This morning’s sketch was a toy hieroglyph representing the Egyptian sun god Re. But it’s more than just a symbol, it’s a full-blown mythology crammed into one plastic bird.
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116. Hieroglyph of Re: Let The Sunshine In
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115. Bighorn Ram: Getting Hammered for Love for 700,000 Years
Bighorn Ram Sketch Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) came to North America about 700,000 years ago by way of the Bering Strait. But once they got here, they never went back.
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114. South African Penguin: You’ll Never Guess Where We Find These…
African Penguin Sketch Today’s sketch came from a South African penguin toy, not to be confused with its Humboldt cousin from Sketch 51.
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113. A Seahorse: The Bony, Little, Beautiful, Monsters of The Marsh
Seahorse Sketch Seahorses are armored, awkward, floaty little ghosts that barely swim and somehow still survive.
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112. A 50s Era Zombie: Costumes, Corpses, and Cultural Stagnation
Zombie Sketch This morning’s sketch was one of the cooler corpses in the set, a 1950s zombie with a leather jacket, jeans, and that undeniable greaser vibe.
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