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Cath Kastner
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Illustration & Comics, Paris
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Cath Kastner @cathkastner.bsky.social · Oct 17
We lived on the 5th floor, no lift.

Ink on paper, 12 x A4.

#art #illustration #comics #ink
Black ink comic page in 12 panels showing a woman dragging a drunk man out from a taxi, up 5 flights of stairs, and into an apartment. Both are wearing costumes - she is dressed as Catwoman and he as James Bond in a white tuxedo.
Reposted by Cath Kastner
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Soirée bowling
Ink on paper, 30 x 42 cm
Black ink illustration of a skeleton playing bowling using a skull as a bowling ball. Six skulls are piled up on the side, and a skull-less skeleton is standing up its arma crossed, seemingly watching the bowler
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Soirée bowling
Ink on paper, 30 x 42 cm
Black ink illustration of a skeleton playing bowling using a skull as a bowling ball. Six skulls are piled up on the side, and a skull-less skeleton is standing up its arma crossed, seemingly watching the bowler
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Bedside table - ink and digital colour
Purple and pink illustration of a bedside table with an old lamp with a floral tapestry lampshade, a pair of fake eye lashes, pills, and a jar of face cream in which a cigarette has been extinguished and is poking out
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reposted by Cath Kastner
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Short comic I made to procrastinate on a longer one.
A four-panel comic in black ink on a white background. Panel 1: a white woman with a big bun is seen from the waist up from the side, sitting at a desk, eating a shortbread finger while working on a computer. There is a big mug with steam coming out of it on her right, and a plate of shortbread fingers on her left. The caption reads: “ FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS IN MY 20’s I PRETTY MUCH LIVED ON SHORTBREAD & YORKSHIRE TEA.” Panel 2: a close-up of the woman’s mouth chewing, a second shortbread finger ready to be eaten showing in the bottom left corner. The caption reads: “I HATED MY JOB AND CUSHIONED MY DESPAIR WITH THE COMPANY’S ENDLESS SUPPLY OF SNACKS.” Panel 3: the woman is dead, her eyes crossed out, as a giant fork coming from above has stabbed her in the back. The caption reads: “IF A CREATURE FROM ABOVE HAD HAD THE KINDNESS TO PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY,” Panel 4: a giant godzilla-like monster’s mouth is about to eat the woman, who is impaled on the giant fork. The caption reads: “I WOULD HAVE MADE A GREAT MEAL - ALL BITTER, SWEET, AND BUTTERY.” The comic is signed in the bottom right corner by its author, Cath Kastner
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Winter puff
Black ink drawing of a pigeon so puffed up it’s perfectly round
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Short comic I made to procrastinate on a longer one.
A four-panel comic in black ink on a white background. Panel 1: a white woman with a big bun is seen from the waist up from the side, sitting at a desk, eating a shortbread finger while working on a computer. There is a big mug with steam coming out of it on her right, and a plate of shortbread fingers on her left. The caption reads: “ FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS IN MY 20’s I PRETTY MUCH LIVED ON SHORTBREAD & YORKSHIRE TEA.” Panel 2: a close-up of the woman’s mouth chewing, a second shortbread finger ready to be eaten showing in the bottom left corner. The caption reads: “I HATED MY JOB AND CUSHIONED MY DESPAIR WITH THE COMPANY’S ENDLESS SUPPLY OF SNACKS.” Panel 3: the woman is dead, her eyes crossed out, as a giant fork coming from above has stabbed her in the back. The caption reads: “IF A CREATURE FROM ABOVE HAD HAD THE KINDNESS TO PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY,” Panel 4: a giant godzilla-like monster’s mouth is about to eat the woman, who is impaled on the giant fork. The caption reads: “I WOULD HAVE MADE A GREAT MEAL - ALL BITTER, SWEET, AND BUTTERY.” The comic is signed in the bottom right corner by its author, Cath Kastner
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Winter puff
Black ink drawing of a pigeon so puffed up it’s perfectly round
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief
ink on paper
#illustration #hitchcock #ink
Purple and green ink illustration of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Wet Paint

Ink on paper, 30 x 42 cm
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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My Youtube algorithm has blessed me with a video of Werner Herzog musing about skateboarding. Please enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLI...
Discussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner Herzog
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November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Started painting again after a 9 (!) year break for lack of space. Pleasantly surprised to find out I can enjoy working on smaller formats, too.

Acrylic on plywood, 23 x 17 cm
Painted portrait of a white woman in red, white, and purple tones on a dark purple background
November 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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At the top of the list of businesses that should perhaps refrain from decorating their windows for halloween: motorcycle driving schools
Shop window showing a blue motorbike and a white sheet covered in fake blood
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Reposted by Cath Kastner
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1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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We lived on the 5th floor, no lift.

Ink on paper, 12 x A4.

#art #illustration #comics #ink
Black ink comic page in 12 panels showing a woman dragging a drunk man out from a taxi, up 5 flights of stairs, and into an apartment. Both are wearing costumes - she is dressed as Catwoman and he as James Bond in a white tuxedo.
October 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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@michaelhobbes.bsky.social just walked by this place, t-shirt rack right in the shop window. They are not fucking around: maps.app.goo.gl/gQCfbxcypMtY...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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In this month’s newsletter: Making art from painful memories, crayon canon, and other things I enjoyed in September
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Photo of a hand drawing a comic with a brush and ink.The illustration shows a woman in a catwoman costume dragging a man by the ankles Crayon sketch of Grant Wood’s American Gothic
October 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Reposted by Cath Kastner
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Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:

"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
July 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Reposted by Cath Kastner
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It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Hey artists! QRP with your sketch vs final
Colour pencil sketch of a man playing the piano on stage. The decor is a forest and there are white rabbits everywhere. Artist: Cath Kastner Illustration of a man playing the piano on stage. The decor is a forest and there are white rabbits everywhere. Artist: Cath Kastner
July 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Cath Kastner
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ai art is the modern aesthetic of fascism
June 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM