Illustration - Maki Naro - Artist, Illustrator, and Educator

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Former United States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland stands in front of a crowd gathered underneath a tall joshua tree.

Friends of the Earth

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A stylized cartoon cat face bathed in red and teal light looks down their nose at you judgingly.

Cursed Object

A large man in brown in mishmashed bits of green armor over brown padded clothing stands holding a large club in front of him horizontally like a barbell. The club is a long wooden branch capped with a large studded iron weight made to look like a clenched fist. The fist grasps a long spike, which acts as the weapons serious business end. He wears a red and yellow shirt with a dark stripe running diagonally through it, bearing the mark of his company, the Sons of Orcus: A green muscled arm bent at the elbow and holding a club. His armor is all embellished with grotesque faces. From the sneering goblins on the back of his wrists, the fanged beast on his one pauldron, to his helmet, a 15th century sallet made to look like a goblin face with long flat tusks on the visor, which is lifted slightly. Two small yellow eyes peer out of the darkness inside the helmet.

Son of Orcus

A painted cartoon family portrait of various multicellular organisms complete with studio lighting and classic brown mottled backdrop. In the back are two bluish balls of cells and a string of filastereans all with beady eyes and cute mouths. Flanked by a pair of green choanoflagellates with long lash-like purple tails, are a big happy sponge and a comb jellyfish with iridescent "combs" running up its pink, translucent body. They have their arms and tentacles on a trio of modern animal "kids." A white goose, a blue eyed, orange kitten, and a particularly surly goth lizard in black and white makeup and a skull t-shirt.

Meet the Family

A portrait of an older woman with dark silver hair and a gentle smile. The tones are warm with a dusty pink patterned background.

Barb

Knowable Magazine Staff

A humanoid doberman with cropped ears looks off to the left, his shadow cast on a wall behind him.

The Duelists

A woman in a futuristic armored space helmet peering out from underneath the helmet's neon green visor.

Ad Astra

A stern but adorable looking pomeranian knight in fancy medieval garb consisting of green gloves, a red jacket with gold and green trim, red-orange booties that his wispy furred toes stick out of, and a blueish purple hat with a feather. He is holding a pointed polearm. Behind him is a grassy scene with blue skies and puffy clouds in a polygonal cutout.

Cody, Knight Errant of the Order of Didymus

A portion of a hot dog sliced perpendicularly at one end so that the "arms" curl outwards when it cooks. This one has cute little eyes and rosy cheeks.

Tako Sausage