Today in art questions that sound like zen koan shitposts. Trying to be here, instead of in a hospital 4,600 miles away.

I'm available for commissions/covers again Email at the address below if you're interested

Character designs for a story about guilt and grief and the end of the world.

Only 364 days left to Hallowe’en! Feel free to share! #trickytrickies

Felt like sharing the shibboleth. Might delete later.

I’m at an undisclosed location having a ranch water, listening to the Cramps and putting the finishing touches on “la persistència del temps perdut.” Once I get a clear coat on it, it’ll be for sale, $20 (plus shipping) with all $20 going to local mutual aid groups.

It’s been another sloooow morning at the shop (*sigh*), but it does mean I’ve had time to work on one of the tiny paintings I’ll be selling to raise money for local mutual aid groups and food pantries. Progress shot of “la persistència del temps perdut” with a quarter for scale.

Planning out paintings for some scrapwood I’ve got. These will be about 2.5x3” or so. Once they’re done, I’ll put them up for sale here and on instagram, with all the money (minus postage) going to local mutual aid orgs and food pantries.

Round up the little buckaroos and watch The Halloween Kid Animated Special! Will this rootin’ tootin’ Halloween special DISAPPEAR after Halloween??? 👻 Watch it now FREE on YouTube before Halloween! Please share! m.youtube.com/watch?v=PB79... Currently at 605K views! Yee-Ha-lloween! ✨🎃✨

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

4 Hold my hand 7 Steal my thumb and I’ll steal yours

Coming to the @carefulkittybooks.com table at OKC Zinefest (and maybe @slicexpo.bsky.social if I can get it done in time): A MURDER, a little one page booklet horror comic I storyboarded this morning.

The response to our first ever art show call has been awesome! We’re gonna close the call Monday, Sept 29 at noon, so we can notify those selected & make sure they can pick up their race kits with plenty of time before 9th Street Derby Day on November 22. Details & entry: forms.gle/ksqSnTcJ9ipq...

This is why, if you're wanting to do comics, it's far more important to practice drawing comics than it is to practice drawing. The drawing comes with time and you get the time by getting opportunities to make comics, you get those opportunities by demonstrating storytelling.

I’m calling my tree for the Canopy Art Center show done and varnishing it! Come see it, and trees from dozens and dozens of other amazing artists at Canopy in OKC’s District for the opening Thursday night, Live on the Plaza Friday night, or the Plaza District Festival on Sept 27 from noon to 11.

Yesterday: I’d love to say that I attended to pressing matters, but mostly I just zoned out and drew.

Today in the first of a potential new series I am tentatively calling, “Amazingly these were not bongs”

More of our famous free shop stickers and less-famous @carefulkittybooks.com stickers are here! Get the TFB stickers at the 🌈🏡 on 9th St, & Careful Kitty stickers at any of the stops on our tabling tour, including @okcomicarts.bsky.social (Sept 13) @slicexpo.bsky.social (Oct 18) and OKCZFX (Oct 25)

My tree for the group show at Canopy Art Center in OKC’s Plaza District.

seen out in the wild, on my usual walking route (i.e. in no way city center). KEEP THE PRESSURE ON FOLKS we are not alone

What if we kissed like I imagine the 70s playground turtles at the KS turnpike rest stop playground do?

final proof of “las fronteras son líneas imaginarias: landscapes after Herriman” Get your copy of this very limited edition ziclée (zine x giclée or something) at the @carefulkittybooks.com table during the #PaperPlains Zine Fest vendor fair in Lawrence, KS from 11-5 this Sunday, August 31 #LFK

Nine (9!) years ago I did a run of 15 of these Devil Dino screen printed posters in honor of Jack Kirby. They’re long gone, but I still like the image. Happy birthday, Jack.

Careful Kitty will be at the Paper Plains Zine Fest vendor fair this Sunday at Van Go, 715 New Jersey St, in lovely Lawrence, KS. Come say hi to @absurdistzines.bsky.social, @regularcandy.bsky.social, & @notarealghost.com and pick up some zines, comics, and more! See you soon, LFK!

It’s been a slow day & I had some tedious work to do, so I’ve been listening to Fishmans all morning. I kept zoning out & imagining I was in a club watching an amazing band made up of robots fronted by a muppet that was sorta Georgia Hubley by way of Justine Frischmann. I want to live in that club.

So much death and suffering and cruelty going on, and all I do is sit here in my book hovel and paint this little tree.

ehhhh

“épuisé”

Experimenting with topographical body horror.

Stickers of “morning devotional: please be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on” $4. Profit goes to the Immigrant Defense Project. Available at @thefloatingbookshop.com, or find me at the @carefulkittybooks.com table at Paper Plains, @okcomicarts.bsky.social, or @slicexpo.bsky.social

Updated Fall tour schedule •Sunday, Aug 31, 11-5: Paper Plains in LFK •Saturday, Sept 18, from 10-6: @okcomicarts.bsky.social in OKC •Saturday, Oct 18: @slicexpo.bsky.social in St. Louis Come see us for stuff from @absurdistzines.bsky.social, @regularcandy.bsky.social, @notarealghost.com & more!

BREAKING NEWS from Careful Kitty HQ: Crispy (AKA Crispofer, AKA Crispus Cattucks) caught a mouse! 😻😻😻 Thank you, Crispus!

Coming your way soon, LFK!

This is Nine Eyes, and Nine Eyes loves you, as long as you’re kind.

Having a real “throw the country A-K rack out on the street and go work at a Virgin Megastore and never come back” day, so I took an art break. Still questioning my life choices, but at least now I have another posca on book cover drawing.

Adventures in limited color palettes. “Black and pink (and yellow) and read all over” acrylic on a book cover

“morning devotional: please be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on” Acrylic and watercolor on cardboard

You know when you have an idea, something new and you try to get it out onto paper? I think I figured it out, I think it’s replicable, and I think I can keep refining it. I’m not always good at getting tools to do what I have in my head, so this feels good. Even if I forgot the teeth.

When brain gives a day of heavy dissociation, ground by copying Herriman. Mostly Krazy Kat, a little bit of Archy and Mehitabel.

“404: referent missing” ink on paper

Can we get to 1,000 followers before #SmallPressDay starts on Saturday? We're just 84 away from that total. smallpressday.co.uk

“Avoidance, or John Brown had some sick ass anime hair” the big parallel pen on paper

“well, something is about to happen” posca on the back of an old poster

Careful kitties after our own hearts.

handoodle pentel sign pen on paper

More Herriman mutations. “I fear using color.” Poscas and ink.

To paraphrase Butler, the infinite is change.

Wizard Pup and the magic pumpkin (after Herriman, natch) From tonight’s Doodle Cult / @regularcandy.bsky.social Sandwiches & Scribbles at Novelty

Grandmaster Flash. Why? Because.