ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴

"well that's different"

5-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading. Panel 1 starts with a caption saying "This is such a tired subject, but I still hear people of older generations complaining that 'kids don't even learn cursive in school anymore!' and while penmanship is an artform, most people really don't need cursive in daily life." The panel shows a hand practicing the cursive alphabet on one of those dotted-line grids. Panels 2 through 4 are on the same row and are all overlaid with the following caption: "As someone who's spent years in jobs that actually use cursive & penmanship a lot," and panel 2 shows me wearing a black chef's coat and bandana while writing "Happy Birthday" on a sheetcake with a fat bag of icing. Panel 3 is a closeup of a hand using a triangular scale ruler and aimes guide to make straight lines for lettering comics, with the words "ass butt fart" barely legible on the paper beneath. Panel 4 shows my hand writing a thank-you note in cursive, next to a stack of envelopes and stamps. Panel 5 starts with a caption saying "I'm using my skills to deliver this message:" and below is another cursive grid with the words "It's time to stop bitching about the youths" written in beautiful calligraphy. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (12-4-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

Day 337: the YOUTHS!

Cutting, devastating

Thinking about some of the shadiest midwestern phrases. First ones that come to mind are "That's so unique" and "I'm praying for you".
Sends a shiver down my spine, every single time.

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

True on both counts, I just get nervous people will read my emails and *think* I'm generating ai slop when in reality I just communicate like a maniac over text 😆

Lol it really does stand like a French bulldog 😂

4-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; panels 1 and 2 are on the same row at the top, and panels 3 and 4 are stacked vertically below. The top caption says "The dice gods chose another unknown (to me) creature from my list of suggestions. Today is the 'Thorny Devil.'" Panel 1 shows me sitting at my drafting desk pensively, and panel 2 is closer on me, my face lit from below with a crazed expression on my face as my speech bubbles say "If this one is another weasel. Or weasel-shaped. I swear to god." in reference to so many weasel and weasel-shaped animals ending up on this list recently. Just weasels all the way down. Panel 3 shows my drawing of what I think a 'Thorny Devil' looks like without ever having seen or heard of one. It looks like a standard frontbut has rounded, triangular shaped growths coming from its joints and the sides of its head. The captions around it say "Frog. Is it a frog? Some kind of frog? please. Please, a frog, just this once." Panel 4 starts with a boxed caption saying "And here's how it actually looks: Oh man. Look at this wonderful guy. It's a lizard! And he's hard to draw! Perfect. No notes." In the panel is a drawing of an actual 'thorny devil,' which has the face and body shape of a chameleon but is COVERED in sharp points all over its body, a lot like the thorns you'd find on a rose stem. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann) and today's date (12-3-2025)

Day 336: We broke the weasel streak(TM) with this exceptionally pointy guy!

I'm fine! Just straving a honk!

That clown crowd is looking so good! Clowd. Crown clowd. 👍

just learned this! it really does look like a housecat-sized grizzly bear in some photos, though I probably wouldn't have guessed about the dorito-shaped ear fluffs, lol

There are truly only two paths in nature: crab and weasel

I definitely get bear vibes from this guy, that absolutely tracks!

this is all genuinely interesting info, thank you! A friend just told me the binturong also apparently smells like popcorn? I'm so in the weeds now.

for all the times winter in the midwest has actively tried to kill me or made it hard to pet my cat, I still think I prefer it to very warm climates. I'm way too delicate for Australia.

whimsical ass creature

after big projects I always find myself staring at my hands like "what am I supposed to do with these now?"

2-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading. The panels are stacked vertically and both depict the "binturong," first without me having looked at a reference and then after looking at one. The top caption says "Another 'Animal Un-familiar' today -- the BINTURONG." Panel 1 starts with a caption that says "So hard to tell if this sounds like it should have horns & hooves, or if my brain just... only knows 3 kinds of animals..." and in the top corner is a small drawing of me looking thoughtful and saying "mmm, yes." with 3 thought bubbles featuring the shapes of a fish, goat and bird respectively. Below is a drawing of how I imagined a binturong to look: a salamander-like lizard with a triangle-shaped head (like a boomerang), frog-like feet that end in bulbous toes, and a long tail with a leaf-shaped tip. Panel 2 starts with the caption "Alright, time to see how it actually looks:" and continues below with a drawing of a fluffy weasel/badger animal with round bear ears and face, and long, pointy tufts of hair jutting out from behind the ears. It's perched on a thick tree branch and looking out with round eyes. The captions continue: "Is this another weasel?? Is my whole list of suggestions just weasels? Wait, I kind of got the right shape with the ears... (adorable)" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (12-2-2025) and the time i spent drawing this (50 minutes)

Day 335: Is it just weasels all the way down?

every single email and DM and most public posts I make online have them too -- oh look, there's one now!

yes that's why Egg Noodle looks so stressed. He has yet to meet my quota of spiderman pictures and he's on thin ice

3-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading. The panels are all on the same row. Panel 1 shows me sitting up in bed in low light, eyes still closed and hair in a messy top knot with stray hairs splaying outward. I have a single speech bubble that says "Oh shit... it's December." Panel 2 shows me sitting at my desk looking at my laptop, one hand bracing my face in mild exasperation. A single speech bubble above me says "Oh shit, it's December." Panel 3 shows me and my cats Margo and Egg Noodle working in an old-timey news room with wide window blinds and a rising cloud of cigar smoke. I'm smoking a big cigar, talking on a mid-century style rotary phone and grabbing a piece of paper from Margo's mouth and saying "Ah shit, it's Decembah!" Margo is wearing a white button up shirt with rolled up sleeves, and in the foreground Egg Noodle is nervously typing on a typewriter and wearing one of those flat-top hats with a pencil and a piece of paper that says "Press" sticking out of the band. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (12-01-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

Day 334: Ah shit dude, aw jeez--it's Decembah

I gotta say I've loved every weasel I've ever seen. Ferret, ermine, they're all just long teddy bears. Deeply loved.

Spooky! In MN we get bobcats that sound a lot like a screaming woman. Subsequently I am not a big fan of camping 🤷

2-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading. The panels are stacked vertically and a top caption says "It is truly so cold in my house. Time to draw another animal I don't know (suggested by a reader): Panel 1 shows a puma-like cat crouching next to a river and dipping a wide paw into the water to catch one of the fish in it. The captions say "The 'FISHER CAT'. I'm inclined to go extremely literal again. Thick tail for balance? Maybe has really short fur. Easy to dry after catching fish?" Panel 2 starts with another caption that says "Now to look up a reference..." and below that is another set of captions: "Ok, so, it seems to be another weasel. And apparently it's just supposed to be called a 'fisher' (but that name is a little too broad though, yeah? One of you pranked me." Below the captions is a drawing of a dark, medium-hair covered weasel with a round head (similar to a grizzley bear, but very small) with round ears, walking up a hill in a wooded area. The bottom of the panel has a final caption written in cursive: "Very, very cute. Little chocolate bear. Great job." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-30-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

Day 333: Great job, chocolate bear

What a spread!!

The matching cabbage pattern coat and hat are ✨ just exquisite

Just because

2-panel comic drawn in pen with inkwash shading; the panels are stacked vertically and separated with a diagonal border. Panel 1 shows me working in my studio, backlit as my cat sits in a pile of blankets in front of a space heater. The captions say "Despite all the issues with Minnesota winters, I've always enjoyed the feeling of being 'entombed' in the snow... getting enveloped by a big whit expanse just past a layer of brick and glass. It's nice. I mean, it's nice for those of us who work from home." Panel 2 shows my spouse (a mail carrier) holding a stack of boxes with legally nondistinct logos on them, with a little speech bubble that says "Jeffrey I hate you so much you greedy piece of shit" Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (11-29-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

Day 332: Workin' in a Winter Wonderland

Observing #Caturday with these two little ding-dongs

I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie

reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony

Photo looking out my window at a snowy front yard; in the foreground is a crocheted plant hanger holding a "prayer plant" with wide leaves that have a dotted pattern on them. Next to the plant, standing on the window sill is a plastic Troll doll from the 80's facing away from us with its pants pulled down to reveal two buttcheeks

Ah yes, a fine morning to be alive