Maris Wicks

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Gordie, the one-eyed orange and white cat, relaxes on his back on a brown rug. His little front paws are folded like a T. rex, and his back legs are kicked out to the slide, spread-eagle. He looks very relaxed, but if you dare touch his fluffy white belly, he will fuck you up. (I know from experience.)
A photo of Gordie, the one-eyed orange and white cat. He is sleeping on his side, with all of his feets reaching out towards you. His little toe beans are orange and pink. He seems very content, which makes sense, since he gets to sleep in on this Thursday, while his humans have to get up and go to work.
The aforementioned Pentel Presto! fine point jumbo correction pen. It’s a thick marker-type drawing tool with a blue body and a clear cap.
Gordie the orange and white, one-eyed cat, stretched out and lounging on my legs. He pretty much goes from my hips to my ankles. I do not understand how my cat is this big.
A pencil drawing of Adam Driver, but his bottom half is a horse: a nude, muscular man with flowing black hair and a scruffy beard dissolves into the body of a horse. I’m not sure if I drew the horse correctly, but I don’t think it matters. It is an Adam Driver centaur; that is clear.
A plastic toy of Air Canada cargo jet DC8-73F: the fuselage is egg-shaped, but the wings and jet engines are more realistic. It is a very cute, very rotund aircraft.
A sketchbook drawing of two planes. The top one is bright pink with black line, and it’s a Pitts Special: a biplane that is super small and light and used mostly for aerobatic flight. The plane below that is the Scamp 1, designed and built by a guy in the 1980s. It’s a small plane with a seat for one, with long wings on the top and a pretty big tail.
A small piece of paper with a grocery list on it. Most of the items have been crossed off. Under the list is a black ballpoint pen drawing of a small airplane called a Pitts Special. It’s a biplane that was designed for aerobatics. She’s the cutest plane in the world (in my opinion). When you start the engine, I imagine that it goes poot poot poot poot burr.
Pencil drawings of the cartoonists from the webinar: Reimena Yee, a person with glasses and long dark hair, wearing a white shirt, is on the top left, asking "How has picking apart the form of comics improved your practice of making comics?" Below, on the right is Scott McCloud, a person with glasses and short grey hair, wearing a black t-shirt with a plaid flannel over it, saying "With comics, I don’t think we’re dumbing down complex topics; I think we’re broadening their accessibility."
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, resting on a rock. They are black on back and white on the belly and face, but in this light, the white appears blue. Their beak glows bright orange. They look pretty content, resting on the rock.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin chick, also called a puffling. They are a big, floofy pompom of a bird, with little nubby wings, and a grey beak. They are peeping, asking "um, do you have any fish?"
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, from the shoulders up. They are black around their neck, with a white face. They are wide-eyed, bright orange beak agape, yelling HONK!
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin: she is black on the back and a white face and chest, with a bright orange beak. She’s looking excitingly at something we can’t see, but it’s probably a cool rock.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin standing on a speckled grey rock, flapping his wings. His belly and face a white, and his back and neck are black. His feet and beak are bright orange. Little drops of water are getting flicked from his wings; he has just returned from swimming in the ocean.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, but just from the shoulders up. Their head has a collar of black around the neck, with two white circles on either side of their bright orange beak. A small inverted triangle of black covers the top of their head, its point leading down to the top of their beak. They are facing us, beak open in a smille, with their eyes alight. They look pretty happy to see you - do you have a fish??
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin. She is black on the back with a white face and chest, and a bright orange beak. She is looking very grumpily at something we can’t see. Another puffin? A common tern? A fly? Maybe it’s just the Wednesday grumps.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, bobbing on the waves. She is black on the back and white on the belly and face, with bright orange beak and feet.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, jumping up in the air and flapping his wings. His beak is open and he is shouting HONK! He is black on the back with a white face and belly, with bright orange feet and beak.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin chick, also called a puffling. She is very loudly chirping PEEP, waiting to be fed some fish from her parents.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin and their fluffy bird-child, also called a puffling. The adult puffins is black on the back with a white belly, with a bright orange beak. They are looking down at the puffling, who is a grey puffy pompon of a bird, eyes gently closed from being so content from the snuggles.
Gordie the orange and white cat, snuggling my pencil case. He has a big think ink marker clutched in his paw.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin chick, also called a puffling, gulping down a whole shiny blue fish. The puffling is aptly named, being covered in fluffy, downy feathers for warm. They will get their grown-up feathers and fledge in a month or so.
Gordie the one-eyed, orange and white cat, curled up in a ball. He is hugging his face with his front paw, while covering the top of his head with his foot. He tells me this position is comfortable, but I am doubtful.
My human hand next to a giant pink earthworm that is longer than my hand. How is this worm so big???
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, holding a bunch of light blue, shiny fish in her beak. She has a black back and white face and belly. She looks very pleased with herself.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, floating out in a calm, pale blue ocean. They are black on the back and white on the belly, with bright orange feet and beak. They are gently paddling their little feet in the water.
A black and white drawing of an earthworm on wheels, wearing sunglasses, zooming by. There’s a cloud of dust behind it, with the sound effect vroom above it. This worm is going places.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, staring down the side of a rocky cliff.
Poster for the book event, including the cover of the picture book Puffins! (A whole bunch of cartoon puffins). And the details for the event (also listed in the text of this post).
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, looking pretty worried. He is black ok the back and white on the face and belly, with a big bright orange beak.
A big bag of "Bud the Spud" potatoes from Prince Edward Island. Bud the Spud is wearing red sneakers and a baseball cap, holding a beach towel and a boombox. He’s also wearing sunglasses, and happily walking across a sandy beach with ocean waves in the distance.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin walking across grey, sparkly rocks. She is black on the back and white on the belly, with bright orange feet and beak.
The list of my purchases from Bandcamp: Jeff Rosenstock, The Thermals, Mitski, The Halo Benders, Horsegirl, Silversun Pickups, MANNEQUIN PUSSY, Purity Ring, They Might Be Giants, Wet Leg.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin diving into the water. He is black on the back with a little bit of white on the belly and face, with bright orange feet and beak. He’s looking around for tasty fish!
Poster for the book event, featuring the cover to the book Puffins: a big black and white puffin with an orange beak is looking right at you, with an island full of busy, smaller puffins are in the background. The green and white logo for the bookstore is on the right, as well as the details about the event (this information is also in the text of the post).
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, jumping and spreading her wings, saying "honk". She has a black back and a belly of white, with bright orange beak and feet.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, sitting atop a sparkly grey boulder by the sea. They kind of loaf like a loaf of bread. Black on the back and white on the belly, with bright orange beak and feet. They also look very content, warming themselves in the Spring sunshine.
A cartoon drawing of Atlantic puffin, perched atop a sparkly grey boulder, flapping his wings. He is black on the back and white on the belly, with bright orange feet and beak. He looks pretty content.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin. She has a black back and white belly, with bright orange feet and beak. She has just come back from a swim in the ocean, where she caught a bunch of long blue fish with her beak. Now she’s dripping wet, walking across the rocks.
Me, an adult human with short brown hair and wearing a blue hoodie, and my one-eyed orange and white cat, staring right at you.
A pen drawing of a bunch of vegetables in the brassica family: cabbage, broccoli, kale, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, turnip, and mustard. The cabbage is saying "Us? We’re all related!"
Gordie the orange and white one-eyed cat, laying belly-down on the green-blue carpet. His back legs are stretched out behind him, making it look like he is flying.
Gordie the orange and white one-eyed cat, lounging on a light green-blue carpet, in a sunbeam.
Gordie the orange and white one-eyed cat, chomping on a paper straw (his favourite). His one eye is wide and looking down at the straw.
Drawing of an Atlantic puffin, flapping its wings, flying over the blue-green open ocean.
A drawing of an Atlantic puffin wearing a pink polka dot party hat, in front of a giant platter of shiny, silver fish. Stuck in the middle of the fish is a single pink striped birthday candle.
Ballpoint pen drawing of a bunch of reverse mermaids (fish up top, human down below). They are frolicking, doing splits, showing off their juicy human butts.
A pencil drawing of a bunch of reverse mermaids. Fish up top, human down below. Our fish-human friend is posing on rocks by the sea, kick-swimming, looking overwhelmed by there existence, and soaking up the sun on their buns.
A person with a shrimp head is playing a trombone. I don’t know how they’re doing doing it; there is just no way a shrimp would have the blowing capability. But then again, if they’re a hybrid shrimp-human, maybe it’s possible?
The cover to the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier. An astronaut in a spacesuit looks up towards stars through her helmet.
The cover to the picture book Puffins! A cartoon drawing of a rocky island covered in Atlantic puffins. Silly black and white birds with bright orange beaks squawk and play, slip and sleep, preen and poop.
A cartoon drawing of an Atlantic puffin, pooping on a rock. This puffin looks very pleased with themselves.
Close-up drawing of the inside of a puffin’s mouth: their tongue is lined with spikes that point towards their throat, with the same on the roof of their mouth.
Drawing of an Atlantic puffin with a whole bunch of wet, shiny fish hanging out of their beak. They look pretty pleased with themselves for catching all those fish.
A pencil drawing of an Atlantic puffins, walking to the right. They are black on their back and white one their belly, with a big orange beak and feet.
Cover to the graphic novel Human Body Theater. A red curtain parts on the stage, revealing a cartoon bone, heart, skeleton, brain, and ear. The skeleton is wearing a top hat and holding a cane.
A pencil drawing of an Atlantic puffin, black on the back and white on the belly. This puffin is lying on a rock on its belly, soaking up the sun.
The cover to the picture book Puffins!: a large puffin is in the foreground, looking right at you. Behind them is a rocky island of puffins, doing all sorts of things: splashing in the water, slipping on seaweed, preening, flapping their wings, nuzzling their buddies. The title is in the center: "puffins!" in big orange letters, covered in bird poop.
A black and white pen drawing of an Atlantic puffin, looking very worried, thinking "Did I leave the stove on?"
A cartoon drawing of a person sitting on a toilet while looking at a phone. An orange and white cat sits opposite, looking up at them.