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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love making art for TTRPGs (both characters and maps), and especially love anything horror! You can peruse my portfolio here: sob-comix.com

isometric drawing of a building in which a creature is bursting through a person shell

map from a short TTRPG called "faraday labs".

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New hair, new me. A baby butch is Figuring Some Stuff Out. Some noodling for your perusal.

Digital sketch of a lanky teen girl, feeling her freshly cut short hair, looking wondrous. She's standing in a washroom with the door closed. The tones are greens and teals, with the girl being warm in oranges, yellows and greys.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the best self portrait I've ever drawn of myself. Sent in response to a wild things my brother said!

Basic black and white line drawing of me, the artist, looking perturbed. I'm sitting at a computer desk in a chair, drawing a little face, that also looks confused.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

sometimes it's just that way, but you gotta keep on going, regardless.

rough three panel comic of an artist, drawing. first panel is her drawing looking relatively normal. The second is her freaking out, grabbing her head, hopping about while yelling "AaaaAAah! Why?! RRRAH! c'mon! FUUUuuuuuuccck!". The last panel is her getting back to drawing, very similar to the first panel just sweatier. She's muttering "ok ok ok ok ok ".

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

How this sausage was made. Excited to see how compressed this is! The first drawing you'll see is a noodle after showing a pal the mirror drawing ability in Procreate. Watch me struggle to colour this!

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

ONLINE 1999 It's a doggy dog world out there.

digital drawing of an awkward teen looking uncomfortable. She's fiddling with a pop can, and is dressed in mostly black clothes. Her shirt has stars and a few striped on it in yellow, and her pants are classic raver pants, with bright green accents. Her hair is a dyed, warm blonde, with mousy brown roots peeking through.

She's having a conversation with someone off-screen:
Her: "Like someone?.. Uhh yeah, you don't know them though. We mt online on Dreamjournal."
Them: "Okaaaay....How d'you know what HE looks like then?"
Her: "...Can we talk about s'mthing else?"
Them" "Sheesh, ok!"

The girl has a cloud-esque though bubble, thinking of an anthropomorphic green dog woman with shaggy hair, surrounded by pink hearts.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Welp, time for my Post-Apocalypse themed walk to work! Yeeesh...

Picture of a street that looks like it has a bad sepia tone over it, the air quality is bad here.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

No portfolio day, just grab tricks (h/t to @grimwilkins.bsky.social 's kickflip post!)

illustration of a long haired kid doing a not-very-good grab trick on a skateboard. the colours are purples and pinks. They're skating by an abandoned pool, the area looks a bit run down.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Moshing when you're 40 Hits Different. Happily, this big Butch babe has a patient and caring girlfriend 🙏

A fat, dark haired butch woman looking exhausted and sweaty. She is being supported by a smaller, trans femme woman with long red hair. The femme is smiling at the butch in a sort of incredulous way. They are having the following conversations in speech bubbles: Butch "Am I daying? I'm dying, right?" Femme "Noo, you're not dying. You just moshed with 20-year olds." B "I am a fool." F "Mmm...Maybe, but you're my fool."
The colours are orange and blue on cream.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Time for the bi-monthly, All Butch DnD game!

Illustration of three women goofing around while playing DnD. The one on the left is laughing and pulling away from her friends while eating the last chip. Her character is in a floating portrait above her; a bust of a blushing short haired dwarf with two daggers framing them. The one in the middle is blonde and had many freckles. She's pointing, accusatory, at the woman eating the chip and smiling. She's sitting behind a GM blind and has a pen behind one ear. Her character portrait is of a hyena woman, grinning, with a sword beneath her bust. The third woman is a black woman with dark green braids gathered in a messy half-bun. She's reaching over to the woman eating the chip, as if to grab it, and smiling. Her character portrait is a blond, fancy looking elf woman with sparkles around her.
The floor is littered with dice, there are drink cans and glasses around, a conspicuously empty chip bowl, some paper and a map with indistinct game pieces on it. The colours are blue and lime green.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I also contributed a piece to the FREE to download charity zine, "We Build a Home"! If you can, please tip/or donate at one of the two links, truly no amount is too small to help our friends in South Sudan: itchio or givebutter.com/fsea-zine-2026

illustration of a giant, smiling woman. inside of her is a large host of friends, all queer, laughing together. they're either around a table with food, or heading to it. There is an exploding beam of light where her heart is.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Have you heard that I had a piece in the current @broadswordszine.bsky.social zine? Well, the rumours are true! Grab a copy, support a great cause AND meet the characters that I became obsessed with while drawing this piece! broads-and-broadswords-zine.storenvy.com

Crop of an illustration of a fantasy blacksmith, manned entirely by women. Two are actively working at the hearth and bellows, while two are in the foreground blushing at each other, and faintly in the background though the doorways we can see a crowd going by, with two young women admiring the sweaty working women of the forge.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Always Be Noodling/Doodling. I'm thinking of a post-apocalypse with giant nomadic werewolves and their pals. As you do.

a sketch of a fed up, chubby punk woman throwing her hands up, and her giant werewolf companion walking through the woods. They are having a conversation in speech bubbles:

Woman: And do'you know what he said then?!
Giant werewolf: I can guess-
W: Yea "You just ain't had th'right cock"!
GW: A classic.
W: GAWD! You'd think it was the '20s, fuckin' guy.
GW:...I could bite him?
W: Ehhh...I punched his dick.
GW: Heh.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

MCAF is a wrap! What a lovely time. I've got to print more Lesbian Frogs, but first I must turn to dust.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I'll also have limited copies of Teleportation and Other Luxuries. Recently the Children's Book Council named Teleportation and Other Luxuries as one of its 2026 TEACHER FAVORITES! Thank you to the whole team behind the book, especially writer @babywrist.bsky.social cbcbooks.org/cbc-book-lis...

Teacher Davourites badge feom the Childrens Book Council. "Teacher Read. Teacher Chosen"

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

BONJOUR MONTRÉAL! I'm tabling at MCAF this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at booth D9! I have a new art zine out with @funeralbeat.bsky.social so come say "Hi"!

A picture of a zine, laid out for assembly. The colours are blue, neon orange and lime green. You can't quite see what is on the pages but it looks very cool.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

#repostyourart day 13 - ARTIST artist vs cat, the perennial battle

a sketch of me, drawing at my desk, while a black cat zooms around the picture in various states of despair at being ignored

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

#repostyourart day 10 is PENCIL So here are the pencils for Teleportation and Other Luxuries, pages 112-113. Comics are fun, WHO KNEW.

Two pages from the comic "teleportation and other luxuries". On the first page, a boy falls into a portal, landing himself: above the Arctic Ocean, a raging forest fire, a speeding bus and over a cliff. On the second page he pop into a blizzard, under the ocean and finally, directly into a casket.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Day 9 of #repostyourart is LIGHT So, enjoy this scary encounter by the sickly light of an old computer screen.

a boy looks up in fear from the glowing screen of his computer, to a screaming, skull-faced ghost, reaching out towards him.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

#repostyourart day 8, Autumn This Moss Maiden has a certain autumnal quality, I think <3

A reclining figure made of droopy moss, the colours are soft and warm.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Deadloch S2 forever! What's that smell?

sketch of Dulcie being tall, sweaty and put upon, and Eddie being small and full of rage, after apparently stepping in dog shit.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I don't know if I ever posted the coloured version? VOILA! I believe I should have some of these at MCAF this spring!

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories by Tom Reamy. All I knew is that is had a witch and a cat on the cover, so I was in. I was maybe.. 10? 12?

book cover for "San Diego Lightfoot Sue and other stories by Tom Reamy" a young woman, apparently a witch, burns a piece of paper while holding a cat in her lap.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

That is possibly the longest caption I've done for a piece yet. Here is a bonus drawing! When in doubt, draw a little duder in your work notebook!

A pen drawing on lined paper: A person leaning over with huge headphones one, wearing a baggy jacket and baggy pants. They appear to be wearing a kind of headscarf and wearing goggles and a mask. Just above them is two itty-bitty doodles of people in funky outfits, hardly more than glorified stick-figures.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Heyyy, who drew all this?!? A sketch page, for your esteemed perusal. I thought I forgot to draw, turns out I was just depressed and stressed. WHO CAN SAY WHY.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Getting a summer job as a camp councillor is a great way to make money, expand your horizons and meet all sorts of exciting, new people...

A long haired girl, sitting at a cluttered art table in a cabin, is dreamily thinking of another girl. They're both camp councilors, and the other girl is the swim instructor.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Et voila! These we fun, comics are fun? What the hell?

myself and my roomie working on our hourlies, watching Bridgerton. A black cat is crawling up a couch back, yelling "heyheyheyhey".

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Laundry is my forever nemesis. But I love drawing at the laundromat, so it all works out.

Me, running between washing machines and driers, surrounded by bags of laundry and coins. On the bottom of the page, I'm folding clean clothes while chatting with an excited other laundromat customer. She's an artist, too!

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Y'all I did more of these and just plum never posted them. Here we go!

12pm-1pm, My housemate and I parkour-ing over large groceries, namely almond milk, yogurt, lemon extract, and we forgot to buy oil.

1-2 om, I'm snuggling a very long, floppy cat

2-3pm, I'm tiny standing next to a comically large basket of laundry, looking annoyed.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

One of my fave things about hourlies, is how different my drawings can look from panel to panel. I think it's about where I draw things, sometimes. Where did I draw this one? YOU'LL SEE!

11-12am: Big panel of G and I drawing in a cafe, looks of concentration on our faces. There's two little drawing of dogs, too. TEXT: "We draw our first few hourlies in the bagel cafe, like real artists. Lookit me now, ma! It's nice, warm, smells like bread, people are in a surprisingly good mood, desite the cold. Several cute dogs show up!"

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Against all odds, we're still at 'er! (that bagel was a lifesaver)

a panel of me and g walking to a business closing yard sale in freezing weather TEXT: "we layer up & walk to what was once Coco's coffee shop. They're selling of the shop stuff, post close". two small spot of us deciding it's too cold to wait in line TEXT: "The line is long, and it is cold. Is it woth it? NO.". A drawing of a luscious bagel TEXT: "We scamper over to college street bagle [sic]. This is a phenomenal idea, all my vital essences are replenished".

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Ambrosia hour with my roomie. Everyone, say happy birthday @gblekkenhorst.bsky.social !

black pen drawing on grid paper. I'm looking dishevelled in a house coat, sitting on a couch with my feet tucked under a blanket, gesturing with one had as I prepare to sip from a large mug of, I can assure you, very tasty coffee. In the foreground is the back on my friend g's head. You can mostly just see their curly hair as they bring a mug of coffee up to drink, pointing at me with their other hand.

text: Me "you should git your nails done, it's yer Bday!" them: "it's true!".

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Hourlies are upon us! Good morning* (*listen.)

a bright, neon drawing done in pencil crayon, and a collapsing, on fire city behind idyllic plains. a person and a horse have made camp by a fire, and the person is staring into it while saying "man...". I'm shown below this, sleeping and looking annoyed.
text: xx-8am: Dreams of TLOU, living in the apocalypse & being annoyed at still having to go to work...I'm sure it means nothing.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Threshold is 30 today! WOW! Here are some previous Threshold Day pics I've done. Love this dang show.

A cartoon drawing of all the kids of voyager; Naomi wildman holding a salamander baby, mezoti holding a salamander baby and Icheb holding a salamander baby. Azan and Rebi are on the sides, with Miral and the Borg baby as little nuggets on the ground.

A colour illustration of one of the Threshold day Lizards gazing into a starry sky, with the works "Ah, to be a lizard dreamin' of the stars" around it. The colours are blues and purples, the atmosphere is dreamy.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Hello Sunday Night People, we're plant posting over here! Check out my black velvet begonia- she's shimmery! And also has a super lovely red underleaf?! A fancy boy.

Picture of many black velvet begonia rex leaves, which are fuzzy and dark and a little scarred but we love them anyway

picture of the underside of a black velvet begonia rex plant, which is a dark, glossy red colour. The stems also have a little bit of red flecking on an otherwise pale and creamy stem.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I rescued a teen girl from the woods, and all I got 36 years later was This Horrible Woman! Page o' sketches, some from a few months ago, some from a few minutes ago!

Page of black and grey scratchy doodles of a woman smiling eerily at the camera, and young girl poking some trash and saying ew, a young woman standing naked and dazed with her hand potentially missing, and small drawing of a girl just SCREAM "aaaaa" in a cartoony way, a crouched over young woman who is naked and looks a bit crazed, a teen girl bundles in some blanket looking furious with the conversation next to her that goes "we rescued her from the woods" "...are you sure?", and a kind of knobbly hand. It's okay as far as sketchy hands go. They can't all be winners.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

if you see this, post a witch!! "If you don't have a rat, you can't be one of us!"

An illustration of three girls on skateboards. The one on the left has purple hair and is skating with her eyes closed, the one in the middle has long brown hair and is just coasting along in a Misfits tank top and skirt, the on on the right is on a bright green skateboard, looking ahead confidently. She has blond curls. All three of them have rats.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Found this old pen and ink piece a while ago, noodled with it a bit, and I'm really excited to finish it! Someday! Love a big knight and an android priestess.

Pen and ink drawing of an android priestess sitting at the base of a big tree, with a burly knight woman sanding by her side, holding some kind of staff. There is ample vegetation around, and a cat and horse skull.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Little break from drawing for Plant Posting >:) Monstera Cobra (err, Philodendron Standleyana Var??) Philodendron Ring of Fire Monstera Thai Constellation, a present for my Bday! The ribbon is not a gift for the cat, ofc.

Picture of a plant; the monstera cobra, or philodendron standleyana dependin on who's talking. Also, there were accidental toes in this pic, so i drew over them and gave myself monster toes! Also drew on some sparkles

picture of a highly variegated leaf of the Ring of Fire Philodendron, sowing bright splashes of pink, orange and lime. I drew in sparkles and wrote "o-wooooooow!" on the picture

picture of a medium-sized Thai Constellation Monstera, with ample pinnation. I wrote "I love her, your honour..." on the picture.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Hey artists, quote with your woman art 🪓

colour doodle of a woman holding an axe. She's in a dark wood and looks a bit crazed, smiling and wiping blood off her face. Her plaid sleeveless shirt if unbuttoned, with one tit fully visible.

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Mary Verhoeven SOBCOMIX @sobcomix.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I love character-focused action and comedy! I've had a lot of fun working on Himbos of Myth & Mettle and on the upcoming Adventure & Hobbyist Annual, among others, and would be delighted to work on more TTRPGs if you think I'd be a good fit sob-comix.com

A tavern brawl! Interior illustration for Himbos of Myth and Mettle.

TTRPGs in spaaaace. An assortment of aliens and humans play, to their best abilities, in zero G.

TTRPG map for a system agnostic module called Curatorial Approval that I wrote. It is a hidden laboratory and library, with puzzles to solve to open areas for exploration.

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