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Ray Baehr

@cavetoonist.bsky.social

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I'm a cartoonist, prehistory buff, and sci-fi nerd with a degree in anthropology! 🌟 Available for work as an inker for comics! (they/them) cavetoonist.com

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · Aug 1

I launched my webcomic today! 🚀✨ VALOR is a sci-fi comic about a team of salvage operators who grapple with what it means to be human after discovering an illegal humanoid robot abandoned on a derelict transport ship. I'd be so delighted if you check it out!!! :3 valorbot.webcomic.ws

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 16d

I'll be available for work again in October if anyone is looking for an inker! 👀🖤 cavetoonist.com#hireme

Cavetoonist

Comics and Art by Ray Baehr

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 2d

VALOR page 012 is up! Our mysterious guest is finally AWAKE! 👀 I decided to go ahead and move updates to Mondays. I'm feeling good about it and will do my best to keep up the pace!
Read from the beginning: valorbot.webcomic.ws/comics/1/
Get early access and support the comic: patreon.com/cavetoonist

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 5d

October!!!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 6d

I just have to post this #iceage masterpiece from time to time: A tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago.

Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.

📷 me
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A mammoth figurine carved from ivory, its surface weathered with age. The shape captures the essence of the animal, with a prominent trunk and sloping back. The figure is displayed on a metal stand against a dark background.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking about moving VALOR updates to Mondays. 🤔 Friday updates have been stressing me out!

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 8d

it is just tragic to get extremely excited about something in the webcomic that i will not get to for quite a while

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 8d

They are so cute! I love them!

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Yasmeen ✨ ياسمين @yamisha.bsky.social · 9d

~COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!~

At last, here they are :D
Please check my site: yasmeencoms.carrd.co for details. Contact me if you are interested in a commission.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 10d

I graduated school and I'm between jobs right now so I've been feeling very discombobulated! I wish I knew how to relax! 😂 I made myself a schedule that I'm going to commit to for a month to see how it goes. Trying to create a guilt-free balance between comics work, family time, and chilling out!!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10d

Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife.

📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology

The picture shows a terracotta horse with a rider on four wheels.

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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 10d

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey.

Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 12d

You had me at sci-fi and aliens! It looks great!! Love the title tooooo 👀

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 12d

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 12d

VALOR page 011 is up! 👀✨
Read from the beginning: valorbot.webcomic.ws/comics/1/
Get early access to new pages: patreon.com/cavetoonist

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 13d

It's done!

Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 13d

Really going through it this week, but I should have a page of VALOR ready tomorrow in spite of it all. 😤

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 13d

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you, Raina!! 💖

Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 16d

I'll be available for work again in October if anyone is looking for an inker! 👀🖤 cavetoonist.com#hireme

Cavetoonist

Comics and Art by Ray Baehr

cavetoonist.com

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 17d

Sometimes thinking of an illustration as a one panel comic helps me! 😂

Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 18d

If you're enjoying VALOR I hope you'll consider becoming a patron! You'll get to read new pages early and see my development art. Every dollar greatly helps the production of the comic and if enough people sign up I might be able to release pages more often! Thank you!! 😊✨ patreon.com/cavetoonist

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 18d

If bsky implodes I'm not joining the next thing.. 🫠

Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 19d

VALOR page 010 is up! Double digits!! 👀✨
Read from the beginning: valorbot.webcomic.ws/comics/1/
Get early access to new pages: patreon.com/cavetoonist

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Yasmeen ✨ ياسمين @yamisha.bsky.social · 20d

I never made a pinned introduction post, so here it is! Hello! 👋

I post about my interests here (prehistory, art, video games, animals, etc).

I enjoy drawing animals and make fandom fanart.
Currently writing a prehistoric graphic novel about Neanderthals.
Majored in Anthropology.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 22d

I've been so distracted this week, but I'm sloooooowly chipping away at some new pages for VALOR! I feel like I'm getting the hang of drawing my characters haha! I love them so much!! 🥹

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