Betsy Streeter 🐋

@betsystreeter

I make peculiar animated films and comics like Sloth and Manatee No AI, man Funny little weekly email: buttondown.email/thespaceboat Website: Wherever we go, we are friends

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Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· 8d

Got out the markers today

Drawing by Betsy Streeter of a flying squirrel with the words "Flyin' in to Kick Your Butt"

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· 8d

Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter showing a lion consulting a Predator Quick Reference to determine whether to attack a wildebeest in front of them

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· 10d

Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter showing a truck on the highway with a sign on the back that reads: "Driver needed! No, really. Now. This truck. Hurry."

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· 11d

Here is a handy diagram

Hand-drawn diagram showing how it requires as much or more expertise to fix a draft spit out of an LLM than it does to write it yourself, resulting in the same work with extra steps for no reason

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· 11d

Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter in which a person at the Returns counter is staring at a customer who is yelling "I'm back!"

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· 12d

Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter in which a waiter in a restaurant spots a depressed diner and shouts "Quick! Is there a humorist in the house?"

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· 13d

Reminder that you can get all three Sloth and Manatee books at @radiatorcomics.bsky.social and enjoy things like this eel's dubious fourth-wall-breaking look

Page from "Sloth and Manatee Ocean Adventure" in which the friends encounter an eel

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· 13d

Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter in which a parent clown tells a child clown at bedtime: "Life is full of jokes, son... you just have to write your own punchlines."

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· 14d

Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter of nail-biting person thinking "there must be some nothing I should be doing right now" with the caption "The Zen of Stress"

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· 15d

Cartoon from Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter in which a huge sign reads "stinky bags of goo, buy 1 get 1 free! Today only!" and an enthused shopper holds up a bag and says "this one was free!"

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Jul 11

Illustration by Betsy Streeter of a gazelle in a suit, seated, with the caption "We are all mixed media"

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Jul 11

Sloth and Manatee books are at @radiatorcomics.bsky.social yes yes! www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...

Page from Sloth and Manatee in which Sloth discusses touching a whale and Manatee and an octopus are perplexed

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Jun 25

This Saturday, Livermore Comic Con, 11am to 4pm at the Bankhead in Livermore, CA, yes yes - I'm part of an author panel at 11am, too in the auditorium #comics #indiecomics #livermore #sloth #manatee #yesyes

Livermore Comic Con is Saturday, June 27th, from 11am to 4pm at the Bankhead in Livermore, CA. There's an author panel and costume contest and it's free to the public. Yes yes!

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Jun 25

In which Sloth and Manatee meet a Moon Rock From "Sloth and (Moon)atee" available at @radiatorcomics.bsky.social www.radiatorcomics.com/series/sloth... #comics #indiecomics #sloth #manatee #moon #friends

Sloth and Manatee page in which the friends arrive on the moon and a rock tries to get their attention

Sloth and Manatee page in which the friends realize that the moon rock is talking to them

Sloth and Manatee page in which the moon rock tells their story

Front cover of "Sloth and (Moon)atee" available at Radiator Comics

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Jun 24

Brainwaves cartoon from way back in 2004 of a guy saying "Check this out. Every time I make toast, the garage door opens" with the caption "Do-it-yourself 'smart' house"

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Jun 22

Sloth and Manatee comic in which Sloth sits sadly on the beach and Manatee says "I'm sorry you feel sad sometimes"

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Jun 4

Anyway, I don't know where all this is going, this is me thinking aloud, here's a frog with a jet pack

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Jun 2

Hello yes I will once again be in my hometown for the Livermore Comic Con on June 27th, it is always a very warm (hearted and weather) and friendly event, please come say hello

Livermore Comic Con, 11am to 4pm Saturday June 27th 2026, Bankhead Plaza, Livermore, CA

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· May 13

from Brainwaves drawn in 2006, sigh

Brainwaves cartoon by Betsy Streeter in which a customer is instructed by gas pump to "Remove card quickly. Hoooo, not quick enough, That's gonna cost you."

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Apr 28

LOOKIT KITTY IT IS @monteiro.bsky.social 's BOOK

Seven inspects Betsy's copy of "How to Die (and Other Stories)" by Mike Monteiro

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Apr 25

Don't forget that if you live in the SF East Bay tomorrow is Spring Family Day at Richmond Art Center! It's a very special place. Tons of parking too! And there will some really cool hands-on activities. Come join!

Spring Family Day at Richmond art Center, Saturday April 25th, 12pm to 3pm, 2540 Barrett Ave. Richmond, CA. Free! Art activities, music, and games!

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Apr 22

Happy Earth Day

The last page of the Sloth and (Moon)atee comic in which Listening Aardvark has returned to Earth and experiences the much-missed rain, with a zoom out to Earth as seen from the Moon

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Apr 21

Hey! Chapter 510, where I have helped kids write and also drawn illustrations with and for them for years, has a great matching challenge opportunity. Support Oakland Youth Writing! secure.givelively.org/donate/chapt...

Ten Years in Oakland. The next chapter starts with You. Quest foundation challenge: Meet the match by 5/10!
A fundraiser for Chapter 510, a writing center in Oakland, CA

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Apr 18

I got my copy! And Seven digs it too. Get yours!

Seven, a crazy calico cat, gives a sniff to "How to Die" by Mike Monteiro, a fine book that you should buy.

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Apr 11

This week's Space Boat is about goofing around and includes an animated short that involved a lot of goofing around buttondown.com/thespaceboat...

Still from an animated short called "Home" in which bunny takes plant out for walkies

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Apr 3

I hope the astronauts get a chance to wave hello to Listening Aardvark on their way by

Comic from Sloth and (Moon)atee in which Sloth asks the question, "you are here listening, but this moon seems like a place with little sound - have you considered going where there is more to listen to?" To which Listening Aardvark replies, "Yes I have voyaged to many places, some with a great deal of noise - I find that here on the moon, I can hear the universe better"

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Mar 31

I'm launching a new class at Richmond Art Center - sketchbooks and journals and trying out ways of telling stories and dumping out our thoughts. Come be part of it, easy parking, magical space, so good. Thursday nights in April. Please share with Bay Area folks! www.hisawyer.com/the-richmond...

Drawing of Cat, Bunny, and Frog drawing in their sketchbooks

Doodle of a fellow's brain coming out and saying "oh hai"

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Mar 31

A few years ago Grant Petersen and I made this book "Bicycle Sentences" and this was one of the sentences It seems to have gotten slightly more relevant #bikesky #bicycle

Illustration from "Bicycle Sentences" by Betsy Streeter and Grant Petersen, showing a gas pump and the words "For the cost of filling up any car on Earth, you can maintain a bicycle for a year."

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Mar 31

East Bay People - come to Spring Family Day at Richmond Art Center in Richmond CA! Friends and families and music and art supplies, yes yes!

Spring Family Day at Richmond Art Center, a free event on Saturday April 25th from 12pm to 3pm, at 2540 Barrett Ave., Richmond, CA

Betsy Streeter 🐋@betsystreeter· Mar 31