Cartoons and Web Comics

I create initial page w pencil, pen, markers, charcoal sticks. Usually w rough layout, but a lot of times (ok, most) in final design phase, I resize/move around panels on computer. Highlight colors with pastel sticks, smudging out with newspaper (works better than paper towel!), and fingers. The colors are just for base, because I do my light highlight color phase in Photopea and GIMP. Then scan, take my individual panels into Photopea/GIMP and past into new layer to make layout fit my page and also resize based on banner I'm using. I do a lot of layer work, for tone, glows, adjust brightness/contrast, clean up my sloppy marker work, add text, banner, etc. Been using Photoshop for most of my 25-year graphics career, but now that I'm retired, I didn't wanna pay the subscription (and fuck Adobe!!) so now use Photopea and GIMP. Photopea mostly since it's most like Photoshop, but I'm learning GIMP. System is Linux Mint, Cinnamon 6.4.8.

Beyond 8100 © 2026 by Buckminster Burkeswood (mr.prol1f1c) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Converted to pixel art by hand, but drawn by several chat bots.

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The Adventures of Woke Cat #03 \ by whoever loves Digit \ nostr:npub1wamvxt2tr50ghu4fdw47ksadnt0p277nv0vfhplmv0n0z3243zyq26u3l2

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"You're still wearing that COVID mask everywhere? Remind me where you even found that?"

"I don't really need it most of the places I go. I am a cat, after all. It's just half a sock I ripped eye holes in, because I couldn't find any proper masks in cat size."

"Honestly, I've never worried much about COVID because I've never let a stranger get within 10 feet of me in my entire life."

"You could catch it from someone you know. They can transmit it asymptomatically."

"Asymptomatically? Like, we wouldn't even know they have it?"

"That's right."

"Well, the human has done nothing but work from home this week, so you know I'm probably safe right now. I guess you wear it so you don't spread anything either?"

"Not today. It's cold out, this keeps my nose warm."

Beyond 8100 © 2026 by Buckminster Burkeswood (mr.prol1f1c) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

This is where the stories drift in on a weak carrier wave from the layer beside us, the one you keep mistaking for déjà vu. You catch pieces of it in the quiet parts of your day, like an old broadcast bleeding in under the static, familiar and completely out of place. A hallway is two steps longer than it should be, a stranger mouths your next words before you say them, a floor creaks where you swear there's nothing. If you keep listening, really listening, you start to realize it’s not memory at all, it’s overlap.

Let's begin:

Beyond 8100 © 2026 by Buckminster Burkeswood (mr.prol1f1c) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Ashtray Gospel © 2026 by Buckminster Burkeswood (mr.prol1f1c) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Ashtray Gospel © 2026 by Buckminster Burkeswood (mr.prol1f1c) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Ashtray Gospel © 2026 by Buckminster Burkeswood (mr.prol1f1c) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Ashtray Gospel © 2026 by Buckminster Burkeswood (mr.prol1f1c) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Eat This! © 2026 by Buckminster Burkeswood (mr.prol1f1c) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Eat This! © 2026 by Buckminster Burkeswood (mr.prol1f1c) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Hey #WebComics ,

We'd like to have a moderator who can keep the webcomics community alive and give it a nice refresh.

Please comment here (&/or send me a PM directly) if you wish to become a mod :) .

Thanks,

Tiff

Reposting because the other comics community has banned me and taken it down. Also forgot the creative commons label at first, so this gave me the chance to add that.

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The Adventures Of Woke Cat / #01 / whoever loves Digit

"Damn, I missed."

"Serves you right for trying to catch birds in current year. You lot are gonna drive them extinct."

"That's propaganda, we'll never run out of robins."

"That's denialism. Bird species are going extinct at unprecedented rates due to cat activity."

"Well, it's survival of the fittest. Not my fault if we're ahead in the evolutionary arms race."

"I know we naturally evolved to catch birds, but you don't have to just eat whatever your ancestors did. We live in modern society with grocery stores and all that."

"Someone starts a grocery store and suddenly I'm messing up nature by following my natural instincts? I guess I should just be locked up inside, and only cats like you should be outdoor cats, right, fascist?"

"That's not what I'm saying, and we're never going to break the control mechanisms that create indoor cats if you just keep trying to shift responsibility for your choices. The people in charge didn't end up in that position by refusing to learn anything."

"Whatever, not my problem."