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Everett Wilson
@everettwilson.bsky.social
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Illustrator, printmaker, cartoonist. Also Senior Director of Audience Engagement at Wordfest, Calgary, Canada. he/him.

https://www.everettwilson.ca
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Missed @lianafinck.bsky.social's livestream a couple weeks ago, but I got all caught up. This weekend, I made my first “stranded on a desert” island gag #cartoon. This one is maybe too "meta."
Illustration of two characters stranded on a desert island. One says to the other, I'm told the best jokes are made only two kilometers from here.
August 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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This question has been brought to you by the letter "H." Another #animation test.
July 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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New #animation experiment.
July 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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My illustration for @wordfest.com ‘s Reading in the Wild event is out — updated from last year’s debut.

The result: a new colour scheme, more kids, more puppies, more music, and a bonus ice cream obsession. wordfest.com/2025/event/r...
Mockup of a poster design on a wood panelled wall. The poster depicts Memorial Park Library in Calgary, surrounded by characters reading, listening to live music, and eating ice cream. The figures are drawn in a pictogram style reminiscent of street signs. Full detail of the illustration from the poster featured in the previous mockup image. The illustration depicts characters reading, dancing to music, and eating and sharing ice cream cones.
May 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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My fascination with periscopes stretches back to my childhood when I remember lusting after a 1980s Fisher Price toy version that a friend owned. Or maybe I found it at daycare. Who remembers? #illustration #cartoon #humor
Grid of illustrations depicting a periscope toy representing different Periscoping Mindsets such as bored, surprised, sad, frustrated, distracted, unfocused, horrified, distressed, and lost.
May 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Turned this #writingprompt response from my “642 Things to Write About” journal into a cartoon this weekend: comic.pushbuttonheads.com/p/made-it-al...
Scan of a page from a writing prompt journal that asks you to describe The Biggest Lie Anyone Told You. The response: It’s like when someone tries to describe the biggest fish she has ever caught. Inevitably arms stretch out wider than they should. The same thing happened when this guy, with arms outstretched, tried to show me the biggest lie anyone told him. The sheer size of the lie was beyond belief. It was as if he was making the whole thing up.
April 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I ended up watching *Electric State* on Netflix tonight, if only because I wanted to see for myself the typographical anomaly @keyavadgama.bsky.social spotted on the clock midway through the movie. open.substack.com/pub/keyavadg... #typography #GraphicDesign
Screenshot of a video player paused at one hour seven minutes into the Netflix movie Electric State. A vintage street clock is shown with the numbers 9 and 2 being used in place of a 6 and 7.
April 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Another variation on the theme of “that meeting could have been an email.” Join my newsletter for more Push Button Heads comics. comic.pushbuttonheads.com #humor #jokes #illustration #cartoons #comics
Illustration of three people and two dogs, all looking at their phones intently. There are three question marks inside speech bubbles above each of their heads. The caption reads, That party-planning group chat could have been a calendar invite.
April 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Variations on the theme: “that meeting could have been an email.” Join my newsletter for more from my Push Button Heads series: comic.pushbuttonheads.com #humor #jokes #illustration #cartoons #comics
Illustration of someone performing brain surgery on the foreground. In the background, there is another character with a clipboard in hand looking at a whiteboard on wheels with sticky notes. The caption reads, That brainstorm could have been an elective lobotomy.
April 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Lorem Ipsum makes no sense. #typography #GraphicDesign #tshirt
Photo selfie of a linocut, hand pressed T-shirt I made featuring lettering in an interlocked style that reads, Lorem Ipsum makes no sense, a common placeholder text that has been used by typographers and graphic designers for centuries.
April 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Taking www.ecosia.org for a spin as an alternate search engine. Even made it the default on my phone. Didn’t know that was possible.
March 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Still the best way to describe the location of my family's cabin. #GraphicDesign #Illustration
Illustration of a deserted landscape with sign planted on the ground to the left that says Middle of Nowhere. Further to the right of that sign is another that reads, Adjacent to the Middle of Nowhere. Then in the distance is the outline of a densely populated city with a billboard above it that reads, Somewhere.
March 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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If anyone is curious, this is how I respond to writing #prompts.
Scan of a writing prompt from the 642 Things to Write About book. The prompt reads The Fortune Teller in the Window. The handwritten response reads, She accidentally washed her hands with Novocain that morning. So when she tried to pick up her glass ball, it slipped from her fingers and landed on her big toe. The neighbours witnessed the whole ordeal from the window.
March 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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This cartoon from my Push Button Heads series is hardly my best work... comic.pushbuttonheads.com #GraphicDesign #illustration #cartoon
Illustration of a building with a sign on the roof that says Inferiority Complex. There is a billboard next to the reading leading up to the building that reads, Skip this Place. Don’t even bother. Then after the road continues past the building toward the horizon, another billboard reads, Find Superior Complexes 50 kilometres ahead.
March 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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My week in a nutshell. I work in the non-profit sector, and the end of March is when all of our grant reporting and applications come due. #humor #cartoon
Illustration showing a bird’s eye view of a couple tucked under he sheets in bed with their dog sleeping at their feet. The duvet cover looks like the grid of a spreadsheet program, and the caption reads, I’m really liking these new spreadsheets.
March 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Another watch face design inspired by my Push Button Heads cartoon series. #design #graphicdesign #AppleWatch
Photo of an Apple Watch with a custom watch face illustration showing two characters and a dog sitting on a bench, watching the ocean waves.
March 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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This cover of T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland is my all-time favourite.
March 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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A t-shirt design for my state of mind this morning. You can get yours in my shop here. www.dollarstoredoodles.com/product/lapt... #shirt #graphicdesign #artshop
Photo of me wearing a red t-shirt with a white screen print of a Pictogram illustration depicting someone at their desk with a laptop and a shower head up above spurting water on their head.
March 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Here’s another of my new watch face designs from my Push Button Heads series. This one has a vacation vibe. The pups always deserve their own lounge chairs, don’t they?
Photo of an Apple Watch with a watch face featuring an illustration of three human characters and two dogs each sitting in lounge chairs relaxing. The top half of the illustration is empty to make space for the date and time. In the background of the photo is the same image open as a working file in Adobe Illustrator.
March 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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New watch face design drawn from my Push Button Heads comic strip. Not as hard to customize as I thought it would be. #graphicdesign
Photo of an Apple Watch on my wrist in front of a open Adobe Illustrator file on my laptop in the background. The illustration has two characters sitting on a couch looking up in the direction of the time shown on the centre of the watch.
March 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This is the drawing that sparked the creation of my “Push Button Heads” characters and weekly cartoon strip. Can’t believe it’s almost been four years. comic.pushbuttonheads.com/p/hello-world
Sketch of different head shapes incrementally rotated on their axis to show various viewing angles. The heads are shaped as cubes, cylinders, and hemispheres of varying heights. A handwritten title in the corner reads Push Button Heads next to Everett Wilson’s initials, E. A. W.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I don’t necessarily recommend “Doom Strolling” either, but it’s hard to avoid these days.
Cartoon illustration of a person walking with a stick. Above is a speech bubble full of squiggly lines. Caption reads Analog Equivalent: Doom Strolling.
February 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Some folk art finds in Hawi, the northern-most tip of the Big Island of Hawaii.
Painted piece of wood in a garden that reads Boycott Fear. Sandals turned upside down in a garden full of Aloe Vera plants. The sandals are painted with the words Facts Matter. Laminated sign that reads Blake’s Corner. Art from the Heart. I paint found objects with the Alohaflage pattern and give my work away. Expressing joy one brush stroke at a time is my thrive to Keep Aloha Alive. I would love it if you could send pictures of where art landed in your life.
January 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Always love a good sticker collage! #stickers #GraphicDesign #collage
January 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Happy New Year from the Push Button Heads! #cartoon #illustration #NewYears
Multi-panel comic showing the exterior of an apartment where people inside are counting down from 9, only they keep going past zero and count down to minus 2 before realizing they’ve gone too far with their New Year’s count-down.
January 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM