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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/4690Ti1 Black Lives Matter. Trans rights now. Free Palestine. Dismantle ICE.

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · Aug 29

Today is the day that the band I'm in, Joe Tougas & Associates, releases our new 15-track album! bit.ly/4690Ti1
We've been playing these songs together for so long, I can't believe we can finally share them with the world.

Minnesota Moon, by Joe Tougas and Associates

15 track album

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 3h

Day 285: Only tangentially-related to the Halloween month (because costume) but I had to pay my respects to all the real ones in my beloved Portland

*Note: This is NOT one of those "tHiS iS thE RiGht WaY to PrOtEsT!1!!" posts -- I literally just fucking hate ICE and love this air-humping frog a lot

Single panel comic drawn in India ink with a sable brush, also with some inkwash shading.
The panel is veritcally-shaped with a ribbon banner on the top and bottom that splits the caption, "Some heroes know how to meet fascists with the absurdity they deserve" and in the panel we see the blow-up frog costume-clad protester from Portland air-humping while standing in front of a group of heavily-armed, gas mask-wearing ICE agents (bitches) with little "swish" FX captions.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-12-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Day 284: Bonus dressed-up comic

Single panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading, with a top caption that says "Bonus: My cats in the style of Mark Rothko"
The panel shows me standing in a big gallery space and looking thoughtfully at two large canvases that have Rothko-esque color blocking: one tall canvas with rough stripes to represent my shorthair cat Egg Noodle, and one shorter and wider canvas with blotchy shapes to represent my diluted calico longhair cat, Margo.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-11-2025) and the time i spent drawing this (about 25 minutes, as I'm in a rush and have to go unclog a toilet at work this morning)

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 2d

The complete comic dressup arc:
Pt 1: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 2: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 3: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 4: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 5: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 6: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 7: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 8: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 9: (quoted skeet)

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 2d

Day 283: The final installment of this mini-arc (for now) is dressed up in the style of my boy Charles Schulz!

2-panel comic drawn in the style of Peanuts comic creator Charles Schulz (my fellow Minnesotan), with my spouse and I styled similarly to Charlie Brown and Lucy respectively, but my spouse is wearing a hawaiian print shirt, square glasses and has a full head of dark, curly hair and I have round glasses and longer dark hair. The caption above the comic says "Dressing my comic up as other comics (Pt. 10)"
Both panels show us sitting at the window of our house and looking outside; panel 1 shows my spouse with their hands in the air, saying "So, now that we stopped that killer squash vine and fixed our house, what did we learn?"
In panel 1, I reply "Not a lot!" and hold one finger in the air; my spouse looks defeated.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-10-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 2d

this is how I found out there was a 2023 reboot of Takeshi's Castle, I feel so incredibly blessed on this day

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 2d

It requires some of the calcium from your own bones to make the transmutation circle work, but it's worth it

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 3d

Day 1: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 2: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 3: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 4: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 5: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 6: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 7: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 8: (quoted skeet)

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 11d

Day 274: THE HALLOWEEN MONTH HAS BEGUNTH!!

A single-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading: the comic features me (a white lady with long, dark, wavy hair and round glasses) and my two cats, all drawn in the cartooning style of Jim Davis, author and artist of the Garfield comic. I am drawn similarly to the character "Liz," with a round, bulbous head and egg-shaped eyes, and I'm holding my longhair cat Margo who is drawn very similarly to the character Nermal, and she's looking up at me with angry eyes. Next to us, standing on my closed sketchbook is my shorthair cat Egg Noodle, who is drawn like Garfield himself and doing that pose where his head is tilted all the way back with one hand in the air and the other grabbing Margo's tail. There are little hearts floating next to his head, and since he already looks quite a lot like Garfield, he's got a legible name tag hanging from his collar that says "EGG NOODLE."
The caption in the comic is a hand-drawn variation of the "Copper Black" font (the font that Garfield's title is often presented in), and says "Dressing my comic up as other comics."
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-1-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 3d

Day 282: Today's comic is dressed up (kind of?) in the drawing style of Fullmetal Alchemist creator Hiromu Arakawa -- I'd say I fumbled on capturing Arakawa's drawing style for most of this one, but perfect is the enemy of 'done' and I am so busy this week I could pee my pants and cry 🤷‍♀️

A 4-panel comic drawn in the style of Hiromu Arakawa (creator of Fullmetal Alchemist), with a top caption that says "Dressing my comic up as other comics (Pt. 9)"
Panel 1 shows me sitting up and holding a dead acorn squash vine on the singed ground where my house used to be (I blew it up with dynamite in the last comic, in the quoted post). My speech bubbles say "Uh... sorry I blew up our house. At least the radioactive vines are dead!" My spouse is in the foreground looking angry and putting on a pair of white gloves.
Panel 2 shows my spouse drawing a transmutation circle on the ground with white chalk as my cats look on.
Panel 3 shows my spouse doing finger guns as we look off-panel at a surge of light from. My speech bubble says "I didn't know you could do alchemy!" My spouse responds "Oh, you hot little idiot..."
Panel 4 shows us standing on the street and looking at our reconstructed home, my spouse continuing "...everyone from Wisconsin can do alchemy."
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (10-9-2025)

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 3d

I've seen this inward-facing tail a lot, actually-- but I read way more manga than western comics, so I'm wondering if it's moreso a common manga technique!

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 4d

Day 281: Today's comic is dressed up in the drawing style of the late, great Chuck Jones as things take a turn for the worse!

4-panel comic drawn in the style of Chuck Jones (Looney Tunes), with top caption saying "Dressing my comic up like other comics (Pt. 8)"
Panel 1 shows me, drawn similarly to Jones' version of the Grinch, digging deep into the pocket of my pants while smirking.
Panel 2 shows me standing beside my spouse, who is drawn like a combination of Bugs Bunny and Sylvester the Cat (but with cheetah print) and looking very stressed out as I reel back to toss a stick of lit dynamite. My spouse's speech bubbles say "Why do you have dynamite?? Why is it already LIT?!"
Panel 3 shows an exterior shot of something similar to our house, but drawn in Jones' style with simplified shapes and no lines on the tree canopies flanking the house.
Panel 4 shows a giant explosion in the place where our house used to be, with the trees reeling back from the force.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-8-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 4d

We both really love Josuke Higashigata a lot 😆 would you believe this is not the only drawing in our house with them doing a Jo Jo pose?

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 5d

Previous installments in the 'Dressing up my comic' arc:
Day 1: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 2: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 3: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 4: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 5: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 6: bsky.app/profile/katb...

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 5d

Day 280: This comic's drawing style and yaoi hands are courtesy of Hirohiko Araki, creator of Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure

2-panel comic drawn in pen in the style of Hirohiko Araki, in which my spouse and I look mostly like ourselves but have downturned eyes with thick eyelashes, are both doing extremely cunty poses and have way more defined muscles than we could possibly have in any other universe.
Panel 1 is a small inset panel close on my face, in which I'm saying "Wait--"
Panel 2 is large and shows full body drawings of my spouse and me standing in our kitchen, still being accosted by rogue acorn squash vines that have broken into our house. My speech bubbles say "I think.. I know how to defeat these vines"
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-7-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (infinity symbol.... probably about an hour and fifteen minutes?)

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 5d

Deez ah da rulez, it's Tuesdee ya schmucks!

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 5d

NO DRAB GAB TUESDAY

SLUGGO IS IN HIS BEATNIK ATTIRE
BERET, SHADES AND A GOATEE

SLUGGO : AND I DON'T BLAB ANY DRAB GAB-I CHATTER HEP PATTER

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 5d

@nancycomics.bsky.social is very fun on this app, if you're not already following!

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 6d

And one of my favorite Nancy strips, for good measure:

A four-panel "Nancy" comic strip drawn by Ernie Bushmiller.
Panel 1 shows Nancy, a young girl character, looking up at a theater screen that shows an unfortunate-looking man with bulbous eyes. Her speech bubble says "What a horrible looking man"
Panel 2 shows Nancy tucked in bed later that night, with a speech bubble that says "I hope I don't dream about that awful man."
Panel 3 shows Nancy sitting up in the dark and yelling "HELP!" at what appears to be the man from the movie, and in Panel 4 she switches on the light in her room to reveal it's just an arm chair that strangely resembles the horrible-looking man.

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 6d

Day 1: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 2: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 3: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 4: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 5: bsky.app/profile/katb...

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 6d

Day 279: Slapstick home defense with Nancy and Sluggo

(Previous dress-up comics linked in the comments)

2-panel comic drawn in the style of Ernie Bushmiller's "Nancy" comic, with me drawn like Nancy but with longer hair, a sleeveless t-shirt and jeans, and my spouse drawn as Sluggo but with a curly, longer-on-top haircut and wearing a hawaiian print shirt. The top caption above the comic says "Dressing my comic up as other comics, Pt. 6"
Panel 1 shows me and my spouse (Nancy and Sluggo) running away from acorn squash vines that have invaded our home. In the background, my two cats are leisurely making their way up the staircase, unbothered.
Panel 2 shows my spouse frantically spraying a couple vines with cooking oil as I stoop down in front of an open kitchen cabinet and toss items to them -- namely, a hammer and cast iron skillet that are arcing in the air and about to hit my spouse on the back of the head.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-6-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 7d

Honestly, my man has already made all the best cat comics. The well has been dried up for the rest of us

2 manga panels drawn by Junji Ito (read from right to left). First panel shows the artist himself looking down at his longhair cat with his mouth opened horribly wide, saying "why, you little... I'M GOING TO GOBBLE YOU UP!"
The second panel shows him enveloping his cat's face with his lips comically and kissing her, going "SMOOCH! SMOOCHY SMOOCHY SMOO!"

5 panels from a manga drawn by Junji Ito, read from top right to bottom left.
Panel 1 shows the cursed cat Yon in the foreground about to eat a fish from a plate as Junji Ito comes running in to stop him.
Panel 2 shows the artist's hand moving forward to push the cat's face away, and then holds it there for the next two panels while the cat and human are in a standoff.
Panel 5 is a closeup of Junji Ito's face, looking beleaguered and saying "grr..."

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 7d

Day 278: Dressing up my comic in the style of Junji Ito

This one ended up looking way too over-worked and not very Ito-esque in my opinion (but TBF I'm kind of always trying to draw a little bit like Junji Ito)

3-panel comic drawn in the style of Junji Ito (specifically focusing on his works, "Uzumaki" and "Junji Ito's Cat Diary")
Panel 1 shows myself and my spouse slamming our front door shut as we hurry back into ourself (we were chased inside by the radioactive acorn squash vines in the previous comic).
Panel 2 shows a closeup of my face, reacting with horror to something off-panel from which a big "CRAAASH!!" sfx is coming, written in both English and katakana. Behind me, my cats (drawn to resemble Yon and Mu from Ito's cat manga) sit on the stairway and look at me, my shorthair cat Egg Noodle simply looking at me and saying "mother."
Panel 3 is large and shows a spiraling squash vine crashing through our living room window and shattering glass everywhere. The vine now resembles an umbilical cord (gross) and 2 acorn squashes with terrible human faces are flying into the house as my spouse and I look on from the background in terror.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-5-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (infinity symbol)

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 7d

Tough Mike hates to see a hypnotist comin'!

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 7d

thank you so much -- I'm having a lot of fun with it!

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Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 7d

well I feel less guilty for not getting up and waving the feather toy around for her.

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 8d

And my all-time favorite Popeye panel, heavily ripped off in the second panel of today's comic:

Old Popeye comic panel drawn by E.C. Segar, in which Popeye is running toward a large wooden door while carrying a ring of keys and saying "I got to go make some love to Olive Oyl before I gets exercuted"

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