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Catherine Holmes
@catherineholmes.bsky.social
350 followers 120 following 97 posts
Cartoonist, Illustrator: Asparagus, The New Yorker, Narrative, Weekly Humorist
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🐤 GIVEAWAY 🎵
I would love to mail FREE SPEECH CANARY DRAWINGS to you and your friend. Just tag them in the comments and I’ll choose one pair at random by Nov 24.
✍️ A few made as commissions, portraits, and collabs over the past few weeks.
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Exercise your voice even when you think no one is listening. Collab w @Catherine Holmes Birthday present for Amy Portrait of Steev Burgess
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Well the weather might be better… #seasons #raingear #westcoastliving
A cartoon drawing of a couple walking in the rain sharing a dark-coloured umbrella. Other people are rushing past with different umbrellas; polka dotted, plastic, striped. They are walking a doodle in a raincoat which also has polka dots. The lady has a polka dot scarf on. She says to the guy, “In a few moments we’ll have walked across this panel into the unknown, how does that make you feel?”
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Places to go, Neil Young shirts to wear. Happy 80th Birthday Mr. Young! #neilyoung
A cartoon drawing in pen and ink with a light wash of a couple preparing to leave for a night out, dinner with friends or family maybe as the woman by the door is holding a tote bag with a bottle of wine in it. She is lifting her coat off of the coat rack and says to her partner, “We really need to go, but first you need to change everything, except(underlined) your Neil Young shirt, that’s perfect for any occasion.” Her partner has a perplexed look, he is wearing pants that are too short, or shorts that are too long, kind of like climbing pants maybe, anyhow not right for the dinner. The Neil Young shirt is a retro shirt of Neil Young’s head and shoulders, he’s singing and has his harmonica and holder and is playing guitar. His sideburns very long, wearing sunglasses, so cool. Swirls surround the text that say Neil Young above and below the T-shirt art. A cartoon to celebrate Neil Young’s 80th Birthday.
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Not yet a morning person yet, but less of a night owl. #inkonpaper #illustration #drawing
Featured is a large rectangular wash of ink. In the centre, upper portion of the illustration is a highlighted cartoon-like half moon with a profile facing right. The moon has been hooked by a figure at bottom of the illustration, the figure holds the line taut, the extra line falls out of the ink wash area.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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#democracy #hope #positive #conversations
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Timely post. #daylightsavings #clocks #timechange
Six zany/surreal drawings of cartoon clocks drawn in pen and ink. Clock dials/hands go every which way, one looks a bit like Salvador Dali, tiny sparrows fly around the clocks, a cat sit as atop the Dali clock watching the sparrows. Two pen and ink drawings of hourglasses. Both are on yoga mats. The top hourglass is on its back holding an alarm clock at arm’s length. The sand in the yoga glass is settled to almost a horizontal level. The bottom hourglass lies on its stomach/face down, with its legs bent up at the knees arms stretched out in front, the alarm clock is off to the side also face down. The sand in the hourglass is horizontal.
November 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Scary really how much there is. #creativeprocess #art #cartoons #halloween #inkonpaper
A cartoon drawing of two people having a hot drink together. In the right hand corner/side is a large body made up of papers, drawings, portfolios, canvases, stretcher bars, note pads etc. This body has an eye looking at the person closest to it. That person is saying, “Oh, don’t mind that, it’s just my body of unseen work.”
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Fair enough… #cats #fashion #costumes
October 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The First Robin of Halloween #trickortreating #tropes #candy #costumes #batmanandrobin
October 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Calico bats and the inspiration behind this toon. #rescuecats #halloween #calicocats #bats
October 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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A little something from back in May. #elbowsup , yeah, still. #proudcanadian
🇨🇦 Also #gojays !
October 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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#autumn #inkonpaper #watercolour
October 23, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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#🎃 #halloween #datenight #pumpkins #brideoffrankenstein #dracula
A cartoon pen and ink drawing, with a light wash of the Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula seated at a table across from each other, holding hands and looking dreamily into one another’s eyes while sipping a Hallowe’en concoction from a Jack-o-lantern sitting on the table between them.
October 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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‘Tis the season.
#spells #halloween #cartoon #magic
October 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Perfect fit. #sometimeagotuesday #costumes #brushpenonpaper #inkwash #cats #turkeys #canadianthanksgiving
October 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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#knitting #illustration #inkonpaper #space
October 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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#heavylifting #cartoonists #drawing #illustration #freespeech
September 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Caption: “Now, where was I?”
#freespeech #freedomofspeech @jimmykimmel.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Taking a little break from social media for now. Not sure if the post, (that I reposted here), I mentioned was blacked out the other day on IG was from a glitch, the hashtags of banned comedians or the image itself. Either way it’s taken up too much energy, apologies if I got it wrong.
September 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Yesterday, I made a few Free Speech Canary drawings at the rainy art market and gave a couple away. Today, I’m sending the remaining canary to a musician friend in NYC and whipping up a new one for a drawing exchange with the excellent @catherineholmes.bsky.social Embrace action, however small. 🐤
Sing stronger together drawing Songbird gotta sing drawing We need your voice Never stop singing
September 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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#autumn #painting
A pen and ink drawing of a tree with eyes looking up and holding a palette of autumn colours, uses a brush and paints its green foliage with the autumn colours.
September 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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#cartoonists
September 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Onwards #freespeech
A tiny woman/cartoonist rolls a large ink bottle up a hill. A wider view of the same cartoonist rolling the large ink bottle shows the hill surface to be a tilted drafting table, there is a blank piece of paper taped in the center of the table. A dip pen rests on the raised pen support at the lower edge of the table. A desk lamp is positioned over the paper.
September 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Sharing this cartoon here that was blacked out by Instagram. Drew it back in May and simply pondered whether he was returning home to a coronation now that he’s been riding around in actual golden carriages. #freespeech #comedians #cartoonists
September 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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#sometimeagosunday A favourite painting from a few years back when I only imagined having two cats. #rescuecats
September 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM