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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New Book available here: store.falseknees.com

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Mikey Heller @yoyorobot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey LA area! I'm teaching comics classes, for both kids and adults, at the Armory Center for the Arts starting Mondays 9/28. Sign up!

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Plan

Male mallard in water says "I'm a mallard with a plan! Nothing will distract me from my goal!" Second panel, a female mallard stands on a rock while another mallard inspects something brown floating in the water next to them. The female yells to the first mallard "Hey! We found some nasty old bread over here!" Third panel, the male mallard is sweating over a very real distraction from his goal.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Toronto! Come to the comic arts festival happening right now! I’ll be there today and tomorrow :>

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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 24/06/2023

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

New Bird Poster! It's got 37 hand painted birdies of Eastern Canada at half their true size, based on photos I've taken myself. Bird names in Latin, English, and French. Link to my store in my story!

It's an ad for a new bird poster I've drawn. The image is of the poster in a gold frame hung on a white wall with dappled light shining. It is an attempt to make the product look like something the customer would like to purchase.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

caw caw caw! (celebratory)

It's an image that says "My book has been nominated for an Eisner award! If you're eligible to vote, consider choosing my silly bird comics for best humor publication". There is a picture of the cover of "Ew, It's Beautiful" with a Will Eisner nominee sticker on top.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A goose honks at another, honk honk honk. We see the inside of its head which reveals a smaller goose at a control desk with many buttons that say honk

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Nervous

Two american goldfinches on a telephone line. One says "I wish I didn't get so nervous talking to new birds" The other responds "Have you ever tried looking at the space between their eyes?" We zoom in on the speaking bird between their eyes so close that we can't really make out what they're saying. In the final panel, our first bird laughs "Hahaha" and says "Thanks!" overtop of the second bird saying "why are you laughing? It's not supposed to be funny"

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Seed Song

A chipping sparrow is humming to itself while hopping around a forest floor in early spring. New plants are sprouting through fallen years from the year before. Zoom in on the bird in the second panel as it sings "I never had a seed that I didn't like / dry ones hard ones sharp ones even taste alright / if you don't eat them fast, they turn into a grass! / if you let them be, they become a tree!" It stops to munch on some morsels of sparrow food, whatever that is, at the base of a plant that towers over its head. It looks up and up. The final frame is zoomed out to see the top of the plant, which is a trillium. The sparrow cheerily says "Good morning!". And that's how you make a comic!

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Reserved

Two long horizontal panels. In the first we see one chickadee hopping along a branch toward another chickadee. "Hi there, hello?" it says, "yeah sorry–I actually booked this area–I'm expecting friends". To which the other chickadee says "Um, ok like the branch?". In the second panel, we are zoomed in close to the first chickadee's face who is looking hostile "The whole tree is reserved actually"

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Cute Face

2 blue jays on the ground, one is about to eat an insect. The first jay says "I don't know how you cat eat grasshoppers" the second says "mm?". First goes "I can't eat anything with a cute face". The second jay appears confused "but... grasshoppers aren't––". We are looking down from the blue jay's perspective to see that the grasshopper has big eyes and a cute little smile. The final frame shows the blue jay gasping in surprise.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Focus

It's a tight crop on an intense crow's face that is rendered in many pen lines. Background is a vivid vermillion, as are the crow's eyes. The crow is tinted teal. It has a small speech bubble which reads "Focus"

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Intelligent

2 Blue Jays conversing in a spruce. First Jay asks "What if we aren't the only intelligent species in the universe? What would they be like?" The second replies "Let's see... they'd need to be good at problem solving, and to have advanced communication skills, a social structure, self-awareness..." "... the ability to fly?" continues the first Jay. "That goes without saying!" exclaims the second. The first states confidently "And a strong beak, of course". To which the second responds rhetorically "How could you do anything intelligent without a strong beak?"

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Confession

The title of the strip is "Confession". There are four juncos, our hero says "Ok ok I got one I got one, I kinda like cats! You Know? They're cute!" The other juncos are incensed. One says "What the hell!" Another "You can't say that". Our hero continues "'RAARR!!' haha those teeth? They're adorable! Always jumping everywhere... awww!" One is saying "What are you talking about?!" out of frame.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Venus

Two chickadees sit on a branch, one says: "Whoa! Look!" indicating a light in the sky over the horizon. The other one says: "Pretty!" The first one says "Do you think that's Venus or just a bright star?". The second one looks nervous, stumbling "Oh... uh... yeah it's probably Bemus"

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

101

A tree sparrow is speaking: "Artistic creation shouldn't be considered carelessly! Good art is made deliberately! With emotion! Physical exertion! If you aren't crying or bleeding by the end, you'd better look into another lifestyle...". We see a class of birds with piles of sticks and a big banner that reads "Intro to nest building" made out of twigs. The teacher continues: "Ok! Does everyone have their bundle of soft moss?"

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A crow is standing next to a melting snowbank and says "I love when the snow starts to melt and all the treasures appear". It hops along and says "Let me show you my collection". We see an assortment of objects at its feet. "54 aromatics nubs, a fine preener, assorted flavour discs, beak lovelies, flim-flams, shiny poke-stick, and best of–wait..." We see a close of of the crow looking over its shoulder "where's my jiggly squibbler?"

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Life After Life was nominated for a Bédélys award for best indie english publication in Québec! 💙💙💙

Image shows 'Life After Life' book in finalists for Bédélys award for best independent english publication.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

A crow says "I just want to"

"Focus" Crow is now very detailed and crouching down

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The Artful Corvid #oldknees

A crow whistles to itself on a bright winter day. It's scratching at the snow with its foot. It sees something blue and plastic sticking out of the snow and says "Hello what's this". It reaches to pick it up with its beak and yanks it out with a "shing!"

The thing is revealed to be a blue bic pen. The crow holds it triumphantly above its head. There is a magic light emanating from the pen which is creating a blue crosshatching effect on the sky.

The crow holds the glorious pen and the words "I AM ARTIST" frame the image.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Hold On Tight

Pencil drawing of two crows in a tree with heavy snow fall. One crow is pulling a PRIVATE PROPERTY sign off of the tree. The crows are now on the snowy ground. One says "Hold on tight!" the other replies "To what?" looking down at the sign it is standing on. The first crow pushed the second and it slides down a hill screaming AAAAAHHHH. Perspective from between the legs of the crow going down the hill. Snow streams by as it continues to scream AAAAAAHHHHHHHH. The first crow watches from the top of the hill as the second screams "I'll never forgive youuuuuuu". The second crow's scream continues "uuuuu–oh I've stopped. That was thrilling!" It is covered in snow, face is plastered with the stuff. In the distance at the top of the hill, the first crow is crying "my turn! my turn!"

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Hourly Comics Day 2026 2/2

2:30pm "It's a beautiful sunny day. But quite cold." My phone shows -14 feels like -18. "I don't mind the excuse to stay in."

3:30pm Mélodie returns. I ask "Why do I smell fries?" she says "I brought surprise poutine!" Plover is red-cheeked from the cold. I reply "Oh!" with hearts in my eyes

4:30pm Trying to put Plover down while singing 2000s indie rock "you are a waterfall waiting inside a well" I sing, as she goes AAHHH. I look down at her and say "Hm?" She looks at me with love in her eyes and then gently bites my chin and I laugh. She did not sleep.

5:30pm dinner time for Plover. Food -> Baby. She is putting food everywhere. And then it is bed time for angel baby. She has a little halo

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Hourly Comics Day 2026 comics dump!

Hourly Comics Day 2026 Part 1 of 2

Sometime the day before

My two cats are communing with my baby. The white cat (Lady) says "Ok, this one is for waking them up first. Rock, paper, scissors–". In the second frame we see them each put a paw in and the baby has made scissors. Lady says "Ah, you win again".

12:30am
I am softly humming Chopin to my baby. She is wide awake "eeeeeee", acquiring consciousness

7:30am
I look after Plover (not her real name) most mornings so Mélodie can get more sleep. The baby is pictured saying "ee-ayagoo ayyyyyyyy" on the bed. We have our little rituals. I stand with her in front of the window saying "good morning, spruce!" Recently I've rediscovered my love for my mocha pot. It's a quiet way to make coffee, one-handed.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Snowy Lump #oldknees

Two crows march through a snowy field. They see a pile of snow on top of a fence post. "Heh, that lump of snow looks like..." starts one... Close up of the lump of snow that is revealed to be a living snowy owl. "Gasp" exhales one crow. "...a spirit!" exclaims the second.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Snowed In #oldknees

Two crows are flying through a snowstorm. "I can hardly see a thing!" yells one, "We can't keep going like this!" The other one replies "Let's take a break!" They land in a snow-covered field, the snow is falling gently. "Oh!" exclaims one while looking around at the peaceful scene, "It's so beautiful when you aren't fighting against it."

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Ferbruary #oldknees

A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Grumpbeak

A bird is singing on a crabapple tree in winter. In the second panel we see the bird is an evening grosbeak who says "What a gorgeous day!". The following panel he says "Why can't every day be like this" And in the final panel looks very upset.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Finished is better than terrible #oldknees

A crow kicks a small ball of snow. They then start rolling it into a larger ball while saying "trust the process...". They kick more snow into a pile and stick a branch in repeating "trust the process" to itself. They place small stones. They say "Phew!" and stand back to look at its creation, which we see now is a mess of a project that looks somewhat like a melted bird. The final panel the crow says "haha it's terrible".

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Coo coo

We see two house sparrows drinking out of a puddle. The male says to the female: "Good puddle!" to which she replies "I love you but you have low standards". Pigeons arrive in the background, the female says "Ope! Here comes the herd" There is a long horizontal frame of the two sparrows in the midst of a bunch of pigeons cooing around them. The male then says "gentle giants" the female agrees "mhm" and then says "coo" and the male responds "haha. coo!"

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Bitey

"Do you remember what you were like when you were younger?" asks one crow to another as they are landing on wet snow. "Bitey" replies the second crow. "Right... but do you remember what it was like to BE you?" "What did you think about? Have you changed fundamentally? How can you really know?" The first crow is pondering. The background is a pattern of blue circles. "I guess I don't bite as much as I used to" answers the second crow. "You bite enough" says the first.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 26

Bagglyn and Grell are being triumphantly thrown into the air, while the sun sets behind them.

"Who are those two heroes?" the Queen asked the red knight. "Two of the best historians I've ever met, your Highness," he replied. "Excellent! I shall have them weave a tapestrye of this very event!" "A better gift than one's own castle set to flame, I should hope!" jested the red knight. The Queen smiled. And all was good in the warbler's realm once again...

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 25

As Grell coaxed the beast forward, it saw the grub and started to charge. Bagglyn ripped the bolt from her cap, stuck the grub on, and threw it to the blue knight. "Give this worm some wings!" she shouted. Just as the beast descended on him, the blue knight launched the baited bolt as far from the castle as he could. The horrible beast followed it and was never seen again!

The blue knight fires his crossbow, which shoots the wormed bolt so hard that it blows the hats off of Bagglyn and the red knight and it knocks the yellow knight right over. Grell safely dismounts from the beast as it speeds greedily toward the bolt.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 24

"Your colleague is crazed!" the red knight shouted to Bagglyn. "This daemon is too powerful for us! Its destructive desires are insatiable!" "Insatiable... that's it!" cried Bagglyn, flying to a nearby branch of the great oak. She sung a sweet melody and soon a fat grub wiggled out from the wood. "Grell!" she yelled, "Over here! Get it over here!"

The great beast is staring at Bagglyn, who is holding a wriggling worm in her beak. Grell is still on the beast's back. An inferno burns on in the background.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 23

"Throw me my sword!” urged the yellow knight, emerging heroically through the smoke. She cut the bunting above, entangling the beast. Meanwhile, the red knight lobbed a fire stick directly into its horrid beak! But this only served to enrage the beast further. “This is a stable boy’s time to shine,” Grell thought to himself. He jumped on the beast’s back!

A violent blaze in the backdrop to this haunting scene! The white beast has purple bunting ensnaring it and smoke coming out of its beak. Grell rides its back and is using the bunting as reins. The red and blue knights are in the foreground, looking frantic.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 22

The gull is attacking the castle! Turrets are on fire. The knight group have arrived. The Queen is staring at the gull in shock from a nearby window. Her guard are using long weapons to keep the gull back.

The heroes returned to the warbler realm to witness a scene of chaos. The slithering servant of evil was wreaking havoc at Oakcliffe Castle!

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 21

But just as the red knight hurled his fire stick at the Dragon, a familiar bolt pierced it and deviated its course.
"Cease the queste at once!" cried the blue knight. "We have new orders! The Queendom is under attack!"

There is an explosion in the top left corner, and in the top right corner is the Dragon (cormorant) flying away. The red knight is looking surprised, the blue knight has returned! Bagglyn and Grell are also there.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 20

The great beast (a double-crested cormorant), wings out-stretched, is a small distance from the warblers. It is purple and blue with a green eye and white crests emerging from just over its eyes. There is an orange, pink, purple, and blue explosion of colour coming out from the centre of the drawing. The warblers are behind a bush and are very small in comparison.

The giant beast stretched out before them–magnificent, horrible, and reeking of fish. Without hesitation, the red knight jumped out and faced it.
"For the Queen!" he boomed.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 19

Our three warblers are hiding in a bush and are in monochrome blue-purple, with shadows covering most of the faces. They peer out expectantly.

Suddenly, a guttural rumble erupted from overhead, like the sound of a stick dragged over a rib cage. The brave warblers ducked under a shrub and watched in fear as a winged terror landed no more than four hops away. "A veritable Dragon," whispered the red knight, his eyes shining in anticipation of the Queen's praise.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 18

We see Bagglyn and Grell following the red knight along the water's edge with greenery in the background. Bagglyn still has the arrow through her cap, and has now attached the yellow knight's sword to a rope around her belt and it is being dragged behind her. She is also now sporting the blue knight's discarded eye patch.

The solemn trio continued their queste upstream.
"What cowardice on display from the Queen's supposed finest!" said the red knight. "How is it that two historians are braver than knighted warriors?"
"This beats manual labour," said Grell.
"–ah what my colleague means is that the strenuous transcribing of historical manuscripts is not for the faint of heart," Bagglyn was quick to add.
"Quite," said the red knight, narrowing his eyes.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 17

Bagglyn and Grell are somewhat blurry in the foreground, looking at each other. The red knight is further on sort of soapboxing on his own.

"Blossoming bladderwort!" exclaimed Grell. "Dragons are dangerous!"
"Pff! That was no Dragon, but a simple slithering, servant of evil," mumbled the red knight. "Forget that turquoise turncoat and his cursed bow. Onward! Our objective is near."
But the red knight was clearly in low spirits.
Bagglyn and Grell exchanged a look in silence.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 16

The blue knight and his steed, the dragonfly, are flying in front of a blurred green, blue, and yellow background. The gull is close behind.

"What a nightmare!" screamed the blue knight. "What a monster! What a ghoul! Gaze upon its unyielding plumage! We haven't a hope to defeat this beast! Come, Sapphire!"
Throwing his eyepatch to the ground and renouncing his allegiance to the Queen, the blue knight and his steed disappeared into the wood.
And the creature pursued them!

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 15

The four warblers are facing against a large gull. The blue knight is shooting bolts at the gulls head to no effect. The frame surrounding the image has various health bars which makes the scene appear as if out of a video game. Or that's what I was going for, anyway.

Frantically, the blue knight shot bolt upon bolt at the interloper.
"Aim at its weak spots!" urged the red knight.
Alas, the horrible creature had none.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 14

The image is drawn duochromatically, with red and green. There is a gull taking up the majority of the frame and it is eating the snail. A red spiral is drawn emanating from the snail.

Before the blue knight could yell "Dragon!", the creature descended from the sky and in one flick of its beak, devoured the snail whole.
"Mine steed!" cried the red knight. "Mine sweet, slimy steed!"

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 13

We see our four heroes standing on a rock. The red knight sees his steed, the snail a little ways off. Bagglyn is still dragging the yellow knight's sword. The blue knight sees something in the reflection of the water, which is a spooky silhouette in front of the sun.

"Ah, we've caught up with my faithful steed," remarked the red knight. "It looks like it has found something... perhaps the scent of a Dragon!" A reflection in the water caught the eye of the blue knight.

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 12

The four warblers are walking along the water's edge on large rocks. There is a tree with yellow leaves centred in the image.

On went the newfangled quartet, with the red knight leading the way along the water's edge. "It'd be speedier if we were to fly," suggested Bagglyn. The blue knight rolled his eye. "Where is thine sense of adventure?" he said, before doing a backflip from one rock to another. "So cool..." breathed Bagglyn in awe. "I quite enjoy strolling upon the earth," panted Grell, "as if we were a fellowship of adorable little bugs!"

False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Kneesvember 2025 Day 11

The red knight is in the foreground, speaking to a distracted group. Grell is wistfully watched the snipe wading away. The blue knight is releasing the yellow knight's steed, the great bumblebee. The blue knight's dragonfly steed is hovering overhead. And finally, Bagglyn has her cap back–with arrow still lodged through it–and is tentatively picking up the yellow knight's discarded sword.

"Hah! That was no Dragon, but a mere malevolent minion of darkness!" scoffed the red knight. "Forget that yellow-bellied knight and her leaden greaves. Onward! I have a strong notion we shall find what we seek." So onward they went–toward certain disaster!