tusk

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Dingo as the stupid angry Louis meme

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photo of the fox bottle on display at museum, quarter turn side profile bichrome brown and tan, with molded and incised details, spout and bridge top connected to head on globular body

photo of the fox bottle on display at museum, front profile bichrome brown and tan, with molded and incised details, spout and bridge top connected to head on globular body

#FoxFriday 🦊 at the Ancient Americas wing of the Met:
Topará artist(s); South Coast, Peru Spout-and-bridge bottle with #fox 200 BCE-100 CE
Ceramic, slip
63.232.49
#AndeanArt #PeruvianArt #IndigenousArt

photo of the fox head bottle on display at museum, quarter turn profile view Bichrome brown and tan, with molded and painted details, stirrup spout

photo of the fox head bottle on display at museum, front profile view Bichrome brown and tan, with molded and painted details, stirrup spout

#FoxFriday 🦊 at the Ancient Americas wing of the Met:
Moche artist(s); North Coast, Peru
Bottle with #fox head, 500-800 CE
Ceramic, slip
63.226.6
#AndeanArt #PeruvianArt #IndigenousArt

We're getting close to the public release of chapter 5! We'll be finishing up the anniversary read through on the Discord with Chapter 4 this Friday, then hopefully releasing chapter 5 next Friday and doing a read the day after.

Wind

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Bequest, Richard S. Zeisler, 2007

Universal Art by Joaquín Torres-García, 1933
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137590

Two anthropomorphic characters laying in bed: a smaller deer with a chubby large bear next to him. Bear's just wearing briefs and is touching himself while watching the deer under his arm coming hands-free from the vibrating toy inside him. On background a faint drawing shows bear demonstrating the toy to deer, who's looking very interested.

saw a toy, had thoughts
-06.2025

Shes Gone //mixed media

17x11

#nile #crocodile

A digital sketch depicting an anthro bull terrier man sitting in a chair with his legs crossed, facing the camera. His hands are tucked into the pockets of an open jacket, and he is wearing Henley shirt, short shorts, and tevas.

Emile

birth

digital sketch page of 3 different anthro toony wolf men. one wearing a suit with a cigarette, another with a big toony grin, and another a tiny doodle of a werewolf

errant arrant citrinitas in podjak casual dress

there is even a brazilian comic strip that predates yellow kid by almost 30 years

it's not rare that i talk to an american who's really into comics, really invested in the medium, and they just don't know who Moebius was, that is insane to me

i'm talking about the study of comic books, not just the medium's history but also (and maybe more importantly) the semiotic analysis of it

i'm sure that a lot of these things are regularly contested and are not part of modern academic research, but we still have to deal with a lot of "yellow kid is the first comic"-like myths being repeated over and over in insufficiently researched youtube videos and news and blog articles

anyway it is my impression that american comics research has historically had a big problem with falling into and reinforcing myths of american exceptionalism by intentionally ignoring the comic traditions of other countries, pretending that nothing noteworthy was made anywhere else

quite the contrary, it's very specific and excludes comics that are non-serialized, that are not open-ended, that don't have recurrent characters or that have no characters at all, or that have no dialogue; a ton of comics are not included in this definition

A drawing on brown butcher paper of a group of wolves gazing out of a storefront window. A sign above them reads “we’re open.” A sandwich board outside displays a large wet tongue.

anyway his awful definition was: "A serially published, episodic, open-ended dramatic narrative or series of linked anecdotes about recurrent identified characters, told in successive drawings regularly enclosing ballooned dialogue or its equivalent and generally minimal narrative text"

thus it was in his interest to make everything that came before Yellow Kid "not count" as a comic, so it seems like it was american nationalism getting in the way of actual research, like i assumed

oh okay Thierry Groensteen talks briefly about this in the introduction to The System of Comics, apparently this is at least partly the fault of a certain Bill Blackbeard who proposed a very strict and specific definition of comics because he wanted to make it seem that comics originated in the USA

Tiger sitting in front of a desk fan on a hot day, lifting up his shirt to cool down.

Long overdue comm for @tigahbutt.bsky.social !

In for a heap of trouble-
#🐉🍑

i think there is older art but this is what i had in hand

and mr Leroux

tumblr post by user sapphling from August of 2023 reading: "sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher" "You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this? Then they have screenshotted tags left on their post by another user reading: "crying screaming and throwing up when you tell me the undertaker didn't REALLY die and come back to life all those times" sapphling follows that with "no that part was real"

MASM MASM. Brazil.

It's #bandcampfriday which means I get more money off of purchases than usual! Take this chance to check some of the work I've released since 2016

masm.bandcamp.com

Here's another moody, silky, sulky Senedjem