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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴
@katbaumann.bsky.social
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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/481SmNR
Black Lives Matter. Trans rights now. Free Palestine. Dismantle ICE.
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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 10d
tfw the lady returns from her toils
closeup from a recent comic I drew, where my shorthair cat Egg Noodle is resting in his electric heated bed on a window seat and his eyes are wide open as he's disturbed by his sister; his dumb little tail is up in an "S" curve. I like this drawing a lot
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Day 331: zip-zap-zop
2-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panels are placed horizontally on the same row, are separated with a diagonal border and the top caption says "Fully that time of year when the air is so dry that I keep shocking the cats when I pet them." Panel 1 shows my longhair cat Margo and my shorthair cat Egg Noodle sitting on a blanket over my lap, and my hands are reaching out to pet them both on their little heads as sharp static electricity sparks hover around. Margo looks angry and has a scraggly speech bubble saying "eEEEeh! a curse on lady!" Egg Noodle looks sad/scared and his speech bubble says "mother, why?" and I have two speech bubbles coming down from off-panel saying "Sorry! Ah-- sorry!" Panel 2 is completely black except for a window pane showing a dark sky with a crescent moon in it, and little static electricity sparks are accompanied with a "ZAP" SFX in one corner. There's a scraggly speech bubble coming from Margo that says "eEeeh!!!" and another speech bubble attributed to me that says "Sorry, Margo!" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) today's date (11-28-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

Sonata Arctica
Modest Mouse
Devin Townsend
Fair to Midland
Weird Al

Boy, what a spread. All exquisite shows btw
trungles.com Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 1d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:

The Veronicas*
Janet Jackson
Chappell Roan (very early career)
Tinashe

(I think that’s literally it. I don’t like crowds lol)
proptartmn.bsky.social Brooke @proptartmn.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:

NKOTB (Magic Summer Tour)
Soul Asylum
Rilo Kiley
Ben Folds (Five)
Less Than Jake/Blink 182
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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so fuckin mad that my favorite means of breaking up a run-on sentence -- the em dash -- is now associated with ai generated text.

what am I supposed to do now? use semicolons?? like a goddamn english major?
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Day 330: Happy Saturated Fats and Potato Day, my loves!
3-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panels are mostly equal in size and are stacked vertically. Panel 1 shows a closeup of my clasped hands, and captions saying "I don't really celebrate most holidays. Deconstructing from conservative evangelism in my 20's left me disinterested in many of the traditions I grew up with. It happens!" Panel 2 shows my hands again, now peeling a large potato. The caption says "However, every November I still worship faithfully at the altar of mashed potatoes." Panel 3 shows me, a white lady with dark, wavy hair and round glasses with my hands up in the air in a worshiping pose; in the foreground is a large pot of mashed potatoes, and in the rising steam is the cursive caption: "Blessed be thy starch on this hallowed day of feasting." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (11-27-2025)
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Day 329: "About three things I was absolutely positive. First, the Elephant Bird was extinct. Second, there was a part of it-and I didn’t know how prevalent that part might be-that might resemble a large pachyderm. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with it." 🐀✨
2-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading. The panels are stacked vertically, and the top caption says "Time to draw another animal without ever seeing it: THE ELEPHANT BIRD." Panel 1 starts with a caption that says "I'm told this one is extinct, but I'm not even sure what era it's from..." In the panel we see a version of me (a white lady with long, wavy, dark hair and round glasses) styled like Bella Swan from Twilight, recreating the scene in the forest from the first movie where she's facing away from Edward and saying "How long have you been seventeen?" but instead my speech bubble says "How long have you been extinct?" Behind me is a bird that kind of looks like a turkey with an elephant trunk on its nose, long eyelashes ending in bulbous dots, and a ridge of spike-like feathers along its spine. Panel 2 starts with a caption that says "And now let's do a search & see how it actually looked: the Elephant Bird (RIP)". Below that is a drawing of a large bird that looks like an ostrich, but with thicker legs and simple, long, draping feathers on its back. I've drawn it next to an ostrich for scale, and there are captions written around the drawing that say "Apparently went extinct around 1000 CE??" and "Ooh, judging by this hump, the elephant bird is actually a buffalo." with that last one pointing at the elephant bird's arched back and referencing an earlier comic of mine where I was bitching that the Musk Ox should be called a "buffalo." There's a final caption extending across the bottom of the panel behind the legs and feet of the ostrich and elephant bird that just says "THICK". Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (11-26-2025)
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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It's comforting to know I won't have to roll my eyes at any MAGA relatives tomorrow because I simply don't break bread with nazis 🦃
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Day 328: Creepy dudes gonna be creepy
3-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panels are stacked vertically and the top caption says "Spooky little story on this foggy morning:" Panel 1 shows a set of heavy curtains in a living room, with part of the curtain draped over a floor lamp with part of a pitch black window peeking through. The caption says "My aunt always pulls all her curtains as soon as it gets dark, out of habit... something I've rarely thought to do in my little fish bowl of a house. Reminds me of a creepy encounter I had years ago..." Panel 2 shows a view from outside my studio window at night, showing me working at my desk and listening to music on my laptop. The captions say "I used to work really late nights in my studio, listening to music with my windows open in the summer." Panel 3 starts with a caption, "until one afternoon when I was working out in my yard and a car I vaguely recognized from a local frat house drove by me..." and shows me kneeling in my front yard with a trowel and tending to a plant while a sedan whisks by me on the street. A speech bubble is coming from one of the windows and says "We like your playlist!" I'm staring wide-eyed into the distance in response to this message. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (11-25-2025).
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Daily Comic #327: Just some little messes
Single-panel comic taking up a whole vertically-shaped page. The panel depicts a messy living space with a round table in the foreground, holding a steaming mug of coffee (some of which has spilled around the coaster it's resting on), a lonely pencil, a hardcover book with a bookmark sticking out, a crumpled receipt and some wayward papers behind the coffee mug. Just behind the table is an upright piano with sheet music on the stand, a post-it note stuck to the paper and an afghan rug falling over the top edge. Above the piano is a plant hanging in the window, and next to the window is a tall bookshelf packed with books and jewel CD cases, with a picture frame and half-burned up candle resting on top. The coffee steam is rising through the composition and in the right side of the background are some curtains, a pillow on a padded bench and another photo frame hanging on the far wall. The captions in the comic just say "Sometimes it's just fun to draw a messy little room full of little messes." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (11-24-2025)
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Laughing at this headline as I patch all my clothes by hand out of spite and watch TV with an adblocker on my 12 year old laptop
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Day 326: This one was pretty close!
3-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading. The panels are placed horizontally on the same row, and the top caption says "Drawing a 'tripod fish' without ever having seen one:" Panel 1 shows me, a white lady with long, dark, wavy hair and round framed glasses, leaning over my drafting desk with a pen in one hand and resting my jaw on my other hand thoughtfully. My speech bubble says "This one seems... like it should be pretty literal, right?" and my speech bubbles extend over the next two panels. Panel 2 shows what I imagined a tripod fish would look like, which is essentially a goldfish with big, bulbous eyes, frilly fins and three thin, scraggly tendrils extending out to rest on the sea floor. Two speech bubbles from panel 1 extend over panels 2 and 3, saying "Ok, let's see how it actually looks -- oh shit! Ya, pretty close." And in panel 3, there is a drawing of how the tripod fish actually looks, which is similar to my last drawing but the fish moreso resembles a minnow with a long, thin body, and it has two very long, thin side fins extending upward like rabbit ears, and the tripod 'tendrils' are long, straight and with a very slight curve, extending to the sea floor below. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-23-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Day 325: Hilarious little creature, the jerboa
2-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading; the panels are stacked vertically and the top caption says "Another 'Animal Un-familiar' -- today it's the JERBOA." Panel 1 starts with a caption box saying "since I don't have a goddamn clue what this animal is, what if I go extremely literal with it?" Below that caption is a drawing of a gerbil and a drawing of a boa constrictor snake, both with arrows pointing at a new creature I've described as "some kind of horrible ermine?" with a bicycle seat-shaped head (like the boa) and a long, weasel body. Panel 2 starts with a caption box saying "Now to look up a photo reference:" followed immediately with a large cursive caption saying "LOL." The creature drawn in this panel looks like a very small kangaroo mouse, with long rabbit ears and long legs that end in weird two-toed feet resembling ostrich feet. There's a cursive caption saying "Why did i kind of nail the face?" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-22-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Day 324: Oh! Interesting!

(Note: this isn’t actually a good representation of either of my grandmas — my skills of passive aggression are the product of at least a dozen different white midwesterners)
3-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panels are all on the same row and are equal in size, and the top caption says "Margo tried to escape the house again last night, so I've become my German grandmother in order to properly guilt her:" Panel 1 is entirely shaded in inkwash to simulate darkness, and shows me lying in bed while my longhair cat Margo nestles on top of my back and purrs happily. I'm looking at her with an annoyed expression on my face and saying "Oh, so you LIKE being in a warm bed in a house? That's so interesting." Panel 2 shows Margo sitting on the kitchen floor and yelling at me with a scraggly speech bubble saying "hEHh!" while my hand reaches in from off-panel to give her a small ceramic bowl filled with wet chicken. My speech bubbles say "You think you get canned food outside? The neighbor's dog would eat your silly little ass." Panel 3 shows Margo sitting like a little queen while my hand reaches in from off-panel to wipe an eye booger away from her face with a tissue. My speech bubble leads offpanel and says "Ungrateful." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (11-21-2025)
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Rewatched 'O Brother Where Art Thou' the other night and it was nice being whisked away to a fantasy world where a known klansman didn't get elected as governor
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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One of my close friends called me yesterday and said "I wanted to share the good news with you!" and ya'll... for one shining moment I thought it was gonna be exactly what you're thinking 😂
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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testing out the "add a cuss to your search to filter out genAI results" strategy
wide screenshot of my Startpage search enging in dark mode. the search bar says "eagle in fuckin' flight" with 'images' search results toggled.
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Day 323: I did it. I redeemed myself after the water moccasin fiasco
2-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading. The panels are placed horizontally on the same row and separated with a diagonal border, and a top caption says "Another 'Animal Un-familiar' -- this morning it's something called an oryx." Another boxed caption stretches over the top of both panels, saying "I think one of the most interesting factors of this mini-series is that I don't even know what language/region these names are from. I'm working strictly on vibes. And the oryx has 'high fantasy' vibes... Drawn with no idea:" Below that caption, in panel 1, is a drawing of what resembles a thick-limbed ram with long rabbit ears that go backward away from the animal's head, and ram-like horns that curve down toward the face and end in soft waves. It has thick, furry feet like a clydesdale horse, and cursive captions around the drawing say "Just a big, stocky sorta guy? (thick) cool ears? fancy horns. Beautiful goat face." A caption box shaped like a curvy arrow leads from panel 1 to panel 2, and says "Now to draw it with reference:" At the top of panel 2 are large captions saying "AHH YEAH! YEAH! the vibes!" In the center of the panel is a drawing of how the oryx actually looks, which isn't terribly far from my prediction: it's a slender, antelope type animal with black stripes running along its spine and lower sides of its abdomen, and black marks on its face that make it look like the wrestler Sting. It has two slender horns that start close together on the forehead and run upward and back like two curving talons, and it has wideset, pointy ears with black tips on them. The cursive captions around the drawing say "Beautiful antelope face" and "the vibes were correct!" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-20-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Day 322: "Welt! Die-sen-nuts" (high five)
3-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the top caption is written in bold text and says "Tantric singing with beet-oven" Panel 1 is large and shows a tiny me in concert blacks, climbing on a literal treble cleft. A speech bubble coming from me has "Just visiting!" written in cursive, and another small caption is written with an arrow pointing at me, saying "(mezzo masquerading as a soprano)" The caption in the top left corner says "I've been singing for a long time and I'm constantly learning. I CAN sing a high B, but I'd rather not spend a lot of time in that neighborhood." Panel 2 is an x-ray of a torso, focusing on the ribcage, with a speech bubble coming out that is a passage from Beethoven's 9th Symphony where the soprano line hangs out on the A above treble cleft for many consecutive measures of half-notes. The text of the music reads "Welt! Die--sen Kuss der gan--z.." Another caption continues, "Recently I've been working on keeping my ribcage expanded during long-held passages. Practicing the soprano line for Beethoven's 9th Symphony feels like training for a goddamn marathon." Panel 3 is a large panel encompassing panel 2, in which I'm looking intently at a music stand and holding my arms up in the air. There's a final caption box with an arrow pointing at me which says "(technique I learned from a local voice teacher)" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (11-19-2025)
November 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Daily comic 321: lol dumb
3-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading; the panels are all placed horizontally on the same row, with a top caption that says "It's a lot of fun interacting with the comments on my 'Animal Un-familiar' comics, but I especially enjoy the exasperated DM's they prompt from my close friends & loved ones." Panel 1 shows me, a white lady with long, dark, wavy hair and round-frame glasses wearing a sweater. I'm putting a rolled up parchment into a cartoony metal shoot that's labeled "Daily Comic Shute" with an unnecessary umlaut over the "u" in "shute." In panel 2, I'm sitting at my drafting desk with my fingers laced, looking at my phone which is emitting a "BZZT" sound with a jagged speech bubble. Panel 3 shows me looking at my phone with a stupid little smile on my face; 3 text bubbles are coming from the phone: the first one says "lol. dumb.", the second says "How tf did you know what a 'mountain chicken' was but you didn't know a water moccasin was a snake???", the third says "oh honey, I have failed you as a furry." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-18-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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tfw the lady returns from her toils
closeup from a recent comic I drew, where my shorthair cat Egg Noodle is resting in his electric heated bed on a window seat and his eyes are wide open as he's disturbed by his sister; his dumb little tail is up in an "S" curve. I like this drawing a lot
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Day 320: It didn't turn out to be a bird.. but i'm still mad.
3-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading. Panel 1 starts with a caption: "Drawing another 'animal un-familiar' today, and the dice gods have chosen the WATER MOCCASIN. I've heard of this one before, adn I'm almost entirely certain it's a bug. Drawing bugs is already hard-mode. Let's do it with no reference:" Below the captions is a drawing of an insect with an oval-shaped body with armor-like carapace, a tiny face at one end with two pincers and wideset, beady eyes. Eight long legs come out in spider formation, with the same amount of joints as human fingers, and there are ripples around it to simulate the surface of water. Cursive captions surround the drawing, saying "Gotta be vaguely food-shaped, right? Mmm.. I hate him. Terrible. Bad to look at. Rests on water surface like this, maybe? If this one turns out to be a bird, I'm going to be so mad." Panel 2 starts below, with a caption saying "Now let's look up a reference pic!" and below that is a tiny drawing of me sitting at my computer with a big speech bubble that only has an ellipsis in it, as I am stunned into silence. Panel 3 shows a detailed drawing of a snake coiled up on itself in a somewhat oval shape, with its toothless mouth open wide. It's surrounded by cursive captions that say "It's a snake. Unbelievable. It is mocking me. Every day I get on the internet and make a fool of myself" and this last caption trails off at the bottom of the panel. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-17-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Day 320: It's never a bird when i think it's a bird

(I screwed up on the bottom cursive caption, meant to write "eyeLIDS," as in "I'm unconvinced he has eyeLIDS."

Pobody's nerfect! Especially not this little tree pervert.
3-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading; the two main panels are stacked vertically, and panel 2 is a small panel inset within the top right corner of panel 1. The top caption says "Another 'Animal Un-familiar' this morning, and the dice gods have chosen the 'AYE-AYE' from my running list. Panel 1 starts with speech bubbles which lead to the little inset panel (Panel 2) where a simplified cartoon version of me is sitting with my sketchbook and saying "This one's gotta be a bird, right? Right? Right?" The following caption says "Drawn with no reference:" and below that is a drawing of a bird perched on a branch. Its beak is similar to a raven or crow: sharp and curved downward. It has little delicate feathers spurting out all over from the back of its head, and its tail feathers curve inward making a crescent moon shape like a toucan. Captions in cursive are written around the bird, saying "Let's go less muppet with this one. Birds always look way crazier in reality than I can ever imagine. ..ah shit, I just drew a cunty pheasant." A final caption in the bottom right corner says "And now..." Panel 3 starts with a caption that says "After looking up photos of the Aye-aye, I've learned it's not a bird, but this pervert:" And below is a drawing of a long-fingered lemur grasping on a vertical branch. It's got a wide, round head and black, rounded ears. It's got a round, small muzzle and completely open, circular eyes with small pupils. Its long fingers grasp around the branch, and the cursive captions around it say "He likes rusty spoons.. he likes to touch them.. (the millennials are gonna love this one). Unconvinced he has eyelids... fur looks a lot like a possum. Cute, in a kind of horrible way." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-16-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Current (permanent) mood as an American in 2025:
Raccoon walking into a room saying “im going insane do you want anything”
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Day 319: Another "Animal Un-familiar." VERY unfamiliar!
2-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading. The panels are stacked vertically and separated with a diagonal border, and the top caption says "Drawing another animal I don't know, pulled randomly from a list of reader suggestions: Today is the "Fossa." Panel 1 starts with a caption: "This is another one of those animals i have... no idea about. (Is it a bird? I always think it might be a bird) Let's draw it with no reference!" Below is a drawing of a squat-looking bird with large eyes and overhanging feather "eyebrows" and plumes of feathers sprouting outward in a messy fan behind its head. It's perched on a branch and has short, stubby tail feathers. The drawing is surrounded by cursive captions saying "Some bulbous eyes & like a hawk nose?? A sort of built-in headdress? (this can't even be close...) I really just keep drawing muppets, huh..." Panel 2 starts with a boxed caption that says "Now to see how it really looks:" Below is a drawing of a cat creature with a lithe, muscular body and a long, tapered tail with very short hair. It has round ears, large round eyes and it is poised on a rock. The cursive captions say "Oh. Oh wow. Get a load of this guy. Cat body, mouse head. I've never seen this creature in my life. 3 decades on this planet and I know nothing. It's got a rat tail." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-15-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Daily comic 318: Margo's harrowing afternoon
A 4-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading. Panels 1 and 2 are both wide and stacked vertically, and panels 3 and 4 are smaller and placed next to each other on the bottom row. The top caption simply says "Yesterday:" In panel 1, my two cats are sitting in their fancy heated cat beds on the window seat. My shorthair cat Egg Noodle is resting his head on the edge of his bed, head empty, and my longhair cat Margo is sitting up and looking out the window as I (a human woman) return from work with my keys in-hand. Margo has scraggly speech bubbles with unnecessary accents over all the vowels (as it her way) that say "the lady returns from her toils. now is Margo's chance." Panel 2 shows Margo darting out of the front door next to my legs as I open the door; her speech bubbles say "freedom for Margo! freedom for bird murder!" and I have a speech bubble saying "Wha-- Margo-what-the-fu--" Panel 3 shows Margo standing stationary on the brick stoop of our house, with a blank expression on her face as I am seen reaching down toward her from the doorway. Her speech bubbles say "what next? Margo never got this far before..." Panel 4 is the same setting, but now I'm actively grabbing and lifting Margo with a large "YOINK" SFX, complete with an umlaut over the "O" in "yoink." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (11-14-2025)
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM