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2021

Jan 13This is where I am mentally: graffiti sharks

2020

Dec 30Come for the moon, stay for the bones
Dec 9A pleasant enough ambition
Dec 2Everyone loves pie
Nov 25The social panopticon
Nov 18Anything can consume you
Nov 4The center will hold in me
Oct 28Why be angry when you can be painfully human
Oct 21Reality is unclear at best
Oct 14The shadow of a waxwing manifesting positivity
Oct 7Bobcats really do climb saguaros, so in some ways, the lie here is mine
Sep 30The earth itself is fiercely private
Sep 23Gusev
Sep 16Life is full of potentially weird choices
Sep 9So real it’s scary
Aug 26Putting the fab in pre-fabricated
Aug 19Being a ghost’s not so scary if you’re already haunted
Aug 12Choose the name we will answer to
Aug 5I valued your opinion until you disagreed with me
Jul 29Insistent on consistency
Jul 22Scream in your heart, scream in your mouth
Jul 15Inner beauty, inner ghosts
Jul 8Life of the mind of the eel
Jul 1There shall be no un-knowing
Jun 24The void stares into us
Jun 17Vomit yourself into the world, eternally
Jun 10Figure out which fire is burning
Jun 3Justice for George Floyd, or there is justice for no one
May 27Slithering sloth skeleton of summer
May 20The morning welcomes miracles
May 13It looks like this peacock is made out of bones, just go with it
May 6In fact I can think of many things that could be in space
Apr 29Fall together to fall apart
Apr 22Don’t tell me about your tiresome physical laws
Apr 15It’s all connected, man
Apr 8For better or worse
Apr 1This is the wrong way to pass food back and forth right now
Mar 25The map is not the scare-itory
Mar 18The gray goose knows no doom
Mar 11Practice makes perfect
Mar 4Universal precaution
Feb 19I want to believe, but I don’t know what
Feb 12Unless they’re undead
Feb 5Know your own strength, sometimes at least
Jan 29Stay sharp
Jan 22Don’t be afraid to branch out
Jan 15What I love about you is that you would never think ill of me
Jan 8This is probably not what people mean when they say they want to be in the moment
Jan 1Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you

2019

Dec 11The expectation of perpetual joy
Dec 4Gaze into the self, if you dare
Nov 27Dip in
Nov 20The future, the past, and with any luck the present, too
Nov 13Apple season is no time for moping
Nov 6The squeaky wheel warns you of its ominous approach
Oct 30So committed it’s scary
Oct 23All Butter Power Hour
Oct 16It Follows
Oct 2No one expects the frogpocalypse
Sep 18Above and below
Aug 28Dividing lines
Aug 21Just bear with it
Aug 14Atomic fawn
Aug 7Boom shaboom
Jul 31Always define your terms
Jul 24The accidental prose poem that follows an afternoon snack
Jul 17Flight plans
Jul 3Personal slights, slightly personal
Jun 26It’s ok to keep some things to yourself
Jun 5Not a trick question
May 29Go with your gut
May 22Nap ferociously
May 15Moving forward one second at a time, every second throughout time
May 1The world rebels
Apr 24Sometimes it’s nice to be part of something
Apr 17We’ll keep it boxed up
Apr 3Stay in school
Mar 20Get by with a little help from a miraculous swarm
Mar 13Captain’s log
Mar 6What about secret friends?
Feb 27Life comes at you fast, snow comes at you pretty slow
Feb 20Verily bearily
Feb 13Perhaps subscribe to a different newspaper
Feb 6Take it one step at a time
Jan 30Surprise, surprise, mirror surprise (how many hauntings are there inside?)
Jan 23Your friendship gives me life (points)
Jan 16Fat cats and meditations
Jan 9I’ve heard javelinas will eat your jack-o-lanterns, but ours always melt in the heat, so I can neither confirm nor deny
Jan 2Quick as a camera flash

2018

Dec 19I know your face from memory
Dec 12Sometimes you even surprise yourself
Dec 5Courting the unknown
Nov 14The page only turns one way
Nov 7Good witch
Oct 24The ballad of Alan, Pamela, Herb, and Lori
Oct 17Shine on you crazy enchanted witch lights
Sep 26The amiable pig and his ghost eyes: a love story
Sep 19Hope is spooky
Sep 12This one goes out to my fellow skincare obsessives
Sep 5Strudel
Aug 29Always room for criticism
Aug 22Not with a bang but with, damnit Larry get your hands off my stuff
Aug 15Who’s that casting devious stares in my direction?
Aug 8I should never have gotten you that life, the universe, and everything teething set
Aug 1Remember that raccoon that climbed up an office building in, I think, Minnesota?
Jul 25In which I am a fortune cookie or a book of aphorisms
Jul 18I feel fine
Jul 11Bursting the internal thermometer
Jul 4Writing history
Jun 27A little bit louder and a little bit cursed
Jun 20Hand in hand with the multiverse
Jun 6Kid looks good in a hat, what can I say
May 30Like a caterpillar in a chrysalis, our minds are becoming butterflies (or they’re melting, anyway)
May 23You don’t have to be an alien to be mystified by life on Earth
May 16When Martin comes, tell him that I couldn’t wait
May 9The multiverse is a stew of missed opportunities
May 2I already ate a lot of cake but I wouldn’t turn down some really good gingerbread
Apr 25It’s a magical mystery tour and it’s waiting to take you away
Apr 18Some of the best friendships are unexpected?
Apr 11Let’s be honest, bodies are gross, but brains are probably grosser
Apr 4Make a miracle, any miracle
Mar 28All strung out on your abundance
Mar 21Dave said a hawk flew into our window the other day and dropped a dead dove and then flew haughtily away
Mar 7What’s really inside me? Is it a muffin?
Feb 28According to my dog, balloons move with an unearthly and terrifying grace
Feb 21I thought about calling this comic “Sisy-puss” but that seemed like a bit much
Feb 14Born anew into this world of struggle
Feb 7Sometimes Dave just opens random cabinets in our house and hopes they will have cake in them (they don’t)
Jan 31Kitty in a bag
Jan 24Sometimes you just want to draw Michelangelo bears
Jan 17Time traveling with each tick of the second hand
Jan 10Foucault knew a thing or two about making wishes
Jan 3Disco dog

2017

Dec 27Semi-Poe
Dec 20I feel a strong urge to EXPLAIN THE PUN here but I am resisting it
Dec 13For example, if you thought the man was the aggrieved party in “Cat Person” I humbly invite you to get right with yourself
Dec 6We are all tender gluttons for punishment (and there are a lot of words that rhyme with “buttons”)
Nov 29Now I’ll never sleep again, because sleep doesn’t exist, and I don’t exist, and nothing is real
Nov 15Sometimes these comics just write themselves
Nov 8Leap the abyss, which is full of strawberries, too
Nov 1Joys & concerns
Oct 25I was saying “Boo-urns”
Oct 18Here is one good reason (among many) not to touch women without permission: you might activate an unholy magic
Oct 11What was the password, though?
Oct 4Yes, this heroic chipmunk is probably on a crash course with the sun
Sep 27Dave wanted me to draw a road runner this week but I think ostriches are funnier for this particular concept
Sep 20Did you know it’s not “one-upSmanship”? I did not
Aug 23Doom hubris
Aug 9More than one way to skin a hairless cat
Aug 7Lamprey323
Aug 7Lamprey323
Aug 7Lamprey323
Aug 2Figuratively, maybe?
Jul 26Society is not polite, so why should I be?
Jul 12No regard/no self-preservation instinct
Jul 5Yes, most stones are magic stones (but you don’t want to make that mistake more than once)
Jun 28Please trust that this comic is a political commentary
Jun 21You can get used to almost anything
Jun 14Don’t tell me what to love
Jun 7I should emphasize that I didn’t remember it was going to be our anniversary when I drew this comic
May 24Have you?
May 17Not trying to be a downer, but…
May 10Throw this poor dog a bone
May 3Sorry in advance for any comic/blog post tonal dissonance
Apr 26Gumdrop, lemon drop, snowdrop, sugar
Apr 19Aloft as heck
Apr 13Rude, puppy
Apr 5Birds can be awfully catty
Mar 29🎶 Someday I’ll draw really beautiful fire with only grayscale markers, just you wait 🎶
Mar 22We all need a more perfect rest
Mar 15Stop saying that, Carl
Mar 8Love completely
Mar 1I also like cheese
Feb 22See also: animals with accessories, a running theme
Feb 15Don’t cross the laser beams, don’t cross the laser streams
Feb 8Crocs, they’re just, like, jerks
Feb 1Indeed, history has its eyes on all of us
Jan 25Simple pleasures, complicated other feelings
Jan 18The world is for us all
Jan 11Fight the powers that be (or at least critically engage with them)
Jan 4Let’s try to keep the wheel turning

2016

Dec 28I guess these are year-end reflections, jeez.
Dec 21You do you
Dec 7I meant to give these snakes dark eyes, but I forgot, so they have creepy blank eyes, you’re welcome
Nov 30You almost never know what will happen next, really
Nov 23Hold out a hand
Nov 16Time to grow
Nov 9Aftermath
Nov 2Modern dating, I’ll never understand it
Oct 26#neverberenstain
Oct 19God help and forgive me
Oct 12Opinionated
Oct 5These are the first days of fall
Sep 28Bad first date comics
Sep 7know yourself
Aug 31Here piggy piggy, there piggy piggy, everywhere an infallible, ineffable, omnipresent piggy piggy
Aug 24They don’t appreciate it, but they respect its prominence on the open market
Aug 16Well that explains our radically differing concepts of decorum
Aug 10Part 13 of 13
Aug 3Part 12 of 13
Jul 27Part 11 of ???
Jul 21Part 10 of ???
Jul 13Part 9 of ???
Jul 6Part 8 of ???
Jun 29Part 7 of ??? (but we’re getting closer to the end!)
Jun 22Part 6 of ???
Jun 15Part 5 of ???
Jun 8Part 4 of ???
Jun 1Part 3 of ???
May 25Part 2 of ???
May 18Part 1 of ???
May 11Really dark or just decent perspective, depending on how you look at it.
May 4Either this is a sweet comic about beloved difference or a cautionary tale about negging, you decide
Apr 27Still no use for the emergency bunker
Apr 13I am science
Apr 6I told Dave this was an AWP comic and he said “Oh I thought it was a life comic” which, yes, also.
Mar 29See you at the bookfair, friend-os
Mar 23Sweet summer child
Mar 17Stop and smell the anything
Mar 9Winds of change
Mar 2Where were you when I was new?
Feb 24Be your best self
Feb 17WWII flying aces
Feb 10Five o’clock somewhere
Feb 3Never asked to be born, but here I am
Jan 27Get it while it’s hot
Jan 20Don’t we all?
Jan 13Out of the walls, up from the floorboards, down from the ceiling, through the cracks in your crackerbox
Jan 6No need to lay any reality about the behavior of ostriches on me, thanks

2015

Dec 23Yes, you.
Dec 16Put nothing in your pipe and do not smoke it
Dec 9Probably a good time to emphasize the author/comic frog divide
Dec 2Half your skin turns to fire, half to ice, which is also great and would suffice
Nov 25Thankful words in strange times
Nov 18Taking bets
Nov 11Good golly gosh
Nov 4Good reflexes
Oct 28Reasonable confusion, All Hallows’ edition
Oct 21The forest is boo-tiful this time of year
Oct 15Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Sep 30Shine light where you may
Sep 23By the way, did you know that Halloween is coming?
Sep 9He really does have beautiful eyes
Sep 2Open to suggestions about what was going to happen to the eyes
Aug 26Actually there’s a slide at the top
Aug 19Slow moves
Aug 12Why don’t you come along?
Aug 5Welcome, welcome, welcome
Jul 29Don’t be alarmed by the unholy beauty
Jul 22Beary, beary close
Jul 15The future beats in your chest
Jun 30My self-esteem is based mostly on my own internal rocket fuel
Jun 24The writer’s life
Jun 17Feather, every feather
Jun 10There are infinite sides to every spherical story and you’re a jerk in every one
May 27Yes, and
May 20De-center, decanter, decadent, deadly
May 13Super helpful advice. No, really stellar.
May 6Why not both?
Apr 29Under the surface, under the skin, inside the bone, let’s all hop on the Magic Schoolbus
Apr 22Strut and quiver
Apr 8What even?
Apr 1Pick your trope
Mar 25Some more of my favorite things
Mar 18Clear your mind
Mar 11Let the boundaries break themselves
Mar 4Follow your heart, follow gravity, follow no one
Feb 25Go, kid, go
Feb 18I could just eat you up.
Feb 11The dapper anthropomorphic lion of your dreams.
Feb 4Do you know what’s best?
Jan 28Welcome to your new reality, where you will hum “Do the Twist” constantly and never stop, you’re welcome.
Jan 21Power stoats
Jan 14Dear honey
Jan 7Stating the obvious

2014

Dec 31They stay where they are even as the world turns.
Dec 17Incidentally, only one of those three things ever really happens here
Dec 10The [ ] in [ ] falls mainly on the [ ].
Nov 25Multitudes of all kinds
Nov 19The sun just looks so small to my tiny, human eyes.
Nov 12And we ride with them.
Oct 29We’ve all got something to give.
Oct 21Retrospective #3
Oct 15Retrospective #2
Oct 8Retrospective #1
Sep 24idk, maybe.
Sep 17No, no, go on. Why would I mind?
Sep 10It’s nice to know you care
Sep 3Half my thoughts, at minimum
Aug 27Would that it was half so easy.
Aug 20Untamed shrew
Aug 13It wants you.
Aug 6He’s a proponent, is what he’s saying.
Jul 30Let’s be honest, they’re all the worst
Jul 23It’ll shake you up
Jul 16It helped to read a lot of Calvin and Hobbes (Transmogrifier for the win)
Jul 9My thought is that love of baby animals is a part of the Garden of Eden that God forgot to retcon after the Fall.
Jul 2Luckily, the opportunity comes up a lot.
Jun 25Maybe the OKC profile name “agent of doom” was a hint
Jun 18No judgement
Jun 11On unbeing
Jun 4Do the right thing
May 28An itch you can’t scratch
May 21As an otter, I’m naturally great at smelting gold
May 14Watch that comma
May 7Walk through the water if you can’t walk on top
Apr 30Let’s chat over tea about the demolition of a civilization spanning all of space and time
Apr 23I burn into me.
Apr 16Terse is terrific.
Apr 9I am leaning towards cake.
Apr 2Miles has deep thoughts
Mar 26Also, your better pharaohs frown on grave-robbing, so the curse is doubly appropriate
Mar 12He still drags people to their doom with his tentacles, though.
Feb 26Welcome to the new world
Feb 19Eeeeeeeee.
Feb 12Good night, and good luck
Feb 5I am easily debilitated (in re: wifi)
Jan 29For Peggy & Eleanor (you know who you are. Sort of. Or someone knows who you are.)
Jan 22This is what happens when you write a comic on the way home from breakfast.
Jan 15Does this belie the fourth wall?
Jan 8When I first told Dave that I was drawing a narwhal comic, his reaction was: “Oh, you’re doing a mythical animal?”
Jan 1The year is extinct

2013

Dec 17Happy extinction joke fun time
Dec 11Manifest, manifest
Dec 5Late and duly judged for it
Nov 27Appropriate holiday brevity, making way for holiday levity
Nov 20Look at your life, look at your choices
Nov 13Opinion comics
Nov 6See the evidence, below.
Oct 30I refuse to view “Spooktacular” as an over-used term
Oct 23Happy Meow-loween
Oct 16Love among the lampshades.
Oct 9Nice smile, Tiger. Sad eyes.
Oct 2There are old bananas in this trash can and that affects me greatly
Sep 25Ducks redux
Sep 18The lesson of fish is that if you can imagine a fish, it exists.
Aug 28Game of Thrones is probably this year’s #1 influence on how I think about kings. Now this. I tell you.
Aug 21Note: I’m thinking more Ziggy Stardust than patriotism, but do what you will with it.
Aug 14A mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a shortraker.
Aug 7One shortraker to go! Will he thrive? Will he perish? Tune in next week.
Jul 31This isn’t going to be big on dignity
Jul 24Trials: 2, Errors: 1
Jul 17I keep it so safe, it’s even safe from me
Jul 10Shortraker, dream-maker
Jul 3Didn’t they just give backpacks to dragonflies? That’s…a little like string.
Jun 26Don’t make assumptions, is what I’m saying. Do you have an X-Ray machine?
Jun 19At least I probably won’t be able to count that high in my lifetime.
Jun 12Historical Dizziness: a study in flying backwards around the Earth to reverse time
Jun 5I just want to try new things. (Like iced beetles.)
May 29A particularly soothing term, speaking sonically
May 22The zombie nonpocalypse.
May 15The adventures in grayscale continue.
May 8Our dark materials
May 1Watch watch watch it’s really important
Apr 24A surprisingly appropriate comic for my long-winded diatribe against this season’s Don Draper.
Apr 17Wonder when you’ll miss me
Apr 10I can tell you for sure that I, as a human being, bleed profusely from time to time.
Apr 3While drawing this comic, I momentarily forgot what to call seahorses – all I could think of was “ocean ponies.”
Mar 27Let’s just try and see where it leaves us.
Mar 20You think I’d tell you? Everything?
Mar 13Definitely, maybe
Mar 6Why won’t anyone tell me?
Feb 27At least, it will be spoken of by me, and I am going to haunt you. So that makes it a conversation.
Feb 20The next part of the prophecy just said: “Quick, duck!”
Feb 13Old men never want you to steal their roses, even when Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. (Or you have a plan to overthrow the status quo.)
Feb 6Quit carping. (Sorry! It’s…too easy.)
Jan 23For Chessie, anyway.
Jan 16The woman who is talking on the phone inches from my room is not even having an interesting conversation.
Jan 9I have the power to feel nostalgia for things that haven’t even happened yet.
Jan 8When I told Dave I was doing a narwhal comic, his first reaction was: “Oh, you’re finally doing a mythical animal?”
Jan 2Happy New Year

2012

Dec 26Birds, not words
Dec 19Naps, libraries, snowfalls, very soft sweaters.
Dec 12I like to think of myself as a little bit tall and a little bit short but never medium.
Dec 5Ok, enough about dogs, now let’s talk about math?
Nov 28Just like they’d see you on Tralfamadore
Nov 21The fact that they’re boneless is also a bit creepy
Nov 14A joke for poets, not about them.
Nov 7Grey day, heyday.
Oct 31If you called it ‘ghostly transmigration’ it would sound a lot less celestial
Oct 24You might call this polar bear…articulate
Oct 17although teleportation would atomize you, of course
Oct 10there are shadows because there are hills
Oct 3a way a lone a last a loved a long the
Sep 26The crocodiles are always in the wrong
Sep 19Sad mouse comics
Sep 12If radioactively, people will better see your skeleton.
Sep 5The owls are not what they seem
Aug 29I will build you a home out of packaging foam that will be there till after we die
Aug 22Or maybe I used to be a wizard?
Aug 15Will or Ill-will?
Aug 8What have you sent to Mars lately?
Aug 1Meanwhile, my own eyes continue to slowly degrade
Jul 25Of course this is mostly a Batman review, because I CARE
Jul 18Also, Dave’s dad dropped his iPhone in the toilet
Jul 11Good, bad, worse, better
Jul 4Pet disease: thrill your friends!
Jun 27The enormity of their flat brains
Jun 20Sleep deprivation is the true horror
Jun 13That which is stolen is never lost
Jun 6You’ll notice I also still lack a scanner
May 30Nighttime terrors which strike from above, no less!
May 23Before you ask, YES, we’ve been to the vet. MORE TIMES THAN YOU’LL EVER GO TO THE VET.
May 16Almost too easy
May 9It would be such a big statue that people would live on it without being aware it was a statue
May 2Dedicated to bros everywhere?
Apr 25Sorry, this is really fun for me
Apr 18Even in a hot air balloon he continues to be sleepy
Apr 11Why is it all so difficult?
Apr 4Fair to ask: which is sadder, the refuser or refused?
Mar 28On the other hand, this also sounds like something Pocahontas might say
Mar 21Tough times subconsciously call for childhood heroes
Mar 14What could be better than making up an annoying rhyming song?
Mar 7Fast times in the ocean deep
Feb 29I was new first?
Feb 22Did you know that instead of Duck, Duck, Goose, some people play Duck, Duck, Grey Duck?
Feb 15The hard thing about bacon is pigs are so smart
Feb 8Don’t ruin my revisionist detective novels with romance
Feb 1You can explain to me why dogs do this and I’ll understand it rationally, but not in my heart
Jan 25My dentist gave me two free movie tickets, which isn’t extra life, but it’s still pretty good
Jan 18SOPA, PIPA, and the Great Internet Blackout
Jan 11We also made duck faces with Pringles
Jan 4A tooth abcsess, or that really high fever I had when I was four

2011

Dec 28The abyss looks back into you
Dec 21Father, Son, Holy Spirit maybe?
Dec 14Without your card, how can I have my people call your people?
Dec 7If you can’t crush something precious to me with your heartbeat, I’m not interested
Nov 30Or it’s in the kiss, that’s where it is.
Nov 23Everyone’s great and everyone’s a jerk.
Nov 16I mean, Heaven is the eternal reward, right?
Nov 9Every time a bell rings, I remember that movie
Nov 2Maybe one can spin straw into peppermint
Oct 26How do we know the robots won’t be generous and benevolent overlords?
Oct 19I genuinely do not prefer any flavor above soy sauce
Oct 12What you want to know, you’ll never know
Oct 5Also, I hope to photograph the Loch Ness Monster
Sep 28I genuinely worry about this all the time
Sep 21Uncanny faith
Sep 14Fundamentally, I assume you’re wrong
Sep 7A surfeit, a tidbit
Aug 31Based on a real dog
Aug 24They evolved, they rebelled.
Aug 17Instead, the weather controls me.
Aug 10Redeem this, sir
Aug 9Everything in my hands seems to shake a little, everything in my heart seems to break a little
Aug 8Hey baby, let me build you a memory palace.
Aug 7That’s an ok baby, I guess.
Aug 6The Red Bull Drove them Into the Sea
Aug 3Original Header Design

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