Catie Gray 🌘

thing about autism is if you work really hard for many years, you can learn through trial-and-error how to navigate social situations and interpersonal connections SO effectively that people don't really believe you're autistic anymore and resent you for not being perfect at nonverbal communication

Someday we'll get comics and also delicious BBQ and fancy brunches again.

Pour a mini out for me

Truly 😢

Wailing and writhing in pain at not being at TB this year, I want to see everyone and I want print versions of so many comics I have as PDFs.

We like the taste when we lick our hands clean

This is so sad but completely understandable! I really hope the indie publishing scene improves some day 💔

Yeaahh boooooyy 🔥

Cover of Black Swan Ace, featuring the logo, with Luke and Lan walking in the city. #blackswanace

A new COMIC!

BLACK SWAN ACE, a collection of short comics & art feat. occult detective duo dealing with esoteric cases, inspired by pulp Weird Fiction, Showa manga & Chinese horror stylings.

You can buy the pdf: sarracenian.itch.io/black-swan-ace
or read comics for free: tapas.io/series/Black...

I'm going to start stapling new pages to telephone poles

a screenshot from the box jellyfish Wikipedia page showing the nasty goo stalk that they are looking at us with.

Has anyone ever told you that you have beautiful complex rhopalial ocelli?

I have not yet discovered where the living seal snots are keeping these eyes, apparently their vision is very blurry so at least we have that in common.

Today I have been cursed with the knowledge that box jellyfish have True Eyes (with corneas, lenses, retinas)

What are they seeing and what are they not telling us.

Is there a word for the glee that comes from saying something devious and evil to your friends and causing them psychological damage?

Is it still schadenfreude if you create their misfortune by saying something incredibly annoying?

That's so brutal 😔

a panel from the moomins newspaper strip where Snorkmaiden has put lipstick directly under here eyes bc she doesn't have a visible mouth.

if this queen isn't in the movie I'm not watching it.

A moomins newspaper comix strip where Snorkmaiden repeatedly fails to put on lipstick due to her design not having a defined mouth and a big hippo nose, notably putting it directly under her eyes in panel like a total freak

can you believe they've made cutesy make up accessories based on this strip and they purposefully exclude the diva in the third panel???

This news feels like a post from 2019 Tumblr that I'd roll my eyes at bc it sounds like kids animation superwholock but actually this is so intriguing.

yeah I bet it puts baby right to sleep

I like how they're scaremongering paracetamol as causing autism as tho half our great great grandmamas weren't on the Mother's Little Helper and feeding baby cocaine-opium syrup.

They adjusted my meds (which has been very helpful) but also I got to go to my best friend & her husband's kickass wedding and getting to hang out with people you love in the woods is truly what it's all about.

Realising that despite Everything this has actually felt like the best summer I've had in a long time.

A gray-scale comic page Panel 1: In the pouring rain Ket is holding on to a taught rope at the edge of a cliff above a storm surging river. In the foreground her step father Virrat commands off-panel members of their caravan. Virrat: (Pointing) Everyone to the ropes! We can't lose the wagon! Panel 2: A close up of Ket's straining face as the rain beats down on her. Panel 3: Ket's hands lose their grip on the rope Ket: Ah! Panel 4: The lower half of Virrat's face as he turns to check on Ket. Virrat: Ket? Panel 5: Ket falls from the cliff's edge towards the raging river, up on the top of the cliff we see that the situation has turned violent as unknown attackers open fire and the large animal that pulls their wagon is startled and rears up, sending people flying and the wagon tipping dangerously. Virrat's small silhouetted figure reaches out desperately for Ket as he screams for her. Raider commander: (points from a small armoured vehicle) OPEN FIRE! Virrat: (In large hand drawn text) KET!!

Earlier this year I drew a(n abridged) scene from Nomad's Land as part of a pitch package. Enjoy!

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While Ket's people cross the desert during the "coolest" months rain storms like this are unprecedented.

Hey, if I have any UK followers, this is closing in on the "They have to at least respond" bit if you ain't signed yet

And yeah it can be a bunk response like with the Online Safety Act one but it is also an on the record thing which can at least be a mystery mouskatool for later

A screenshot of Mad Men of Don Draper yelling. The subtitle has been edited to read, “that’s why I write books!”

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

Panel 1: The dragon has almost instantly appeared directly in front of Ket, antennae twitching towards her making quiet Bzt! noises, whiskers flowing as the dragon invades her space. Ket falls backwards, gasping deeply in shock at the speed the dragon moves. Panel 2: Ket stammers, looking up at this bizarre creature before her, overwhelmed. Ket: i- ah... Panel 3: The heat, stress and shock get to her and she faints into the darkness of panel 4.

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Hello????

Panel 1: The dragon lies down, trembling, extends a long thin tongue to drink from the stream. Ket: (thought bubble) is it- injured? Panel 2: The dragon suddenly glows brightly, long whiskers curling up and making a humming noise, all the injuries have disappeared Panel 3: Live Ket reaction, her eyes catch the light as she gasps in amazement. Ket: Woah! Panel 4: The dragon's eyes go wide, antennae shoot up straight with a Bzt! Panel 5: The dragon turns to face Ket, three black pupiless eyes staring straight towards her.

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Panel 1: Ket opens her water skin by pulling the cork out with her teeth. Panel 2: She kneels and fills it from the remains of the river, which is now a thin trickle. Panel 3: Ket takes a drink, hoping it will hold off heat stroke. Panel 4: There is loud SLUMP! Off panel and Ket looks up in shock. Panel 5: An injured, insectoid looking dragon crawls out from behind a break in the rock, covered in wounds the dragon drips small puddles of blood onto the drying river bed. Ket is in shock, hides quickly behind a jutting out part of the gorge wall, she mouths to herself. Ket: *dragon!*

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???!!!

Panel 1: Ket walks over the cracked rapidly drying mud as the formerly raging river is reduced to a thin stream. Ket: Drying up already? Panel 2: From above we see she is still tracked by the vulture. Panel 3: Ket starts to feel the effects of heat exhaustion as the sun beats down and the vulture soars high above her. Ket: (tiredly) I see why we usually travel by night... Panel 4: Ket slumps down against the walls of the gorge and sighs, trying to get a little shade. The vulture has landed and regards her curiously. Panel 5: In silhouette Ket throws a small rock at the vulture who takes off. Ket: Shoo!

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Ket respects vultures and their vital ecological role but she'd rather they not be actively waiting for her to die.

Panel 1: Ket trembles, gripping her shoulder and begins to cry. Panel 2: Ket starts to sob and wipes her eyes. Ket: G...get a grip! Panel 3: Text box: You know better than to waste water! Ket looks determined, despite her still wet eyes and running nose. Panel 4: Text box: Track the sun- Ket uses a shadow stick to follow the Sun's path across the sky Text box: -find north... Panel 5: Text box: ...follow the river back... Ket stands up, determined to survive, her injured arm tucked into the front of her robes like a makeshift sling. The vulture continues to watch her. Text box: You're a navigator, are you not?

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