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Kel | Mossy Stone Media
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Ecology-inspired art for curious people, multimedia support for scientists, artists, and community advocates. Based in PNW, rooted in Alaska. they/any

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Happy #SmallBusinessSaturday ! I come to you bearing holiday gift ideas for people who love mushrooms, squirrels, zines, and everything in betweens. For the Pacific Northwest nature lover in your life. 20% off storewide until midnight tonight Pacific time.

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Seven vinyl mushroom stickers are set against flagstone, surrounded by leaves and mushrooms. The stickers are labeled digital art and include oyster mushroom, lobster mushroom, morel mushrooms, rainbow chantarelle, birch bolete, turkey tail, and shaggy ink cap. A cream-colored linen-textured print is set in a redcedar tree. The digital art print includes seven squirrels and is titled "Tree Squirrels of the Pacific Northwest." The squirrels are on arranged on a redcedar bough, labeled with scientific and common names, and include the American red, Eastern gray, Humboldt's flying, Eastern fox, Western gray, Douglas, and northern flying. The squirrels that have been introduced to the region are marked with an asterisk. A bright yellow half-page risograph-printed zine is set against a backdrop of fallen maple leaves. The zine is titled "Field Guide to Cryptogam Cryptids," by Kel Skonberg, Second Edition. The cover is a two-color risograph print of green and pink. An interior spread from the zine in the previous picture is held open by a bracken fern. The selected pages are risograph-printed in green and are titled "Mossy mammals" and "Mushroom mollusks." There is text describing the four digital illustrations of invented creatures, which include the ground bog muskrat, rusty pear porcupine, devil's jumping slug, and (covered) eyelash sideband. Text on each page the left page: "Moss guardians are complete autotrophs, getting all of their energy from the sun. Spores can be found on or in their heads. They go into torpor or hibernation when water or nutrient availability is low." Text on the right page reads: "Fungi guardians all appear to be invertebrates, particularly gastropods. Thus far, I have only been able to find the guardians when fruiting, and I suspect they burrow to protect the hyphae during other times of the year."
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Seattle!! This weekend, Nov. 8–9! I'll be at @geekgirlcon.bsky.social Booth 44, right in the middle!

This is such a fun event, can't wait to see everyone and learn about all the cool things you're seeing and doing around the con. #GeekGirlCon2025
An illustration depicting a wooden frame for vendors of GeekGirlCon 2025. The logo for Mossy Stone Media is within the frame, over a botanical background. Two sea thrift flowers with bumblebees are also in frame, and to the left, a Douglas squirrel jumps down the edge of the frame. A fantasy-style map depicting Geek Girl Con's vendor and artist hall. Written over the map in purple and white is "I'll be at GeekGirlCon 2025 this weekend Nov. 8-9, #44." For emphasis, a circle is placed around Booth 44, about two-thirds of the way across the room when coming form the escalators. A line of mushrooms leads from the escalators to the booth. An illustration of Kel, the artist, with a couple of mushrooms is pointing to the booth.
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Oooh fellow roommate of a Pippin! This Pippin is too sleepy for bi pride but his heart is in the right place
Closeup on a sleeping tabby cat with white face, collar, and legs is sleeping against the arm of a person at a computer desk, the person is wearing a green robe.
October 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Thank you for all of the love #RCCC2025! The weekend turned around when my prints finally arrived, and I learned a lot for GeekGirlCon in November. Stay tuned for a short Etsy reopening between events!
A photo of a linocut print of a raccoon holding a hand-embroidered bisexual pride flag. The illustration is printed on a khaki patch made from reused cotton. The patch is on top of a birch-bark-patterned background.
September 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Last day of #RoseCityComicCon! I have three raccoon pride patches left - block print ink with embroidered embellishments #RCCC2025
September 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Great day, thank you for all the love #RoseCityComicCon - looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow! I’m going to embroider a bi raccoon and a non-binary raccoon first thing in the morning, let me know if there are any other flags you’d like to see for iron on patches! #RCCC2025
A photo of an Artist Alley booth with a black garland with white lettering that reads “Mossy Stone Media.” There are prints, posters, stickers, patches, zines, and paintings of ecology-inspired art, with an emphasis on Pacific Northwest mushrooms and squirrels. A photo of a (now sold) block print raccoon iron-on patch holding a hand-embroidered Pride flag. A photo of another raccoon in an embroidery hoop with a blank flag, ready to be stitched.
September 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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See you tomorrow, Portland! #RoseCityComicCon #RCCC2025
A recolor of the Rose City Comic Con 2025 Artist Alley map has table K48 highlighted, with a red squirrel and the artist saying Mossy Stone Media will be at RCCC.
September 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Cryptogam Cryptids is now a fully riso zine! I love how these turned out. Many thanks to @pushpullseattle.bsky.social for printing and assembly, and to everyone who bought so many from the first print run that I was able to order more. Available at #RCCC2025 and #GeekGirlCon2025
Photo of a yellow zine on a teal background with the text “Now fully riso!” The zine is titled “Field Guide to Cryptogam Cryptids,” and features a barn owl skeleton with parsley fern fronds for feathers, printed in Kelly Green and Flo Pink. The interior of the zine is printed in Kelly Green, this page features two invented animals ground bog muskrat with moss leaves for fur and a sporangium for a head, as well as a rusty peat porcupine with sphagnum moss mixed in with the quills and also a sporangium for the head. The text reads: “Mossy Mammals. Moss guardians are complete autotrophs, getting all their energy from the sun. Spores can be found on or in their heads. They go into torpor or hibernation when nutrient availability is low.” This page, also printed in green, features a devil’s jumping slug, a semislug with the bloodlike droplets of bleeding tooth fungus, as well as an eyelash sideband, a snail whose shell is replaced with spiraling cup fungi. The text reads “Mushroom Mollusks. Fungi guardians all appear to be invertebrates, particularly gastropods. Thus far, I have only been able to find the guardians when fruiting, and I suspect they burrow to protect the hyphae during other times of the year.”
September 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Happy Labor Day! Have some flying squirrel facts
September 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Tree Squirrels of the Pacific Northwest — so happy to draw squirrels again, it's been a while. Part of a larger effort to draw all PNW sciurids. Prints available at Rose City Comic Con! #RCCC2025
An illustration of seven squirrels on a conifer branch, all labeled. The title is "Tree Squirrels of the Pacific Northwest." Pictured are the American red squirrel, the Douglas squirrel, the Humboldt's and northern flying squirrels, the Western gray squirrel, as well as the introduced Eastern gray squirrel and Eastern fox squirrel.
August 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The Summer Zine Fest was so fun! Loved chatting with folks and the other artists were so so nice. Thank you so much for hosting, @outsidercomics.com! I also bought or traded for a lot of zines… my collection grows. Sorry for the folks I missed, I thought I got to everyone at the time!!
A photo of a table covered in zines from Kristel Chua/Centipede Zines, Nikki Lanka, Sully/Kaiju Cabal, Sevenish Magpies, Kami, Erika Rae Heins, Nine Goldfinches, Luvletter Studios, H. McGill, Starriko Works, Kalen Knowles/Octal Press, and Half-Baked Press. Not pictured: Mutual Aid Comix (I have their zines but forgot to put them out for this!)
August 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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In Fremont, Seattle, for the @outsidercomics.com Zinefest! Come see us up the hill from the Sunday Market, we’re off 36th!
A half-table outdoors with a chalkboard sign for Mossy Stone Media. Wire baskets contain zones and minicomics like Naturehood, Cryptogam Cryptids, and A Beginner’s Guide to Field Videography. There are also corvid patches and mushroom stickers.
August 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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It's been quite a busy summer and that's continuing into my favorite season! Come see me at the zine fest at @outsidercomics.com in Fremont this weekend, and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at Rose City Comic Con and @geekgirlcon.bsky.social later in the year.
A list of events bordered by drawings. The events are Outsider Comics Zine Fest on August 10 in Seattle, Rose City Comic Con September 5-7 in Portland, and GeekGirlCon November 8-9 in Portland. The drawings include a Douglas squirrel, a bleeding tooth fungus, and a triptych of how a slime mold, flower, and inky cap might change or receive different visitors throughout the day.
August 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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We’re getting somewhere with these black-billed magpie patches… first time printing on fabric (with Speedball) much to learn. Prepping a few for embroidered details (gotta have those shiny wings). I’ll iron the fabric next time (when I test with Caligo) but the grid was so helpful
A grid of nine block prints, an outline and a few details of a black-billed magpie looking over its shoulder, over black fabric
August 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Okay I still need to anchor it to the wall and maybe find something to put under it but I found a solution. It was either this or lil shelves with a wire running around the top perimeter of my walls
A reddish brown wooden bookcase leans against a saguaro-green wall with a mosaic of mushroom and nature-themed art, with more shelves to the right and a mushroom cat scratcher to the left. The bookcase is 4 inches deep, 3 feet wide, and 2.5 feet high. It has wooden rods that hold back books. A closer look at the book case, 2/3 full. There is an assortment of nature zines, history zines, field guides, and scientific reports.
July 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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At #seattlezinefest at the Punk Rock Flea Market in Capitol Hill til 6, it’s been so fun! #zinefest
A half-table at the Seattle Zine Fest for Mossy Stone Media, showing an assortment of minicomics, zines, and prints, with dark wooden and leaf accents and a mural in the background.
July 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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First time risograph printing covers AND binding with string? It must be #SeattleZineFest2025 time - see you tomorrow at @seattlezinefest.org in Capitol Hill! I’ll be there from 3p.m. til close (and I also have a flat print of the Naturehood cover!)
A photo of two half-page zine covers, both risograph-printed and bound with string. One zine is titled Naturehood with a scene of a forest floor city block and is printed in orchid, yellow, and green. The other is titled A Field Guide to Cryptogam Cryptids, on bright yellow paper, with a pink and green print of an owl skeleton with parsley fern feathers.
July 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Live on Twitch realizing I have 10 days left til Seattle Zine Fest and I still have to draw the rest of this naturalist zine. I spent all my free time on the cover. It's time to speedrun this thing.

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A screenshot of a Clip Studio Paint drawing of a group of organisms at different times of day. When the sun is low on the horizon in the morning, the chocolate tube slime is small, the dwarf checkermallow has a black-fronted turret bee visitor, and the shaggy mane mushroom is still growing. At noon, the slime mold is starting to rise, the flower is empty, and the mushroom is starting to turn into inky goo. In the evening, the chocolate tube slime is fully grown, a West Coast Lady visits the flower, and the mushroom is nearly entirely goo.
July 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Finally went to @catalystcafewa.bsky.social to see my acoustic panel in person! Muskoxen herds surround their young when they sense danger, and the queer community, particularly here, does an incredible job at protecting queer youth. Visit Catalyst next time you’re in Everett, they’re good people.
July 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I'm starting stream and I'm not stopping until this risograph naturalist zine cover is done, LET'S GO

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Scribbled thumbnail for zine cover Rough sketch of zine cover with lots of notes Final sketch of zine cover showing a nature neighborhood Partly inked and colored sketch of nature neighborhood, prepped for risograph printing using yellow, green, and orchid.
June 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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How do folks display zines at home? Filling up the wall space in my office and I’d like to get these out of a shoebox but bookshelves don’t work well either. Thin floating shelf with a wire to keep them in place?

None of the art in this photo is my own but not sure I can tag everyone.
An overhead photo of a couple dozen zines, minicomics, and pamphlets on an office floor. There are unhung picture frames and knickknacks leaning against a saguaro-colored wall.
June 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I've taken exactly one two-hour two-color risograph printing class which means of course I'm now planning my next print digitally thanks to a tutorial on reddit by u/fox--teeth (I say 4 here but I'm really pushing for making 3 colors work). Working more on this on stream today!
June 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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When golden hour hits the tops of the conifers just right.
Wide-angle photo of light filtering through tall conifer forest above a little forest boardwalk
June 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Live over on Twitch, planning my next riso print and zine cover! We're going to start inking the sketch today and planning out color.
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Greyscale sketch of a nature neighborhood, or a forest floor if it were a city block, with ferns and stumps, rocks and trees, and all the critters within.
June 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Bringing back this ink wash and accompanying coloring page of the Pigeon Creek watershed in Everett, WA, made for a dearly departed friend in 2020. #sciart
A greyscale ink wash from the top of a hill overlooking the Port of Everett. The drawing features the Pigeon Creek ecosystem and the wildlife within it. The stream and banks in the foreground are cross-sectioned. About 36 species are in the image, including 21 animal species. A lineart-only version of the last image. Animals include (left to right, bottom to top) long-toed salamander, American shrew mole, salmon fry, daring jumping spider, banana slug, hummingbird moth, damselfly, northern alligator lizard, chorus frog, raccoon, white-tailed deer, garter snake, squirrel, great blue heron, Anna's hummingbird, bald eagle, dark-eyed junco, Comstock's sallow, osprey, crow, goldfinch.
June 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM