Mike Keesey

@tmkeesey

Software engineer with occasional illustration and evolutionary biology work. I make prehistoric comics () and a website with free silhouettes ( He/him

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Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Jun 13

Artists, quote with your yellow art.

Front cover of PALEOCENE #4, showing two early primates moving quickly across an icy river, past the exposed snouts of brumating choristoderes. The sky is yellow.

Text: “PALEOCENE #4” “KEESEY COMICS” “MIKE KEESEY”

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· May 27

Me asking a website to remember me.

Miguel from Pixar’s COCO breaks down in tears.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· May 18

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

Box for a vintage Dino-Riders toy kit, showing a man hang-gliding from a large pterosaur, shooting lasers at a robot pterosaur (I think?). From TYCO.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· May 16

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· May 10

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! To celebrate all of our Cenozoic mothers, here is the newly-done back cover of PALEOCENE #6, entitled “Mamma’s Children”. More about the image (and who’s in it) here: www.patreon.com/posts/mammas...

Illustration showing dozens of haplorhine primates arranged roughly according to their family tree. In the center is a line of six mothers, spanning the lineage from the first haplorhine primate to humans.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· May 4

“Let this Meeting of the Mat Council come to order! Any new business?” “How about taking up the tax?” “How about taking up the carpet?” “I still insist we must take up the tax!” “He's right, you've gotta take up the tacks before you can take up the carpet.”

A dinner table with four chairs, three with mats drying on them.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· May 3

The real eldritch horrors:

Diorama of the Ediacaran Period, from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Apr 29

Strashila, a parasitic flightless fly (not an oxymoron at all) from the Jurassic, because it looks like it never skipped leg day.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Apr 27

Dressed up as the Dude for @renierivas.bsky.social’s ‘90s-themed birthday bash.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Mar 16

You don’t need to. The answer is all in this film.

Movie poster showing a blond man pointing at a boat being dragged over land. Text:

Roger Corman presents
Fitzcarraldo
A Film by Werner Herzog
Starring
Klaus Kinski
Claudia Cardinale

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Mar 9

A select few have actually seen this.

Coach John McGuirk (right) and Brendon Small (left) hang out near the bleachers.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Feb 26

tclark’s post showing a black image with a small white/grey loading spinner.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Jan 17

Technically Mexico has one as well.

The Mexican flag. From left to right, a green area, a white area with a coat-of-arms showing a golden eagle killing a green rattlesnake atop a cactus, and a red area.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Jan 2

AGREEMENT IS TOME

Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Dec 30

Couldn’t find a skeleton, but here’s its closest living relative, Ranoidea australis (at least according to the latest study): static.inaturalist.org/photos/47459...

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Dec 18

Here’s what I see.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Dec 13

Happy 100th birthday to NAVCKID KEYD!

A very old man with spectacles and a white beard.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Dec 12

Hard to pick one fave, but this comes to mind.

CARTOON PANEL: A man sits at a desk with his eyes wide open, staring ahead. Behind him is a window through which tall buildings can be seen. In one building’s window, just visible, is a duck, staring at the man’s back.

CAPTION: Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Nov 23

And this:

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Nov 23

Or, somewhat more accurate answer (a friend of mine was even an extra in it):

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Nov 23

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Nov 14

The first and last photos of Jean Louise “Scout” Keesey. We miss her terribly.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Nov 6

A doll with long black hair looks away with a sarcastic expression.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Nov 1

Pics from the Bob Baker Marionette Theater Annual Costume Ball

A woman dressed as Shari Lewis with Lambchop and a man dressed as Jim Henson with Kermit the Frog.

A man dressed as Jim Henson with Kermit, sipping some tea.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Oct 23

THE INNOCENTS is a wonderful old film based more closely (I think) on “The Turn of the Screw”. Highly recommend that as a companion watch—it holds up.

A black and white film frame showing a woman carrying a candelabra.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Oct 21

New batch of PhyloPic silhouettes up. Here’s a fun one I did, see if you recognize it: images.phylopic.org/images/0df51...

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Sep 25

I dunno what’s going on, although I guess technically this *is* black and white.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Sep 2

Walt Kelly is a must-have.

Panel from POGO showing a huge variety of lettering.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Jul 23

I saw 28 YEARS LATER last night—loved it. But also, someone needs to make a movie where Jodie Comer and Fionnula Flanagan play the same character at different ages, because they are dead ringers.

Mike Keesey@tmkeesey· Jul 18

I haven’t done a serious attempt. The Mononykus in Prehistoric Planet is very good: