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Illustrator & Cartoonist & Speech Blimp Pioneer EVER TRIP | HERO BEARDS | Infinity-Hero | Rolled & Told 🚐 Preorder EVER TRIP today! 📚 Ask your local book/comic shop! 👇Or use a Preorder link below! 💌 maxbare@gmail.com 🔗 linktr.ee/maxbarebox

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Max Bare@maxbare· Jul 9

Locke! Had this on the SNES as a kid and pretty much got as far as the epic Ultros/Opera fight (partly bc I'm bad at video games, partly bc I get easily distracted, fickle). Finally rolled credits this year on the old emulator. Anyway this is in the style of my new book (Ever Trip!)

Max Bare@maxbare· Jun 24

Hey ALA and cool librarians 😎 This Sat, I’ll be at the @papercutzgn.bsky.social booth with @acmedina.bsky.social signing bookmarks and promo material and chatting all about our new book EVER TRIP and A.C.’s sick UNDERCOVER MONSTER! We’ll be in Artist Alley all weekend too! Table 1554. Say hi!

Max Bare@maxbare· Jun 23

Announcing EVER TRIP! A brand new book from @acmedina.bsky.social and me! So much thanks to: @papercutzgn.bsky.social @chasexclamation.bsky.social @letteringbear.bsky.social Allison Bilbey Lia Brown Stephanie Brooks @mikemarts.bsky.social Chris Fernandez comicon.com/2026/06/23/e...

Max Bare@maxbare· Jun 22

In preparation of announcing, I've been sketching some favorite SNES JRPG faves in the style of our new book. So here's this little duder from Secret of Mana! ALA 2026 Annual Conference is this week. I'll be in Artist Alley table 1554. See u there!

Max Bare@maxbare· Jun 10

Kooky characters from our upcoming book! Stay tuned! 🦜🐦🐞🐛 #npc

Detail from a comic page featuring some NPC critters: what likes like a squirrel, tall bird and rhinoceros beetle.

Max Bare@maxbare· May 24

Have a ROCKin' MegaMay to all who celebrate!

Comic commission of MegaMan (RockMan) & Roll playing in a battle of the bands against MetalMan (get it?) - 1 band vs 8 bands! Who would do this?? Anyway everyone is shredding until Rock & Roll release a dual pronged sonic attack of screaming vocals and majesty shredding that renders MetalMan's musical ass fully smoked. The winning band is thus equipped with MetalMan's metal blade guitar.

Detail of RockMan shredding guitar, Roll belting out vocals Paramore style and Metal Man's metal blade guitar shredding the ground, ear drums and his own metal face spinny spinny style.

Max Bare@maxbare· May 13

Say what you're working on without saying anything at all.

A photo of Kermit and Fozzie singing "Movin' Right Along"

Photo of Jack Lipnick looking his best in Barton Fink

Detail of Richard Scarry illustration of a wolf driving a car with wolf face on it.

Max Bare@maxbare· Apr 15

Sad to hear Gallery 1988 is closing very soon. I had a blast participating in a few shows there. 💔 If you want to pick up any artwork (like this handsome piece) from them at a big discount (code: FAREWELL) - you can find my work below or click elsewhere to find everyone else! bit.ly/41D1WUt

Max Bare@maxbare· Apr 15

Hey! Last week, I just finished artwork for my ✨ first ✨ MG OGN! And this week, I jump back into my ✨ 2nd ✨ MG OGN! I can't say or show much yet, so here are two pages of research from my sketchbook for each book!

Research sketches from my sketch book (for my first MG OGN!).
Mostly classifications of different parasitic mushrooms, sketches of pests operating as construction and contracting.
What does it ???? Who knows??

Research sketches from my sketch book (for my second MG OGN!).
Mostly different poses of a swordsperson rolling and evading attack.

Max Bare@maxbare· Mar 1

Gonna watch some Red Dwarf today. 😢 Pouring one out for our Boy from the Dwarf Rob Grant.

Black and white commission for the Red Dwarf crew - from l. to r. we got Rimmer, Holly, Cat and Lister playing poker with two scutters assisting. Cat is cleaning up the game. And Kryten is cleaning up after the boys from the Dwarf with his vacuum attachment.

Max Bare@maxbare· Feb 5

The "Two Curious Dogs" series might be favorite Chuck Jones thing.

Max Bare@maxbare· Nov 24

Whats up Ohio!? I'm going to be at Genghis Con (my fave indie comic show in Ohio!) this coming Sunday, Nov 30. @melissasuestanley.bsky.social will be there too! ❤️ 🦃 Come on out! Lots of awesome creators!

Max Bare@maxbare· Nov 24

Hey Chicago! Sat, Dec. 6, I'll be paneling, sketching and selling books along with some of my favorite people & creators - at Sulzer, our local library in Lincoln Square - come out and bring the fam! (btw this library has an unbelievable graphic novel selection just sayin')

Max Bare@maxbare· Oct 7

It’s open season on all suckheads Kicked off our Halloween movie spree with the Blade trilogy

Cartoony illustration of Wesley Snipes as Blade from the Blade movies
He’s got fangs, a sword and it’s raining blood

Max Bare@maxbare· Oct 4

Spoops Day 4/31 : Weevil Knievel A Palmetto Weevil, to be exact, for #Invertober2025 from @fossilforager.bsky.social - and then this popped into my head. The skulls and bat-cut cape make it Halloweeny. #evelknievel #weevils #bugs

Max Bare@maxbare· Oct 3

Spoops Day 2/31 : A Witch and their Familiar Day 1, 2, 3 and Week 1 of #mabsdrawlloweenclub “Spooky Intro, Witch and Familiar” This immediately popped into my head. Clearly in this hypothetical, I would be the familiar to our red heeler, Rocko.

Ink and marker sketch of a cattle dog witch holding a broom. A crow sits on the broom wearing glasses. The crow is kinda beardy, sorta. The dog is Rocko. The crow is Max, his familiar, aka Me.

Max Bare@maxbare· Oct 3

Spoops 3/31 : Mothman again! And it’s Fuzz again from Full Bleed Zine (they’re having a show soon at Quimby’s Friday the 10th- check it out!) I wanted another go at Fuzz and I promised myself I’d make one for my buddy Ed - so hear he is! #drawlloween #mothman

Ink and marker drawing of a Mothman type fellow complete with a buzzed mullet, beard, one of those moth nose spiral things, antennae, batwings and a cut-off jean jacket - 80s metal style. One hand is holding a blood soaked VHS tape. The other hand is dripping with blood. They is happy.

Max Bare@maxbare· Oct 3

Spoops Day 2/31 : A Witch and their Familiar (I'll take a better picture tomorrow) Day 1, 2, 3 and Week 1 of #mabsdrawlloweenclub "Spooky Intro, Witch and Familiar" This immediately popped into my head. Clearly in this hypothetical, I would be the familiar to our red heeler, Rocko. #cattledog

Max Bare@maxbare· Oct 1

Thought of this big duder when I was obsessing over some tasks I need to just get out of the way to get that work flow going strong again! (Also I’m considering doing that draw-everyday-tober thing again 👻

Marker and ink sketch of a hairy orange monster shaving their chest. Underneath is a tattoo (?) that reads:
"Shave Them Off" with two little checked checkboxes.
The monster is holding an electric razor and is seems pleased with themselves.

Max Bare@maxbare· Oct 1

Hey! Spoops Day 1/31 : Mothman! Actually this is inspired by Fuzz from the super rad Full Bleed horror zine by Chicago buds Ed Witt and Tony Recktenwald - look em up! 💀 I’m attempting to return to Draw-Everyday-Tober 🎃 Let’s see how it goes! #mothman

Max Bare@maxbare· Sep 9

Subbing this for the Predator handshake now.

Max Bare@maxbare· Sep 8

Happy MEGA MONDAY! Detail of a commission I did a couple years back of ROCK and ROLL in a battle of the (8) bands against a totally 🤘METAL🤘 METAL MAN! #megaman #metalman #metalmonday

Max Bare@maxbare· Sep 6

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Max Bare@maxbare· Sep 6

Locke from #ff6 in my style I'm using on an upcoming MG OGN 🤫 🤐 Attempting to do more warm-ups... I've been exclusively playing #finalfantasy6 for a while now so here it is. Trying to capturing the character I envision from the actual sprite and mix in that manic Yoshitaka Amano improvisation.

Digital sketch of Locke from Final Fantasy 6. Looking his usual smug and overconfident self holding some item he stole.

Max Bare@maxbare· Sep 6

More weird #megaman 2 / #megadeth mash-up stuff... - hey why not?

Detail of Mega Man 2 inspired poster - art by me (Max Bare)
Rock & Roll are in a band, shredding guitar and screaming vocals respectively. Above Rock, his Helmet is in mid-zoom about to meet his cranium, Mega Man 2 opener style. Behind them looms a giant Metal Man kinda skeletoned out a la Rattlehead from Megadeth. Why not?

Max Bare@maxbare· Sep 5

Get Fired Up! It's Friday! Here's a Fire Man sketch from my personal past. #megaman

Max Bare@maxbare· Sep 5

Got this lil ✂️ dude the other day

Max Bare@maxbare· Sep 3

Happy 75th to the Poundhound himself Doug Pinnick! I've gone to King's X shows since I was 15. HB dUg! Here's a cameo of the trio I added to a MegaMan poster for some reason...

Detail of illustrated poster featuring MegaMan.
The important thing is this is a depiction of Doug, Jerry and Ty from King's X circa Faith Hope Love tour.

Max Bare@maxbare· Aug 29

Who is your favorite picture book character? Using a tribute piece from @melissasuestanley.bsky.social (and her answer) 😈 mwahahaa #kidlit

Max Bare@maxbare· Aug 26

Got this sword (for reference) at the Renaissance Faire (for research?) this weekend. First time at a Ren Faire since I was a pimple-faced teen. Still wacky fun.