Robots With Coffee – the portfolio

Hello, I’m Paul Czarnowski, I draw comics under the name “Mort Inkingbot” for this site, and come up with all the silly robots you see here. This is a sample of my comic strips and various robot designs.

NEW FOR 2025 & 2026

I put together another issue of RwC (6) in March collecting over 50 strips. I will start work on the “Spiders” sequel for 2026, but the big project I started was Mal & Dee. Mal & Dee is my first ‘ongoing’ story told via comic strips that usually have 6 ‘daily’ comic strips followed by a big ‘Sunday’ strip. They are two robots who are rebooted and put back into the workforce, with one curious about a world new to him and wanting to explore and maybe find out what kind of robot he was before. Lots of jokes and action. The first story is collected in a 24 page comic, Mal & Dee #1, and the 2nd story starts in November 2025.

cover to Mal & dee #1

NEW FOR 2024

I released SPIDERS ARE HELPFUL via Kickstarter. I also printed the latest RwC comic, #5.

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Comic strips by Mort are often based on puns or colloquilisms, and the robots either taking everything literally…

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…or being the physical embodiment of the pun.

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There’s only a few recurring characters, such as Johnsontron, who dies a lot.

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A lot of the fun for me is coming up with the character designs, just in general or for specific gags. Sometimes little robots make up big robots and then I make gags like this:

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My comics can get a little political. It’s that kind of world.

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Most of my comic strips are two panels, but sometimes I’ll come up with something that tells a story in one page.

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Almost every night I draw 2-4 of the silliest robots I can think of.

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Sometimes they have themes, like princess robots.

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…or things that I love, like baseball…

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…or coffee…

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Someone came up to me at a show and told me they were having a bad day, were worried about themselves and for the world, and then got online and saw this drawing and knew everything would be okay. She pointed to this drawing. RwC Jesse is my witness.

Occasionally I make watercolor drawings on small canvasses. This one sold at the C2E2 2023 charity auction.

As of 2025 I’ve made 6 collections of the regular strips, one collection of the political comics, and a coloring book, along with a separate comic SPIDERS ARE HELPFUL, featured above. I also make stickers and birthday cards.

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