The Pajamarai
thepajamarai.bsky.social
The Pajamarai
@thepajamarai.bsky.social
Illustrations for revelry and revolution
by Nick Velardi

Create & Evolve
👏🦅🍆🧊⛓️‍💥🇵🇸 - Hannah Einbinder
September 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
July 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
New Jersey! Democracy happens IN THE PRIMARY. Don’t miss your chance to tell the party which way YOU want it to move forward. Tomorrow I’m voting for progress, equity, and radical empathy. I’m voting for Mayor Ras Baraka.

#njprimaryelection #voteNJ #rasbaraka #fuckice #fighttheempire
June 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
“The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle.”

Look at Los Angeles and be honest with yourself about what you see. Tyranny won’t win. We’re with you, LA. #abolishice #fightfascism #resist
June 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I’m something of a Star War myself.

#starwarsday #maythe4thbewithyou
#Neel #Chewbacca #darkRey #Ahsoka
May 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The MAGA horde is disappearing people, slashing services millions need, and mocking people’s suffering with such unabashed glee that it feels like the most dramatic symbol of rebellion might just be… Jesus Christ?

This May Day, remember the workers who don’t look, love, pray, or speak like you.
May 2, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Barely into my 37th birthday, and I just learned that one of my all-time illustration heroes Robert McGinnis died last month at 99. He was making art during WWII and still painting gorgeous work in recent years. Clearly, Nazis come and go, but artists endure and fill the world with hope. RIP Bob. 🎨🖌️
April 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I made this for Valentine’s Day 3 years ago, just before our 2nd child was born. Now more than ever, I want us all to fight for a world that she and her big sister can grow up in where love is valued above everything else. Where real love, that is generous and kind and welcoming is what drives us.
February 16, 2025 at 5:54 AM
That’s the kind of “use our powers for good” thought I had when I imagined Gritty leading us to overthrow the fascists back in 2020.

Well past time to revisit that idea, methinks.
February 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
On the latest episode of Harley Quinn, Brainiac assesses the perfection rates of various cities on Earth, discovering that Metropolis is the most advanced with the most intelligent people at only 20% its max potential.

But look who else made the list!

#negative67 #morelike69 #GOBIRDS
February 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This was ALWAYS the plan. Biden? Trump? Doesn’t matter.

Level Gaza. Displace the survivors. Build mansions on the bones of murdered Palestinians. Biden & Bibi dropped the bombs. Trump & Bibi will build the hotels.

Capitalism. Is. A horror show.

I have to believe people will start to wake up.
February 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
In 3 days, the EAGLES come home to roost.

GOBIRDS GO BIRDS GO BIRDS
#GOBIRDS

#philadelphiaeagles #superbowlLIX #flyeaglesfly
February 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Amid the horrific #ICEraids taking place across the country and shameless photo opps of Gestapo like Kristi Noem, I see a lot of publications taking care to show only ICE agents’ backs.

I think if you round up people by the thousands in a racist terror campaign, we should all see who you are.
January 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
“There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us… The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness. It is never more alive than when we sleep… If I could do it again, I’d wake up early and be fighting these bastards from the start. FIGHT THE EMPIRE!”

#Andor #StarWars #Rebel #Resist
January 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Time for another installment of using cheeky smut to sell the virtues of anti-racist, anti-capitalist collaboration. Time to fight some fascist fires.

#illustration #socialism #antifascist #pinups
January 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Just a little drawing of GI Robot for no particular reason.

#creaturecommandos #punchnazis
January 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
When “Law” becomes cruel and intolerant, it’s our duty to be criminally kind and inclusive.

No one cannot erase trans and non-binary people from existence. They’ve always been here and always will be. We should all be accomplice to breaking whatever laws the fascists think will change that.
#resist
January 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
As we collectively prepare for the fight, it’s important to name our enemy and the name is Capitalist Oligarchy.

I’m going to use my love for making kitschy poster art to unashamedly celebrate and advocate for progressive socialist action and ideals. Introducing Proletariat Pin-ups!

#socialistart
January 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Let them thunder, for I am lightning!”

Ororo illustration in 2 iconic outfits. I’m partial to the John Byrne black with the cape. That’s a goddess of the elements right there. Inspired by the incredible X-Men 97 series last year.

#storm #xmen97 #ororomunroe #comicbook #mutant #goddess #superhero
January 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
First post…

I come to this new blue horizon seeking those who make things and appreciate others who make things, so here’s something I made.

This is one of those sketches I made some time last year but never posted online. Bluesky Exclusive I guess. Look! There’s even a butterfly! #firstpost
January 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM