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Maki Scare-O

@makinaro.com

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The forever Halloween profile of feral cartoonist and graphic journalist Maki Naro. Work In Progress & Crucial Comix. Formerly @sciencecomic on the bad site. He/Him Art feed: #makifeed 🎨 makinaro.com 🗹 joinwip.com

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · Mar 6

‪Hi, I'm Maki!
I'm a comic artist, editor, graphic journalist, science communicator, and self-employment advocate with a body of work spanning over 10 years!

I'm currently available for all comic and illustration work!

🎨 makinaro.com
💸 patreon.com/maki
🐶 nicolablack.com/nikkimaki

A painted cartoon family portrait of various multicellular organisms complete with studio lighting and classic brown mottled backdrop. In the back are two bluish balls of cells and a string of filastereans all with beady eyes and cute mouths. Flanked by a pair of green choanoflagellates with long lash-like purple tails, are a big happy sponge and a comb jellyfish with iridescent "combs" running up its pink, translucent body. They have their arms and tentacles on a trio of modern animal "kids." A white goose, a blue eyed, orange kitten, and a particularly surly goth lizard in black and white makeup and a skull t-shirt.

A large man in brown in mishmashed bits of green armor over brown padded clothing stands holding a large club in front of him horizontally like a barbell. The club is a long wooden branch capped with a large studded iron weight made to look like a clenched fist. The fist grasps a long spike, which acts as the weapons serious business end.

He wears a red and yellow shirt with a dark stripe running diagonally through it, bearing the mark of his company, the Sons of Drfus: A green muscled arm bent at the elbow and holding a club. His armor is all embellished with grotesque faces. From the sneering goblins on the back of his wrists, the fanged beast on his one pauldron, to his helmet, a 15th century sallet made to look like a goblin face with long flat tusks on the visor, which is lifted slightly. Two small yellow eyes peer out of the darkness inside the helmet.

A painted bust of woman in a futuristic armored space suit. Her helmet is spherical yellow glass lit from inside the lower portion, which is made of the same metal armor as the rest of her suit and extends to protect the back of her head. She is looking out from underneath a neon green visor that is partially flipped up. The background is dark with a soft neon purple light behind her.

The looming, judgy face of a cartoon cat dramatically lit from above in bright teal light and from below in scary red. Her big stylized eyes look down at you with pity.

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ripcinema @ripcinema.bsky.social · 1d

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

Akinator, the mind reading genie

Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of, as if by magic. Think of a real or fictional character, answer few questions, and Akinator will try to guess who it is. Wil...

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 21h

Reverted to a 2024 driver and all is well, but come on man.

Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 22h

Updated my wacom driver and now it's like the touch strip, keys, and even the toggle button are set to "zoom in" 🙃

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 22h

Seriously. Even the little buttons on the upper right make it zoom in

Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 22h

Yeah I’m trying to revert now. I only updated because my settings were getting reset all the time 🫠

Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 22h

Updated my wacom driver and now it's like the touch strip, keys, and even the toggle button are set to "zoom in" 🙃

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 1d

My family still asks if I have more but the past few years the cherries have been too small to stuff.

Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 1d

I still remember the year I bought a half bushel of cherry peppers for like 5 bucks. We were making shooters all summer long

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 1d

And there's still a 2 qt container of peppers I couldn't be bothered to slice because they were small. Living 5 minutes from our regional market has been such a boon for my need to have a spicy pickled topping for everything.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 1d

Made six quarts of pickled jalapenos this morning 🌶️

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 1d

most outlets report on celebrity collabs by naming the celebrity up front and then mentioning their collaborators a few paragraphs down, if at all. it is a common practice that devalues creative work. anything that distances readers from the fact that PEOPLE MAKE BOOKS is happening to our detriment

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 1d

with respect, the publisher will not create the illustrations

Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 1d

37 Ink will turn Taryn Delanie Smith’s (pictured) viral TikTok sketches into an illustrated book, Del Rey takes YA author Elizabeth Lim’s adult debut, and more in this week’s deals.

Book Deals: Week of October 13, 2025

37 Ink will turn Taryn Delanie Smith’s viral TikTok sketches into an illustrated book, Del Rey takes YA author Elizabeth Lim’s adult debut, and more in this week’s deals.

buff.ly

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · Mar 27

What a legend!

My favorite bit of trivia about the iconic Goonies poster is that he created 7 different versions that could be swapped in for the promotion of the film.

A series of illustrations made for promotion of Goonies, where the cast hangs from a cave stalactite and each other in a descending chain. There are 6 different versions on blank backgrounds that featured each cast member at the foremost position of the chain. Also included is the clean background, the final version used most often, and Drew's signature.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 2d

RIP
One of my favorite follows back on twitter for the peeks behind the scenes on all his artwork.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

Just saw on IG that Drew Struzan has died. RIP to the man who painted my childhood.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom by Struzan

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 6d

incredible!!

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lacey, infested with bears @byelacey.bsky.social · 6d

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 8d

I cannot yell about this magical girl ghost detective series enough

Spoopy Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social · 8d

Netflix has MoNoNoKe series and movies T_T

The medicine seller from the series MoNoNoKe

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 8d

I either lost mine or it's buried in a box of DVDs somewhere 😭

Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 8d

I owe my entire career to twitter--or more importantly the science writer "tweet-ups" where we'd all meet.

Social media was so different then! And combined with moving away from the city and covid, I can't help feel like I lost everything that had kept me connected and successful.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 8d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 8d

I've been holding off on watching the second movie until my plate clears a little so I can properly lose my shit over it

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 8d

In unrelated news, here's @juliesulabor.bsky.social writing for @msnbc.com about how Amazon mistreats its package handlers and delivery drivers: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 9d

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Greg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · 9d

“You can always recognize a place in which no one is feeling much or any grief for a lost loved one & death, dying, & everyone you love decomposing to bones is just a joke.” Joyce Carol Oates

Photo of a two-story house with two gigantic inflatable purple octopus arms emerging from windows.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 9d

yet again, I win my bet that "three white men win the Nobel Prize in physics", so pay the fuck up

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