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Becky Hawkins
@postcardsbybecky.bsky.social
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I draw watercolor postcard journal comics and SuperButch, a 1940s lesbian superhero history noir webcomic
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Did I need to swear?
No
Was I furious that a driver looked at me and decided not to yield at THIS intersection?
You bet
Comic panel: A man gesturing wildly says “I was just driving along and bam! A bike came out of nowhere! No chance for me to see it coming! Stupid bike riders think they own the road!” Behold him are two yellow “bike and ped crossing” signs, flashing lights, and green and white street striping to indicate a bicycle/pedestrian crosswalk. I’ve circled the crosswalk and signs in highlighter.
December 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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This cartoon has four panels, all showing the sidewalk and part of the street in front of a store called "The Furniture King." PANEL 1 A guy in a green jacket is taking a bag out the back of his hatchback. In the background, The Furniture King's huge display windows are completely covered with signs such as "Call You Mayor We Need All 4 Lanes" and "How Will YOU Get Home?" There's a tree with pretty autumn leaves. GREEN JACKET: I can't wait for the new bike lanes. STORE OWNER: Noooo! PANEL 2 The store owner has grabbed the Green Jacket's shirt and is yelling at him. STORE OWNER: The new bike lane is supposed to pass right in front of my store! How are my customers supposed to get in? How? PANEL 3 Green Jacket tries to reassure the store owner, who has fallen to his knees and is weeping. GREEN JACKET: Er, I don't think it'll be- STORE OWNER: Six months from now my poor store will be out of business! BANKRUPT! PANEL 4 The same scene, but now the tree leaves are green, and a green bike lane has been installed in front of the store. There are pedestrians and bikers. Store Owner stands on the sidewalk, talking into a bullhorn and shaking a fist in the air. CAPTION: Two Years Later STORE OWNER: If they build that new bus lane, it will definitely destroy my store! CHICKEN FAT WATCH "Chicken Fat" is old fashioned cartoonist parlance for what we now call "Easter Eggs." PANEL 1 - The back of the man's jacket shows a bowling ball lovingly hugging a bowling pin. The rear view mirror of a car is completely filled with a green monster eye, a reference to the famous "Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear" Far Side cartoon. PANEL 4 - The customer walking into the store in the background, is Green Jacket guy from the first three panels
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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2/2 Sometimes explaining a thing to a child helps you realize it’s actually bananas.
Becky, holding out both hands as if to say "slow down": I'm sure she's fine! This happens all the time! Child, in utter panic: All the time?! Becky facepalms. The child is having a meltdown in her chair. In the background, a red-haired adult in business casual clothing approaches. Becky, thinking: I guess that is a reasonable response... Child: WAAAH
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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True story/fan comic for @thewaroncars.bsky.social.
6 panel watercolor comic in a warmly lit office. Becky sits at the front desk. Panel 1: a teacher approaches with a worried looking red haired 4 year old clutching her hand. Teacher: Sophia's grownup is running late. Can she wait here? Becky: Sure! Becky waves. The child climbs into an office chair by the desk. Becky: Hi, Sophia. Child, in a shaky font: Why isn't my mommy here? She's never late! Becky: Aww, it’s okay. Lots of parents are running late. There was an accident on the freeway. Child, sitting bolt upright: What? Becky, leaning forward: Yeah, there was a car crash, so everyone just has to drive slow for a while. Child, eyes welling with tears: A car crash on the road my mommy is driving on?
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Double Greek coffee sounds niiice
Doodle of sleepy 3pm office-Becky on a post-it note
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Sketch with ink wash. Caption: When the recipe says "Nonna's best most authentic recipe." Becky is in the kitchen, standing next to the stove, holding a spatula and looking nervously over her shoulder. Behind her, a short older woman who's dressed like it's 1910 puts her hands on her hips and gives Becky a vicious side-eye.
December 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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This cartoonist burn from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay has lived in my head for 23 years 💀
Many of them, it must be said, could not even draw a realistic picture of the admittedly complicated bodily appendage with which they hoped to make their livings.
November 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Travel day and new sketchbook day!

Stickers by @brandtandstein.com @thewaroncars.bsky.social @bicyclecoffee.bsky.social and Portland Coffee Roasters 🥰
A blue sketchbook with cheerful yellow, black and white stickers: a panda eating a bamboo bicycle, Veda and Charlotte from the comic series Crowded which you should read, a traffic light overgrown with vines asking Can you imagine life after cars?, a grocery bag full of cold brew labeled Portland coffee roasters, and the bicycle coffee logo, a chain ring in a coffee cup. A loose sketch of Naomi sitting on the max train to the airport, excitedly pointing to her seat mate who is drawing a dragon in a sketchbook Loose sketchbook drawing. Caption: repping the Portland fashions. Becky and Naomi walking through the airport, each carrying a backpack and a drink. Naomi’s flannel shirt dress, leggings, and tall boots are labeled “a feminine, modern take on traditional working class manual labor signifiers.” Becky’s collared shirt, leggings and boots are labeled “ready to hike.”
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Without downloading any new pics describe your gender
A handheld potato with a cascade of green shoots coming off the top and two wires where eyes would go on a person. Thanks to the highlighter tool, the potato has lipstick and is singing
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Today’s postcard: ☀️
A two-story red wooden apartment building with bay windows and a big porch across the front. There are trees on either side, and a garage with reddish brown leaves on the roof and dappled shadows over the door. The front of the building is in bright sunlight, but otherwise it looks cozy in the shade.
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Being a little sick is boring. 🤧
Sketchbook doodle. Caption: I feel pretty normal till I talk. Then it feels like there’s a cotton ball in my throat. Doodle of Becky’s head with an x-ray view of her nasal cavity and throat. She has sleepy no-makeup eyes and wears a beanie. Off-page voice: do you want noodles or rice? The first part of Becky’s word balloon is a bunch of dots that sort of suggest the word rice. Then she says “xhmm rice” in tiny letters.
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Exhibit A
Office bathroom selfie in a lavender tank top, green cardigan, pinkish purple docs, and a midi skirt with a pattern of succulents that share all those colors
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Todays postcard: still appreciating the leaves
A yellow brick apartment building with circular corner balconies and red trim. The building has dark red Japanese maple (I think) on one side and a row of trees with a variety of green, yellow, and orange leaves in front.
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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🤩 The fonts are doing so much storytelling!
Calvin is sitting at his desk with a single sheet of paper. Panel 1, Printed serif font: What was the significance of the Erie Canal? Panel 2, Messy handwriting: in the cosmic sense, probably nil. Panel 3, Regular font in Calvin’s word balloon: We “big picture” people rarely become historians.
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Absolutely savage to read this strip hours after going to the Showers Pass Warehouse Sale (and coming home with two merino shirts I didn’t plan to buy)
Calvin is reading a magazine: In this issue, Chewing reviews the new gum chewing apparel. This jersey is made with swet-tek ®️ fibers that work away perspiration! The mesh collar keeps tire sternomastoids ventilated and the zippered pockets hold spare gum and wrappers! Hobbes: Why is it covered with brand logos? Calvin: That gives you the psychological advantage I’d pretending you’re sponsored. Hobbes: How can you tell if you’re reading an advertisement, a product review, or the product itself? Calvin: I’d sure like to be a walking endorsement.
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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It’s a beautiful day for the Showers Pass warehouse sale!

😦 The line is already two blocks long
A cinder block corner building with Terri garage doors, and two old houses bathed in morning sunlight
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Today's postcard: a peek at the outdoors
Watercolor postcard of a slightly cluttered conference room where everything is green or beige. The blinds are half-open on one window, revealing green, yellow and orange autumn leaves outside.
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I hope we get a fourth Trick or Treater, cause I finally got my outfit on!

The rain-timing was rough here in Portland 🌧️
Becky is wearing a long purple sorceress type gown with snakelike gauze on the sleeves. She also has blue horns and appears to be doing a spell on a mixing bowl Same costume and pose from closer up, and now you can see the bowl is full of Reese’s and Hershey fun size.
November 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I think of this every time I cook dinner instead of Naomi 😂
I swear I make a mean stir fry!
Two Calvin and Hobbes panels. Panel 1: Dad is in the kitchen telling Calvin “Since your mom’s sick, I’ll be making dinner tonight.” Panel 2: Calvin looks nonplussed; Dad looks huffy. Calvin: YOU can cook? Dad: Of course I can cook.
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Every workday I think of Connie Willis’ shopgirl in Blackout whose biggest concern is surviving the Blitz, followed closely by getting the hang of the WRETCHED IMPOSSIBLE TWINE FOR WRAPPING THE STUPID FRICKING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
Packing tape, scissors, a box cutter, cardboard filler, and tissue paper
October 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Shoulder Angel’s Traffic Report: Clear Greenways and Pretty Skies!
Dramatically poofy clouds stretch over a residential street
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Today’s postcard from the comic fair:
watercolor postcard of a large room with tall windows and several rows of convention tables. It's getting dark outside. Most of the people are walking away to the left. A loudspeaker voice says the panel discussion will begin shortly. Behind a pillar, at a snack table spread with water bottles and bags of snacks, Becky stuffs one bag in her skirt pocket and reaches for another, thinking "don't mind if I do!" A caption points to Becky: only had espresso for dinner. A caption points to her skirt: skirt pockets by Maya Kern Back of postcard: Becky sits down at the panel discussion, fitting snugly between two attendees. A large "crunch" appears above her head, the letters formed by broken potato chips. The attendees look at her curiously; Becky winces
October 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Portland: rumor has it the rain this weekend will take a lot of the leaves off the trees, so fill your eyeballs while you can! 🥲🍃🍂
A red and orange tree lit up by the setting sun
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Today’s postcard: golden hour/happy hour
Watercolor postcard of early evening autumn sunlight on a warehouse, some treetops and a car. In the foreground, a patio and street are in deep shadow, and the light and warm colors bounce off a big metal vat.
October 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Here's an oldie for spooky season:
watercolor postcard of a small old-fashioned bedroom with dark wainscoting and ornate blue wallpaper. The only furniture is a wardrobe with a mirrored door and a bed. On the left, a woman in a yellow blouse and gray slacks smiles into the mirror. A woman in a skirt and cardigan looks at her and says "You bring more light into this room than the window!" On the right, Becky sits on the bed and watches them. She's wearing pajamas and headphones. Shoulder Angel hovers behind her. back of postcard, panel 1: Becky, still wearing headphones, shows her phone to Naomi. Shoulder Angel smiles behind her, giving a thumbs up. Naomi looks skeptical, responding to everything Becky says with a word balloon that just says "..." Becky: We're listening to the haunting of hill house! ... only during the daytime ... I'll palate cleanse with a podcast before bed... Panel 2: Nighttime. Becky and Shoulder Angel are in front of the kitchen sink, looking fearfully around.
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM