Contemplative Comics day 50 "POISONOUS"

There is an online tradition that lots of artists participate in every year called Inktober. Essentially, you intentionally make the art that you make every day for the month of October, post it, and use the hashtag Inktober. It is mostly a challenge to grow your skills and just draw every day.

I have done it several times, usually just making sketches. In 2018, I was already drawing every day. I didn’t want to stop my comic, but I didn’t have the time to make the comic and an additional sketch. So I adapted my comic to fit Inktober.

Jake Parker, the cartoonist who started the practice, releases a prompt list every year that you can follow. I decided to make each comic focus on the daily prompt.

So all of these comics are themed around the daily prompts for 2018: