Joshua W. Cotter

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A sika fawn. Spotted and adorable. Bitey.

Sika deer, looking for crackers.

Sika stag. Bitey.

A few sika deer. Looking for crackers.

Sika deer, national monument of Nara - bitey for crackers - 07.31.25

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Christ Crowned with Thorns, 2025

Acrylic on 30” x 20” illustration board

Visualizing how this scene would look in current-day America by asking who would be tasked to carry out the act as well as who would cheer it on while turned away from who it’s being done to.

#art #acrylic #painting

A blue pencil drawing of four characters from the Nod Away series in a room full of boxes, one is charging an unseen character with a box cutter.

NAv3 - www.joshuawcotter.com

A blue pencil drawing of a character from my next book, a woman named Penelope Haporth being awakened from a nap on a ratty couch, sleeping in a torn shirt and underwear, a table next to the couch with money, drugs and a revolver sitting on top of it.

New post up on my blog - Some recent sketches for ‘nod away, volume 3’ + I write about what’s been going on with the book. Thanks for reading! - www.joshuawcotter.com

Donate to Support Green Ronin in Critical Legal Defense, organized by Nicole Lindroos My name is Nicole Lindroos, co-owner of Green Ronin Publishing. Diamond … Nicole Lindroos needs your support for Support Green Ronin in Critical Legal Defense

We've launched a GoFundMe campaign so we can defend our property in the Diamond bankruptcy case. The full story is at the link but basically, Diamond is trying to take consignment inventory that they don't own and sell it to pay big creditors. TY for help and shares! www.gofundme.com/f/support-gr...

FUN TIME Summer Special 2025 - off to the printer! | Mike Dawson Get more from Mike Dawson on Patreon

My newest full-color minicomic, FUN TIME Summer Special 2025 is now out at the printer's. An excellent time to become a member and to secure your copy. See some sneak peek panels and join my Monthly Minicomic Club here: www.patreon.com/posts/fun-ti...

Crops of two sketches, one of a ‘clean cut American every kid’ type explaining something while eating in a juvenile detention center, a large maniacal beady eyed kid in the background staring at the viewer - the second sketch is of a backhoe near a pit full of discarded body parts made with a bioprinter, ‘misprints’

Sketches for ‘nod away, volume 3’, blue pencil in sketchbook

Thursday July 17th, please show up across the country to recenter key principles of friend, collaborator & freedom fighter John Lewis— to highlight both the ongoing destruction of democracy, & outlining some concrete actions for people to take together. Find an event here: goodtroubleliveson.org

If our conservative family/neighbors/friends want to stop the ‘snubbing’, they first need to wake up and acknowledge the fact that voting according to their beliefs is what has brought us to the point of disappearing US citizens and concentration camps.

Unfortunately their beliefs have been formed by the same far-right propaganda that brought us MAGA.

Yeah, it wasn’t just family. So many people I thought were friends, I had no idea what was in their hearts. How easily they would all be swept away by far-right propaganda. It’s changed me as a person, fundamentally.

I tried for many frustrating years to convince them that they were being conned, but anyone else who attempted knows any effort was (mostly) futile against a multi-billion dollar propaganda machine.

Opinion | Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?

It’s behind a paywall so I don’t know who the author is - www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/o... - Someone’s uncle. Maybe my uncle, who knows?

For years before J6 I did what I could to convince them that they were being intentionally misled by the ‘alt-fact’ nonsense they were so intent on consuming. I finally had to accept I was no match for multi-billion $$$ propaganda machines.

Marines and DHS arrest anti-ICE protester after children were spotted in chains at the federal detention center in LA

The moment never left me.

The Challenger Disaster (1986)

Thank you!

IT'S PORTFOLIO DAY AGAIN???????!!!!!!!

A pen drawing of a cat dressed as an astronaut posing for its official astronaut portrait saying “I TRY TO STAY POSITIVE FOR THE SAKE OF MY CHILDREN, BUT AM UNCERTAIN HOW TO RAISE THEM FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF 'NO FUTURE'”

Astrocat Official Portrait & Quote

a play on the distracted boyfriend meme 'artists and desginers' looking at 'all the insane bullshit happening right now' whole 'trying to make things' scowls at him

#art #design

Timelapse inks of my cover for @sheerspec.bsky.social's DEAD PLANET. 20ish hrs, ink on 11x17 bristol. Was in a terrible headspace when I started this one so it was cathartic to be able to channel that into the wasteland. There's also a little nod to one of my all time favorite game artworks, iykyn.

What a sobering—and for many, incriminating—experience to be a white American boomer approaching death and to watch the political-economic arc from which your generation once benefited set the country alight. Neoliberal wealth was always enjoyed at the price of the future, which has now arrived.

Doing ok, Renee, thank you. Been writing my next book for a couple months, looking forward to getting back to drawing. Your work is a motivator and great inspiration, thank you. How are you?

You should follow @reneefrench.bsky.social . One of the greats.

A 2-page black and white comics spread, with imagery continuing beyond the side boundaries of the pages as it’s part of a longer sequence. The center is a tapestry that stretches through the page displaying Odysseus’s ship with the lighthouse of pharos, Penelope weaving a pharos, and the bag of Aeolus. The image of penelope emerges from the tapestry, near it there's a meta-tapestry with warp and weft of threads that make the page, all woven by hands from the reader’s perspective. They hands unwind at the wrists to merge with a labyrinth that fills bottom of page metapmorphosizing from greek key patterns that make the boundary of the tapestry. At top the moon in three phases and a double headed axe spins through the page - in one instance mirroring the full moon with crescents on either side. The axe transforms into a monarch butterfly across the page. Also there’s an owl who moves backwards across the page until it comes to rest on Penelope’s loom. It’s a complicated page... (oh, and I have twice as many characters as Twitter here - but that’s probably enough)

A, to say the least, rather difficult page to describe & given that I’ve made identifying elements a contest, apologies in advance for not spoiling it here. It’s a 2 page spread split horizontally in two - the upper half is a black background in the stars, lower half of page is white and in the body. Top half features a number of initially circular panels over the cosmos with images drawn of planets, comets, and such, as it moves rightward across the spread panels are now hexagonal and show more distant locales in the universe. Lower half has a forearm unraveling and tissue and threads that make it unspooling and displayed in at first small circular panels. Heading to right half of the spread these panels become larger and hexagonal and show molecules and finally atoms. Overlaying this is a hexagonal pathway of panels showing the life journey of a carbon atom this winds up on the upper half far right. Center has 4 images top telescope old & modern, same with microscopes in lower half.

six spreads from a comic book all somehow based on circular compositions along with the thumbnail diagrammed sketches that led to their creation

a comics page in 9 panels but all a single scene. the buddha sits in a banyan tree, with various animals around him. Each essentially in its own panel while his face is in the center panel. The text is about how comics are read sequentially yet the visual nature of it makes it a single simultaneous experience and thus rhizomatic connections across the page (like the banyan tree itself) are possible and make comics something far less than linear. It's also about the fragmented nature of comics - and the buddha makes a joke where the text reads "each element is thus" and he says "one with everything" (this is from the joke - the buddha orders at a hotdog stand "make me one with everything")

cool to see #PortfolioDay! I make comics about ideas with an emphasis on exploring the form itself. I also teach comics & much of what I explore in form/constraints comes from what I learn from working with students. Most known for #Unflattening (my dissertation in comics) & in the midst of #Nostos!

A drawing of a couple sitting on a Chicago building rooftop at night drinking wine, the Loop skyline can be seen in the distance. It’s nighttime, the woman is looking at the moon and saying “Demain la lune va déborder, et tous nous submerger.”

A page from ‘nod away, volume 2’, Tachikawa T99 + T77 nibs & Dr. Ph. Martin’s Matte Black Star on Strathmore Series 400 Bristol