T O O N S


cartoons at this junction of my life are my most valued medium. many of my most ambitious projects of my artistic career have been cartoons, like lesbian dogwood and the disaster life thereof: part 1 and koopal0vr plays: super mario 64 episode 30 and the as of yet unfinished DURT and lesbian dogwood and the disaster life thereof: part 2. all of those cartoons are a part of the THIS IS MY DISASTER. series, which you can find more detail about eventually somewhere o_0???

cartoons have become a major source of success for me both at a personal and at an audience level. as someone who hops around from medium to medium a lot, cartoons are a wonderful thing because it's basically every digital medium smooshed together! it feels like a completely infinite medium to me which is endlessly exciting. i have also found the american indie cartoon scene to be perhaps the kindest and most friendly and wonderful community i've encountered in my many years of being a art scene nomad which makes the pursuit all the more encouraging!

my illustrative style is very loose and expressive and my cartooning style is very worbly and surreal and effects heavy. i'm multimedia in my approach but the bulk of my work uses only a pirated copy of adobe premiere, a pirated copy of adobe photoshop, and MS paint!


LANDMARK TOONS

my most exemplary toons. that or the ones that i simply put the most time into!

TITLE / genre / desc. dur. date
DURT
genres: experimental dystopian sci-fi psychological noisemusical 		n/a COMING
SOON
k;i//'s mother is the leader of a suicide cult who brings about the end of humanity by awakening a dragon in the center of Jupiter that will turn everyone into trees. with the final ceremony successful and every cult member dead, humanity has 24 hours until its inevitable demise and k;i// is the only person alive who knows. although this film's production is on pause temporarily, it will be by far my most ambitious project yet and possibly my final cartoon for the forseeable future.
CONSTANT VIOLENCE TO THE MIND
genres: surrealist dystopian sci-fi 		9m2s Apr 16
2025
candice varment and the seal quest to liberate themselves from the indelible effects of the mechanism. will you do the same? made in 48 hours for the Smash Yr Fingers 48 Hour Video Show.
CORPSECORPSE
genres: surrealist analog comedy horror 		19m4s Feb 16
2025
a boy resides in a disintigrating digital hellcycle lasting 19 minutes and is pissed about it. this video was recorded between november 2024 and february 2025 in chicago, il. this video does not contain subtitles, it is best enjoyed on repeat in a dark room.
bentl goes to mensa
genres: experimental comedy 		5m29s Jul 12
2024
i recorded this in a park with my friends and then i animated it. this was not sposed to take me like 8 days to finish.
I AM THE STRONGEST WOMAN WHO EVER LIVED: wyman gordon pavillion, harvey, il
genres: diary film, experimental 		24m51s Apr 9
2024
a cartoon about my four days of transphobia and isolation in a psych ward south of chicago.
goodreams infinitum
genres: experimental sentimental comedy 		1m41s Sep 7
2023
made this as a segment for the hellavision television 'the guy' film. this is a very brief excersize in pushing myself technically as an animator in just about every facet. i love the flying squirrel friend =)
00102_6 (love/poison)
genres: experimental stream of consciousness comedy 		3m50s Feb 20
2023
a spruced up stream of consciousness hyperactive vent cartoon. not sure what it's about, maybe you'll know.
lesbian dogwood and the disaster life thereof: part 1
genres: queer sentimental surrealist dystopian sci-fi epic 		34m 39s Jan 28
2023
this is part 1 of my first feature length film undertaking and my greatest creative achievement as of its release. it's based off my unfinished book called THIS IS MY DISASTER., and follows the mysterious lesbian dogwood, a nomadic homunculus ranger who roams the barren, dilapidated wastelands of neo kansas city 2. they barely survive every day and make friends and stuff and nothing really important happens.
neptuneJupiter
genres: experimental 		6m8s Aug 22
2022
a quaint avantgarde piece i made to experiment with the concept for really freeform longform minimalist animation.
joy division audition
genres: surrealist comedy 		2m31s May 9
2022
bentl stumbles upon a casting call for one of the greatest bands of all time. took a day to make but i still consider it one of my greatest pieces of art ever.
beef stroganoff
genres: experimental comedy 		1m15s Dec 8
2021
a cartoon i made in my newfound burst of creative freedom. a part of a series of shorts i made leading up to my more ambitious projects. it's small, but it's indicative of an era of my life where i was very excitedly finding my creative voice and i'm very proud of it!
carpillar
genres: experimental comedy 		1m57s Nov 17
2021
probably the most vital turning point in my creative career. it's stupid to say, but i made this while high and created something with a newfound sense of freedom and looseness that i had yet to attain up until this point with my animation. it's a silly little toon, but its fluidity and structurelessness paired with its minimal approach would be the groundwork for every animation i've made since.
koopal0vr plays: super mario 64 episode 30
genres: surrealist psychological drama 		7m38s Nov 2
2021
a surrealist furry animation created based off of a dream, one involving "elon musk's spirit world" but i didn't include that lol. it's about a despondent little cat who is mourning something lost, or perhaps something that was never there. there's a lot of sadness and loneliness in this story, it comes from a difficult time but it's the most technical my animation has been up until that point. sat unfinished for over a year but finally finished in january of 2023.
GUMSHOE
genres: absurdist comedy 		3m37s Jun 6
2020
a project max and i had in the works for months, and an idea i've had for almost exactly a year up until the release. there was a second episode/sequel planned, but it's been on the back burner ever since like early 2021.
hOle
genres: surrealism 		2m23s Mar 18
2020
this cartoon was made to be watched on mobile devices. i made this cartoon with the intent of pulling as much as i could from intrinsic creativity, that is embracing in full qualities of my art that i believe to be the least derivative. this video set the precedent for my animation style and for that it's very special to me! :)
A Phone Call From Outerspace
genres: cartoon 		9m38s 2009
when i was a child i remember making this and saying to myself "this is my magnum opus" i still agree to a certain extent. i made a lot of cartoons like this when i was a tot, i have all of them but this is def the most exemplary of the bunch ^_^!

MINOR TOONS

the small stuff / the stuff i don't give a shit about.