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The Paintmonkey
@paintmonkeyart.bsky.social
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Art guy. Animals, cartoons, and visions of terrifying and satisfying karma (the last are only on the Patreon).
www.paintmonkeystudios.com
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It's the holidays! The Paintmonkey shoppe is open!

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Image of the book The Ghastly Crook Richies in front of a festive background.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The only Christopher Columbus recognized in this house wrote Gremlins & The Goonies, and directed Home Alone & Mrs. Doubtfire.
October 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I know this email was probably done by an intern or some such, but if you can't get THIS messaging right, then how do you expect to get the big ideas across?

To be clear..."Do you approve or disapprove..." is not answered with "yes or no".

@hankjohnson.house.gov
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Image of an email with the text "blahblahblah...Do you approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump has done as president? Yes No
July 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Exciting news on the way! I can't wait for tomorrow!

#Paintmonkey #ThePaintmonkey #breakingnews #staytuned
Paintmonkey cartoon character running with a large paint brush above his head.
July 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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I made something for those who need to hear it.
Cartoon of Elon and Donald as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum with the words "No one is paying us to hate you. It is...quite literally...the only thing you have ever EARNED, you absolute insufferable clowns."
March 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Q: Where DO creators get their ideas?
A picture of the character "Arseface" from the TV show "Preacher". A picture of the arseface president of the US.
March 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Weekly #OnePanelVSS (I used #snake and #literate as prompts). Let me know what story you come up with.

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A snake with reading glasses is apparently reading an open book in front of it.
March 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The weekly #OnePanelVSS (and possible Far Side cartoon). Prompt words #soup and #giraffe.

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A man eating soup at a diner with a tiny giraffe swimming in the bowl.
February 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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TBT to a thing I did last year. Your new Secretary of Health and Human Services, everybody!

#cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #hhs #RFKJr #brainworms #stupidesttimeline
Caricature of RFK Jr. with worms protruding from his head. The caption reads "RFK Jr. 202 The only candidate with built in advisors!"
February 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Tidying up the studio last night and came across a discarded drawing. Wanted to test on the back.

Need inspiration? Look no further than @stephenrbissette.bsky.social and his posts. So I tried the ink washes and gouache on toned paper by copying his Godzilla.
Godzilla drawing on toned paper in ink washes and white gouache.
February 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This week's #OnePanelVSS. My prompts were #pollute and #dress. Is it a political commentary? Who can say?

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A woman walking into a body of water with black oozing off of her dress into the water. She is surrounded by dead floating fish.
February 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The Parable of the Cookie Dragon. By the Paintmonkey. A story in four parts. #parable #eattherich #dragons #cookies
A four panel cartoon called The Parable of the Cookie Dragon. Panel 1: Once there was a dragon who loved cookies. Panel 2: And the dragon and his friends took ALL the cookies for themselves leaving none for anyone else. Panel 3: This made the hungry villagers very sad. Panel 4: So they cut all the dragon's heads off as a warning to other gluttons. The End. Panel 4 shows all the dragon heads on pikes.
February 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The #OnePanelVSS of the week! My prompts were #crayon and #disillusioned which is an incredibly odd concept to portray. Tell me your stories! #writingprompt #writingexercise

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A child sits on the floor holding one hand to her forehead while the other holds a crayon over scattered pieces of empty paper all around her.
February 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The last of my weekend toon-a-palooza. One of my wordier ideas. #politicalcartoon #editorialcartoon #cartoon #SOTH #sycophant #satire
Political cartoon showing Speaker of the House Mike Johnson as a "Useful Eunuch" doll who has no genitals because he refuses to stand up to the president.
January 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Just the unhappiest looking mf'er. Not even the cruelty gives him joy. These are all from news stories over the past week.

Oh, and now he has literal blood on his hands that he's tried to pass on to minorities and Biden and...Obama for some reason.

Apologies for the gross cyst collage.
A collage of pictures of trump looking unhappy.
January 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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2nd of my weekend toon-a-palooza. The problem with #fotus ...by the time you get an idea down...he's already done 46 more acts of heinous f*ckery.

Kudos to the best like @deadder.bsky.social, @mluckovich.bsky.social, @anntelnaes.bsky.social and the others who knock em out of the park, timely-like.
cartoon with trump caricature saying "all remote federal employees back in the office!" "No exception!" "...maybe AN exception..." while he plays golf.
January 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Went on a toon spree this weekend. Not sure what happened in the news to set it off. A mystery for the ages. More coming.

(Or support me at my Patreon and see them early with many more stuffs. Ugh. Capitalism is so dumb.)

#cartoon #politicalcartoon #politics
A big fat shark with trumps head swimming amidst text of many of the most memorable lies he's told in recent history. Text at the bottom reads: Fraud Shark A fat cowardly sea bully, if it stops lying...it does.
January 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Watching YouTube this morning about recent passings (I couldn't put my finger on one of the people in the thumbnail) on the Legacy dot com channel when suddenly...

...a wild @hogansalley.bsky.social appears!
A Bluesky post honoring the life and work of Jules Pfeiffer.
January 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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A cartoon I did after seeing a social media post about someone "ringing" their hands. This image popped up in my head and amused me greatly. A clear indicator of just how weird English can be. And this is with a different spelling! We do worse with same spellings.😂 Just linguistic chaos. #cartoon
A man with bells for hands screaming at the body horror of that. A cat jumps screeching behind him. Caption reads "PSA: THIS is what 'ringing' your hands would look like. ('Wringing' your hands means to twist together in anguish.)
January 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A little (or a lot) late posting today. Had to chauffer the wife to a doctor's appt this morning, but here is today's #OnePanelVSS courtesy of the prompts "garrulous" and "egg". #art #artprompt #cartoon

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A very happy Humpty Dumpty looking egg person sits on a bench with a phone in one hand very excitedly regaling the person sitting next to them who is eating a sandwich.
January 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Thought of this last night. Got up and started working on it immediately for today. No reason.
Two goldfish in red caps holding tickets. Angry fish says "How can he do this?!?! We paid thousands for inauguration tickets and now they moved it with no refunds?!?". The other one looking confused says "...who did what now...?". The bottom text line below the cartoon reads "How we got here."
January 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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What in the blue blazes F*CK is this?!? He's NOT president. What can he have done? He is still a private citizen until tomorrow!

And never evereverever forget...he STARTED the whole "ban Tiktok" fervor cause he got his dementia riddled feelings hurt. FOH with this crap.
Screen grab of Tiktok notice welcoming you back thanks to the efforts of "president" trump.
January 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you. #artshare

I don't do a lot of prehistoric work...but when I do, I have fun!
Mosasaurus swimming after an archelon, a giant extinct species of sea turtle
January 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Day 2 of Georgia snow. I watch from the warmth of my studio working on subversive things. Space heater. INXS and Indigo Girls and such playing. Old dog napping on blankets. Not a terrible Saturday at all.
Looking out a window at a large tree stump and street covered in snow.
January 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Happy New Year, everybody!

The "I'll do it myself" energy I'm bringing.
Cartoon of the Paintmonkey holding the scythe and kicking Father Time 2024 and pointing at Baby New Year with a barbed wire bat with nails in it. Baby New Year is running away screaming while the Paintmonkey yells after him "...and you better not start any shit either".
January 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM