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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Filmed a few videos to promote FOX RIVER COMICS CAMP this summer and collaborated with an old student of mine for help editing, I present to you the first of three! We also made a bunch of shorts so those are going out over the next few weeks, too.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm bringing something special to TWIST! A printed preview of my comic VALOR!! 👀✨

A photo of my hand holding a print copy of VALOR, my sci-fi comic in progress. This contains the first 14 pages of the comic.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'll be at TWIST this Friday with mini comics, stickers, and a few other things! Hope to see you there!!!!

Poster for TWIST, the Twin State Comic and Zine Fair, at JAM 5 S. Main St. White River Junction from 4pm to 8pm on October 2, 2026. The poster features a red demon in a pink leotard bursting from an unselling pink cake with little book imps flying around her on a yellow background.

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thinking about how a year ago today I was in Prague, leaning over a glass case, gazing at Lucy and Selam the first time they had been shown in Europe. My Smithsonian piece on it, if you missed it: 🏺🧪

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Meeting Lucy: How a World-First European Exhibition Brought Visitors Face to Face With the Fossil That 'Shrinks Time'

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National Museum in Prague

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 04/12/2024

I am delighted to share our latest piece of research: ‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’. This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date. A thread: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A huge phenetic tree visualising our global string figure dataset.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm available right now!! Small projects are welcome!

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm officially under 200lbs for the first time in almost a decade! I'm really proud of myself for making healthy lifestyle changes (eating whole foods, limiting sugar, walking ~10k steps a day). I want to be healthy for myself, but also for my kiddo so I can be there for them as long as possible. 💖

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why are we looking for life on other planets when little guys like monkey slug caterpillars exist right here on Earth?

A monkey slug caterpillar chilling on a leaf.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Save the Academy of Natural Sciences!!! The oldest natural history museum in all of the Americas is under threat by Drexel University who plans to permanently close it at the end of this month. Milo Rossi's video explains the situation and how you can get involved! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyf...

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm in charge of my kiddo's beloved Crocco while they're away on a camping trip so I'm taking him on adventures! 🐊💖

Photo of me smiling and holding up a peace sign with a small green crocodile plushie on my shoulder standing in front of a stone wall in a green forest.

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IT’S BOOK DAY!!!! So excited to be celebrating on the road with @goraina.bsky.social! If you pick up the book (thank you!) please admire the gorgeous colors from @charmgardens.com and @cavetoonist.bsky.social’s incredible inking in Raina’s chapters! Happy 40th, BSC! 💕🛳️🌴🎉

Watercolor thank you page with drawings of Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacey from the Baby-Sitters Club. Handwritten text:

Book day!

Hi, I’m Gale!
THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB SUPER SPECIAL #1: BABY-SITTERS ON BOARD is out TODAY, and it’s a DREAM PROJECT that took a lot of love and care from SO MANY PEOPLE —

Thank you to —

STUNNING colorist K Czap
IMPECCABLE inker Ray Baehr
ASTOUNDING letterer Jesse Post
INCREDIBLE designers Natalie Padberg Bartoo & Phil Falco
for making this book GORGEOUS

AND Cassandra Fulton, our editor, dear champion across books!
AND our agent, Judy Hansen!

The whole Graphix team!!

ESPECIALLY Ann M. Martin, creator & inspiration!!

And Raina, whose mentorship and friendship over the years have meant more than I can say AND MAKING A BOOK WITH YOU WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!

I love you all!!

GG 9.15.26

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Incised into a reindeer foot-bone presumably some 15,000 years ago, this engraving represents two hinds. The realistic rendering of the drawing is truly amazing! Found in the Grotte de Chaffaud/France. 📷 RMN-GP. Jean-Gilles 🏺#archaeology

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Erin Roseberry 🔜 SPX B5 @roseberrycomix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

TRANSFORMATION INTO AN ANIMAL--a new risograph zine and animated flipbook about mythological fantasies--is debuting at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social this weekend! Come see it at SPX table B5--limited copies available!

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was nervous to start drawing again after taking an entire month off, but it's all fine and good. I didn't forget how and it's still fun!

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Heads up for anyone who wants a swashbuckling animal adventure graphic novel with Very Accurate Boats: Seacritters! is currently 25% off via Barnes and Noble's preorder sale. Code is PREORDER25! Good through 9/11. barnesandnoble.sjv.io/c/128773/189...

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Seacritters! The Hunt for the Jigamaree

Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've lost nearly 20lbs this summer by simply eating better and walking a lot! I'm very pleased with how much my fitness has improved! Gonna keep at it!!!

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

new patreon post! here's a spread that is Extremely Comics lmfao www.patreon.com/galesaur/pos...

Two page diary comics spread.

PAGE ONE: Sunday, August 9th

PANEL 1
Gale stares at a pile of paper, panicking.

Caption: I AM SO CLOSE TO FINISHING THESE THUMBS
Gale: is this anything?!

PANEL 2
Gale meditating, at peace.

Caption: You can fix it after you make it but you have to make it

PANEL 3
Close on Gale’s grim face.

Caption: what if it’s unsalvageable

PANEL 4
Gale meditating again.

Caption: this happens every book trust yourself

PANEL 5
Close on Gale.
Caption: everyone will hate this

PANEL 6
Gale slamming their hands on a table.
Caption: I am going to kick my brain’s ass

Gale: draw!!!! motherfucker!!!!!

PAGE TWO: Monday, August 10th

PANEL 1
Gale looks away from a computer screen with an X on it, cringing.

Caption: Oh! Rejected from an online minicomics fair!
Computer: sorry but no

PANEL 2

Gale holds their hands out to a display of graphic novels.

Caption: I've applied every year and been rejected every year. Which I get!!
Caption: it's an indie fair. i have bookshelf books

PANEL 3

Doodle of two Gales. One is yelling at the sky, one is running up to them in a panic.

Yelling Gale: i wanna make comic
Running Gale: we have comic at home

Caption: So I didn't apply for the exposure or money... but rather, a shared project outside of the book space.
Caption: And an external deadline for a side project.

PANEL 4
Gale types on their phone, determined.

Caption: Well, I want to keep pushing myself... and I can do that either way!

Gale phone text: LET'S MAKE A MINICOMIC PACT
Gale phone text: 🔥🔥

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Climbed a mountain with my kiddo and some friends today! I've been working really hard all summer to improve my fitness (walking, walking, and more walking) and was able to go on this day trip with confidence! Here's my fave shot of the day! My kiddo exploring the summit. 💖

Photo of a bald stone mountain summit with sprawling green landscape dotted with lakes and rolling blue maintains below an overcast sky. A child stands on the summit taking in the view.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Astro is almost fully switched over to his new food and seems to be doing well on it! He has more energy and I'm hoping he'll put some weight back on soon. 💖

My tuxedo cat Astro flopped over on his back looking up at me while I pet the shaved patch of fur on his belly.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I need to plan to go to at least one comic convention next year even if I don't get a table. Nothing quite fills my creative cup like being around other comics creators!

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I decided to take a break from playing art games which has turned into taking a break from art in general. I've been focusing other things, mainly my health and spending time outside. Trying to trust that my spark for art will return eventually! 💫

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Please look at my new baby. His name is Retro!

A matte holographic sticker of a chibi purple cat styled to look like a retro handheld video game console with a mischievous pixel face, candy colored buttons, and a ball-chain tail.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My brain right now is like no art! only go outside!!! >:O

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Some wonderful little weirdos I encountered on my walk this morning 🥰

Ghost pipes! A plant without chlorophyll that gets its energy from mycorrhizal fungi!

Red Eft salamander! A precious little baby!!!

Slippery jack mushrooms??? Maybe?? I don't know. Don't eat them.

Solid orange woolly bear caterpillar. What is it trying to tell us?

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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🌄 Star Stags 🌌 I was very inspired by the Tuva Republic petroglyphs, two of the little stag depictions are copies (first two, top left) while the rest are my own drawings. I'm very keen on getting this design printed on tote bags if there was interest! :)

A black and white illustration featuring a bounding stag, the ends of its antlers taking on the shape of stars. Another star sits above its head, more stars surrounding the deer. Many simple little drawings in a rock art style with more star horned stags are by the upper left and bottom right of the animal. Floral motifs with the flowers taking on a heart shape surround them and the illustration is framed by simple patterned borders.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Valor is still rattling around in my head somewhere.

Three portrait doodles of a melancholy humanoid robot with fluffy green anime hair and dark eyes wearing a purple body suit.

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H H T ☁️🍃🍂✨ @robogart.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have a new free/pay what you want brush up on my itchio called the Classic Digital All Rounder! 🥳💕 I'm really hyped with how this one came out, I was craving it and this really delivered what I wanted! 💖

Portrait of a pale, white person with soft blue-ish hair. The whole image has a sort of blue-tinge to it due to the underpainting. This was all made with my new brush as advertised here : Classic Digital All Rounder.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I got an air fryer a while ago and it completely changed my life?! I have a lot of weird hang ups with food and cooking and it has solved so many things for me. I only really cook meat and veggies in it, but it inspired me to continue to make positive changes to my diet that I feel super good about!

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

There's a local farm that has HUGE oxen and I like to visit them and imagine what it must have been like to live on a landscape with even bigger wild megafauna.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is my favorite rock! Found in a river in Vermont. I've had it for over a decade and I still don't know what the stripe is or how it formed! I've never seen anything else like it.

a tan rock with a white stripe bordered with dark reddish brown down the middle

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My comfort movie just got a little sadder.. RIP Sam Neill

Tumbler post by myjurassicisparked. Screen shot from Jurassic Park with meme text over Alan and Ian looking serious: "The JP characters going through 24 hours of straight trauma and terror" and meme text over Ellie smiling: "Me, enjoying my comfort movie" Text under the image: "This is my comfort movie," she say as the T. rex terrorizes children trapped in a vehicle.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Scheduling an ultrasound next week! Fingers crossed it provides some answers. Astro is active and eating and otherwise behaving normally. He's just very skinny and I want to get to the bottom of it before he gets more ill. Thank you for the donations so far! It's been a huge help!! 💖

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

About to finish up my current inking gig and thinking about VALOR again. I was worried I'd come back to it and be disappointed in the art, but it holds up actually! Sometimes when I'm working with someone else's style it makes me forget how much I like my own!! Hoping to finish more pages soon. 💖

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I will never forget that the only feedback I ever got on my capstone comic in college was that my whole class didn't like how I inked the characters' ears. No feedback on my storytelling, pacing, or anything else.

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Astro rapidly lost 3lbs and routine tests brought back nothing. More tests are going to cost more than I have. Sharing my Ko-fi if you'd like to help! I don't have the energy to set up my shop, but if you want a random sticker in return you can grab one from the shop tab! TY! 💖 ko-fi.com/cavetoonist

cute photo of my tuxedo cat Astro snuggled up against my leg

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Kendra P @hagofbolding.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My webcomic Fairmeadow has been updating again! Spread the word!

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Still on the look out for my next inking project! I have three graphic novels under my belt and experience as an assistant inker (backgrounds, crowds, etc). More info here: cavetoonist.com#hireme

cavetoonist.com

Cavetoonist

Comics and Art by Ray Baehr

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I gained a lot of enjoyment and practice from playing art games, but in a lot of ways I feel like it's stifling my creativity. I'm trying to take a step back to give myself space to fall in love with my original projects again!

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Yasmeen ✨ ياسمين @yamisha.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

✨'Theatre'✨ #oc (I always forget that I can tag posts for my own profile...)

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Ray Baehr @cavetoonist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Sometimes I get tired of listening to stuff while I work so I put one of my little guy wips up on my laptop screen to keep me company instead.

Photo of a desk with an iPad in a Sketchboard Pro on the left and a laptop with an axolotl character on the screen on the right.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

One of the oldest known musical instruments! A Paleolithic #flute made from a #swan's wing bone some 40,000 years ago! The preserved length is about 12.6 cm with three finger holes. The original length of the flute is unknown. Found in the Geißenklösterle Cave at Blaubeuren. This... 🧵1/2 📷 me

A part of a long, narrow bone flute displayed vertically against a black background, with three visible finger holes along the front. The object is illuminated from the front, highlighting its texture and craftsmanship.

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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Had the surreal experience today of receiving a lovely email from @douglarkin.bsky.social about how my Aeon article inspired his band to make a song about cave art! I *highly* recommend (although I’m biased) giving it a listen here: cuppajoeband.bandcamp.com/album/k-vart

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K-Vart, by Cuppa Joe

14 track album

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