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Illustrator & Cartoonist & Speech Blimp Pioneer HERO BEARDS | Scally-Ho! | Infinity-Hero | Rolled & Told ๐Ÿ’ช Available for Work โœ๏ธ Collab Curious ๐Ÿ‘‡ Portfolio | Shop | Comics | Patreon ๐Ÿ’Œ maxbare@gmail.com ๐Ÿ”— linktr.ee/maxbarebox

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TONIGHT!

FULL BLEED gallery show,
Opening Friday 10/10, 5-7pm
Quimbyโ€™s Bookstore!
1854 W North Ave Chi-IL
Show runs through early November
โ€จFeaturing art and work from a dozen Full Bleed contributorsโ€จโ€จRefreshments, Prizes, & stickers plus a FULL stock of FULL BLEED zines and comics!

10.10.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Flyer taped to a light pole reads:

WE HAVE
FRIENDS
EVERYWHERE
NO KINGS โ€ข OCTOBER 18

PLEASE JOIN US!
GRANT PARK
12-2PM

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

I guess weโ€™re going full Andor mode now

10.10.2025 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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.

โœจ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ„ Meet the Shacklings ๐Ÿ„๐ŸŒฟโœจ

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

10.10.2025 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
a drawing of a black tee and black sweatshirt that both say weird on them

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

and I'll have SHIRTS.

10.10.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hope they donโ€™t get confused and build it in Ohio

10.10.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

09.10.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โœจ200 PAGES OF SAND!!โœจ

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 dramedyโ€”and if you haven't, what are you waiting for?? It's free! ๐Ÿ’€โ˜€๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿฅ‚

08.10.2025 13:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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

08.10.2025 01:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Robin with a mustache visits a convenience store

Robin with a mustache visits a convenience store

Batober - Day 01 - Mustache #batober #inktober

01.10.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cartoony illustration of Wesley Snipes as Blade from the Blade movies 
Heโ€™s got fangs, a sword and itโ€™s raining blood

Cartoony illustration of Wesley Snipes as Blade from the Blade movies Heโ€™s got fangs, a sword and itโ€™s raining blood

Itโ€™s open season on all suckheads

Kicked off our Halloween movie spree with the Blade trilogy

07.10.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Get on it!

A new book from Melissa Sue!

07.10.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank u!!! ๐Ÿž

05.10.2025 17:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

04.10.2025 17:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

04.10.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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.

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Spoops Day 2/31 : A Witch and their Familiar

Day 1, 2, 3 and Week 1 of #mabsdrawlloweenclub
โ€œSpooky Intro, Witch and Familiarโ€

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

03.10.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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.

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Spoops 3/31 : Mothman again!

And itโ€™s Fuzz again from Full Bleed Zine (theyโ€™re having a show soon at Quimbyโ€™s Friday the 10th- check it out!)

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

#drawlloween
#mothman

03.10.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

03.10.2025 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Who else hears Apollo 18 as the soundtrack to this?

03.10.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

03.10.2025 01:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

01.10.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

01.10.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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 Iโ€™m considering doing that draw-everyday-tober thing again ๐Ÿ‘ป

01.10.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
@FullBleed | Instagram | Linktree View FullBleedZineโ€™s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like YouTube, Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

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

01.10.2025 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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.

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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! ๐Ÿ’€

Iโ€™m attempting to return to Draw-Everyday-Tober ๐ŸŽƒ

Letโ€™s see how it goes!

#mothman

01.10.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vampiretober 1/31: Carmilla

#art #carmilla

01.10.2025 16:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New radness from this dude!

26.09.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oh man these are all great...

24.09.2025 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Coming soon: Shackling Tales From Baba Yaga's Garden

In two weeks we start the campaign for Shackling!

This book will be full of:
๐Ÿ“ drawings
โœจ stories
๐Ÿ”ฎ tarot spreads
๐Ÿ“š recipes
๐Ÿ„ 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

22.09.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Support CHIRP! It's great!

18.09.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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.

Didja know newsletter subscribers get 10% off in my shop?
It's true:
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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.)

10.09.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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