Matt Nelson
@mattnelsonart.bsky.social
WA based graphic designer & part-time cartoonist.
Buy my art and books:
https://www.mattsmonsters.com
Read my webcomics:
https://www.catbeardthepirate.com
https://www.sdformers.com
Business inquiries: [email protected]
Buy my art and books:
https://www.mattsmonsters.com
Read my webcomics:
https://www.catbeardthepirate.com
https://www.sdformers.com
Business inquiries: [email protected]
Get ready for the unmade 1994 Godzilla movie AND the unmade sequel to the 1998 Godzilla film to both hit theaters, right before the next Cloverfield movie
Basically it's nothing but giant monster movies from now on
Basically it's nothing but giant monster movies from now on
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Get ready for the unmade 1994 Godzilla movie AND the unmade sequel to the 1998 Godzilla film to both hit theaters, right before the next Cloverfield movie
Basically it's nothing but giant monster movies from now on
Basically it's nothing but giant monster movies from now on
Had to get in on that good Dispatch fan art train; here's a link to a time lapse of my drawing of Malevola.
youtu.be/n554C7t_YKU
youtu.be/n554C7t_YKU
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Had to get in on that good Dispatch fan art train; here's a link to a time lapse of my drawing of Malevola.
youtu.be/n554C7t_YKU
youtu.be/n554C7t_YKU
Better late than never: it's a new page of Catbeard!
#comic #indiecomic #webcomic #art #cartooning #cats #Catbeard #catbeardthepirate
www.catbeardthepirate.com
#comic #indiecomic #webcomic #art #cartooning #cats #Catbeard #catbeardthepirate
www.catbeardthepirate.com
Catbeard the Pirate! – The story of a scurrilous pirate under a spell to have a cat for a beard!
www.catbeardthepirate.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Better late than never: it's a new page of Catbeard!
#comic #indiecomic #webcomic #art #cartooning #cats #Catbeard #catbeardthepirate
www.catbeardthepirate.com
#comic #indiecomic #webcomic #art #cartooning #cats #Catbeard #catbeardthepirate
www.catbeardthepirate.com
As a fan of nearly all varieties of tortilla chip, I say stock your pantry with as many kinds as you humanly can.
I think we have a tortilla chip problem.
Only four people live in this house. Do each of us seriously have a favorite to the exclusion of all others?!?!
Only four people live in this house. Do each of us seriously have a favorite to the exclusion of all others?!?!
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
As a fan of nearly all varieties of tortilla chip, I say stock your pantry with as many kinds as you humanly can.
Most photos I post of my cat, Kong, on here, do not capture the day to day high intensity psychotic energy that he actually has, but last night I got lucky and snapped this one as he was trying to eat my phone, the hands holding it, and probably on up to the elbow.
I love him more than anything.
I love him more than anything.
November 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Most photos I post of my cat, Kong, on here, do not capture the day to day high intensity psychotic energy that he actually has, but last night I got lucky and snapped this one as he was trying to eat my phone, the hands holding it, and probably on up to the elbow.
I love him more than anything.
I love him more than anything.
I decided to try my hand at that Frieren meme, are we still doing that
#Frieren #frierenmeme #kaiju #art #drawing #cartooning
#Frieren #frierenmeme #kaiju #art #drawing #cartooning
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I decided to try my hand at that Frieren meme, are we still doing that
#Frieren #frierenmeme #kaiju #art #drawing #cartooning
#Frieren #frierenmeme #kaiju #art #drawing #cartooning
I know hating on Funko Pops is everyone's favorite pastime, but I don't care, this one is great
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I know hating on Funko Pops is everyone's favorite pastime, but I don't care, this one is great
I have recently discovered that people consider Train to be terrible so I guess anything by them, take your pick (there's a couple songs of theirs that I find to be catchy).
In honor of me listening to "Blurry" by Puddle of Mudd several times, what's a song you love that isn't very good by a band/group/artist that isn't very good either
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I have recently discovered that people consider Train to be terrible so I guess anything by them, take your pick (there's a couple songs of theirs that I find to be catchy).
Kong has graced us with a view of his tiny black coffee beans
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Kong has graced us with a view of his tiny black coffee beans
Reposted by Matt Nelson
Cap'n Lao is gonna take a topmaul to Fishravin's noggin!
New page of 🚂The Case of the Mummy Express 🚂: jdrozd.com/series/docto...
#DoctorBaer #Cats #Spooky
New page of 🚂The Case of the Mummy Express 🚂: jdrozd.com/series/docto...
#DoctorBaer #Cats #Spooky
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Cap'n Lao is gonna take a topmaul to Fishravin's noggin!
New page of 🚂The Case of the Mummy Express 🚂: jdrozd.com/series/docto...
#DoctorBaer #Cats #Spooky
New page of 🚂The Case of the Mummy Express 🚂: jdrozd.com/series/docto...
#DoctorBaer #Cats #Spooky
Reposted by Matt Nelson
I can make art for you!
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I can make art for you!
What are your top five movie genres? Mine are:
Suspense
Horror
Sci-fi
Comedy
Action
I don't know if I did this right
Suspense
Horror
Sci-fi
Comedy
Action
I don't know if I did this right
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-Two girls bond over evil
-Art drives people insane
-Australia is weird
-Everybody who died shows up at the end as ghosts and makes you cry
-Repo Man
-Two girls bond over evil
-Art drives people insane
-Australia is weird
-Everybody who died shows up at the end as ghosts and makes you cry
-Repo Man
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What are your top five movie genres? Mine are:
Suspense
Horror
Sci-fi
Comedy
Action
I don't know if I did this right
Suspense
Horror
Sci-fi
Comedy
Action
I don't know if I did this right
Good sweet fancy Moses, there was no warning that could have prepared me for how bad this was
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Good sweet fancy Moses, there was no warning that could have prepared me for how bad this was
Challenge accepted
I am going to put out SUCH TRASH after my current book is finished
😉
I am going to put out SUCH TRASH after my current book is finished
😉
The next thing you make will be better than what you’re making right now. That’s just how this works. Quit chasing perfection and focus on getting done.
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Challenge accepted
I am going to put out SUCH TRASH after my current book is finished
😉
I am going to put out SUCH TRASH after my current book is finished
😉
Above & Below
Betrayal At the House On the Hill
King of Tokyo
Islebound
Forbidden Desert
Near & Far
X-Bugs (lord, I wish this would come back into print - my copies were lost in a fire)
Stretching the definition, but:
Dungeon World
Tem-Purr-A
Brawl
Betrayal At the House On the Hill
King of Tokyo
Islebound
Forbidden Desert
Near & Far
X-Bugs (lord, I wish this would come back into print - my copies were lost in a fire)
Stretching the definition, but:
Dungeon World
Tem-Purr-A
Brawl
board game enthusiasts of bluesky, what are your top 10 board games of all time
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Above & Below
Betrayal At the House On the Hill
King of Tokyo
Islebound
Forbidden Desert
Near & Far
X-Bugs (lord, I wish this would come back into print - my copies were lost in a fire)
Stretching the definition, but:
Dungeon World
Tem-Purr-A
Brawl
Betrayal At the House On the Hill
King of Tokyo
Islebound
Forbidden Desert
Near & Far
X-Bugs (lord, I wish this would come back into print - my copies were lost in a fire)
Stretching the definition, but:
Dungeon World
Tem-Purr-A
Brawl
I dreamt that they made a Frasier movie, only it wasn't funny at all and they'd given him OCD because his home had been broken into and ransacked, and all his life was destroyed.
Glad I woke up before it ended with him hanging himself or something, geez.
Glad I woke up before it ended with him hanging himself or something, geez.
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I dreamt that they made a Frasier movie, only it wasn't funny at all and they'd given him OCD because his home had been broken into and ransacked, and all his life was destroyed.
Glad I woke up before it ended with him hanging himself or something, geez.
Glad I woke up before it ended with him hanging himself or something, geez.
On this week's page of Catbeard, Big Jim and and Sig cut a rug.
#comic #indiecomic #webcomic #art #cartooning #cats #Catbeard #catbeardthepirate
www.catbeardthepirate.com
#comic #indiecomic #webcomic #art #cartooning #cats #Catbeard #catbeardthepirate
www.catbeardthepirate.com
Catbeard the Pirate! – The story of a scurrilous pirate under a spell to have a cat for a beard!
www.catbeardthepirate.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
On this week's page of Catbeard, Big Jim and and Sig cut a rug.
#comic #indiecomic #webcomic #art #cartooning #cats #Catbeard #catbeardthepirate
www.catbeardthepirate.com
#comic #indiecomic #webcomic #art #cartooning #cats #Catbeard #catbeardthepirate
www.catbeardthepirate.com
Finally finished Dispatch. I really enjoyed it and hope we get a second season, even if I didn't feel like the landing was stuck 100%.
(Also, Blonde Blazer? Invisigal? I'm team *Malevola.*)
(Also, Blonde Blazer? Invisigal? I'm team *Malevola.*)
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Finally finished Dispatch. I really enjoyed it and hope we get a second season, even if I didn't feel like the landing was stuck 100%.
(Also, Blonde Blazer? Invisigal? I'm team *Malevola.*)
(Also, Blonde Blazer? Invisigal? I'm team *Malevola.*)
The Wrath of Khan, my first Trek movie. Fantastic film, even beyond just Star Trek!
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The Wrath of Khan, my first Trek movie. Fantastic film, even beyond just Star Trek!
I know some people love graphics programs where you can "detach" certain menu shortcuts and buttons and rearrange them around the frame of the workspace however you like them, but as someone who sometimes clicks just a little too long and accidentally drags them they are MY HELL.
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I know some people love graphics programs where you can "detach" certain menu shortcuts and buttons and rearrange them around the frame of the workspace however you like them, but as someone who sometimes clicks just a little too long and accidentally drags them they are MY HELL.
I work digitally and this is how I do it. Rough page sketches with the word balloons already on the page. Consequently it is *very rare* that I have to squeeze in a word balloon, because I planned ahead for it.
My most strongly held comics opinion (I hesitate to say "opinion," because it's a fact): lettering should be the first finished thing done, not the last. Done after (or along with) roughs and finalized before pencils. Pencils and inking should be done AROUND the lettering.
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I work digitally and this is how I do it. Rough page sketches with the word balloons already on the page. Consequently it is *very rare* that I have to squeeze in a word balloon, because I planned ahead for it.
... Interesting.
Might be useful to any of my followers who are more full-time cartoonists than I.
Might be useful to any of my followers who are more full-time cartoonists than I.
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
... Interesting.
Might be useful to any of my followers who are more full-time cartoonists than I.
Might be useful to any of my followers who are more full-time cartoonists than I.
I got to introduce my boss to this today and she had a good laugh, so that was fun.
On this day 55 years ago, blubber went boom at the Oregon Coast.
That's when officials made the legendary decision to blow up a dead whale.
Here's a look back at the explosive piece of Oregon lore with a 2020 story by OPB's Tiffany Camhi written ahead of the whale of a tale's 50th anniversary.
That's when officials made the legendary decision to blow up a dead whale.
Here's a look back at the explosive piece of Oregon lore with a 2020 story by OPB's Tiffany Camhi written ahead of the whale of a tale's 50th anniversary.
‘It was like a blubber snowstorm’: Why Oregon blew up a whale in 1970
The exploding whale is a piece of Oregon lore that just won’t go away. It’s one of those real-life stories that just sounds too strange to be real.
www.opb.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I got to introduce my boss to this today and she had a good laugh, so that was fun.
Sometimes I really love those heavily simplified Lego sets they have out there. Check out Santa on this thing. Look what a demented little goblin he is.
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Sometimes I really love those heavily simplified Lego sets they have out there. Check out Santa on this thing. Look what a demented little goblin he is.
Reposted by Matt Nelson
There's a fish on the train in the latest installment of 🚂The Case of the Mummy Express🚂: jdrozd.com/comic/the-ca...
#DoctorBaer #Cute #Spooky
#DoctorBaer #Cute #Spooky
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
There's a fish on the train in the latest installment of 🚂The Case of the Mummy Express🚂: jdrozd.com/comic/the-ca...
#DoctorBaer #Cute #Spooky
#DoctorBaer #Cute #Spooky