Gustav Carlson
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Gustav Carlson
@backwoodgoat.bsky.social
Ozarks based comic artist. Creator of Backwood Folk, Tourist Unknown, and Eve of the Ozarks.

backwoodfolk.com
Conducting lightning bugs.
November 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I'll also being at the Local Author Open House at the Fayetteville Public Library on December 6! Event courtesy of the fine folks @pearlsbooks.bsky.social of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Bertrum Strom pictured with artistic interpretation of his sighting of the Pink Eye of Po'Dunk from 2011.
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Toby Still Had Honey to Spare. A free Backwood Folk Halloween special. Read the full comic at Backwoodfolk.com/honey
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
TOBY STILL HAD HONEY TO SPARE.
A free Halloween comic special from Backwood Folk
www.backwoodfolk.com/honey/
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My mom would sometimes just find me in zombie makeup or some costume or another failing to menace goats. Wasn’t even Halloween usually.
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The Mayor of Po'Dunk.
October 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Think this was legitimately my first comic book from a thrift store in a one horse town. Giant oversized prints of the Flat Top comic strip story arc. Made it feel modular in retrospect.
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
October 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Been transcribing quotes all evening for the finale we are recording tomorrow. Apologies to all the true believers in my life.
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Hello friends! The digital edition of Backwood Folk #1 is now available at an introductory price of $2! That's a 48 page drm-free comic full of ghost town gossip, lights in the sky, and strange shapes behind the trees. Should be great for some seasonal reading! Available at giftshop.backwoodfolk.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Got menaced by Jason during a tv interview.
September 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
See you tomorrow Hot Springs, Arkansas! I'll be at Spa-Con the whole weekend. I'll even be having a panel on drawing Arkansas monsters on Sunday. Should be a blast! Poster and shirt art by yours truly. spa-con.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
There’s a garden up there, but I couldn’t tell you what it’s growing.
September 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
My new bit is making little trading cards with a link to a Backwood Folk mini-comic. Something I hope is a little more fun and fruitful than just handing business cards out at con tables.
September 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My comic series, Backwood Folk, follows the lives and afterlives of a rural hamlet in the Arkansas Ozarks. Each issue is 48 pages of small town gossip, ghosts, and strange creatures. The first two issues are available in big handsome print editions or digital downloads at giftshop.backwoodfolk.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Backwood Folk Issue Two: Dry County Spirits! OUT NOW! The here and hereafter intersect at the Po’Dunk Farmer’s Market when Lilian learns her dairy products are less desired than her ability to commune with the dead.

Available off my website in both print and digital editions! www.backwoodfolk.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Backwood Folk #2 is out in a couple locations in Northwest Arkansas! Such as Pearl’s Books and the Community Creative Center, both in Fayetteville! More locations to follow. Online release is gunna come a little later!
August 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Jump scares at the used book store
August 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Oh hey, I'll be guesting at Spa-Con in Hot Springs, Arkansas this year! I'll also be doing another panel on drawing Arkansas monsters. Gunna be a blast. More info at spa-con.org

(I drew that poster too!)
August 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
When you visit the scenic Po’Dunk Ozarks consider lodging with Lost Comfort! Many cabins available for booking online www.backwoodfolk.com/loco/
August 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Soon!
August 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Gunna be the only person on the hiking trails with the express purpose of having his own version of the “Alan Moore meets John Constantine” stories.
August 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Now in color!
August 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Drawing some fun faces lately.
August 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM