Gus Becker

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How cartoonists are surviving and thriving in 2025 The answer is pretty simple: doing everything other than comics, too!

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Woah what this is so cool! How does this thing work? It was like a game of telephone with art?

My entry for the 2025 feastphone

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Digital drawing of an astronaut with a bug head holding some pliers and floating in front of a starry background

Bug astronaut doing bug and/or astronaut things

Weird little freaks like you’d see in old games ✏️🦇🗿🐙

✨See a mage, post a mage✨

Magic axolotl!

So much of LinkedIn is AI slop

The Bloodbathogen!
This terrifying triple threat has been stapled together to be three times as scary! It doesn't matter what bites you, you'll be sure to turn into something awful or maybe even a combination of these bonded brothers of bedlam! Be it bark, blood or brains!
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a digital painting of a juvenile five-lined skink sitting on a decorative pumpkin. it is surrounded by vine and leaves. the lizard is striped lengthwise down its body in white and black, transitioning to a bright blue tail about halfway down. the colors have been very saturated, and the shapes are abstracted to be rigid angles.

It's finally time for Skinktober!

What's that? No, I'm pretty sure it was never called anything else.
#art 🦢

Poster for virtual CC Fest 9-28-2026 details & rsvp at https:/ccfest.rocks.

A poster for the "Virtual CC Fest" on September 28th, with a schedule running from 9 AM PDT to 12:30 PM PDT. The background is a grid of vertical and horizontal watercolor stripes in yellow, red, blue, and green. The title "virtual CC Fest" is in a red, pixelated font. The schedule is as follows (all times PDT): 9:00 to 9:30 am: Welcome and opening keynote with Char Stiles 9:30 to 10:30 am: Workshop Round 1 Art, Code & Storytelling with p5.js by Missy Cooper Your First Creative Coding Class - In a Post LLM world by Akanksha Vyas Tracing the Storyline by Jesal Mehta Spatial p5 - Live-Coding for Mixed Reality with p5.js by Tibor Udvari Computational Thinking and Comics: The Magic of Fractal Gridding by Ecy Femi King Power of the Portrait by Lisa Hauser 10:30 to 11:00 am: Stretch Break / Info session / Networking CC Teacher Camp Info Session & Networking by Saber Khan 11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Workshop Round 2 Vibecoding and CS education - An open conversation by Paul Way Closing the Circle by Jesal Mehta Teaching and Learning with Web Spinner by Caleb Foss AI Mirror Play by ash herr 3D printing with p5.js by Gair Subbraman Digital Quilting Circle by Tess Ramsey Stringing worms with type & code by Sai Ram Ved Vyapurapu 12:00 to 12:30 pm: Closing keynote and goodbye with Monica Powell

A few years ago, I attended #virtualCCFest for the first time and left inspired! Today, I will be delivering the closing keynote at CC Fest. I'm looking forward to sharing my love of creative coding and encouraging others to archive (and share!) their creative work.

Those That Inherit the Earth Vol. 1 is live on Kickstarter!

If an episodic tale of an opossum and an astronaut living in a sword and sci-fi world sounds like your thing, this book is for you

I've been doing a pretty good job about keeping the site updated btw. First look at all new art is there. There's a backlog of stuff I haven't posted on socials yet if you go to the blog section.

You can leave the experiments to the lab rats. For real results you need a mouse out in the field.

Watercolor illustration of mr dinosir eating a sunflower at the foot of more sunflowers.

Sunflower snack
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Aw thank you!! Was definitely fun to put together. I think I'll make some more little worldbuilding zines like that!

Photo of me & my buddy Earl behind our table of zines!

Had a great time at #Denver Zine Fest this weekend! This was the first time we tabled as UFO Country Press!

Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant. “Reactor Overheating” 2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads: “Press cancel to avoid critical overload” 3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads: “Enter password to confirm” “Incorrect password” “Incorrect password” “Do you want to reset your password?” “Reset link has been sent to your email” “Please choose a new password” “New password can't be the same as old password” The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9. Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

trying to gauge interest for this faux wargaming codex thing, would people be interested in buying an e-book/hard copy of something like this?

Working on a vehicle design for a friend.

Thank you! Feels like a good opportunity with all these prompts that match the same theme

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Ah! I ended up with one of the Jobblins zines! Thanks so much, I love it!

Went to Denver Zine Fest for the first time. I had a lot of fun and met so many amazing artists!

I also brought copies of my Jobblins zine and traded and bought so many cool zines!

I think maybe we are & we just aren't good at finding each other! Where are the #zine makers and lovers of #zines??

Woah these look great! It would be so cool to see them swimming around in some kind of web 1.0 aquarium 👀

Join me in making some Cursed Relics themed art this October! I think I'm going to turn mine into a zine 👀

Quick little drawing i did for my dad. It's pizza knight!

A black and white illustration of a giant demonic horse attacking East Colfax, Denver, Colorado.

Blucifer Attacks The ‘Fax. Abandon all hope. Here are some inks for an upcoming thing. On the whole, the illustration came out pretty damn well. Now to color this monstrosity and set it loose into the world.