Thanks for reading my comics about realistic American family life! I'll keep making ‘em as long as I can eviction & starvation be damned. I’ve calculated it & if I raise $10k I can continue another year. All tips help, but if you can't tip no worries. Stay strong, friends. ko-fi.com/derekmballard

Went to the mall today and was tempted to buy a goddamn Cake the cat Funko Pop. She didn’t have the nightmare Funko Eyes! But I shan’t.

ICE in northeast LA, including Cypress Park, Glassell Park, and Atwater Village

Wizard Fern Based off an unused concept design by Tom Herpich

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Visiting the family, but thinkin’ bout ARC Raiders :^)

Huntress 💚🍃💚

I’ll color this later 🍃

happy new year! 🙇 here’s some outfit explorations for Fionna, Fennel, Gary, and Marshall. not all of them got used but I coming up with outfits is fun for me! (1/2)

Busted Huntress I doodled on my SuperNote. Being impatient and still getting used to drawing with it, I’ll do something better next time

I started this painting when the final handful of Fionna and Cake episodes were being wrapped up and shipped. I lost the PSD file so this is as far as it'll get to being finished!

🎉🐯 REPOGHOST STICKER CLUB GRAND OPENING 🐯🎉 ko-fi.com/repoghost/ti... "LEAVE ME ALONE OR KILL ME" 3"x4.5" printed on a clear vinyl to handle sun, water, maybe death idk...

Holy crap, this one website I’m looking at it’s double the price to do it solo, compared to if you had two adults??? Ok I’m gonna be bothering friends, HAHA.

I want to go to Iceland, I want to drive around the whole thing. Has anyone here ever done that? I’m usually the friend that is along for the ride on trips so this might be my first time planning a trip by myself. The only vacation I’ve had since I moved to LA is when I went to Tokyo with Lamar so 😬

30 years ago… ⚰️

Maya!!! 🙇🏻‍♀️

Fionna and Cake season 2 has finished airing (😵‍💫) so I wanted to share my concepts for the end credits from each episode. The goal was for it to complement the gorgeous storybook art direction of @michaeldeforge.bsky.social 's title cards

Finishing ip organizing the last of my zines. Some of these are from 10… 15 years ago? More? Cool to think about or wonder where everyone is now.

Come fight me at the Burbank IKEA

I was asking friend what “goop” means and I think he doesn’t actually know either. Is it bad? He thought it was bad but then I saw someone say they “had so much goop on them” I am too old to Google.

Landlord dropping a rent raise during the holidays is peak Scrooge shit.

last episode of Fionna & Cake season 2 is out on Thursday! it was so much fun to work on this season and I hope you all enjoy the fruits of our labor! The Bear and the Rose directed by Cole Sanchez, boards by @killapede.bsky.social, Graham Falk, Sonja Von Marensdorff, Jacob Winkler, and myself 🐻‍❄️🌹

A new Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake episode/season finale THE BEAR AND THE ROSE, written/storyboarded by Sonja von Marensdorff @jackiefiles.bsky.social Jacob Winkler @killapede.bsky.social & Graham Falk Premiering December 25th on @streamonmax.bsky.social (card by @michaeldeforge.bsky.social)

Sometimes I have the thought that my apartment floor will one day collapse because of all the books I have, and the person below me will be crushed.

A new Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake episode THE WORM AND HIS ORCHARD, written/boarded by Anna Syvertsson @rebeccasugar.bsky.social @mayapetersen.bsky.social @charmainevee.bsky.social Premiering December 18th on @streamonmax.bsky.social (title card by @michaeldeforge.bsky.social)

I can’t believe Hojicha is the new matcha. If this drives the prices up I’m gonna shit

neeeew Fionna & Cake tomorrow!! it’s a fun one! 🪲🎶 directed by Cole Sanchez, boards by @killapede.bsky.social, Graham Falk, Sonja von Marensdorff, and me !!!

everyone's mad about the toonboom price increase *increase* and I would to to add that I cancelled mine days ago. They reactivated it without my consent and I had to cancel it again

The first thing I did when I got went back to Canada last time was get a Tim Horton’s icecap and a A&W Teen Burger. It was so sick.

I ain’t goin to Starbucks but I need one of these bougie cafes around me to please offer a GIANT coffee. I’m sick of your stupid little coffees. I’m a big woman I don’t need moderation.

A NEW Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake episode THE WOLVES WHO WANDERED, written/storyboarded by @charmainevee.bsky.social @mayapetersen.bsky.social Anna Syvertsson & @hannakdraws.bsky.social Premiering December 4th on @streamonmax.bsky.social! (title card by @michaeldeforge.bsky.social)

a NEW Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake episode THE BUTTERFLY AND THE RIVER, written/storyboarded by @krismukai.bsky.social Anna Syvertsson @charmainevee.bsky.social & @mayapetersen.bsky.social! Premieres November 20th on @streamonmax.bsky.social (title card by @michaeldeforge.bsky.social)

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

Many comics look great but are badly written, or about fuck all. I own so many books like this. At the same time, if the story is real whatever, but the art is so entertaining, I can forgive it. Sometimes the way something is drawn can make you think more than how the story it’s set in reads.

Nate is funny and a delight!! Snag him before it’s too late!

I grew up in an area without ticks, god what a nightmare bug. I couldn’t imagine not being able to walk thru tall grass/the woods without fear of one tiny bug ruining your freaking life.

Benji coming absolutely clutch. Revisionists are the backbone of boards.

some revisions I had really fun on from fionna and cake season 2 (the crocodile who bit a log). boards by @killapede.bsky.social - who boarded such great action scenes this episode, i love you king!

I wish I could draw promo images for the new Fionna & Cake episodes, but I actually injured my arm while working on the show, so I’m resting it because it flared up again on the last show I was on.

How the hell do I calibrate the colors on my 24hd cintiq? Everything looks so vivid, but when I drag it to my monitor screen it looks duller. I don’t know what’s correct!!! But I’m also wondering why the heck something like a cintiq wouldn’t come properly color-calibrated out of the box??

I’m really enjoying ARC Raiders but damn it’s always got me stressin

NEW Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake episode THE LION OF EMBERS written/storyboarded by @mayapetersen.bsky.social @charmainevee.bsky.social @krismukai.bsky.social & @hannakdraws.bsky.social Premiering November 6th on @streamonmax.bsky.social (title card by @michaeldeforge.bsky.social)

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Fionna & Cake season 2 episode 2 comes out tomorrow! 🐊🪵 directed by Cole Sanchez, boards by @killapede.bsky.social, Graham Falk, @montiray.bsky.social, and myself tune in for some good cartoons!! 🙇

Fionna and Cake season 2 is out NEOW!! I'm so grateful to have worked on this season along side an incredibly talented and hard working crew, please check out the show and I hope you ENJOY THE TALE!

LightBox exhibitor lounge free coffee might literally be the worst coffee I ever done had.

fionna & cake season 2 is out now!!!! ^_^ you can see the first episode on hbo max! i storyboarded on this and we had a bunch of talented people working really hard on this so im very excited, please enjoy!!!