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RIP Carl the Cat

March 08, 2025

We came home from a birthday party in Raleigh, set our coats down in the kitchen, and Carl came trotting in to greet us as he always does with his trademark “ba-kow” hello. Laurie asked me to fill her water container, and I stepped over to the si...

Holidorks

December 10, 2021

For the last few years, my old Portland pals Jeff and Jake have been conning me into creating elaborately photoshopped, snarky holiday cards for them (which has been a blast): And here's a few of our own, which always seem to turn...

Paper Heys, Mom Edition

December 09, 2021

I painted and sent my mom a card (almost) every day for a month in 2016. Very random assortment of watercolor messes, mostly just riffing off whatever was on my desk at the time.

Easy Peasy Peanut Lime Miso Sauce

April 24, 2018

I made this sauce back when dirt was being made and I still had hair, when I lived on Orcas Island and thought I would be a fancy cook. It’s so quick and easy and surely a completely blasphemized version from what's still being served at...

Paper Heys

January 11, 2017

More cards for holidays & shits & giggles & birthdays, 2017 edition.

Center Saul

March 25, 2016

Better Call Saul is beautifully shot, and strangely oft-centered.

Coolest Catz on the Block

October 03, 2015

Turns out my new designer coworker-pal Tom deserves Best Catsitter Award of 2015. Look at these amazing daily updates he sent me while I was gallavanting for a week in Lake Tahoe with other members of the Firebelly fam with +1’s: An Illustrated Ne...

CAKE Bake 2015

September 02, 2015

Doodles from the annual CAKE Bake 2015.

Sketching on the Typetrain

March 04, 2015

<p>Doodles from our 38 hour Amtrak <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/natebeaty/sets/72157646720605233/">trip to Glacier National Park</a>, a week in an MTV cribs log cabin, and then a 38 hour train trip back. Then...

Holiday Cards 2014

March 04, 2015

This year’s hand-scratched cold season cards. Red paper + Sailor brush pen + whiteout. Fun!

Up the River Rollercoaster

December 13, 2013

I love Chicago. As far as cities go, this gritty gray, snow coated, L-rumbling mash of midwest folks takes the cake. I’m heading into my sixth year here. The city is all dolled up with a fresh coat of snow makeup, bringing back the sensation tha...

Burning the Midnight Sketchbook

August 26, 2012

I’ve been mostly drawing in my sketchbook for the last 5 months. Here are some sketchbook droppings. The perfect manure! If this was smell-o-vision you’d have wafts of rich, rotting bark and cigar smoke oozing out.

A Leaping Fatty

August 05, 2012

In celebration of Carl passing 17 pounds this week, here he is doing some acrobatics as a kitten: He was leaping after a crumpled up piece of paper we often played catch with. His new thing is playing goalie on the ground when I try to scoot a sm...

Huffing the Kindle

August 03, 2012

I made mention online about reading ~3,000 pages of 7 novels on my Kindle in 2011, knowing that would spark conversation amongst my friends, many of whom are in the Amazon-and/or-ereaders-are-evil camp. I don’t blame them. I’m probably the biggest...

Party Like it’s 1999 in 2011

July 02, 2011

Way back in 1999, in the midst of my 5-year computer hiatus, I mocked internet and television with this gem in the first issue of Brainfag: Twelve years later, not only is the concept not as far fetched as it was when people still had 20" TV...

Five Push-ups for Blog

May 17, 2011

Poor Blog. Are you feeling old? Left behind? Still mumbling scathing invectives about Facebook and Twitter between gritted, coffee-and-cigarette-stained teeth? Still threatening to end it all, nobody cares anyway, what’s the point, anything beyon...

Run Scully Run

February 02, 2011

The X-Files aired just as I was entering my extreme luddite phase, dropping out of computer science classes and heading for the woods. Now that I've settled into my mid-30s eating snacks and staring at a constant streaming Netflix connection, I've...

When I Get Old

January 18, 2011

My 11-yo niece Hannah has me pegged. She just sent me this gem of a drawing: "here is you when you get old. you will eat, fart, draw and yawn all day." The kicker is: I'm apparently already old as she just described my daily routine of ...

One is the Loneliest Pancake You’ll Ever Make From Scratch

December 14, 2010

I make myself pancakes from scratch and it's really easy and I'm still single so what of it. This isn't groundbreaking food science here, but I thought I'd share just in case you had no idea that you could make your own sadsack self a stack o' ca...

Six Weeks to Determine if I’m Bumpkin or Metrosexual

September 17, 2010

I’ve weathered two Chicago winters. Well, that isn’t entirely accurate. The first was blissful solitude, almost like a full year of the Vacation Sensation, having freshly replanted myself from LA with office job and clunky car and failing relatio...

Most Powerful Robot Ever

September 16, 2010

Drawn by Aaron Beaty. Detail from our epic doodle battle which is my twitter background.

Exploring the Great Outdoors From a Distance

June 28, 2010

I just express mailed my prints for what's sure to be a fantastic show opening at The Pony Club on July 1st in Portland: Lilli Carré did the delicious flyer. As usual, I managed to work myself into a last-minute panic in order to actually DRAW th...

Evacuate!

May 20, 2010

Here is a new comic for a project put together by Robyn Chapman the theme being, well, pooping. My body was more adamant about this subject than I care to remember for a two-year span, offering many episodes such as this gem. Strangely e...