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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 19/07/2026

Inspired by Jimothy, who is out there doing their best

A sketchy cartoony drawing of Jimothy the bob-tailed Seattle raccoon with a spinal deformity that makes them look disproportionately tall compared to their width. In the drawing, Jimothy trudges along with broad stride, arms head hanging down.

Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 29/03/2026

Made a mountain of tattie scones this morning with @nicolablack.bsky.social 🥔 How hasn’t this become a thing in the US? We were struggling not to eat the entire plate as they came off the griddle! They’re good with everything!

A pile of fluffy salted tattie scones. Circular and golden brown with darker toasted areas like a flatbread

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 06/03/2026

Me at the start of playing FFXIV: "Why would I bother with these side quests?" Later:

Rosa from Brooklyn 99 holding a puppy with Hildibrand from Final Fantasy 14 pasted over it saying "I've only had Hildibrand for 10 minutes but if anything happened to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself."

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 08/02/2026

This made me realize that it isn't even my first tiny microbe butt-- going back to a Nib comic about covid. Which went completely unchanged from the original sketch 🫡

an anthropomorphized covid virus crawls on the ground, reaching to get into a house that says "closed." It has dramatically lit butt cheeks

A black and white doodle of the previous image, pretty much unchanged

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 08/02/2026

Here's the full thing from the original Knowable Magazine publication of the article

In front of the olympic rings, three microrganisms that look like translucent green blobs in white snowsuits and cute little faces, stand on podiums waving. Behind them, other microbes careen across the page, speed skating, skiing, bobsleeding, and even curling.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 05/02/2026

D I S K (not coincidentally panels from the last comic Matthew and I did about 'Oumuamua)

A comic panel of an early solar system. Surrounded a disc shaped cloud of dust and gas is a blazingly bright sun. Nascent planets carve ring-like channels in the dust. In the foreground set among the clouds are various rocky bodies casting harsh shadows

In another illustration from a similar point of view, we look over the shoulders of far off asteroids to see the center of the solar system has been cleared of dust by the inner planets.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 01/01/2026

The animation in this sequence and ensuing zero-g chase is fantastic

Suletta, a red haired teenager in a white uniform stands with a shocked expression inside a bathroom stall with a finger on the door control, trying to close the door, while Miorine a white haired teen in a green version of the uniform stands indignant outside.

Miorine braces her feet against the door frame in zero-g trying to pull the door open with one hand and grabbing the other side of the frame with the other shouting "What are you doing, sulking in here?!"

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 31/12/2025

The color spill! The GOAT!

A small goat seemingly cut in half as wanders in and out of the frame from behind the clipping mask

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 04/11/2025

Got out there and did the thing 🫡

A close up of a oval shaped “I voted” sticker being held by the poster in a parking lot

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 26/10/2025

While looking up photos of mice today, I was reminded of Kazuo Iwamura's picture books. Saddened to learn that he died last December. This series was such a big part of my childhood

An illustration from Kazuo Iwamura's adorable picture book series "14 Wood Mice" about an extended family of mice and their adventures. Dressed in casual outdoor wear and backpacks, the family members walk between a cluster of tree stumps on a forest path strewn with autumn leaves. Some of the kids are climbing to the top of the stump in the foreground.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 24/10/2025

QRP with your meme redraws!

The woman yelling at cat meme, but it's Toby, a white man in a two-tone blue cloak and hood with jester-like antennae on it. He has a ridiculous swoop of blonde hair coming out the front like a broom. He is pointing angrily to the right and shouting while an orange cat in the background looks on.

On the other side is Kuruku, a pale green wizard in a red cloak and hat with orange hair streaming out of it. He sits at a table with a blocky clay humanoid figure laying on it. He is hissing, his eyes squinted.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 17/10/2025

October is Spider Time 🎃🕷️ QRP with your Spoopy Spooders

A brush drawing of a hairy spider with long legs seen from above. It has 4 eyes, bunny like ears, whiskers, and a big Totoro grin.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 17/09/2025

Me when I have a new comic out about radio telescopes on the moon.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 15/09/2025

Spiders! Some photos of our garden residents (Id needed) and a zebra jumping spider(?) I caught running off with a fresh caught meal @bug-gwen.bsky.social

A beautiful tan-orange spider with black and white markings sitting in the center of their circular web. Their body and hairs are perfectly sunlit over a shadowed out of focus background

The same spider after I accidentally wrecked their web getting the hose out. It has scurried to the safety of an air conditioner vent, next to what looks like a molted shell

A similar spider on a green birdfeeder. The zoom is very close showing its tiny hairs as it crouches defensively

A small black and white striped jumping spider carrying a fly almost twice its size.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 15/09/2025

Just read The Jellyfish by @boum.bsky.social and oh wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve cried on a train. What a beautiful perfect story ❤️

The cover of The Jellyfish, by Boum. On it in watercolor blue and purple tones is the main character Odette with a bowl haircut and a large black ink smudge with trails like a jellyfish over her left eye

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 15/09/2025

Goodbye SPX! It was amazing! I’m on the train home now (not pictured). Thank you again @jamienoguchi.bsky.social for the fun times and hospitality (pictured) ❤️

Two Asian men in glasses and beards smiling gleefully at the camera outside a restaurant at night. One throws up a peace sign.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 14/09/2025

SPX is almost done! I’m here repping @crucialcomix.bsky.social And selling self published books, anthologies, and bespoke Totoro’s. Stop by W20B before it’s too late!

The artist in a face mask and bright green hat with a speech bubble in a panel on it. Behind him is his convention banner “Maki Naro: better cartooning through science “

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 10/09/2025

Oh hey, did you know I'm going to be at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social this weekend? I'm literally bringing all my books, so stop on by and grab some! Hope to see you there! 🥳

A promotional image of the Small Press Expo floor map, showing table W20 circled. It features a self portrait of the artist wearing a mask made of Totoro printed blue fabric. The text reads "Maki Naro, W20B. SPX Sept 13+14"

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 04/09/2025

I read that sentence in this guy's voice. I can't explain it, but he has one for me.

A 1793 self portrait by French painter Joseph Ducreux known for his unconventional portraiture at the time. He holds a cane, his mouth open in a laugh as he points directly at the viewer.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 18/08/2025

Real Ghostbusters Ass Creechur

A levitating cream colored blob with long spindly arms holds and chews on a stick with big horse-like teeth.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 23/07/2025

Folks, you ever been jump scared by a completely stationary bun?

A patch of rocky brown soil next to a house foundation bustling with bright green clover and other weeds. Nestled in the clover and scrunched as small as possible is a small rabbit.

A close up of the rabbit. Seen from above, staying completely still to avoid detection.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 07/07/2025

This diagram made me very worried until I saw it was helpfully labeled. But then I got worried again because I wasn't sure if they meant the size or distance.

A diagram explaining the phenomenon showing the angle of the sun's rays hitting the earth. The sun is looming very close, but thankfully it is labeled "Not to scale"

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 29/06/2025

Artist! Quote with your evil art 🪓 Oide~ 🗡️

A Japanese Manekineko (a white cat figurine that beckons good luck with a raised paw) seen from behind. Lit brightly from the front, their left paw is raised in the characteristic beckoning gesture, but in their right hand, held behind their back, they hold a gleaming dagger. They look over their left shoulder with a devilish glance.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 17/06/2025

See a Fox 🦊 Post a Fox 🦊 Enjoy this extremely old commission painting!

Partially obscured by reeds, a fox stands in stark contrast with the muted tones of a foggy riverbank as it lowers its head to drink.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 14/06/2025

I've drawn him exactly once, for a comic about the pro-vaccine Peanuts strips he created

A panel from a comic featuring Lyndon B. Johnson and Charles M Schulz. The two are depicted in a cartoony style mildly reminiscent of Schulz's work. Johnson in black and white, looks over a smiling Schulz, who sits at his drawing table holding up a freshly penned comic strip.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 09/06/2025

Look at this photo she just sent me of the bullion: Delicious golden brown gold

An artfully arranged stack of nut brown curry bullion rectangles on a bamboo cutting board.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 24/04/2025

I feel such kinship with them

A painting of two beefy arms clasped in a handshake/arm wrestle. The arms are labled "Me" and "My Dog" and their clasped hands captioned, "People asking, 'What's wrong?' "

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 18/04/2025

show your orange #art 🧡 A recent drawing of two completely legit comic book heroes

A painting of two legit comic book heroes: Toxie, the Toxic Avenger and Hefty Jake, the social cryptid, both looking to the right, ready for action. Toxie is in front, his mop resting on his shoulder and a hand raised in a kung fu beckoning motion. He is difficult to look at, green with distorted mutated features and pustulent boils everywhere. Hefty Jake (created by Mattie Lubchansky) towers over him, one hand rubbing his bicep, he looks like if Bigfoot had a perfect jawline, great hair, and somewhat resembled charismatic former president John F. Kennedy.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 12/04/2025

Come on by RICE 2025 today and view my hideous visage! 11-4 at the Sibley Square atrium in Rochester, NY!

The artist, a man in a tan sport coat and black tshirt standing behind a table full of comic books and other items. Behind him is a 80s laser photo studio backdrop with his name on it

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 12/04/2025

I'm not going to get into the details, but my eyebrow is really angry and swollen right now. So be on the lookout for this guy tomorrow.

A caricature of the artist, a 43(?) year old bearded man with bushy brows and hair shaved into a topknot. He looks up with heavy lidded eyes, his face distorted into a wide grimace. One of his eyebrows is very swollen and radiates lines

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 10/04/2025

Oiled up shirtless shout-singing executioner guy leaves an impression on a kid.

A film still of a man from the shoulders up wearing a black hood and shiny with oil like a bodybuilder. His wide eyes stare out unsettlingly from the hood

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 10/04/2025

The monsters are DEFINITELY on Bluesky.

A social media post from Chibi-Angirus that says "Lies. My eyes are bleeding reading this. A try-hard drama-bird, sucks to suck."

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 10/04/2025

I'll be bringing an expanded selection of books from self-published classics to the myriad anthology collections I have contributed to over the years. Don't forget to grab a Swole Totoro pin! Stock is low and I'm probably not going to be able to reorder anything for the foreseeable future 🫠

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 10/04/2025

Hey New York! This Saturday I'm going to be at the Rochester Indie Comics Expo, which seems like it's going to be a really fun show. Hope to see you there! wnycomicarts.com/rice-2025/

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 10/04/2025

Hefty Jake X Toxie! Saw a sneak peek of the upcoming Toxic Avenger teamups from @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social and @mattbors.bsky.social. Maybe I'm biased, but personally I'm still holding out for the HJ Expanded Universe feat. @mattielubchansky.com's perfect boy 😎 #makifeed

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 09/04/2025

I'm going to call it here for today and see if I even want to take it any further tomorrow. I'm trying to work pieces to reasonable completion and then move on instead of picking at them forever. (Toxie, please don't pick at it!)

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 09/04/2025

I know what my Marvel vs Capcom team is, now! Adding color really helped make a little more sense of Toxie's face. Hefty Jake is flawless as ever. #WIP

A closely cropped flat color ink drawing of Toxie, the Toxic Avenger and Hefty Jake, the social cryptid, both looking to the right, ready for action. Toxie is in front, his mop resting on his shoulder and a hand raised in a kung fu beckoning motion. He is difficult to look at, with distorted mutated features and boils everywhere. Hefty Jake towers over him, one hand rubbing his bicep, he looks like if Bigfoot had a perfect jawline, great hair, and somewhat resembled charismatic former president John F. Kennedy.

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