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BootlegPotato
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DM Larson
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Another coloring page. This one finds it origin among other bug characters that I drew for an October a few years back.
www.bootlegpotato.com/art/october/...
#Art #Bugs #Coloring
A coloring page featuring a bashful cartoon firefly.
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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This is going to be a weird week so let me share one of the comics I draw. Its called "Bootleg Comix" and it is about weird superhero that kind of have duck faces. I don't get it either.

You can read all of them here
www.bootlegpotato.com/comics/bootl...
#comicoop #WebComics #superheroes
Panel 1. The super hero Great Guy flies out of the sky and says "Hay! Rick Prick!" Panel 2. Rick Prick a bald guy in a suit holding a cherry cake and he says "Hay is for horses Great Guy!" Panel 3. Great Guy smacks Rich Prick. Panel 4. Great Guy smacks rich prick again. Panel 5. Great Guy is looking down at Rich Prick on the ground and says "Stop stealing cakes!" Panel 6. Great Guy looks around as exclaims "For fuck sake! You got 40 of them?" Panel 1. Establishing shot of a government looking building decorated the letter "H" all over it. The caption says "Meanwhile at the Heroic Hall". Panel 2. Interior shot of a half circle table with a lectern at the center. At the lectern is a masked superhero named Dagger Dude asks "So what are we doing today?". Panel 3. The hero named Great Guy to the right of the lectern asks "Shouldn't we be protecting the word?" Panel 4. Dagger Dude says "That sounds expensive." Panel 5. The hero Demon Dame to the left of the lectern asks "How are we affording this?" Panel 6. Dagger Dude responds "Hell if I know. Donations probably." Panel 1. Dagger Dude and Great Guy stand with their backs to the reader. We see them from the shoulder up. Dagger Dude says "After years of countless lives saved and bad guys behind bars..." Panel 2. Dagger Dude continues "You would think I'd find scolace or some iota of peace". Panel 3. We zoom in closer on Dagger Dude and he continues "But if has been one continuous nightmare after another." Panel 4. We zoom in even closer to Dagger Dude and he continues "Just an endless free fall into darkness that is the corruption of mankind." Panel 5. We zoom out to revealing that we can see Dagger Dude's butt. Great Guy says "You're not wearing any pants." Panel 6. Dagger Dude responds "Gotta find happiness somewhere in life."
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Got'ta be careful what you go looking for.
#comicoop #WebComic #Comic #Moon
Panel 1. Buddy is looking through their telescope saying "let's check out the moon." Panel 2. We are looking through the telescope and see an alien mooning Buddy. Panel 3. Buddy with a confused look on their face says "Didn't we do this joke already?"
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I like these panels from the first Slumberland Nap chapter.
www.bootlegpotato.com/comics/slumb...
#Comics #Art
3 panels of Jules from Slumberland Nap tumbling through the night sky with the moon in the background.
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I think I'm confused on the current season.
#art #pumpkin #fall
An illustration of a pumpkin with a happy face on it. The mouse is in the style of a jack-o-lantern. A yellow gourd with happy face on it.
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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I can empathizes.
#comicoop #WebComic #Comic
Panel 1. Buddy, looking at their phone, says "Aw Drat! It's going to rain." Panel 2. Pal say "Were you planning on going outside?" Panel 3. Buddy looks offended and says "Let me pretend that I'm a functioning adult."
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A coloring page of a bee because I wish it was spring.
#Bee #ColoringPage #Art
A coloring page featuring a cartoonish bee throwing up peace signs, with the word bumblebee above it and a decorative bees flying around below it.
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Chocolate chip cookie and pink donut food faces. Drawn on sticky notes and colored/textured digitally.
An illustration of a chocolate chip cookie with a happy face on it. An illustration of a pink donut with colorful sprinkles, buck teeth and a happy face.
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Every molehill feels like a mountain in the morning.
#comicoop #WebComic #comic
Panel 1. Buddy walking up to Pal says "Arg, the traffic on the way to work this morning was terrible." Panel 2. Buddy with a inquisitive look says "You work from home." Panel 3. Buddy with a bit of anger in their eyes says "Look, I can call tripping over the cat as "traffic" if I want."
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Completing this little comic with a stroll through a cemetery.
#Comicoop #witch #cemetery
Plum the witch walking up to a cemetery gate with the name Hallows' End above the gate. Plum walking through the head stones with the starts above them. Plum finally sitting at a table, sharing their tea with five ghosts with brightly colored eyes.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Halloween might be over but any season with witch season. Here is the first half a silent comic with Plum the Witch.
#Witch #Comic #Comicoop
Panel 1. Plum the witch steps out of a door holding a candle and tea pot. Panel 2. We see the door leads out side to a back yard path. Plum walks down that path. Panel 3. The path continues along the side of a hill. Panel 4. The path turns into stone steps up the side of the hill. Light from Plum's candle casts shadows on the steps.
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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More coloring pages. Candy Jack and the Lantern King inspired my 2020 Halloween comic The Perils of the Lantern King.
www.bootlegpotato.com/pages/pumpki...
#Art #Illustration #ColoringPages
An illustration of a pumpkin character wearing a devil costume with the words Candy Jack underneath it and a bunch of decorative candy illustration that includes candy corn and suckers. An illustration of a pumpkin character wearing a cape and a crown floating over their head. The words "Lantern King" appear above the illustration and below is a decorative illustration of a jack-o-lantern with a long pumpkin vine coming out of its stem.
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Last page of my zine about getting old and growing up queer without role models. Thank you everyone who read it. It means a lot to me. The full comic zine is here:
bootlegpotato.com/comics/elder/
#comicoop #zine #comic
Panel 1. The author's older and younger self staring at each other confused. The captions read "I'm old but I don't know if I'm a role model because I'm still finding role models. I'm finding them in a community of creatives. A community of strong enough to be seen. It makes me less anxious." Last panel. The author standing among the silhouettes but now they have taken shape. One of them turn is the author's husband. The final caption reads "Everyone who put themselves out there is my hero. I cannot express my gratitude enough to the artists, entertainers, essayists, and educators who share their work. If you draw, dance, paint, talk, sing or just express yourself, Thank you for being seen."
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Ali didn't make enough appearances this year. That is a shame.
#comicoop #webcomic #comic #aliens
Panel 1. Ali the alien is standing across from Pal wearing a short haired wig and 70s style dress. They say "I miss the Carol Burnett Show." Ali is clearly dress as Carol Burnett. Panel 2. Pal looks up from their phone at a smiling Ali. Panel 3. Pal looks back down at their phone and says "I'm just going to roll with this."
October 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Get your Halloween coloring pages! Got a Jack-o-lantern witch and cat for ya this week.
www.bootlegpotato.com/pages/pumpki...
#Halloween #Witch #Cat #Coloring
Coloring page featuring a pumpkin headed witch with the words Witch O'lantern below them with a mini illustration of them flying across the moon. An illustration of a pumpkin headed cat with the words Cat O'lantern above them with paw prints.
October 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Page 6 of my zine about getting old and growing up without role models. This page elaborates how things got worse. Flagging this page for the implied violence.
#comicoop #zine #comics
Panel 1. An illustration of the artist in grade school close their locker and look over to someone out of frame. The caption reads "Where I grew up, queer was used a slur to dehumanize and demoralize." Panel 2. The depiction of a group of bullies. The caption reads "It also often preceded by violence" Panel 3. Illustration of the artist rubbing their arm. The caption reads "I won't say I got the worst of it but I still flinch when I hear it said. And when I'm writing it right now."
October 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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We learn a little bit more about Buddy every day.
#comicoop #WebComic #Comic #ComicStrip
Panel 1. Buddy, looking at their phone, says "Wait, people pay to see other people naked?" Panel 2. Pal responds "Yeah, on the internet." Buddy has a perplexed look on their face. Panel 3. Buddying looking all skeptical says "And here I've been doing it for free all this time."
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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A couple more Halloween coloring pages.
www.bootlegpotato.com/pages/pumpki...
#Halloween #Coloring #Pumpkin
Coloring page of a pumpkin in a pumpkin patch with a skeleton face on it and skeleton fingers below it. The words Skeleton Patch appear below the illustration with decorative skulls blow that. A coloring page of a ghost with a jack-o-lantern face. Above it the words Boo-pkin appear and below it there are graves that say Boo, Drac, and Wolf Man on them.
October 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Page 5 from my zine about getting old and growing up without role models: www.bootlegpotato.com/comics/elder/

This would have been the early or mid 90s despite drawing my mother's hair like it was the 80s.
#comicoop #zine #comic
Panel 1. the caption read "My mom tried" and the panel depicts my mother and myself sitting on a couth reading. I turn to turn and ask "Can boy marry boys?" Panel 2. My mother looks surprised at the question. Panel 3. The caption readers "Same sex marriage was totally not legal." Panel 4 She simply tells me "Yep" and the caption reads "It could have been a lot worse."
October 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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It is confusing when you age out of an audience that you didn't know you could age out of. #comicoop #webcomic #ComicStrip
Panel 1. Buddy, holding a paper back book, tells Pal "Romance novels are so good. Listen to this." Panel 2. Buddy reading from the book says "He didn't have the good looks of a young man. He was in his 30s." Panel 3. With a confused look on their face Pal exclaims "Excuse me?"
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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More Halloween coloring pages. Burn through your orange. www.bootlegpotato.com/pages/pumpki...
#Halloween #Coloring #Art
A coloring page featuring a pumpkin character with bat wings above a drawing of a castle and the words Count Pumpkula. A coloring page featuring a pumpkin character named Pumpkinstein with electricity arching behind them.
October 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Page 4 from my zine about getting old and growing up without role models: www.bootlegpotato.com/comics/elder/
#comicoop #comic #zine

I know there was better representation to be found but, as a kid in the 90s, I didn't have means to find them.
Panel 1 the first caption reads "The only elder queer representation I remember growing up was the Birdcage." The illustration depicts Robin Williams and Nathan Lane with arrows pointing to them that say 44 and 39. The second caption reads "And the other representation I got to see was interesting." What follow is a grid of characters from various movies. The list is Hanks from Philadelphia, Duane Whitaker from Pulp Fiction, Jaye Davidson from the Crying Game, Greg Kinnear from As Good As it Gets, and the scene from the movie Heather where the father says "I love my dead gay son!"
October 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Mornings am I right?
#comicoop #WebComic #ComicStrip
Panel 1. Buddy is squinting their eyes. Pal asks "What your problem?" Buddy responds "The sun is too spicy." Panel 2. Pal raising their eyebrow asks "You mean bright?" Panel 3. Buddy grimacing more says "Sure."
October 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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It's October and I have a seasonally appropriate coloring book. Please enjoy.

www.bootlegpotato.com/pages/pumpki...
#ColoringBook #Halloween #Pumpkin
The cover of a coloring book called Pumpkin Book featuring a three jack-o-lanterns A coloring page titled Pumpkin Moon that features the moon as a pumpkin over a number of trees there are also bats.
October 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Page 3 of my zine about growing up without role models for reasons. This page put it into historical context.
www.bootlegpotato.com/comics/elder/

To make it explicit, I'm saying the AIDS epidemic is one of the reasons we didn't get to see queer elders. And my dad was there. #comicoop #QueerComic
Panel 1. A crew of three nurses rushing a gurney toward the viewer. One of the nurses has an arrow pointing to him that says dad. The caption says "My Dad was a ER nurse during the AIDS epidemic in the 80s." Panel two depicts Dad watching another nurse cough. The caption reads "Specifically when those on the ground didn't know what was going on." Panel 3 depicts the Dad driving at night with a concered look on his face. The caption readers "There were many nights he though he was going to bring home the "fever of unknow origin."
September 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM