Beetle Moses

Me and the boys on a Thursday

9/18/25

I’m back!!! Absolutely hectic last 3-4 weeks for me. I had illustration jobs with the Atlanta Falcons and Thursday Night Football, before that I was packing a metric ton of orders for the Flyer, and this weekend I traveled to Webcomicon in Michigan! All awesome stuff. It kinda leaves me with this surreal feeling when I think abou...

They’re better off

9/6/25

Sometimes I have a chuckle to myself when I include a somewhat less common dinosaur (in this case a Carnotaurus) in a comic. Like how many times has this dinosaur appeared in anything other than strictly educational art? Anyway too late paleo artists, I’ve already depicted him in a purple button down shirt.

Long term goals

9/5/25

I am really excited about how this one came out lol. It hits all the marks of things I like to include in my comics (as you all well know by now) but I really am happy with the final product here. Taking extra time to shade backgrounds and detail each pose/face really brings it together in a way that feels real. Less simplicity!!! M...

Favorite flavor

9/3/25

Surprisingly tricky one to draw for a simple concept, but it was important to me to sell the backdrop as an ice cream shop with limited hints (ie a sign in the back with an ice cream cone.). Using reference images was key here to put the backgrounds together, and frame the characters correctly. When I’m having a difficult time fin...

That’s actually a lot better

9/2/25

Hello beetle gang. I’m currently drawing a bunch of comics to backlog over the next couple weeks. Very excited to say I have been hired to work on two football season related projects (👀) which is always fun for me. But since illustration commissions are a lot of work and usually need review/revisions, I’m hoping to have some...

Time for some payback

8/28/25

I like to occasionally lean into the Far Side comparisons when I come up with ideas involving cows. Also I have to say when I’m self reflecting on my work it really is kind of crazy how much more comfortable I am in laying out and coloring a complex scene. It would be interesting one day to look back at some of the comics I was m...

Xalcor the Devourer waits for the all clear to go down a water slide

8/26/25

Lots of exciting happenings on the beetle front this past week. Sales were phenomenal for the restock of the Flyer, and I’m still holding onto about a hundred copies! If you purchased one thank you so much, and I’m currently working through packing and signing all the orders. If you haven’t gotten a copy and want one...

Oldest trick in the book

8/20/25

This was one of those ideas that seemed so simple on paper but was an absolute menace to actually render. I struggled a bit with the thumbnail process in the beginning, trying to achieve a legible flow of events and keeping all the necessary characters in frame. Even just drawing the faces of the laughing cats proved to be challeng...

Wavy

8/19/25

Do you guys still like really niche science humor? Tricky one to color since there’s a lot going on in each panel, and I’m not sure how I feel about the general layout. But the concept is interesting enough and I put my best foot forward in the final rendering process so I’m happy with it. It was especially fun to draw the ...

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT FOR BEETLE NATION

Hello my sweet baby bugs. I am extremely excited to share that today I received these gorgeous, limited second edition copies of the Flyer in the mail. They’ve got this gorgeous solid red back. I have 500 copies ONLY. They will all be signed and numbered. The first edition copies sold out in less than a day, and I’ve been receiving ...

Bro got caught with the Hello Kitty rod

8/16/25

He’s gonna have to make a story up for his friends.

This idea came about when I was fishing with my friends the other day, we laughed about it and I thought it would make a good comic. We were fishing in a creek, so I upped the ante a bit by making it around a marlin in the ocean instead of a bass. I’m working more on sha...

Game winning block

8/14/25

I had this one sitting in my notes for a while but was putting it off because it contains my biggest phobia when drawing comics…… a large crowd of people lol. I talk about this at greater length in my process video for the Flyer, but essentially if I know there’s going to be a panel which has >4 people in it, I’...

They were way off

8/13/25

Ok this is a very niche reference so I’m praying I have some Future is Wild fans in chat. For everyone out of the loop, the Future is Wild is a real television program which aired in the 2000s which used “cutting edge” technology to show what biologists believed animals might look like in the distant future. These were format...

I must be tripping

8/11/25

Funny story I think I drew this two weeks ago and forgot to post it to patreon. Whoops! Anyway, I’m continuing to explore using different, brighter colors. I’ve been routinely posting collections of some old and new comics to my Instagram, which seem to be well received posts, but is also interesting for me to personally see ho...

Ten arms still fumbled

8/8/25

Another format which I always seems to gravitate towards is the date-gone-wrong in a restaurant atmosphere. Usually featuring someone on a date with an inanimate object or some grotesque animal. Something about the public setting of a table is funny to me and also adds a familiar setting which is easy to frame from a “camera” an...

They always show up at a bad time

8/7/25

Had a good time coloring this one. I’m working through some older ideas while I’m writing and plotting out the first chapters of a NEW long comic which I’ve been turning over in my mind for some time. Sometimes when I’m preoccupied mentally with a new idea, especially a more ambitious one like the Flyer, I actually find it a...

Simple Pilates for beginners

8/4/25

I’m on my health grind recently and this is how it feels watching YouTube for at home workouts. Thankfully I am now able to phase through matter and I’m starting to get some tone in my abs as well

A tale of two kitties

8/2/25

Some old beetle lore but I used to work at a True Value hardware store in Boston for a short stint probably back in 2013 ish. I remember on rare occasion helping customers find an assortment of products which were NEARLY suspicious. The thought popped into my head back then: what shopping cart would actually warrant suspicion to a p...

Important piece of human evolution

8/1/25

Happy Friday beetle gang!! I’m really happy with how this piece came out. Simple concept, fun to draw, and has a lot of the visual hallmarks I love to include in my comics, like a cartoon character hitting an oddly specific and subtle pose.

I wanted to take a moment and express my extreme gratitude to all of you in this pat...

Worth it

7/31/25

Is this the first comic I’ve made about monkeys hijacking a banana truck? No. Will it be the last? Also no.

With a joke that’s really simple and visually interesting without too much complexity, it’s fun to take extra time and add details when I’m adding color. The reflective oakleys, the mud-stained truck and rear vi...

Holy chopped

7/30/25

Dude let me tell you, gym equipment is not meant to be drawn. I thought the elliptical was going to be the hardest part of this one but the overhead press nearly broke me. Lol generally speaking, machinery of any type is difficult for me to draw. Cars are tough too, and I have one in an upcoming comic I’m coloring right now. Hav...

ZombieHeist: in theaters this Nevtember

7/29/25

I’ve been really trying to allow myself to see through more ambitious or unusual ideas just to really explore, and this was one of them. It’s a lot of information to convey in three panels, but it was very fun to draw. This has always been a part of my practice, but even more recently I have been using movie stills as reference...

Can a fella get his fruity drink on?

7/24/25

This joke started off with just the concept of a full size umbrella being used in a giant drink, nothing especially creative or spectacular. But I wanted to present it in a way which added to the simple joke, with a giant ogre ordering the drink, and the setting of the premise happening in this medieval fantasy tavern. I think litt...

Go, girl

7/23/25

I’ve noticed a new thing I like to do, which is to input a horrifying grotesque alien into a slice of life situation. I’m not exactly sure what it means but maybe it’s because sometimes I feel like a horrifying grotesque alien in various life situations. Not right now though I’m chilling. Hope you guys are having a great we...

OHHHHH!!!!!

7/21/25

I might have been a little ambitious trying to do the background as a snowy landscape but it’s just how I visualized it in my head. Was kind of fun to try something new with the background and I think it gives the comic it’s own vibe. Most of all I just wanted to draw an animal getting dunked on

Chickem nugt

7/18/25

This idea was originally going to feature two generic cop characters, but I figured for some added spice I’d make them strongly resemble Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman in Se7en (one of my favorite all time movies). I think it’s an appropriate amount of pop culture reference for this one, where the joke isn’t reliant in any way ...

He’s busy

7/16/25

Man I wrote out a whole thing with a bunch of exciting news to share, BUT I remembered I am an adult with normal emotional regulation so I have to wait just a bit longer to divulge everything. I know you guys will be really excited to hear it, so when the times right I’ll be able to give you the full scoop. Just know at this mome...

He’s not what he used to be

7/8/25

This was a challenging one in particular for the subtlety of the poses and gestures of the people, especially mother and son in the final panel. Sometimes it’s the most mundane pose, someone sitting down, leaning, slouching which give me the most trouble. This is one of those where the punch line arrives before the final panel, bu...

Let a real Protozoa love u

7/7/25

Surprisingly difficult to draw an amoeba wearing clothes. They look pretty swaggy though. Microbial drip

The peanuts went kind of stale but otherwise it was well preserved

7/6/25

Fun one to color. Hoping to backlog a handful more in the next few days since I’ll be vacationing with my family for a long weekend on Thursday. Love you!