Coelary

Welcome to the city of Coelary, home of bug folk and other anthroform arthropods! The official blog for the graphic novel. It's pronounced "cola-ree!"  

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Postcards and Sketch Requests are back!

My two most popular Patreon tiers are back, just in time for new year's pledges! For $20, you get an exclusive art print sent to your mailbox every month. For $30, you get the most inexpensive commission I offer! What a great way to fill your 2026 with beautiful bug art.

Right now, Patreon is my livelihood and your support really goes a long way. It's pretty hard being a queer creator these days, and a little goes a long way - those $3 pledges really add up and make it worthwhile for me to keep creating. You can read more about the Patreon updates here! Thanks so much for your support - it really means a lot to me!

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Big snow

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What started as "Anomalous Electromagnetics Research Station - Cliffside" (AERSC) became the town of Aersc over the course of a few decades, not only as the center's location became increasingly important for the research of environmental anomalies, but also as an important hub for communications and as the sole access to the nearby mountain range, where mining is common. It was selected as a place for AEE research due to its favorable location against a high cliff, which provides both access to a large atmospheric distance, and shielding from the sun's rays for half the day, allowing for longer periods of untainted atmospheric data (primarily EM readings and gravitational anomaly readings). The slate cliffside is dense, rocky, and devoid of most plant and animals. Steady misting rain is a constant feature, and the "mushroom" style adobe-ash buildings are constructed deliberately to allow easy runoff of water and to prevent pooling. Food is primarily grown indoors and in hand-dug caves inside the cliff via hydroponic fungus farms, supplemented by trade and shipments of plants and proteins. The chimneys in each house are directional to prevent blowback from sudden drafts coming up or down the cliffs.

(Rapidograph, watercolor, and acrylic paint pens on paper)

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Happy Halloween from the bugs of Coelary!

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hey, just stumbled across your work on here randomly. i bought somethin from you at dealers den (anthrocon 2023) but also i still have all 4 of the zines you had on display free for the taking. theyre special to me and ive kept them in good condition. you were the one to make me realize that i could make furry comics, i just had to Start. i do furry art as my job now.

thank you so much. hope you have a good one.

wow, that is awesome!! what a wonderful message to receive today. I hope you inspire the same thing in others someday as well!

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How is graffiti treated in Coelary? I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately and consider it a cultural keystone - I was wondering how the bugfolk felt about it.

Great question! Graffiti is treated as a kind of speech and expression, which is protected in Coelary. Therefore, graffiti placed on any structure considered "public" probably won't be removed unless it is considered harmful and/or offensive. Which, let's be real, sometimes means that an annoying busybody might complain enough to get something completely innocuous removed, but that doesn't happen very often. Most people mind their business.

Particularly notable graffiti on a public place might even become "protected" - that is, if the community elects for it to be considered representative or notable, and then it becomes managed by the local public works council, which can manage upkeep or replacement.

Graffiti on private property is not any different than any other kind of defacement, though, so don't get caught! Private structures that are abandoned or completely unmanaged can be considered the same as public property.

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@chirasul got some some rad little travel watercolor palettes for my birthday so i had to inaugurate them with a little painting of Karine, chirasul's cool ass bug lady

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I am NOT bottomless!! It's just a big shirt with short shorts!!

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On the street

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Prequel.

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Colossal Cathedral Mud Daubers

These mud daubers, like many daubers, predate on one specific species of spider ("cattle spider", a spider that predates primarily on cattle hoppers) and are considered beneficial to farmers and ranchers, as they ignore all bugs except their prey.

Their characteristic towers are constructed only from Dover chalk, which is found abundantly from monoliths scattered throughout Posteven's heavily farmed eastern floodplain, north and south of Coelary. The daubers bite off large chunks of chalk and then fly it to their towers, constructing them bit by bit. It is unknown why the towers are constructed separately instead of in groups; leading theories are that these larger predators prefer to separate towers by function, as each tower seems to be exclusively for an individual purpose (food storage, egg hatching, adult housing, etc). Close proximity may confuse young daubers as to where food sources are.

Each dauber is about the size of a car and shows no signs of understanding language or any other human activity, and are assumed to be feral, like many of Posteven's colossal insects.

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Mom said she could have pizza OR have the party at the arcade. Karine chose pizza at the park. Karine had a lot of birthdays at the park.

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Hilltop ruins park

Dig a few feet down and you'll find that the entire hill is really just a gargantuan pile of industrial wreckage, scooped up by enormous natural forces, sculpted into shape by water and earth, and then slowly grown over with organic matter.

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a karine for @foxfaer/@coelary

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Finally getting back into oil painting, and loving every moment of it

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Here’s the entirety of my Inktober 2018 comic! I’ve wanted to explore the way Karine lets paranoia destroy her relationships. Thanks to everyone for supporting this! I will be releasing a “remastered” version with digitally-added text (my handwriting is not great) and possibly offer a print version. Happy halloween! See you next year!

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Due to financial hardship, I am selling all the original pages for this comic, along with a whole lot of other traditional art and comic pages. Now is a great time to get some really rare Coelary art, and also to help my family during a hard time. Thank you!!

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Environment art study