Maybe It Will Happen Today

Black and white digital ink illustration with halftone shading on a toned paper background. A cute lil grim reaper, big head and cartoon proportions, with little feathery wings, holding an outsize scythe behind its back and coyly placing one bony finger where its lips would have been. Lil Grimmy is hovering a bit in the air and just below is a small fluffy kitten looking up (all cats can see Death) and in a speech balloon saying ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Black and white digital ink illustration with halftone shading on a toned paper background. A cute lil grim reaper, big head and cartoon proportions, with little feathery wings, holding an outsize scythe behind its back and coyly placing one bony finger where its lips would have been. Lil Grimmy is hovering a bit in the air and just below is a small fluffy kitten looking up (all cats can see Death) and in a speech balloon saying ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A digital illustration of the Yipyips from Sesame Street. They are essentially just fabric tubes with mouths that are either widely agape or closed into a huge underbite, with ping pong ball eyes and curly deelybopper antennae. In the left is a blue one, agape. On the right a pinkish-orange one, underbitten. Between them is an antique radio: wooden in a pointed arch shape with two dials and a lit tuning indicator. Most of the front of the radio is a fabric covered speaker protected by a decorative wooden grille part of which is in the form of lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A digital illustration of the Yipyips from Sesame Street. They are essentially just fabric tubes with mouths that are either widely agape or closed into a huge underbite, with ping pong ball eyes and curly deelybopper antennae. In the left is a blue one, agape. On the right a pinkish-orange one, underbitten. Between them is an antique radio: wooden in a pointed arch shape with two dials and a lit tuning indicator. Most of the front of the radio is a fabric covered speaker protected by a decorative wooden grille part of which is in the form of lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A fluffy bunny, pink with green spots. And green antlers, so a pink, fluffy jackalope. Also with five shiny purple eyes of various sizes. And where a bunny might have bunny legs here we see dangling, curly little pink striped tentacles as our guy hovers just above a flat surface. And hanging by a chain around the bunbun’s neck is a black shield shaped emblem studded with sparkly white stones spelling out ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

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A fluffy bunny, pink with green spots. And green antlers, so a pink, fluffy jackalope. Also with five shiny purple eyes of various sizes. And where a bunny might have bunny legs here we see dangling, curly little pink striped tentacles as our guy hovers just above a flat surface. And hanging by a chain around the bunbun’s neck is a black shield shaped emblem studded with sparkly white stones spelling out ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Digital illustration. In the background we see Sesame Street’s Big Bird with a kiffiyeh scarf around his neck running to the left of frame holding a pole from which waves a black flag with a white antifascist symbol on it. In the foreground is a furry blue muppet with a bulbous pink nose who is otherwise unidentifiable because he has a black bandana around his mouth (it’s Grover) who is preparing to throw a Molotov cocktail. In the flames flowing from the rag in the neck of the bottle can be read the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A digital illustration/homage to the great Tony Millionaire character Drinky Crow. A blue-black cartoon bird with a yellow beak and large X-ed out eyes. He has a brown jug in his beak and is chugging away, dook dook dook… Scratchy messy lettering around him reads ‘maybe it will happen today’.

Black and white digital illustration on a warm gray mottled background. Stout, indeterminately goth-y serif lettering filling out a shield-like shape with some decorative additions top and bottom. Like lettering you’d see on an overly ambitious gravestone or an overly sincere tattoo. Kind of runic. Kind of metal. And a little Victorian with flourishes and vines twisting through the spaces. It reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Mostly black and white digital ink drawing of the best guy in Waterworld (1995), the old scraggly beard man whose whole job is float in a little boat on the oil inside a tanker and tell Dennis Hopper how much oil is left. One day he’s delighted to see, in the perpetual darkness he lives in, a burning flare drop from above and ignite all the oil he’s floating on and you can see the yellow and orange flames reflected in his big glasses here. He has a speech bubble which in the movie would read ‘oh thank god’ but here says ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A tribute to one of my all time favorite panels of Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller soaring Sluggo in a hands-behind-head reclining position seemingly unsupported hovering in midair with some generalized Bushmiller landscape behind. The original text in his speech balloon has been replaced with ‘Maybe it will happen today’. If you post the original panel in response to mine you will probably get blocked.

A tribute to one of my all time favorite panels of Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller soaring Sluggo in a hands-behind-head reclining position seemingly unsupported hovering in midair with some generalized Bushmiller landscape behind. The original text in his speech balloon has been replaced with ‘Maybe it will happen today’. If you post the original panel in response to mine you will probably get blocked.

A minimal outline in blue of a nude human female her hips are at a tilt, she has he’s right hand up behind her head and the other on her hip. She has shoulder length red hair with bangs. She’s looking to the left and smiling as green lasers shoot from her eyes. On her torso, describing the implied contours of her breasts and stomach is lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’ where the final ‘Y’ is delineated by the converging lines of her legs. This is the sort of joke that could get a bunch of French guys in 1910 really buzzing.

A minimal outline in blue of a nude human female her hips are at a tilt, she has he’s right hand up behind her head and the other on her hip. She has shoulder length red hair with bangs. She’s looking to the left and smiling as green lasers shoot from her eyes. On her torso, describing the implied contours of her breasts and stomach is lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’ where the final ‘Y’ is delineated by the converging lines of her legs. This is the sort of joke that could get a bunch of French guys in 1910 really buzzing.

A yellow smiley face that has aged and decayed into the shape of a potato. It is wrinkled and creased with deeply sunken X eyes and the smile is now a weak curve formed by jagged cursive writing that reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’

The phrase "Maybe it will happen today" written on a tombstone shaped background

Inspired by @today-maybe.bsky.social

A yellow smiley face that has aged and decayed into the shape of a potato. It is wrinkled and creased with deeply sunken X eyes and the smile is now a weak curve formed by jagged cursive writing that reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’

Digital ink illustration on tinted paper background. At center is a pageant queen in a black of the shoulder gown and wearing a sash and holding a bouquet of roses. Her head is actually a large hand in a ‘fingers crossed’ position. Behind her another pageant lay in a dress placing a sparkly tiara around the two extended crossed fingers of the first one’s ‘head’. Tiara lady’s head is a blindfolded skull with its entire cranium on fire. It’s like symbolism or something. If you look a bit closely at the bouquet of roses you can see an axe head protruding from it and the queen’s sash reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’ with the last word partially obscured behind the flowers.

Digital ink illustration on tinted paper background. At center is a pageant queen in a black of the shoulder gown and wearing a sash and holding a bouquet of roses. Her head is actually a large hand in a ‘fingers crossed’ position. Behind her another pageant lay in a dress placing a sparkly tiara around the two extended crossed fingers of the first one’s ‘head’. Tiara lady’s head is a blindfolded skull with its entire cranium on fire. It’s like symbolism or something. If you look a bit closely at the bouquet of roses you can see an axe head protruding from it and the queen’s sash reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’ with the last word partially obscured behind the flowers.

A digital illustration of a squid sort of like a Humboldt Squid but I wasn’t doing scientific illustration here. It’s colored in mottled dark reds with pink highlights and and tinges of orange. Behind the squid is a watery radiating shape made of greenish blue colors against which is set orange lettering reading ‘maybe it will happen today’. Some will certainly ask ‘why a squid?’ They are not our people.

A digital illustration of Max Headroom, a shiny, fast/talking electric man who lived inside a TV who we all liked in the 80s. He has a very tall head with an odd stripey blond hair cut and a goofy grin. He’s wearing white wayfarers and a shiny white, wide shouldered jacket over a lilac colored shirt and black bow tie. The background is intersecting colored perspective lines sort of forming the idea of a box. Colorful type following the perspective of the walls reads ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN TODAY’.

Black and white digital ink drawing on a toned paper background in a vaguely engraving style. At the bottom left a man with an obsolete 19th century haircut is submerged in black water to just below his eyes. The top of his head has popped open on a hinge out of which has emerged a figure with a striped tubular body, little arms, and a big grinning devil head. The devil is holding a pitchfork horizontally. Devil’s head is also open and a long tubular form is emerging from it, making a little loop, and reaching to the other side of the frame where it ends in a cartoon gloved hand. There’s a nonspecific bird perched on top of the arm watching everything else going on. The hand grips the crosspiece of a marionette which hangs below. It is in the form of a drawing marionette wearing a bowler hat. It’s being menaced by the devil’s pitchfork and a flame at its feet that is emerging from a hole in the black water. In the looping tube arm shape are the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Black and white digital ink drawing on a toned paper background in a vaguely engraving style. At the bottom left a man with an obsolete 19th century haircut is submerged in black water to just below his eyes. The top of his head has popped open on a hinge out of which has emerged a figure with a striped tubular body, little arms, and a big grinning devil head. The devil is holding a pitchfork horizontally. Devil’s head is also open and a long tubular form is emerging from it, making a little loop, and reaching to the other side of the frame where it ends in a cartoon gloved hand. There’s a nonspecific bird perched on top of the arm watching everything else going on. The hand grips the crosspiece of a marionette which hangs below. It is in the form of a drawing marionette wearing a bowler hat. It’s being menaced by the devil’s pitchfork and a flame at its feet that is emerging from a hole in the black water. In the looping tube arm shape are the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Digital illustration of five anthropomorphic flowers (poppy, sunflower, pansy, daisy, coneflower) holding leaves and trailing along happily on their rooty feet. The center of each flower is a grinning skull. Five individual but connected speech bubbles from each flower read ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Digital illustration of five anthropomorphic flowers (poppy, sunflower, pansy, daisy, coneflower) holding leaves and trailing along happily on their rooty feet. The center of each flower is a grinning skull. Five individual but connected speech bubbles from each flower read ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Digital pencil illustration on toned paper background of an antique hand-cranked gramophone with a big bell-like speaker out of which is emerging the open-mouthed head of a shark. From way down inside the shark’s gullet is entering a speech balloon as the shark sings the words ‘Maybe it will happen today.’

Digital pencil illustration on toned paper background of an antique hand-cranked gramophone with a big bell-like speaker out of which is emerging the open-mouthed head of a shark. From way down inside the shark’s gullet is entering a speech balloon as the shark sings the words ‘Maybe it will happen today.’

A man in an electric blue suit with a pink tie operating a hand cranked jack-in-the-box colored gold and purple. The top has popped open and an arm in a blue pinstriped suit jacket sleeve is reaching up and grabbing his face, squishing it into a featureless squish like bread dough. Lettering around all this reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.