Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴

@katbaumann.bsky.social

1.5K followers 610 following 1.8K posts

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.

bit.ly

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

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

bit.ly

1 2 14

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 21m

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!

1 1

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 22h

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: (quoted skeet)

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 22h

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)

1 2 32

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

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 · 1d

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...

1 4

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

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?)

4 3 41

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

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

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 2d

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

2 11

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

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

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

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.

1 7

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

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 · 2d

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)

1 4 46

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

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 · 3d

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)

2 1 36

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

Tough Mike hates to see a hypnotist comin'!

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

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

Reposted by ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴

Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 4d

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

4 27

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

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"

9 33

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

Day 277: Ah-gug-gug-gug, da vines are comin' after us!

Previous dressed up comics in this arc:
Day 1:
bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 2:
bsky.app/profile/katb...
Day 3 (quoted skeet)

A 2-panel comic drawn in pen in the style of E.C. Segar's Popeye cartoons. The top caption says "I yam dressin' my comic up as other comics! (Pt. 4)"
Panel 1 shows me (drawn like Popeye the Sailor but with long, wavy black hair) being swatted by a long, tendril coming from a sentient acorn squash vine with a swift "shooop!" SFX, stars flying outward and my glasses popping upward off my head. Beside me is my spouse (a tall person with curly dark hair and square glasses) drawn like Olive Oyl and clasping their hands together with surprise.
In panel 2, I'm running away from the vines and carrying my spouse, while saying "Better get back in da house before we gets exercuted," which is a direct reference to the original Popeye comic panel described in the first comment on this post.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-4-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

3 4 37

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

Day 276: Kalvin and Jobbes (featuring @jamesinks.bsky.social )

And a link to the first comic in this little arc: bsky.app/profile/katb...

Single panel comic drawn in pen in the style of Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes, and continuing on from yesterday's comic about giant vines and leaves pressing up against the window of my house.
The top caption on the comic says "Dressing my comic up as other comics: Pt. 3"
In the comic, my spouse and I are drawn like Calvin and Hobbes (my spouse looks like Hobbes, but with square glasses and cheetah spots instead of tiger stripes, and I am drawn as Calvin but with round glasses and long, dark, wavy hair. I'm gesturing happily at he center of the panel and saying "Woah-- we got a ton of acorn squash from the radioactive vine!" James/Hobbes ("Jobbes") is scratching their head and looking at the acorn squashes, some of which are arranged in monstrous "snowman" builds, similar to many of the Calvin and Hobbes comics do with snowmen, and saying "This seems... ominous."
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-3-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

1 8 47

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

omg absolutely raw cucumber in a salad is 1000x better than raw zucchini. cucumber is basically tube-lettuce and zucchini is like a terrible prank from nature that people keep sneaking into sweet breads.

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

but can you switch the app into depeche mode?

Reposted by ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

4 32

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

so this is a lesson to inject a little bit of fairytale spite into your life. be the Rumplestiltskin who operates by a set of unspoken rules and hoist unwanted gourds on people if they accidentally solve your riddles!

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

The way I tricked her into taking it was I met with her and another friend and was holding the zumpkin in my arm like a baby. Friend #1 looked at it and said nothing (very polite) but other friend asked about it the second she arrived, so I handed it to her and said "first one to mention it gets it"

1 12

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

Update on Zumpkin: I cut this monstrosity off my pumpkin vine when it was the size of a large human newborn and tricked my friend into taking it.
Her report:
"Pumpkin seeds and zucchini-like flesh, definitely a hybrid.(doesn’t tastes as good as raw zucchini)"

Are people eating raw zucchini??

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 14d

Day 268: Who IS he??

Single-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading. There are two captions in the panel, saying "The pumpking vine I planted is finally bearing fruit! Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be a pumpkin."
In the panel we see the pumpkin vine in question, with one long mystery fruit growing from it, which is wearing a pair of those nose-and-mustache disguise sunglasses from the 90's.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (9-25-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

5 1 20