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Partly Robot
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Autistic (and now ADHD, too, because I’m neurotrendy like that) author, scribbler, self-publisher, advocate.
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“Help?!” Panel 11. That’s right. I did 2 panels today!
#paperwork
#comix
#PanelADay
Comix panel with Drew holding a sheaf of IEP meeting note. Drew says: “But even when elected officials and government employees ARE doing their due diligence, there can be a whole lot of confusing, heartbreaking, and counterproductive paperwork involved.”
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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“Help?!” Panel 10.
Will this narrative turn around? Where are we heading? Did I even finish the script? All will be revealed. Hopefully by panel 18.
#comix
#PanelADay
Drew holding a protest sign with a picture of Kang the Conqueror crossed out. Words on the sign read “NO KANGS” “COMIC BOOK NERDS AGAINST TYRANNY” Drew says, “ugh… Don’t get me started.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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“HELP?!” Panel 9. It’s gonna be a busy weekend. I’m going to try to stop by the Portland Zine Symposium. @pdx_zines But, you know. Life with a toddler makes things logistically interesting. (Full disclosure, I am not the toddler in question)
Comix panel. Booger Bear, with swirls in his eyes and arms thrown wide, says: “Next you’re going to tell me that these laws also depend on the WILLINGNESS of government officials to UPHOLD them!”
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Help?! Panel 8. I started thumbnailing the next Monkey Skull panel, but wouldn’t you know it, I got a more ambitious design than I was comfortable committing to in the amount of time available. Oh, time. If only I wasn’t trying to do everything all at once.
#comix
#PanelADay
Comix panel with Booger Bear and Drew. Booger Bear is examining the empty contents of his wallet. Booger Bear says: “I don’t think I can afford a lawyer. You?” Drew says: “Nope.”
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Help?! panel 7. With any luck, I’ll do a Monkey Skull panel tonight. Fingers crossed.
#comix
Comix panel, Drew, wearing his trademark flat cap and hoodie is looking a little unsettled. Word balloon: “Yeah… all that. Plus, people who can afford lawyers are generally the ones who can get laws interpreted to their liking.”
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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HELP?! panel 6.
I’m trying to get this story done in time for the Nerd Emergencies submissions deadline (link in bio). Might have to up my daily panel count!
#Comix
#PanelADay
Comix Panel with Booger Bear and Drew. Drew says: “There actually are laws in a lot of places to that effect. But laws are subject to interpretation.” Booger Bear says: “And lapses ib enforcement, I bet. And funding shortfalls.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Panel 5 of “Help?!”
Something funny happened during inking. I forgot to put on my reading glasses, I guess. Getting old sure is fun!
#Comix
#PanelADay
#vulnerable
Comix panel with Drew and Booger Bear. Drew: “So, yes. Ideally a government should be looking out for its more vulnerable citizens.” Booger Bear: “Like the disabled.”
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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“Help?!” Panel 4.
Booger Bear and Drew continue their troubling conversation about government supports for people with disabilities.
#comix
#PanelADay
#LifeDuringWartime
Comix panel. Drew and Booger Bear are in the foreground with their backs to the viewer. They frame an iconic tableau of person in an inflatable frog costume facing off against an armed paramilitary figure. Drew says, “I don’t know what to tell you. The government’s going through some tough times right now.” Booger Bear says: “Aren’t they always?”
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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HELP?! panel 3. Couldn’t help using the word equivocate. A word I love so much I made @two_vague_podcast do a whole episode on it.
#comix
#PanelADay
Comix panel with Booger Bear and Drew. Booger Bear: “You’re equivocating again. You know I hate that. Drew: Sorry. Drew: Not sorry.
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Panel two of “Help?!” If you’re starting to wonder if maybe I keep alternating between stories because I’ve got ADHD or something, you’re late to the party. It’s at least a couple different kinds of neurodivergent up in this brain of mine.
#PanelADay #Comix
Comix panel. Drew, looking a little downcast, says: “um… well… There’s what’s ‘supposed to be,’ and then there’s what actually happens.”
November 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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The Monkey Skull mystery continues to unravel.
#Comix
#PanelADay
Comix Panel. Drew and Booger Bear pass through the doorway of the Stygian Lamplighter bar. Drew says: Well, here goes nothing. Booger Bear says: Trivia, hunh. Can’t we bail and come back on karaoke night?
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Don’t worry. The Monkey Skull story isn’t over yet. There’s a chance I’ll add a panel to that one tonight. But right now I’m at the coffee shop with my travel art stuff. That means smaller paper and markers instead of big old Bristol board and India ink.
We keep on keeping on.
#comix
#PanelADay
Comix panel. Title in bold: HELP?! A Drew & Booger Beat Thing Illustration of Booger Bear asking: “So, the government’s supposed to help you if you have a disability, right?”
October 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Our heroes prepare to enter the Stygian Lamplighter.
“ABANDON ALL CASH, YE WHO ENTER”
#Comix
#PanelADay
Comix panel. Drew and Booger Bear, in silhouette, stand in front of the entrance to a bar called “the Stygian Lamplighter.” Above the door reads the warning: ABANDON ALL CASH, YE WHO ENTER
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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And end of page. Jerry’s taking his watermelon and going home.
#comix
#PanelADay
#Doug
Comix panel of Jerry Herben (in tin foul hat) carrying watermelon. “Whatever. I told you guys all I’m authorized to. I’m outta here.
October 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Today’s panel. Business stuff. And, yep, I did get ahead on lettering tomorrow’s panel. Not yet ready to commit to two panels a day, but it could happen.
#comix
#PanelADay
#ink
Comix panel with Drew. Word balloon: “But I do. There’s this business thing we need to settle.”
October 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I held myself to one panel today, even though I did start lettering the next one. Sometimes when my hand is making steady letters, I just gotta let it keep going.
#Comix
#PanelADay
#Ink
Comix panel with Booger Bear holding his palms out in front of him. Word balloon: “That’s okay. I don’t really want to talk to him.”
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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I accidentally did 2 panels today because Jerry’s second word balloon crossed the gutter. I just had to keep going.
#Comix
#PanelADay
What, pray tell, is an #Inktober ?
Comix Panel: Jerry Herben says: “Not really. He’ll only talk to you if you win.” Comix panel: A word ballon carries over from yhe previous panel: “And you won’t win.” Monkey Skull behind a laptop, holding a microphone, says: “All right, dorks. Give me the name of the Cheers episode where Norm’s wife, Vera, appears on screen.”
October 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Outside the Stygian Lamplighter Gastropub.
#comix
#PanelADay
Comix panel. Booger Bear, Drew, and Jerry Herben are on the street outside of a bar called The Stygian Lamplighter Gastropub”. A sign in the window reads “Trivia Tonight.” Drew says, “Well that’s excessively convenient.”
October 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Back to the Monkey Skull saga. The Herben is spilling the beans.
#comix
#PanelADay
#IHaveNoIdea what today’s #inktober2025 prompt is
Comix Panel. Jerry Herben in hos fashionable bowling shirt and tin foil hat. Word balloon: “If you want to find Monkey Skull, he took over my Tuesday night trivia hosting gig.”
October 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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I feel like every day I draw one of these, it gets a little better.
#comix
#PanelADay
Still Not #inktober
Comix panel with Booger Bear and Drew. Booger Bear acowling and hands raised. Drew is calm. Booger Bear: “Drew! That’s Madness! It’s just borrowing against tomorrow’s misery to pay for drowning today’s sorrows.” Drew: “It’s cool. You can pick up the tab next time.”
October 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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New zine and sticker pack!
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“Stuart: Do You Know?” 8 page mini zine. A drawing of a burrowing owl peeking out of its burrow on the cover. A sticker showing an owl flipping the middle finger saying “I’m all out of hoots to give.” Sticker depicting two screaming jack-o-lanterns. One screams: “Fake News!” The other: “ Only the true Pumpkin King would deny being the Pumpkin King!”
October 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Relax. Capitalism would love for me to charge it to my credit card.
#Comix
#PanelADay
#DrawingADay
What’s an #Inktober ?
Comix Panel. Booger Bear clutches at Drew’s hoodie. Drew drapes a comforting arm around Booger Bear’s shoulder. Drew: “Relax. It’s okay. Capitalism would love for us to charge our karaoke fun to my credit card.”
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Clearly, Capitalism doesn’t want Booger Bear to gave any fun.
#comix
#PanelADay
#DrawingADay
Definitely not #inktober2025
Comix panel with Booger Bear approaching a spiral into an existential fit. Word balloon: “Clearly, Capitalism doesn’t want us to have any fun!”
October 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Sending out a reminder on the #CallForSubmissions for this neurodivergent comics anthology.
www.partlyrobot.com/nerd-emergencies for more info.
#comix
#comics
#neurodivergent
Illustration of Booger Bear in the foreground with Sporky, and anthropomorphic spork, in the background struggling with the shredded remains of an inflatable frog costume. Text: Deadline November 15, 2025. Word Balloon: Well this is awkward. Sporky was supposed to do this announcement... but he got into some kind of accident with an inflatable frog costume. Anyway... There's 4 weeks left to submit to Nerd Emergencies! the ground-braking neurodivergent comix-anthology. Nerd Emergencies and Other Misunderstandings. www.partlyrobot.com/nerd-emergencies
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Dropped my keys…
#comix
#PanelADay
#DrawingADay
Comix panel of an astronaut floating high above a planet. The astronaut’s keys are also floating, just out of reach. Caption: “Dang it! How am I going to explain this one?”
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM