Cath Kastner

Such a beautiful piece, both in art & words!

I saw some on a website that was giving legal information about what to do when your landlord illegally raises your rent (fun times), and even though the info turned out to be correct, it felt really gross to see it illustrated this way. It just delegitimizes everything it touches.

Gorgeous!

Oh great, then I’ll get it right to it!

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social In case you’re curious, it was something with your “Let me be a crone in peace” quote. If you do want it, let me know - I’m extremely unemployed at the moment so it wouldn’t hurt my mental health to actually draw it.

You know what, I almost made you something for your birthday, and didn’t because I thought it might creep you out. (It was some artwork, not a massive shrine, but you cannot know how people you don’t know might receive that kind of thing.)

Such a shame. Teen Vogue was consistently better at covering politics than any legacy newspaper.

Painted portrait of a white woman in red, white, and purple tones on a dark purple background

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

Please, please do it. That would make such a good book, too.

I’m usually allergic to De Palma, but I’ll give it a stab. Thanks!

Shop window showing a blue motorbike and a white sheet covered in fake blood

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

Dead Ringers

A colourful poster of the cartoon character Krtek showing a mole holding a pink and blue umbrella surrounded by various other cartoon animals: three frogs, three birds, a rabbit, a mouse, and a hedgehog

Thank you so much for sharing this - the Krtek posters serve as a real time machine back to my childhood

Extremely accurate depiction of my cat during a stick-biting frenzy

Eeeeven if you get a shitty tattoo for whatever shitty reason, getting it removed once you sober up is pretty easy.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

Black ink comic page in 12 panels showing a woman dragging a drunk man out from a taxi, up 5 flights of stairs, and into an apartment. Both are wearing costumes - she is dressed as Catwoman and he as James Bond in a white tuxedo.

We lived on the 5th floor, no lift.

Ink on paper, 12 x A4.

#art #illustration #comics #ink

So the people who have spent decades telling women to wax/laser their hair off are now selling them merkins? Yep, that tracks.

You’re welcome! There’s a great LGBT bookshop/café right around the corner if you want to brush up on your French: maps.app.goo.gl/fUkeNyHfmDGX...

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social just walked by this place, t-shirt rack right in the shop window. They are not fucking around: maps.app.goo.gl/gQCfbxcypMtY...

Suddenly feeling overcome by an urge to ask where the library is

Personally a big fan of just winging it and seeing how it turns out

Photo of a hand drawing a comic with a brush and ink.The illustration shows a woman in a catwoman costume dragging a man by the ankles

Crayon sketch of Grant Wood’s American Gothic

In this month’s newsletter: Making art from painful memories, crayon canon, and other things I enjoyed in September
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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."

Fuck. I hope you make a full recovery soon.

I knew I recognized these dudes! Such a great resource.

Line of action?

The amount of tiny jokes you managed to squeeze into that big joke is a true work of art.