Why did Abraham Mignon, an incredibly skilled still-life painter, decide to paint this cat with a tiny human face? I need to know.

Felt like looking at some art today and got discouraged by the extremely long queue in front of L’Orangerie, but I did see a dead rat the size of a grown man’s shoe in the middle of the path, so that’s that.

This is still on, even for those of you who do not spiral into an existential crisis at the end of each year.

A comic about blank page anxiety

I laugh in the face of danger

Highly recommend dancing like a demented 60's gogo girl for a couple of minutes every day

Ear worm of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=u71C...

I have a sale going at www.etsy.com/shop/CathKas... if you’d like to stare at something pretty while you reevaluate all your life choices

Soirée bowling Ink on paper, 30 x 42 cm

Bedside table - ink and digital colour

Short comic I made to procrastinate on a longer one.

Winter puff

Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief ink on paper #illustration #hitchcock #ink

Wet Paint Ink on paper, 30 x 42 cm

My Youtube algorithm has blessed me with a video of Werner Herzog musing about skateboarding. Please enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLI...

Started painting again after a 9 (!) year break for lack of space. Pleasantly surprised to find out I can enjoy working on smaller formats, too. Acrylic on plywood, 23 x 17 cm

At the top of the list of businesses that should perhaps refrain from decorating their windows for halloween: motorcycle driving schools

We lived on the 5th floor, no lift. Ink on paper, 12 x A4. #art #illustration #comics #ink

In this month’s newsletter: Making art from painful memories, crayon canon, and other things I enjoyed in September cath-kastner.beehiiv.com

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

Hey artists! QRP with your sketch vs final

ai art is the modern aesthetic of fascism

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

Just found out Christie’s auctioned some of Maurice Sendak’s collection, and man, do I wish I had a few millions to spare #mauricesendak #felixvallotton #beatrixpotter #williamblake #illustration #artcollection

New episode of Catherine’s Super Fun Office Adventures: The Music Police #comics #comicstrip #musicpolice #elviscostello #name3songs

In honour of his 61st birthday, I turned rock god & style icon Lenny Kravitz into a paper doll. Had a tonne of fun drawing this - it’s the first and definitely won’t be the last!

Also, how is "leave trans people alone and let them live their lives as they have for decades" not the "moderate" position here? Whenever people call for "moderating" on trans issues, they're calling for actively oppressing trans people, actively restricting trans lives.

I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

Fucking hell. I know nobody’s in greasy overalls for you to fetishise, Labour, but this is still an industry full of working people on marginal incomes that you are voluntarily destroying, you dumb tech-fetishising goons. You just sold us for corporate strip-mining. Up the workers.

Wonderful, fabulous @cathkastner.bsky.social drew this portrait of me after my visit with her in Paris. It is accurate to every detail, from Sacre-Coeur in the background to my fuschia coat to the pockets on my suitcase to my omnipresent chocolat chaud.

Another still life from my “stuff on my desk” series (Somebody please hire me to draw pretty things, it’s incredibly relaxing) #illustration #frog www.inprnt.com/gallery/cath...

New work for the French edition of Vanity Fair - as the trial finally starts, I illustrated an article about the robbers who targeted Kim Kardashian during Paris fashion week in 2016. AD: Géraldine Richard www.vanityfair.fr/article/braq... #illustration #editorial #editorialillustration #artwork

Drawing the mess on my desk, part 1

I lost my day job to AI, so, as I’m applying to office jobs again, some memories came up to the surface. Please enjoy Episode 1 of Catherine’s Super Fun Office Adventures