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These are just some old sketches that I had saved on my phone. Nothing important, just saying hello. Happy Monday, no time for Garfield energy today, we need to have an energetic and positive mindset if we are going to make it through.

My personal opinion is that the main way for us to have a decent life is for us to reject the idea of “living for the weekend.” We need to make sure that we are finding beauty and enjoyment in every day of our lives. I’m going to chat with some friends after work 🙂

Happy Friday to you and yours! My name is Darryl Ayo, aka, Killjoy McCoy on twitter. I’m many things: a cartoonist, a critic, a zinester, et cetera. Sometimes I just want to think of myself as an illustrator. That feels nice. Attached here is a nifty sketch from one of my notebooks. This is what my art looks like and I think it’s pretty darn spiffy.

Without getting ahead of myself, I’m striving to sketch and doodle more these days. It helps your brain heal from the constant sense of urgency for “new ideas! Now now now!,” honestly, I just want to doodle in notebooks forever and occasionally harvest from whatever is planted there.

-Ayo2023xoxo

there was a time—not long ago—when the xmen traveled around by way of semisapient baby nightcrawlers.

Were they slaves? Nobody will say. The answer is clearly “yes.” Or maybe they were pets. Semihumanoid service animals.

In any case, the next time I looked at the xmen, the bamfs were gone and not discussed again. Yes. Somebody definitely explained to marvel that it’s weird for the xmen to have slaves.

I want to get back into gardening because it’s fun to pretend to be a wizard when taking part in the oldest process known to man. Actually the earth is doing it and the gardener just draws lines around sections and takes credit for what is within.

You might be surprised that the creator of the comic Little Garden is only a recent adopter of the act of gardening. That’s the way it goes sometimes. But gardening can teach a cartoonist a lot about the process of patiently developing a project.

good morning 🌞

Here is Rachel Summers as Phoenix, as Heqet the goddess of fertility and birth. Ribbit.

~Ayo2023

Good morning 😃

My name is Ayo and I like tumblr. What a cute little app. Another thing that I like is the X-Men, aka, the Uncanny X-Men. They’re good dudes, just my opinion. One of the X-Men is named Cyclops, even though he has two eyes. He wears a visor that makes it seem as though he has one eye. I think that’s where he gets the name, just my fan theory. Another character in the X-Men is Marvel Girl, but she’s a lady, not a man. They can surprise you with this stuff so you have to stay on your toes!

I like other things, such as Japanese woodblock prints. Nothing else makes me think that I want to know how to paint. This stuff rocks.

Good morning, I am noodling on this doodle today. This isn’t for any real purpose; just need to watch myself bring something into existence 🤲🏾

I don’t know what I want to draw these days and so it’s a crucial period for aimless/mindless doodling. Gotta keep that neural pathway open! Essentially, I’m hoping to train my brain to associate doodling with “relief” and then hopefully, create an automatic habit response.

Hypothesis: if I train myself to draw when I feel stressed, then I’ll become the most prolific artist of all time.

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Good morning! I forgot to put my new ear buds in my bookbag and my old earbuds are trash. So today I’m going to have to rawdog it at work

You hate to see it happen! You hate to see it.

Let this be a lesson to myself and to others: if you have a thought, take action right away. Otherwise, you will run the risk of not having your comfort tools packed and ready to go. And you’ll only realize this when you’re on the train and halfway to work. Be safe out there, babes.

Meanwhile, i’ve been reading Harsh Prospect by Will Tempest. It’s a webcomic on WEBTOON, you should check it out. It’s colorful and richly illustrated. I like the kind of webtoons that are visually dense and fully textured. Scientists encounter a mysterious blob. The thing seems suspicious, in my opinion!

I’ve also been reading the 3rd Voice by Evan Dahm, also on WEBTOON. Once again, this is a beautiful, fully illustrated webtoon with a strong sense of place.

Speaking of comics, I’m working on trying to repair my personal endurance and regain some of my demolished attention span. I have toyed with the idea of establishing a designated art time for myself—as a way to cordon off a space in my life to nurture and develop my art and creativity. I find it horrific that I have no problem with going to my job every day like clockwork, and yet I can’t seem to get myself to do this one thing that I actually love. Mentally I have taught myself to steal time from my personal needs to attend to the desires of an employer. It’s a bad trade.

Now pulling into Grand Central Station. Check to make sure you gather your belongings before leaving and have a great day!

~Ayo2023