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caitlin cadieux
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creative director, animator, illustrator | she/her
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Yeah that’s the STUFF baby #monsterhunter
Photo of a TV screen showing the character creation process of the bipedal feline characters called Palicos from the game series Monster Hunter. My cat is super fluffy, airh a very pale pinkish fur with a spotted pattern, and bright teal eyes. Photo of a TV screen showing the character creation process of the bipedal feline characters called Palicos from the game series Monster Hunter. This photo shows the same cat from the previous image rotated in profile view.
March 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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The vibe I bring to the function
Photo of the box of an old vintage educational assembly kit of a female human body. There’s a highly detailed illustration of a woman with a normal face and head but transparent everything else, with anatomical illustrations of bones, organs, etc. visible. The title text reads ‘the visible woman’ in all caps. On the bottom right there’s a large blue box with a skeleton and various organs. The rest of the cover text under the title reads ‘An exciting assembly kit which helps reveal the wonders of the human body. EDUCATIONAL and FUN All parts of the body from SKIN to SKELETON. All organs can be removed and replaced. Parts undecorated and paints not included.’ Text on the bottom left reads ‘AN ADDED FEATURE To better understand the miracle of birth, a special, optional group of components helps clarify the MIRACLE of BIRTH The model can be completed without incorporating these elements.’ Inside the blue box there is small text that reads ‘An illustrated, easy-to-follow HANDBOOK written by medical authorities is included.’
February 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Load-bearing emotional support beast

(Disregard that we definitely still have the Christmas tree up lol)
Photo of my dog, a reddish brown fluffy pup, certified God’s best work, Violet. She’s sitting next to me in a chair (photo from my POV) with her chin plunked on my leg, looking up at me in a tender way that rocks. The background is a living room with book shelves and a stairwell in the outside hall visible and a Christmas tree that I really ought to put away still up on the left.
February 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Also just lol
Screen cap from Babylon 5 showing officer ivanova, a woman in a military uniform. Caption reads “not a problem. Anything else you need?” Screen cap from Babylon 5 showing Captain Sheridan, a male officer in uniform on a view screen with grungy VHS noise on it. He’s replying to Ivanova, saying “a glass of whiskey, a gun, and two bullets”
February 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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MEANWHILE, ON BABYLON 5
Photo of a TV playing the 90s sci fi show Babylon 5. It depicts a man, standing, in casual clothes, and a woman in military-esque but also casual clothes sitting on a bed. They’re talking and the guy is gesturing forward with both hands. Above the bed, there is a very large wall tapestry with a black and white checkered border and a gigantic face of Daffy Duck on it.
February 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Just born baby alert
My dog, God’s purest cinnamon beast, Violet, givin me the double barrel puppy dog eyes. She’s reddish brown with luxurious hair and sitting in a good amount of snow, lit up in the foreground but you can tell it’s night from the dark in the rest of the yard that’s visible.
February 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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For better or for worse, this might be one of the most "me" pieces I have ever completed, and I hope you enjoy it.

#art #digitalart #nerdsclusters
A digital artwork in the style of a Catholic icon, with a gold foil background and a teal/burgundy frame. The image prominently depicts a large red Nerd mascot, a guy with two legs and a big round nose. There's a serene expression on its face and its left leg is raised in a parody of the hand gestures often portrayed in Catholic Icons. This nerd has a halo with a Nerds Gummy Cluster centered in it behind its head. Two blue angel nerds hold a teal banner behind it that reads "Cie et Congere", a Latin phrase that translates to "Muster and Cluster", which is written in English just above that. There is more text at the bottom left of the piece that reads "Stronger Together". On the bottom are a set of three small Nerds on each side of the piece, eyes all focused on a hovering small Nerds Gummy Cluster. At the top of the piece, there is a teal semi-circle with a stream of Nerds running in sequence across it. Nerds colors are red, green, purple, pink, and yellow.
February 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Important totem we found on the streets of New York today. I think it might be a Pokémon
Photo of some kind of snow sculpture hand crafted lovingly on a New York City street. It’s a (very, very) vaguely snowman-shaped pile sat on top of a clear plastic trash bag full of glass bottles. A small mini bottle of Bacardi has been shoved into the what could possibly be the gut of the beast. A plastic straw juts out on the other side, and a Q-tip cotton swab is proudly erect from the nose-ish location.
February 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Please accept this humble offering of one small child
A beautiful dog, reddish brown, dusted with snow, looks up at the camera with large round brown eyes. She’s standing on a gray tile floor. A fluffy lil puppy dog with long reddish brown fur is laying on a gray rug, looking up at the camera with large round eyes. God’s favorite dog, Violet, is standing on a doormat with a geometric blue Keith Harding dog design on it. She’s standing next to a coat rack covered in winter coats. The rest of the image is mostly a lot of visible wood floor and a French door with inset glass just visible at the top
February 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Yallllll I’m really proud of how this is coming lmao
Screenshot close up crop of a digital artwork featuring a round, two legged yoshi-esque Nerds candy mascot running to the left with legs outstretched. She’s red and slightly shiny and the bg is a light teal stripe with gold above and below
February 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Behind the scenes sneak peek at the powerful ideas driving my latest drawing
Screenshot of two open Google image search tabs on my phone browser. On the left is ‘nerds mascot’, featuring the colorful rounded little guys with big round eyes, two legs, and no arms from Nerds candy in pink and purple. The right tab is ‘Catholic icon’, featuring the historical portraiture of Catholicism — Jesus with a circle halo behind his head, making a gesture with one hand, often with a gold background that is mostly plain.
February 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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What even IS THIS SHOW lmao
February 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Done. Thank you for doing this
Screenshot showing a donation of $26.25 to Trans Lifeline. Full text reads ‘Thank You for Your Donation! You have helped us continue our mission in a meaningful way. You have donated $26.25 with fees included to Trans Lifeline. Charged Amount $26.25. Donation Date 02/04/2025’
February 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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IN CONCLUSION

#hourlycomicsday

Idk how people actually do these but I think I’m cheating by not having one per hour. BUT I’m allowing myself this. Felt good to draw all day on my own thing.
Digitally drawn single comic panel of an array of food — chicken drumsticks, potatoes, onions, and carrots in slices. The background is pale blue/teal and the food is colored in varying hues of orange. Digitally drawn single comic panel featuring cartoon me looking over my shoulder and pointing at my iPad, where a cartoon version of a Teamfight Tactics auto chess game match is being played. At the top a cartoon chocolate bar and a can of seltzer are floating amongst some sparkly yellow… sparkles.
February 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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I feel like I should be getting sloppier over time and not more precise and extra but I’m having fun SO!!

(Also Violet gets so much outdoors time, she’s not being deprived!! She just has bottomless energy)

#hourlycomicsday
Digitally drawn comic panel in teals with a highlight of bright yellow in the speech bubble. Cartoon me is sitting on the couch folding laundry under duress. A speech bubble comes from the right side, from an off-screen TV, saying ‘math is very concerning. And important.’ The caption reads ‘12 PM - 3 PM – suffering intermittently through laundry (ft. foundation)’ Digitally drawn comic panel in teals with yellow highlights, depicting a cartoon version of my dog Violet, God’s favorite, eyes wide and paw up curiously as she gazes at one of those three-tiered rounded Kong treat dispensers that dogs are supposed to bat around until a treat pops out of a little hole in the side. Her eyes are sparkling with bright yellow sparkles. The caption reads ‘4 - 5 PM – Violet must be distracted with the treat dispensers so she’ll stop begging to go out in the cold every 5 minutes’
February 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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#hourlycomicsday
Single panel digitally drawn comic of a bowl of chapaguri noodles. Background is various shades of teal, with light orange noodles with green and orange veggie bits. Yellow green sparkles surround the bowl. Caption reads ‘10 AM – chapaguri for lunch – thanks Neil ❤️ Single panel digitally drawn comic showing a TV with Lee pace’s emperor cleon from Foundation on screen. He has a speech bubble that reads ‘plz respect and enjoy the peace’. In the foreground you can see two heads peeking up and the person on the right (me) is saying ‘respect and enjoy DEEZ’. Person on left (my main man Neil) is saying ‘haha’ Caption reads ‘11 AM – watching foundation’
February 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Doing hourly comics day bc I deserve it even if yesterday and today have been sucking the big one
Digitally drawn comic panel depicting a highly simplified cartoon version of me wrapped up in bed, staring at my phone with a very angry expression. My dog is curled up like a little cinnamon roll next to me. Bedroom closets and a wire dog crate are drawn in the background. Color is dark teal with bright yellow-green for the light of my phone. Text at the bottom reads ‘3… 4… 5… 6 AM, the doomscroll’ Close up drawing of cartoon me in bed with a tasseled sleep hat pulled over my face. My phone is next to my pillow and my dog is awake with bright sparkly eyes and licking my face with her paws stretched out in front of her. Text at the bottom reads ‘7 AM, the beast has awoken’ Digitally drawn comic panel of cartoon me sitting in a lounge chair in the corner of my living room, drawing on my iPad which is propped up by a big bat pillow on my lap. I’m frowning because today sucks!! Color is mostly a pale blue with pale yellow green in the windows and coming from the iPad screen. Text at the bottom reads ‘8-9 AM, drawing and not feeling great’
February 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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GAZE WRENCHED
Incredibly close up photo of a tv screen showing Sonic the hedgehog from the first live action sonic movie making a weird ass face.
January 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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America rn
Photo of my television playing a scene from the 90s sci fi series Babylon 5. Three dudes in uniform are standing around a shrouded body in what looks like a hangar. The guy on the right is a doctor (but you can’t tell from his clothes, which are plain gray). The caption is his dialogue, which says “all signs point to death by natural causes”. Beneath the caption the episode title is printed in all caps: “INFECTION”
January 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Me reclining in the triclinium reading this rn
Still from the 1970s BBC drama I, CLAVDIVS depicting Livia, wife of Augustus and all-time great TV villainess, laying on a couch with a goblet clasped in both hands. There’s a dude in a purplish toga in the blurry background on the left, in a richly decorated room with lit braziers hanging from the ceiling. Livia is draped in red and pink and has a very cool brass arm band that wraps around her forearm. She’s looking up like ‘what is it now, my god’. I don’t remember what scene this is from but she do be like that most of the time, lol.
January 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Original cover art. I really enjoy designing my own takes on covers for these book rebinds but this was one was too good to not use. I wish I knew who the original artist was.
Photo of a closeup of the soldier illustration in gold foil on the rebound book Photo of the original paperback cover, which is a mottled mauve color with the soldier illustration and author text in black. The title is written in big white text and there’s an additional caption at the bottom left, reading ‘the classic war novel of all time’
January 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The toughest for me is that the end pages are very thin and also white, which I didn’t realize would mean they would be unfortunately transparent on the interior. If I use white end page paper again I will back it with something first!
Photo of a hardcover rebind of a paperback copy of the book All Quiet on the Western Front. This photo shows the end pages on the immediate interior of the book, which are white with a black print of crisscrossing branches. The left side, where the end page is glued to the cover, is slightly transparent, showing the red book cloth and white woven mull underneath. Photo of a hardcover rebind of a paperback copy of the book All Quiet on the Western Front. This photo shows the spine with gold title and author text on the burgundy cover cloth, and my rat logo in gold can be seen on the back cover from this angle.
January 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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BEHOLD

So many errors with this one but I’m still happy with the general presentation, and it’s very readable!! Huge win. The cover illustration is pulled from the original paperback cover, which I’ll post in thread!
Photo of a hardcover rebind of a paperback copy of the book All Quiet on the Western Front. Front cover is a burgundy/dark red and has gold foil text for the title in increasingly bold lettering. The author’s name, Erich Maria Remarque, is in much tinier gold text at the top, and a woodcut-style illustration of the top half of a soldier’s head, with striking eyes and army helmet, with a string of barbed wire crossing the top of his helmet and spanning the width of the cover, decorates the bottom right. Photo of a hardcover rebind of a paperback copy of the book All Quiet on the Western Front. This photo shows me holding the book open with one hand, revealing a spread of pages yellowed with age. The pages have a rust-colored edge coloring.
January 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Screenshot of Chris Tucker speaking to Jackie Chan in Rush Hour 2. Caption reads ‘EVERY BIG CRIME HAS A RICH WHITE MAN BEHIND IT WAITIN' FOR HIS CUT.’ Screenshot of Chris Tucker speaking to Jackie Chan in Rush Hour 2. Caption reads ‘NOW IN OUR CASE, WE KNOW WHO THE RICH WHITE MAN IS.’
January 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Just an evening friend, stopped by for a visit! Chilled up in that tree the whole rest of the time I was out with the dog. I hope they stick around!
Video clip of me walking in my backyard — there’s a tall dead tree that’s been cut off at around 8 ft tall in the center, with a barred owl perched on top. I approach semi-close and eventually the owl looks to the right and flies up into a nearby tree.
January 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM