Recent Series



Tortured Scrolls A series of hand-drawn animated GIFs inspired by the internet phrase “doom scroll.” Reflects the tension between making disposable art and the relentless pressure to generate content. Medium: iPad, Apple Pencil, Looom App. Created: December 2024 – January 2025 [Link]


Moving Words A collection of 22 hand-drawn animated GIFs. Each short message plays with shifts in meaning—clever, uplifting, and occasionally bleak. Some were created with Emily the Strange in mind. Medium: iPad, Apple Pencil, Looom App. Created: January 2025 [Link]


Existential Night Flyers tells the story of Goth Cat, a brooding cat who is on his own but looking for connection. He sends his messages out to the world. Published 2025 [Link]



Strange Cat Art School Experiments in trying to relearn how to draw the character again, after 20 years. In Progress 2025 [Link]


Recent Book Series

Emily Gets a Job follows Emily the Strange as she brings her signature darkness into the workplace. A sequel in spirit to Morrissey Gets a Job(1999)  [Link]

 


Strange Cat Art School: Book 01 Professor Space Cat teaches art classes at Strange Cat Art School, where student-made Emily Strange posters are taken aboard his spacecraft and sold at an alien planet swap meet. Published 2024 [Link]


This Is How I Draw Cats Now: Book 02
Medium: Stylus and tablet; Adobe Illustrator on iMac
Date: June–December 2022 Format: 2.75 × 4.25 in., 32 pages [Link]


This Is How I Draw Cats Now: Book 01
Medium: Ballpoint pen on index card; Adobe Illustrator on iMac
Date: April–June 2022
Format: 2.75 × 4.25 in., 32 pages [Link]


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