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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My brother @digimonkey.bsky.social and I may have discovered the Reflecting Pool culprit. @stephenrbissette.bsky.social, we may need a more expert witness for identification. 😂

An image of the Swamp Thing in the Reflecting Pool in Washington D.C.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

A little something nice for your Friday. paintmonkeyart.substack.com/p/friday-fin...

Covet page for a Substack post about an inked camel.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Who can save us? See one possibility at my (always free) Substack! paintmonkeyart.substack.com/p/randomly-d...

A superhero flies away with a tied up villain. Cartoon.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

It's the holidays! The Paintmonkey shoppe is open! Paintmonkeystudios.com

Image of the book The Ghastly Crook Richies in front of a festive background.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The only Christopher Columbus recognized in this house wrote Gremlins & The Goonies, and directed Home Alone & Mrs. Doubtfire.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I know this email was probably done by an intern or some such, but if you can't get THIS messaging right, then how do you expect to get the big ideas across? To be clear..."Do you approve or disapprove..." is not answered with "yes or no". @hankjohnson.house.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Image of an email with the text "blahblahblah...Do you approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump has done as president?

Yes

No

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I made something for those who need to hear it.

Cartoon of Elon and Donald as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum with the words "No one is paying us to hate you. It is...quite literally...the only thing you have ever EARNED, you absolute insufferable clowns."

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Q: Where DO creators get their ideas?

A picture of the character "Arseface" from the TV show "Preacher".

A picture of the arseface president of the US.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Weekly #OnePanelVSS (I used #snake and #literate as prompts). Let me know what story you come up with. @nancydwrites.bsky.social

A snake with reading glasses is apparently reading an open book in front of it.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

TBT to a thing I did last year. Your new Secretary of Health and Human Services, everybody! #cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #hhs #RFKJr #brainworms #stupidesttimeline

Caricature of RFK Jr. with worms protruding from his head. The caption reads "RFK Jr. 202 The only candidate with built in advisors!"

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Tidying up the studio last night and came across a discarded drawing. Wanted to test on the back. Need inspiration? Look no further than @stephenrbissette.bsky.social and his posts. So I tried the ink washes and gouache on toned paper by copying his Godzilla.

Godzilla drawing on toned paper in ink washes and white gouache.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This week's #OnePanelVSS. My prompts were #pollute and #dress. Is it a political commentary? Who can say? w/ @nancydwrites.bsky.social

A woman walking into a body of water with black oozing off of her dress into the water. She is surrounded by dead floating fish.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The Parable of the Cookie Dragon. By the Paintmonkey. A story in four parts. #parable #eattherich #dragons #cookies

A four panel cartoon called The Parable of the Cookie Dragon. Panel 1: Once there was a dragon who loved cookies. Panel 2: And the dragon and his friends took ALL the cookies for themselves leaving none for anyone else. Panel 3: This made the hungry villagers very sad. Panel 4: So they cut all the dragon's heads off as a warning to other gluttons. The End. Panel 4 shows all the dragon heads on pikes.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The #OnePanelVSS of the week! My prompts were #crayon and #disillusioned which is an incredibly odd concept to portray. Tell me your stories! #writingprompt #writingexercise W/ @nancydwrites.bsky.social

A child sits on the floor holding one hand to her forehead while the other holds a crayon over scattered pieces of empty paper all around her.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Just the unhappiest looking mf'er. Not even the cruelty gives him joy. These are all from news stories over the past week. Oh, and now he has literal blood on his hands that he's tried to pass on to minorities and Biden and...Obama for some reason. Apologies for the gross cyst collage.

A collage of pictures of trump looking unhappy.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

2nd of my weekend toon-a-palooza. The problem with #fotus ...by the time you get an idea down...he's already done 46 more acts of heinous f*ckery. Kudos to the best like @deadder.bsky.social, @mluckovich.bsky.social, @anntelnaes.bsky.social and the others who knock em out of the park, timely-like.

cartoon with trump caricature saying "all remote federal employees back in the office!" "No exception!" "...maybe AN exception..." while he plays golf.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Went on a toon spree this weekend. Not sure what happened in the news to set it off. A mystery for the ages. More coming. (Or support me at my Patreon and see them early with many more stuffs. Ugh. Capitalism is so dumb.) #cartoon #politicalcartoon #politics

A big fat shark with trumps head swimming amidst text of many of the most memorable lies he's told in recent history. Text at the bottom reads: Fraud Shark A fat cowardly sea bully, if it stops lying...it does.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Watching YouTube this morning about recent passings (I couldn't put my finger on one of the people in the thumbnail) on the Legacy dot com channel when suddenly... ...a wild @hogansalley.bsky.social appears!

A Bluesky post honoring the life and work of Jules Pfeiffer.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

A cartoon I did after seeing a social media post about someone "ringing" their hands. This image popped up in my head and amused me greatly. A clear indicator of just how weird English can be. And this is with a different spelling! We do worse with same spellings.😂 Just linguistic chaos. #cartoon

A man with bells for hands screaming at the body horror of that. A cat jumps screeching behind him. Caption reads "PSA: THIS is what 'ringing' your hands would look like. ('Wringing' your hands means to twist together in anguish.)

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

A little (or a lot) late posting today. Had to chauffer the wife to a doctor's appt this morning, but here is today's #OnePanelVSS courtesy of the prompts "garrulous" and "egg". #art #artprompt #cartoon @nancydwrites.bsky.social

A very happy Humpty Dumpty looking egg person sits on a bench with a phone in one hand very excitedly regaling the person sitting next to them who is eating a sandwich.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thought of this last night. Got up and started working on it immediately for today. No reason.

Two goldfish in red caps holding tickets. Angry fish says "How can he do this?!?! We paid thousands for inauguration tickets and now they moved it with no refunds?!?". The other one looking confused says "...who did what now...?". The bottom text line below the cartoon reads "How we got here."

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

What in the blue blazes F*CK is this?!? He's NOT president. What can he have done? He is still a private citizen until tomorrow! And never evereverever forget...he STARTED the whole "ban Tiktok" fervor cause he got his dementia riddled feelings hurt. FOH with this crap.

Screen grab of Tiktok notice welcoming you back thanks to the efforts of "president" trump.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you. #artshare I don't do a lot of prehistoric work...but when I do, I have fun!

Mosasaurus swimming after an archelon, a giant extinct species of sea turtle

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Day 2 of Georgia snow. I watch from the warmth of my studio working on subversive things. Space heater. INXS and Indigo Girls and such playing. Old dog napping on blankets. Not a terrible Saturday at all.

Looking out a window at a large tree stump and street covered in snow.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year, everybody! The "I'll do it myself" energy I'm bringing.

Cartoon of the Paintmonkey holding the scythe and kicking Father Time 2024 and pointing at Baby New Year with a barbed wire bat with nails in it. Baby New Year is running away screaming while the Paintmonkey yells after him "...and you better not start any shit either".

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Just a few of the sketches I've done over the years of Mr. Jimmy Carter. A man who made me proud to be a Georgian. A good man with a life to match. Say hey to Mizz Rosalynn for us, Mr. President. #RIPJimmyCarter

Caricature of Jimmy Carter holding a hammer and pencil next to a United States flag.

Rough ballpoint caricature of Jimmy Carter smiling in front a shelf of books next to a United States flag.

Quick rough ballpoint caricature of Jimmy Carter.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Life comes at you pretty fast. Picture 1) a year ago today, this was a shivering emaciated creature with a belly full of literal plastic garbage. Picture 2) fast forward to now, a diva who whines if she doesn't have a blanket put down on her pillow bed. #AdoptDontShop

Pittie/boxer mix lying in a nest of leaves by a roadside.

Same pittie/boxer mix a year later in a purple hoodie and healthy.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

@gailsimone.bsky.social is pushing local comic stores! I went to mine today (@infiniterealities.bsky.social) to deliver their holiday card, and naturally, walked with 2 trades and stickers! Inf/Realities will be open briefly tomorrow (Dec. 24th), too! (I didn't have any Christmas drawings handy.)

Luke Skywalker cartoon riding a tauntaun on Hoth with a wampa peeking over the hill with a probe Droid in the background.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A little something I made last year...but which seems MUCH more applicable to THIS year. 😳 #AChristmasCarol #CharlesDickens #EatTheRich

Cartoon depicting a Marley ghost dangling a bald "Scrooge" in his pj's and bathrobe over the edge of a roof with the caption "Every single year we try...and fail...to TEACH you to see the error of your ways. So now...we do it this way."

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Mine's not a selfie...but I always have my photo, as well! (especially when you look closely at my face and see how pink it was because I was so excited I almost passed out. 😂) @markhamillofficial.bsky.social handled it with much more aplomb.

Jane Goodall at a book signing next to grinning idiot who was about to pass out from excitement.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I think all of these illustrate perfectly why Jack Davis was/is my biggest artistic inspiration and I'm so glad I got to meet him! #JackDavis100

Jack Davis illustration of Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

Jack Davis illustration of a smoker with head engulfed in cigarette smoke.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It's his 100th birthday, so I'm gonna add way more than usual! 😂

Jack Davis illustration of a banged up quarterback with a cast on his arm and leg, bandages, a dented helmet, and a black eye feebly throwing a football.

Jack Davis illustration of UGA mascot Harry Dawg dressed as Santa with children on his shoulder.

Jack Davis black and white illustration of a world War 2 soldier.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Happy Jack Davis day, to all who celebrate! 🎂🥳 #JackDavis

Jack Davis self portrait with Crypt Keeper and Alfred E. Neuman.

Jack Davis phot sitting at art desk with a brush in his mouth.

Jack Davis cross hatched art of a face with the word "boo" in his mouth.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Buddy, I follow you everywhere! 😂 Here's all 3 of our gremlins.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Some days you just need to go back to what made you happy as a kid. Saturday Morning Cartoons were the best, so here's a #Dailysketch of Hong Kong Phooey.

70s Saturday Morning Cartoon hero, Hong Kong Phooey.

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The Paintmonkey @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Cara is having an issue right now, so I'm gonna post my first Bluesky #OnePanelVSS directly. This was using the prompt words sew and crabby.

Angry ld person sewing pants while while sitting with no pants on. An exercise for writers to interpret the scene like artists doing sketches.

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