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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 1d

OK here's my big ten post, forty page, catch up mega-thread with alt text for my work in progress #Comix #WebComics #MiniComics

One. A person with black hair in a black shirt and a cord necklace is driving late at night.

Two. the driver from page one spots dirt Ike headlights in her rear view mirror then Gunnr the woods hag pulls up beside her points a gun and shouts "pull over".

Three. The unnamed driver pulls over Gunnr the woods hag walks up to her car. Gunnr: Where is it? WHERE IS IT? This it? Huh? Driver: Yes. Gunnr: Now get out of the car.

Four. Gunnr points a gun a the horrified driver and tells her "Get. Out. Of. The. Fucking. Car. Right. Now." Then the necklace Gunnr pulled off of the driver starts to glow and Gunnr's heart starts to beat loud and fast and she doubles over and pants and gasps for air as the other two hags look shocked while the driver fills with determination to live and speeds off into the dark.

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 22h

If he decides to make a new account using collage or ascii art or stick men, or something else, or focusing on his writing instead, I hope there's no hard feelings. 🤷‍♂️

Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 22h

He's clearly just a user not a scraper but still. If his excuse had been physical disability I might have just accepted it but you can't be participating in the art theft industrial complex just bc you "can't draw". I'm so fucking tired of thinking and hearing about this stuff (cont)

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 22h

I understand why some people are just laying back and taking in the AI slop because I'm really fucking tired of having to think about it too. I just had to block someone who was nice enough to give a like to my stuff because he's posting AI comics (at least they're labeled). (Cont)

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 1d

Thirty seven
Hayden: I'm not doing a "thing" right now, give me a minute, go film Andre

Pete crosses his eyebrows and smirks with annoyance as Hayden weaves through the crowd.

Hayden: H-Hey, uh, hey, you guys know the, like, the name artist for this thing?
Kallan: Javion Pickett
Hayden: OK you just helped me and my buddies look less like idiots. So, uh, you two fans if his?
Kallan: Uh, we only found out about him recently. You're Hayden right!

Thirty eight.
Hayden: Oh, yep. Did'ya overhear or are you a, uh
Kallan: I've seen Carpe Cajonés and your stuff pops up on my feed sometimes. I know who you are...Do you know who I am?
Hayden: I...I, uh...What are you on? You want to follow each other.
Kallan: Sure, let me see I I can get a signal.
Both: Alright, alright.

A finger clicks follow, a finger clicks follow back.

Thirty nine
Hayden: OK, nove to meet'ya...Kallan
Kallan: You too Hayden.
They fist bump and Hayden walks away waving, Kallan and Alane are now walking back to the car.

Alane: So did y'all know each other or not?
Kallan: First time we ever met. He's on a podcast.
Alane: So you watch it?
Kallan: I've seen it before.

Back with the cast and crew of Carpe Cajonés
Hayden: OK let's go. I need to eat and get ready.
Andre: Uh, alright. You OK?
Hayden: Oh yeah, I'm fine.

Forty
Back at Alanes place she tells Kalkan "I'll just be a second do go yet" He replies "OK" she walks to the yard with her dog Pax and sees the owl again, it's pupils dilate, it flinches, and it flies away. She let's hee dog finish then they go back inside and hug Kallan

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Thirty three
Kallan and Alane still in the restaurant
Kallan: Does you eat here a lot?
Alane: mmn...not a lot, I eat here sometimes
Kallan: what do you normally get?
Alane: different things.
Kallan God, it's so nice go be up here I the city. I'm so proud of you that you really did it and moved out here
Alane: you could still do it.

Hayden and Rhys back on the bus
Hayden: Nooo...c'mon, no. I said I'd shoot some bits not be on the fuckin'...like...Truman Show. We're not the Osbornes, put the camera away.

Thirty four
Kallan and Alane in the restaurant continued

Alane: You could transfer ar work and move down here
Kallan: Even if I could get a transfercat work I don't think I could afford to live here. Maybe I should have done it when I was younger. It's easier to be poor and uncomfortable when you're young. Well, I say that but I didn't have this job then, so .I really couldn't have afforded it.
Alane: Yeah, it can be pretty rough, one of my friends still lives with roommates.
Kallan : ooh, what time is it?
Alane: Yeah it's almost time.

Meanwhile Hayden and Rhys are talking to two women at a little open air beachside bar.

Thirty five
Kallan and Alane leave the restaurant

Kallan: should we just leave the car here?
Alane: Yeah I'll be fine. OK it's around the corner here.

They come upon an outdoor stage with an LED wall, a window shaped screen, a flat traffic light shaped screen, Christmas lights, and rectangular flat screens all arranged around an odd stand under glass with a little pole and a hexagonal backing displaying a little round gem.
A small crowd is gathered.

" guidelines for photosensitive viewers also"

All the lights except the center stand turn on.
Kallan watches the show then his jaw drops slightly as he heard from off panel

"OK 3, 2, 1, action. I'm Andre Silvers and I'm Hayden Bowers"

Thirty six
Hayden and Andre: Welcome to Carpe Cajonés.
Kallan looks on as if in a trance
Alane: Kallan? You OK?
The little spherical gem lights up. Hayden looks over his glasses with a stunned expression.
Kallan: Oh, yeah, I'm fine.
Hayden: Hey, I'll be back in a minute.
Pete follows him camera in hand,
Hayden: Pete

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 1d

Twenty-nine
On the bus: Andre waves bye to two groupies, Rhys works on thr computer but is blowing smoke, Pete has a longneck bottoms up, Hayden is chewing on something with bleary eyes and a grin

In the car:
Allane: So how've you been?
Kallan: I've been pretty well.
Allane: Are you seeing anyone?
Kallan: No.
Allane: Eh, you're better off, it's a pain, stay single as long as you can.

Thirty
Hayden and Andre standing before an artsy tourist attraction made of junk being filmed by Pete and Rhys.
Andre: I'm Andre Silvers
Hayden: and I'm Hayden Bowers
Both: welcome to Carpe Cajonés

Back in the car:
Kallan: Does Olen ever call or text you?
Alane: Uh...sometimes
Kallan: He barely ever replies to me.
Alane: He's just like that though, he's really young and, y'know, busy with work, and he doesn't text me to like, really talk or anything.

They pull into a parking lot.

Thirty one
Rhys and Pete behind the cameras, Andre and Hayden sit with a tarot reader, he's a bearded man with medium long hair a short sleeve dress shirt a bead necklace and thin bracelets.

Tarot reader: I really haven't been taking appointments for thus but I'll make an exception for you guys today.
Andre: so is this voodoo?
Reader: Oh, no, this city has more than one flavor of spooky, it's not all voodoo...alright pick a card.
Andre picks the three of wands from the reader's Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck. It shows a man in a cloak looking out a ships in a bay.
Andre: Hey is that me?
Reader: Uh, yes, actually, and "your ship is coming in", this is a good sign for you career going foreward, expansion and growt
Andre: ungh! Yeah! That's right! That's right!
Reader: OK, now you.

Thirty two
Hayden pulls card zero, the Fool, and gives hammy annoyed grin to the camera.
Hayden: whatever you guys set that up
Reader: I assure you the cards have not been tampered with
Hayden: OK, so thats my fool ass prancing off a cliff
Reader: Oh there are much scarier cards you could have pulled

Kallan and Alaine are inside a restaurant with round hanging lanterns and globe lights looking at menus
Alaine: Hmm..what are you getting?
Kallan: Uhh...maybe the tuna melt.
Alaine: Hmm...

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 1d

Twenty five:
The one with glasses stands near Hayden who sits on the bed smiling but rubbing his face like hes tired
T.O.W.G: there's one in one of the Grand Theft Auto Games
Hayden: OK what do you do there we could recreate it or like riff on it, do a parody
T.O.W.G.: Uh, nothing it's just an Easter Egg you can walk around in but nothing actually happens there
Hayden: Oh...OK....awesome
T.O.W.G.: there's a giant concrete tent and a classic car for you guys to goof around and pose with I'm sure you can think of something

Not-Hayden is hamming it up for Pete's tablet camera
"What'd you think? Think Rhys just wanted in bed with me? We're you in on it?"
"He won't talk!" He says grinning and putting his hands up as if exasperated.
Pete: I'm filming, what do you want me to say?

So T.O.W.G. The One With Glasses is named Rhys from here foreward.

Twenty six
Hayden: Alright, Pete, Andre, c'mon Rhys says we gotta shoot and I guess he's in charge now for some reason.

Derrick comes to the door and greets Kallan with a pat on the back hug.
Derrick: Hey buddy, how's it goin'? Come on in. Hey babe? Alane? Honey? Your brothers here!
Alane: Hey!
Kallan and Alane give each other a squeezey hug.

So to recap Not-Hayden's name is Andre, and the woman's name is Alane

Twenty seven
Alane: Here come sit down a minute before we go
Derrick: How was your drive over?
Kallan: Not too bad, I went the back way.
Derrick: You want something to drink?
Kallan: Oh, Uh, yeah, thank you. What do you have?

Meanwhile on the bus
Andre: nah, it's not real, I think it's just Twisters.
Hayden: What's Twisters?
Andre: Uhh...it's like Mexican food but also hamburgers.

Twenty eight.
Derrick: Uh, Come, Bud, Water, Gatorade
Kallan: Water. Ah, thank you.
Derrick: Do you guts know when you'll be back?
Alane: Uhh...it'll be a few hours. OK, you ready?

Under a spotlight Hayden and Andre look out waving.
Hayden: Alright, you guys have been a great audience, peace out.

Back on the bus Pete and Hayden sit with longneck bottles and a zip lock bag of something looking relaxed.

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 1d

Twenty one: the tour bus rides on into the night as do the Hags, there's a view of a night time city sky line and the silhouette of the owl, she and Derrick sleepily get off the couch in the now darkened room, Kallan looks on his tablet and goes to sleep, the artist still in daylight looks in the window of jewelry store

Twenty two.
A historically inaccurate medieval or reinnisance artist speaks to Kallan, he says: It's iron oxide mixed with gelatin and water I got the formula from Lirey, the bishop of Troyes took confession from a relic-maker there who revealed the whole process to him, but where he only made one shroud I shall make one to every taste! A down-to Earth Yeshua with a historical aesthetic, the logos or angel of the lord, more ethereal, one like unto the son of man, of heroic proportion, and our Jesus from art and the movies. Could you help me carry I over yonder into the sun please? So you you still have the dream where he's in the other room? Oh not Him, I didn't think you'd become pious. Ha! You know who I mean.
Meanwhile Thrud tucks money into her belt, a man is seen in possession of the necklace and the artist sees it displayed through his store front window.

Twenty three:
They walk outside and lay the shroud on a table in the sun.
Kallan : I don't, I, uh, I'm just living my own life right now and, um, what you think about when you're awake affects what you dream.
The other relic maker: Aye, well speaking of piety the Bible does warn "keep yourself from idols" "love seeketh not her own". Eve was created to be Adam's companion but it wasn't until after she sinned that she was cursed to desire him. In the wilderness they were nearly dawned for adoring the golden calf. Hmmm...do you suppose people might want shrouds with the image of Lazarus?
There is a panel of a cave woman with a heart by her head watching a sleeping cave man with a letter Z by his head, and another of a calf statue with flower petals falling.

Twenty four:
Kallan: Uh...maybe, I don't know. You'd need something to show who it's supposed to be though.
The relic-maker: Yea, with these I take some of the iron oxide and make paint to color in the five wounds. Thank you for your help, if this makes me famous I shall introduce you to whoever you like, eh?
Kallan continues to sleep. Hayden and the rest are in a concrete tent shaped room in the desert with a shrub, a bench and a decorative classic car around it.
Not-Hayden: sigh, OK we're here at the world famous teepee motel we gonna film? If we're gonna get cancelled let's get it over with.
The One With Glasses: Well. It's a wigwam hotel. There's more than one.
Hayden: Wait!? What!? This isn't even the only one? The four of us piled into a two-bed room for no reason then!? This isn't a landmark!?
The One With Glasses: Yeah, yes, they all are. Look you're the one who didn't want to blow money on rooms that we were only going to use for a few hours.
Not-Hayden: Welp, tours off to a great start. You gettin' all this Pete?
Pete films with his camera, the other one's name is Pete now.

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 1d

Seventeen: Kallan's haircut continued.
Kallan: get something to eat.
Barber: you go down there a lot?
Kallan: Not really it's been a good long while since I've seen her.
Barber: Yeah, yeah? So what are we doing with the beard today?
Next scene the woman with the little dog takes it out to the yard, but this time on the side of the house away from the tree. She watches for the owl.

Eighteen: she goes back inside
Derrick: Hey, honey I looked at that tree out there and I didn't see a nest.
Back to Doctor Wode she's now stepped out of her trailer: The eldritch ones have spoken Hags. We're selling it, it was given to us to sell. Alright, who knows how to get on the inter-tube?
Three panels of Hayden and his girlfriend spending the day together one of him in the back seat of an Uber or Lyft or Taxi with a large suitcase sized travel bag.

Nineteen: Hayden and all get on the tour bus. Back in Hag territory Thrud responds to Doctor Wode: to get on the internet we'd need computers, or at least phones.
Doctor Wode: bunch of damn high tech bullshit! Just ride out to the city and sell it then buy gas and ammo...and bring receipts! Don't put it on, don't touch it with your bare hands, and don't let them do it either!
Kallan's barber: ah, dude, you're pretty. Damn, took off ten years? Fifteen years? Ha-ha Alright man man I'm just playin' OK here comes the alcohol 3, 2, 1

Twenty
Doctor Wode walks away.
Thrud puts her arm around a cryptid, slightly shorter than her with with big glowing bulb eyes and a dark grey sheet ghost body, "OK she's gone. Look it's been fun but I got to go, we can meet up again some time but you can't hang around and don't tell anyone you were here."
Our heroine walks through the door and tells Derrick as she sits down beside him "I'm just not going to worry about it right now. Is there anything on?"
Hayden stuffs his bag into a drawer below the luxury tour bus seats as one of the behind the scenes guys pokes out from behind a curtain, the other records while narrating "OK here we are first day of the tour" and his co-star sits smiling and posing for the camera.
The artist looks in the display window of a crystal shop.

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 1d

Thirteen: she sighs then replies "Pax only weighs a couple of pounds. Derrick: "OK, OK I've just never heard of an owl trying to eat a dog before, I've never even seen one out here!" Her: "It was in the tree next door it was like two feet tall!" Derrick: "I gotta spy on our neighbors now? Alright let me look up a photo of an owls nest...".
Doctor Wode sits face down on the table in her trailer with a burned out votive candle and a near empty bottle of whisky: "Ïa! Ïa! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Hydra Y'hanthlei wgah'nagl fhtagn”.
Hayden sits on the couch with the remote in one hand and his girlfriend snuggled up against him. She says "Sooo..." he replies "So?". Girlfriend: "Did you find out what the schedule is going to be?" Hayden: "Uh, yeah, we leave Wednesday and we'll be gone two and a half weeks"

Fourteen. Hayden: You gonna miss me? Her: Yeah...what time are you leaving? Hayden: That night, we're meeting up at seven. Her: Do you want to do something together that morning? Hayden: Yeah, sure.
Doctor Wode dreams of the necklace chaning hands to the woman from the start of the comic, from a statue of an angel, from a bearded white man in a polo shirt and khakis on a plane, from an aboriginal young man in blue jeans, from an old time Chinese merchant in an office, from an Ethiopian merchant in a shop, from a Khoikhoi man, from a West African merchant in a market.

Sixteen: Doctor Wode wakes up, the guy is still testing lights displays counting one, two, three four. Kallan is at his barber shop appointment.
Barber: you got any big plans for the weekend.
Kallan: Uh, we'll I'm driving to to the city to see my sister Sunday. Barber: Oh yea? Y'all doing anything or just hanging out?
Kallan: Uh, yeah we're going to a thing downtown and we'll probably go...

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 1d

Nine. Hayden Bowers: "we already have a show, the show is the show, if we need an intro we can just, I don't know, we can film the drive up to the venue and, and like put music over it." Man one: "OK see that's B roll, what we want is for the viewer to feel like they're alone for thd trip with us and to be excited when they see us hanging around their hometown. Hayden: "Uhhh...OK. Yeah OK.mSo what's the plan?" Man One: "Uh, yeah, I've got a list here of places and events we can film at." Scene two, Doctor Wode sits smoking something in front of her trailer in the woods:"Drop it in the bucket Gunnr. Alright...'dismissed'".

Ten. Gunnr walk away and Doctor Wode says to her assistant "No, the bucket too, hand it to me in the bucket." She then retires to her trailer where she prays "Ïa Shub Nigh-joor-ath, Wild Goat of the Woods With A Thousand Young, Ïa, Hydra F'tagn, Hydra F'tagn, Great Hydra waits in Y'hanthlei! Sanguinem Bibimus, Corpus Edimus, Thing in Yellow, Queen in Red. Hail Bloody Mary. Ave Lamia, who shall find rest for herself in Zion, Blessed Be Madam Koi Koi, Poludnica the Noonday Demon, Ol' Higue, and LA Llorona. Praises to Iara D'Agua, Kuchisake-Onna, and to the high priestess of King's Park." Next scene, a man sits in the dark clicking a bright light on and off from an unseen source in front of him

Eleven. The guy from last page turns the lights on, drops a spherical gem in a box with square slots some of which have spherical or crystalline gems of various sizes, then makes a phone call.
Kallan is watching another livestream. Noah: "Moocifer: I think I saw you at Zinefest but I didn't say anything because I didn't want to make it weird for you." That's not weird I know I say I'm, like, a very private person I real life but you guys can say hi to me if you see me out, especially at an event like that, it's not weird for me. Except for that one housemate I actually don't get recognized from this all that much. Moocifer spelled with two zeros and a three types a reply: I didn't want to come across parasocial and weird. Kallan Bale responds in the chat: I get that there's a streamer I'm like that with. Don't worry Noah it's not you (no offense) I've actually stopped watching him because if it.

Twelve. The chat continues: moocifer: "at Kallum Bale Oh are you doing OK?" Jemmy 360 "you shoukd make a zine. I'd but it" Paul iz All: "You hear that chat? He says it's OK to stalk him!" Kallum Bale: "Yeah I'm doing good". The streamer reads "Rocko's Modern Basilisk asks 'Are you into zines?' I'm getting into them that was kind of what drew me to zine fest, just like curiosity". Kallan gets a reminder on his phone of a two o clock barber shop appointment.
New scene the woman who texted Kallan earlier is sitting by thd window with a woman friend. The friend says "Hi Derrick" she says "Hey Babe if you're going out there can you kinda look and see if there's an owls nest?" Derrick says "Hey...what?" She continues "There was a huge owl out there it would've got Pax" Derrick repeats: "What?"

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 1d

Five, the car continues speeding into the night and we switch to an unknown man getting off work going home and laying on the bed looking at his device. He is recommended a video, hots not interested and gets a text saying "hey" with a smiley face emoji

Six. Kallan receives a text from a woman who resembles him a little if I drew her right. "HEY 🙂 are you still coming Sunday? Kallan: if you still want to Her: of course! Kallan: What time should I come down there. Her: whenever is fine. A question mark is above Kallan's head. Kallan : 12? Her: OK Kallan: OK I'll see you then LY. Her: LY2. A streamer is playing a video game. Stramer: so chat we did we already go this way? This looks familiar have - oh no...OK so I just looks similar indigo, in, um, I dig zero but, ah fuck. OK I think I can go for maybe another hour then I have to do research for my next video. Would you guys be to for a research stream? OK...OK...I'm seeing a lot of yes-es and maybes. Kallan Bale: 'I you've gotta do it anyway the only difference is if you decide to leave the camera on' yeah that's true.

Seven. Streamer: "OK. We're gonna go for another hour then we'll see what the vibes are." The woman from the previous page is washing dishes and hears her little dog yipping. "Hey you need to go out." She attaches the dog's leash and goes outside where she sees a great horned owl staring at them.

Eight. The owl raises its wings like it might lunge at the woman's small puppy and she picks the puppy up and goes back inside. The next panels are in a non descript room. Man one says "We need somewhere to shoot like an intro or just footage of you guys around each city." Man two: "Yeah B roll" Man one: "No that's, uh...that's still not what B roll is." Man three throws a ball up in the air and it konks him on the eye: "why don't we -oop- uh, just like talk to the locals when we get there and find out where the real cool stuff is not all the touristy stuff?" Man one: I mean...I see what you're saying and maybe we'll find something like that, great, but let's have a plan to fall back on so we're not just wandering around getting off schedule" Hayden Bowers, last seen I Signal Tower says: "eh...do we really need go though?"

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 1d

OK here's my big ten post, forty page, catch up mega-thread with alt text for my work in progress #Comix #WebComics #MiniComics

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 1d

That's pretty much what Candle Jar is about. #QueerPrompts

Front cover of Candle Jar, a white Candle lit in a little jar with an orangey sphere of light against a textured white background and the title above it in blue cursive.

Back cover of Candle Jar a deers head against a dark tree filled skyline with a bright blue sky and white clouds

Page from Candle Jar
Dr. Joseph Schalman opens his kitchen cabinet door where there a possum hisding at him, which vanishes a moment later

Page from Candle Jar

James and Kirk eating cereal

Kirk: The complicated answer is that changing my mind about the supernatural woukd require free will but free will can't exist in a naturalistic universe. Thoughts are just electricity moving around I the brain and electrons are governed by the same laws of physics as everything else. So either the supernatural exists...or it doesn't but it's not up to me whether or not .I believe in it anyway.
James: OK but there's believing in God or whatever and then there's believing you can cast spells.
Kirk: Every major religion believes in it, even the ones that forbid it, and there's stuff like faith healing but that's usually stage magic. Theres even the theory that prehistoric art sites like the Lascaux cave and Gobekli Tepe were temples where they did magick.

Panels with Doctor Wode in a trance, Emmanuel praying, Alvin playing his panpipes, a bigfoot chewing herbs and clacking rocks together, and Mr. Betancourt the babalawo from Easter Sunday lighting a candle.

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Limax Arionidae 3452nd @spacearistocrat.bsky.social · 8d

Had a great time at Granite Con interviewing fellow creators. Check out the latest video where I interview @mabatsis.bsky.social about his latest comic! @nerdcaliber.bsky.social

Full video here: youtu.be/055_EB-udhU?...

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 4d

New page.
I'll probably post the next page or the one after that as a big catch up thread sometime this week or this upcoming weekend.
#Comix #DIYComics #WebComics #HandDrawnComics #OCs #MiniComics #IndieComics

Rough comix excerpt page one of four

Hayden and Andre: Welcom to Carpe Cajonés.

Kallan looks on as if in a trance
Alane: Kallan? You OK?

The little spherical gem lights up. Hayden looks over his glasses with a stunned expression.

Kallan: Oh, yeah, I'm fine.
Hayden: Let, I'll be back in a minute.

Pete follows him camera in hand,

Hayden: Pete

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Hayden: I'm not doing a "thing" right now, give me a minute, go film Andre

Pete crosses his eyebrows and smirks with annoyance as Hayden weaves through the crowd.

Hayden: H-Hey, uh, hey, you guys know the, like, the name artist for this thing?
Kallan: Javion Pickett
Hayden: OK you just helped me and my buddies look less like idiots. So, uh, you two fans if his?
Kallan: Uh, we only found out about him recently. You're Hayden right!

Rough comix excerpt page three of four

Hayden: Oh, yep. Did'ya overhear or are you a, uh
Kallan: I've seen Carpe Cajonés and your stuff pops up on my feed sometimes. I know who you are...Do you know who I am?
Hayden: I...I, uh...What are you on? You want to follow each other.
Kallan: Sure, let me see I I can get a signal.
Both: Alright, alright.

A finger clicks follow, a finger clicks follow back.

Rough comix excerpt page four of four

Hayden: OK, nove to meet'ya...Kallan
Kallan: You too Hayden.

They fist bump and Hayden walks away waving, Kallan and Alane are now walking back to the car.

Alane: So did y'all know each other or not?
Kallan: First time we ever met. He's on a podcast.
Alane: So you watch it?
Kallan: I've seen it before.

Back with the cast and crew of Carpe Cajonés

Hayden: OK let's go. I need to eat and get ready.
Andre: Uh, alright. You OK?
Hayden: Oh yeah, I'm fine.

Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 5d

I dont know if small zoos like this are OK, but I wasn't going to abstain from seeing a giraffe this close.
#Giraffe #Emu #Zebra #Camel

A giraffe reaching its head up to eat leaves next to a little statue of a dark purplish red dragon.

Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 5d

Women not presenting fem, guys being preoccupied w/ guys, skeptical depiction of the Shroud of Turin, the occult, blue hair and pronouns coded background figures, implied Sapphic monsterloving. Pretty tame actually. Doesn't even have Alvin dancing around dressed in flower garlands. #QueerPrompts

Collage of the first nine pages of my W.I.P I plan to post the first forty pages in a thread with alt text descriptions for the vision impaired in the next week or two.

Sticker of Alvin dancing around and playing panpipes wearing only flower garlands (with some hidden support so they fit and cover everything and stay on)

Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 6d

If you have money and access to a real comic shop (meaning one with a local stuff and/or minicomics and zines rack) and you're not buying anything off of said rack, you're kind of a poser

Oh you're a comics fan? Name three comics you got that no one's ever heard of (or like...vaguely describe them)

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 6d

Dr Wode, world, easy, no hesitation
Alvin, unclear how close he is to anyone but the Trolley problem would be a dilemma for him.
Emmanuel, the world is temp and salvation is spiritual, hard to say
Chewie, the world is where he gets food for himself and his family, has no concept of saving it
#<3oc

from Fried Squash, Doctor Wode to the other Hags: Get your hands off me you limp wristed candy girls, you maggot cowards! Charge! Attack!

Collage of images of Alvin, playing panpipes and dancing around wearing flower garlands, looking at the stars, and laughing

From Unclean Beasts, Emmanuel preaches: A voice from the East, a voice from the West, a voice from the four winds

Collage of images of Chewie with his hoodie up, and down, and holding a chicken in his jaws

Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 8d

New page!
#Comix #MiniComics #WebComics #OCs #ComixSky #IndieComics #DIYComics #HandDrawnComics

Rough comix excerpt page one of four

Kallan and Alane leave the restaurant

Kallan: should we just leave the car here?
Alane: Yeah I'll be fine. OK it's around the corner here.

They come upon an outdoor stage with an LED wall, a window shaped screen, a flat traffic light shaped screen, Christmas lights, and rectangular flat screens all arranged around an odd stand under glass with a little pole and a hexagonal backing displaying a little round gem.
A small crowd is gathered.

" guidelines for photosensitive viewers also"

All the lights except the center stand turn on.
Kallan watches the show then his jaw drops slightly as he heard from off panel

"OK 3, 2, 1, action. I'm Andre Silvers and I'm Hayden Bowers, welcome to Carpe Cajonés"

Rough comix excerpt page two of four

Hayden and Andre: Welcom to Carpe Cajonés.

Kallan looks on as if in a trance
Alane: Kallan? You OK?

The little spherical gem lights up. Hayden looks over his glasses with a stunned expression.

Kallan: Oh, yeah, I'm fine.
Hayden: Let, I'll be back in a minute.

Pete follows him camera in hand,

Hayden: Pete

Rough comix excerpt page three of four

Hayden: I'm not doing a "thing" right now, give me a minute, go film Andre

Pete crosses his eyebrows and smirks with annoyance as Hayden weaves through the crowd.

Hayden: H-Hey, uh, hey, you guys know the, like, the name artist for this thing?
Kallan: Javion Pickett
Hayden: OK you just helped me and my buddies look less like idiots. So, uh, you two fans if his?
Kallan: Uh, we only found out about him recently. You're Hayden right!

Rough comix excerpt page four of four

Hayden: Oh, yep. Did'ya overhear or are you a, uh
Kallan: I've seen Carpe Cajonés and your stuff pops up on my feed sometimes. I know who you are...Do you know who I am?
Hayden: I...I, uh...What are you on? You want to follow each other.
Kallan: Sure, let me see I I can get a signal.
Both: Alright, alright.

A finger clicks follow, a finger clicks follow back.

Reposted by Jerry Caleb Faw

Limax Arionidae 3452nd @spacearistocrat.bsky.social · 10d

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Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 9d

My last comic vaguely referenced 1 Samuel 18:1-4 which probably isn't literal history but that reading of it has a history. #QueerPrompts

From Unclean Beasts
Alvin walks into a room where King David is talking to the Anarch in a dream sequence
"His father asks who my father was so I tell him. I knew the king had sons so I knew who he was but..."

Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 10d

The Last Broadcast
War of the Gargantuas
Alien Abduction (2011)

Not the most mind bendingly terrifying movies, but something a little different maybe.

Jerry Caleb Faw @jcalebfaw.bsky.social · 10d

Emmanuel is an, I guess, Christian street preacher who sometimes has religious visions.
Doctor Wode worships Lovecraftian eldritch goddesses and reveres legendary boogey-women as saints.
A lot of my characters do magick and divination.
#DailyOCs

From Unclean Beasts
Emmanuel: and God did set his bow in the cloud and it shall be a token of the covenant that the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh, but all that flesh is dead now, he said never though and Noah's bloodline I still alive, maybe it can still be stopped.
Alvin: What? The glaciers melting?
Emmanuel: What? No, no, Florida going underwater ain't going to destroy all flesh.
Alvin: then what?
Emmanuel's neice: Unclean Emmanuel! Uncle Emmanuel! Where have you been?

From Fried Squash
Doctor Wode: Sanguinem bibimus, corpus edimus, tolle corpus! Iä Shub Nigh-joor-ath! Thing in yellow, queen in red. Her great and terrible...turn day into ni...she eraddica...of a hungry spider or an angry bear defending her cubs, she tears flesh from bone and sinew. She lurks...but also is the...cold grave and...The hour has co e the stones themselves trevail, they shall open the crypt doors to the abysmal womb of nature and bear!

From Unclean Beasts
(In a dream) King David: Uh just a song expressing gratitude to God, but could be both, when my predecessor ran all the yiddeoni out of the kingdom I think people looked to my music to fill that void, one of my sons actually knows more about that stuff than I do..."Thick clouds passed, hail stones and clouds of fire.

Pictured: a Canaanite shaman wearing a ram skin and a bead necklace beating a drum, King Solomon on his throne with his hoopoe birds showing his ring to a horned bat winged figure with a chain around his neck. Stella from Easter Sunday and Signal Tower mixing oils in her metaphysical shop. Kirk from Candle Jar at his makeshift magickal altar.

Alvin: So he's real, I assumed he was a legend. Does he normally break into song mid-sentence?
The Scribe: Real? Legend? Alvin my friend you could just as easily be sitting here between Henry Kissinger and the Easter Bunny.