I absolutely loved this new animated short by Felix Colgrave, “Double King”:

“Double King” on YouTube

It’s well worth the nine minutes to watch. Just stunning animation (and sound). It’s crafted with a level of precision, but also whimsy, that mesh in surprising and fascinating ways.

BONUS LINK: Felix Colgrave has an entire YouTube channel of prior work for ADDITIONAL HOURS OF ENJOYMENT

Today’s guest episode of Wondermark is by my comics colleague Christopher Baldwin!

Christopher is the talented artist of a number of comics, notably Spacetrawler (a sci-fi adventure strip) and Little Dee (an all-ages humor strip).

Thanks, Christopher! Check out his stuff!!

A few months ago, we saw a hummingbirb making a nest outside our bedroom window.

She laid some eggs and then there were BABY BIRBS and they were VERY CUTE.

Here are some of the pictures my wife and I took of them!

(I am embedding these as tweets mainly so the videos play, but if you can’t see the pictures in your email or feed, visit this post on the site instead, maybe that’ll work!)

hummingbirb mom in the tree outside pic.twitter.com/eYafTo3JXo

— David Malki ! (@malki) February 18, 2017

tfw you are a humminbirb an you are makin a fluffy nest pic.twitter.com/oyWqahMVYk

— David Malki ! (@malki) February 20, 2017

LET'S TALK BIRBS. First, there was mama birb pic.twitter.com/GOESebTWC1

— David Malki ! (@malki) April 6, 2017

Mama birb is good at being fluffibirb pic.twitter.com/O5xKkZWloK

— David Malki ! (@malki) April 6, 2017

🐣WE HAVE ACHIEVED SMALLBIRBS🐣 pic.twitter.com/pTu5ifTCQa

— David Malki ! (@malki) March 18, 2017

v.i.b. very important birbs pic.twitter.com/RsdnWYIM64

— David Malki ! (@malki) March 22, 2017

birbs i have known pic.twitter.com/jDAkZiyUBe

— David Malki ! (@malki) March 22, 2017

when u have that best friend from small times pic.twitter.com/vs3T8f1Gx4

— David Malki ! (@malki) March 22, 2017

when u are a hummenbirb mom with 2 growin birbs an' they need that nectarbarf pic.twitter.com/cjOMqsJRRi

— David Malki ! (@malki) March 22, 2017

when u love that nectarbarf from mom—but it gives u the squirty poops pic.twitter.com/jafhO0u1sq

— David Malki ! (@malki) March 22, 2017

weebirbs start getting floofy too pic.twitter.com/cin3bCKElA

— David Malki ! (@malki) April 6, 2017

floofybirbs turn into fattybirbs pic.twitter.com/Ab6plkQROU

— David Malki ! (@malki) April 6, 2017

fattybirbs start fallin out the ding dang nest pic.twitter.com/X1p6RtdBCV

— David Malki ! (@malki) April 6, 2017

until one day…………….. pic.twitter.com/hZGJezRPf5

— David Malki ! (@malki) April 6, 2017

Birbs were gone on Friday morning.

"I hope that's not an omen of anything," said @mrsmalki

That night, we had a baby

— David Malki ! (@malki) April 6, 2017

.@MrsMalki It was nice of the writers to wrap up the birb storyline right as we segued into the smalldude storyline, keeps us hooked!!

— David Malki ! (@malki) April 6, 2017

@malki @MrsMalki David I don't want to alarm you but is it possible that your child is actually just three hummingbirds in a onesie

— Dylan Meconis (@dmeconis) April 6, 2017

@dmeconis @MrsMalki Hmmmmmm……good question pic.twitter.com/yc5Vye66ob

— David Malki ! (@malki) April 6, 2017

@malki @MrsMalki If your baby doesn't grow up to bring the story full circle by being crowned High King of the Hummingbirds I'll be a little disappointed.

— Maija (@maijasauna) April 6, 2017

That’s my little boy up there!! He is TEN DAYS OLD and he is extremely small still. His main interests right now are:

1. Snoozing
2. Slurping down liquid
3. Wiggling

I am told this is normal.

Comics will continue at an irregular pace!! Make sure you’re on the email list or Facebook page or Twitter feed or RSS feed.

Thank you very much for the well wishes you have sent as well! Mom and baby are fine and so am I.