Lucy Bellwood

@lubellwoo.bsky.social

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Adventure Cartoonist. Emphatically not a raccoon. Previously: BAGGYWRINKLES, 100 DEMON DIALOGUES. Next: SEACRITTERS!, a swashbuckling animal caper w/ Kate Milford - March ’27. Heck the feed, send me mail: PO Box 734, Ojai CA 93024 lucybellwood.com

Enormous sailing vessels—in my comic? It’s more likely than you think. Free PC check!
A tiny demon holding its hands up to make a heart symbol above its head, tattooed on a wrist.
Ward Sutton's ubiquitous Sickos guy, peering in the window saying "Yes...ha ha ha...yes!"
Lucy grimacing and looking off-camera in deep discomfort, her face the face of a person who has yet to care deeply about whether a family member has had a bowel movement in the past three days.
A foldable zine by the artist collective Hundred Rabbits showing a tiny rabbit character demonstrating the various designs and positions for communicating with signal flags.
A tracking whiteboard with an “Other” column featuring: a shit, yay! Rubbish. JSC 2:30. Two shits, double yay! And: OMG three shits!
A diagram explaining how yards move up and down masts on a tall ship.
Actor Peter Dinklage in his sole as Malvolio reclining on a red velvet couch with a rose between his teeth. He’s wearing a sky blue suit with yellow knee high boots.
Lucy is holding her demon, which is crying on her shoulder. The demon wails, "there's just so much and it never stops and we can't fix it all and, and, and--" Lucy says, "Shh, shh I know. You're overtired. Let's go get some sleep. Come on."
An illustration of Priya in a wheelchair holding their kiddo. Their spouse stands beside them. Behind the trio are two black cats playing on a cat tree. The caption reads "Help us find a home."
100 Demon Dialogues by Lucy Bellwood, a black, square softcover book with silver spot foil and spot gloss demon accents.
A black and white sticker of Rockwell Kent’s illustration of Moby Dick surfacing from the deep.
Ricky Baker, the protagonist of Hunt for the Wilderpeople, tentatively walking over to give Sam Neill's character Hec a hug.
A watercolor painting of the Cutty Sark, a tall ship replete with many sails, adrift in a field of stars alongside three enormous whales.
A page from Bellwood's book Baggywrinkles: A Lubber's Guide to Life at Sea showing two members of Scott's Antarctic expedition bickering about rations.
A watercolor painting of a raccoon in a captain's hat sitting in an inflatable dinghy with the words "It's lonely being a raccoon in the coast guard" across the top.
A spread of postcards, minicomics, envelopes, and temporary tattoos on Lucy's dining room table.
Two turkey vultures atop a telephone pole, each drying their wings in the morning sun. One is backlit with its wings fully outstretched. The sky is full of wispy white clouds.
A raccoon, paws outstretched, caught in the glare of a camera flash at night.
A caucasian puppet with brown hair, a beard, and glasses wearing a grey shirt.
A child's pastel drawing of a raccoon clutching its paws to its face saying "Oh no ants!" while a parade of ants invade its picnic basket.
Front page of the Ojai Valley News featuring an article titled Dave England’s big dreams of a big chair for Ojai’s July 4th parade come true, alongside a photo of the aforementioned big chair. It’s red. And quite big.
Lucy giving a thumbs up in front of her microphone and pop filter, which are snuggled into a Stonehenge-like structure of blankets and cushions.
Two pen drawings of weird flowers that look like little people.
Andy peering out like a gremlin from behind Lucy's convention table full of nautical merch.
Lucy flexing behind a packed convention table full of nautical prints, books, and postcards.
A diagram showing a curved X axis of horizon distance with 12 data points at different heights along the Y axis ranging from Domestic Cat to International Space Station showing how height impacts visibility.
The raccoon who insists on being my personal amanuensis, standing in my doorway and sticking his tongue out at me in front of god and everyone.
The flagrant disrespect on the raccoon in this photograph cannot be overstated. He is breaking and entering. He is grand larcening. He is waltzing into my home like he pays the rent.
A chalkboard doodle of Lucy at a dead sprint yelling "Let me love you!" as she pursues a square-rigged sailing vessel.
Product page for one (1) long horn cow skull.
The rippling, lava-filled chasm known as The Breach from Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim.
A miniature black pen with a felt nib.
Luminous orange clouds reflected in the sea. The waves are calm and lapping at the sand.
An incoming text message that reads "Big boat thing happening"
Lucy crouched beside an upturned bicycle doing bicycle gremlin things.
A watercolor painting of a hawk.
A YouTube thumbnail for a video entitled "Gnome Country for Old Men 38 (Ambient/Dungeon Synth)." The preview thumbnail shows a wizened creature with excessive eyebrows and a hood manipulating a jumble of keyboards and electronic mixers. A plush Garfield stands watch over the proceedings.
The 7 of Swords, showing a gentleman in a jaunty red fez and wee red booties with an armload of swords.
Will you be responsible for any type of motorsports including but not limited to car, atv or motorcycle racing, rallying, rides, stunts or burnouts: Yes / No
Eligibility Questions: Are there water activities, amusement devices, inflatables, rides or animals? Yes / No
A comic showing Lucy walking down a cluttered sidewalk saying "Hmf! So much sidewalk tra— Ooh a box! Looks useful for paints!" She glares at the viewer for a moment before saying "What? It's a good box!" In the last panel she's been replaced with a raccoon marching along with the box under its arm saying "Hmf!" The caption reads "Lucy Bellwood: trash panda."
An analog landline phone with a large shell instead of a receiver.
A barred owl in a tree.
Psycho Sam pretending to be a bush from Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
A watercolor sketch of Monty, a badger wearing a jacket, neckerchief, and breeches, brandishing a rolled up map and yelling "Lucy! You're awesome!"
Lettice the capybara and Monty the badger grinning at each other.
A doodle of Lucy with all her drawing equipment, riding on the shoulders of a resentful raccoon while yelling “To glory!”
Two watercolor paintings of lighthouses in silhouette against colorful sunset skies.
A selection of sketches of Poppy the capybara lounging around and looking incredibly regal.
Lucy undercover at the Santa Barbara Zoo in front of the finger sign pointing toward the capybara enclosure.
A capybara sits in a yuzu bath, head half poking out. One of the floating yuzu is definitely Lucy in disguise. You can just tell. It’s obvious, really.
An illustrated plate from Research: Design in Nature showing articulated bird wings.
An ornate file folder with an art nouveau motif of monkeys in black and red repeated across the cover. Research: Design in Nature. Field Museum of Natural History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. John Gilbert Wilkins.
Peter giving an Oscar-worthy impression of a gopher at the doctor's office.
Lucy's parents, Peter and Sarah, in two photos. Peter looks like a mad, smiling balloon, Sarah wears oversized glasses and is making a rodent-y sort of face. She bears a baffling resemblance to the comedian Chris Fleming.
Lucy’s demon, a tiny black imp, pouts on the ground looking dejected and saying “Nobody’s going to help.” Lucy kneels beside it and extends a hand saying “We’re part of a community, and communities help each other.” Behind her, a diverse crowd stands together with their hands joined.
A pen and ink drawing of a woman seated and turned away from the viewer. She's noodling with her phone and wearing a small backpack.
A doodle of Lucy with a variety of drawings strapped to her face, torso, hands.