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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë

@keithpille.bsky.social
4.2K followers 3.3K following 48K posts

Cartoonist, currently mired in conflict with sea monsters. Guitarist and singer for Twin Cities bands the Creekside Ruffians and Derailleur. Rides around south Minneapolis on a giant red dog comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 9h
Flat illustration of a Mourning Dove, Blue Jay, and Chipping Sparrow each holding a fall leaf in their beak and walking in a parade-like manner. This is my US (eastern) version of last year's UK-focused illustration!
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 3h
looks like the house is getting the d
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 3h
MEA weekend having no presence in my mind is one of my last mental holdouts of not growing up here (and, I suppose, not having kids)
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 3h
the people spoke, and they were correct
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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 4h
Ok this is the favorite commission for day 2. The prompt was "ghost rider as a mail carrier"
Ghost rider driving one of the new electric mail trucks
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 4h
I used to work in IT for credit card processing. It was boring. There are initial mathematical checks done on credit card numbers. Somewhere out there is a credit card system, authorising transactions, with a function called NumberWang. It was a slow afternoon.
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Iowa City Police Log @iowacitycoptoons.bsky.social · 4h
THEFT OF GABARGE CANS/ HE HAS CHECKED EVER WHERE.
DIDNT BLOW AWAY FROM
STORM EITHER
7:22 PM • 9/10/20 • Twitter WebTHEFT OF GABARGE CANS/ HE HAS CHECKED EVER WHERE.
DIDNT BLOW AWAY FROM
STORM EITHER
7:22 PM • 9/10/20 • Twitter Web
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(cutaia) @cutaia.net · 4h
Saw someone unironically use the term "S.I." in a comment today, and it's legitimately so funny that the people who ran around calling everyone cucks will literally change their vocabulary to be in line with their daddy.
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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 5h
Important:
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 5h
A silhouette of a man shocked to see an excited crowd
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 7h
Cat drawings by Shou Xin
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 6h
ha!
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 6h
humor/morale organ of Scientology called Clown Org
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Iowa City Police Log @iowacitycoptoons.bsky.social · 6h
LOOKING FOR PONY IN WOODSLOOKING FOR PONY IN WOODS
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 6h
if you’re interested in that kind of thing, I talked a bit last night about my process for The Kraken Busters
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 7h
it does occur to me that Mike Tice was the fruit of an unsuccessful attempt to home-grow a Twin Cities Ditka
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 7h
Thanks!
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pen and watercolor 

Cowboys again. This time one of our boys has lost his boots. Standing in a field of long grass the cowboy points towards the ground and shouts back to his colleague, “Lil bone people got muh boots.” This makes no sense to the other cowboy who sits atop his horse away from the action. He responds, “Lil wut?” Sure enough in the foreground we see a squad of little bone people scampering through the grass with the stolen cowboy boots. They’re thrilled. How the bone people got the boots off the cowboy is unclear.

Artist’s note: I tend to draw drawings from the same perspective (straight on) most of the time. This idea came about when I was goofin around trying to draw a character from a lower angle. I like that the story unfolds with the foreground, mid-ground, and background all working together. There’s a draft of this one included in the Spooky Pants book. Coming out next week!
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 8h
not sure why, but that Ditka picks the Bears screenshot that I just quote-skeeted had me laughing so hard it hurt
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TimOHthy Jay @timothyjay44.bsky.social · 8h
Ditka, the only one of the entire MNF picking the Bears to beat the Packers in 2015…which the Bears won.
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 8h
in a way, as long as Nick Offerman walks the earth, Mike Ditka is not truly gone
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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 8h
RIP Mike Ditka
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Super Fan's Letter - Saturday Night Live
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h
Solid classic!
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Iowa City Police Log @iowacitycoptoons.bsky.social · 9h
RP SAW A LIGHT IN THE SKY DID RESEARCH TO RULE OUT UFO BELIEVES IT WAS A LATERN REQ AREA CHECKEDRP SAW A LIGHT IN THE SKY DID RESEARCH TO RULE OUT UFO BELIEVES IT WAS A LATERN REQ AREA CHECKED
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h
will be switching over to my Expedition for the lunchtime gym trip
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h
Thanks, man!
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h
went with my big silly orange guy this morning
À ridiculous orange watch
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h
OK, since I made a big production of mocking a chud's gauche-ass watch, it's clear that we gotta do a Friday morning watch check
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h
I'm just here to enrich the languages of the world!
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h
and, maybe more importantly: am I remembering it correctly that, if you take what's presented onscreen literally, it follows that 9/11 and the crucifiction *are* inescapably both part of the backstory of the Cars universe?
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h
BUT: I'll stand by my belief that the AI cultists are basically saying "since we know so little about the backstory of the Cars universe, we should all be as nice as possible to our cars in case they also gain sentience and have their windshields turn into googly eyes"
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h
OK; skeet deleted because I was essentially reacting to someone stating a point they were themselves refuting, which wasn't immediately apparent because of threading. Sigh.
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h
Fair enough! Damn context collapse
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h
when I was a wee undergrad switching my major from physics to English, I had no idea that "can tell fiction from reality" was going to be an apparently non-universal skill I'd be honing with the switch
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 10h
that is in itself a very Gus McCrae thought
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 10h
Never seen a Reverend bass before. Nice! www.craigslist.org/view/d/minne...
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Reverend Thundergun Bass, Korina wood w Case - musical instruments - by owner - sale - craigslist
Like new. Reverend’s proprietary 100% korina body delivers lively low end and harmonic range with big sustain that’s elevated further by the body’s raised mid-section and contoured wings that...
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 10h
hey now, the Use Your Illusions are a perfectly fine EP
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 10h
not at all the point, but to weigh in on my tiny corner of specialty: as a certified Watch Guy, that's a gauche-ass watch
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 10h
anyway welcome to one of the hardest-earned Jazz Fridays in a while
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 10h
one of these days we'll have a week that doesn't feel like a five-day rolling catastrophe
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 11h
Yeah, I’m an absolute mess lately, too
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 11h
Of course the 80s were spent chasing this aesthetic so hard that my childhood was spent seeing endless signs like this in strip malls
Video hut sign I just generated
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 11h
it’ll never stop being weird to me that anyone paid any attention to this guy after the diaper thing
young Charlie Kirk in à diaper
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 11h
It is at least the biggest jam on Appetite
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Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social · 17h
;-)
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 21h
I agree, that really speaks well of him
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 23h
Holy cow
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 23h
It’s the “draw each panel individually as its own piece of art and do it digitally” bit that makes this so different for me. It felt really weird when I started, but now it’s second nature. If I draw on paper I catch myself trying to pinch it to enlarge, or tapping undo
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 23h
When all the panels for a given update are done, I email them to myself and fire up the 2010 MacBook Pro that still runs a local copy of Photoshop. I have a TKB template that I use to lay out the panels and then letter over them
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