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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴
@katbaumann.bsky.social
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She/her comic artist and musician in Minnesota
Daily comics here, Portfolio there --> katbaumann.com
My band just released a new album: http://bit.ly/481SmNR
Black Lives Matter. Trans rights now. Free Palestine. Dismantle ICE.
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iloveraphtalia.bsky.social
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Daily comic 318: Margo's harrowing afternoon
A 4-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading. Panels 1 and 2 are both wide and stacked vertically, and panels 3 and 4 are smaller and placed next to each other on the bottom row. The top caption simply says "Yesterday:" In panel 1, my two cats are sitting in their fancy heated cat beds on the window seat. My shorthair cat Egg Noodle is resting his head on the edge of his bed, head empty, and my longhair cat Margo is sitting up and looking out the window as I (a human woman) return from work with my keys in-hand. Margo has scraggly speech bubbles with unnecessary accents over all the vowels (as it her way) that say "the lady returns from her toils. now is Margo's chance." Panel 2 shows Margo darting out of the front door next to my legs as I open the door; her speech bubbles say "freedom for Margo! freedom for bird murder!" and I have a speech bubble saying "Wha-- Margo-what-the-fu--" Panel 3 shows Margo standing stationary on the brick stoop of our house, with a blank expression on her face as I am seen reaching down toward her from the doorway. Her speech bubbles say "what next? Margo never got this far before..." Panel 4 is the same setting, but now I'm actively grabbing and lifting Margo with a large "YOINK" SFX, complete with an umlaut over the "O" in "yoink." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (11-14-2025)
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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tkingfisher.com
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Day 317: Drawing another majestic creature before and after looking up a single reference photo: the mata mata
2-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading. The panels are stacked vertically and there's a top caption saying "Now that I've defeated capitalism (see yesterday's comic), time for another "animal un-familiar." Today is the mata mata. Panel 1 starts with two captions: "My instincts tell me it's some kind of bird or fish... no real idea though. Let's draw her with zero reference:" In the panel is a drawing of a pretty basic fish, with antennae (I don't know fish terminology and I'm fine with that) that resemble coral, and a gaping, round mouth. Captions written in cursive surround the drawing, saying "Salt-water? Mouth trapped in a constant scream to reflect the horrors of the deep? Another muppet?" Panel 2 has a single boxed caption, which i wrote after drawing the first panel and subsequently looking up what a mata mata actually looks like: "Okay, so i was very wrong." Below is a drawing of what essentially looks like a tortoise but with mountainous spikes on its shell, and a consierably long, thick neck that juts out and ends in a head that has a tiny, trumpet-shaped nose with little pig nostrils at the end. Cursive captions around the drawing say "*Fresh water, actually..." "I'm at a loss for words. Incredible, sharp creature." and "Gonna need a closeup on this face:" In the bottom corner of the panel is a small inset panel showing the mata mata's face closer up, showing its tiny pignose and hilarious wide grin that spans across its little dinosaur face. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-13-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Day 316: The briefest pause on my "animal un-familiar" comics while I defeat capitalism real quick, brb
3-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading. The panels are all on the same row horizontally and are separated by diagonal borders going from top right to lower left. The top caption says "I got myself a little darning loom and experienced the opposite of doom-spiraling:" Panel 1 shows a darning loom in my hands, with a woven patch I've just finished. My speech bubbles lead off-panel and say "Oh my god, I did it." Panel 2 shows me sitting on my couch, examining a newly repaired sock as I pull the wooden puck out of it; there is a ball of thin yarn and the metal part of my darning loom sitting on the coffee table in front of me. My speech bubbles say "I can wear these again, all winter! I wonder what else I can repair..." Panel 3 shows me still sitting on my couch, seen from behind; my shorthair cat Egg Noodle sits to my left and looks on as I hold my hands in their air like a prophet, my newly repaired socks pulled over my hands. My speech bubbles say "Maybe we can-- we can defeat capitalism with this!" A final caption in the bottom corner says "Still delusional, but in a nice way." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-12-2025) and the time i spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Day 315: I swear to god, I've never seen or heard of a quoll before it went on this list. It just sounds like such a small rodent, doesn't it?
10/10 job naming this one, zoologists. You fuckin' did it.
2-panel comic drawn with a sable brush and india ink with inkwash shading. The panels are stacked vertically. Panel 1 has a caption that says "Drawing another real-life creature I don't know, from a running list I'm now calling my 'Animal Un-familiars.' Today's animal is a quoll. I actually don't even know what part of the animal kingdom this one is from... maybe a rodent of some sort? You know the drill, let's draw it with no reference:" Below the first captions is a drawing of a small rodent that resembles a small chinchilla mixed with a chipmunk, with a sort of long, shitty tail, and little mouse claws. Panel 2 starts with another caption, which is in a caption box that begins with clean, angular lines on the left side and quickly devolves to jagged edges at the right side of the caption as I lose my mind mid-phrase. The caption reads "Now to look up a reference oh MY GOD, I NAILED IT!!!" Beneath that caption is a drawing of a quoll, which really is a small rodent. Cursive captions written around the drawing say "They did such a good job of naming this one, y'all. Cute little deer spots on its back. It even has the shitty little tail I expected. Looks a bit like a mix between sugar glider, possum & ferret." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-11-2025) and the time i spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Day 314: Having just learned what a musk ox looks like yesterday, I've made some executive decisions on animal classification
4-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading. The top two panels are on the same row, and panels 3 and 4 are horizontal in shape and are stacked vertically below panels 1 and 2. The top caption above the whole comic says "Good morning, I've made some decisions for the scientific community:" Panel 1 has a caption that stretches across the top of the page and says "I see the terms 'buffalo' & 'bison' used interchangeably... this is how the bison (buffalo) in Minneopa State Park look:" Just below this caption is a drawing of an American Bison, with a big ol' head, triangle body and little horns. Captions in cursive surround the drawing, saying "big ol' hump. Look at this guy! the platonic ideal of a buffalo." Panel 2 has a caption saying "And this is a water 'buffalo'." In the panel is a drawing of a water buffalo, which looks more like a normal cow but with droopy ears and big horns that curve upward. The cursive captions around it say "basically no hump. looks like an ox. cow body and head." Panel 3 has a caption saying "Meanwhile, the musk 'ox' looks like a buffalo. This is madness." In the panel is a drawing of a musk ox, which looks essentially like a longhair version of the American bison from panel 1 but with big horns that start at the center of its head and curve out in a 'W' shape. Cursive captions say "Big ol' hump, bison body. Not a single neck to be seen on this thing." Panel 3 shows me looking sleep-deprived and holding a lit cigarette like Charlie Day in the "pepe silvia" episode of Always Sunny; I'm gesturing at a drawing of a musk (ox) buffalo and water (buffalo) ox, and my speech bubbles encroach over previous panels, saying "So I say, if they have this big hump up here, like you rearranged a camel, it's a buffalo. And if it looks like a cow, but more threatening, it's an ox. I will not be taking any questions at this time." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (11-10-2025)
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
katbaumann.bsky.social
I've been reorganizing my studio all day and made my self a "good job!" martini (so I am a little drunk), but you can bet your ass I still slid into the Amy Klobuchar's voicemail & asked her NOT to cave to republicans and reopen the government w/o funding for the ACA.

Call your dem senator🍸
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5d
Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.

Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!

Find them here: reps.fyi
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Day 313: Continuing with my mini series of drawing unfamiliar animals until the government stops me!
2-panel comic drawn with sable brush and india ink with inkwash shading. The panels are stacked vertically and equal in size. Panel 1 starts with a caption: "Next animal I know nothing about: the noble Musk Ox. I feel like this will be another ibex situation... Time to draw it with no reference:" Beneath the caption is an ink drawing of what mostly looks like a normal bull, with large horns that go directly out to the sides and curve slightly upward, and big droopy ears that hang below. The face looks like a Holstein cow's face (so cute), and it has standard bull legs (kind of stocky with cloven hooves) and a swishy cow tail. Captions written in cursive surround the drawing: "Does it have some sort of stink sack?" is positioned just above the bull/cow/ox's hump above the shoulders. Another caption says "beautiful cow face", surrounded with little sparkles, and one more caption in the corner just says "Just a real thick boy" Panel 2 starts with the caption "and now WITH reference:" and has a detailed drawing of an actual musk ox. It's shaped similarly to the first bull, but is covered with long hair, has short, upright, triangle-shaped cow ears, and horns that start at the top-center of its head and curve out and downward like a giant handlebar mustache. The cursive captions around it say "mustache on head!!" "(omg) It's another muppet," a set of curved brackets below the ox and a caption saying "the SHAPE of him," and one more caption in the bottom corner saying "I was so right about the beautiful cow face." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-9-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
katbaumann.bsky.social
Day 312: Drawing another animal without seeing it first, featuring the Hellbender
2-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panels are stacked vertically and separated by one diagonal border. Panel 1 starts with a caption that says "Um, okay... today's animal that I don't know very well was suggested by a reader and chosen by the dice gods: The Hellbender" Beneath that caption is a d20 dice bouncing twice and landing on a "15," next to a drawing of the head of Bender from Futurama and a cursive note that says "Not this one. Drew him w/o reference, tho!)" Another caption says "Literally no clue what this one could be, so I'll draw it with no reference:" Beneath that is an ink drawing of a winding worm-type creature with tendrils at both ends, and the large end is filled with rows of jagged teeth like some sort of eldritch horror. The cursive captions around the drawing say "Gross? Got 2 butts? I'm thinking it's some sort of deep sea mollusk? Maybe??" Panel 2 starts with another caption box saying "And now with reference:" and below that is an ink drawing of a long, plain-looking salamander with a tail that looks like a tadpole tail, 4 stumpy legs resembling that of a small alligator, and a round head with tiny eyes with its mouth open, revealing a non-threatening, toothless mouth. The cursive captions around the animal say "Alright, so it's a darling little salamander. So wet. Profoundly wet. Part catfish, part muppet. I love him." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-8-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
katbaumann.bsky.social
Post you from a different era.

I've literally never looked cooler than when this picture was shot in the unfinished upstairs of a pub in Saint Peter just before a Rocky Horror/Meatloaf themed show back in 2019.
Sun-soaked photo of me, a tall white lady with voluminous curly hair and fake eyelashes, wearing black pants, suspenders and a white dress shirt and drinking beer out of a tall glass. I'm standing in a storage room filled with a cabinet, random buckets of paint and, inexplicably, a (laundry) washing machine
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Day 311: Ope, I'm gonna be drawing animals badly for the foreseeable future (sorry in advance)
Keep the suggestions coming in the comments!
2-panel comic drawn with india ink and sable brush with inkwash shading; the panels are stacked vertically and both show a "death ball sponge," first drawn without reference and then drawn with reference. Panel 1 has a caption saying "Following up from yesterday's comic -- I rolled a dice & landed on a new animal I'm unfamiliar with (from a list of suggestions from readers) and today I'm drawing a DEATH BALL SPONGE" without reference:" In the panel is a drawing of what I imagined a death ball sponge to look like: a round, lumpy ball covered in unevenly placed holes and black spikes, nestled on the suggested setting of the ocean floor. Little notes surround the drawing, written in cursive, and say "Gonna go pretty literal... maybe some vents [two arrows point at the side of the sponge ball] (does it breathe through its ass?) It's gotta have some pointy parts, yeah? Did I just draw a sea urchin?" Panel 2 starts with the caption, "And now, with reference:" and shows a crazy sci-fi creature that starts as a tripod of thin tentacle-looking things at the base, next to a thicker "trunk" that grows up into a tree-like structure of semi-translucent balls on thin appendages. There are also thin little things that resemble octopus tentacles coming out of the center of the "treetop" structure. It looks crazy. My cursive captions read as thus: "EXCUSE ME?! what the fuck-- ...this design is doing too much. (I do love it) Apparently it's carnivorous. Hey, marine biologists, why are we calling this a sponge?" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-7-2025) and the time i spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
katbaumann.bsky.social
Abolish ICE and try every single member in court for their fucking crimes
wajali.bsky.social Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 9d
Folks, saying ABOLISH ICE isn't hard. Quite easy. The water is warm here. Jump in. Mainstream it. People will follow.
November 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Day 310: Drawing animals I've never seen in person like a 400CE monk

If there's an object or living thing you think I don't know much about, and you'd like to see me draw it very badly and then kind of okay, sound off in the comments baby
2-panel comic drawn in pen with minimal inkwash shading; the panels are stacked vertically and equal in size. Panel 1 starts with a caption that says "Drawing with my non-dominant hand the other day got me thinking about other fun (interesting?) ways to restrict the drawing process, like: drawing something I'm not super familiar with, w/o using a reference. An Ibex!" Beneath that caption is a drawing of what mostly resembles a fawn but with tall, straight, spindly antlers and black spots on its back. Little notes in cursive surround the animal and say "spots? Mountain terrain? Rocks? (A deer, but, kind of cunty?)" Panel 2 shows a drawing that actually referenced an Ibex, which basically just looks like a regular ram with long horns that arch back gracefully away from the head. The captions say "And then drawing it again *with* reference. Oh wow... I was way off. I was right about the rocks tho. No spots. (still pretty cunty)" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-6-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (40 minutes)
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
so where are the op-eds about republican overreach today? where’s the commentary about donald trumps war against american citizens or his terror campaign targeting brown people? where’s the pearl clutching over the conservative social media bubble reliant on nazi propagandists?
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
katbaumann.bsky.social
Day 309: Are ted talks still a thing? Welcome to my ted talk.
Single-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading. The panel is vertical in shape, and at the top is a drawing of a window seat for cats that is basically a PVC pipe frame held to a window with 4 suction cups: 2 on one side of the frame and 2 extended out with suspension wires to stabilize the bed against the window. The first caption says "We got a new little window seat for the cats, so they can stare at birds 3 inches closer than usual. Margo loves it, but sometimes it slips when she climbs onto it." Beneath this is a large cartoon arrow pointing down at my longhair cat Margo who is looking angrily at me while sitting in her now-slanted window seat that's angled to one side and losing its grip on the window. Next to her, I'm standing in a bland blazer, wearing a headset mic and holding a lecturer's stick thing, and saying "Is it user error? The dry autumn air making it hard for the suction cups to adhere to the glass? Or is Margo simply the fattest little baby in town? In this presentation, I will" and the last speech bubble runs off the panel edge as if I'm trailing off. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-5-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
katbaumann.bsky.social
It's election day for some of us in the states. I don't get to vote for anything in my area today, but in spirit with others who can, I'm sharing the angry little song I wrote for a different election cycle: Enjoy!
youtu.be/WtWWAavDyZk?...
Tuesday
YouTube video by Joe Tougas & Associates - Topic
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
katbaumann.bsky.social
Day 308: It's choir season, babyyyyyyy!
2-panel comic drawn with sable brush and india ink with minimal inkwash shading; the panels are placed horizontally on the same row, and the top caption says "When you've learned classical music in the same 4 Latin-based languages for years, you get pretty good at pronunciation without knowing any useful vocab..." Panel 1 shows me, a white lady with round glasses and long, dark, wavy hair, wearing a black sweater, holding a cup of coffee and shrugging while looking off-panel absent-mindedly. My speech bubble says "Well, you know what they say, [flawless French sentence with no context]" Panel 2 shows me again, still holding my coffee, but my head is now considerably smaller and my features are simplified, while my glasses now look huge on my dumb little head. There's a speech bubble coming from off-panel that says "[actually speaking French]" to which I am responding, "kwah?" (a phonetic spelling of the French word "quoi?" meaning "what?"). The speech bubble from off-panel continues with the French sentence, "Oh non... c'est une idiote." (which translates to "Oh no, she's an idiot" in English). Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-4-2025) and the time i spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
katbaumann.bsky.social
Day 307: Hey, you know what? Shoulda been crab 🤷‍♀️🦀
Single-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading. Unboxed captions in the panel say "Talking with a friend about how our brains get anxious over nothing, while also constantly taking in an onslaught of information and horrors beyond our control." Below that caption are two text-chat-style speech bubbles pointing off-screen; the first says "we shoulda just been crabs, man." and the second responds, "yeah, we shoulda been crabs" Beneath the free-floating chat bubbles is a drawing of myself as a hermit crab (I still have my round glasses and long curly hair poking out of my home, which is a discarded Pamplemousse La Croix can), and my friend as a Tasmanian giant crab but with a full beard and square glasses; my friend is grabbing onto a d6 die with his giant claw, and a d4 adn d20 sit in front of us in the sand. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-3-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
katbaumann.bsky.social
Day 306: It's that time of year (the time when hand hurt)
Single-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panel shows a somewhat sloppy drawing of my cats sitting at the edge of my drafting desk and looking out the window; my longhair cat Margo is looking angrily at my shorthair cat Egg Noodle, who is gently wapping her in the face with his very long tail. The captions in the comic say "My dominant hand is doing that thing where my knuckles swell and my fingers won't close properly. (We're transitioning into colder weather, and I was built wrong) so I'm drawing with my left hand today." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-02-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
katbaumann.bsky.social
New art scam alert, lol.

The solicitation: My "work they enjoyed":
An email I received from a scammer that reads "Hello, I came across your portfolio on Artstation and enjoyed your work and use of color. I am an academic event organizer looking for an illustrator to create illustrations to be used at a workshop about pandemic preparedness. I will need these illustrations towards the middle of December. I would love to know when you are available and interested in this project so I can share with you what needs to be illustrated and the budgeted prices. Thank you for your time! Regards, [bland midwestern man name that isn't actually theirs]" A screenshot of my Artstation portfolio, which is *exclusively* reposts of the "NO TO AI GENERATED IMAGES" image that a bunch of artists (including myself) flooded the site with a few months ago, in protest.
November 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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nancycomics.bsky.social
он,
PEG --THAT'S CORNY
PEG : I HATE ROCK AND ROLL --- GIVE ME MOZART NANCY : Он, PEG---THAT'S CORNY
November 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
katbaumann.bsky.social
Day 305: How to wear boxing gloves?
3-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panels are stacked vertically and all depict Ostrich-me wearing/using boxing gloves in different ways, next to a boxing dummy. Panel 1 has an empty box in the top left corner, and shows Ostrich me waving boxing gloves in the air at the ends of her stupid wings. A little "grackle" SFX is coming from her beak. Panel 2 has an empty box in the top left corner, and shows Ostrich me wearing the boxing gloves on her nasty bird feet and punching the boxing dummy while screaming "GRAGGH!!!" Panel 3 has a check-off box in the top left corner, and shows Ostrich me engulfing the head of the boxing dummy in her massive open beak, after having discarded the boxing gloves on the ground. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (11-1-2025)
November 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
katbaumann.bsky.social
Day 304: My spooky, very controversial Halloween take
3-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panels are stacked vertically with minimal overlap from a tall grandfather clock that extends from the bottom of panel 3 up into the bottom right corner of panel 1. Panel 1 shows a scarecrow in the foreground, standing in a field with a shadowy cabin in the background and a crescent moon in the night sky. The caption says "It's October 31st, the culminating end of the spooky halloween month; spookier still is the approach..." Panel 2 is closer on the shadowy cabin, with a caption continuing, "...of daylight savings time." Panel 3 shows the interior of the cabin, with me sitting silhouetted at a desk next to a window through which lightning is flashing; also in the foreground of this panel is the aforementioned grandfather clock. The captions in this panel say "Just kidding. I actually really like daylight savings time." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (10-31-2025)
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM