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🎩 hi there! it's malki from wondermark
🖋️cartoonist, designer, game maker
🔗 my various links: linkpop.com/malki
🦋 comics posted at: @wondermark.com
🔩 card game: Bolted! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/malki/bolted?ref=3qh34x
In good news, probably at least, this is the greenest I have ever seen Central California, in January or frankly at any time.
January 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
For creative folks working on their projects, or really anyone doing anything, reply or QT with something that you tried in 2025 that WORKED for you.

I'll start: Couple days a week, built a writing stop into the "take the kid to school" routine, before coming back home, before checking email.
January 6, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Oh this thread made me extremely happy and also slightly angry
I have a long-running list of surprising eponyms, and in this dark time I wish to share my amusement with you.

To clarify, an eponym is something named for a person. “Newton’s Laws” are called that for Isaac Newton. A surprising eponym is just that.

So, let’s begin.

Eponyms/0
January 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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PORTFOLIO TIPS FOR ILLUSTRATORS

I am an art director who has probably seen close to 1000 portfolios, many great, but many...not 😔

This is a doc I wrote featuring tips and tricks for how to make a better art portfolio site. Feel free to share with anyone who may find this useful <3 #art
Portfolio Tips for Illustrators by Nala J. Wu
Portfolio tips for Illustrators Written by Nala J. Wu (@naladraws) | they/them As an art director (AD) and longtime professional illustrator— I’ve probably looked at nearly a thousand art portfolios. ...
docs.google.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
I love a man with rock-hard abs and especially a well-defined
January 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I've curated my feed here on bsky enough that it was honestly startling to peek in on Facebook and see all the AI stuff people were posting and celebrating. Not suggested posts, from my FB friends. The local city PD just havin a blast making music videos of officers partying with Santa, etc
January 2, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Happy Betty Boop Liberation Day to @alecrobbins.bsky.social, a fella years ahead of his time in many ways but also this one extremely specific way. Betty Boop had nothing to lose but her chains, and now those have fallen.
January 1, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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ARTIST JOB ALERT: I am looking for somebody who can TIGHTLY PENCIL animals for me in my graphic novel FIVE WISHES, specifically, several pages of squirrels and birds. This is PAYING and work would begin immediately, but it's not a rush job.

cont...
December 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Let's see what's in the news
December 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Hohoho! I drew this year's holiday card for my art rep, Felix Comic Art. I wanted the recipients to get something that looked like a piece of vintage original art, but also couldn't help poking some fun at Felix's love for Dark Knight Returns.
December 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
For the second year in a row, I spent an inordinately long time crafting the perfect gift box for a gallon of windshield washer fluid.

(I couldn't find last year's similar box so I had to make a new one.)
December 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
How it started / how it's going

I just thought this was a neat picture and deserved a better frame. (Became a lovely present for my wife.)
December 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
periodic reminder that my talented wife @nikkirice.bsky.social made this puppet (and all the puppets for this special)
December 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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An old thread is making the rounds again, so here's an updated version.

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is one of the most enduring and adapted works of literature in history.

But did you know that he wrote 22 sequels?

Some are great! Some are trash! Some are bizarrely fascinating.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
it me
Comics like these are the real reason my kids aren't old enough to read SMBC yet.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/anythi...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet

Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Happy holidays! Probably my favorite stop-motion from the past few years. Really enjoyed creating this one.
December 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
imagine being trump, having done all the things he knows he has done over the course of his life, running for President thinking "ah, this will all be fine, none of it will ever come to light." On some level he might be as surprised as anyone that the country has given him this much rope for so long
December 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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My favorite historical costume designer is Sandy Powell, and she has an amazing trick that it took me years to realize: Be conservative with color and lean into modern shapes with your hero, and put your villain in the most outrageously period-specific costume you can.
December 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Finally got my Bolted! Wrapped for this year. Man, I did NOT think I used the cestus that much
December 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
And that's a wrap! Thank you, all 607 of you (and the 432 of you from earlier this year). This game's gonna be great!!

Kickstarter now allows "late pledges" for certain rewards, so if you totally whiffed on this, there's still time, but we are MOVING ON and I'm excited to get this game to ya!!
December 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
11 m i n u t e s
Round numbers, once again. 100 minutes to go! When they start counting in minutes, you know things are getting good.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mal...
December 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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BONUS COMIC: When Bolted! first launched, I made this comic for the places where links are throttled or difficult -- a customized version for Instagram (here), Facebook, and GoComics.

Bluesky never saw it, because you can link readily on Bluesky! All I have to do is post a link like this. Easy
December 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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You’d better take a Tanooki suit, Mario. It gets quite nippy in World 6 this time of year.
December 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM