Douglas Laubacher
@inkwits.com
Draws the comic strip "Unbound." Cartoonist, teaching artist & member of the National Cartoonist Society. I share my comics and talk about videogames here. (He/Him)
Website - iNKWiTs.com
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Website - iNKWiTs.com
Newsletter - iNKWiTs.substack.com
Shop - iNKWiTs.bigcartel.com
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Douglas Laubacher
@inkwits.com
· Sep 1
I drove around this weekend and did my thing - I dropped off copies of my new book Unbound: Lost On Shelf in Little Free Libraries throughout NE Ohio! And as of today, you can snag a copy for yourself here: inkwits.bigcartel.com/product/unbo...
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Here's my strip for the @peanutscollab.bsky.social redraw project! Happy 75th anniversary, Charlie Brown! This is the strip that originally ran on February 15th 1991 - my birthday! Shouts out to @waggtoon.bsky.social for putting this together! I had a blast with the lettering.
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Here's my strip for the @peanutscollab.bsky.social redraw project! Happy 75th anniversary, Charlie Brown! This is the strip that originally ran on February 15th 1991 - my birthday! Shouts out to @waggtoon.bsky.social for putting this together! I had a blast with the lettering.
Tom Racine doesn't appear to be here on Bluesky, but we got his new book of Tolkien cartoons! These are phenomenal. Little Edward Gorey-like illustrations accompanied by a ton of wit!
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Tom Racine doesn't appear to be here on Bluesky, but we got his new book of Tolkien cartoons! These are phenomenal. Little Edward Gorey-like illustrations accompanied by a ton of wit!
Here's my strip for the @peanutscollab.bsky.social redraw project! Happy 75th anniversary, Charlie Brown! This is the strip that originally ran on February 15th 1991 - my birthday! Shouts out to @waggtoon.bsky.social for putting this together! I had a blast with the lettering.
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Here's my strip for the @peanutscollab.bsky.social redraw project! Happy 75th anniversary, Charlie Brown! This is the strip that originally ran on February 15th 1991 - my birthday! Shouts out to @waggtoon.bsky.social for putting this together! I had a blast with the lettering.
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Finished page from THE DISSIDENTS. I'm putting the last touches on this bad boy. It'll be in the can by Thanksgiving! What a relief.
Out in Fall 2026, y'all.
Out in Fall 2026, y'all.
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Finished page from THE DISSIDENTS. I'm putting the last touches on this bad boy. It'll be in the can by Thanksgiving! What a relief.
Out in Fall 2026, y'all.
Out in Fall 2026, y'all.
Reject modernity. Return to cassette tape.
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Reject modernity. Return to cassette tape.
Your task today is to go listen to more Mint Jams.
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Your task today is to go listen to more Mint Jams.
I just got back from the theatrical showing of Angel's Egg. I feel spoiled seeing what was once an obscure OVA on the big screen. It's as weird and interesting as I ever remember.
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I just got back from the theatrical showing of Angel's Egg. I feel spoiled seeing what was once an obscure OVA on the big screen. It's as weird and interesting as I ever remember.
These mint jams are the only salve that will heal my wounded soul.
November 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
These mint jams are the only salve that will heal my wounded soul.
You're telling me all those ugly, chunky back sprites were a conscientious artistic decision? I always wondered about those. I also thought it made Blastoise look like he had a beak.
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
You're telling me all those ugly, chunky back sprites were a conscientious artistic decision? I always wondered about those. I also thought it made Blastoise look like he had a beak.
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IDW SONIC 82 OUT TODAY !!
Ayyyy this cover got revealed for SDCC while I was away this weekend 🎪✨ my B cover for IDW Sonic 82!
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
IDW SONIC 82 OUT TODAY !!
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
Excuse me as I, once again, turn to dust...
Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” first appeared 40 years ago, on November 18, 1985. Here’s the first week of dailies:
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Excuse me as I, once again, turn to dust...
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy...
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy...
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
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Here's a Peanuts comic I remade for the #PeanutsReillustrated collab, in celebration of Peanuts' 75th anniversary! This project was a lot of fun! 🎉
#art #comic #fanart
#art #comic #fanart
October 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Here's a Peanuts comic I remade for the #PeanutsReillustrated collab, in celebration of Peanuts' 75th anniversary! This project was a lot of fun! 🎉
#art #comic #fanart
#art #comic #fanart
I went for an insanely productive walk the other day in the creepy old woods while listening to this album. Now I'm frustrated! It gave me a great idea for a short story that's almost completely fleshed out and I barely have time to thumbnail it out right now! Gah!
Thought Gang, by Thought Gang
12 track album
thoughtgang.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I went for an insanely productive walk the other day in the creepy old woods while listening to this album. Now I'm frustrated! It gave me a great idea for a short story that's almost completely fleshed out and I barely have time to thumbnail it out right now! Gah!
One of the best lectures on comic book lettering I've ever seen. I had the pleasure of being in the audience for this.
Talk & Teach: What We Talk About When We Talk About Bad Lettering
YouTube video by CXC Festival
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
One of the best lectures on comic book lettering I've ever seen. I had the pleasure of being in the audience for this.
An addendum to this - this is *not* a license to make ugly balloons/lettering! (I'm looking at you, ellipse tool people!) There's still a visual art component to the puzzle you have to solve!
Yes. This. Plan your lettering out with your paneling. Your word balloons are a graphic design element first and an artistic choice second.
Everyone should do their lettering at the layouts phase.
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
An addendum to this - this is *not* a license to make ugly balloons/lettering! (I'm looking at you, ellipse tool people!) There's still a visual art component to the puzzle you have to solve!
Yes. This. Plan your lettering out with your paneling. Your word balloons are a graphic design element first and an artistic choice second.
Everyone should do their lettering at the layouts phase.
If the balloons are breaking the borders, you're doing it wrong. I have to do my letters at the layout phase, before even rough pencils, because if I don't there is absolutely not going to be enough room for the balloons
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Yes. This. Plan your lettering out with your paneling. Your word balloons are a graphic design element first and an artistic choice second.
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The exhibit I co-curated at The Billy Ireland, Motion Lines: How Cartoonsts draw Movement, closed this past weekend... but if you missed it there's now this great online version--one of the very few they've done this for!
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7b5c...
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7b5c...
Motion Lines
How do you show motion in a medium that doesn’t move?
storymaps.arcgis.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The exhibit I co-curated at The Billy Ireland, Motion Lines: How Cartoonsts draw Movement, closed this past weekend... but if you missed it there's now this great online version--one of the very few they've done this for!
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7b5c...
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7b5c...