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Hello! I'm mikoto, a queer comic artist from Morocco. Here is my portfolio and some samples 😊 :

https://t.co/HfUw9v8JzO

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2021-06-16

Barbary Lion

Locally extinct due to hunting and excessive habitat encroachment, in 1920, the last known Barbary Lion in Northern Africa was killed in Morocco. Currently, small populations are said to still exist in pockets around Algeria.

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2021-06-08

A unique insight into an acclaimed cartoonist’s travels through Europe and Morocco. Copies of Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson are now available online/in-store.

Check it out: https://t.co/4NUMrSZe2D

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2021-06-01

The Son of Saint M'rabeth, a painting by French Artist, Etienne Dinet was sold for €1.2 million at an auction organized by Maison Articurial in Marrakech in 2008.

It's the most expensive art to have ever been sold in Morocco.

Saint M'rabeth was a local Muslim Saint.

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2021-04-22

Ocepechelon bouyai; the giant, tube-snouted Protostegid sea turtle from the Late Cretaceous seas of Morocco. The strange rostrum of this reptile is unique among tetrapods, and paleontologists have compared it to the snouts of beaked whales and Pipefish.

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2021-02-18

17 December 1913. During the war with Morocco, a Lohner ‘Flecha’ B-1 of the Spanish Aeronáutica Militar used a 1912 Carbonit bombsight purchased in Germany to conduct the first systematic bombing in history by dropping 10 kilogram bombs on the plain of Ben Karrix in Morocco.

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2020-12-17

New pterosaur! Arguably "probing", tiny, long-billed azdrachid (?) that lived in rivers of middle Cretaceous Morocco.

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2020-10-14

Paintings of women from Morocco.

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2020-06-17

Filming a bloody and chaotic fight scene in the provincial arena, specially built for the production at the fortress of Aït Benhaddou, Morocco.

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2020-05-01

My latest illustration to support the great moroccan initiative of "7achak", in order to end period shaming + the stigma attached to it in It's time to raise awareness and fight for an equal access to hygiene products + education about reproductive and sexual health.

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2019-12-05

Alcione was recently found in a treasure trove of pterosaur fossils in Morocco. https://t.co/fFvfXvSI8w

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2019-08-28

It is believed that Dev Ji is the second most travelled person in the world after Ibn Battuta of Morocco.#GuruNanakDevji is believed to have travelled more than 28000 kilometers on foot with his companion Bhai Mardana.

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2019-07-29

From LA to the BAY.. From Japan to Morocco.. From Hong Kong to Jamaica.. is

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2018-12-15

FUN FACT: Ocepechelon was just one of 2 GIANT, highly-specialized from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco. Meet Alienochelys, the "yin" to Ocepechelon's "yang"

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2018-12-12


Irving Penn (16 Jun 1917 - 7 Oct 2009), American photographer.

"In 1950 he began photographing 'Worlds in a Small Room.' Initially portraits of tradespeople in Paris, London, & NY but later included gypsies & peoples of Dahomey, Cameroon, Nepal, New Guinea, & Morocco."

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2018-06-17

Alcione was recently found in a treasure trove of fossils in Morocco. https://t.co/f1r95xrP2L

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2018-03-23

As late as the mid-nineteenth century merchant shipping was still being captured by Barbary pirates off the Riff coast of Morocco. Daring rescue and retaliation efforts by the Royal Navy in 1848 and 1851 depended on use of paddle sloops. Click: https://t.co/eC7tNqpc8N

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2018-03-17

These should be to your taste. I love Jaques Majorelle`s paintings. From Morocco. Died in 1962. YSL then bought his villa in Marrakech.

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2017-06-04