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sɴᴀᴘ! sɴᴀᴘ! Oklahoma hilltop cartoonist writing stories and making art & comics in wicked flux ✦ Contact: phenylart[@]gmail.com ✦ Amino acid hard at work re-tuning the antenna on your TV today! ✦

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ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· 29d

Awright, little links page should be live! May take a click for the navigation bar to update but yo. It's finally there! tnstaj.com/links/

Screenshot of my comic's site new links page for mutuals featuring hyperlinks to their websites in a simple stacked row.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· 29d

How ya doin #portfolioday ✦ I'm Phen, rural Oklahoma cartoonster & comicker gleefully open for #illustration & #comics work. Check out my website tnstaj.com ✦ DM for your wicked brainchild today (or fun facts about computers!)

Digital comic page of two women on a sofa with a coffee table prominently featuring a strange looking sprout in a planter. Dialogue from panel one from first woman, Oh, did Tyle get you these for Valentine's? Off panel reply from second woman, Naw, close though. I grow a lil pot of those for him each year. Been doin it since high school. First woman reaches out to the sprout, Whoa. You grow flowers for him? That's some dedication. Second woman replies, Weeelll, yes n no. They need some pretty specific foods to get em to germinate. But they're not flowers. They're sanguivore boletes. Kinda toxic.

Digital mobile wallpaper with calendar inset from April 2025. A cloaked man in semi-formal wear with an umbrella looks at his mobile screen. An iron fence close to a wall of vines creeping upward obscures circuit-like moulding on its surface as pink rain streaks down, forming puddles at foot.

Digital illustration of a man swinging from a streetlight with a lollipop-shaped bulb. Multi-coloured spark stars dot the sky and the bottom of his sneaker reads trick-or-treat.

Digital illustration for Pocky Day on 11.11 of a cartoony figure being pierced through the chest by an oversized Pocky stick. His eyes are empty and an arc of static weaves around the stick in a figure eight.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jul 9

I hate routine too but the in-house assistant is being unbelievably nonconformist. I need these scans yesterday.

Photo of a chihuahua sitting behind an open scanner with a stickered sketchbook on the bed. He's defiant, challenging, a superstar.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jul 2

Broadcast: Chapter XX, page 11-12, double update live. Two pager, I forgot to share this Monday! #comic #webcomic #tnstaj Current ✦ tnstaj.com/ch_20/#ch20_... First ✦ tnstaj.com

Two digital comic panels from a snippet of a double page spread. Shadowy hands clap as a man and woman kiss during an outdoors wedding rehearsal. An inset panel shows a distressed man looking down.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jul 2

Last year's patreon mobile wallpaper reward for July. May relief come in thunderheads. #tnstaj

Digital illustration of three cartoony people standing beneath towering buildings with a swelling thunderhead cloud on the horizon. They have fountain drinks to cool off. Delicate sunspots can be seen hovering around them.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jun 25

(this sign, it's real, from a cereal box in like 2005)

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jun 25

Dangerous stairs, watch that step. #tnstaj

Digital illustration of a cartoony man smiling with his hood up sitting in a stairwell at the foot of a closed door with an upside roman numeral five etched into it by a narrow path of glowing light. Both walls on either side have a grid pattern also etched in light while circuitry climbs up from the steps. Between his feet on the steps is a mobile with a glowing circle on the screen.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jun 22

Broadcast: Chapter XX, page 10, update live. Time to co-op Jason. #comic #webcomic #tnstaj Current ✦ tnstaj.com/ch_20/#ch20_... First ✦ tnstaj.com

Digital comic panels of a silhouetted figure looming over a computer monitor to the left. A woman pushes her hair back while looking incredulous as a man walks away to the right.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jun 15

Broadcast: Chapter XX, page 9, update live. Trace matrices are so last season. #comic #webcomic #tnstaj Current ✦ tnstaj.com/ch_20/#ch20_... First ✦ tnstaj.com

Snip of digital comic panels featuring two characters arguing while working at a computer off-screen.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jun 8

Rainy June revisit of some October scavenger hunt inks with Jason. Isn't it supposed to be April showers? It just rains and rains. #tnstaj

Ink illustration of a cartoony man holding an umbrella amid a downpour with large, electrostatic sparks and lollipops. His umbrella has a luck rabbit's foot charm strapped to the handle.

Ink illustration digitally painted of a cartoony man holding an umbrella amid a downpour with large, electrostatic sparks, arcs, and lollipops. His umbrella has a luck rabbit's foot charm strapped to the handle.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jun 8

Broadcast: Chapter XX, page 8, update live. No backseat coders, please. #comic #webcomic #tnstaj Current ✦ tnstaj.com/ch_20/#ch20_... First ✦ tnstaj.com

Two comic panels featuring characters in the latest update. Two are working at a computer, one is shadowy with glowing eyes crouching behind a monitor.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jun 5

Heehee, caught another in the snare net 'o linux. CONCLUSION: it's a killer os -- if you absolutely need google stuff, you can still use it by setting up a sandbox for work/business, then unplug and go full privacy 👍

Photo of a desktop with a computer, wireless keyboard, and mobile. The mobile, a google pixel 9 pro, is being setup with the linux distro for mobile devices GrapheneOS.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jun 3

Oh man, the nostalgia farming. I think the back has a date... My mom used to buy me goofy stickers to put with birthday cards when I was in high school😅

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jun 3

Feels like I've been scripting the first half of chapter 21 for a year, it's going too slowlyyyy. But(!) will have the next 10 page thumbs up on patreon Friday hey hey

Photo of a sketchbook page full of page script and a couple pencil character sketches. Strategically placed stickersheets of old 2000's era nonsense obscure the words.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jun 2

Last year's mobile calendar from patreon. Those Friday 13ths are fuuuun~ #tnstaj

Digital illustration of a cartoony character surrounded by electrostatic sparks wearing a hockey mask with a v on the forehead while leaping from a utility pole. He's holding an oversized wrench and his eyes are glowing, so there's definitely something up.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· Jun 1

Broadcast: Chapter XX, page 7, update live. Let's see some juicy source code, Sten. #comic #webcomic #tnstaj Current ✦ tnstaj.com/ch_20/#ch20_... First ✦ tnstaj.com

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 31

Blue moon days are for victories! #tnstaj

Digital illustration of a cartoony man with an electrostatic halo surrounded by lines repeating the number five and the letter v in various sizes and fonts. He's holding a hand with two fingers up and laughing aloud. A city silhouette below a green-blue full moon opens from behind him and a jagged pool fans out from a finger he holds to the ground, again in the shape of the letter v.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 30

Blue moon tomorrow, getting a patreon illustration ready, hoho~ #tnstaj

Photo of a sketch drawing in the process of being inked digitally on a graphics tablet. It features three cartoony people clinging to an outdoor antenna piercing a full moon against a sky of clouds.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 30

Important: Beat my first Resident Evil game last night! Not that scary-- PLEASE KEEP THE LIGHTS ON WAIT

Photo of my desktop with Resident Evil 4 on the monitor and a bravery-affirming Chihuahua in my lap.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 27

404 ! #tnstaj

Digital illustration of two men seated, floating against a dark void with a few static sparks and a large number, 404, repeating behind them. They are holding abstract monitor frames over one of their eyes, everything behind the frame blanked out except the eye. Each has a lollipop.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 25

Broadcast: Chapter XX, page 6, update live. Oh, the machines are on and they're very much listening. #comic #webcomic #tnstaj Current ✦ tnstaj.com/ch_20/#ch20_... First ✦ tnstaj.com

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 22

More Day~ After-birthday cake fiending. #tnstaj

Digital illustration of a woman in pajamas eating a hunk of chocolate cake with her bare hands. She has a glass of wine and wine bottle at one side and a video game controller and mobile on charger at her other. At her feet are slippers and a small cat, seated, begging for cake crumbs.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 20

Ball point and pencil joy. Broadcasts galore! #tnstaj

Pencil and ball point pen sketches of various cartoon characters and random objects. One features a woman saying: How many edgelordy ways can you spell? And another features the Animal Crossing villager Genji readying to catch a buy with his hands while someone out-of-view cries: Genji! Use your net!

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 19

Reminds me of the iconic "men should be buffed and women should be vavoom!!" from Arakawa Hiromi.

Panel from manga by Arakawa Hirose of his persona answering the question, how come all your characters are so muscular? He answers, If they're too skinny my poor characters will look like they're not being fed!!! ROAR. Men should be buffed and women should be vavoom!!

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 18

Broadcast: Chapter XX, page 5, update live. Hacker girls. They're so hot right now. #comic #webcomic #tnstaj #webcomicday Current ✦ tnstaj.com/ch_20/#ch20_... First ✦ tnstaj.com

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 17

Oh, we're in homies. Gonna be testing Linux on mobile out this week and I'm stoooked.

Photo of a Google pixel phone with the Linux os GrapheneOs being setup. The display says welcome to GrapheneOs.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 15

Day's birthday's today! Lil mini comic I made when New Horizons was still fresh~ #tnstaj

Digital comic page of a woman getting a video game present from her boyfriend. The dialogue from panel 1: 'Kay View, I'm home with your present. Panel 2: Oh! Okay! Open open open!! Panel 3: I think you'll like it! I-I hope you'll like it. Panel 4: It's video game shaped. I love video game shapes. Panel 5: A-Ah, it's tropical critter vacation... Her boyfriend off-panel: Happy birthday! Panel 6: I don't know a whole lot about games but this one's real popular. Plus on the back, there's a lil cartoon puppy that kinda looks like me, heh. Panel 7: I love it. Panel 8: I'm gonna try it out right now. Her boyfriend off panel: Yay!

Digital comic page 2 and the woman's sitting in front of her tv playing the video game. Panel 1, her boyfriend off panel: So what's it like? The woman: It's really, really cute. It's-- Panel 2 focuses on the tv display with a prompt from the game: Welcome to the isles! Meet your new neighbours! Panel 3, her boyfriend off panel: What is it? Day, what's happening? She's shocked to see one of the characters closely resembles an ex of hers. Panel 4: Ya know, I'm so excited to play this game, I... Um, it's making me hungry! Let's take a quick cake break! Panel 5: O-Okay, sure?

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 14

Theatrics and squishy, cute things. I'll add more cute-squish to my next comic. #tnstaj

A snip of a sketch page filled with pencil, ink, and marker sketches. A frog with starry-eyes holding a leaf, a ghost with bat wings and tea pot head, a milk carton transceiver, an owl-like bird with a third eye, and my comic characters Day and Jason.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 13

To be useful, electricity must be passed through a transformer to convert its power into a suitable voltage. Jason needs a step down. #tnstaj

Ink and sharpie sketch of a cartoony man standing in front of a gated transformer with a cityscape cut=out behind. He's holding an arcing halo of electric current sending splashes of electrostatic sparks out around him.

ᴘʜᴇɴ ✦@phenylart· May 11

Broadcast: Chapter XX, page 4, update live. Isn't it annoying when friends don't sit on the sofa normally? #comic #webcomic #tnstaj #webcomicday Current ✦ tnstaj.com/ch_20/#ch20_... First ✦ tnstaj.com