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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 47m
I really don't think the font captures the thrill.
A photo of the view through a windshield of a sign on a cage/trailer. The dark brown sign with ochre lettering in a font more appropriate to Buildings & Grounds, reads:
California
Mechanical
Bull Rentals
[phone number]

Below the words, in the same dull ochre color, is a silhouette of very small bull & rider.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I still have Julia.
A sun-drenched photo of a Julia barbie doll. Julia was the title character of a 60s sitcom played by Diahann Carroll. She is wearing a smart orange skirt suit with yellow buttons on the jacket, a yellow scarf tied around her neck, a pistachio green knitted toque, and slate blue "lace-up" boots. She is sitting in a rattan peacock chair. Next to her is a narrow glass pitcher (human size, not doll size), that is a play of light and shadow on the wall behind it. The scene is displayed on the dusty top of a dark brown bookcase.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That reminds me of this Raymond Carver poem:
The Scratch
I woke up with a spot of blood
over my eye. A scratch
halfway across my forehead.
But I'm sleeping alone these days.
Why on earth would a man raise his hand
against himself, even in sleep?
It's this and similar questions
I'm trying to answer this morning.
As I study my face in the window.
~Raymond Carver
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My self portrait as Mont Sainte-Victoire. #Art #ArtofBluesky #Pastel #Drawing #SelfPortrait
Artwork by @inasketch 
self portrait as Mont Sainte-Victoire
pastel, 9x12 inches
Inspired by Cezanne's Mont Saint-Victoire, 1902-06, where my head and face become the mountain, my shoulders and bust are the foreground, appearing to be underground.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another encore...
A screenshot of a post and quote post from Feb 11, 2025

ina lina
 Feb 11, 2025
jamelle expresses with words what i tried to say using a piano-falling-on-someone gif. :D

·jamelle
 Feb 11, 2025

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here's an encore... #PleaseClap #Comics #Dementia
A four-panel comic by @inasketch
Ink & watercolor
Panel 1) Mom and I in the garage. She's leaning over her table saw and I'm waving my hands in a "No" gesture. The top text box reads: "Yesterday my mom couldn't remember how to turn on her table saw." Mom says, "I think it's this button right here." The bottom text box reads: "I convinced her not to use it."
Panel 2) Mom and I are outside under her fuyu tree. I'm holding a long 2x4 that I'm trying to fit under a branch for support. Mom has her arms raised in a guidance gesture. She says, "Over just a little more." The bottom text box reads: "We were making supports for the fuyu's fruit-laden branches."
Panel 3) I've gotten the board in place and turned to face my mom. I say, "That was hard. I want a little applause." Mom, clapping, says, "You deserve a beer."
Panel 4) I'm in a grocery store, in the beer aisle, reaching for a bottle. The top text box reads: "Later that day, shopping at Tokyo Central with my daughter..." My thought bubble reads, "Hmm... Nice idea, mom."
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Heh. #wrongtakeaway I read this and thought, "Wow, they make five different sizes of chocolate eyeballs? That's commitment to the bit." The following paragraph (not shown here) clears it up: five different size *packages* of eyeballs. Oh well, a girl can dream. 🎃👁️🍫
A screenshot of text that reads:
Halloween Chocolatey Eyeballs
On Aug. 31, Crystal Temptations recalled five sizes of its Halloween Chocolatey Eyeballs because the products contained whey, a milk-derived ingredient that was not disclosed on the packaging. People with a milk allergy or severe sensitivity could experience a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume the candy.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of the times my mom visited me in college. It was the first I'd heard of polar vortex. She has dementia now, otherwise I would ask her what the hell is in that bag & did she really drag it all over New York?!
A woman stands in heroic pose (or braced against the wind?) on the docks in NYC with water behind her, and behind that, the skyline of lower Manhattan, including the World Trade Center. She is bundled up against the cold, with a scarf covering the lower part of her face. She holds a very large bag at her side.A woman with hat, scarf, gloves, and long coat sits on a low wall in front of the World Trade Center. She waves to the camera. Next to her is a very large bag.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here's the #comic I made for the 20th anniversary.
A four-panel comic by @inasketch
Black ink/fountain pen line art
Panel 1) Looking up at the Twin Towers from below.
Panel 2) A woman with a bicycle over her shoulder descending flights of stairs. The text reads: "one time when i worked on the eleventh floor in an art gallery on 57th street, we had to evacuate because of fire. i carried my bike down those eleven flights. i think about the firefighters who flirted with me that day."
Panel 3) Philippe Petit walking on the tightrope he rigged between the two towers in August 1974.
Panel 4) A woman wearing an I <3 NY shirt stand with her hands in her pockets, with the New York skyline behind her. The text reads: "from the supreme court installing bush to the towers coming down to war propaganda and torture and televised bombings and executions to conspiracy theories, america lost its mind twenty years ago and we still haven't found it."
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It's a lovely rainy morning in southern California. Here's a comic I made when I first moved back here. Now that I've been back for several years, the thrill of a rainy day has returned. ☔ #comics #ArtOfBluesky #ItNeverRainsInCalifornia
A four-panel comic by @inasketch
Ink & watercolor
Panel 1) A woman stands looking out a window. The text reads:
"It rained last night."
"Since I'm staying at my mom's, I instinctively went to the window to check the gutter."
Panel 2) A young girl in pink pajamas looks out the window* at a car approaching the gutter swelled with rainwater. The text reads:
"Growing up here, it was a big thrill when it rained enough to flood the gutter."
Panel 3) The girl jumps excitedly, with arms and braids flying, when the car drives through the flooded gutter making huge waves, The text reads:
"It was especially exciting when a car turned the corner."
Panel 4) The woman from the first panel, now outside in a yellow raincoat, with an umbrella, doing her best impersonation of Gene Kelly's dance, splashing water with her foot along the curb, and singing, "I'm singin' in the rain..." The text reads:
"After years of living in New England, it's funny to me that rain was the big weather event as a kid."
*It's the same window view in panel 1 and panel 2, but my mom remodeled at some point. So the current window (panel 1) is fancy with brown wood, an almost a bay window shape, and a curtain across the bottom half. The old window (panel 2) is flush to the wall and painted off white.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Before I read the text of this Mike Luckovich comic, I noticed the similarity of its composition with a panel from a four-panel comic of mine that I made in a Friday Night Comics workshop a few years ago, illustrating some song lyrics we chose. Of course I chose Townes Van Zandt. #comics #whiskey
Panel 4 from the four-panel comic by @inasketch
Ink & watercolor.
A small yellow house on a hill, with one tree on the left. A figure stumbles down the hill holding a bottle and a glass. The sun is rising. The text reads, "early in the morning. ~townes van zandt"A four-panel comic by @inasketch with the text provided by lyrics from the Townes Van Zandt song, Dollar Bill Blues.
Ink and watercolor.
Panel 1) A man in a blue flannel shirt spilling his glass of whiskey, drunkenly stumbles into a table, sending the whiskey bottle flying. There is a chair knocked over on the floor. The text reads:
whiskey
be my dyin' bed
Panel 2) Now he's stumbled into the bedroom where a woman is sleeping. He says, "tell me where to lay my head"
Panel 3) She wakes and says, "not with me" and the text reads "is all she said"
Panel 4) A small yellow house on a hill, with one tree on the left. A figure stumbles down the hill holding a bottle and a glass. The sun is rising. The text reads, "early in the morning. ~townes van zandt"
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Everything about this is terrible. Surveillance is bad. And let the kids walk/ride bikes if it's close enough, better schoolbuses/public transit if it isn't. As a parent, this part is so bad, I made a meme:
The Drake meme.
No school lunches for you
Uber rides for me
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Funny, I made this comic about the creepy sexualizing of robots, and now it looks like the last panel was prophetic. #comics #art
A four panel comic by @inasketch 
Panel 1) guy on a date with a cylinder-shaped robot. He says, "I thought you'd be more attractive when I agreed to this date!"
Panel 2) The robot replies, "I am a fully functional I-25 prepared to satisfy your needs. Why do men always imagine robots as sexy young women??"
Panel 3) The guy responds, "But... But... Casella, Rosey, Seven of Nine, Kristanna, Fembots! I want my dream girl!!"
Panel 4) The robot has shape-changed into his mother, and says, "Junior! Don't be disrespectful!" He falls out of his chair, "AHHHHHH!" The text reads, "Is that better?!"
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Today's my daughter's birthday. Thursday is the day we get in the food pantry line at 6:30. They open at 8. They put a box in your car & there's a shelf of oddities from which to choose one thing. Today there was a cake. I'm grateful for generous friends and for this sweet gift from the universe.
A beautiful white-frosted cake with assorted berries on top. My daughter has placed six candles on the cake, and I lit them, ready to sing.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I don't know why the photo doesn't show. Here's our sweet cats...
Our three beautiful kitties eating: black cat Junco, tabby cat Paisley, tortie cat Oriole.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdInABush — any bird in a hedge/bush. California Quail, 2026 📷 by my daughter using an iphone8 through binoculars #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife
A California quail sticking its head out of the lovely pink flowers of native buckwheat.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Mekka is right of course. The woman in this old comic of mine from when covid vaccines were being rolled out is not technically my relative, but she is a racist ivermectin sipper. Even last year when my stepdad was hospitalized w/ covid & was very sick for months, she denied it was real. #Comics
A four-panel comic by @inasketch
Ink & watercolor
Panel 1) In my mom's living room. I'm standing, holding my coffee cup. Another woman is sitting on the couch. Written in cursive over the scene is: "my mom and my stepdad's sister were having a discussion that sounded dangerously political. my mom turned to me for help. so i asked our houseguest the important question that no one else had asked." I ask, "Are you vaccinated?" She responds by asking, "Are you?"
Panel 2) We are now face to face. I say, "Yes." She says nothing (there's a word balloon with three dots).
Panel 3) Same scene as above. I ask, "ARE YOU?" She says, "No I'm not and I never will be." 
Panel 4) Close up on me. I say, "At least now I know what we're dealing with." She's morphed into a maga hat, and asks, "What are you dealing with?" I say, "You're sharing a bathroom with my daughters who've only had one shot." She says, "There is no pandemic. I saw on the internet that one of the vaccines is making people sterile." I say, "I'd like to make some people sterile."
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As I've mentioned, I'm rereading all my old diary comics since I'm not really making comics right now and feel bad about it. So anyway. Here's another post by Tressie that reminded me of another comic of mine... #PleaseClap #Comics #Dementia
A four-panel comic by @inasketch
Ink & watercolor
Panel 1) Mom and I in the garage. She's leaning over her table saw and I'm waving my hands in a "No" gesture. The top text box reads: "Yesterday my mom couldn't remember how to turn on her table saw." Mom says, "I think it's this button right here." The bottom text box reads: "I convinced her not to use it."
Panel 2) Mom and I are outside under her fuyu tree. I'm holding a long 2x4 that I'm trying to fit under a branch for support. Mom has her arms raised in a guidance gesture. She says, "Over just a little more." The bottom text box reads: "We were making supports for the fuyu's fruit-laden branches."
Panel 3) I've gotten the board in place and turned to face my mom. I say, "That was hard. I want a little applause." Mom, clapping, says, "You deserve a beer."
Panel 4) I'm in a grocery store, in the beer aisle, reaching for a bottle. The top text box reads: "Later that day, shopping at Tokyo Central with my daughter..." My thought bubble reads, "Hmm... Nice idea, mom."
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
How about sharks? :D #Cats #BlackCat
Our black cat, Junco, laying across a blue bench. His mouth is open in a yawn, showing his frightening fangs :D
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Pictures are working again! Post something stupid from your phone. [I thought for a second I didn't have anything stupid on my phone 😇 ] #Skills #Metaphor
A photo of a red t-shirt on a hanger in a thrift store (I did not buy it, alas). On the left, it says "MY SKILLS:" above a laughy cool guy emoji with a game-thingy. On the right it says "YOUR SKILLS:" above a surprised frowny poop emoji with a game-thingy.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#Foodsky #Supper
A shallow white bowl with the aforementioned eggplant, bok choy, and lemon concoction, with a hunk of focaccia with rosemary on the side.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is my contribution to the Tillie Walden discourse, from when she hosted a Friday Night Comics workshop with The Believer magazine, before SAW took it over. I look forward to reading her book. #Comics #ArtOfBluesky #Art #Portrait #Vermont
A comic portrait by @inasketch in ink, watercolor, and color pencil of Tillie Walden as she hosted a zoom comics workshop. She is wearing a knit hat and glasses. A door and some bits of her workspace are also depicted. Under her portrait are the words:
tillie walden
DRAWING 
WORLDS
THE BELIEVER
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Pin-tailed whydahs are so cool. Video by my daughter. #Birds #BirdsOfBluesky #Nature
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The OG. She was a feral kitty wandering our old neighborhood. We put food out for her. Didn't know enough about cats to take her in. Of course she got pregnant. The first night she stayed inside was the night she gave birth to seven kittens including Junco & Oriole. Our Happy Camper, Paisley. #Cats
A very content tabby cat, Paisley, sleeping on her back with limbs curled and a smile on her face. She's on a sleeping bag with camping images and the words Happy Camper.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is another of our beauties, Oriole. She loves bags. #Caturday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky
Our beautiful tortie, Oriole, inside an olive green & grey tote bag. She looks up adorably at the camera.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This guy, Junco, has been acting like "the floor is lava" so we'd love to have him checked out. #Caturday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky
Our handsome black cat lying on the floor in front of a closet mirror, looking sweetly at the camera.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Daughter: Do you have your binoculars handy? I see baby white eyes in the tree. Me: [hands her the binoculars] Should I get up and look? Daughter: If you're quick. Me: Nothin' quick about me but my wit. 📷 by my daughter on an iphone8 through binoculars #Birds #BirdsOfBluesky
A blurry photo (shot on an iphone8 through binoculars by my daughter) of a fuzzy baby bird amidst the sun-dappled leaves of a tree.A blurry photo (shot on an iphone8 through binoculars by my daughter) of a fuzzy baby bird amidst the sun-dappled leaves of a tree.A blurry photo (shot on an iphone8 through binoculars by my daughter) of a fuzzy baby bird looking right at the camera amidst the sun-dappled leaves of a tree.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It's just a pocket pen (and overpriced in the US). It's what I call Barbie pink, what do you think?
A bright saturated pink uncapped fountain pen, a Pilot Prera, on an apple laptop for scale.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
bok choy, onions, whole wheat pasta, and most importantly, butter.
a shallow white bowl with pasta and chopped bok choy. 
a white-handled fork rests in the upper right corner.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A chance to share this comic I made in a Friday Night Workshop...
A four panel comic by @inasketch 
Panel 1) guy on a date with a cylinder-shaped robot. He says, "I thought you'd be more attractive when I agreed to this date!"
Panel 2) The robot replies, "I am a fully functional I-25 prepared to satisfy your needs. Why do men always imagine robots as sexy young women??"
Panel 3) The guy responds, "But... But... Casella, Rosey, Seven of Nine, Kristanna, Fembots! I want my dream girl!!"
Panel 4) The robot has shape-changed into his mother, and says, "Junior! Don't be disrespectful!" He falls out of his chair, "AHHHHHH!" The text reads, "Is that better?!"
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Still not sure if we should eat the caesar salad. We did also get this yesterday... 💚
Person holding large leafy green vegetable (bok choi? looks kinda large...) in front of their face.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I've been waiting for this to show up in our food pantry box. A bag salad. My daughters pointed out it's even from the main offender, Taylor Farms. A store couldn't sell it at the bargain price of $1.75, so it's donated to us. Et tu, Brutus?
A bag salad from Taylor Farms, "Ultimate Caesar," with a reduced sticker, price $1.75.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
For three weeks in a row, our food pantry pickup included a large bag of instant mashed potatoes. Never used them before, wondered if potato gnocchi would work (we've never made any kind of gnocchi). My daughter gave it a try last night. Not gnocchi, more like soft pretzel bites, and so delicious.
A pile of lovely dough bites with golden brown bottoms on a yellow plate, everything drenched in summer sun.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I did it. My first diary comic in two years. I was waiting in the parking lot for my daughter, and I'd left my phone at home. So I doodled this on some junk mail with the Pilot Petit 1 fountain pen I keep in my wallet. I added color pencil when I got home. #Comics #ArtOfBluesky #FountainPen
A four-panel comic by @inasketch
Panel 1) Scene in a wildlife sanctuary parking lot. Me seen from behind, as a man facing me asks, "Do you sing?"
Panel 2) Close-up of my face. Thought balloon, "There's no way this guy's heard of my band." I say, "Um..."
Panel 3) Now over the man's shoulder, you can see that the hat I'm wearing is embroidered The Met. He says, "Your hat." 
Panel 4) The back of my head as I'm walking toward where my daughters are waiting at the car. They ask, "What did that guy say?" I reply, "He thought my hat was Met Opera House instead of Met Museum of Art."

True story. I lead a fascinating life.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
inky me, a detail from the comic linked below... #Art #Ink #ArtOfBluesky #Selfie #SelfPortrait
ink & wash self portrait by @inasketch
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I almost missed Willem Dafoe's birthday! From a Friday Night Comics workshop: "Your Celebrity Crush is in Love with You." Capturing likeness is always a challenge, especially so in five minutes per panel, with no penciling first. But no excuses! Happy Birthday, Willem! #Comics #ArtOfBluesky #Art
Panel 1 of a four panel comic by @inasketch
Ink and watercolor.
Willem Dafoe says, "Do you remember when I met you?"Panel 2 of a four panel comic by @inasketch
Ink and watercolor
Me saying, "With Joan Jonas" ... "That was years ago."Panel 3 of a four panel comic by @inasketch
Ink and watercolor
Willem, looking pensive, fingers of both hands touching, says, "I've never forgotten you."Panel 4 of a four panel comic by @inasketch
Ink and watercolor
Willem with his arm around me, says, "Come with me to Rome!" I answer with a heart.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The comic that changed it all. That time my daughters gave me advice on how to make my comics more "likable." After that, I started making four-panel squares for the algorithm, and the rest is history. :D #Comics #ArtOfBluesky #Art
A four-panel comic by @inasketch
Ink & watercolor
Panel 1) A hand on the keyboard of an open laptop, with an instagram page on display. From out of frame I say, "Only 13 'likes' so far."
Panel 2) My daughters, holding up one of my multi-panel comics. My younger daughter says, "People want something that's easy to read on their phone." My older daughter says, "Your panels are too small."
Panel 3) A still life on a table, drawn from life, of a candlestick vase with a long-stem flower, a basket, and a bowl, with a wooden chair, and the edge of the laptop visible. A voice out of frame says, "They want something drawn from life."
Panel 4) Me, drawing a comic. I say, "Okay, I'll give it a try."
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm still looking through all the old diary comics I've made. Here's one about meaningful gestures (and #coffee). #comics #diners
A four-panel comic by @inasketch 
ink & watercolor
Panel 1) My mom and her bestie in a diner booth. The text reads, "A first today: meeting my mom and her friend for breakfast at the local diner."
Panel 2) Exterior sketch of Mel's Diner. The text reads, "I've had breakfast with her there many times, but this is the first time I've lived in CA that isn't at her house."
Panel 3) A mug of coffee on a diner table. The text reads, "I've been trying to take a break from coffee (even passed up a latte yesterday)." ... "I knew as soon as I sat down the busboy would bring me my usual cup and I wouldn't resist. It's nice that he remembers me."
Panel 4) The busboy refills my cup as I sit on the diner booth bench. I say, "Thank you." The text reads, "The coffee isn't even that good. I just love the gesture."
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A photo of a photo* I took in New York some time last century. *You say "blurry," I say "soft focus" 😂😇📷 At the time I took the photo, my eye was drawn to the woman in the satiny dress in the doorway. Now all of the people look interesting to me. #Photography
A black & white photo by @inasketch of several people waiting for the bus on a sidewalk in New York. The woman are all in skirts/dresses; two of them are wearing hats. One woman in a satiny dress is framed by the dark doorway she stands in. The two men are more casually dressed. One is wearing a baseball cap. One is yawning.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Self soothing by looking at my old comics on IG just now, I scrolled all the way down & saw this drawing from 6 years ago today. A positive that came out of the pandemic was a lot of online gatherings, including these #usktalks hosted by #urbansketchers I always drew the participants as I listened.
An ink & watercolor sketch by @inasketch of three urban sketchers. @robsketcherman, holding a cup of coffee, says, "We add personality!" @sketcher_ben says, "If you can't do some thing, go and learn it!" @umapaints, holding a blue shop cloth, says, "When you are failing, the process rescues you!"
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Good morning cat friends. Here’s a sweet video of our beauties that my daughter took. Stay til the end to catch the tabby hop. #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
His face is giving me Thunderbirds vibes.
A puppet from Thunderbirds
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I had a hard time coming up with the name of the photographer who inspired this panel of my comic (for the alt text). My brain offered Frank Capra, and I know he's the filmmaker. I realized my brain was making a shorthand of Robert Frank & Robert Capa. #Comics #Photography #Brains #Algebra
A panel from a four-panel comic by @inasketch

A monochromatic painterly image inspired by a Robert Frank photograph in The Americans, depicts two windows in a city building, with a person in each window whose face is obscured. On the left, the window shade partially hides the persons face. On the right, a large american flag covers the person's face. The text, written in white pen in cursive reads: "4th of July 2021."
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I'm still not making daily comics. I'm still rereading my daily comics from the early '20s. Here are two from July five years ago. Life is much harder now. The good news: my daughter is baking bread, and we have berries with whipped cream for some red, white, and blue. #Comics #FourthOfJuly
A four-panel morning walk comic by @inasketch
Ink linework with color pencil

1) The panel is divided vertically in three. Each panel depicts a different woman I encountered on my walk, greeting me.
2) The panel is divided vertically in two. The text on the first half reads: "The playground was open, but they forgot one sign" ... "I couldn't resist." The image is me reaching up to remove the forgotten "Playground Closed Jun 28 - Jul 2" sign at the top of the slide. The second half of the panel is me walking with the rolled up sign in my right hand. In my left hand is a small grey ball. A red arrow points to it id'ing it as "tape ball."
3) A house with every imaginable flag-inspired decoration all over the house and yard. The text reads: "This very patriotic house has freeway construction + a box store in its backyard." [For some reason, I've added goofy hashtags: #tgiholidayf #besafe #besane It's probably typical of middle age that using hashtags and emojis feels ironic, until I'm just using them earnestly :D ]
4) The text reads: "Breakfast in the backyard." The image is a lovely breakfast spread on a table my mom made from a door panel with windows. My sketchbook is visible.A four-panel morning walk comic by @inasketch
Ink linework with watercolor

1) A closeup of a sunflower. The text, written in white pen in cursive reads: "sunflower in full bloom."
2) A dog running on the grass toward a picket fence. The text, written in white pen in cursive reads: "a dog ran out to say hello."
3) An angled view of a sidewalk and the grass border into which someone stuck small flags. The text, written in white pen in cursive reads: "three flags sprouted overnight."
4) A monochromatic image inspired by a Robert Frank photograph in The Americans, depicts two windows in a city building, with a person in each window whose face is obscured. On the left, the window shade partially hides the persons face. On the right, a large american flag covers the person's face. The text, written in white pen in cursive reads: "4th of July 2021."
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A present in the form of a comic? Happy Birthday, Debbie Harry!
A four-panel comic by @inasketch 
Ink & watercolor. 
There's a lot of text, so I'm gonna summarize! :D
Panel 1) Me and my daughters shopping at a thrift store, a song by Blondie is playing. I say: "Hey! There's a Blondie shirt and that's Blondie they're playing!" 
Panel 2) I hold up the shirt and say, "I have to get it!" My 20yo daughter says, "That's an ugly picture of someone I've never heard of!"
Panel 3) Later, at my 80yo mom's house, I ask her if she's heard of Blondie, knowing what she'll say: "The only Blondie I know is Blondie and Dagwood from the funny papers." I say, "No. I mean this one (singing) 'I'm in the phone booth it's the one across the hall'..."
Panel 4) Text: In high school, my brother had his band stuff set up upstairs. When it was my turn at the mic, Blondie made me feel like a rock start. Image: Young me holding a mic+stand and singing, "One way or another... I'm gonna find ya... I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya..."
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I got this cool Sue Coe poster by one of those sheds, among hundreds stapled up there, sometime back in the last century. (This is NOT an endorsement of the Kennedy Center tarp!)
A monochromatic poster on yellowed paper by Sue Coe of a group of women in various stressed and angled poses, with the woman in the front center bent over at the waist, arms behind her back (possibly in a straightjacket). There is text written around the rectangular border that reads: 
people in their isolation feel
very powerless politically and may feel they cannot change,
when they meet other people, their views
are reconfirmed and they see they are not alone.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
And here’s a cactus wren with something to say.
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My daughter takes bird pics with her iphone8 through binoculars. I’ve tried. It’s hard. This week she took a couple videos, and I think they look like old-timey films. Here’s a spotted towhee talking. #Birds
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The first two panels from a messy comic I made...
A comic panel of two women sitting at a cafe table. There are drinks and a candle on the table. The text reads: "I met a young woman recently who told me her boyfriend doesn't believe in feminism." The young woman says, "We fight about it a lot. I don't know what to say to him."A comic panel of a tweed-clad and pipe-holding young aryan-looking type who says, "'Feminists' are just women who are proud of being ugly" ... "who choose to live unhappy lives, pretending to be oppressed."
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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
summer solstice snake 🐍 that's good luck, right?
a rattlesnake we saw on our hike this evening.
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