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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 23/09/2026

Drawing Catgirls in bars. Margarine is a character from the upcoming book 2 of Saffron and Sage. I recently changed her entire personality and the comic is clicking for me much better now.

Doodle of a lion girl with horns wearing ripped black tights and a red scarf with white polka dots.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 22/09/2026

I literally just bookmark every comic I like (which at this point requires two folders and a third for comics that don't update often) and then every night I just right-click "Open All". It's extremely easy and I bet there's a way to make it even extremely easier if I could be bothered.

A big-ass list of webcomics from my "Comics" folder, which is next to my "Webcomics 2" folder and my "Rare Updates" folder which is also webcomics.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 19/09/2026

A player in my Tuesday pathfinder game uses AI art so I drew his goddamn over-greebled character myself. His hair is supposed to look like that.

Drawing of a Samurai with a bear cape and sparkly pink ribbons standing in a spooky field

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 10/09/2026

I promised to draw a samurai character in my Tuesday Season of Ghosts game, but I saw a pose that better fit a different PC from my Sunday Spore War game. Remember: The correct amount of hatching to give a drawing is always: More #MyArt #Pathfinder

A proteankin (dragongirl) kineticist in Pathfinder, flying around wielding the legendary staff Fiendbreaker

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 02/09/2026

Not really in the top thousand things bad Trump has done, but "Putting yourself on the money" is like the shorthand for "dictator" in American pop culture for decades and it's a little wild that he does it anyway.

"Bison Dollars" from Street Fighter, money with the villain's face on them.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 02/09/2026

Obviously the main event is Markey/Moulton but Lynch losing as well would be a nice bonus 👀

Votes in Stephen Lynch vs Patrick Roath. With 11% in, it's basically tied.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 02/09/2026

Moulton didn't even last long enough for me to finish making memes mocking him

Muhammad Ali labeled "80-Year-Old Progressive Democrat" over a KO'd Joe Fraiser labeled "transsphobic centrist asshole"

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 26/08/2026

Frog Alarmclock, the Florida-based witch who has to knit the fabric of time!

My OC, Frog Alarmclock, as drawn by H0lyhandgrenade

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 24/08/2026

The Geoff Johns 2005 run leading into the Sinestro Corps War is where GL got really popular. There is quite a bit of Lore (it starts with Hal Jordan as an evil ghost!) but you can kind of smile and nod past some of it the basics are all explained IIRC. It's how I got into GL at the time....BUT

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 20/08/2026

VS Susie, and then today Flower Man, both on Instagram.

An Instagram ad for Trump, the music is "Vs. Susie" by Toby Fox

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 04/08/2026

It's on hiatus as I work on book 2, but Saffron and Sage at www.saffroncomic.com is a comic about a Knight on an adventure to rescue her beloved prince from an evil MC Hammer enthusiast, with art by @sabu91.bsky.social and then @asequentialart.bsky.social It gets very silly near the end.

Saffron throws an axe at Cinnamon, mid-monologue. Cinnamon unthinkingly kicks it back towards Saffron, and begins monologue-ing as the axe is about to hit her head. Art by Sabu, colored by Threnody JD

Fozzy Bear as Jotaro says "Omae Whoopie Cushinderu" instead of "Omae wa mou shinderu" (you are already dead) in what may be the stupidest joke in webcomic history. Art by Carlos Ruiz.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 28/07/2026

Spot-checking that: Per BLS surveys, there were 4.7 million involuntary part-time workers in June 2018, 3.6 million in June 2022, and back to 4.7 million in June 2026 BUT June 2018 also had 2.1 million workers who couldn't work full-time due to the pandemic.

June 2022 Employment Situation Report just to prove I'm actually looking stuff up.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 28/07/2026

I wonder how much retiring boomers affects that, but there's no option for age here, annoyingly. I play with the demographic subgroups I have and...woah! THAT'S interesting, and not something I would've guessed. Black labor force participation recovered and actually overtook white, which didn't!

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 28/07/2026

"Hmm", I ask myself. "Does that matter? Unemployment went down" so I think for a second before remembering the Labor Force Participation rate, so I look that up and hmm! It never recovered from Covid.

Civilian labor force participation rate, from BLS

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 28/07/2026

Hm. The nominal chart for All Workers shows a 35% increase but is an "average", not a median. The inflation-adjusted all workers chart, however, is pretty interesting! Ignoring the covid spike, the average worker was flat from 2019 to 2023! Wait, this is only for men, but still an interesting chart

Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over: Men

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 28/07/2026

Well...Here's the chart for nominal wages (meaning NOT adjusted for inflation). The median worker made $897/week in 2018 and now makes $1,258, which is....actually a 40% increase! Maybe the chart pervert was insufficiently perverted.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 28/07/2026

Okay, I went and looked this up. In 2018 BLS says the median worker made $354/week, (adjusted to inflation for 1982) and make 378 now, which is a 7% increase in inflation-adjusted median wages. (The spike in 2020 is a selection effect from low-wage workers losing their jobs to the pandemic)

Median Usual Weekly Real Earnings, from FRED

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 25/07/2026

FF14 crossing over with FF7 to rip off Typing of the Dead is....I mean I didn't expect it.

Screenshot of the typing challenge mini-game in Final Fantasy XIV which is inexplicably themed after Final Fantasy VII

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 24/07/2026

At least this leftist challenger's big scandal came out before the primary, but *jeeeeeez*

“I don’t want you to publish this,” Melissa Chaudhry, a candidate for US Congressional District 9, said during an explicitly on-the-record interview in The Stranger’s conference room, “but if elected, my personal plan and commitment is to be the first Green Party member of Congress that would switch parties while I’m in office.”

“This is on the record, by the way,” an SECB member said. “This whole meeting, this whole process is on the record so if there’s something if you don’t want said, don’t say it in the meeting.”

She was also seated next to her opponent Kshama Sawant, who is not the first person I would tell my secrets to, and began to stare into the distance. It is hard to know, but she probably saw her campaign to unseat weapons enthusiast and ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee Rep. Adam Smith falling apart.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 15/07/2026

It's not something I'd do at work but once at a party someone said "eight legs" and I said "Seven vaganias" and oh man everyone stopped what they were doing to stare at me and my roommate asked me to explain what I'd even do with them and it felt very bad.

Comic of a guy going Seven Vaganias, from the Neil Cicierega little mermaid comic.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 06/07/2026

I love when I miss a few updates of a comic and then come back and get flashbanged by an opening panel with no context.

A panel of Kevin and Kell. Rudy asks "Edgar, I assume that something's wrong with your sperm?" and Edgar says "Oh, no"

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 05/07/2026

You literally can't see the fireworks anymore lol

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 05/07/2026

That's a LOT of smoke and we're only ten minutes in

Fireworks over DC, and a massive cloud of smoke.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 05/07/2026

6:59 - Hot day, I should take out the trash before it rains, but I have a few minutes 7:00 - I am under the water. I am drowning. Please help me. 7:05 - Clear skies and a sunny day Don't think I've ever seen rain quite like that before

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 02/07/2026

I'm not wearing a hoodie r/n (very unusual for me!), I have my air conditioner on at full blast, I have a fan pointed at me, and still I'm sweating in my room. How am I expected to get work done today?!

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 23/06/2026

Right-wingers post memes like this because they think this is actually how it works, and that once they get "the cathedral" under their thumb they can just tell everyone what to think and it'll work. They legitimately don't understand that people dislike them.

A right-wing NPC meme where an NPC's pro-Elon chip is replaced with an anti-Elon chip

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 21/06/2026

I've just been informed that Google's AI thinks it knows me and I can't say I'm a big fan of being perceived by the Capitalist Omnimessiah

A google AI summary about the "Key Coverage and Themes" of my tumblr blog

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 20/06/2026

It's probably a bit further out than South Asia, but Africa is also being slept on a bit in terms of future prospects, IMO.

Chart of Kenya's GDP, from World Bank Group. It's quintupled between 2005 and 2020

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 18/06/2026

Can I request a sketch of my Samurai? Thank you!

A Final Fantasy XIV screenshot of a Samurai in a pink outfit doing a jumping attack

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 05/06/2026

This guy's 'stache is the most exciting thing at Summer Game's Fest

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 29/05/2026

It's so weird how often AI is being used to solve problems that didn't exist. You don't NEED to make a poster for Star Trek 2. You already made one FORTY YEARS AGO. It's still good!

The poster for Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 19/05/2026

Really, Viz? *This* is the frame you want as the thumbnail of the movie trailer?

Trailer for the new Bleach movie featuring some Rob Liefeld-ass bad anatomy.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 18/05/2026

Nate Silver's aggregation has him at an all time low approval today at 38.4. Silver's numbers are slightly better for Trump's than 50+1's aggregation, but the downward trend is more pronounced.

A Silver Bulletin chart of Trump's approval ratings, showing a steady decline over the past few months to 38.4% approve and 58.6% disapprove

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 12/05/2026

After six days, my internet is restored!

He-Man going "I have the power!" and shooting lighting out of his sword

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 12/05/2026

It's a longer comic! Read more at www.saffroncomic.com It's currently on hiatus as I work on book 2 but progress is being made there!

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 11/05/2026

And this page, drawn by my current artist @asequentialart.bsky.social, contains what might be the single best/worst pun I have ever written

A jojo stand based on Fozzie Bear goes "Omae Whoopie Cushinderu", a pun of Fist of the North Star's Kenshiro's catchphrase "omae wa mou shindeiru" (you are already dead), and then punches Saffron a bunch of times going Wokka Wokka Wokka instead of Ora Ora Ora

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 11/05/2026

This page, written by me and drawn by @sabu91.bsky.social, is maybe my single favorite page of any of my comics.

A page of Saffron and Sage. Cinnamon's speech is interrupted by Saffron throwing an axe at her. She angrily kicks it back towards Saffron and resumes speaking, unaware she's about to get hit with the axe again.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 04/05/2026

I remember this product from 1998

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 24/04/2026

Okay once 8.0 comes out and jobs are fun from low levels and the free trial covers Shadowbringers (the best Final Fantasy) there's no excuse.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 24/04/2026

They already had a We Have Gundam At Home trial series so I guess this is just the Super Robot Wars MMO now???

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 24/04/2026

Bunnygirls can now dye their hair to be trans rights colors

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 24/04/2026

I didn't hate Dawntrail's cyberpunk style but after four patches of purple lightning zones I'm happy to get back to the high fantasy aesthetic. I like how unique this expansion's aesthetic is.

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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 15/04/2026

Renting out a digital billboard in Times Square is surprisingly cheap if you only want it for long enough to take a photo of it for a stunt. Homestuck fanfiction sites have done it.

A times square billboard advertising the twitter account of a Homestuck fansite.

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