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Joseph Hewitt

@gearheadrpg.com
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Cartoonist, programmer, educator, Newfoundlander living in Korea. Hamster herder. Creator of mecha RPG GearHead. Lead penguin of Polar Bear Comix. Mask wearer. He/him. Old. #Comics #GameDev #ghrpg polarbearcomix.com gearhead.itch.io

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 3h
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Cosplayers doing Chainsmoker Cat and the landlord
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 5h
I was hopeful that the popularity of Chainsmoker Cat would lead to more interest in The Wrong Kind of People.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 6h
All set up at Comic World Ulsan with my hired muscle.
The Polar Bear Comix booth.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 8h
Getting ready to head to the convention center for Comic World Ulsan. I'll be at booth BB10. I'll be sandwiched between the two event zones and next to the Seoul Digital Fair popup, whatever that is. Guess I'll find out. #코믹월드
Panel One: Closeup of Sarra who now has a facial expression like an EC horror comics host.

Sarra: Time for a horror story! Did you know so many straight men are bad at sex because they're secretly afraid of vaginas?

Panel Two: Carily looks like she’s just had an epiphany. The door has opened and so much makes sense now.

Carily: Unholy fuck, it’s true. Just mention "vagina dentata" and they run screaming, but tell me-
Has anyone in the history of forever ever refused a blowjob?

Panel Three: Across the table, Jessica has returned to her neutral expression. Misty is sitting next to her, listening intently.

Jessie: Well, I can say with 100% certainty that can't be Kurt's issue.

Panel Four: Jessica points at herself with her thumb.

Jessie: I’ve got a cloaca.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 23h
Marie Dullahan, had a slight mishap with an axe, but not to worry she's pretty handy with necromancy. #Nerdlings #FindFolkFriday
A beheaded woman holding her severed head in her right hand and a knife in the other hand. She is wearing a purple shirt, red cloak, red hat, and black skirt.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 02/10/2026
This weekend I will be tabling at Comic World Ulsan. Drop by and check it out! #울코
The Polar Bear Comix booth from Comic World Seoul last month.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 02/10/2026
A lot of Intellivision box art had this sort of montage thing going on, or comics-like playing with time in a single image (as in the Checkers box).
The cover for Intellivision Sea battle showing a ship in the sights of a periscope, the sailor looking through the periscope, the submarine navigating through mines, a tense scene presumably on the ship being targeted, and finally the ship next to an aircraft carrier getting hit by maybe the torpedo launched from the submarine.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 02/10/2026
The season's upon us. Gouache on watercolor paper. 🐧
A penguin in a ghost costume (bedsheet) with too many eye holes holding a guitar and saying "I gotta rawk!"
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 01/10/2026
The spooky season has begun. If you say "Bloody Mary" three times to the mirror in a dark room a ghost will appear and hand you a tomato juice cocktail. Saiko Murre from The Wrong Kind of People; gouache on watercolor paper.
A ghost wearing a t-shirt reading "42" sits on the floor in a puddle of water, holding a heart, saying "scream my name". Underneath, more info is provided: three times, in a dark room, while looking in a mirror.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 01/10/2026
Dexy's back home. 🐹
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 01/10/2026
I'm quite fond of this old chap.
An ork painboy with a pistol and carpenter's saw. He has a dead rat hanging off his belt for whatever reason.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 29/09/2026
A book!
A hand bound copy of the Principia Discordia
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 28/09/2026
These days Dexy wakes up for feeding time, but just so he can grab the tofu and go back into his coconut. 🐹
Dexy,a golden hamster, sneaking out of his coconut to grab some tofu.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 28/09/2026
My closures are gone; the stitches will dissolve on their own. My arm looks like a horror show and I have 3 hours of elementary students to get through.
My arm without bandages or closures. Kinda Frankensteiny.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 28/09/2026
State of my arm today. I was supposed to get my stitches/closures removed this week but we'll see what the doctor says.
Picture of me showing off my surgery site. There is some dried blood trapped under the closure bandage but AFAIK that's from last week.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 28/09/2026
One copy of the Principia Discordia in hardcover. After work this evening I'll add the title with Posca markers. #Eris
A hand bound hardcover print of the Principia Discordia. The cover is covered in dark blue and white floral pattern.A hand bound hardcover print of the Principia Discordia. The page with Starbuck's stones.A hand bound hardcover print of the Principia Discordia. The page with the numeral V sign.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 27/09/2026
My first ever Principia Discordia is now being pressed flat beneath a pile of other books. Did I glue the cover on straight? We'll find out tomorrow.
A pile of books pressing a handmade book flat.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 27/09/2026
Gonna get some good use out of this meme in the coming months.
Homer saying to Bart "Not a religion, they're a sex cult".
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 26/09/2026
Dexy doesn't usually come out when I feed him, but tonight I put a new kind of dog biscuit in his enclosure so he popped out of his coconut and walked around my hands to grab it and bring it back to his coconut. 🐹
Dexy, a golden hamster
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 26/09/2026
HARO creator defamed by Meta.
Amuro Ray, creator of a robot named Haro, and the Gundam.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 25/09/2026
I want to get the new release of GearHead Caramel out the door but my brain is still pretty fogged up from surgery last week. Also possibly the painkillers I'm still on. Hard to say really but there is definitely some fog there. #ghrpg #GameDev #IndieGame store.steampowered.com/app/1565090/...
Kira, Pirate Point's resident tattoo artist, asks the player what kind of tattoo they would like to get.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 25/09/2026
I use epoxy putty and a texture roller.
A 3D printed statue of Columbo standing on Versailles tiles.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 23/09/2026
Ex-cyborg now.
Rom and Brandy from Rom the Spaceknight, after both recover their human bodies.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 23/09/2026
My arm bones, now with holes.
X-ray pic of arm bones with screw holes in them.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 23/09/2026
I didn't know anything had happened until the nurse took off the big bandage a few minutes ago. My inner surgery site is looking fine.
The surgery site on the inner side of my forearm. No blood whatsoever. Still marking this as graphic media because it's still kinda gross.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 23/09/2026
Back today to get my dressings changed. The outer side of my arm got a little bit leaky.
Me showing the closures on one of my two surgery sites. There is some blood that came out near the wrist.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 23/09/2026
Throw some hot sauce and beans in there, you've got a good start on budae jjigae.
A pot of budae jjigae, Korean sausage soup.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 21/09/2026
Nothing Bill Griffith loves more than giant branded Americana. I remember the first time I flew into San Francisco for my comics MFA and the airport had an exposition of American commercial mascots. Half of them I knew only from Zippy the Pinhead strips.
An old advertisement showing the Nauga mascot and a vinyl chair. The caption reads "The Nauga is ugly, but his vinyl hide is beautiful".
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 21/09/2026
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.
A giant robot and a toy pegasus stand on a grassy hill with the caption "Friendship is Mecha".
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 21/09/2026
Maybe?
The MRC-F20 Sumo mecha from Turn A Gundam.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 21/09/2026
You may not like it, but this is what peak mecha design looks like.
Haro from Gundam. Basically a ball with a face.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 21/09/2026
And so much woodgrain paneling.
Four clock radios with fake woodgrain paneling.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 20/09/2026
Red dragon. #miniatures #nerdlings #mz4250
A young red dragon approaches a treasure chest in a dungeon.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 20/09/2026
Moopsy, on the other hand, really could jump. I'd be sitting on the sofa and see something white flying through the air in his cage. That's just Moopsy doing parkour again.
Moopsy, a pearl colored dwarf hamster, sitting on my hand and looking straight at the camera.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 20/09/2026
Hamsters are the same. No bones in these creatures. They're some kind of a non-Newtonian fluid.
Moopsy, a winter white hamster, sleeping bent in two draped over the side of a plastic box.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 19/09/2026
So I have changed the map cursor in GearHead Caramel so that different colors may be used depending on the scene. Before, the bright blue and yellow squares were barely visible on this snowy background. Yay! #ghrpg #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday store.steampowered.com/app/1565090/...
A battle scene along a snowy highway in GearHead Caramel
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 19/09/2026
Old Citadel dwarf. #nerdlings #oldhammer #miniatures
An old Citadel dwarf with a warhammer, a blonde beard, an orange tabard, and chainmail.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 19/09/2026
Upon further thought, I've come up with two additions to the saying that Japanese mecha are like fighter jets with legs and American mecha are like tanks with legs. #Nerdlings #mecha
A picture of a chaos dreadnought from Warhammer 40,000 (British), a Jaeger from Heavy Gear, and a Mk1 Assault Fiend from Legions of Steel (both Canadian). The text reads "This is a generalization, but Japanese mecha can often be thought of as fighter jets with legs, while American mecha can be thought of as tanks with legs.

British mecha are castles with legs.

Canadian mecha are really really big hockey players."
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 18/09/2026
It's important to remain active when you recover from surgery so I just went for a walk.
Me, in my hospital pajamas, holding a salted caramel milkshake from The Venti.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 17/09/2026
Got to look beneath the bandage today. Much nicer than last time.
The incision on the outer edge of my arm, held with orange plastic things
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 16/09/2026
The hospital food is good, as long as you have embraced the soup with banchan lifestyle. Which I have.
Rice, kimchi, pickled greens, steamed egg, soup, and fish.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 16/09/2026
A grell. #nerdlings
A d&d monster that is a floating brain with tentacles and a beak
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 15/09/2026
Back to the regular hospital pajamas. Nurse just checked my O2 and it was low, but also noticed the mask came unplugged when we changed my clothes, which was a three person job. Back to normal now.
Me in hospital pajamas looking more awake than before.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 15/09/2026
Also I look like the heroine from the cover of a romance novel but with oxygen mask.
Surgical gown is dropping down my chest.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 14/09/2026
It's not that goofy looking. And it'll be worth it for the laser eye beams.
The infamous Stsr Trek "Spock" helmet with rotating light on top.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 14/09/2026
At the hospital. They just drew five vials of blood, which I imagine is to make sure I don't have too much blood in me for the surgery tomorrow. Would be pretty bad if the surgeon cut and I started spraying like a Jojo.
Me at the hospital in a black mask and blue shirt.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 13/09/2026
Tomorrow I go into the hospital to get my adamantium plating removed. No working on comics for a while after that. Wish me luck.
An x-ray of my bones with metal plates which were installed last year after my double compound fracture.
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 13/09/2026
Seoul is being attacked by a giant cat. Send fish. 🐱
A giant animated image of a cartoon cat on the side of a building
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 13/09/2026
"Lunch"
A can of sour cream and onions Pringles
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 13/09/2026
Nobody has gotten the joke in this photocard yet, so clearly the new Warhammer store in Seoul has its work cut out for it.
In the foreground, a space marine librarian senses something. In the background, a genestealer approaches carrying a pair of jeans.
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