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Ethan Kocak

@ethankocak.com

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NYT Best selling cartoonist, salamander enthusiast and aquarium nerd. He/him Patreon.com/blackmudpuppy Portfolio: ethankocak.com Shop: blackmudpuppy.myshopify.com Blog: mossyunderlog.blog Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/blackmudpuppy

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026

Me too, me too

Juvenile tokay gecko on glass

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 28/09/2026

Hmm well, fortunately I can confirm that Pipa pipa are nontoxic and lickable.

Surinam toad

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 28/09/2026

Da baby

Baby pink tongue skink

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/09/2026

Baby sausages this morning

Two freshly hatched leachianus geckos with their egg shells.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/09/2026

Haha look at this idiot

Anolis smallwoodi on glass

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/09/2026

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 24/09/2026

Plants

Mini creeping fig and some begonia

Plastic bin of ferns and Strobilanthus

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 24/09/2026

Stu: a judgy mfer

Chinese softshell turtle

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 22/09/2026

ಠ_ಠ

A FB post where someone is saying their aquarium shop has mimic octopuses in but the photo is of a blue ring octopus.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 22/09/2026

I invite you all to do Skinktober with me this year. It started as a bit and now I refuse to let it die.

Line art drawing of a monkey tailed skink

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 21/09/2026

I can already tell these guys are going to look nice.

Brown and orange striped gargoyle gecko on a log

Sibling to previous gecko, also on log.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 21/09/2026

I just made these stickers lol

Lizard themed stickers including a tokay gecko (says NOT T’OKAY), a caiman lizard eating a snail (says ESCARGOT TO HELL) and a blue tongued skink (says SKANK FOR SKINKS)

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 17/09/2026

Secret skink

One of my baby pink tongue skinks sleeping in a plant pot.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 17/09/2026

Spoooooky anole

Female Anolis smallwoodi on the front acrylic of her terrarium

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 16/09/2026

They are so cute as babies. The stripes break up into spots as they age.

Just hatched leopard gecko

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 16/09/2026

How about this. Hatchlings always cheer me up.

Baby leopard gecko in the process of hatching from egg.

Baby leopard gecko in the process of hatching from egg.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 15/09/2026

That’s a keeper.

Gold dust firebelly newt (Cynops ensicauda popei)

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 15/09/2026

I’ve actually drawn this species for Skinktober in the past

Line art illustration of Cyclodomorphus gerrardii, the pink tongue skink

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 15/09/2026

I just realized the name “pink tongued skink” is even worse than I thought because as babies their tongues are black.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 12/09/2026

Made about a thousand bucks and traded some geckos for these awesome baby pink tongue skinks.

Juvenile pink tongue skink.

Closeup of face of pink tongue skink

Baby skinks in leaf litter.

Three skinks on a log in a terrarium.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 11/09/2026

Made a new friend at work

A toucan in a bird cage.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 10/09/2026

Incidentally I put parodies of him and Adams into my most recent graphic novel.

Page from my book The Unfamiliars

Scot Burt, a parody of the Dilbert Guy.

A parody of Doug TenNapel

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 10/09/2026

Hatched this guy a year ago and at this point I think I might just keep him

Juvenile leachianus gecko on my hand.

Juvenile leachianus gecko on black cloth. It’s mossy colored and has loose flappy skin.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 05/09/2026

Artist! Quote with your fan art!

Vegetable gremlin in a salad bowl labeled eat me.

Many gremlins menacing Gizmo.

Greta gremlin as a pinup.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 04/09/2026

Dangit Neel

Me sitting on my front steps (a bearded white man) with a 3 foot long lizard on my shoulder, his head peeking around from behind my neck.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 04/09/2026

Your moment of (tortoise) zen

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 03/09/2026

Feeding the jeweled lacertas with forceps to get them used to me. Mostly they just try to steal worms from eachother.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 03/09/2026

I also have a tank for my Surinam toads that’s got tons of stem plants coming out of it

54 gallon corner tank with stem plants

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 03/09/2026

Here’s my CO2 tank

Planted aquarium with jewel cichlids

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 02/09/2026

He even likes scritches

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 02/09/2026

He’s basically a cat

Neel the caiman lizard

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 02/09/2026

Some very cute baby gargoyle geckos that hatched this week.

Two baby geckos (brown with white stripes running dorsally) on a piece of cork bark.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 01/09/2026

I love how every Chahoua gecko looks completely different.

A chocolate brown gecko on my hand. It has some green and darker brown marbling.

A chahoua gecko on a wooden dowel. It has a lot of lichen-like white patches including a collar around the neck.

A more gray and light brown Chahoua gecko

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 31/08/2026

The big gurl

Very large Leachianus gecko on a branch in a terrarium

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 31/08/2026

My female Anolis smallwoodi

A blue green lizard sitting on foliage.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 31/08/2026

Hey, you’d better not be a Dracula.

A small bat hiding outside the shop window

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

Sure.

Yearling GTx leachianus gecko

Orange blotch gargoyle gecko

Freshly hatched crested gecko

Freshly hatched GT leachianus geckos

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

Plant tank with Co2 injection. Family of jewel cichlids as well.

A planted aquarium with a lot of very green plants and some red fish

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

Palmate newt baby

Some Lissotriton helveticus hiding in moss. They are brownish yellow newts that are about an inch long.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

Max the Halmahera gecko.

A large pale gecko with green eyes sitting on the side of a glass terrarium.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

Japanese firebelly newt (Cynops ensicauda popei)

A black newt in an aquarium. It has a bright orange underside and one of its forelimbs is lifted almost as if it is waving.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

Been using this axolotl tank to grow plants as well

A variety of plants growing out of an aquarium

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

Neel being petted.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

Fingers, the rescue blue iguana.

A teal-colored lizard on a branch. It has a row of spikes going down its spine.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

Rare photos of the Loch Mess monster.

My Chinese softshell turtle, Stu.

A closeup of Stu’s face: he’s olive green with white scales around his mouth and he has a long tubular nose somewhat like a snorkel.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

HMU if you ever want any reptile or amphibian references

Tokay gecko on glass

Leopard gecko in the process of hatching from egg

Juvenile blue tongued skink in my hand

Tank full of leucistic axolotls.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

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Gram holding a Homunculus Stick and saying Freeze dingus, and take off your clothes.

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 26/08/2026

Most of these guys have that spliced into them

Some GFP leucistic axolotls

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 25/08/2026

Nice little leopard gecko that hatched this week.

Baby leopard gecko on my hand.

Baby leopard gecko on my hand

Closeup of baby leopard gecko

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 25/08/2026

The last thing a dubia roach sees.

Young tokay gecko hiding in shadow