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Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak

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NYT Best selling cartoonist, salamander enthusiast and aquarium nerd. He/him Patreon.com/blackmudpuppy Portfolio: ethankocak.com Shop: blackmudpuppy.myshopify.com Blog: mossyunderlog.blog Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/blackmudpuppy

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Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · May 14

Hey! I'm letting you know I have stuff:
Portfolio: ethankocak.com
Patreon: Patreon.com/blackmudpuppy
Shop: blackmudpuppy.myshopify.com
Webcomic/GN: theunfamiliars.site
Blog: mossyunderlog.blog

The Unfamiliars – ©2025 Ethan Kocak

theunfamiliars.site

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 10m

1000 lbs of angry ice age megafauna that can just decide to end you for no reason. What’s not to love

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 14m

Ah my skyline is mostly talking about the lethality of moose today. Honestly, it’s an improvement.

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 18m

Would not surprise me in the least

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 26m

Exactly

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 55m

Yes exactly

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 1h

APPARENTLY

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 1h

Me: hey look at these baby giant geckos I hatched!
Random person: they don’t look giant to me!
Me: …..did…did you spring forth from your father’s head fully formed like Athena? Is the concept of babies not a thing where you are?

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 1h

You assume correctly, although Gram doesn’t know it yet.

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Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 23h

Read my comic

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 2d

theunfamiliars.site/comic/32/

In which Gram decides maybe the soil witch with her familiar Larry Otter can help.

Gram the cat, teary-eyed and holding a cactus: Surely she should be able to help. One of the Seven should at least.

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Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 20h

I did it. I put one on morphmarket finally. www.morphmarket.com/us/c/reptile...

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 1h

Really most large herbivores are dangerous.

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 1h

This is why I laugh really hard at people who are like “oh it’s a herbivore, it’s safe to pet.” Bitch have you seen a rhino

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 2h

Not currently but I have in the past.

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 3h

They’re the largest living species of gecko!

My finger next to an adult male Leachianus gecko

My finger and a penny next to my largest leachianus gecko, Karen.

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 3h

Hatched my first giant geckos in August!

A baby gecko shout poking out of its egg.

Baby Leachianus (New Caledonian giant geckos) next to its sibling’s egg

Day old R. leachianus gecko on my hand.

Two baby Leachianus geckos on a piece of cork bark.

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Charlie Higson @cphigson.bsky.social · 4h

Looking for a job is great because you ask people for jobs and then they say no

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 12h

I WANT TO GROW THESE LITTLE GUYS 🥺🥺🥺

A detail from the preceding comic panel. Two little tree saplings with spooky/sad faces are growing in a pot.

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 14h

As best as one can gently explain to a child

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 14h

Like 90% of parenting is attempting to keep a straight face during things like that.

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 14h

As a guy who’s been balding since 18, thanks for that. Society is pretty mean about it.

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 14h

Yes gnomes in Gorph are essentially rodents

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 14h

Once when my son was around that ago we had to leave a funeral because he kept asking where the zombies were

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 15h

It’s cool, no worries :)

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 15h

its me. And the comic is theunfamiliars.site

The Unfamiliars – ©2025 Ethan Kocak

theunfamiliars.site

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 16h

You garden sorta also gets a cameo

narrator: WANDA HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO BELONG TO A BAND. SHE JUST HADN'T FIGURED IT WOULDN'T BE A MUSICAL ONE.
Griselda: LET'S START WITH A SIMPLE TRANSFER SPELL.

A garden scene with a cat in a witch hat holding a stick bug as a wand.