Max Bare

TONIGHT!

FULL BLEED gallery show,
Opening Friday 10/10, 5-7pm
Quimby’s Bookstore!
1854 W North Ave Chi-IL
Show runs through early November

Featuring art and work from a dozen Full Bleed contributors

Refreshments, Prizes, & stickers plus a FULL stock of FULL BLEED zines and comics!

Flyer taped to a light pole reads: WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE NO KINGS • OCTOBER 18 PLEASE JOIN US! GRANT PARK 12-2PM

I guess we’re going full Andor mode now

Graphite drawing with grey text below, on a white page with a thick white border. The drawing is of a sleepy-looking Baba Yaga chicken-legged hut. The text reads: She was a very sleepy Hut and never wanted to go out into the garden until after she'd had a good scratch around the kitchen. Sometimes she would scuttle up onto the table and poke at my coffee. She's now the companion of one of the older witches who sleeps quite late ~ they are a perfect pair.

✨🌿🍄 Meet the Shacklings 🍄🌿✨

My new book is full of notes from the Gardener ~ a witch who wanders the northern forests in a hut of her own. Every 17 years she raises a new brood of tiny huts, and keeps an eye on them until the other witches come to adopt.

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

a drawing of a black tee and black sweatshirt that both say weird on them

and I'll have SHIRTS.

Hope they don’t get confused and build it in Ohio

Hey! Party with us tomorrow at literally the best place in Chicago

✨200 PAGES OF SAND!!✨

This won't be the last time I yell about this milestone in the next week, not to mention shout THANK YOU to everyone who has read and enjoyed this ridiculous, overwrought dramedy—and if you haven't, what are you waiting for?? It's free! 💀☀️🔥🤘🥂

Little graphite doodles on a white background. The doodles are all different shapes and sizes and styles of chicken-legged witch huts. They're pretty cute.

One more before I log off for the evening:

Just a reminder that the special price on the Artist Edition of Shackling ends tomorrow morning! So jump on that, lovers of doodled huts!

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

Robin with a mustache visits a convenience store

Batober - Day 01 - Mustache #batober #inktober

Cartoony illustration of Wesley Snipes as Blade from the Blade movies He’s got fangs, a sword and it’s raining blood

It’s open season on all suckheads

Kicked off our Halloween movie spree with the Blade trilogy

Get on it!

A new book from Melissa Sue!

Thank u!!! 🐞

Spoops Day 4/31 : Weevil Knievel

A Palmetto Weevil, to be exact, for #Invertober2025 from @fossilforager.bsky.social - and then this popped into my head.

The skulls and bat-cut cape make it Halloweeny.

#evelknievel #weevils #bugs

0 Days Since I Looked for the Undo Button on a Piece of Paper

Ink and marker sketch of a cattle dog witch holding a broom. A crow sits on the broom wearing glasses. The crow is kinda beardy, sorta. The dog is Rocko. The crow is Max, his familiar, aka Me.

Spoops Day 2/31 : A Witch and their Familiar

Day 1, 2, 3 and Week 1 of #mabsdrawlloweenclub
“Spooky Intro, Witch and Familiar”

This immediately popped into my head.
Clearly in this hypothetical, I would be the familiar to our red heeler, Rocko.

Ink and marker drawing of a Mothman type fellow complete with a buzzed mullet, beard, one of those moth nose spiral things, antennae, batwings and a cut-off jean jacket - 80s metal style. One hand is holding a blood soaked VHS tape. The other hand is dripping with blood. They is happy.

Spoops 3/31 : Mothman again!

And it’s Fuzz again from Full Bleed Zine (they’re having a show soon at Quimby’s Friday the 10th- check it out!)

I wanted another go at Fuzz and I promised myself I’d make one for my buddy Ed - so hear he is!

#drawlloween
#mothman

Bob's Burgers 300th episode is better than any The Bear episode.

Who else hears Apollo 18 as the soundtrack to this?

Spoops Day 2/31 : A Witch and their Familiar

(I'll take a better picture tomorrow)

Day 1, 2, 3 and Week 1 of #mabsdrawlloweenclub
"Spooky Intro, Witch and Familiar"

This immediately popped into my head.
Clearly in this hypothetical, I would be the familiar to our red heeler, Rocko.

#cattledog

Melissa is doing another spooky BABA YAGA inspired shackling campaign - get on that mailing list you spoopies!

The task today was: Call Xfinity, change plan.
Turned out to be a pretty easy call, but didn't want to do it regardless.

Marker and ink sketch of a hairy orange monster shaving their chest. Underneath is a tattoo (?) that reads: "Shave Them Off" with two little checked checkboxes. The monster is holding an electric razor and is seems pleased with themselves.

Thought of this big duder when I was obsessing over some tasks I need to just get out of the way to get that work flow going strong again!
(Also I’m considering doing that draw-everyday-tober thing again 👻

Linktree for Full Bleed Horror Zine - linktr.ee/FullBleedZin...

Ink and marker drawing of a Mothman type fellow complete with a buzzed mullet, beard, one of those moth nose spiral things, antennae, batwings and a cut-off jean jacket - 80s metal style. His hands are dipped in chunky blood and he seems pleased with himself.

Hey!
Spoops Day 1/31 : Mothman!

Actually this is inspired by Fuzz from the super rad Full Bleed horror zine by Chicago buds Ed Witt and Tony Recktenwald - look em up! 💀

I’m attempting to return to Draw-Everyday-Tober 🎃

Let’s see how it goes!

#mothman

Vampiretober 1/31: Carmilla

#art #carmilla

New radness from this dude!

oh man these are all great...

Coming soon: Shackling Tales From Baba Yaga's Garden

In two weeks we start the campaign for Shackling!

This book will be full of:
🐓 drawings
✨ stories
🔮 tarot spreads
📚 recipes
🍄 lots and lots of lil' huts on chicken legs.

Hit the "notify on launch" button below so you don't miss the Early Bird goodies!

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

Support CHIRP! It's great!

photo of a wool felt creature on a white background. The creature is a small blue bump with green leaves growing from its head, beady black eyes, and skinny limbs. It's jauntily holding a yellow stem of a bright red skinny mushroom.

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(This little blue dude has nothing to do really with newsletters, but he sure is cute. I made him from wool felt and pipe cleaners back in my sewing-the-woolbeasts days.)