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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 · 30m
No actually. I’ll reach out to him.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 7h
Ha amazing
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 10h
Harder to acquire
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 10h
Delicious adorable furry potatoes
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 10h
Also, and this is less crucial, guinea pigs.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 10h
Even the Irish didn’t have them originally. Potatoes and tomatoes were domesticated by native people in the americas.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 12h
I just realized where I’ve seen that little shit before
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Doctor Who Adipose Waving in Sink
Alt: Doctor Who Adipose Waving in Sink
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 19h
It’s all in how much you glare at them
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 19h
If I get the aquarium job I am going to be so annoying about how much we need a Chinese giant salamander
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 19h
That sounds like lyrics from like a Swedish death metal song
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 19h
You make great stuff.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 19h
I hear nature’s mortal enemy is called Nurture.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 19h
My 🧠 : what if everything you ever said you were competent at, turns out you were not Me: you raise a salient point
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 19h
Thank you. Hopefully this works out.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
BTW, new (silly) page up over at The Unfamiliars. theunfamiliars.site/comic/85/
theunfamiliars.site
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THEY LIVE for references around here.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 19h
Sometimes I wish my brain would shut the fuck up
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 19h
You should be proud, it’s great
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 21h
I did! They are doing well!
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 21h
In captivity they can live 20+ years so good chance he’s still out there
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 21h
They are one of my favorite geckos.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 21h
Also interesting: we now know that tokays have family bonds and will protect youngsters for a very long time after hatching.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 21h
Yes this is a juvenile tokay. 100%
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 21h
Both “tokay” and “gecko” are onomatopoeias!
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 21h
We are gonna end up with medically resistant parasite worms eventually aren’t we
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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh ho ho, I'm joining the fine folks at @crucialcomix.bsky.social on October 11th for an artist talk about STAYING SANE WHILE DRAWING GREAT BIG GRAPHIC NOVELS. Sliding scale, nerdy spreadsheets and coping strategies guaranteed. See you there? www.crucialcomix.com/product/arti...
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Artist Talk: Lucy Bellwood
The adventure cartoonist shares strategies for staying focused while working on long-term, land-locked graphic novels.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 22h
Nice. Also, having just drawn a 200 page graphic novel, heh, yes.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 23h
I love that as a sign of the times there’s a video game where the power fantasy of it is “being a shitty landlord”
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 23h
I feel like I got my enthusiasm across.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 23h
I think interviewing kinda forces you to try and show yourself in the best possible light and the little goblin at the controls of my brain really hates that
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Super intelligence is “that’s so fetch” for conservatives, calling it immediately
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Interviewer: Do you have any questions for us? Me: Yes, what's in that 4x2x2 PVC enclosure behind you? Interviewer #2: OUR OUTREACH BLUE TONGUE SKINK Me: SKIIIIIIINK
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
I think I did Ok. I am very tired now.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Ah yeah I see that now. I must’ve missed it the first time around, but yeah. What an amazing career.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Aw man, Ellis was a legend. I wore out my copy of his giant squid book I read it so much.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
It's a zoom interview but basically yes
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
BTW, new (silly) page up over at The Unfamiliars. theunfamiliars.site/comic/85/
theunfamiliars.site
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THEY LIVE for references around here.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
*sniff* thanks
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Thank you, man
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
SEE YOU GET IT
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
To be fair, I self sabotaged that one, as I really didn’t want to go back to working at the Apple Store. Also the look on their faces was kinda great.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Thank you very much, I am very nervous
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
I am going to bring up Jeanne Villepreux-Power, I just know it.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Over a year ago I ruined a different job interview by describing how I got Surinam toads to fuck when asked what challenges I overcame that year. But for a job as an aquarist, that would be a net positive.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Psyching myself out over this job interview. I know I’d be good for this job but the self doubt is powerful. Coffee will fix this.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Yeah. Thank you.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Me too, me too
Juvenile tokay gecko on glass
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Last Chance to Seethe, where I rant for 200 pages about climate change and the destruction of the natural world.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Thanks Anna
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026
Hell yeah (also happy belated birthday man)
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Rory🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @rory-f.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
vampire bats are champion pissers, because they need to be able to shed all the water from the blood they drink, i think people should incorporate this into their vampire fiction
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