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Maki Scare-O
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The forever Halloween profile of feral cartoonist and graphic journalist Maki Naro. Work In Progress & Crucial Comix.

Formerly @sciencecomic on the bad site.
He/Him

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Got out there and did the thing 🫡
A close up of a oval shaped “I voted” sticker being held by the poster in a parking lot
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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While looking up photos of mice today, I was reminded of Kazuo Iwamura's picture books. Saddened to learn that he died last December. This series was such a big part of my childhood
An illustration from Kazuo Iwamura's adorable picture book series "14 Wood Mice" about an extended family of mice and their adventures. Dressed in casual outdoor wear and backpacks, the family members walk between a cluster of tree stumps on a forest path strewn with autumn leaves. Some of the kids are climbing to the top of the stump in the foreground.
October 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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QRP with your meme redraws!
The woman yelling at cat meme, but it's Toby, a white man in a two-tone blue cloak and hood with jester-like antennae on it. He has a ridiculous swoop of blonde hair coming out the front like a broom. He is pointing angrily to the right and shouting while an orange cat in the background looks on. On the other side is Kuruku, a pale green wizard in a red cloak and hat with orange hair streaming out of it. He sits at a table with a blocky clay humanoid figure laying on it. He is hissing, his eyes squinted.
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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October is Spider Time 🎃🕷️
QRP with your Spoopy Spooders
A brush drawing of a hairy spider with long legs seen from above. It has 4 eyes, bunny like ears, whiskers, and a big Totoro grin.
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Historian Roel Konijnendijk, scratching his head, dismayed at the lack of ditches in this siege. A speech bubble at the bottom of the image makes it look like he is saying the quoted post.
September 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Logging on
A giant parade float on tank treads travels down a city street. Reminiscent of the lantern floats of the Nebuta festival in Japan, it features 4 blue snakes coiled and striking. On the head of one of the snakes, a woman in black dances. On the front of the float is marquee scrolling "GO TO HELL"
September 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Me when I have a new comic out about radio telescopes on the moon.
September 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Spiders!
Some photos of our garden residents (Id needed) and a zebra jumping spider(?) I caught running off with a fresh caught meal
@bug-gwen.bsky.social
A beautiful tan-orange spider with black and white markings sitting in the center of their circular web. Their body and hairs are perfectly sunlit over a shadowed out of focus background The same spider after I accidentally wrecked their web getting the hose out. It has scurried to the safety of an air conditioner vent, next to what looks like a molted shell A similar spider on a green birdfeeder. The zoom is very close showing its tiny hairs as it crouches defensively A small black and white striped jumping spider carrying a fly almost twice its size.
September 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Just read The Jellyfish by @boum.bsky.social and oh wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve cried on a train. What a beautiful perfect story ❤️
The cover of The Jellyfish, by Boum. On it in watercolor blue and purple tones is the main character Odette with a bowl haircut and a large black ink smudge with trails like a jellyfish over her left eye
September 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Goodbye SPX! It was amazing! I’m on the train home now (not pictured).

Thank you again @jamienoguchi.bsky.social for the fun times and hospitality (pictured) ❤️
Two Asian men in glasses and beards smiling gleefully at the camera outside a restaurant at night. One throws up a peace sign.
September 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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SPX is almost done! I’m here repping @crucialcomix.bsky.social
And selling self published books, anthologies, and bespoke Totoro’s. Stop by W20B before it’s too late!
The artist in a face mask and bright green hat with a speech bubble in a panel on it. Behind him is his convention banner “Maki Naro: better cartooning through science “
September 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Oh hey, did you know I'm going to be at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social this weekend? I'm literally bringing all my books, so stop on by and grab some!

Hope to see you there! 🥳
A promotional image of the Small Press Expo floor map, showing table W20 circled. It features a self portrait of the artist wearing a mask made of Totoro printed blue fabric. The text reads "Maki Naro, W20B. SPX Sept 13+14"
September 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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A stack of dirty and broken wooden pallets. One towards the top is emblazoned with the letters “NASA”
September 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I read that sentence in this guy's voice. I can't explain it, but he has one for me.
A 1793 self portrait by French painter Joseph Ducreux known for his unconventional portraiture at the time. He holds a cane, his mouth open in a laugh as he points directly at the viewer.
September 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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On a Tuesday?!!
A meme that says "It is wednesday, my dudes" with chibi godzilla instead of the round frog that the meme normally features.
August 20, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Real Ghostbusters Ass Creechur
A levitating cream colored blob with long spindly arms holds and chews on a stick with big horse-like teeth.
August 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Chef Gordon Ramsay with his head bowed saying “delicious. Finally, some good fucking food”
August 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Folks, you ever been jump scared by a completely stationary bun?
A patch of rocky brown soil next to a house foundation bustling with bright green clover and other weeds. Nestled in the clover and scrunched as small as possible is a small rabbit. A close up of the rabbit. Seen from above, staying completely still to avoid detection.
July 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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This diagram made me very worried until I saw it was helpfully labeled. But then I got worried again because I wasn't sure if they meant the size or distance.
A diagram explaining the phenomenon showing the angle of the sun's rays hitting the earth. The sun is looming very close, but thankfully it is labeled "Not to scale"
July 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Artist! Quote with your evil art 🪓

Oide~ 🗡️
A Japanese Manekineko (a white cat figurine that beckons good luck with a raised paw) seen from behind. Lit brightly from the front, their left paw is raised in the characteristic beckoning gesture, but in their right hand, held behind their back, they hold a gleaming dagger. They look over their left shoulder with a devilish glance.
June 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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See a Fox 🦊
Post a Fox 🦊

Enjoy this extremely old commission painting!
Partially obscured by reeds, a fox stands in stark contrast with the muted tones of a foggy riverbank as it lowers its head to drink.
June 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I've drawn him exactly once, for a comic about the pro-vaccine Peanuts strips he created
A panel from a comic featuring Lyndon B. Johnson and Charles M Schulz. The two are depicted in a cartoony style mildly reminiscent of Schulz's work. Johnson in black and white, looks over a smiling Schulz, who sits at his drawing table holding up a freshly penned comic strip.
June 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Look at this photo she just sent me of the bullion:

Delicious golden brown gold
An artfully arranged stack of nut brown curry bullion rectangles on a bamboo cutting board.
June 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Fuck these plants
A red wheelbarrow full of 4 uprooted hosta plants just beginning to grow their shoots. They fill the entire wheelbarrow and comprise less than half the hostas in the garden.
April 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I feel such kinship with them
A painting of two beefy arms clasped in a handshake/arm wrestle. The arms are labled "Me" and "My Dog" and their clasped hands captioned, "People asking, 'What's wrong?' "
April 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM