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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And if you are wondering if it’s THAT @premeemohamed.com, yes. Yes, it is.

Premee Mohamed’s novels in section at Analog Books.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So THAT’S what those are. I knew I’d seen that creepy face somewhere.

A letterpress print block of “Happy Bear” mascot.

My letterpress drawer of many “Happy Bear” mascot print blocks in classic, running, and burst-appendix poses.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New comic. If only the NDP had come to her, so much of this fuss could have been avoided.

Panel 1
Lil Eric runs away screaming “Momma Premier! Momma Premier!” While a smirking Lil David, holding a Jerry can, watches the orphanage burn.

Panel 2
Lil Eric gestures wildly to Premier Smith, arms folded and leaning against a doorway, “Your shitty kid just set the orphanage on fire!”

Ppanel 3
Lil Eric waits for a reaction but Smith just smiles creepily.

Panel 4
Lil Eric says “Sorry, this is the part of the analogy where you demonstrate the actions you would have taken if the NDP, as you suggested, had told you about the Data Leak instead of the RCMP.

Smith: “oh, I am.”

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Definitely loving that old school Penguin Books cover!

Front cover of The Edge of Space-time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. Old school penguin books cover with wonky Op-art graphic design.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Hey, Lethbridge! It’s been fun posting comics online and all, but it’s time again for IRL classes! Casalethbridge.ca Let’s sign up today! Grown-up classes are taking registration now too!

AP - Cartooning and Comics for Youth (ages 13 - 17)
An introduction to cartooning and sequential storytelling! Begin with basic drawing techniques and character design, building towards narrative development, acting, and shading. Learn to finish off your drawing with comic inking pens and build stories with panels. Get ready to share your comics with the world!
Materials provided.
DATE: May 13th, 2026 - June 17th, 2026
TIME: 6:30 pm
casalethbridge.ca

AP — Cartooning and Comics for Kids (ages 9 - 12)
An introduction to cartooning and comic storytelling! Begin with basic drawing techniques, character design, and how to convey emotions with shading. Learn to finish your drawings with comic inking pens, build your stories into panels, and get ready to share your comics with all your friends! Materials provided.
DATE: May 14th, 2026 - June 18th, 2026
TIME: 4:30 pm
casalethbridge.ca

AP - Cartooning and Comics for Kids (ages 6 - 8)
An introduction to cartooning and comic storytelling! Begin with basic drawing techniques, character design, and how to convey emotions with shading. Learn to finish your drawings with comic inking pens, build your stories into panels, and get ready to share your comics with all your friends! Materials provided.
DATE: May 13th, 2026 - June 17th, 2026
TIME: 4:30 pm
casaleThbridge.ca

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Hey Lethbridge! Come draw with me tomorrow! Comics Jam at the Public Library, 12pm-3pm! www.lethlib.ca/events/fan-f...

Event announcement:

This Saturday, May 2, 2026, Eric will be hosting a comics jam at the Lethbridge Public library fan fest from 12 PM to 3 PM!

What is a comics jam?

It is collaborative cartooning! Draw panel, and pass it on to the next person!

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New comic: Mystery solved! We now know why Alberta Premier's every word and deed seems to indicate she desperately loathes every disabled Albertan.

Panel 1
A happy and optimistic 11 year old Danielle Smith wearing her Atlas Shrugged tee shirt. Someone says: “Hey Kids!”

Panel 2
Kids are gathered around the ice cream truck, while the ice cream man holds out a cone: “To celebrate the first day of summer, I’m going to give away a free ice cream cone!

Panel 3
Little Danielle reaches up as the ice cream man hands down a cone, seemingly to her.

Panel 4
Shock and horror flash across Danielle’s face as the man hands the ice cream cone to someone else reaching up. A little voice says “thanks mister!”

Panel 5
A bewildered Danielle looks over to see some kid in a wheelchair eating the free ice cream cone.

Panel 6
Danielle is handed an ice cream cone as her eyes flash and her face flushes with hatred. “Hey kid, here’s yours!”

Panel 7
Danielle is consumed by rage and seething hatred as the ice cream man asks for his 25 cents. Her eyes twitch as she hands over her quarter.

Panel 8
“44 YEARS LATER”
Premier Danielle Smith, in her blazer & truck nuts necklace, her face a mask of ancient loathing, says, “[children], you can earn your way into inclusion, but you can earn your way out of it too."

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It’s all fun & games until their boss does it again.

Panel from Eric comic in 2025. Danielle smith on Fox News with chyron, “Canadian provincial leader crosses border.” Smith smiling in a stars n stripes blazer, says “we have a president here who shares the same conservative values that we do…”

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New comic: Schmabsolute schmower schmorrupts schmabsolutely.

Eric’s black and white comic strip, slough comics.
Panel one
Government of Alberta‘s minister of Public Safety, Mike Ellis, stands beside a curtain. He kind of looks like if John Carradine was a men’s rights activist who is three years behind on child support payments.
“ a lot of you are upset at my incredibly cruel and uninformed comments that people with addictions, love it when the drugs are contaminated, maiming and killing their loved ones.

Panel two

Mike Ellis shrugs smugly, “ And sure! You’re right! I don’t know anything about addiction”

Panel three

Becomes more obvious that Mike Ellis is wearing a sports jersey.
“ I don’t know what it’s like to be so mentally, emotionally, and physiologically, overwhelmed by a self-destructive craving that you abandon your values, making decisions that ruin yourself and hurt those around you-“
A voice from behind him: “sir?”
Ellis, reaching up, “oh, thanks.”

Panel four

We now see that Ellis is sitting in the Edmonton Oilers luxury box draped in fabric with a dollar-sign pattern accredited to Sam Mraiche. Smith is sitting to his rate in an Oilers jersey with a bejewelled cat statuette in her lap. On Ellis’s left is Neudorf in an Oilers jersey wearing a ball cap that says” Sam Mraiche bought me this hat, probably.” a snooty looking butler carries a tray of cocktail drinks. Grabbing one of the drinks, Mike Ellis says. “ anyways, so yeah: excuse me for not being a craven degenerate costing taxpayers a fortune with my terrible life choices.”

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thank you, kindly! Greetings from the rump!

Eric’s map of choice cuts of Alberta map. Northern bit is chuck & brisket. Central Alberta is the loin and Rockies/foothills are the flank. I live in the rump!

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Weird emotions today as we learn that Neil Sedaka has passed away. This is Arlo, our retired greyhound. “Arlo”, of course, isn’t his original name. According to his paperwork, his racing name was “Neil Sedaka”. RIP human Neil Sedaka. Edit: TO CLARIFY OUR DOG IS FINE

Arlo, née Neil Sedaka, a red & white retired greyhound on his fuzzy bed with his four legs perplexingly entwined.

Arlo, née Neil Sedaka, a red & white retired greyhound in sphinx-pose on his brown & red crocheted afghan, looking at the camera indignantly.

Arlo, née Neil Sedaka, a red & white retired greyhound wearing his winter boots in the snow.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

@bellhasabat.bsky.social says: Our most important advice: If you have never finished a comic before: Make a comic less than 30 pages before starting a large one. I literally cannot stress this enough.

Bell says “Our most important advice: If you have never finished a comic before: Make a comic less than 30 pages before starting a large one. I literally cannot stress this enough.”

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This would have been drawn just a few years before Tom passed away. Here is a cartoon of his from six years earlier. digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-manage...

Tom Innes cartoon for Calgary herald, 1980. Black and white drawing with a gnarly rat labelled "separatism" crawling a rope to board a boat named "Alberta" with Peter Lougheed looking on with concern.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Good thing we spent all that time telling him about all the oil we have.

Eric’s black and white cartoon of Alberta premier, Danielle Smith, in handcuffs, blackout visor, and headphones, being extradited on a military plane, cheerfully saying, “What I asked the President was, do you want to buy more oil and gas from Canada? And boys, let me tell you, he said YES!

So, yeah, I’d say we are on pretty good terms. Fellas? Are you still there?”

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Robin is not showing due diligence in warning you about how dusty it gets at the end.

Quietly humble cameo from Jim Henson at the end of 1987’s Muppet Family Christmas. Henson passed away just a few years later.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Quietly from the back, “Don’t forget about the long-suffering cartoonists!”

Eric’s Black and white cartoon of Hippy Danielle Smith, wearing a “There is no pipeline ‘B’ button, says “Albertans are proud Canadians that want this nation to be strong, prosperous and united, but we will no longer tolerate having our energy industry threatened while Ottawa drags its feet on meaningful actions to combat climate change.”

Holds up a Save The Wells protest sign.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It’s SO bad that I can’t help but wonder if he made it up to sound cooler to his incel buddies.

Eric‘s baseless conspiracy theory is that the courtship of Poilievre ‘S wife was totally normal and he made up the creepy, senior-employee-talking-junior-employee story just to impress his base.

Cartoon drawing:
2012
A pleasant looking Pierre Poilievre kindly asks “ Would you like to go out for a coffee sometime?”

His future wife, answers, happily: “ sure thanks for asking like not a creepy weirdo”

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

That may be a Monday project for me & this little chaos gremlin.

Close up photo of Tillie the retired greyhound’s mischievous snoot. She is black with a graying muzzle.

Evidence of Tillie’s crime: a destroyed copy of Dianna Wynne Jones’ Archer’s Goon, special ordered and brought home from the bookstore 30 minutes earlier.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

New comic, because here we go:

Black and white Comic by Eric Dyck

Panel one

super villain, Danielle Smith, wearing her trucknuts dictator hat, broods while a henchman peeks in the doorway. “Madame premier! I’m sorry, the globe and mail. They know it all“

Smith: “I see. And that they are wearing? “

Panel 2:
Henchman: I’m sorry ma’am. They know about those too.”
Smith:“who was it? Her again? “

Panel three:
Henchman: “yes. Carrie Tait, ma’am. “

Panel four:
Wider look at smith in her villain chair, looking at her giant tank of sharks wearing laser beams on their heads, ripping up the Alberta Health Care Insurance Act.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

Vintage comics panel: Giant alien that looks like a toad crossed with a corgi burst through door “Earthling we want you!” And 1960s white dad in armchair says “oh happy day!”

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I should probably stop wearing my Forest Fire Vax t-shirt in public when I’m not in the mood to have to explain it.

Eric tee on Redbubble: black tee with white lettering “Forest Fire Vaccines Cause Sex Marxism”

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I suspect we’ll look back fondly on the foyer era.

Screenshot of article “with Prime Minister Mark Carney while Mr. Poilievre was relegated to press conferences in the foyer.”

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Took my wife’s parents to the Lethbridge WCBL playoffs tonight and crowd is easily 3:1 women.

A photo of Lethbridge Bulls losing badly.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Poilievre has a message for the by-election voters. #abpoli #Canada

First comic panel:
Pierre Poilievre in western attire, wearing a campaign button that says "Just Write In PP", says "Hello, it's me, Pierre Poilievre. I've got a message for all you folks in the riding of Battle River-Crowfoot.

Panel two
PP, looking at the no-service alert on his smartphone, says "Even though my family and I left the place we called home unexpectedly, fleeing ideological persecution to this safe space, seeking employment and top-tier healthcare, this small and close-knit community has welcomed us into their homes with compassion and understanding."

Panel three
PP, looking incredulous: "I mean, wow! I literally came to this community with the expressed intent to take the job of someone who has lived here his whole life and is clearly better qualified to do this job, and I am the leading candidate for the position and it's not even close! And you are paying for me to do it!"

Panel four
PP narrows his eyes: "Thank you to the people of Battle River-Crowfoot. Let's wrap this up and get down to the important work in Canada together: Doing something about all these resource-draining and entitled immigrants."

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Seeing this shared around. Don’t see anything like it in your book (which today I’m wishing had an Index!).

Screenshot of citation-less quote by Andre the Giant disparaging Hulk Hogan.

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I’ve uploaded some new GIFs to Tenor & Giphy! Let me know if you see any “in the wild”! They should come in handy this week. #Canada #Elbowsup #Alberta

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I’ve uploaded some new GIFs to Tenor & Giphy! Let me know if you see any “in the wild”! They should come in handy this week. #Canada #Elbowsup #Ableg

Mark Carney’s arms are too wiggly for elbows up.

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