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Enigma P1
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199X. Artist (not my day job). Mixed media.
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Patrisha isn't the lady's real name, but boy howdy does Patrisha really not want to try and deal with our new (ish) purchasing software that only she has the power make changes in
Comic drawn on a white index card. Daily comic for 11/17/2025. Part 1 - One of my cat-like coworkers sits in front of her computer at her desk. She scoffs at something on her screen: "Whuh- Did I resolve the problem?? ME? Are you asking if I did YOUR Job?!" Part 2 - My coworker points an accusatory finger at her screen and continues her tirade: "NO Patrisha! I'M NOT an accountant! Are YOU aware that YOU'RE an accountant? How am I supposed to do YOUR job?! ARGH!" Part 3 - The coworker slams her hands onto her keyboard and begins angry-typing which produces many a CLACKY CLACK CLACK and Clickity Click Click.
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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I did, as a matter of fact, jinx us. I drew this pretty early in the day, y'know cuz it was QUIET, but shit really hit the fan about an hour before the end of my day.

I'll be more careful using the Q-word next time
Comic drawn on a white index card. Daily comic for 11/14/2025. Single part comic. I'm sitting weirdly at my desk in my office chair with my feet on the seat of the chair. I turn to P3 and say "Y'ever think it's too quiet?" Close up of P3's plate helm. P3 "Well now you've cursed us both."
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Pancakes.
Comic drawn on a pink index card. Daily comic for 11/13/2025. Part 1 - I'm on the phone with P5. P5: "Remember that convo we had the other day about cooking kindness? Today's World Kindness Day. What are you cooking?" I contemplate for a moment. I then perk up and say "Pancakes." Part 2 - P5: "... What are pancakes a metaphor for?" I reply emphatically: "Pancakes." In smaller text: "For my mom."
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Once a cat decides to do something, you cannot make it change its mind. You can only change reality AROUND the cat.
Now I must fix the draft in the kitchen window.
Comic drawn on an orange index card. Daily comic for 11/12/2025. Part 1 - I'm clambering up the kitchen counter. The kitchen counter has a sink in the middle of it and a large window behind the sink. My mom's cat is in his special bed on the kitchen floor, complaining: "I'm chilly." P1: "Y'know, if you slept in LITERALLY any other room, you wouldn't have this problem." Part 2 - My mom's cat intentionally looks old and weary. "Oh woe is me. I'm a frail, haggard old man..." Part 3 - I'm on top of the counter now, almost falling into the sink while my mom's cat is still in his bed looking morose. P1: "I can't put a tarp on this one y'know?" Part 4 - I'm pretty much in the sink now, crouching in front of the window. P1: "But nooo. I'm standing in the sink cuz you won't use any of your other beds you frickin dildo." Part 5 - Mom's cat looks unimpressed.
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I tend to have a lot of leftover anger after doing my daily civic duty, and I'm trying to channel that into something nice, cuz it's just a lot of energy that I need to do something with
Comic drawn on a pink index card. Daily comic for 11/11/2025. Part 1 - I wheel a wheelbarrow full of "Political BS" and "Hate" logs towards a bonfire and dump it into the fire. Part 2 - I stand on the left side of the fire of "Anger" watching it burn. P5 stands on the opposite side of the fire, and asks "Such a huge fire. What are you going to do with it?" Part 3 - The fire of "ANGER" blazes between P5 and I. I proclaim "I'm going to cook kindness! As much as I can! An give it to everyone I can!" P5: "That's rather sweet." P1: "I mean, why let it go to waste?"
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Your head's got a bunch of organs in it
Comic drawn on a white index card. Daily comic for 11/10/2025. Part 1 - I'm slumped in my office chair speaking to P3. P1: "So this new doctor said that my problem's all in my head." P3 says: "What?! Are you fucking s-" Part 2 - Like a little shit, I interrupt, "One of my glands more specifically!" P3: "You little shit."
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Having ADHD is like having permanently lowered inhibitions with no filter, ESPECIALLY once the meds wear off.

Hmmm... I shouldn't share this information with mom. Hey, let's tell mom. No, that's not what I want to do. Too late!
Comic drawn on a pink index card. Daily comic for 11/06/2025. Part 1 - Mom is chatting with me as I cut vegetables in the kitchen. Mom: "And the food processor died, but it came back to life-" I interrupt: "Y'wanna what also died recently, but didn't come back to life?" Mom: "Sure." Me: "My first sex toy." Part 2 - Mom's face says she's not amused, but otherwise makes no comment. Part 3 - I look up from what I was doing, and apologize: "I'm so sorry. I've been trying not to say that all day." Mom: "I don't care."
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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This is The People's Steven. He's a good boy who has decided that he lives at 3 adjacent houses all at once where my mom works. His owner could not convince him otherwise.
This dog is a man of the people. His love cannot be contained in a single backyard!!!
Comic drawn on a yellow index card. Daily comic for 11/05/2025. Single part comic. The caption reads "The People's Steven." Below the caption is an image of a smiling dog with its tongue sticking out of its mouth and folded triangle ears. I do not know what type of dog this is.
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Keeping my furry friends warm as the months get colder.
It'd be a lot easier if this ding dong cat didn't insist on sleeping in the kitchen so he can yell at anyone who enters to feed him.
Comic drawn on an orange index card. Daily comic for 11/04/2025. Part 1 - One corner of a small kitchen is shown, with a cat sleeping on a small bed against the wall. The caption reads "This cat refuses to sleep outside of the kitchen at night, even though there are warmer beds elsewhere, he prefers the kitchen." Part 2 - The caption reads "There's not much room in the kitchen, but I crammed another bed in there." Shown below is a covered cat bed with a cave-like top and a heat reflective pad placed inside it. Part 3 - The caption reads "He liked it." The cat is curled up in the bed described, sound asleep on top of the heat reflective pad.
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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This is how I realized that my cat can differentiate between weekdays, and the weekend.
Pants are scary, but only on the weekend.

What's the takeaway here?
My cat is smart and I should go out more often.
Comic drawn on a white index card. Daily comic for 11/03/2025. The caption reads "My cat is afraid of my pants, but only on the weekends." Part 1 - The caption reads "Monday-Friday." I'm in my room getting dressed and putting on pants in front of my cat who is sleeping on a bed on the shelf. Part 2 - The caption reads "Saturday or Sunday." My cat who is asleep suddenly wakes up and sees PANTS. The horrid PANTS are reflected in her eyes. Part 3 - My cat slinks off of her bed on the shelf and into a nearby box as I'm getting dressed. "NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo." I say "Sweetie, you're not going to the vet. I'm just going outside for once." She is unconvinced and hides in a box because pants are scary. Only her eyes can be seen.
November 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I'm pretty happy about the amount of people I saw in Halloween costumes at work today.
Happy halloween!
Comic drawn on an orange index card. Daily comic for 10/31/2025. Part 1 - I'm dressed as a pirate sitting at a table. My boss drops a bag of macarons on the table. Boss says sympathetically, "Sorry, I couldn't find anything else." Part 2 - With one foot on the table, I raise the gluten-free macarons above my head in joy as radiant light from the sky illuminates me. BOSS remembered! Part 3 - A collection of Halloween costumes that my coworkers wore at work. Low Effort Super Hero: A male betta fish-like coworker holds a cup of coffee as he wears a simple T-shirt with DC's the Flash's logo on it. Fluorophores: My axolotl-like coworker, one of my cat-like coworkers, and P3 wear headbands with model molecule bits stuck to them representing a fluorescent antibody. Druid in a Meeting: One of my cat-like coworkers is in a meeting on her computer wearing a headset. I'm Pirate 1 and P6 is Pirate 666. I say "Oops." as I realize we have chosen the same type of costume. P6: "Huh." Queen Vampire plus Bat Minion: My horse-like coworker is dressed up as a vampire queen with a fancy collar and crescent earring. She is holding hands with another one of my cat-like coworkers who is dressed up as a bat. Bonus comic on a gray sticky note. My plant-like coworker says "I'm not dressed up, But I am fully dressed!" He is, indeed fully dressed.
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Been having a rough time lately, but the abandoned orchid I've been watching over has two new sprouts!!!
I'm happy that the plant has survived as long as it has since it was abandoned by someone in the break room. It's been a month I think.
Comic drawn on a green index card. Daily comic for 10/29/2025. Part A. A messy pencil sketch of my work lunch room. I am the focal point of the picture depicted as a messy silhouette of sharp pencil lines. On the far corner of the left hand side of the lunchroom is a window with a messily drawn potted plant on the windowsill. Comic drawn on a green index card. Daily comic for 10/29/2025. Part B. A messy pencil sketch of the profile of my face as I'm walking past the potted plant on the windowsill. It shifts into a lighter pencil sketch with slightly more organized lines and a cheerful expression as I notice the potted plant is still alive and it has new stem sprouts. The poor abandoned office plant lives!!! Picture of a somewhat sad looking orchid perched on a windowsill doing its best to survive. It has two new sprouts of what I assume are stems.
October 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I asked them which fluorophores they were, and they told me "SHHHHH! We don't have enough bits to make GFP, and DAPI's boring!"
Incidentally, they did not have enough bits to make DAPI either.
Comic drawn on a yellow index card. Daily comic for 10/28/2025. Single part comic. Two of my coworkers are at their desk doing arts and crafts with headbands and bits of molecule models. My axolotl-like coworker and P3, who sits at their desk behind them are wearing headbands with molecules sticking out of them. One of my cat-like coworkers sits next to my axolotl-like coworker and giggles to herself as she fidgets with a headband. I ask, "What are you guys doing?" My axolotl-like coworker cheerfully responds "We're fluorescently labeled proteins!"
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I like to make sure that my cats are just as prepared for the cold as I am.
Yes, they do already have triple the amount of beds in the house that the humans have.
Yes, I will find places for more.
Comic drawn on a blue index card. Daily comic for 10/27/2025. Part 1 - A cold wind blows past me, forcing my hair back and away from my face. It's getting colder out. Part 2 - But I've prepared! I patched some pants! Now I can layer up! I'm displaying two pairs of jeans, one with a cat and star patches on it, and the other with floral patches on it. Bought new socks. With patterns! Teeth Ghosts Forest. Reflective heating cat pads. My cat is stretched out upon one of the cat pads enjoying her body heat reflected back at her. P2 says, "We have like 20. I say "We should get more."
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Here's the other reason I haven't been drawing this week. Fuckin ate it on the asphalt. Left a small blood trail to the front door.
This happened Tuesday after work. It's only now, on frickin FRIDAY afternoon that everything is scabbed over enough to draw again.
Comic drawn on a blue index card. Daily comic for 10/24/2025. Part 1 - Earlier this week... "Oh no! Rain! I should make it home quick if I run!" A pair of boots is depicted in the lower left corner. One boot has its shoe laces untied. I start to run, step on my shoelaces and fall flat on my face on the asphalt with a loud "SPLAT!" Part 2 - P2 opens the door to find me holding both of my palms up bloodied and speckled with gravel. My left elbow is tore open and bleeding profusely, and the bottom of my mask is cracked and the chin is dripping blood.
October 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I didn't DISLOCATE my shoulder, I merely misaligned it. It's fiiiiiiiine

Going into another big project this week. Going to be busy till after Wednesday.
Comic drawn on a blue index card. Daily comic for 10/30/2025. Part 1 - I'm working at a lab bench with a busted headphone and fucked up wrist. A glass container slips out of my gloved hand. Part 2 - As the glass container falls onto the floor with a loud CRACK!, my shoulder gives a very jarring POP! Part 3 - P6, who has his back to me standing at a lab bench behind me, turns his head a bit and asks me "Did you just dislocate your shoulder?" "No." I reply as I stand one shoulder slumped lower than the other, radiating pain. The glass container and its contents are smashed on the floor.
October 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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I understand why we have unannounced fire drills, but given WHERE I work and how scarce funding now is, I think it is a TERRIBLE idea. They could at least tell us what day to watch out for...

Emails were sent.
Comic drawn on a blue index card. Daily comic for 10/16/2025. Part 1 - An alarm blares in the background, "This is a fire drill. Please exit the building." Below, I'm at a time sensitive, critical step of the third day of a, like, $10,000 experiment. My hair is tied back properly and I'm wearing gloves and a lab coat. Part 2 - The alarm continues to blare. "This is a fire drill. Please EXIT THE BUILDING." There's a close up of my face behind the alarm text. This is the face of a person who needs to make an important decision.
October 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Wasn't able to draw my dailies today, but still managed to find the time to draw a little bit.
One lil fairy cat turned into me drawing some facial expressions of my actual cat

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Picture out of my sketchbook. One little fairy cat drawing turned into a not so little fairy cat drawing which turned into an array of fairy cats expressions that mirror expressions from my actual cat. Beneath each facial expression is a quote for my cat. Weird feline grimace: "Mrrgeh." Feline expression of unknown identity, probably just my cat being an alien: "Mrrmp. Mrr." Feline expression of 'I have suddenly seen something interesting': "Brrt!" Feline expression of non-amusement: "..."
October 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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And here's some bonus stuff from things that actually happened today.
Comic drawn on a white index card. Daily comic for 10/13/2025. Part 1 - Morning. A robotic coworker is throwing papers up in the air shouting, "Gah! Since when has today been a holiday?! I have no childcare!!!" Part 2 - Noon. A cat-like coworker says "I 'frew up. Perfume lady was in the bathroom. Pretty sure I'm allergic." Part 3 - Evening. I'm peeking out behind the shower curtain as mom excitedly says "Look! Look! I found a snake on the bookshelf!" holding a tiny garden snake in her hand.
October 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Normally I try to keep my daily comics to stuff that has happened on the current day, but yesterday was so much fun!
Comic drawn on a white index card. Daily comic for 10/13/2025. Part A. Part 1 - Went to the Ren Faire yesterday with friends. I'm in the midst of a gaggle of nerds dressed up in various costumes. In the bottom left hand corner you see a close up of the fancy hat on my head. The caption reads "I bought a hat." Part 2 - Saw some cool people. Too many to draw actually. An elderly shroom fairy. She's an old lady with a giant mushroom hat and little butterfly wings. Tall faun lady. She is a tall slender lady wearing deer horns and ears, a deer tail, and a mini skirt with tights patterned like spotted deer legs and special shoes that make her feet look like hooves. With the shoes. She's really tall even without them. Blue deer furry. They are a blue and white deer with large anime-like eyes on the head of the costume and hearts in its ears. Part 3 - Pickle Pirate. He's a pirate pushing a cart full of pickles in green ice bins selling them for $3. He has a giant green plume on his pirate hat and a pickle-shaped flask on his waist. Dame Whatshername who beat the shit outta everyone in the free-for-all. She was very punchy. She is a small plate armor clad knight with an angry looking helm and a blue plume attached to the back of it. She is raising a slender pole with a small hatchet head on the end of it above her head. She is drawn again below using her gauntlets to punch another night in their helmet. Comic drawn on a white index card. Daily comic for 10/13/2025. Part B. The caption reads: "The coolest though, were these two: A beautifully dressed lady in all gold and cream. Matching from head to toe. And her beau..." There is a pretty lady dressed in a Victorian dress with a corset and a small purse hung over one arm holding a lace parasol in her gloved hand. The caption continues: "... Mr. Banana and his pink toad purse. And tiny pink toad keychain." Mr. Banana is dressed in a full body banana suit with his face poking at the top he's laughing and wearing sunglasses. In one of his arms clad in a black morpho suit, is a toad-shaped purse wearing a small hat with a smaller toad keychain attached to it.
October 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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You learn something new every day.
Comic drawn on a pink index card. Daily comic for 10/10/2025. Part 1 - My coworker is showing me her phone screen. The caption reads "Look at this text I just got." The text preview from 2 minutes ago says "it's your lucky day! get a vag that tastes like a fruit basket for FREE..." The rest of the text preview is cut off. I say "Wow. A whole basket..." Part 2 - My coworker looks back at her phone and says "I'm going to look up this company. This text looks like a scam... What's a yoni? I'm afraid to look it up..." I reply "I'm not." Part 3 - I read the search results off my phone to my coworker who is cringing. The text in the search box reads "What is yoni" I ramble off snippets of what I see on screen: "symbol of the goddess... a yoni massage is a tantric experience... ...vulva, seat of femininity and Supreme spiritual power."
October 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Luckily, I was not caught hiding the skeleton, as my coworker came in immediately after I walked away from the hiding spot.
October is truly the month for mischief!
Comic drawn on an orange index card. Daily comic for 10/09/2025. Part 1 - Two of my co-workers wander off, leaving me sitting at my desk. The caption reads "Off to breakfast" with an arrow pointing at my co-workers. Part 2 - I peer around the corner and watch to make sure both my co-workers have left through the door. Part 3 - I whip my head around vigorously looking to make sure there is no one else here. The caption reads "No one's here." Part 4 - I quickly spring up and grab my backpack out of the cabinet above my desk, laughing as I pull out a small plastic skeleton from my bag. "Nyeh heh heh!" Part 5 - I zip around the office looking for a good spot to hide the skeleton. "Nope. Mmm... oh! Here's good!" Part 6 - I stand smugly with my hands on my hips laughing to myself. "ehehehehehe So sneaky. Much stealth." Part 7 - I look over to realize that P3 has walked into the office, and was watching me laugh by myself. Drawing on a light pink sticky note. There is a scribble of a black skeleton sitting triumphantly in a wreath of sticks with its arms raised above its head. In the upper right corner there are icons indicating the co-workers who found the skeleton first and the one coworker who found it second. Second place coworker is very happy. The caption reads "It was found later, at the end of the day twice, and given a new seat of honor in the Halloween wreath."
October 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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My preorder of CAVEMATE came in today!!!! 💜💜💜
I love these two!!! Their relationship is so cute! And Telen is a PURPLE. SPIDER. Can't ask for more than that.

I highly recommend checking out this comic by @darkchibishadow.bsky.social if you have the chance!
A comic book by the wonderful DCS. The comic book is titled CAVEMATE, and the cover depicts an underground scene of a giant purple drider (spider humanoid) and a human adventure holding a basket of vegetables. Laid on top of the comic book are two stickers of the same characters on the comic book cover, and a keychain of the purple drider eating a carrot.
October 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Tomorrow I think I will smuggle in a 1ft tall skeleton and see how long it takes someone to find it.
Comic drawn on a yellow index card. Daily comic for 10/08/2025. Single part comic. One of my coworkers is holding up a small plastic skull in her hands, and asks "P1, what is this?" "Oh!" I say, "You found one of them!" Behind me and off screen, three of my other co-workers shout "*ONE* OF THEM?!"
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I have learned the error of my ways when it comes to online shoe shopping.
One of the many things I learned is that "w" does not always mean "wide." Sometimes it means "women's."
I also learned that it didn't matter because I bought the wrong size anyways.
Comic drawn on a yellow index card. Daily comic for 10/07/2025. Single part comic. One of my female coworkers is drawn in the center of the image, poses dramatically in her lab coat with one leg up, planting a very cool tech wear boot on the office desk. Two of our other coworkers applaud in the background, shouting "Huzzah!" The caption reads "And Lo, Cinderella was found, after a two day search, clad in a lab coat. Her small stature earning her the unwisely purchased non-refundable boots of incorrect size."
October 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM