Simkaye 🌈

@simkaye.bsky.social

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Illustrations, comics, nonsense 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ they/them ✨ https://simkaye.carrd.co ✨

Process video of artist's hand drawing a comic traditionally with red pencil and ink
A photograph of a hand holding a yellow and pink water bottle with a transparent sticker of a Windows XP Media player window with water and bubbles and a rainbow and dolphins with watery lime green text that reads "QUEER JOY"
A digital drawing some someone on an orange background laying against a giant gray hamster the size of a bear. Both are asleep
Digital drawing of a person on a red background carrying one pillow-sized giant hamster under eat arm with a third trailing behind on foot
Digital drawing of someone laying on their back snuggling a brown hamster that's the size of a pillow
Photo of art prints on a wood surface. The prints depict a warmly lit home office in the early 2000s. On the office desk is a teal and white early iMac G3. A black cat is half-crouched with the computer mouse in its mouth, staring at the viewer as though caught mid-hunt. The scene on the prints is littered y2k objects. The wall has a poster of Rihanna and of Britney Spears' "Oops!... I Did It Again" album cover. Items on the office desk include a blank CD stack, a pink lava lamp, a VHS on top of a Blockbuster case, and an old landline phone.
A photograph of a finger holding up a transparent sticker of a Windows XP Media player window with water and bubbles and a rainbow and dolphins with watery lime green text that reads "QUEER JOY"
Photo of two stickers showing a transparent Windows XP media player window with water and bubbles and dolphins with a rainbow. Both have watery lime green text, one reads "QUEER JOY" while the other reads "TRANS JOY"
A two-frame, black and white ink comic. Frame 1: Dog lays on the floor, an open jar of peanut butter between their paws, saying “It’s so weird how peanut butter tingles your throat”. In the background, Cat and Raccoon have paused playing with a cardboard box to stare wide-eyed at Dog. Frame 2: Closeup of Dog frantically licking the peanut butter jar, trying to dodge Raccoon and Cat’s clawed hands, one of Raccoon’s hands has them by the ear. Large, unspecified dialogue reads “THAT’S A FOOD ALLERGY” and “STOP EATING IT OMG”
Two fingers holding up a sticker depicting a screaming opossum with pink text that reads "LEAVE ME ALONE"
A lit-up vintage vending machine at night behind a cinderblock building at the edge of a foggy pine forest. A raccoon is crawling into the vending machine slot, reaching for a baby oppossum that’s nestled itself between the snack rows and hisses at the rescue attempt. The oppossum parent watches from atop the vending machine, accompanied by a squirrel. On the ground, a fox hungrily watches rats gathered under the vending machine.
Video of hands peeling and placing stickers of transparent, grabbing raccoon hands from Raccoon Comic on various objects.
A two-frame comic. Frame 1: A customer speaks to an employee wearing a name tag and SLURP™️ branding: “This place is awesome, I’m so happy I-” Frame 2: Newspaper headline reads “WRM Capital Acquires SLURP - 5,000 Locations Close” Article text: "We at WRM Capital are so excited to suckle the nutrient dense marrow from the ripe corpse of the SLURP brand.” To the left is a photo of a parasitic worm in a suit labeled “CEO of WRM Capital”. A secondary article title reads “Nature is healing - mosquitoes are BACK (page 11)”
5 rabbits on a green background. One carries a battle axe. One is wearing an oversized knight helm. One has 3 daggers floating above its back. One sits with the handle of a flail in its mouth. And a very small bunny has the handle of a large sword in its mouth.
A 2-frame comic. Frame one: Cat asking "Are you stressing yourself out over taxes again?" Frame two: Raccoon crying and pulling on its ears, wailing "What if the IRS KILLS ME"
Photograph of a sticker with a transparent background on a water bottle. The sticker is of a medieval-style unicorn skeleton (with a sword through it’s skull for a horn) and script text that reads “Unkillable”.
Title text that reads “this is how stupid 'trickle-down economics' sounds btw”, followed by an image of the Giant Omelette from Neopets with the blobbly heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Jeff Bezos in the omelette’s surface. `Text below reads “You approach the unfathomable wealth of the billionaire cabal…” (image of a wad of cash) “… and manage to take a slice!!!”
A 3-frame ink comic. Frame 1: Raccoon approaches Cat, who is reading a book in a coffee table. Raccoon: “Can I tell you a hot take?” Cat: “Sure-“ Frame 2: Closeup of Raccoon: “I think (censored) who (censored) and (censored) are (censored) and should be (censored)” Frame 3: Downward shot of Cat over Raccoon’s shoulder. Cat: “Wow, that’s fucked up and a little bit wrong, thank you for saying it”
Three LOTR frames redrawn with Aragorn as a woman. Frame 1: Aragorn with a swordpoint to her throat, Arwen off camera saying "What's this? A Ranger caught off her guard?" Frame 2: Aragorn raising her sword to defend Frodo, Uruk-hai growling off screen. Frame 3: Arwen lying on Aragorn, Aragorn's hand brushing her face.
A two-frame comic drawn in Procreate. Frame 1: An office worker looms over the computer monitors in his cubicle, frustratedly yelling: "LOAD!! Why are you always frozen?!" Frame 2: An over-the-shoulder shot reveals all three monitors have glitched screenshots from Disney's "Frozen".
4-frame comic of a bored raccoon putting on headphones and transitioning from surprised to delighted by the music they hear
Screenshot of an email receipt for a $1,300 donation made to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center on February 6, 2026
An animation of an unmarked white SUV on fire with balloons that read "Happy 2026"
Digital illustration made in Procreate depicting a warmly lit home office in the early 2000s. On the office desk is a teal and white early iMac G3. A black cat is half-crouched with the computer mouse in its mouth, staring at the viewer as though caught mid-hunt. The scene is littered y2k objects. The wall has a poster of Rihanna and of Britney Spears' "Oops!... I Did It Again" album cover. Items on the office desk include a blank CD stack, a pink lava lamp, a VHS on top of a Blockbuster case, and an old landline phone.
A 4-frame digital comic. Frame 1: A flatscreen TV in a cozy, warmly lit living area displaying the black and white title card for a TV Show. The Show logo reads "Good Boy Detectives" with a magnifying glass composing the "O" in "boys" and part of the "V" in "detectives". "Written by Simkaye" is in small font underneath. Frame 2: A black and white noir scene with a red crime scene outline of a body. Two dogs, a scruffy older one and one with a spiked collar, stand over the body outline. The scruffy dog says "Another one..." Frame 3: Closeup of the scruffy dog saying "Who do you think the primary suspects are?" Frame 4: Closeup of the dog in the spiked collar, apparently completely lost (and just a dog), saying "I have NO IDEA where I am right now"
A two-frame comic. Frame 1: Text that says "What answering emails looks like" above a person sitting at a desk, typing on a computer. Frame 2: Text that says "What answering emails FEELS like". The scene is now red, person is hunkered over their keyboard in terror. Three businessmen in suits loom over them, yelling "WHY HAVEN'T YOU RESPONDED???", "USELESS", and the third, tears in his eyes, yells "I LITERALLY HATE YOU".
Photos of transparent stickers, shirts, and wooden pins that all depict the same illustration: the face of a small, anxious yellow dog with the text "NERVOUS" underneath in pink text
A warm seaside setting. On a grassy hill overlooking the sea, four raccoons steal a bicycle. One leans eagerly from the basket, a second stands on the seat and steers with its front paws, a third pedals the wheels, and a fourth baby raccoon cleans to the back of the bicycle for dear life
A 4-frame comic in black ink, no color of a cat and raccoon. Frame 1: stationary supplies scatter from a reusable shopping bag. Cat says "I got a new planner!" Frame 2: closeup of Raccoon saying "Don't you HAVE mult-" Frame 3: Cat cuts them off, physically clawing at their face and yelling "SHHH-" Frame 4: Cat close against raccoon's face with wild eyes, saying "this is the one that will FIX ME."
Headline 1 (NPR): "What parents should know about PragerU Kids videos, ehich can now be shown in Florida schools" Headline 1 Text: "Some videos downplay slavery, question whether humans really cause climate change, and insert opinions into what otherwise appears to be educational content for children." Headline 2 (MSNBC): "Propaganda platform PragerU is primed to capitalize on Trump's PBS cuts" Headline 2 text: "The right-wing media outlet has been portrayed as an alternative to PBS children's programs - and it has gotten a boost from the white house."
A 4 panel comic. Panel 1: closeup of a new textbook on a kid's school desk. The cover reads "World Histeries - sponcored bye PragerU + OpenAI" Panel 2: The kid opens the book. Page titles include "How slavery boosted the enconemy" and "12 reasons hitler wasn't wrong" along with an ad that reads "more with a pragerU subscription and another that says "10% off openAI" with a QR code. Panel 3: the kid looks up at the teacher, lifts the book, and says "what the fuck is this" Panel 4: an exhausted teacher, still passing out a stack of the books, replies "your senator picked it"
(Part 1) A 3 panel comic page. Panel 1: Character1 in the foreground, looking ragged and hunched over an iPad says “everything makes me wanna die today”. Character2 in the background looking over a small animal enclosure says “hey pause what you’re doing”. Panel 2: Closeup of character2 with dramatic lighting saying “the hamster’s awake”. Panel 3: Closeup of a hamster happily eating a sunflower seed.
Digital illustration of a fork-tongued mutant wolf covered in eyeballs, roaring on a red background. The mutant wolf of surrounded by a circle of large crows in flight, taking on the foe together
Two-frame black and white ink comic Frame 1: a small raccoon sits on a stool at a kitchen table, scrolling on a smartphone Frame 2: same scene, but overlaid with a giant windows 98 error. The alert window is titled “ANXIETY” and reads “You remember that thing you’re afraid of happening”. Beneath the text a mouse cursor hovers over the only available option: “Spiral”. The raccoon grips the phone with bulging eyes, all their fur standing on end.
A dragon head descends from darkness, smoke trailing from its open mouth. A multitude of hands reach from its throat, almost like a tongue, together they grasp the hilt of a gold, shining sword.
A digital illustration of hamsters with a rainbow cake topped by a tiny inclusive pride flag on a toothpick. The background is soft pink. The cake has white icing with a slice cut out, revealing rainbow sponge layers within. A gray hamster is on the ground eating a chunk of purple sponge, next to it is a white hamster, full of cake, passed out leaned against the cake. A dark brown hamster is perched on the edge of the cake looking down at them. A cream colored hamster looks up at the inclusive pride flag atop the cake while a second gray hamster paws at the toothpick, causing it to tilt.
A comic with 4 frames. Frame 1: closeup of a green carnation with a scroll that reads “meet at our tree should you feel the same”. Frame 2: closeup of a gold knight’s hand plucking a poppy from a field of flowers. Frame 3: Birds Eye view of a mounted silver knight guiding their horse through a field of flowers. Frame 4: wide shot of the two knights in the wilderness meeting beneath the shade of a tree. The gold knight leads their horse on foot, extending a bouquet of flowers up to the silver knight, who is still on horseback and hiding behind their back a similar bouquet to give the gold knight