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amateur hour, hand drawn comics and illustrations https://linktr.ee/muncie

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muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 2h

stepped on a pop top
adopted a boat launch

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 6d

distant cousins

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 6d

The Bone Man

Muncie & Kalamazoo look at a giant skeleton halloween decoration.

"Look at this!" Kalamazoo exclaims. "Another halloween decoration for the Bone Man. Unreal!"

Muncie pauses, "yeah... wait."

"Who's the bone man?" They ask.

"The bone man comes from Balkan folklore" Kalamazoo says excitedly, leaning towards Muncie. "He steals your bones to create his infernal machines."
"So is he like an angry skeleton, or..." Muncie asks incredulously.
"Sheesh. No Muncie, he's the Bone Man." Kalamazoo scoffs. "Plus we all know skeletons are what live in your body."

Muncie angrily lists the countries of the Balkan peninsula.
"No! The other one!" Kalamazoo angrily retorts.
"You're just making this up as you go along!" Muncie replies.
"Ugh!" Kalamazoo shrieks. "Why are you like this? See what I care when the Bone Man come for you and his infernal machines."

"Have the Bone Man make me into an ice cream machine, because I'm so sweet." Muncie teases.
Kalamazoo chases after them. "OH YEAH? Get back here!"

Meanwhile the giant skeleton decoration is revealed to be the Bone Man hiding in plain sight. "She's onto me." he thinks in Bulgarian.

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 7d

thanks for listening!!

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 8d

deeerva.bandcamp.com/track/pibroch

Thanks everyone, i hope you like it

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 9d

Okay I think there’s something to flush out here

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muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 12d

The Adventures of Beer & Cigarette (1/3)

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 11d

Should I start a stoner/doom metal project called Deeer

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 11d

thank you for reading! It’s true, beers for everyone

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you so much! As always, thank you for reading

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 12d

🍺 🚬

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 12d

aw thank you! Thanks for reading

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 12d

thank you!! thanks for reading

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 12d

The Adventures of Beer & Cigarette (3/3)

Thanks for reading!

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 12d

The Adventures of Beer & Cigarette (2/3)

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 12d

The Adventures of Beer & Cigarette (1/3)

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 12d

some old ones

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 16d

Caught a whiting (menticirrhus americanus)

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muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 18d

i'd like to revisit this one again

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 18d

i'd like to revisit this one again

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 18d

if you drink don't drive, do the cantaloupin' crawl

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 18d

the orange is v festive

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horse @horseonvhs.com · 18d

new one of these

a drawing of me-ish with pointy animal ears and an animal nose and a daisy in my hair and eyeshadow and a jacket with some pins. i'm cute is the main idea

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muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 19d

sometimes we go crabbin

Put a lot of effort in to tell a very dumb joke, sorry everyone

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A weathered looking man puts on his coat and mutters, “well I best be going.”
In the next panel a young woman holding a tea pot asks, “already? I just made tea.”
The man turns away from her, “it don’t set well with me,” he replies in a thick Tangier island, Virginia accent, “not when the pots need peckin’”
In the third panel, looking over the shoulder of the young woman, our hero continues to not make eye contact. He stands before an open door going into darkness.
“Crabbins me loife.” he says, the air is thick and tense.

This all very poorly drawn. Thanks everyone.

“Can you not talk like that? It’s really distracting.” The woman says, breaking character.
Our hero sighs with exasperation, “always the critic, Muncie.” he groans. “You’ve stopped this script read 3 times already.”
In the 3rd, last panel, the tension has boiled over. The pair are now in a full blown meltdown. The
“You just sound like a pirate!” she replies. The hero is incensed. “Tangier is a disappearing dialect and culture!” He screams. “Can you not see the potential here for legacy television??”
“Crabbins me loife?” The woman repeats back to him, questioning the value of such a narrative.

note: tangier island, Virginia is a small island in the Chesapeake bay. the community has largely subsisted off of crabbing, oysters and fishing for generations. Because of their separation from the rest of the east coast, they have kept a dialect that is reminiscent of the early English accent. Other islands such as Ocracoke in North Carolina have their own dialect similar to tangier, with it being aptly named the “hoi toider” accent.

“Yarr sometimes we go Crabbin” the lady says in a mocking tone, making a twisted face.
“Enough!” The crab man shrieks. “I will not have my cinematic vision be reduced to childish pirate banter!”

Cut to Muncie and Kalamazoo standing in silence, holding crumpled scripts.

“What if it was about 2 crabs?” Muncie says before Kalamazoo screams, “OH MY GOD.”

Once again, this was poorly drawn and a lot of work for a very, very dumb joke. Thanks everyone.

muncie @muncie.bsky.social · 19d

This was one of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes bits! Def inspired by it