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Meg 🦇

@protopinkshot.bsky.social
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Formerly Grumperpants. IT Professional by Day, Indie Artist by Night. Fuck off with that AI shit. Pick up a pencil, coward.

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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Daily Diary Comix! - It's that time of year again! I'm almost relieved that it was e-coli water...? Because it means we know what to fight! ...still currently sick though.
I've always been pretty sickly. It's really annoying - weather and seasonal changes dramatically affect my body. Fall/winter are especially heavy hitters on me - the drop in temperature really fucks up my joints.

...so it didn't raise any alarm bells when I was sick this month. Not at first. I pushed myself extremely hard during the final weeks of August, and then with the house fire...? I thought it was stress and seasonal colds converging.

...then my city announced that they found e-coli in the water supply. In the lead up to this discovery I had stopped drinking water. Something tasted off - I was deep cleaning my cups, the ice dispenser, etc. The biggest tell should've been that the mouse and one of our dogs was also becoming very hesitant to drink the water.

I spent a few weeks getting repeat infections, and my care team was at a loss as to what was happening. Once I got the e-coli notice we ran some tests and it confirmed it.

...the night the water contamination was announced I had taken a long bath while drinking a TON of water...

My family is on the mend now - but I'm sad that I lost another month to sickness.

Here's hoping that October will be wonderful! It will be busy, and I'm so excited.

40th birthday October 3rd
MNCBA Fall Con October 10th & 11th
The Artery 2: Eat your Heart Out October 17th
My daughter's birthday October 31st <3
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well - at least I know a potential reason that my family has been aggressively sick: My town’s water supply has e-coli. Spent the day getting some potable water and informing my care team.
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Fozzie Bear's Classic Facepalm
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Minnesota Comic Book Association @mncbaorg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
⚡️ CREATOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Meg Evans @protopinkshot.bsky.social Meg Evans is an indie comic creator from rural Minnesota with a strong love for DIY. Read more: www.mncba.org/archive/MNCB... #MNCBA #TwinCities #ComicCon #ComicConvention
MNCBA FallCon 2026 promotional collage of Meg Evans with photo, work samples, and event information.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Also: Rat Tax! I’ll be caring for the sorority for another week or two. They’re total sweeties, but lil eye stripe there is super mouthy/bitey, so I’m going slower with her. She’s younger with a BOLD personality.
Gravy (dumbo rat)Biscuit (fancy rat)This is one of the younger rats and the only sweetie with beautiful raspberry eyes. The younger three are named after the powerpuff girls, but I don’t know who is who. I got her with the flash on accident!The powerpuff girls! These three are younger than biscuit and gravy, and were brand new before the fire. Stripe in the front is very bold and inquisitive, but doesn’t know her nibble strength yet. We’re slowly working on it! Shygirl is the black and white and she doesn’t like being handled, so we’re slowly building trust. Cinna is the silver with pink eyes - she’s really become social the past few days! She’s the smallest rat by far in the group.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Daily Diary Comix! - Somewhere I think part of me was left in the week of August 21st. Too much has happened since then. Somehow it's already September 20th??
It's been a very busy month. As all things are with balance, there were extremely awesome things, and also complete devastation.

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I become someone else during emergencies. All emotion and anxiety drop away and the path before me becomes crystal clear. There is never any doubt - only action.

The fire was last Friday. The moment I realized what house was on fire I was already on my way with several leashes and harnesses draped over my arm - asking my kid which pets were in which rooms. I'm so proud of that kid - she spoke directly with the Sheriff and a Firefighter and explained where the pets were.

Then we waited.

We held our neighbors when they arrived, and we stayed. A few hours in I watched a bat fly from the attic area - it gave me some hope in spite of all of the smoke.

It was shocking when they pulled the rabbits out - 3 made it. Then the rats - a MASSIVE shout out to the firefighters for not understanding pet rodents, but still checking and saving them.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It sure has been a 24 hours! I haven’t slept much - a close family friend’s house burned down. No human was harmed, but their dogs and cats didn’t make it. gofund.me/523d4f787 Miraculously there were survivors! I’m currently housing their rats and a mouse.
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Donate to Support Tessa and Her Girls After Fire, organized by Jolene Carlson-Hoch
I'm raising funds for my friend Tessa and her three daughters, Hannah, Oliv… Jolene Carlson-Hoch needs your support for Support Tessa and Her Girls After Fire
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's OK for things to be over. It's OK for things to end. Good stories end.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every time I see that fundraiser I think of East Coast Rising vol 2 (I wanted it bad)
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daily Diary Comix: @mncbaorg.bsky.social 's Fallcon was my 1st ever con in 2010! A coworker suggested it when he found out I liked comics, and also gave me the push to make my own. October 2010 was my debut - it really is an amazing little con! Also attached my first table when I was just 23.
a b&w comics pagea photograph from 2010 featuring a woman wearing a Venture Bros. shirt club shirt, with a spread of comic books and a print binder on a red tablecloth.A closer photo of issue 0 of Cosa Nostra Sasquatch
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daily Diary Comics (backlog) - I did manage to get a second job! I only lasted a week before aura vision started kicking in, and I found out that I'm severely overworking myself. I just can't handle 13+ hour days like I used to. My glasses are on order, and my eyes look health at least.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daily Diary Comix (backlog) - Back on August 21st my bestie came to town! Someone I haven't talked nearly enough about. That week exhausted me completely, but I'm so glad it happened. I still have to talk about the MCR concert and more.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Faith’s work is so fucking good! It’s why I remain on the internet - I love, love, LOVE looking at people’s art 💕
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Faith @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ok maybe I have a little bit of time for swordtember 🫣
Work in progress - a figure sits in a tree. She is eating an apple and yup, there's a sword hanging from her hip!
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 01/09/2026
September is Baby Safety Month. Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 15/10/2023
Arcade.
Illustration of people in an arcade, looking into a crane game machine. #kimgakaku
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
he's escaped to the one place still uncorrupted by capitalism. goodnight sweet prince
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
LRT - Dolly’s Imagination Library was such a colossal boon as a young parent. A new book every month, up until Kindergarten. It’s run by various chapters - please look for your local one and donate if you can. imaginationlibrary.com/usa/find-my-...
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Find My Program - USA
Find Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Affiliates In The USA
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Honestly now would be an amazing time for all of us to donate what we can to her flagship charity, The Imagination Library. imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Sean Northridge @seannorthridge.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Mood:
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kitsuneart 🦊 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If you love Witch Hat Atelier and want to support Shirahama directly you can purchase the English pdf version of “Archive of Witch Hat Atelier” 😍💖✨ (I already preordered mine!!) 🌟 mag-s.jp Thank you for making it available also in English! 🥺🙏🏻
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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Some art on how gender exploration can be a way of healing trauma 🌸 #TransArt #QueerArt #DigitalArt #SaplingArt #Roses #Drawing
A digital drawing of a light skinned person with their hands over their head, reaching down their back. Only their torso from the back is visible, and there are roses and leaves pouring out from the center if they’re spine and reaching to the bottom of the composition. The linework is in blue, and the colors are pink and purple.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
F L A M E W A R! These two are part of the cast of a slasher that I'm working on set in the early 2000s.
a colorful illustration depicting a young man on a beanbag typing furiously at a laptop, while a young woman stands behind him wearing a dead milkmen shirt.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Daily Diary Comix! August sure has been a month, and we're only 12 days in! Phone repairs, car repairs, grief, and on the prowl for a second job while prepping for an art fest! No rest for the wicked.
a black adn white comic with four panels depicting a field of grass, phone repairs, and car repairs. A b&w comic page with four panels, largely depicting stress around debt and costs.
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🎃FEARnando Carrie ~ Spooky Story Artist @botsandmagic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Upgraded to a switch 2 and have an old Nintendo Joycon laying around? What If I told you that can be turned into a powerful and portable ART HOTKEY REMOTE!? I made this diagram for a friend recently and thought I'd share. Video explaining the program in the comments!
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🍕🍦 #artpost
doodle of the main character of my "slice of pizza" zine, graham, a guy with glasses, sideburns and long blonde hair, enjoying a strawberry ice cream cone with a look of surprise on his face.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daily Diary Comix - now in color I'm currently finding a process that works for me - and it's messy and honestly foregoes a lot of traditional writing. I think very visually and tend to choke on writing.
I'm finding out that a lot of my limits are that I learn by watching others, and sometimes I get caught completely in their process. I focus more on perfecting that process instead of just doing the damn thing!

The last time I did a 38 page comic was 2010. It was my first (and only) full length comic. I followed 'process' to the absolute letter, and then ran far, FAR away from comics.

But I love comics so much! So I kept butting my head up against process, and just... burning out. I've been coaxing myself away from the process, and just making the damn thing. I'm learning a LOT about myself and what I enjoy doing in the process. Right now I'm having a ton of fun!

The original process:
Write down story / design characters
Thumbnail scenes and adjust for page count
ink/letter/etc
Finished comic

Current process:
draw a character - love her enough to make her a story
-rough gist of story
-cool, what locations do you need to make that happen?
-what characters do you need to make this happen?
--map of the area

Writing is intimidating, and I think very visually, so let's see how far this process can take me
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
And I'm gonna be the fastest I'm gonna be so quick that you're never quite sure If you're tough enough to last this 'Cause when you got the Halloween blues, there's a guaranteed cure
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
J I M O T H Y (For my @nikkistrahota.bsky.social <3)
a cartoony illustration of JIMOTHY! against an atomic pink background
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix! Bad break! Yesterday my engine died on the highway. Scary! I just lost a car in April due to a deer, so I'm not ready to be completely car-less. (Insurance didn't even cover the lien fully I had on my other car - I'm just out a car, but still have the debt)
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix! Listen - I live in a very small, very rural town. This is NOT something I'd ever expect to see, and with me in my MCR Scarecrow Unit hat!
A B&W three panel diary comic.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
DM me if interested - I'm currently only shipping within the USA. Shipping & Handling are baked within the prices themselves.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The current zine run - I’ll be listing prices later for folks to DM to buy. My older zines will be retired - these will be the last of them.
A photo of several zines and mini comics in a small shelf.These are my oldest zines - they’ll no longer be reprinted.These are my newer zines, including two brand new ones. Only Death Can Stop Me debuted at RochZineFest, and love&tragedy will debut at The Artery Art Show
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix - I kinda regret not talking to this guy. Just pulling out a rat from his pocket! Just insanely cool.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix - Free time is very rare for me, but instead of being depressed over it I've started utilizing my breaks to slap these comics out.
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"The Art of Over the Garden Wall" is being reissued in an expanded edition ❤️ Regular edition >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind... Deluxe edition >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Not sure why the IG algorithm has been giving me so much Romeo + Juliet lately but I don’t mind it.
illustration of tybalt from bad luhrmann’s romeo and juliet where he’s wearing the jesus top
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix! Highschool really wanged chung, huh? Bad skin, bad attitude, and nothin' but hostility and horniness. Apologies to Mr. Antonucci for yoinkin' that style, but I love the Ed, Edd, n' Eddy Kanker Sisters. Marie Kanker was the template for teen me (<3 DD is best)
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix - ...I have a LOT of Cloonan comics. A lot. You don't even wanna know how many editions and floppies I bought of Somna. ...that copy of East Coast Rising has seen far better days. I lent it out CONSTANTLY.
B&W Comic PageB&W Comic PageA photo of several comics and zines that Becky Cloonan has worked on. This is not even remotely my entire collection, as I have a few prints, shirts, and seriously, she has a MASSIVE body of work. It'd take me a few hours to pull every title in my collection that she's worked on.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
can't wait to share these kids and their story with you very very excited
an illustration for they glow in the dark featuring the kids hiking in the woods; beneath them in the ground are lots of skeletons, including a human skull
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 14/07/2026
Hi #PortfolioDay - I am Kim Hu Freelance Illustrator & Concept Artist Looking for cool new projects in the second half of 2026 📂 kim-hu.com ✉️ hello@kim-hu.com
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
6) Nihilism isn't necessarily pessimistic. Nothing Matters, but that's good. The universe will go dark one day at the name of the last human will vanish into the vacuum. So fuck it: take that gap year in Sweden. Change your major to Art. Go out tonight. Blow off that party you don't wanna go to.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix - or maybe Daily Diary Zine at this point. Cue up Kuroi Namida by Anna Tsuchiya for the full effect. Warning: this one contains child loss, suicidal ideation, and one of the most memorable 48 hours I've experienced. 1/3
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix - This is a long one! 6 pages! I truly loved Jimmy Jams with all of my heart, but woof. What a rough start. That was just in my first month of going there! 1/3
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix - Senior Year Teen!Me would be shocked at how much I love MCR these days. Seeing Gerard Way screaming with those big peepers really freaked me out back then - I was a total ska kid at the time.
A B&W comic. The opening panels are shots from different music videos:
Toxic
Sugar We're Going Down Swinging
Rich Girl
Feel Good Inc.A B&W Comic. Seriously, Vampire Money reeled me in, and Danger Days sealed it with a kiss! A concept rock album with the comic art of Vasilis Lolos and Becky Cloonan! I regret not getting into them sooner - WHAT AN ALBUM. I'm glad we get to see them this summer!
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix - Two weeks ago I got to be part of the 1st Rochester Zine Fest! It was so good, like a dream. I got to talk about art all day, and see old friends, and make new ones. It was so healing!
A three panel b&w comic.A four panel b&w comic.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix - Forgot to upload this here. It sucks when your friends grow up to be real dickholes.
A single panel B&W comic featuring a woman standing in front of a cellphone screen.
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Meg 🦇 @protopinkshot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Daily Diary Comix: Oops - been forgetting to post these here. Too many sites - too busy havin' fun. Note: I found these sandals for $20 at a TJ Maxx a few weeks after drawing this.
A B&W comic page with three panels. The first panel features a woman shopping on her phone. The second panel features a pair of the Steve Madden Jelly Heels. So CUTE, but fuckkkkk that price. If the shoe is plastic make it cheapppppp. The third panel is a 3-body drawing of the woman collapsed, pleading to the heavens, and making a pained expression while shouting about the price of $59.95
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Anime & Manga News @theanimecaliber.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🚨 “AKIRA” is getting a 4K and IMAX theatrical re-release on September 4, 2026 in the United States and Canada 🎬 • Available in both English sub and English dub
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"They just shouldn't have participated in society" Fucking panel of cis gays discussing what trans people did to deserve genocide. Cool.
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