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BootlegPotato
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DM Larson
They/Them/Any

✏️ Cartoonist
💬 Comics
🍕 Pizza
🌐 www.BootlegPotato.com

🎵 Way out where the dandelions grow🎵
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BootlegPotato @bootlegpotato.bsky.social · Mar 9
I'm DM Larson, also know as BootlegPotato, and I make weird comics. Some of them are about robots, witches, office workers, aliens, and barbarians. Most of them are free online.

I think they are neat and I invite you to take a look.
www.bootlegpotato.com
A single panel comic of an office working in a cubicle farm yelling "Oh god I'm 40! I can't relate to the youths!" with a caption that says "Life comes at you hard." A panel from a comic strip featuring an alien against a stary sky wiggle their butt. It is a "mooning" or "Uranus" joke. It make more sense in context. The cover of a comic called F.I.I.D.K. Artisanal Comix for a Refined Palate. The illustration on the cover is a picture of a sentient slice of pizza saying "I'd eat me." A page from the comic Saturday Tales feature two panels of Plum the witch walking in a garden at night. The first panel shows Plum carrying a candle stick and tea pot while stepping out of a building. The second panel show Plum walking through the garden away from the door they just exited.
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hulkhoquinn.bsky.social
Yall should check out the Cartoonist Co-op survey too. They’ve been trying to make more sense of how cartoonist are surviving in this mess. Hoping to get more people to fill it out for next year, so keep an eye out. bsky.app/profile/cart...
cartoonist.coop Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · Oct 14
The 2024 numbers are crunched, data visualised, and insights SHARED!

Here's the findings of the 2024 Comics Worker Survey!

Anyone can read these findings on income, rates, royalties and more--online or as a PDF.
The Cartoonist Cooperative
Making comics better for everyone!
cartoonist.coop
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
It one of my covers!
fodongo.bsky.social Fodongo @fodongo.bsky.social · 10d
Looky here! 📣 Issue 20 of Fodongo is now available, cover by @bootlegpotato.bsky.social

fodongo.ca/comics/iss20...

With comcs by @ntoyohito.bsky.social, @juaneletamal.bsky.social and @jectoons.itch.io.

Please check it out, and we hope you enjoy it lots!

#zine #drm-free #noai #indie #freeculture
Cover for issue 20 of Fodongo, with hot air balloons.
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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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tiffhudson.com
"Remember, Remember the 5th of November!"
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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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realitysnapped.bsky.social
Did somebody say Over the Garden Wall fanart?

This is my first piece of fan art in my clay style! A commenter on my TikTok suggested it and it honestly came out better than I expected!

This is available on my print shop now!

#photography #polymerclay #artsky #overthegardenwall #fanart #kawaiiart
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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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bradguigar.com
Coffee doesn’t make the art—you do. Coffee just makes you slightly less feral while doing it. 🐺☕
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
When you jam an AI submission in the @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social inbox, you tell me two things.

-You don't particularly value or pay attention to details in your own work, and

-You genuinely don't care about comics. And not just in a "You don't enjoy creating them" way. You also don't read them.
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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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thatmagicpanda.bsky.social
"Hoho, you're right, this place has all kinds of buttons to choose from~ What did you say this shop was again, Grimm? "
"Graves, It's a haberdashery! It's a gentlemen's paradise!"
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#inktober2025button #inktoberbutton #inktober2025 #inktober #button
#thatmagicpanda
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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
bootlegpotato.bsky.social
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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nikrinear.bsky.social
"Cyclical"

#personalwork #comic #onepagecomic #sequentialart
September 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM