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Catherine Holmes

@catherineholmes.bsky.social

376 followers 133 following 119 posts

Cartoonist, Illustrator: Asparagus, The New Yorker, The New Cartoonist, Narrative, Weekly Humorist, CartoonStock

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vote! #singlepanelcartoon #inkonpaper

A single panel cartoon drawn in pen and ink of a person walking a small dog, both are looking up at a small plane flying to the left of the drawing through cloudy skies. The plane is towing a banner that reads ‘THERE IS SO MUCH AT STAKE’ The person says, “Only everything.”

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#summer and #cats being #sporty

A single-panel cartoon drawing in pen and ink of two cats on a grassy hill with a slight grade. They are both wearing waterskis and hold a waterski tow line, taut, between them. The one cat higher up in the hill is saying, “This would be so much easier if we were on water, had a boat and weren’t cats.” There is a big cloud in the background and few abstracted flowers in the grass.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#illustration #inkonpaper #trojanhorse

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

#inkonpaper #music #oldpianos

A pen and ink line drawing of a Ram teaching a lamb to play piano. Both sit on piano stools before an upright piano, sheet music in front of them, a metronome ticking on top of the piano along with a snail, books and a basket also.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

#lavender #watercolour

Pen and ink drawing of a woman in a hat, striped long-sleeved shirt and overalls, watering, with a watering can, a small shoot of lavender growing out of a plant pot. A snail is climbing up the side of the plant pot. Only the lavender is painted in watercolours, full colour.

Pen and ink drawing of a woman in a striped, long-sleeved shirt and overalls, and flip flops, she has just fallen backwards, legs askew, sitting up looking surprised at the lavender plant mentioned in the first slide now in full bloom in what seems like an instantaneous burst of growth. Her hat is flying off. The lavender plant is full colour, purple and green and painted with watercolours.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

#cutouts #inkonpaper

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

#stpatricksday2026 #🍀

Single panel cartoon drawing, pen and ink, of a busy night at an Irish Pub, green, white and orange decorations are visible in the distance. Two ladies are chatting in the foreground at the end of a long bar. One lady, a bar tender, holds up a four leaf clover and says to the other lady, “From the gentleman at the end of the bar.” At the end of the bar, a leprechaun peeks over the edge.

Close up of the Leprechaun peeking over the edge of the bar as described in the first slide,

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Thank you @thenewcartoonist.bsky.social UK (in the Jan/Feb 2026 issue). #notowar

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Some of my cats’ favourite things.

A cartoon drawing of a cat wearing an apron sitting behind a small vendor cart on wheels. There is a small, striped sun umbrella at one end of the cart tilting away from the cat. On the front of the cart are numerous signs indicating what the cat is selling; string, fluff, twist ties, lint, spiders and scrap of paper. The vendor/cat is staring at a bird and a cat walking by. The bird is wearing a turtleneck sweater and corduroy pants and carrying a tote bag. The cat walking beside the bird is wearing a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase. They are looking at the cat/vendor. The cartoon is drawn with pencil.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

My favourite palette if I’m being honest. Thank you @newyorker.com #cartoonist #grayscale #midwinter

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

#backtothedrawingboard #drawing #studio

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

#ideas #creativeprocess Put together this little page showing all of my spot illustrations in the January 19th, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. So thrilled to have worked on these in the 100th year anniversary of the magazine. Thank you @newyorker.com for this amazing opportunity.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

#inkonpaper #drawing

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Happy New Year, thanks so much for following my mostly daily doodles.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Water soluble pencils and ink on paper. #winter

A cartoon drawing in pen and ink of a person walking a dog, the snow is deep. They are standing in a clearing surrounded by trees sketched with a water soluble pencil, simple tree branch shapes. (A wet flat brush dragged vertically through the lines of the trees was used to give a misty feel.)

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

#saturday #drawing #cats

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Reading with cats, Holiday edition. These two love a good story. Happy Holidays! #reading #fiction with #cats

Pen and ink cartoon drawing of a women in a red sweater, Nordic-inspired, with white snowflake patterns on the front and red and white patterns in the arms. The woman is sitting on some throw pillows on the floor in front of a wing chair with an open book on her lap. Behind her in the chair is a stack of books of all sizes. She is also wearing a red and white Santa hat. A mostly white cat with some tabby patches lounges on the top of the chair one leg dangling watching on casually as the women reads, another cat peeks out around the side of the chair on the left side of the drawing. The women is reading- “This is a story of two cats that allowed the tree to be up longer than twenty four minutes.”

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Cartoon drawing of Santa seated on a stool, he’s wearing an old-style painting smock holding a paint palette while working on a still life of a Christmas cactus on a canvas resting on an easel. The cactus sits on a tall stool just to the right and behind the easel. Hiding behind the plant is a cat getting ready to knock the plant off the stool. Santa says, “Don’t.”

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

‘Tis the season. #festive #painting (after Norman Rockwell)

An homage to Norman Rockell’s self portrait only with a pine tree painting a portrait of itself. A tiny owl sits above the mirror the pine tree is glancing at. Coloured lights hang over the mirror. The pine tree is smoking a pipe. The canvas shows the beginning of the self portrait, a smiling pine tree. The pine tree sits on a stool with one red curly toed slipper. A Santa hat sits at the top of the easel. A few brushes lay about around the artist and a bucket with reindeer drawings decorating its side.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Oops, pardon me! #sunbeams #cats #catsgettingalong

A pen and ink cartoon drawing of two cats resting in sunbeam falling across a rug and onto the back of a couch in a living room. Peeking over the couch is the cats owner snapping a photo of the cats with a vintage 35mm camera. The cat on the left is looking up and says, “Do you mind, we’re sharing a sunbeam here.” The cat on the right looks up as well.”

A photograph of two cats resting on a messy rag rug in a sunbeam. The cat on the left, white with tabby patches on its face and ears and on its side looks into the camera. The other cat, a calico/tortoiseshell dozes in the sunbeam.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

My cats everyday at 5 am now. #daylightsavings #cats #dance

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

#inkonpaper #travel

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Rachelle Meyer @rameyer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🐤 GIVEAWAY 🎵 I would love to mail FREE SPEECH CANARY DRAWINGS to you and your friend. Just tag them in the comments and I’ll choose one pair at random by Nov 24. ✍️ A few made as commissions, portraits, and collabs over the past few weeks. @catherineholmes.bsky.social @amyinnl.bsky.social

Exercise your voice even when you think no one is listening.

Collab w @Catherine Holmes

Birthday present for Amy

Portrait of Steev Burgess

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Well the weather might be better… #seasons #raingear #westcoastliving

A cartoon drawing of a couple walking in the rain sharing a dark-coloured umbrella. Other people are rushing past with different umbrellas; polka dotted, plastic, striped. They are walking a doodle in a raincoat which also has polka dots. The lady has a polka dot scarf on. She says to the guy, “In a few moments we’ll have walked across this panel into the unknown, how does that make you feel?”

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Places to go, Neil Young shirts to wear. Happy 80th Birthday Mr. Young! #neilyoung

A cartoon drawing in pen and ink with a light wash of a couple preparing to leave for a night out, dinner with friends or family maybe as the woman by the door is holding a tote bag with a bottle of wine in it. She is lifting her coat off of the coat rack and says to her partner, “We really need to go, but first you need to change everything, except(underlined) your Neil Young shirt, that’s perfect for any occasion.” Her partner has a perplexed look, he is wearing pants that are too short, or shorts that are too long, kind of like climbing pants maybe, anyhow not right for the dinner. The Neil Young shirt is a retro shirt of Neil Young’s head and shoulders, he’s singing and has his harmonica and holder and is playing guitar. His sideburns very long, wearing sunglasses, so cool. Swirls surround the text that say Neil Young above and below the T-shirt art. A cartoon to celebrate Neil Young’s 80th Birthday.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Not yet a morning person yet, but less of a night owl. #inkonpaper #illustration #drawing

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

#democracy #hope #positive #conversations

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Timely post. #daylightsavings #clocks #timechange

Six zany/surreal drawings of cartoon clocks drawn in pen and ink. Clock dials/hands go every which way, one looks a bit like Salvador Dali, tiny sparrows fly around the clocks, a cat sit as atop the Dali clock watching the sparrows.

Two pen and ink drawings of hourglasses. Both are on yoga mats. The top hourglass is on its back holding an alarm clock at arm’s length. The sand in the yoga glass is settled to almost a horizontal level. The bottom hourglass lies on its stomach/face down, with its legs bent up at the knees arms stretched out in front, the alarm clock is off to the side also face down. The sand in the hourglass is horizontal.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Scary really how much there is. #creativeprocess #art #cartoons #halloween #inkonpaper

A cartoon drawing of two people having a hot drink together. In the right hand corner/side is a large body made up of papers, drawings, portfolios, canvases, stretcher bars, note pads etc. This body has an eye looking at the person closest to it. That person is saying, “Oh, don’t mind that, it’s just my body of unseen work.”

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Fair enough… #cats #fashion #costumes

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The First Robin of Halloween #trickortreating #tropes #candy #costumes #batmanandrobin

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Calico bats and the inspiration behind this toon. #rescuecats #halloween #calicocats #bats

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A little something from back in May. #elbowsup , yeah, still. #proudcanadian 🇨🇦 Also #gojays !

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Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

#autumn #inkonpaper #watercolour

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

#🎃 #halloween #datenight #pumpkins #brideoffrankenstein #dracula

A cartoon pen and ink drawing, with a light wash of the Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula seated at a table across from each other, holding hands and looking dreamily into one another’s eyes while sipping a Hallowe’en concoction from a Jack-o-lantern sitting on the table between them.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

‘Tis the season. #spells #halloween #cartoon #magic

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Perfect fit. #sometimeagotuesday #costumes #brushpenonpaper #inkwash #cats #turkeys #canadianthanksgiving

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#knitting #illustration #inkonpaper #space

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

#heavylifting #cartoonists #drawing #illustration #freespeech

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Caption: “Now, where was I?” #freespeech #freedomofspeech @jimmykimmel.com

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Taking a little break from social media for now. Not sure if the post, (that I reposted here), I mentioned was blacked out the other day on IG was from a glitch, the hashtags of banned comedians or the image itself. Either way it’s taken up too much energy, apologies if I got it wrong.

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Rachelle Meyer @rameyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Yesterday, I made a few Free Speech Canary drawings at the rainy art market and gave a couple away. Today, I’m sending the remaining canary to a musician friend in NYC and whipping up a new one for a drawing exchange with the excellent @catherineholmes.bsky.social Embrace action, however small. 🐤

Sing stronger together drawing

Songbird gotta sing drawing

We need your voice

Never stop singing

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

#autumn #painting

A pen and ink drawing of a tree with eyes looking up and holding a palette of autumn colours, uses a brush and paints its green foliage with the autumn colours.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Onwards #freespeech

A tiny woman/cartoonist rolls a large ink bottle up a hill.

A wider view of the same cartoonist rolling the large ink bottle shows the hill surface to be a tilted drafting table, there is a blank piece of paper taped in the center of the table. A dip pen rests on the raised pen support at the lower edge of the table. A desk lamp is positioned over the paper.

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Sharing this cartoon here that was blacked out by Instagram. Drew it back in May and simply pondered whether he was returning home to a coronation now that he’s been riding around in actual golden carriages. #freespeech #comedians #cartoonists

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

#sometimeagosunday A favourite painting from a few years back when I only imagined having two cats. #rescuecats

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Tiny art. #reading

Catherine Holmes @catherineholmes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Caption: “If you need me I’ll be here, exhausted from keeping you up all night.”

Ink and wash cartoon drawing of a cat happily strolling by its owner in their home. The owner is carrying a newspaper and cup of coffee and looking bleary-eyed as they walk by an elaborate cat tower/tree. The cat looking up says, “If you need me I’ll be here, exhausted from keeping you up all night.”