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Kit Catastrophe

@kitbeast.bsky.social
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Comics and storyboarding for animation(Kizazi Moto, Supa Team 4, Twende). Disgruntled gender goblin. Tattoos at kitastrophe_tattoo 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦🇦🇺

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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Stoked I got to do a bit of freehanding today with this shark tooth gap filler.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Fringe is over for another year, so I’m back in the shop, Thursday to Monday, for customs and walkins :)
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A dnd character portrait commission. I always enjoy doing these, when I get time to. This one’s a Warforged doing its best to understand being alive.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The grumpiest little dude from my flash.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I am officially done with my apprenticeship, and qualified. Wild.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Memento mori, memento amoris. Available flash!
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
2016 vs 2026. Ten years can be a lifetime.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Kitten! Available flash, if you’re here in Adelaide, Australia.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Rawr.
A tattoo of a tiger
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Hyena friend for Alessi, from my flash!
A tattoo of a cartoon hyena
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Halloween flash!
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Inking up some Halloween flash!
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It’s my face! With new glasses.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Lich King!
Tattoo of the Lich King
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
They May Be Giants! Had a blast doing this tattoo.
Tattoo of the cover of Apollo 18 by They May Be Giants
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Tiger!
A tattoo of a tiger and lotus flowers A tattoo of a tiger and lotus flowers
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Occasionally I’ll take on some private commissions, and one of my favourites is rpg characters. Here’s some I did for a crew playing Delta Green, which I understand to be a modern take on Call of Cthulhu. Really enjoyed doing this classic adventure comic style.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I had such a good time drawing and tattooing this punk rock Australian cockatoo. Custom pieces like this are so welcome!
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The bar may be low, but sometimes you just know you’d be a better boyfriend than Johnny Depp, even when you’re not a boy. Had a blast doing this tattoo
A tattoo of a scroll, with the words ‘Winona Forever’
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Ripley heard there might be chips?
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Stoked I got to do this piece from my own flash!
Tattoo of a grumpy cat in a teacup covered in patterns of clouds, stars and skulls.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The danger of listening to adhd ‘influencers’ online, as opposed to doctors, is 90% of their hacks, are leaning into the parts of adhd that can make the experience miserable, and lead to burning out. 

For instance! Once you understand that your brain struggles to make the chemicals that initiate action, and that it’s learned that things like urgency, stress and shame produce good substitutes, you have to go through the grief of having to see that you have been engineering the crisis and conflict in your life to keep you functional, aware or not. 

There are good sources of these chemicals too, like joy, novelty and exercise, but they are much much harder to initiate without help and support from other people, and without being medicated.

So when some butthead online says, ‘tell your friend to come over, and then the panic about your dirty house will make you clean it all in an hour’, they are encouraging you to do the masking that will burn you out by the time you’re 30.

I built a career on being good at desperate last minute projects that were on fire, and then constantly trashed that same good reputation by being terrible when given reasonable kind timelines with no pressure. 

If chronic procrastination, shame about failure or the opinion of others, and impossible standards are what you think is normal for creative people, and how you’ve been powering through life, please go for an assessment. 

People have hurt me throughout my life, but I now, age goddamn 42, have to face that I sought them out because I didnt know how to function without it, and didnt know there was help. 

Ignore the internet. Talk to a professional, not some goober chasing views and validation.The danger of listening to adhd ‘influencers’ online, as opposed to doctors, is 90% of their hacks, are leaning into the parts of adhd that can make the experience miserable, and lead to burning out. 

For instance! Once you understand that your brain struggles to make the chemicals that initiate action, and that it’s learned that things like urgency, stress and shame produce good substitutes, you have to go through the grief of having to see that you have been engineering the crisis and conflict in your life to keep you functional, aware or not. 

There are good sources of these chemicals too, like joy, novelty and exercise, but they are much much harder to initiate without help and support from other people, and without being medicated.

So when some butthead online says, ‘tell your friend to come over, and then the panic about your dirty house will make you clean it all in an hour’, they are encouraging you to do the masking that will burn you out by the time you’re 30.

I built a career on being good at desperate last minute projects that were on fire, and then constantly trashed that same good reputation by being terrible when given reasonable kind timelines with no pressure. 

If chronic procrastination, shame about failure or the opinion of others, and impossible standards are what you think is normal for creative people, and how you’ve been powering through life, please go for an assessment. 

People have hurt me throughout my life, but I now, age goddamn 42, have to face that I sought them out because I didnt know how to function without it, and didnt know there was help. 

Ignore the internet. Talk to a professional, not some goober chasing views and validation.The danger of listening to adhd ‘influencers’ online, as opposed to doctors, is 90% of their hacks, are leaning into the parts of adhd that can make the experience miserable, and lead to burning out. 

For instance! Once you understand that your brain struggles to make the chemicals that initiate action, and that it’s learned that things like urgency, stress and shame produce good substitutes, you have to go through the grief of having to see that you have been engineering the crisis and conflict in your life to keep you functional, aware or not. 

There are good sources of these chemicals too, like joy, novelty and exercise, but they are much much harder to initiate without help and support from other people, and without being medicated.

So when some butthead online says, ‘tell your friend to come over, and then the panic about your dirty house will make you clean it all in an hour’, they are encouraging you to do the masking that will burn you out by the time you’re 30.

I built a career on being good at desperate last minute projects that were on fire, and then constantly trashed that same good reputation by being terrible when given reasonable kind timelines with no pressure. 

If chronic procrastination, shame about failure or the opinion of others, and impossible standards are what you think is normal for creative people, and how you’ve been powering through life, please go for an assessment. 

People have hurt me throughout my life, but I now, age goddamn 42, have to face that I sought them out because I didnt know how to function without it, and didnt know there was help. 

Ignore the internet. Talk to a professional, not some goober chasing views and validation.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Matching metal horns from my flash!
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Australian Dance Moves… the Government Department Hold Shuffle.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It me.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Flash!
A tattoo design of a raptor, with the words ‘girl dinner’ in its claws.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Dino gorl! Available flash, if you’re in Adelaide.
A drawing of a punk girl wearing a dinosaur shaped hood.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A spooky daedric gateway!
A tattoo of a frame in the style of the Daedra, with many eyes peering out.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A little tattoo for Gee to celebrate her yarn dyeing business. I love seeing these art forms that have been shunted into the easily dismissed category of ‘craft’ because of their association to ‘women’s work’, make such a powerful resurgence.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Here’s my starter pack, made without ai. Remember kids, ai is yet another attempt by suits to access your skills, while only enriching themselves. Faster and cheaper won’t mean easier for anyone working class. #startpacknoai
A drawing of the artist as an action figure in a classic gi joe style blister pack. Features extra heads, roller skates, and a spotty dog.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Some pages from a personal project in progress!
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Storytime! When I was a young bean starting out at the first comic studio I worked at, we used to draw our pages in pencil, and a second artist would then draw them again in ink, using a light box to be guided by our pencils, but adding their own flair. This was because the limits of digital colouring and printing at the time meant that bold clear drawings were best. Also because one artist doing everything would slow the whole process down. 

Being young and full of vinegar, myself and a few other artists worked long hours of overtime learning to use wacoms and photoshop instead. It meant more control over the final product, and quicker, (subjectively) better work. In the first year, we were patted on the head and given bonuses. By the second year, it was the standard, and expected, and our timelines had halved, not to mention that the inking staff had either found new roles or lost employment. By the third year we were doing the colouring ourselves too, and the design staff who handled finishing, lettering and desktop publishing had dropped to one person from three. 

I could continue with similar stories about animation, and how storyboarding has changed from a series of rough concepts for each shot to detailed and timed to the second animatics, or illustration, and how masters like Frank Frazetta used to be able to produce a single book cover in a month, and make reasonable living doing so, but I think you all can see where I’m going with this.N 

The reality is that under capitalism, where profit is the goal above all else, every innovation eventually leads to exploitation. Even when the innovation is made by artists, and objectively makes things easier, faster does not lead to better, or more free time, only to greater production expectation for less money, and less jobs. 

So. My issue with ai, is not just that it cannot function without stealing from a library of human artists, or just that it has a high environmental costs. 

It’s that all I can see is that the suits in offices that have used our work to enrich themselves over and over, and have always discarded us after each project is done, will no longer even have to bother to use people. 

If this all sounds bitter, please understand I love these art forms, I am grateful for every second I’ve been able to do them. I still live to do them even as the industry grinds us to dust. But there are already no permanent creative jobs in animation or publishing. Only contracts. How much worse will it be when all there is, is cleaning up the visual gloop these programs produce?

Anyway, that’s my sermon, and my plea to stop feeding them. In the end it’s all  just another symptom of greed, and ultimately there’ll always be another one until capitalism falls. 

Please get a tattoo, or buy a zine, or something someone made with their hands, or read a story that someone poured out of their human heart. Local is best.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This cat makes her own luck.
A tattoo of a punk flavoured lucky cat brandishing a switchblade
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Richard and Ripley, dogs in spaaaace!
A tattoo of two small dogs of indeterminate breed, in space suits.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Available flash!
 A tattoo design of a pair of brass knuckles, one marked ‘Thoughts’ and the other ‘Prayers’
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Growing out a mullet is painfully slow.
A nonbinary human with a beard, piercings, and hair somewhere awkwardly between a mullet and a wolfcut.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Who wants a mermaid tattoo? (Available flash)
A tattoo design of a plus size mermaid with a shark tail, eating a human arm.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Ocarina of Time!
A leg tattoo of Link from Ocarina of Time, with Ganondorf looming over him.A leg tattoo of Link from Ocarina of Time, with Ganondorf looming over him.A leg tattoo of Link from Ocarina of Time, with Ganondorf looming over him.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Another majestic Australian ibis tattoo!
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Blackberry punk!
A tattoo of a fierce punk, winking at us, surrounded by blackberries.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Octokitty!
Tattoo of a cartoon octopus cat hybrid creature.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Lil’ Baphomet!
A tattoo of a cartoon satanic goat child
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
#hourlycomicday
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
#hourlycomicday
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Trans pup, for Eike.
Tattoo of a person wearing leather pup gear.
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Kit Catastrophe @kitbeast.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Hourly Comic Day is upon us. It’s never actually hourly for me, I’m a working human, but here’s a start:
Cartoon of a person waking up in a chaotic bed with a small dog.Cartoon of a person looking into a room and seeing two small dogs and another person sleeping Cartoon of a person drinking coffee and looking at their garden.
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