About the Comic

Thibble Cove is home to a small group of critters with unique personalities. These are their stories.

The cast

Dee

Dee is a chickadee who is obsessed with nuts. As a leading cast member, Dee is always up to some scheme or adventure to score as many nuts as possible. Hey, it’s about nuts, after all.

Doodle

What would the Cove be like without its lead note-taking squirrel (and Dee’s sidekick)?

Hermie

Have you ever met a hermit crab with anxiety issues? Well, you have now. It’s Hermie!

Doctor Liz Ard

Forget all of those celebrity shrinks. Doctor Liz is on the case!

Hoot

If you ever need an old, wise sage, look no further than Hoot.

Slink

Slink is a lowly earthworm with existential angst who reads a lot of Kafka (and it shows). Slink is a regular visitor to Doctor Liz’s office.

The Professor

That’s Professor B. Heron, to be precise. The source of deep knowledge of all Cove-related matters (and then some) is that the professor teaches a class of frogs how to sing in chorus. Occasionally, he may have one for lunch when no one is looking. Hey, it’s a heron thing, okay?

The Frogs

What would a cove be like without a choir of frogs?

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