Randomly Drawn

January 28, 2026

I was planning for today’s post and I do love these. But I have been REALLY angry. Like…REALLY REALLY “sulfurous flame” angry. How can you look at anything happening and not be? And these fun little pop culture things seem so…silly and ridiculous in the face of everything going on.

Two things have kept me going. First, the posts by people encouraging artists to keep showing up. Creating in a bubble can cause internal doubt. Rarely do we hear from people that what we do is helpful. Even if we do engage in social media. (Which the last few years I have been drifting from posting on due to hatred of tech-bro thievery.) But reading people’s thoughts about art helping them and realizing how moved I get by artists brings me to the next point…

…I have been really inspired by the comic artists using their talents and platforms to speak up about current fascist-ey events. Like Daniel Warren’s Absolute Batman busting up ICE and his Optimus Prime protecting protesters from federal agents firing on them to Matt Frank’s Godzilla torching ice…and everyone in between.

So I figured I would combine these two exercises and make some of my own (oh yeah…I got plans now). This week Ewoks were suggested to me and the prompt word I got was “race”. How do I put those together? Hmmmm…like this.

Yub nub, indeed. Run faster, little piggy.

More to come…but fair warning. The angrier I get, the worse these are gonna get. I am tired of playing nice. Be safe and take care of each other. Love to you all.

Sort of behind the scenes.

-The Paintmonkey