iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

looking back through my camera roll and, oh man, I had FORGOTTEN the last and most unhinged thing I did in Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing character on the beach: "SWEET! I learned a DIY recipe for a forbidden altar!"

I have not only built "forbidden altar", but an entire horrible room for the forbidden altar. it's dark, and we've got fire and scarecrows and knives. my character is wearing a black robe and a gas mask

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the weather turns cooler, and once again it’s cuddle season for a couple of cat loaves

a black cat and a white cat sleeping next to each other on a gold blanket on the couch

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

imagining the opposite Wario counterpart to this company. providing maintenance services to illogical cosmic horror landscapes whose defiance of the laws of physics and geometry is beyond your comprehension

a totally normal work truck in traffic for “Logical Landscape Maintenance”

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

oh man, this former Bed, Bath & Beyond is now a Spirit Halloween but it still has this big WELCOME HOME lettering visible. pleasantly ominous

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

does look pretty comfortable, I have to admit

a white cat with her tail on a black cat

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

gotta be a top ten thing to see around here: the cat with her tail weirdly draped on the other cat

white cat with her tail on a black cat. they’re curled up together on a gold blanket on the couch

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

accidentally discovered there’s no apparent limit to how far in the future I can scroll my phone calendar, so I marked my own 111th birthday

interface creating a new event. “party, anyone who’s still around is invited 🎉”

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🎵 and it’s possible maybe she’s never surmised 🎵 she’s an adult animal infantilized 🎵 gettin’ treated like a baby for her relative siiiiiize

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Deltarune…tomorrow … … (quietly vibrating as Third Sanctuary plays in the distance)

woman with pink and yellow glasses, and a black cat. this is related to the video game deltarune. chapter 5 releases tomorowwww

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Luna, Moona, Lunaroo, Moonpants, Lulu, Lula, Boo Boo, Little Lulu, Li’l Moon, Li’l Spoon, Spoona, Moonbaby, Babygirl, Luuuuuuu

a black cat sits on a gold chair, unimpressed by all these names

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

still think I nailed it when I called this “my vampire to werewolf trajectory”

me several years ago. long, styled red hair, makeup with bold wingy eyeliner and red lipstick, feminine looking

me last year, no makeup, hair chopped off short and shaggy, wearing my favorite old black shirt with the sleeves cut off that says “too tough to die”

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

look at this marshmallow. this little pierogi

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

something nicer, though: “double cattin’ it” is my household phrase for petting them both at the same time, two-handed

a black cat and a white cat sitting together on a blanket on the couch

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The practical instructions in this book are like 95% stuff that’s incredibly specific to an archaic 1981 computer, and 5% stuff that’s been sadly evergreen for for grown adults for 40+ years and counting

“4. Good programmers never eat or drink while working. The computer will not work well if it is full of cookie crumbs, or has soda spilled between the keys!”

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Felt like this was calling to me to rescue it from the thrift store for $1.99. Does COMPUTERS FOR KIDS (1981) have some wise words for 2026? Well, maybe.

Book cover “Computers For Kids: Atari Edition” by Sally Greenwood Larsen. it’s from 1981, and has a very charming illustration of two children pointing at a really old ass looking computer. on the screen is a picture or an elephant under a bed

Book page excerpt: “Even the best hammer cannot do all the different things our hands can do. And even the best computer cannot do everything our brains can do. A computer cannot feel emotion. It cannot feel happy or sad as we can.”

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

world-class achievements in getting cozy are happening here

cat has burrowed so thoroughly into a blanket pile that only a little black tail is visible

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

ah, living the good life (being a little cat under her favorite throw blanket)

black cat underneath her favorite throw blanket on the couch. all tucked in

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It’s Rose and Luna’s birthday, and my sweet girls are TEN. thank you for a decade together, babies. I’m so glad I got to bring you home and be your person.

Rose, a white cat, sits on the bed with a rainbow striped toy. it’s her birthday!

Luna, a black cat, sits on a gold blanket on the couch. It’s her birthday, too!

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

the enchanted living room, featuring two cats. I’ve been trying to make it a space that makes me happy to be in, and I think it’s pretty cute!

living room with cats on the couch. three little strings of ikea fairy lights above the curtains and a cork board, right where an ethereal queen of an elven forest would put them

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

my cats got this toy for christmas that looks like a can of orange crush but says “mice”, and you know what, it’s still funny to me every time I see it

black cat playing with a soft toy soda can that’s orange and says “mice” like that’s a drink flavour

white cat sitting with a soft toy soda can that’s orange and says “mice” like that’s a drink flavour

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

...Okay, I'm messing around making up more games of the early 90s. I would have spent hundreds of hours on this one as a kid without understanding half the menus and icons

Fictional 1990s game box for "Averston Harling's EMPEROUS II: The Epic Strategy Adventure That Will Ruin Your Life"
It's got a faux marble background and a sort of clumsy gold 3D chisel effect on the title text. The illustration in the center is actually cropped from a Renaissance era artwork depicting the Lighthouse of Alexandria (by Philip Galle, 1572, public domain)

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I’m going to need to move them to vacuum the couch. however. they do make a convincing argument otherwise

a black cat and a white cat hanging out together on a gold blanket on a teal couch. sweet babies

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

welp, guess I'm navigating the biggest Well, Now What? of my life after like 5 years basically stuck as injured Bart who couldn't join my friends in the metaphorical swimming pool. I'm finally doing better for real, I think, and...now what? do I even know how to be queen of summertime anymore

bart simpson in the episode where they get a swimming pool and he breaks his leg. he's resentfully looking out his bedroom window about to shut the blinds, text is marge saying "he's becoming isolated and weird"

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

So, I made new year 2026 cards! I held off on posting this until most of the people i personally gave/sent one to got to see it in print. 3 ink Risograph print on brown kraft, and this is my mood going into the year: yeah, older and sort of broken, but stubborn as hell about resilience and repair

Illustration of two women with retro CRT TV heads with static and test patterns. They’re holding hands, and there’s a bunch of junk like cords and screwdrivers and tape on the ground. Text: “Another Year, And We’re Still Alive”

The card from the previous image, unfolded to show a 2026 calendar on the back

the card from the previous image, showing how it folds in half like a card. all of these are photographed on a blue cutting mat.

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

oh, to be a cat resting my sleepy little head on the other cat’s butt

black cat resting her sleepy little head on white cat

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

once again spent all week adoring the christmas boy

a woman in a suit and gold paper crown holds a white and brown tabby cat, in front of a christmas tree

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

good news for christmas, my family got me this photo of the cats in mug form!

a mug with a red handle and the half of the photo visible with Rose, the white cat

a mug with a red handle and the half of the photo visible with Luna, the black cat

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Hi! I’m Kathleen, a designer and cartoonist from Vancouver. I haven’t been actively making comics the past few years due to some ongoing health problems, but you can read almost 300 pages of my goofy, gay, silently musical comic series Band Vs Band at bvbcomix.com

Band Vs Band art with the main characters Honey and Turpentine playing guitars, and the rest of the bandmates behind them. I originally drew this as a print for the BVB Volume 1 reprint Kickstarter, and liked it enough to include it in the book.

Covers of the Band Vs Band Comix Volume 1 and Volume 2 print books. I’m still proud of them as book designs, and they both include some fun extra bonus stuff that isn’t in the web version. The Vol 1 is the second “special edition” printing after the first ones sold out, and it’s got extra extra stuff. Thank you, again, to all the kickstarter backers who helped me make these things exist!

Two Band Vs Band designs meant to look like retro romance comic covers. These were a double-sided postcard I gave away free at comics shows and with online shop orders.
Title: TALES O’ GAL ROMANCE

Card 1:
Honey Hart (thought bubble): “That gal’s nothin’ but trouble! Sigh…*choke* Does she notice me?”
Narration box: EVERYWHERE SHE TURNED: GAL LONGINGS

Card 2:
Turpentine (thought bubble): “She loves KITTENS, and I love DELINQUENCY- Are our…gal hearts…TOO DIFFERENT?”
Narration box: Shocking Twist: “But I don’t, um…NOT also love kittens”

It’s a Band Vs Band comic page! A cute retro looking rock n roll band plays in front of a crowd, and the singer, Honey Hart, gets flustered mid-song by the sight of her then-secret girlfriend in the audience. This is absolutely a spoiler for the enemies-to-lovers plot of my comic, by the way, but I think that’s fine.

Singing (big, wacky hand lettering):
Yeah! Feelin LOVE in the air and maybe it shows
And maybe I don’t even CARE who knows
Cause when I…see…you…there…I-
WOW, WHAT A GREAT CROWD TONIGHT

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

peace has come to the land. until i need to move these back

a white cat and a black cat each on a barstool. they have calmed down and curled up for a nap

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I moved these stools to vacuum the floor, so of course now begins the rivalry of the wizards atop their towers

a white cat and a black cat facing each other, each on a barstool

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Luna is sick (poor baby, I’ve called the vet), and it’s so cute that she went and curled up next to her sister on purpose. She’s usually more of an independent type who likes the other cat to give her a little space.

a white cat and a black cat curled up together on a blanket in a chair

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

in conclusion, this halloween: I bought pink glasses And yellow glasses to make this, so, uh. The hell am I gonna do with two pairs of these?

two pairs of glasses with one pink lens and one yellow lens

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

here’s the full outfit! i wear n95 masks in public, which is like honestly pretty creepy-puppet-face adjacent

full length mirror photo: pink and yellow glasses, mask, black suit, white shirt, [$14.99 Thift Store MensShoes]

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

* HEY EVERY BUDDY! IT’S YOUR [Number One Rated Salesman1997!] * I USED TO BE A [Big Shot], AND NOW I’M A [$4.99 Halloween Costume] FOR [Some Lesbian?!?] (happy halloween, I’m Deltarune Spamton!)

a woman dressed as Spamton G. Spamton from the video game Deltarune. Glasses with pink and yellow lenses, white shirt, black suit jacket, little bit of creepy-puppet-face makeup. blue background with crummy fake sun and clouds, like his little shop in the trash alley

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Kathleen Jacques @kathmachine.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

(nature documentary) and by October, the house cats are ready to hibernate in their Nest

a black cat and a white cat curled up together in a gold armchair with a blanket, looking extremely cozy

a black cat and a white cat curled up together in a gold armchair with a blanket, looking extremely cozy. the white cat looks at the camera

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