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Comics made from vintage images AKA "a collaboration with the dead"
⏪ archives now go back several years! browse!!
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It was a gift
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Watch this comic being made! www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Dj...
2 Minutes to Wondermark #1371 - Comic Strip Timelapse with Author Commentary
YouTube video by David Malki !
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November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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A little bird told me there's a Part 2 to this storyline

Wondermark #1371; The Avian Informant (Part 2 of 2)

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Apronni speaks further with the little bird, who is perched on his sill. APRONNI: You’re really THE bird! The little bird who tells people things! WOW! I hear about you all the time! This is incredible! BIRD (setting a straw hat jauntily upon his little bird head): Yeah, well, I got fifty thousand more tidbits to tell people before 9PM, so… APRONNI: Is it — JUST you? ALWAYS? There isn’t a little bird corps? You’re THE little bird? BIRD: I used to have a lizard and a raccoon helping me out too, but it muddled the brand. [CUT AWAY TO: A new man, Cuthbert, addresses his coworker] CUTHBERT: ’Morning, Jerbert! A weird raccoon told me your daughter’s about to graduate from kindergarten! JERBERT: You are never to talk TO or OF my family EVER AGAIN [BACK TO SCENE] APRONNI: Sure, I can see that. APRONNI: But WHY do you go around telling people things? What’s your angle? BIRD: Right now I’m just building up a dedicated user base. I’ll probably pivot to a freemium model later
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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2 Minutes to Wondermark #1370
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November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Different approaches, same goal. Except for the other team. Their goal is usually on the opposite side

Wondermark #1576; In which the Audience participates (Part 3 of 3)

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Amberspatch and Bellowton are once again riding different steeds. Amberspatch is on a small hippo. Bellowton is sidesaddle on a very normal quadrupedal giant chicken. They continue their conversation about sports. AMBERSPATCH: I'm interested in your...RITUALS related to sports, so I talked to another fan. HE said the reason your team lost WASN'T related to the socks anyone wore, OR whether he watched on TV or listened to the radio AMBERSPATCH: According to THIS guy, the main factor was the decision to PITCH to the other team's best hitter, rather than walk him; since first base was open, it would have set up the force out for a double play. And doing so after having pulled the starting pitcher in the FIRST place, in favor of a weaker pitcher from the bullpen AMBERSPATCH: Which, in HIS view, points the finger at managerial malpractice. All made WORSE by ownership's lack of willingness to pony up for better hitters from the bottom of the lineup. BELLOWTON: SURE. Insufferable after-the-fact armchair coaches like that are a dime a dozen. AMBERSPATCH: But YOU prefer to focus on wearing the right socks and so on. BELLOWTON: Look, if the bus might be headed off the cliff anyway, I prefer having a toy steering wheel to keep my hands busy
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The key is to keep everything exactly the same. Even a minor difference could throw everything off.

Wondermark #1575; In which the Audience participates (Part 2)

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Amberspatch & Bellowton continue their ride across the plain. Amberspatch is now on a giant raccoon. Bellowton is on a camel, but the saddle is on the camel's neck. Seems possibly uncomfortable for the camel. AMBERSPATCH: So if the game goes WELL, you need to do everything exactly the same for the next one. Down to where you watch, what you wear, the snacks, everything. BELLOWTON: Well, yeah. That alchemy WORKED. It's obviously an inexact science, so the SAFEST thing to do is LIMIT the variables however possible. AMBERSPATCH: Clearly, whatever your fans did, made the team win. Meaning, whatever THEIR fans did, made them LOSE. So, won't they be trying a bunch of DIFFERENT things on their side? AMBERSPATCH: That's introducing all KINDS of new variables. BELLOWTON: PROBABLY! Why do you think we HATE THEM so much!!
October 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Weird, it plays for me! Maybe it's a browser issue? Anyway welcome to Bluesky!
September 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Really thought this phrase was going to be the breakout smash so I'm happy to hear you remember it so fondly!
A t-shirt bearing the memorable slogan ACH! IT SEEMS I HAVE ONLY PRE-WAR FJORDISH DRACHMAS
August 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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If you're a newer reader or haven't seen the whole saga -- or simply want to revisit it with me! -- start here.

I've added links below each comic where there's a reference to something that will add context.

Check it out!!!
August 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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I'm as proud of that storyline as anything I've done with Wondermark.

Now that that job has ended and I'm answerable only to myself again, I'm glad to look back on it as a reminder of how much fun all this can be creatively, given the right circumstances.
Two panels from Wondermark #1425. The veteronorfian, Sir Kel F. Finnt, is saying to the young car-riding elephant: KEL: Man, I LOVE Chick Tracts. I ever show you what I like to do to 'em? HERE, I think I happen to have my favorite one WITH me... PHANT: That's my man! Always prepared for anything! Kel has turned a Chick Tract called 'Fallen Star' into a Shrek drawing, complete with 'Donkey!!' dialogue. KEL: I turn all the people into Shrek. Give it a bit of a MAKE-OGRE. Adds a little extra...GAS to the CREATIVE TANK, I suppose you could say. PHANT: Yeah! WHAT a concept! I could use a little "fuel" myself...
August 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Sick elephants were also the theme of that year's Wondermark Calendar – which would become the last installment of the calendar series (at least so far).

A few months into 2019, I was offered a job that radically changed my working availability, and my pace of making comics would slow for a time.
A copy of the 2019 edition Wondermark Calendar, entitled EXAMINING ILL PACHYDERMS: A VETERONORFIAN FIELD GUIDE. Visible on one calendar page is an elephant suffering from 'Timid Skin'.
August 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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(My thanks to Sam for whipping up some cartoon heads of us both for this video!)

That summer of 2018, the storyline continued for months, and I put together a complete book collection that December.
A big stack of my book THE ELEPHANT OF SURPRISE
August 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM