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Nathan Nun
@nathannun.bsky.social
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Artist ✭ history, politics & fantasy illustration, especially world-famous #sovcat art ✭ left, ex-PhD ✭ rpg, boardgame lover ✭ working cats of the world unite https://linktr.ee/nathannun
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Of course Empty Bowls (2023) is about that enrichment of owners at the expense of workers and their communities. But it's not just about getting a fair day's kibble and a great gag. "Our life" points to the existential dimension of work that is both too little and too much to live well.
An early 20th-century cat propaganda poster. A grey cat in worker garb stands in the foreground pointing at a large, empty bowl. In the background is a factory city whose workers are pouring into the streets. The cat asks the viewer through the top text of the poster "The owners have taken our labour, our life. And in return?" It is answered in bold text in the middle of the poster with "Empty Bowls!"
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Another colourful addition inspired by a 1970's poster. A commission of three cats and the first on the theme of participatory soviet democracy. I like this one because, for me, the small details speak to there being a larger world behind the poster.
Three cats stand behind a lectern like shape. One a scientist pointing toward a book, one holding a catnip branch, and one with one paw on an emblem and the other paw pointing to text. The emblem is the soviet cat emblem with red star, globe, and catnip branches. Behind the cats is large red flag with hammer and sickle emblem. Behind this, a scene of engineering and economic feats, spacecraft, fishing boats, and tall cat tower complexes, etc. First text black reads "We defend our working way, the right to eat, the right to play, the right to nap in the light of day." Another text block under this reads "Participate in your councils, the democracy of workers, farmers, and communities."
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The second Biscuit Makers' Union poster follows the workers of biscuit making from "from field to tummy." This journey is depicted literally in the poster: starting with farm fields, through harvest, and production. A closer look at the bottom reveals a fleet of trucks ready to deliver biscuits...
A cat poster in the style of an old soviet poster. Two cats, a farmer and a baker, shake paws with the arms outstretched toward the representations of their occupations. In the background a visual path is made starting in fields and farms, through a factory, and finally to trucks and and a biscuit shop at the bottom of the poster. Text at top reads "International Brotherhood of Biscuit Makers and Allied Trades" at bottom reads "From Field to Tummy - Building Better Biscuits." A logo of the union is in the lower corner.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I think we should use this art on BlueSky in addition to the Rockwell original.
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Purrletarian Democracy, playing on a catified adaptation of Rockwell's Freedom of Speech but imagining it as a workers' council meeting.
An ink drawing that looks like a version of Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting but the characters are cats. In the center of the drawing a cat in the garb of a worker stands in the middle of a seated crowd. He is about to utter some words, perhaps give a speech or an opinion on a matter of importance. Most of the crowd looks on awaiting what he has to say. In the front, a fellow cat holds a paper which reads "General Meeting, Workers' Council - PSR" indicating this an important political meeting. We see the same paper folded in the front jacket pocket of the standing cat.
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Currently on the drawing board: a cat poster commission on animal liberation.
A partial image of an in progress cat poster. Two anthropomorphic cats step forward triumphantly each with an arm upraised. In one outstretched paw sits a mink and it the other a duck. Behind the cats are a number of unlocked cages stacked in a pile. A fox pokes out of one just behind the cat's legs.
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Where is this communist takeover I was promised?
We have officially entered into the darkest time in Canadian history. The Communist takeover of Canada is complete. Once all those Bills get passed the gulags will be open for business. We are now without a doubt the dumbest country on the planet. The Uni-Party won today. We’re fucked!!! Congrats to all you that have no idea what’s coming down the pipe.
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Workers have the power to make a land of kibble and fish for all. Our sturdy tomcat constructs a bowl. Swirls of abundant milk, fish, kibble, and catnip arise and fill the background. #art
A monochrome cat poster in red drawn like a late 19th-century illustration. A cat in work overalls holds up a hammer ready to strike a bowl he is constructing on an anvil. The background is a swirl of abundant milk, fish, kibble, and catnip. Text within a bordered frame reads "Socialist League - Join Your Local Today"
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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"4 Hours Work, 4 Hours Nappin" from 2021.
A cat poster in the style of a old-timey propaganda poster. The poster is divided into four vertical segments: 4 hours of work, 4 hours napping, 8 hours sleeping, and 8 hours "whatevs". The segments have illustrations of cats working, sleeping, etc. At bottom is the slogan "Control Productive Time and Reclaim the Day!"
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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"Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for cooperation." - Yuri Gagarin. Today's poster, inspired by the legend, another commission, "We See No Borders Here" (2021) also a pastiche of a great space program poster. #art
A cat poster in the style of a mid-century space program propaganda poster. On the left is a closeup of a cat face in a space helmet. To the right, a stylized rocket with colourful streams of combustion blasts upward. The background is black space with stars. In bottom corner is the text "We See No Borders Here. To Peace and Prosperous Unification We Go!"
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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“You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder” (E. Debs, 1918). Some Great (Imperialist) War artworks from the last few years on this Remembrance/Armistice/Veterans Day.
An ink drawing of a crowd of anthropomorphic cats cheering on a group of soldiers as they march through a city with buildings and trees in the background. The dress of the soldiers suggest early WW1 time period. An ink drawing reminiscent of WW1 period. It has a skeletal cat (death) in a general's uniform on horseback with a sword in hand pointed forward. The horse trots ahead though no cat's land. Ahead, and as far as the eye can see are corpses of fallen cat soldiers. An ink drawing of an anthropomorphic cat in a Great War soldier uniform. He stands in a trench facing the viewer and holds in his hands the lance of a flamethrower. Behind him are columns of smoke.
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Education for All - Literacy for Liberation (2021) is another sovcat commission featuring a beautiful trio.
A cat poster in the style of a 1970's soviet propaganda poster. Three cats at the top of the image look down at a large open book in the center of the image. A sunrise with rays rises from the open book. Three paws in the bottom hold up the book, one from each cat. At bottom in bold text is written "Education For All!" There is a small logo that says "literacy for liberation."
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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"The Federation of Anarchist Cats - On the Grisly Front - On the Work Front - Fights For All Cats" (2021).
The human world poster is based on a FAI-CNT poster from the Spanish Civil War, Federación Anarquista Ibérica - Confederación Nacional Del Trabajo, 1936.
A cat poster in the style of a 1930's propaganda poster. Two cat in profile looking left at the top of the poster pose with rifles. Two cats in bottom half look to right holding a hammer and bushel of catnip. In the middle, on a diagonal, is a black and red anarchist flag reading "The FAC - On the Grisly Front - On the Work Front - Fights for ALL CATS." Small text in corner reads "Federation of Anarchist Cats Artist Group." Signed "N.Nun" The poster has a blue background and the cats are black, white, and various brown shades. The forms in the poster are made of flat shapes of contrasting curves, lines, and angles.
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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This year's drawings were overall more involved than previous times and quite a challenge. Seeing the results makes it all worthwhile, however, and there are enough ideas to develop further here to keep me busy for another year! Many of these will definitely become posters and paintings.
A grid layout of 30 ink drawings. Most of the drawings are of anthropomorphic cats with political, modern history, and horror themes.
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Here we are at the final day...of Inktober. What else for a night of haunts than a cat reaper making for some fine sovcat agitprop. Happy Halloween! #inktober #inktober2025 #happyHalloween
An ink drawing of a skeletal, grim reaper cat riding a ghoulish undead dog as a mount. The reaper hold a scythe to which is affixed a banner that read "choose capitalism." Dark clouds and smoke seem to follow the figure. Ahead of the figure are plants, grasses and flowers but behind the figure is barren soil as if the passing figure wilts the environment. A vapour forms from the steps of the dog and flows behind.
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Ready for a tail-puffing tale of terror? I give you "VACANT," the recent release from Scaredy Cat Pictures for today's #inktober. #inktober2025 So what's this movie about anyway?
An ink drawing in the form of a cat horror movie poster. In large block type at top the title reads "Vacant" and smaller tagline reads "no one's home." The image below is of a cat with a worried and dumbfounded look. Pressed against his outline on one side is a large, old house, the forms of which are distorted and bent. The contour of the house image uncomfortably presses up against the cat creating a sense of claustrophobia and supernatural suspense.
October 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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As today's prompt is 'lesson,' I drew an educational cartoon page from the early 20th century with some definitions. #inktober #inktober2025 #worker
An ink drawing in the style of an illustrated educational poster. The poster is titled "Whatsa Worker?" and features six panels (2 across and three down). The first two panels have text "Workers are...forced to sell labour power & deprived of means of production" They have a picture of a cat worker punching in and another standing outside a walled industrial area with a sign that says private on the wall. The next two have text that says "Workers are...not defined by task or if product is essential." These panels show a barista cat and a worker cat putting heads on little figures. The last two panel say "some workers are...Productive: produce surplus value through labour power & Unproductive: Do not directly produce surplus value." In these panels is a picture of a worker swinging a hammer and a worker holding up a book.
October 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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My clients are about to get radicalized, and I'm joining the war against AI slop.
Thank you @nathannun.bsky.social!!!!
I'll take better photos when I hang them in my treatment room but for now they must live in the box they arrived in, because-- REGIS, NO!
A postal mailer with sovcat propaganda stickers, postcards, and coasters. The envelope has been beautifully embellished with my name and a couple kitty cat doodles. Void cat Regis inspects the WORKERS DEMAND JUSTICE AND PEACE poster Close up of the plastic protective covering on the top of the poster. There are four claw punctures in the shape of a perfect cat paw. So much for peace. Fortunately, the poster was not harmed.
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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For today's ink drawing, something a little simpler, The Grateful Cats #inktober #inktober2025

"What do you want me to do
To do for you to see you through?
For this is all a dream we dreamed
One afternoon long ago"
An ink drawing of a logo. The logo is based on the skull logo of The Grateful Dead but this one fetures a cat skull instead of a human one. The white cat skull has a large circle over the top of its skull within which is pictured a red star with a hammer. The background of this circle and a larger circle around the whole skull is coloured, alternately, one side red and one side blue.
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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The cats are doing spells. I'm sure it's fine.
Cat with it's arms raised over its head in an arch, throwing strange shadows on the wall behind it
October 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Today's prompt was onion, but all I could think of was the power of the workers and peasants to exorcise a demon. This one pairs with last year's drawing, a soviet cat soldier destroying vampires. #inktober #inktober2025
An ink drawing of two anthropomorphic cats. One cat in worker garb hold aloft a hammer and sickle emblem which glows in the dim light. The other cat writhes in a kneeling position at the brandished symbol with its paws trying to block the light. From its howling mouth emerges a cloud of dark smoke with a sinister cat face. In the background is gloomy countryside and factories bellowing smoke below a cloudy dark sky.
October 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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"Putting It Together." Today's prompt was puzzling and this came together quickly.
An ink drawing that is also a cat propaganda poster. A large cat paw holds a puzzle piece that says "capitalism." The piece held is the last piece in the puzzle indicated by a large, dark spot in the center of the puzzle. Emerging from the word capitalism are organic tendrils like virus or slime that spread out and connect other words such as "Alienation," "Homelessness," "Imperialism," and "Chemical Pollution," etc.
October 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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A great war soldier cat with a flamethrower. The prompt today was inferno so I almost went with something Halloween-themed, but there is a very real non-supernatural horror to this.
An ink drawing of an anthropomorphic cat in a Great War soldier uniform. He stands in a trench facing the viewer and holds in his hands the lance of a flamethrower. Behind him are columns of smoke.
October 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Skeleton cats are having a party and getting a little rowdy. #inktober #inktober2025
An ink drawing of anthropomorphic skeletal cats. The appear to be having some kind of party and getting very rowdy. One dances and plays fiddle. Another dances on a table kicking things off it while another is under the table ripping apart something filled with stuffing. Yet another cats hangs upside down on the wall knocking askew a large painting. There are all kinds of cards, spilled drinks, and smashed dishes on the table and floor.
October 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Kittens better be careful what they imagine reading by firefly light in the Gloomwood. Don't let your imagination run away with you; you might need to run from your imagination! Something a bit fun, cute, and spooky for today's Inktober.
An ink drawing of two anthropomorphic kittens in a tent. Laying in the tent with a books open before them, it looks like they are reading a scary tale from a large book. The book and kitten faces are illuminated by a jar filled with fireflies. In the background is a pine forest illuminated by a moon with trees obscured in mist and shadow. Emerging from the mist is a silhouette of an antlered beast looking similar to the illustration in the open book. Signed NNun.
October 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Purrletarian Democracy, playing on a catified adaptation of Rockwell's Freedom of Speech but imagining it as a workers' council meeting.
An ink drawing that looks like a version of Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting but the characters are cats. In the center of the drawing a cat in the garb of a worker stands in the middle of a seated crowd. He is about to utter some words, perhaps give a speech or an opinion on a matter of importance. Most of the crowd looks on awaiting what he has to say. In the front, a fellow cat holds a paper which reads "General Meeting, Workers' Council - PSR" indicating this an important political meeting. We see the same paper folded in the front jacket pocket of the standing cat.
October 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM