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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴
@katbaumann.bsky.social
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She/her comic artist and musician in Minnesota
Website: katbaumann.com
Daily Comic book: etsy.com/shop/KatBaumannArt
^proceeds to support mutual aid for immigrants in Mankato
Black Lives Matter. Trans rights now. Free Palestine. Abolish ICE.
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All my Lionels Richie'd
glamor shot of Lionel Richie from the 1980's
February 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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All my Pontiacs Vibe'd
Photo of a burnt-orange colored 2003 Pontiac Vibe hatchback
February 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Honestly, this is exactly what I look like every time I get lost in the sauce listening to very old hymns
Closeup of a singer staring directly up in an almost catatonic-looking state
February 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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As of today, sales from the daily comic book have raised $691.89 for a mutual aid org helping immigrants in my city ❤️ I'm SO thankful to everyone who's ordered the book, and I'd love to hand more fat wads of cash to my group organizers in the future!

You can order here:
www.etsy.com/shop/KatBaum...
Photo of my cats Margo and Egg Noodle both smashed into the same heated bed even though I have a whole other heated bed sitting right next to them on the window seat (they must share. they are best friends) Margo is a longhair diluted calico (grey speckled with cream and white patches) and Egg Noodle is a shorthair orange-and-white tuxedo tabby American shorthair. My window seat is messy and there is detritus surrounding the area where my cats are snuggling together. Photo of a stack of my comic books, shown from the spines which read "I Drew a Comic Book Every Day for a Year and Lived" with my surname at the base of the spine: "Baumann".
February 9, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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I ask her not to stare at me with her extra lids, I beg her
Comic drawn in india ink with sable brush and inkwash shading. It's a simple drawing of my longhair diluted calico cat Margo sitting calmly and staring at me, while half-draped in her favorite translucent sash, but her second/inner eyelids are retracting too slowly so they're half-covering her eyes and she looks like an alien. Speech bubbles from me are coming from off-panel, saying "Margo, put your extra lids away. Margo, please... I'm not supposed to see this." In the bottom right corner is my signature and today's date (Kat Baumann 2-4-26)
February 4, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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[dialup Internet sound]
Closeup of my orange cat's face, staring into the distance and waiting for divine inspiration to activate his little walnut brain
February 3, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Becoming more involved in my community lately has reminded me just how bad my Spanish is-- I'm working on it! But today I pulled out this gem while telling someone about my cat:

"Mi gato... Ello es muy guapo, pero.. no muy inteligente"

Spanish speakers are way too patient, I feel like a menace.
A photo of my orange American shorthair cat Egg Noodle, perched on the back of a couch and staring into the middle distance, head empty of thoughts.
February 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Everyone's head is on a swivel rn, chiropractors are gonna make a killing in a few months
A meme featuring Samuel L Jackson as an older character staring at the camera with suspicion. The caption says "Minnesota staring at every out of state vehicle"
February 1, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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I had a lot of stickers leftover from convention tabling and threw those into the shop for the fundraiser too, & ran out of this one pretty quickly.
I know that quite a few of these were purchased by sweet older ladies who are in a choir with me, and I do love to see it
screenshot of an item in my online shop which is now out of stock: a die-cut vinyl sticker that says "Punch fascists" and features several wildflowers native to Minnesota, as well as Minnesota's state butterfly: the Monarch!
February 1, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Delivering 2025 daily comic books in the snow to a few local people today! If you live outside my city, one of our boys in blue (USPS) will bring it to you in my stead! 🦋
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www.etsy.com/shop/KatBaum...
All profits go to a mutual aid org for immigrants in Mankato, MN
Clip from one of my daily comics last year, featuring an inkwash drawing of my partner's prius speeding down a south dakota highway and shaking visibly; two road signs say "Drive 80 MPH in a Prius. C'mon, do it. We fucking dare you." and a scraggly speech bubble is coming from the car and saying "Ah jeez...."
February 1, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Just in case Square still gives anyone trouble with their dumb address auto-fill glitch, I put some of the Daily Comic Books on an etsy shop too:

www.etsy.com/shop/KatBaum...
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Thank you everyone for supporting the mutual aid in my little city 🦋
the front cover of the book I compiled from all the daily comics I drew last year. the cover shows a drawing of me (a white lady with long wavy hair and glasses) working at a drafting desk and surrounded by a dozen comically-tall stacks of paper. The title is in bold lettering and says "I drew a comic every day for a year and lived; a 365-part retrospective of 2025 by Kat Baumann"
January 30, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Look at her. She doesn't even know how much Margo slander is in this book.
Or libel? I roasted her for about a hundred pages.
Cropped segment of the image in the original skeet; a closeup of my longhair diluted calico Margo, who is looking up and off-camera with her round little face and a fish-shaped collar hanging from her collar
January 30, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Margo and I are hard at work, packing books to ship off today! And by that I mean I have prepped 22 packages to send off, and Margo has tried very hard to sneak her hair into each one.

✨Profits from the daily comic book go to an immigrant mutual aid org here in Mankato, MN✨
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Photo of my longhair diluted calico Margo, sitting on 2 stacked boxes of comic books, along with another stack revealing the front cover of my book "I drew a comic every day for a year and lived" next to a package of padded shipping envelopes. In the background is an absolute mess because we haven't finished the final coat of paint on our entryway so our coat rack and shoe shelf are still sitting in my living room/studio area.
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Lol the ICE dipshits aren't ready for this like we are
Screenshot from a Minnesota weather authority forecast showing wind chill temperatures for tomorrow all across the state, with numbers ranging from negative 45 degrees fahrenheit to negative 63 degrees fahrenheit
January 22, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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If you enjoy slice-of-life manga about people being completely possessed by the feverish pursuit of art, I'm so happy to report that Akane Banashi is very very good
Screenshot from the "Akane Banashi" manga about Rokugo performers, in which a character named Shomei (very dignified man in a 3-piece suit with slicked-back hair) is shown pushing up his glasses and saying "At times, I like to be a little scamp."
January 20, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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My contribution (a little late) to the #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMPLS comic posts. My experience with ICE in my city so far, keeping the language as vague as possible to protect the groups on the ground helping people here.
Digitally-drawn comic panel in tones of blue, showing a map of southern Minnesota with several cities marked: St. Cloud, Willmar, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, Mankato and Albert Lea. Boxed captions say "We're an hour south of MPLS, a blue dot in the MN valley with a large immigrant population." Digitally drawn comic panel in blue hues, showing an angry crowd of city residents in the foreground, silhouetted, a police officer sitting at a table and shrugging in the midground in medium blue, and a semi-circle table of council members sitting in front of 3 limp flags in light blue in the background. Captions say "After ice pepper-sprayed civilians in old town last week, we packed a 3.5 hour city countil meeting, begging the head of police to use their $2M budget to stop kidnappings." Panel showing a person looking around on a street while removing a paper grocery bag from the back seat of a sedan, with captions saying "It basically feels like we're on our own. But we're tenacious. People are taking part in mutual aid and filling needs as they arise, regardless of weather." Panel in various blue hues, showing the view from the driver seat of my car with my gloved hand resting on the bottom of the open window; an elderly person has reached out and placed one mittened hand over mine while the other holds a whistle. The elderly person has a speech bubble saying "You're here to help?" My speech bubble says "yeah" and theirs responds "me too." The captions say "I ran into myn neighbor, who I rarely see, when several of us were keeping watch at our local elementary school. Things feel scary, but not lonely."
January 20, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Omg. ♥️✨
The incredible smirk on this person's face after telling a Nazi to have a terrible day
January 10, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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Reposting a hi-res scan of a daily comic from a few months back, so everyone knows where my cats stand on the issues
Single panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading, depicting two hands (mine) holding half-moon-shaped ice cubes up to my two cats while they lick and chew on them with goofy expressions on their faces. In curly calligraphy above them is a caption that says "Destroy Ice" and beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), the date "7-30-2025" and the time I spent drawing it: 50 minutes
January 8, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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I task you to focus less on how shitty I drew the hands and more on his sweet little cheeky little face
closeup on the above-described sketch, zooming in on my shorthair cat Egg Noodle's face, with his ears back and neck rolls forming together as he tucks his head in and stretches. precious boy.
January 6, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Working digitally today, quick warmup sketch in CSP
Digital greyscale drawing of my shorthair tabby Egg Noodle and myself (white lady with long wavy hair, wearing round glasses and a longsleeve shirt while sitting at a tilted drafting desk), both doing a stretch with our "arms" out in front of us. Egg Noodle has his tail kinked upward in the air and a serene expression on his little face. Precious boy. Same sketch described in previous image, but the softer, less-detailed under-sketch on a pale grey background
January 6, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Drew another animal I know nothing about: the margay

I have a running list of suggestions that I think will be fun to pull from for warmup's -- throw some names at me that you think I haven't seen
A 3-panel comic drawn in pen with colored pencil; the top caption says "I wanna draw another animal I've never see. The 'Margay' has been on my list for a while..." Below that caption is a drawing of my longhair calico cat Margo, sitting in front of a rainbow with the caption "Margo [crossed out] Margay" and a scraggly speech bubble that says "Margo don't understand the complexities of human sexuality and she don't care neither." The dailogue in her speech bubble has unnecessary accents over all the vowels, as is her way. Panel 2 starts with a caption saying "OK, no reference:" and shows a drawing of what resembles a manta ray, but semi-transluscent with organs showing in the abdomen(?) area, and bioluminescent globules trailing off of the 'wing' shapes on its sides. There are cursive captions surrounding the drawing that say "Something like a manta ray? A face that has seen the horrors of the deep. Shaped like a lunar moth? Squishy lil guy." Panel 3 starts with another caption: "Now with reference:" and shows a drawing of a small, spotted cat sitting in a cross-section of tree limbs and looking at us with a flat, depressed expression on its face. The captions say "Why, it's just a sweet little tree kitty with yaoi hands. The face of a divorced dad." Beneath the comic is my signature: "Baumann '26"
January 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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It's important to call your representatives right now. And I am.

Even so, this is how it feels begging my maga congressman to do literally fucking anything about the obvious war crimes:
What appears to be a black-and-white digital painting of a depressed-looking sock puppet with big bulbous eyes staring into the middle distance with the caption "I scream but god doesn't listen"
January 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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I showed my spouse Terminator 2 for the first time on Christmas so now this is a dedicated Sarah Connor fan account

this diva.
Drawing of the character Sarah Connor, a muscular white woman from the Terminator series, in her iconic look from the second movie: long, straight hair tied back with bangs (that are a crazy length, if I'm being honest), wearing a tank top and black pants, holding a cigarette in her right hand and an AK-47 in the left; she's also wearing those iconic round sunglasses. The drawing has crosshatch shading, and my signature at the bottom: "Baumann '26"
January 1, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Day 365: What better way to bookend this year than by reprising the very first drawing I did in 2025?

We made it through, friends. I'm going to miss these dailies, but I won't be going anywhere -- you'll see warmup sketches while I work on some bigger projects!

Thank you for being here with me ❤️
The single-panel comic I drew on the first day of 2025: it has a sloppy border and a simple gesture line drawing of my shorthair cat Egg Noodle looking to the side mischievously, with a top caption that says "The boy feasted on toilet paper." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), the date it was drawn (1-1-2025) and the time I spent drawing it (one minute) A redone version of the comic I drew on January 1st, but with much more detail; the comic is drawn in pen with inkwash shading and depicts in detail my shorthair cat Egg Noodle with one piece of toilet paper hanging out of his mouth and a vacant expression on his little face. He's surrounded by shreds of toilet paper, with the remaining roll lying behind him on the wood floor. The top caption is written in cursive: "The Boy feasted on Toilet Paper." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes) and today's date (12-31-25)
December 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Day 364: One more day to go, nerds!
7-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading. The top panel is borderless and shows a little drawing of me at my drafting desk, eyeglasses akimbo and stink lines coming off me, with a caption arching overhead that says "I can't beleive it, but it's the end of the year." Panel 2-4 are small and on the same row, depicting me doing my daily routine of brushing my teeth, feeding the cats wet food, and drawing my dumb little comic. There is an overarching caption that says "Making a comic every single day was challenging, but it was also a really nice touchstone throughout 2025." Panel 5 starts with a caption saying "So, did this daily practice fix my broken brain? Well, No. But it pushed me to show the world some very ugly little drawings that I can look back on with affection." Panel 6 has two more captions saying "Some of these dailies have been sad, and corny, and probably a little cringey. And that's okay, because I am all of those things!" In the panel is a drawing of my longhair cat Margo looking back at us and saying (in a scraggly speech bubble with unnecessary accents on all the vowels), "Margo is unmoved by laedy's sentimentality." Panel 7 shows snowdrifts up against the outside of my house, and the cutout of my studio window showing me working at my desk. The captions say "Regardless, I really hope you've enjoyed reading these. And I hope things are better, wherever and whenever you are. There's one more daily comic left..." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (12-30-2025)
December 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM