Kathleen Jacques

27 Nov 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

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Five years today since my medical crisis. Thanksgiving weekend 2021. I'd say I'm like ...80%+ recovered, which feels both great and not great? I'm mostly living my life like normal, but I don't have my Whole Life Back. but also maybe that's true for a lot of people 2019-now in various ways.

I'm limiting replies because one thing I learned really fast with this is... people are kind, but I hate discussing this experience and dwelling on it is a Dark Misery Path for me. I've done best focusing on other stuff and finding ways to live my little life feeling, like, not in pain or doomed

but 5 years feels like something to acknowledge, y'know? I'm both okay and not okay, but I'm here. I miss a lot of old friends (both local and not), but I hope I can change that.

I have stuff I need to go do today, but, like. this girl is sitting on me, and she is very soft

meanwhile, beside us…an observer waits her turn

I really liked episode 2 of Knights of Guinevere! Really feels like a team of people who love animation as a medium getting to just...go wild making a cartoon they're excited about.

it's both a joke and not a joke that when I find myself wondering what I'm around on this earth for, I think, well, among other things... I'm Here For Cats

@helldragonchick.bsky.social

I'm so here for cats. If I died and found myself standing to be judged before some kind of giant terrifying feline god, I'd be so fine with that. loyal friend to her children all my life.

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sarah 🌸

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two vast and trunkless legs are here to stay

Whether it’s something odious (ai, nfts, metaverse) or just some harmless trend, imo the phrase “[thing] is here to stay” just reeks of a sort of desperate insistence, and also a bit of the hubris of a mythical king making prophecies assuming no vengeful or jokester gods are listening

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blackle mori

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13 Sept

I just wrote a paranormal story in the form of a fictional forum thread! A young woman discovers a video captured from inside a recurring dream. Read here: suricrasia.online/unfiction/sp...

19 Sept

I was showing one of the nice staff at the vet clinic photos of the cats and she said "you have a beautiful home", and... maybe I finally did it, you guys. after all these years, I'm an adult who isn't a disaster

19 Sept

honestly as a kid I felt like a different genre of human being than people who could keep rooms and desks and lockers clean and organized. I was always a scattered mess, and I also felt like...okay maybe I'll never have a Nice grownup living space because that seems boring and joyless

19 Sept

but I somehow figured out in my own little way how to have a cute, colourful space that I LIKE, with pets, that isn't a huge mess. I dunno, that's been huge for me these past few years when I've had reduced ability to do fun stuff Going Out, and I've had to be even more of an indoor cat.

welcoming her to the family 🥲

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I have become weirdly fixated on the idea of finding the perfect little old CRT tv, like I need to rescue one of the last surviving magical creatures of a Past Age before they go extinct in the wild. and I know once I get one, it'll be like. okay. Now What? but it's fun to have a quest.

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side note, after not having a TV for them for a decade, starting up some of these games and seeing the saves is oddly haunting. why did I have a Final Fantasy save slot where the party is in some god forsaken part of the map and led by the yeti? and I can't warn the me who did that about The Future

I also apparently thought it was funny to keep Zelda saves named for children who owned the secondhand cartridge before me...and I guess all along I've been assuming they WERE children at the time, and not just like. Some Guy. some man dressed like Seinfeld playing SNES in 1994

welcoming her to the family 🥲

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still need to get a stand for this to sit on, but I’m really pleased with this! turns out it’s from 2006, which is mega late for a CRT…which makes me think there’s a good chance it’s had a relatively low amount of previous use, and has lots of life left.

It’s in good condition and runs great (which is more than can be said for some of these old game cartridges!) It’s a really petite 13”, just a cute little baby TV from the last days of CRTs that would have been nothing fancy at the time. but now, it’s perfect

9 Sept

I don't have big thoughts on the Ocarina of Time remake, but you know what I always liked about that game? It's full of strange, creepy little moments that it doesn't over-explain. Like, I love that eerie guy who sits under a tree at night and says "People are disgusting"

9 Sept

Zelda has always been good at this tone, all the way back to the first one. It's this like heroic music magic sword adventure fantasy world with something *just not right* about it. sometimes the creepy is really front-and-center, sometimes not!

7 Sept

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

7 Sept

I remember I just started laughing at that text like. wait. wait. I found a recipe for a what?! well, this is a challenge now. we have to build it, and also a forbidden horror room

7 Sept

Got my birthday coming up on wednesday, and, I dunno, you guys, I have to make some kind of change this year ahead. I'm trying to frame it like...wow, I've been miraculously sent back in time, to when it was Not Too Late. gotta lock in and get in the scrooge waking up on christmas day zone

5 Sept

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

5 Sept

abstract shape club

4 Sept

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

31 Aug

Having the completely normal thought “but what if I HAD to be one of the six wives of Henry VIII”, and…okay, Anne of Cleves all day. get in the car, we’re getting perceived as undesirable and left the fuck alone 🤘🤘

This week has felt like a real pile of trash in a hundred ways, but, I dunno, maybe I feel the wind changing. Got confirmation from a doctor today that something I was terrified about is almost certainly nothing. I'm alive with lots more left to do and love in this world, and so are all of you 👍

One time, years ago, I was out for beers with friends just having a blast, and the next day I found this scrap of paper where I'd written, really big with a pink marker, "WE'RE ALL ALIVE AT THE SAME TIME". I think about this stupid thing pretty often. like, hey, yeah, we ARE, and that's cool.

god, I love Tim Curry. appreciating seeing everyone posting about their favorite roles of his, and most of them would probably be like THE strangest one-off thing on just about any other actor’s resume

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looking at his full list of credits: okay, this man did so much more cartoon and game voice work than I was aware of, and the assortment is BIZARRE. what do you mean he was in both Capitol Critters and Fish Police. what do you mean he played both “God” and “Serpent” in different weird bible cartoons

man, he was great, and just had the ability to bring any of these weird roles onto another level and make it ridiculously charismatic and memorable. not just anyone could, like…make the pollution monster from ferngully iconic

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and a couple of deep cuts I haven’t seen anyone mention yet: - ok, I love him in the 1993 Sierra point and click adventure game Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. came out right near the end of that era of great early 90s pixel art, ridiculous voice cast that also had Mark Hamill and Michael Dorn

- and this one is absolutely not a classic EXCEPT IN MY HEART: he had a weird later-career role in my favorite terrible holiday movie, Christmas In Wonderland (2007)! It’s awful, but if you’ve ever spent time in Edmonton, Alberta where it’s strangely set, you might find it almost as funny as I did

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like, of course, Rocky Horror, Clue, IT, Legend, but I gotta take a moment to appreciate: - the absolute HOLD that Hexxus in Ferngully has on people roughly my age - Anything Can Happen On Halloween is a yearly watch in this house - and I almost forgot he was in Over The Garden Wall!

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26 Aug

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

yeah, the one-two punch of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry is really hitting me. like, yeah, man, guess I COULD be doing more to live a life that leaves behind memories of joy, authenticity and kindness

23 Aug

Luna had to be on the other side of the bedroom door from me for like maybe an hour this morning, and she meowed and meowed nonstop and now she's stuck herself in my lap like glue. the overwhelming Ordeal of being a little creature who wants to hang out with mom

22 Aug

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

22 Aug

also vaguely grim before, actually. welcome home, consumer. you live at a big chain store for towels and stuff. and it’s not even sort of fun like going to the ikea