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Voodoo Cat Vs. Wily Bees

Two comics by Dakota McFadzean

Voodoo Cat Vs. Wily Bees

Panel 1: (Beekeepers handling hive.) Beekeeper 1, left: If you're THAT allergic to bee stings, don't you think you picked the wrong career. Panel 2: Beekeeper 2: Not at all! I believe in a symbiotic duty between our species. Panel 3: Beekeeper 2, right: They're trusting me with their lives, and I've trusting them with mine. Panel 3: Beekeeper 1: ! Beekeeper 2: (swarm of bees stinging his head.)

About the Author

Dakota McFadzean is a Canadian cartoonist whose work has appeared in Mad Magazine and The Best American Comics, and on Funny or Die. His first book, Other Stories and the Horse you Rode in On, was published by Conundrum Press in 2013. From 2010 to 2016, he drew a daily comic strip called The Dailies, three years of which were collected in his second book, Don’t Get Eaten by Anything (Conundrum, 2015). He also co-edits a comics and art anthology called Irene with American cartoonists Andy Warner and d.w. McFadzean currently lives in Toronto, where he works as a storyboard artist for DreamWorks on Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh.

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