If you’re heading to Columbus, Ohio, this summer, come see me at the NCS Cartoonist Showcase on Saturday, August 8th! It's like a one-day mini-con, and I'll be there with Evil Inc books and merchandise.
You can also get tickets to ComicLab LIVE here — https://nationalcartoonists.com/2026-conference-session-only/
Transcript
Panel 1: Dr. Muskiday bursts into the Evil Inc office to find that macronanos (in the form of large, pink clouds) have taken over his fellow employees. The clouds completely envelop their heads and ingest emojis that emanate from their hosts. Catnip is on the far left, texting, and devil emojis float into the waiting lips of the pink cloud over her head, which sensually slurps them up. In the background, Giant Tess and Psy-Chick both argue, causing angry emotions to float across to the other person’s waiting emotion cloud, which gobbles them up. Count Spurlock watches a video of a kitten with a ball of string, causing sunshine emojis to burst from his chest and into the gleefully munching mouth of the pink cloud on the vampire’s head. Lightning Lady and Miss Match are both texting. Lightning Lady’s emotions are lips, which float up to her emotion-cloud’s waiting mouth. But Miss Match’s emotions are yield signs, and her equally worried pink cloud gulps them guiltily. And on the far right, Iron Dragon’s computer screen displays the familiar PornHub logo. Eggplant emojis float from his lap up to his emotion cloud’s lascivious lips.
Dr. Musiday, reacting to the scene: “Omigosh! The macronanos have taken over their hosts — forcing them to generate emotions to feed off! They’re either doomscrolling, arguing, or rage-texting! The macronanos are provoking random emotional responses [eyeing Iron Dragon] …and a few completely predictable ones…”
Panel 2: Cassie Cruz (off-panel): “MUSKIDAY!” Dr. Muskiday: “eep!”
Panel 3: Cassie Cruz (picking up Dr. Muskiday by the lapels): “This mess is your fault! I have a good mind to put you over my knee and—”
Panel 4:Emojis showing faces with tongues hanging out and single beads of sweat on their foreheads float from off panel
Cassie Cruz (as her emotion cloud gobbles up the raw emotion): “Oh… Oh, that’s the stuff… more! MORE!”
Panel 5:The emojis are revealed to be emanating from Jeremy
Cassie Cruz: “Sweet, delicious sexual frustration!”
Dr. Muskiday: “Feh, it’s an acquired taste…”
Panel 6:
Dr. Muskiday (running down a hallway): I've gotta get to my lab — and fast! There's gotta be a way to—
Miss Match (off-panel): There you are.
Panel 7:
(Dr. Muskiday stops short in alarm.)
Miss Match (emotion cloud-controlled): I know you've always had a crush on me.
Miss Match: That's why you made that hologram...
Miss Match: ...to do all the things I wouldn't do...
Panel 8:
(The emotion cloud controlling Miss Match unzips the front of her costume.)
Miss Match: Until now...
SFX: zip
Panel 9:
Miss Match: Come on...
Miss Match: You'll never get a chance like this again!
Panel 10:
Dr. Muskiday (checking his phone): I guess it couldn't hurt to just—
Dr. Muskiday: Zounds!
Dr. Muskiday: Cap and that waitress are trending again!
Panel 11:
Miss Match (looking at her phone): WHAT?!
Miss Match: I don't see any viral—
Panel 12:
(Scene pulls back to show Miss Match, alone in the hallway)
Miss Match: Not more shame and humiliation.
Miss Match: We're still digesting Jeremy's last batch!
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In the Evil Inc office, Dr. Muskiday stares in alarm as giant pink macronanos completely cover the heads of his coworkers. Each cloud has a face and feeds on emotions visualized as floating emojis. On the far left, Catnip texts on her phone while devil-face emojis float from her toward a sensuous cloud that eagerly slurps them up. Behind her, Giant Tess and Psy-Chick are arguing, their anger manifesting as fiery and furious emojis that drift between them and into the waiting mouths of their emotion clouds. Count Spurlock sits happily watching a video of a kitten playing with string, causing sunshine emojis to burst from his chest and into a delighted cloud. Lightning Lady texts while kiss-mark emojis float toward her cloud. Beside her, Miss Match looks worried as yield-sign emojis drift from her body into a guilty-looking cloud. At the far right, Iron Dragon sits before a computer displaying PornHub, while a stream of eggplant emojis rises from his lap into the eager lips of his cloud. Dr. Muskiday explains that the macronanos have taken over their hosts and are forcing them to generate emotions to feed upon.
A furious Cassie Cruz storms into the scene, shouting “MUSKIDAY!” Dr. Muskiday jumps in fright and squeaks, “eep!” In the next panel, Cassie grabs the fly-like scientist by his lapels and lifts him off the ground, angrily blaming him for the crisis. She begins threatening to put him over her knee when she suddenly stops mid-sentence. Floating in from off-panel are flushed face emojis with dangling tongues and beads of sweat, representing intense sexual frustration. Cassie’s pink emotion cloud eagerly devours them as they drift by. Her expression changes from rage to blissful satisfaction as she murmurs, “Oh... Oh, that’s the stuff... more! MORE!” In the final panel, the source of the emotions is revealed to be Jeremy, standing nearby while the cloud continues feeding on the embarrassed emotions radiating from him. Cassie happily proclaims, “Sweet, delicious sexual frustration!” while Dr. Muskiday hops to his freedom, dryly commenting, “Feh, it’s an acquired taste...”
Three-panel comic set in the Evil Inc office hallway. Dr. Muskiday, a small scientist with insect-like features, is hurrying toward his lab when he is intercepted by Miss Match, whose head is engulfed by a pink sentient emotion cloud.
As Muskiday runs, the cloud calls out, "There you are." The cloud-controlled Miss Match confronts him and claims she knows he has always had a crush on her, saying that is why he created a hologram version of her "to do all the things I wouldn't do." Muskiday skids to a stop in shock.
The cloud then seductively says, "Until now..." and unzips the front of Miss Match's revealing red-and-orange costume, exposing more cleavage.
Four-panel comic set in the Evil Inc office hallway. Dr. Muskiday, a small scientist with insect-like features, is hurrying toward his lab when he is intercepted by Miss Match, whose head is engulfed by a pink sentient emotion cloud. The cloud urges him, "Come on... You'll never get a chance like this again!"
Just as Muskiday seems tempted, he glances at his phone and suddenly exclaims, "Zounds! Cap and that waitress are trending again!" Miss Match angrily grabs her own phone and shouts, "WHAT?! I don't see any viral—"
The final panel reveals Miss Match alone in the hallway. The emotion cloud is feeding on Miss Match's embarrassment. Looking miserable as small shame-emojis float around her, the cloud complains, "Not more shame and humiliation. We're still digesting Jeremy's last batch!"