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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/4690Ti1 Black Lives Matter. Trans rights now. Free Palestine. Dismantle ICE.

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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

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 2h

Everyday we must remind people that gestapo agents and their enablers are committing atrocities. This is an ethnic cleansing. These are crimes against humanity. And they will be held accountable.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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

To me, the 2005 movie never happened. Why remake perfection?

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

Day 287: This movie continues to absolutely rip for me

A 4-panel comic drawn with sable brush and ink, with inkwash shading. The top caption says "Some of my favorite horror media (even tough I am a huge wiener)"
Panel 1 is wide and has captions saying "John Carpenter's 'THE FOG' (1980). It's got everything: Adrienne Barbeau as a hot radio DJ in a lighthouse," and shows the actress just mentioned, wearing a flannel shirt and speaking into a microphone with a fluffy 80's perm hairdo.
Panel 2 is also wide and shows a bunch of shadowy figures moving through fog with glowing eyes, with captions saying "Less body horror than other Carpenter movies, more ghost pirate vibes."
Panel 3 shows a drawing of a 22 year old actor Jamie Lee Curtis in bed with 42 year old actor Tom Atkins, with a caption that says "An extremely young Jamie Lee Curtis paired w/ an actor 20 years older (weird, but normal) and..."
Panel 3 shows the priest character from the movie, with a handlebar mustache and flirty feathered haircut, backed against a wall in a sanctuary and hugging a solid gold cross (no spoilers!), accompanied by the caption "Generation HUBRIS!"
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (10-14-2025)

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

I do sometimes bring her bowl into my studio with me so she can flick wet shards of chicken all over my desk

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

about this large

A photo of my longhair diluted calico cat Margo sitting in front of a window as I hold a plastic ruler vertically in front of her to show that she is a gargantuan 7 inches tall when sitting. Absolutely bohemouth

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

Day 286: My dudes, I am just fucking exhausted these days.

A single panel comic drawn with India ink and a sable brush with minimal inkwash shading. The panel depicts me, a skeleton in my normal clothes, sitting on the floor of my kitchen with a cup of coffee next to my longhair cat Margo who is glancing over to make sure I'm still sitting there. The captions say "I am so tired today, but I still must watch Margo eat."
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-13-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 1d

Know Your Rights canvassing and education at work!!! Knowing the difference between a judicial warrant (that has to be filled out correctly!) and a nonsense DHS warrant (that is useless for entering private property) can save lives.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

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

Day 285: Only tangentially-related to the Halloween month (because costume) but I had to pay my respects to all the real ones in my beloved Portland

*Note: This is NOT one of those "tHiS iS thE RiGht WaY to PrOtEsT!1!!" posts -- I literally just fucking hate ICE and love this air-humping frog a lot

Single panel comic drawn in India ink with a sable brush, also with some inkwash shading.
The panel is veritcally-shaped with a ribbon banner on the top and bottom that splits the caption, "Some heroes know how to meet fascists with the absurdity they deserve" and in the panel we see the blow-up frog costume-clad protester from Portland air-humping while standing in front of a group of heavily-armed, gas mask-wearing ICE agents (bitches) with little "swish" FX captions.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-12-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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

Day 284: Bonus dressed-up comic

Single panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading, with a top caption that says "Bonus: My cats in the style of Mark Rothko"
The panel shows me standing in a big gallery space and looking thoughtfully at two large canvases that have Rothko-esque color blocking: one tall canvas with rough stripes to represent my shorthair cat Egg Noodle, and one shorter and wider canvas with blotchy shapes to represent my diluted calico longhair cat, Margo.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-11-2025) and the time i spent drawing this (about 25 minutes, as I'm in a rush and have to go unclog a toilet at work this morning)

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

The complete comic dressup arc:
Pt 1: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 2: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 3: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 4: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 5: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 6: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 7: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 8: bsky.app/profile/katb...
Pt 9: (quoted skeet)

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

Day 283: The final installment of this mini-arc (for now) is dressed up in the style of my boy Charles Schulz!

2-panel comic drawn in the style of Peanuts comic creator Charles Schulz (my fellow Minnesotan), with my spouse and I styled similarly to Charlie Brown and Lucy respectively, but my spouse is wearing a hawaiian print shirt, square glasses and has a full head of dark, curly hair and I have round glasses and longer dark hair. The caption above the comic says "Dressing my comic up as other comics (Pt. 10)"
Both panels show us sitting at the window of our house and looking outside; panel 1 shows my spouse with their hands in the air, saying "So, now that we stopped that killer squash vine and fixed our house, what did we learn?"
In panel 1, I reply "Not a lot!" and hold one finger in the air; my spouse looks defeated.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-10-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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

this is how I found out there was a 2023 reboot of Takeshi's Castle, I feel so incredibly blessed on this day

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

It requires some of the calcium from your own bones to make the transmutation circle work, but it's worth it

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

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...
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Day 8: (quoted skeet)

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 13d

Day 274: THE HALLOWEEN MONTH HAS BEGUNTH!!

A single-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading: the comic features me (a white lady with long, dark, wavy hair and round glasses) and my two cats, all drawn in the cartooning style of Jim Davis, author and artist of the Garfield comic. I am drawn similarly to the character "Liz," with a round, bulbous head and egg-shaped eyes, and I'm holding my longhair cat Margo who is drawn very similarly to the character Nermal, and she's looking up at me with angry eyes. Next to us, standing on my closed sketchbook is my shorthair cat Egg Noodle, who is drawn like Garfield himself and doing that pose where his head is tilted all the way back with one hand in the air and the other grabbing Margo's tail. There are little hearts floating next to his head, and since he already looks quite a lot like Garfield, he's got a legible name tag hanging from his collar that says "EGG NOODLE."
The caption in the comic is a hand-drawn variation of the "Copper Black" font (the font that Garfield's title is often presented in), and says "Dressing my comic up as other comics."
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-1-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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

Day 282: Today's comic is dressed up (kind of?) in the drawing style of Fullmetal Alchemist creator Hiromu Arakawa -- I'd say I fumbled on capturing Arakawa's drawing style for most of this one, but perfect is the enemy of 'done' and I am so busy this week I could pee my pants and cry 🤷‍♀️

A 4-panel comic drawn in the style of Hiromu Arakawa (creator of Fullmetal Alchemist), with a top caption that says "Dressing my comic up as other comics (Pt. 9)"
Panel 1 shows me sitting up and holding a dead acorn squash vine on the singed ground where my house used to be (I blew it up with dynamite in the last comic, in the quoted post). My speech bubbles say "Uh... sorry I blew up our house. At least the radioactive vines are dead!" My spouse is in the foreground looking angry and putting on a pair of white gloves.
Panel 2 shows my spouse drawing a transmutation circle on the ground with white chalk as my cats look on.
Panel 3 shows my spouse doing finger guns as we look off-panel at a surge of light from. My speech bubble says "I didn't know you could do alchemy!" My spouse responds "Oh, you hot little idiot..."
Panel 4 shows us standing on the street and looking at our reconstructed home, my spouse continuing "...everyone from Wisconsin can do alchemy."
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (10-9-2025)

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

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!

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

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)

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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...

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 7d

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?)

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 7d

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

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 7d

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

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 8d

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

ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 8d

Day 1: bsky.app/profile/katb...
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Day 3: bsky.app/profile/katb...
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