Kat Baumann 💀🦴

@katbaumann.bsky.social

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She/her comic artist and musician in Minnesota Website: katbaumann.com Stickers/books: etsy.com/shop/KatBaumannArt Black Lives Matter. Trans rights now. Free Palestine. Abolish ICE.

A text chat between me and my cousin, where they first said "We got the moratorium on AI" "We got chickens in the city" and directly underneath is my response message saying "We got the combination taco bell and pizza hut"
Closeup of Scooby Doo character concept art where Shaggy is resting his hand on Scooby's had with his thumb inexplicably jammed into Scooby's eyes
Photo of my long hair diluted calico lying on the floor with her belly out and legs all akimbo
4-panel meme from 2013-ish made of screencaps from the first Avengers movie (I think?) where Captain America says to Hulk, "Now might be a really good time for you to get angry" and Hulk responds, "That's my secret, Cap.. I'm always angry." Except in the first panel Captain American is next to a picture of my garden bed and saying "Now might be a really good time for you to weed your garden bed," the second panel has my face photoshopped over Bruce Banner's and saying "That's my secret, Cap..." Panel 3 is my face shopped over Bruce's again, looking down and saying "I'm always weeding my garden bed" Panel 4 shows my head photoshopped over the hulk's, looking feral and biting a chunk of ragweed, with the rest of the bottom of the panel filled with ragweed as well
A photo of my bright orange-and-white shorthair tuxedo tabby cat, "Egg Noodle," curled up in his carpet-covered cat tree next to an open window with his overly-long tail curled up in a spiral over all his legs, making him look like a big furry snail.
Closeup of the mysterious pink-haired head from Steve's desk shown in original post, peeking creepily from behind the graphics tablet
Screenshot from the sketch comedy show "I think you should leave" featuring Tim Robinson's character who is teaching a drivers' ed class. The caption of him yelling has been changed from "I can't know how to hear anymore about tables" to "I can't know how to hear anymore about MN State Auditor Candidates"
3-panel comic drawn in ink on bristol; the panels are all the same size and in one horizontal row, with a top caption saying "Every waking moment since I saw Eurovision 2026" Panel 1 shows me, eyes closed and barely awake in a robe with a messy top bun while I open a can of "Gremlin Chow" for my two cats. There are three scraggly speech bubbles coming from me that say "My head.. my heart.. my body part.." which are lyrics from Sweden's Eurovision song entry for this year (admittedly a bop) Panel 2 shows me vacuuming the filter on an air purifier at work, accompanied by a "VRRROOOM" SFX. My single speech bubble says "My head, my heart, my body part" Panel 3 shows me licking the seal on an envelope at my desk, staring into the middle-distance with speech bubbles wandering around the top of the panel in segments: "My... head, my... heart.. my... body part" Beneath the comic is my signature and the date this was drawn: Kat Baumann 5-19-26
The daily comic I drew on February 12, 2025: it's in three equally-sized, vertically shaped panels all sitting in the same row, and was drawn somewhat roughly since I used my non-dominant hand to draw it. Panel 1 shows a drawing of my right hand with swollen knuckles and redness accentuated by inkwash spotches, with captions saying "When the weather gets extra cold, the joints on my dominant hand get really swollen and painful. (Inflammation? 30 years of drawing? I'unno.) Panel 2 shows me sitting criss-cross-apple-sauce on the floor next to my shorthair cat, holding my hand tenderly and saying "So, as a little treat, I've drawn this comic with my left hand." Panel 3 shows my left hand giving a thumbs up, and in the background is a pencil and polymer eraser, with little elementary school-style doodles behind it like that weird "S" everyone drew, a farting butt, a game of tic-tac-toe, etc. There's a single caption saying "Enjoy!" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), the date, and the time i spent drawing it (43 minutes)
A photo of my hand holding up an 8.5" by 11" print of a piece drawn by the wonderful comic artist Ron Chan: it depicts the Resident Evil character Leon Kennedy at a carnival with his three blonde adoptive daughters Sherry, Grace and Emily. Sherry is eating some of Grace's cotton candy, and Emily (a small child) is riding on Leon's shoulders and staring at her surroundings with wonder while wearing little pink Crocs. In the photo I'm holding the print up to my long-haired calico Margo, who is sniffing it while sitting under her favorite pink veil.
Close-up of a digital drawing inspired by the Hanna-Barbera style of cartooning from the 70's; an angry hamster sits on a purple baseball cap and takes a bite out of a pink-frosted donut, and in the background we see part of a radio tower
Rough pen live sketches of five heads on grid-patterned paper. They all have different variations of neutral/bored expressions on their faces and have a variety of hair styles, including myself in the bottom row wearing headphones and resting my cheek on my hand.
Both my cats squeezed into a heated bed meant for one cat. My shorthair orange cat Egg Noodle is squished against the wall below the window sill and my long-haired diluted calico Margo is laying on her side in from of him, both staring at the camera person who dared to interrupt their nap
greyscale sketch of a character in profile view; I've tried OP's style of hair lighting, letting my round brush/pencil tool make round, sweeping shading so the single ribbon of light on the crown of the head looks simpler than other hair-shading-techniques I've used in past drawings!
Screenshot of a deranged set of texts I sent my spouse that read: "Just having another one of those 'live and learn' days I fuckin tell ya WHAT. BOY am I livin' and learnin'"
Meme featuring two images of a raccoon, one slightly transparent in the sky with a rainbow, with a caption saying "sometimes bullying is okay!"
Digital drawing illustrating the visual manifestation of my executive dysfunction: The top part of my head poking out above an all-encompassing vat of mud, with a distant look in my eyes while pieces of my hair and my eyeglasses floating nearby on the surface
crosshatch sketch of an English Springer Spaniel dog (long curly hair on the ears, back of legs and belly, black patches like a cow and a little cropped tail wagging) with a caption pointing to him and saying "Sweet boy [heart]"
screenshot of a text I got from my friend at 8:04 this morning, which reads "I've not listened to Devin Townsend much. What album would you recommend for a drive?"
glamor shot of Lionel Richie from the 1980's
Photo of a burnt-orange colored 2003 Pontiac Vibe hatchback
Closeup of a singer staring directly up in an almost catatonic-looking state
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.
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)
Closeup of my orange cat's face, staring into the distance and waiting for divine inspiration to activate his little walnut brain
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.
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"
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!
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...."
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"
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
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.
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
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."
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."
The incredible smirk on this person's face after telling a Nazi to have a terrible day
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
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.
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.
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"
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"
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"
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)
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)
A photo of the "satyr tragopan" bird, which has an orange-red body speckled with black and white dots, but it's holding its head/neck in a way that spreads out the feathers on the front of its neck and chest, which look like red and white stripes on the side with a field of blue with white dots in the center (Please don't yell at me for not knowing the right terminology for bird parts, I'm still grappling with the existence of this ridiculous creature)
3-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwas shading but also the last panel is colored with gouache. The top caption says "Last night..." Panel 1 shows me sitting under a heap of blankets and looking at my phone. Next to me are several chat speech bubbles showing my friend texting me. Friend says "Satyr Tragopan. Add it to the list." I respond, "Jesus, what a name" and my friend responds, "It's a real animal, Kat. You're not ready." Panel 2 shows the way I imagine this animal looks, without looking up any reference or seeing it before. It's a drawing of a 4-legged, cloven-hoofed animal with a short deer tail and spots on its side, a head that looks kind of like a boxer terrier dog with goat eyes and a wideset cow nose. Little notes in the margin say "front-facing eyes? Like a predator? Cloven hooves, I guess??" Panel 3 starts with a caption box that says "Here's how it actually looks:" And shows a colored drawing of the satyr tragopan, which looks like a bright red-orange pheasant with blue feathers on its head and slightly on its tail, covered in white spots that are lined in black. There is a final chat speech bubble resembling mine from panel 1, which says "You FOOL. You SIMPLE CHILD. I am ALWAYS ready for a beautiful bird." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (12-29-2025)
Single-panel comic drawn in india ink with a sable brush, with inkwash shading. The panel depicts the inside of my studio, with two windows showing a snowstorm outside with nearby houses and trees lined faintly in inkwash. My spouse and I are sitting at our individual drafting desks and my two cats are lounging with us and staring out the windows at the storm. Caption boxes in the comic say "The snow's really coming down today. And there is ice on the roads. Keep each other safe." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (12-28-2025)
3-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panels are equal in size, stacked vertically and top caption says "Summit of the Silly Little Guys (Pt. 6)" Panel 1 shows the Rat King sitting next to the Rat Duke, who has one arm around the king while the other holds a very normal looking sandwich while an upended poison bottle sits just inches away at the edge of the table. The Rat Duke says "Worry not, my king. Partatke of this very normal sandwich I've prepared for you." The King is gesturing to the Duke and saying "OH my GOD, see?! Are the rest of you okay with this obvious threat to my rule?" Panel 2 shows Jeffrey the Doorway Spider and Terrance the Pipe Smokin' garden gnome sitting elsewhere at the circular table. Jeffrey says "Bub, we're not actually a monarchy." Terrance continues, "I recall that the only reason we put Rat King in charge was because we liked the sassy way he twirled his tail..." Panel 3 shows the horrible horny leather shoes which were previously listed as "EXILED" on the parchment of new members. The shoes are saying "WE LIKE HIS ELEGANT TOES." Another speech bubble coming from off-panel says "Who let the shoes back in here?!" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (12-27-2025)
5-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the top caption says "Summit of the Silly Little Guys (Pt. 5)" Panel 1 shows the hand of the Rat King banging down his gavel, with a speech bubble saying "Calling the December 26th meeting of the Silly Little Guys to order!" Panel 2 is pulled out to show the round table where my creations meet up to talk shit about me; central in the panel is the Rat King, holding up his gavel and saying "I believe you all know why I've gathered you today." The bald, monocle-wearing triangle butler (link to his comic in the comments) says "Yes, my liege-- the new members are somewhat unruly." Another speech bubble comes from the sentient laundry basket and continues into the next panel: "Actually, after some concerns of overcrowding, the new members have mostly settled in. However... it seems the Cartoonist has been drawing real creatures without seeing them, at the prodding of onlookers." In panel 3, Sentient Laundry Basket holds up a scroll with the following names of new members on it: "fart robot, bunnicorn, horny shoes (crossed out with "EXILED" written next to it), car ride dragon, fish-horse smoothis man, used tissue woman (under quarantine), zumpkin." Panel 4 shows Sentient Laundry Basket sitting next to my incorrect drawing of the "gnu," a slimy, sad little slug animal quietly saying "kill me." Laundry basket says "These incorrect interpretations are all technically new SLG's." The Rat King responds from off-panel, saying "I care not of these unfamiliar beasts!" Panel 5 has Rat King in the foreground, pointing angrily at the Rat Duke in the mid-ground of the panel, who sits at the table looking smarmy. Rat King's speech bubbles say "the true source of my ire is that she made a f@*%ing RAT DUKE." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (12-26-2025)
Single panel comic drawn with sable brush and india ink with inkwash shading. The top caption says "On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me an upper respiratory virus." The panel depicts me sitting on my couch with my hair up and messy, looking tired as my spouse approaches with two cups of tea. I'm pressing a crumpled tissue into a terrible sculpture of a woman sitting on the couch next to me, and saying "Check it out-- I made a woman out of used tissues." My spouse reprimands me, saying "Honey, you can't keep imbuing inanimate objects with sentience, it's unethical." I respond, "I'm sick, I'll *cough* do what i want." The Used Tissue Woman says "Mistress has cursed me with life!" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (12-25-2025)
2-panel comic drawn with sable brush and india ink, with inkwash shading. Panel 1 is a small inset panel within Panel 2. Panel 1 is a closeup of my shorthair cat Egg Noodle's ear as my hand reaches and gently twists it clockwise like a radio dial. Panel 2 shows Egg Noodle standing with all his legs spread wide as his tail sticks in the air and emits a radio signal, while a pointy speech bubble comes from his mouth: the weather report from the radio. "--and a high of thirty-seven with some light snow and freezing temps overnight--" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (12-24-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
3-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the top caption says "Months ago (on April 7th to be exact) I didn't know what to draw, so I created a dumb little character at my spouse's prompting:" Panel 1 is small and show my spouse, a white, nonbinary person with fluffy, curly hair, square glasses and fashionable facial stubble, shrugging and saying "RAT KING." Panel 2 is borderless and shows my creation: a fat rat dressed in Renaissance noble garb and a crown and gleefully whipping around the end of his tail. Panel 3 has a panel that says "But what if there was a smaller, shittier Rat Duke?" In the panel is a full figure drawing of a smarmy-looking rat, also in noble garb but missing a crown, with scraggly speech bubbles saying "I live to serve the Rat King, my older cousin, I LOVE the King and would be DEVASTATED if something fowl were to befall him, mmmmmmmm" and the M's of 'MMMMM' run off the edge of the page. Beneath the comic is my signature (kat Baumann), today's date (12-23-25) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
2-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading; the panels are stacked vertically and there is a top caption saying "My spouse and I have a tradition with some friends each Christmas when we try to gift each other the ugliest/most cursed tree ornament." Panel 1 starts with a caption saying "I have a very precise method for choosing mind:" and in the panel is a drawing of me sitting at my laptop, recoiling in horror at the screen, with a speech bubble that says "UUHHhh--" Panel 2 shows me calmly clicking "Buy Now" on an off-brand auction site. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (12-22-2025) and the time i spent drawing this (50 minutes)
2-panel comic drawn with ink and sable brush, with inkwash shading and no captions. The panels are stacked vertically and the top panel is open on the top. Panel 1 shows me, a white lady with long, dark, wavy hair, sitting on my couch under a blanket and peacefully pulling a needle and thin yarn through a darning loom that's mounted on a thick sock. Panel 2 is a switched perspective, with a closeup shot of my reflection showing in the metal top of the darning loom; my face is warped and looks very unflattering from an upward angle, looking directly up my terrible nostrils and showing at least 5 rolls in my cheek and neck skin as I peer downward. Stunning. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (12-21-2025)
Large, single-panel comic drawn in the style of a mid-century magazine ad and colored with gouache. There is a bold caption at the top saying "Try it! The Diluted Calico (2021 model)" Surrounding a drawing of my longhair cat Margo sitting like an old man waiting for a bus is one caption to the left: "My-- what a pretty kitty!" and to the right are 3 bullet points that say "Can hold so much canned fish, you wouldn't believe it; New Fluffing(tm) technology: she farts when picked up; Built-in, non-adjustable alarm!" Beneath the drawing of Margo is a spot illustration of my shorthair cat Egg Noodle, his long tail acting as an underline for another sales line: "Egg Noodle sold separately: collect the full set! Get yours today, fo rhte war effort, or something." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (12-20-2025)
2-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panels are stacked vertically. Panel 1 shows the silhouettes of 3 singers with spotlights and hints of microphone stands beyond, with captions saying "Had a lot of fun singing in a jazz trio last night. We did a few holiday staples, along with some fun oldies-- it was lovely!" A speech bubble interjects from the next panel, saying "Ja, now that that is over, time to absolutely blast your vocal folds on my 9th symphony, fraulein." Panel 2 shows me sitting at my piano, looking woefully at some sheet music as the ghost of Beethoven looks over my shoulder and points at it (the previously mentioned speech bubble belongs to him). My speech bubble says "Yeah ok, thanks for calling me 'fraulein' I guess." referencing this imaginary version of a dead composer referring to me as a 'young lady.' Seriously though, the soprano line of this symphony keeps kicking me directly in the balls. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (12-19-2025)
2-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panels are stacked vertically and separated with a diagonal border. The top caption says "The suggested 'Animal Un-Familiar' today is the 'Norwegian Lundehund.'" Panel 1 starts with an unboxed caption that says "This feels like cheating, but..." and proceeds to break apart the name of the animal. Under the word "Norwegian," are three captions: First says "has free healthcare" and is crossed out, second says "likes black metal" and is crossed out, third caption says "evolved for cold climate." Under the word "Lunde" is just a caption that says "(no idea)", and under the word "Hund" it just says "DOG!!!" The drawing in the panel depicts a large, longhair dog with a long face, leaf-shaped ears and thick paws. The cursive captions around it say "BIG. Big dawg." and another caption points to its thick, rounded back and says "Oooh, maybe buffalo!" Panel 2 begins with a boxed caption saying "Now to look up a reference:" and in the panel we see a small husky-like dog, with a chihuahua shaped face and shiba inu size/shape body, sitting pleasantly on a hillside with pointy pine trees in the background. There's a cursive caption saying "Well it's just a little dawg!" and the dog has a bean-shaped speech bubble saying "I do like black metal though." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (12-18-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
5-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading. Panels 1 and 2 are on the top row, panels 3 and 4 in the middle row, and panel 5 is larger and on the bottom. Panel 1 shows me sitting at my desk contemplatively, with a thought bubble saying "I really just... don't know what to draw today." Panel 2 is closer on my face, with an excited look on my face and a little lightbulb drawn next to my head. Panel 3 shows a simplified drawing of me reaching up to brace the sides of my own face. Panel 4 shows me removing my head with a cartoony "POP!" SFX. Panel 5 shows my headless body standing next to a shovel that's stuck in the ground, tossing my disembodied head into a freshly-dug hole. My head is upside down, midair, and with a happy expression on its face, with a speech bubble saying "Finally!" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (12-17-2025)
2-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading; the panels are stacked vertically and the top caption says "Today's 'Animal Un-Familiar' is called the 'Spectacled Flying Fox.'" Panel 1 starts with a caption which points at a small inset panel; the caption reads "To be honest, this one sounds really close to how i thought the Hyrax would look" and points to the inset panel where the same 'flying squirrel' type creature from the hyrax comic is clutching a Hydrox sandwich cookie. Another caption continues: "But I am intrigued by the 'spectacled' part of its name... Maybe fox ears and chipmunk stripes? Red Squirrel face with raccoon pattern?" The drawing of how I imagine this animal to look shows a sugar-glider-like animal perching on a branch, with leaf-shaped ears and a bandit mask pattern around its eyes. Panel 2 starts with a caption saying "And here's how this little guy actually looks:" In the panel is a standard fruit bat handing upside-down from a branch; it has dark fur and a light pattern around its eyes (the opposite of what I had guessed); there's another caption written in cursive saying "Aww, it's just a lil' fruit bat. Love him." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (12-16-25) and the time i spent drawing this (50 minutes)
3-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading. The panels are stacked vertically and separated with diagonal borders. Panel 1 has an unboxed caption saying "Some terrible things happened in my country over the weekend. Worse than usual." In the panel we see my longhair calico cat Margo sitting upright and staring intently at a dangled shoestring. Panel 2 has a caption saying "In my heart all I want to do is watch Margo fight her string." In the panel, Margo is standing on her haunches and viciously trying to catch the string to no avail. Panel 3's caption says "To bask in awe of her athleticism." In this panel, Margo is splayed out on her back, still struggling to capture the string, her dumb little legs all akimbo. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (12-15-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)