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Adrian A.

@mawfko.bsky.social

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✏️ 𝖢𝗈𝗆𝗂𝖼 𝗐𝗋𝗂𝗍𝖾𝗋/𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗂𝗌𝗍, 🖌️ 👨‍🏫 𝖠𝗋𝗍𝗌 𝖾𝖽𝗎𝖼𝖺𝗍𝗈𝗋, 👹 ℜ𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔠 𝔊𝔯𝔬𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔮𝔲𝔢, 🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 𝖲𝗍𝖺𝖿𝖿𝖾𝗋 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖢𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗈𝗈𝗇𝗂𝗌𝗍 𝖢𝗈𝗈𝗉𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗏𝖾, 📰 𝖢𝗈𝗆𝗂𝖼𝗌 𝖢𝗎𝗋𝖺𝗍𝗈𝗋 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖣𝖾𝗌𝗂𝗀𝗇𝖾𝗋 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳

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Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Jun 20

Some #artistsway
and some artist sway.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi and Louis Pasteur experience a disagreement in the margins of Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way.”

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · May 27

GOD. DAMN. IT, Appleyard.

#picnicathangingrock #joanlindsay #australiaGym #JUSTICE4SARA #mrspommelhorst

An image capture of a section of a page from a book:
“…In one corner stood a padded horizontal board fitted with leather straps, on which the child Sara, continually in trouble for stooping, was to pass the gymnasium hour this hm afternoon…”

An image capture of a section of a page from a book:

“'Mercy on us! What's that strange sound?' From the far corner of the room now almost in darkness came a single rasping cry. Miss Lumley, under the stress of a most unpleasant afternoon, had forgotten to unfasten the leather straps that held the child Sara rigid on the horizontal board.”

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · May 4

Reply with your equine epithets!

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · May 4

It’s #kentuckyDerby Day, which means it’s time to for a Race Horse Name Rally!

I had high hopes for Blastocyst, but they got overtaken round the bend by Holla Earth Theory. Subtle Palpitations and Carl’s Back were duking it out, so no one saw Health Comes to Frogtown sneak up the homestretch.

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Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Apr 30

Sketching the #sanjose Center for the Performing Arts after a Sunday matinee of #six. Possibly my favorite building in the city, though I appreciate the 1950s sci-fi vibes I get from the city hall.
#architecture #sketchbook

A refined sketch above a rough sketch of a building with a bunch of curvatures.

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Apr 7

Ooh, “Freya” is a good one! I always conjures Husky dogs to my mind, but it fits her floof.

Her given name is Tawny, but I’ve revealed to her that her secret name, carved into the living rock of her homeland, is Jingleberry Shakesajingjing.

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Apr 7

I’m curious, what name does she look like to you?

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Apr 7

She’s still figuring out her style.

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Apr 7

👆😔
If you would be willing to accept a possible positive, I present a Norwegian Forest cat baffled by a knit cap.

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Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Mar 24

I love my Co-op 🩵🩵

Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · Mar 22

The Cartoonist Cooperative aligns with The Boston Compass! Through May, enjoy as Greater Boston Co-op members, MAXFOSTER, PomPoison, Joe Bortner, Adam Green, and E.B. Hutchins, turn the newspaper strip on its end in our dedicated "BCN Comics" section. (1/4)

Within a amalgamation of three word balloons with tails extending outward in pinwheel formation, the words "BCN Comics"

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Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Mar 12

Dario Argento tried to adapt “Shrek” into a giallo movie in the ‘10s, but at the end of editing process, it had become a silent, black-and-white print of “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.”

It’s what happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object.

(Inspired by a meme.)

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Feb 28

🚢🇺🇸All dire metaphorical trappings withstanding, may we all be so lucky that coral call our corpse “home.”

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Feb 22

a YEAR with Frog and Toad?
I could barely stand the evening.

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Feb 20

A cowboy walks up to a man on a horse and punches out the horse.

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Feb 18

Skim-bleshanks/
the rail-way cat/
The cat with-out a head!!!

Then he steps on you/
with his high-heeled shoes/
and you say, “That’s what I li-ike!”

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Feb 9

“WEAUGHX!”

According to the “Shout it in Québécois!!!” style guide, at least.

Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · Feb 9

Can I get a ruling on WOAH vs WHOA? (The former, to me, seems like it should rhyme with the guy who had the Ark, but I see it that way a LOT.)

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Feb 6

My contribution to Hourly Comics Day:
www.mawfko.com/blog/2025/2/...

Hourly Comics Day 2025 — Mawfko Studio

I ouroboroptimistically hope the next bite of the tail will be tastier than the last

www.mawfko.com

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Jan 31

Shit.

Cats’ve learned how to WiFi. Call it off.

The tail of the silhouette of a cat emits two bars of WiFi signal strength.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. They will ream u.s.

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Jan 24

Status report: My new planner has too much space and my current body could use more blood.

Close-up on gridded piece of paper. In the center three smudges are circled in red ink. Arrows pointing at the circles lead back to writing in the same red ink, “These are blood”

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Jan 19

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Just left Sarah Lund’s “Advanced Zine Workshop.” She’s a marvel of cut paper and conceptual zine design. Please acquaint yourself with her craft!

In accordance with her request, I share a six-pager good-bye gift to I made for my last dnd party. Pantomime horse are magic 🪄

Split image of the front and back cover of a six page mini-comic.
Front: The text “MoHorse & BoHorse Medieval Vaudevillians” stylized in olde daye script alongside two crude pantomime horses.”
Back: A tattered banner bearing two abstract horse images with upturned and downturned horseshoes

On alternate pages, the faces of two pantomime horses speak to each other:
BoHorse: Derry-dol, MoHorse! Have you seen that new stallion from Leilon?
MoHorse: What ho, BoHorse! I think I’ve seen them!

On opposite pages, the full figures of the two BoHorse and MoHorse. BoHorse leans with crossed legs, MoHorse rears back dramatically.

BoHorse: You say you “saw” them..but can you say you “saw” them?

MoHorse: The spurs are out tonight! Why do you care if I see or saw?

Back half of MoHorse: oof…

On opposite pages, the head of BoHorse looks askance at MoHorse, who has flipped upside-down with only their feet exposed in a circular frame, dust clouds rising.

BoHorse: Because, old champ…
They were a SAWhorse

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Jan 15

🎶Imagine me and you,
and you and me,
and she and him,
and thee and thou,
and day for night,
and that was then
and this is now,
and don’t you start,

A frappe made a lea-ther…

I COULD SEE ME HOSTING A WE-DDING IN JUNE, I’LL ASK MY WI-IIIFE! 🎶

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Jan 13

Mirrored in my experience with “The Power Broker.”

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Jan 12

Is that a load of papal bull? I’m incapable of telling.

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Jan 11

I’m probably missing historical context, but I couldn’t empathize with Bill’s feelings about Roman Potpourri.

Maybe he’s an essential oils man?

Adrian A. @mawfko.bsky.social · Jan 8

𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓹𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓰𝓵𝓾𝓽𝓮𝓷…