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Jean Cabot
@prairiehamster.bsky.social
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Canadian cartoonist, lives in the vast desolate prairies (if you listen to BBC)

Hamsterbandit.com for writing
Hamsterwheel.art for my comic HamsterBandit Industries, a diary of doing your best. It's about a hamster.
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HamsterBandit Industries in On The Clock

More comics at hamsterwheel.art

Yes, that ravioli is cold. I am a gourmand.

#webcomic
Comic. Hamham delightedly prepares to eat a cold can of ravioli and some buttered toast. He says narrates 'I like eating'. In the second panel he narrates: 'What I don't like is the vagaries of time.' while crying over a loaf of moldy bread he declares: 'I just bought you! Why god why.' An inset panel of a clock with its hands spinning around to the narration of 'Again? Already?'. In the four panel Hamham narrates 'I made a plan'. as he looks up a poster saying 'We want you to KILL time' with an angry drawing of Hamham pointing beside a drawing of a dagger stabbing an alarm clock. In the fifth panel, the narration goes: 'Unfortunately I confused myself with the slogan and played videogames.' with Hamham playing at a computer keyboard and exulting 'For Elune!'
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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And for a THIRD game - Dagnir the helpful guide for the isekai based off the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. He's partially based on Princess Monster Truck.
Digital drawing of a black fluffy persian cat with a gruesome face. He's wearing a floppy wizard hat covered in glowing stars and moons. He says 'I have a quest for you' and 'meow'. He is a nice boy.
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Meanwhile, for the Cthulhu game I'm in (and sometimes GM), I do recap doodles instead. Here's one.

The PCs are the cast and crew of a ghost hunting reality tv show. I'm a hulking cameraman named Ellery Duke previously cameraguy of of Failsons of Beverly Hills.

Uses special Sign with cameragrip.
Multiple stick figure doodles. Featuring: Ellery leaning down so Jessie the camera grip can feed him carnival food called an elephant ear by hand. He says "Thank you, I owe you my life." The rest of the PCs, Ricky, Niko, Hayley, and Celeste excitedly cry out they see food stands. Doodle directly below they are getting exposition from a stick figure that looks like a wizard who is a professor at miskatonic university. He tells them about dreams people are having about a girl named Alice. Celeste with her laptop says she will search for carnival girls named Alice and Niko says 'yay, exposition.' The middle doodle is Hayley with her magic bracelets looking upon a carnival staff and in her trance seeing him covered in eyes, a trait of a particular God. Top right doodle, Ellery and Jessie camera tend behind Niko and Ricky as they look at a poster for a fortune teller and agree they should go check her out. Final doodle, right side, Ellery and Jessie camera sign to each other about the tarot reading taking place in front of the camera. Ellery signs 'they're using the rider-waite-ominous deck' and Jessie signs 'that one means we're fucked.' Meanwhile Hayley's bracelet glows telling her the fortune teller is not fully human while the fortune teller says 'this is a bad card' to Niko's 'scary child' comment.
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Pathfinder comic for Wardens, featuring that sprite I was posting called Deputy Sparkle. Also featuring me drawing a Satyr trying to get them high on drugs, not life.
Top line says: Wardens Number 1: Meet and Greet. Starring The Moot Guard! Deputy Sparkle, Jasira (Rookie), and Mimi. Top row of panels of people they've met so far: Gnome saying 'I am trying to leave politics behind', a pudwudgie saying 'are you one of them?' in a sinister tone, centaurs saying "they need to get out of our lands" while deputy sparkle says "Distressing", and an eagle guard lady saying "I represent small indie lumberjacks." In the middle panel, a stoned looking satyr is offered a drink by the very small bug sprite Deputy Sparkle. The satyr replies 'want a treat?' to which Deputy Sparkle agrees. In the next panel, you see the satyr offering a bag full of dried mushrooms and the offer to take one. Jasira, a wood elf, and Mimi a human with fey traits, give their own motives for getting magic mushrooms. Jasira wants to feel more grounded and Mimi wants to eat them before someone else does and gets hurt. Deputy Sparkle requests a purple one. In the final panel, Mimi is singing and dancing high as balls, Jasira is asleep on the ground while sand overtakes her body to 'ground' her, and the satyr asks Deputy Sparkle 'aren't you going to eat it?' while Deputy Sparkle puts his pretty purple mushroom in a bag and says 'it's for the stash.'
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Last thing I saw before I got a lap full of kitten claws.

Thank you for that, Merlyn Kickboxer Supreme.
A teenage cat leaps from a... sort of built in shelf wall thing? I don't know what they're called. Anyway he's coming right for me. The picture is blurred from how fast he's going.
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Help. My three* month old kitten is already cat-sized/shaped. My large kitten son Benjamin Button is growing too fast.

*Previous report put him at four months because I'm bad at math.
A brown tabby sits on a red cushion with his paws folded in front of him in a polite way. He does not look like a kitten even though he is, in fact, a baby.
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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I still feel bad I fist fought all those level 1 bunnies in Stormwind for this thing.

OTOH turkey mount.
Screencapture of World of Warcraft. A human mage rides an enormous turkey like it's a horse. Another giant turkey of a different plumage stands behind the duo.
November 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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I do little figurines! And sometimes containers! Loonie for scale!
3 ceramic cats circling a loonie. A ceramic box covered in ceramic leaves. 3 ceramic hedgehogs around a loonie. 3 ceramic kittens around a loonie for scale.
November 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Today's artistic efforts. Glazed moon, seal, and ball. My cat counting the minutes down to her smoke break. And my pumpkin king for Halloween. The cat is more of a 'photography' art thing, than any responsibility for her general look.
Three unfired freshly glazed ceramic items. They are a moon on a cloud, a seal on a rock, and a colourful ball. The moon and the seal are nearly identical in shape. A white and grey tabby looks disgruntled at the camera. She has a marking on her front legs that seems like it was splashed on her, despite the two legs being separate. A white pumpkin with a big grin and a crown made of its own flesh on its head with toothpicks. The previous pumpkin, but now it is lit up.
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Important Merlyn and Benjamin Button update.
Two tabby kittens sitting on a cat condo. The one facing the camera with bright yellow eyes is Merlyn. You can see Benjamin just behind him, but mostly obscured.
October 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Watching Twilight with @phosfate.bsky.social and @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social and I had to pause and screencap as I saw Bella has a fucking ectoplasmic worm* in her room. They had no idea what I was talking about and thought I was going on about 'Norway worms'

*Noroi: The Curse
Screencapture of Bella Swan of Twilight researching in her room. ZOOM AND ENHANCE. There is something in the background that looks like the fucking ectoplasmic worms from Noroi The Curse. Screencapture of a child being consumed by ectoplasmic worms in Noroi The Curse.
October 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Everyone look at Deputy Sparkle! He's a sprite witch in the back up pathfinder game I'm in. ACAB includes Deputy Sparkle.

That's a human wand he's using as a staff weapon and his familiar is a corgi named Cornelius that the GM-made mount up command turns him into a mountie.
Digital drawing of a little sprite - humanoid creature with bug features based off the orange-belted bumblebee - posing cutely on top of a rock while holding a glowing magic wand as tall as it is. There is grass and a flower taller than the sprite. The sprite has big eyelashes.
October 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Flashback to how funny the size difference between my old cats was. Nimbus and French Fry! Good guys.
An enormous white cat is gazed at by a tiny white and grey cat.
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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ah, but I'd totally eat stargazy pie.
Stargazy pie, which is a savoury pie with some fish poked into it facing upwards. It adds oils for flavouring to do it like that, apparently.
October 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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New Pathfinder comic but for Selu's time in the abomination vaults (Thonk, esquire is in Kingdom Founders) - I'm using these as an excuse to play with texture brushes to learn how to use them. Bear with me, Rome wasn't built in a day.
A man with a lower snake body greets a party of adventurers, two of which are a kitsune and a giant cat man. On the cat man's shoulder is a little white gosling. The snake man says: "Hi! I'm Selu and & I love 2 delve" to which the part responds: "Hi, Selu!" Two side panels focus on Selu dramatically noticing the gosling. He asks 'Who is that?' while leaning in close. Ray the catfolk champion says: "This is Droplet. They might be God?" Behind Selu, Shai the kitsune says "hiiii" while focusing on Selu. Selu, meanwhile, is contorted down for a better look at the gosling and also going "Hiiii." Ray simply says: "No, snake."
October 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Please enjoy my cat on her smoke break.
A absolutely exhausted looking white cat with tabby splashes on a leash outside. There's kittens in her house now and she cannot Deal. They are not hers, they're adopted.
October 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Watching Spies In Disguise and I understand that it can be hard to show a pigeon is mad, but I'm unsure about this choice to give him a full set of human teeth inside his beak.
Lance Sterling a secret agent who has been turned into a little pigeon of Spies in Disguise telling Walter that he's double fired. For some reason this pigeon has teeth inside his beak. Truly unsettling.
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Joined a second Pathfinder game. New character is a sacred nagaji swashbuckler named Selu and we my intro didn't go as planned.
Digital comic. Six sets of panels meant to be different halves of scenes. The blue panels are the adventuring party declaring they will be leaving the ruins they are in in the first, the second they reunite a mother and son and go to fuck around town, and then in the third they do a healing circle in town. In the pink set of panels on the right side, Selu the nagaji announces he is there for his intro only to see the adventuring party is gone. In the second panel he tries to find them and fails. In the third panel he is now asleep on his back on his tail, having totally given up.
October 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Today we picked up our new kittens from the humane society! Meet Benjamin Button Kickboxer Supreme and Merlyn Kickboxer Supreme (of the New England Kickboxers Supreme) + bonus Guineamom. They are not actually brothers, despite appearances. Guess the theme w/Benjamin Button and Merlyn as names.
A two month old brown tabby kitten plays with a string toy that I put down for one second, but he wasn't finished yet, JEAN. A four month old brown tabby kitten who is not the previous tabby kitten stands on the shoulder of a woman whose face is obscured by a guineapig emoji. His eyes are bright and intrepid.
October 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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My Spider-Sona! I think Shocker is just a really fun villain name.

Spider-Hamham may just be in a Spider-Man brand sock he crawled into.
Drawing of Spider-Man and a hamster in a Spider-Man costume on his shoulder. The hamster is basically an oval with two little hands and the webbing motif of Spider-Man's costume. Spider-Man: Whoa it's Shocker! Spider-Hamham: The vibes are rancid, Spidey.
September 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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According to today's spam, it is *I* who owns dreamwidth.org and if I don't act now, the url is going to expire. Someone should tell the admins about the change in management. Get me a little gold plated username or something.
Screencap of my email's spam folder where a spam email purporting to be from dreamhost (but when hovered over you can see is clearly not) telling me that action is required because my domain 'dreamwidth.org' is about to expire. Dreamwidth is a blogging site I do not own in any way but I totally recommend it, it's a good site.
September 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Drew my new Pathfinder character Deputy Sparkle. (Thonk is okay, this is just for our off game) He's a melixie sprite I based off the orange belted bumblebee and he's a witch (and a moot guard/cop. ACAB includes Deputy Sparkle) and his familiar is Cornelius the corgi.
A fairy that looks like a grey alien and an orange belted bumblebee rests on the back of a tan corgi that has a glowing third eye on its forehead. The sprite is holding a human wand that is intended for use as a staff weapon by the sprite. There is an even tinier drawing of the sprite standing and going 'now now wot's all this now'.
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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My new Worgen Lutybelle showing her fit.
Screencapture from World of Warcraft of a black and white worgen woman wearing a white sweatshirt and white sweatpants. Photo of an adorable little dog in a sweater.
September 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Going through my unfinished comic drafts and not wholly sure what this was meant to become.
Three blank panels and then large text saying 'I am a 39-year old man'.
September 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Returning to how I used to construct bodies in my old art, tested the method on a very unfortunate Silver Cygnet. It's good! It's more dynamic than what I've been doing lately.

I'm sure Su will be fine.
Digital drawing of a City of Heroes player character named Silver Cygnet. He's a skinny Hmong man with long white hair in a ponytail with a pink scrunchie. He's wearing a grey shiny outfit with glowing metal belt and arm bands. He's got a big part of white wings that aren't helping him very much as he plummets from the sky. There are clouds behind him as he yells.
September 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM