEIR VACUUMING.”, the panel illustrates the text, multiple cats hiding in tall grass while three samurai, shown from the waist down, vacuum a dirt path.
December 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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It’s Christmas Eve here in Japan. Whatever you believe or feel, I hope you’re able to find a moment of peace and happiness sometime over the next few days.
An elaborate holiday illustration, a scene set in a version of Kansas City with crowds of elves, snowmen, deer, fictional characters and others walking through a series of KC landmarks. A giant Santa stands on top of a building. Drawn in a Where’s Waldo style, pen and ink with highly saturated digital colors.
December 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"

Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.
arif.bsky.social Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 16d
It's a whole genre it's beautiful
December 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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The original cover art for the collected ‘Skyscrapers of the Midwest’ (2008) and the sketchbook containing the entirety of ‘Driven by Lemons’ (2009) became a part of the Billy Ireland collection this year. Take a look if you make it to Columbus! library.osu.edu/site/cartoon...
December | 2025 | Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Blog
library.osu.edu
December 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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ANY use of gAI is a violation of the most BASIC ethical standards.
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/yo...
Generative AI Proposals: Use High Ethical Standards in Domestic Development
<p>Generative artificial intelligence, which is evolving rapidly, now impacts all aspects of people’s lives, extending far beyond the business community which seeks to enhance work efficiency.</p>
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp
December 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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An image I made for a print for the 10 year anniversary of ‘Skyscrapers of the Midwest’, 2018 - pen & ink with digital color
A yellow robot without legs making a Christ-like gesture suspended in the sky above grain towers, the grain towers are falling apart and the pieces are floating up towards the robot. An arched border surrounding the drawing is composed of plants found in rural Missouri - corn, thistles, cattails and such.
December 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Today is Tom Spurgeon's birthday. Read some Little Orphan Annie or Cul de Sac, write a friend you miss, call your mom, gossip about comics with friends, get a group together for dinner, give a book you love a review, see a play, talk for hours with someone who means the world to you. Remember Tom.
December 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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My family's dealing with a whole lot right now, with my mother's dementia and my father's cancer both in late stages, an elderly dog, and mounting debt. Anything you can spare would mean the world, and even sharing helps!

gofund.me/2d5250128
Donate to Caring for Family Struggling with Dementia, Cancer, and Debt, organized by Joseph England
I've been here before. But if you don't know me, my name is J… Joseph England needs your support for Caring for Family Struggling with Dementia, Cancer, and Debt
gofund.me
December 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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“I NEED SEDATIVES”, March Hare 08
A pen drawing of a robot composed of spherical and geometric shapes standing in a cloud of destruction against a black background shooting lasers from his hands at little geometric humanoid figures while yelling “I NEED SEDATIVES”. The graphite under drawing can be seen in places behind the inks.
December 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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marinaomi.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a comics co-editor position at @therumpus.net

We're looking for original literary fiction and non-fiction comics that feel personal. Bonus if it's hand-lettered (the path to my heart) 😘

No AI

Pays $100

therumpus.submittable.com/submit

Pass it on!
Baby raccoons just because
December 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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‘nod away, volume 3’, WIP, blue pencil on bristol
A blue pencil drawing of two female characters with their wrists strapped to gurneys, one angry saying ‘The FUCK?!’, the other one with an expression of stunned surprise on her face.
December 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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A page from my Kanji practice notebook. I’ve been studying seriously for a year now (including kana) but, since there are approximately 2500 ‘daily use’ Kanji, I still have a long way to go.
A page from a grid layout notebook filled with written Kanji practice, approximately 280 Kanji written over and over again in pen.
December 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Working on a watercolor thing.
A pencil and watercolor drawing of cats hiding in tall grass while a samurai in red armor vacuums a dirt path with a vintage vacuum cleaner.
December 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Studying for the Japanese driver’s test, a helpful tip from a translation of the test center’s website. It’s estimated that drivers have a 12% chance of passing the first time. I’m estimating that my chances are lower than that.
A Birds Eye view drawing of a car going around a curve, text in a green box reads ‘• Law so as not to delay confirmation at the exit. Take a bath with beans.’
December 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Some ppl r still missing some posts on my patreon but that’s ok nbd
Www.patreon.com/gabbyschulz
Some guys
December 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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New book in store collab with Hyena joshbayer.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Making comics (nod away, volume 3, WIP)
A piece of paper covered with little pen thumbnail drawings and notes regarding plans for comics pages.
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Young Shadow: Tunnel Vision
Available for preorder, ships in December

www.freebensears.com/product/youn...
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM