Kit Catastrophe

I am officially done with my apprenticeship, and qualified. Wild.

Thanks friend!

43 last month. Got a few scars to show for it, and some harder edges I wish were softer, but I’m here and I’m glad to be.

Haha, remind me to one day tell you of the magical horse girl comics I drew in my 20s. This curse is an ancient one.

Memento mori, memento amoris. Available flash!

2016 vs 2026. Ten years can be a lifetime.

Work in progress on this little zombie guy on my own shin. Going to have to let him heal up before I can finish the colour, but I’m enjoying tattooing myself again, and trying some new things.

One thing I’ll never get used to about Australia, is hot wind. It’s supposed to be a relief from the heat, not additional pain! Goddamn fan forced oven nonsense happening in Adelaide today

I’m not sure how many more toughest year evers I can take, but I’m still here, still making my living making art, and I’m grateful for every client I got to tattoo, comic I drew, and student I got to teach. Thank you to all of you for continuing to show up.

Kitten! Available flash, if you’re here in Adelaide, Australia.

Can’t show anyone the comics work I’m doing right now, so here’s some Gideon the Ninth tattoo flash I drew up instead.

Such a pleasure to work with you, and I’m bummed it wasn’t longer!

‘I don’t know if I did that social interaction right, but everyone was smiling so that’s probably alriiiight!’

Songs I sing to myself as I ride my bike through the parklands.

A tattoo of a tiger

Rawr.

A tattoo of a cartoon hyena

Hyena friend for Alessi, from my flash!

Halloween flash!

Inking up some Halloween flash!

It’s my face! With new glasses.

There comes a day when the sandwich lady asks ‘what can I get you, handsome?’, and it’s unclear whether she’s just being jovial or actually flirting, because you’re the same damn age.

Tattoo of the Lich King

Lich King!

It doesn’t happen near as often as I’d like, but being paid to draw comics is still the best feeling there is.

Wild riding to the shop today through clusters of the anti immigrant march. I can only imagine how it would feel if I was the wrong kind of immigrant.

A strange thing to claim to be defending Australian culture, when every period of the country’s history has been defined by stories of immigration.

Oh god, there’s already people making their identity out of being too cool to like Alien Earth.

That band isn’t punk! You can’t identify as this sexuality if you’re that gender! That’s not real sci-fi!

Everything’s made up you wretched dingbats. Do what you want.

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

Of all the creative fields I’ve dived into, nothing yet really beats being curled up in a duvet drawing comics like a dork.

As if I wasn’t already enjoying Alien: Earth, they pull a Tool track out of nowhere! Yeah, this is an annoyingly good show. Annoying because I have to wait a week between episodes. Also because it’s somehow both cheesy and smart, which really shouldn’t work, but does.

Tattoo of the cover of Apollo 18 by They May Be Giants

They May Be Giants! Had a blast doing this tattoo.

A tattoo of a tiger and lotus flowers

A tattoo of a tiger and lotus flowers

Tiger!