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Cameo Cats

Introducing the Cameo Cats making appearances in Season 1.
Many thanks to the BackerKit backers who sponsored these - Robyn, Josh, and M! Hope you'll be pleased with them!

Design art by Kasey Schiavone...

Butterfly

A concept animatic loosely based on the old Butterfly mini-comic with little Freckle and Rocky. We never ended up having the time to move forward with it, but I still like how much of a cat Freckle is here.

Storyboards by 2025-08-29 14:12:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Vampyre?

It's almost Halloween, right? Almost, almost.

These were requests from a live stream that I had been meaning to return to for a while. Horatio as a vampire, and a sketch of werewolf Rocky.

Warm Subject

Spotted in the wild at Hot Topic. Thanks to Lisa R. for the photo!
There's more coming soon - I'll make more public announcements come September - but I guess they're doing a slow rollout for now.

I'll be back shortly with some artwork to share too!

Shoes.

We recently gave Mordecai's three piece suit design a brush up, with a sleeker look and more comprehensive breakdown. We were feeling like his initial suit design was looking a little too boxy, and animators were struggling a bit to keep him on model.

Along with that, artist 2025-08-10 21:59:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Lackadaisy Vinyl Cover

Cover art for the vinyl album! Looks like we'll release it around the end of this year.
The back cover art featuring the band has been shared here before, but I figured I'd include it to demonstrate how the front and back look together.

Lackadaisy - Season 1 Animation Update

Animation preview! Patrons have seen a lot of these clips already, but we wanted to share a little with everyone who's been waiting patiently over the past while too.

Also, we have an announcement to make this fall, probably in October. It's a big change, but in a pretty exciting way? ......

Halcyon Days

Some background art from Episode One!
It's quite a bit more saturated than Lackadaisy's usual palette because, in context, it represents a sort of idealized look at the past.
(I had shared the color script for some of this before, but I've included it below again so the intention is maybe ...

Office Hours

A little Wick and Lacy for you.
(We've been working up a longer preview video to go out publicly that we meant to release last month, but we've been juggling a bit too much lately. Should be along soon, though.)

Featuring work by 2025-07-12 13:22:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Spring Stream Sketches

A collection of very silly things from the most recent livestreams.
Thank you for the fun requests!

Little Daisy Decor

"Photo" artwork adorning the walls of the Little Daisy Cafe We've had to produce a ton of art assets and props to fill out the cafe set. It seems like it's required more minute detail work than the Speakeasy itself, even. Many of the wall-hangings are seen only in the background, so they're rela...

Puppet Viktor Mini-Vlogs

Just spending some quality time with Viktor.

Many thanks to voice actor Jason Marnocha, for sharing these!
Puppet made by WolfBunnyCospla...

Pig Farmers Character Designs. Also Trucks.

I shared Benjy with you before, but here's the rest of 'em - finalized designs for the Pig Farmer brothers - Avril, Avery and Emery. You won't know who they are if you've only seen the animated pilot, but they'll feature pretty prominently in Season 1.

Also included are some old vehicles we...

Asa on the Beach

I promised I'd post Fable's drawing from the livestream, so here's Asa in all of his beach-dad glory.

Hope those of you who were there had as much fun as we did. Thanks for joining us!

Lackadaisy Mixer Book - Proof

The printing proof for the cocktail book finally came in! Here's a look at it.
We're really pleased with how it turned out, and we hope you will be too, because it'll be going to print shortly!

Photographs and recipes inside by the amazing 2025-05-27 06:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Eisner Nomination!

Lackadaisy Volumes 1 & 2 are up for a 2025 Eisner Award in the Graphic Album (Reprint) category!

Grateful to Iron Circus Comics ...

A Little Shot Progress

Just a look at how this shot started and where it ended up!

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Animation and Cleanup by Sam Kessler, Adeline Ka...

Stupid Cat Faces

Some of the meme-inspired drawings from the last Patron stream - thank you for your submissions! It was a fun time.

The original Drawpile canvas from the stream is included here too, including drawings by Ashley Nichols, Phui Jing Ling, Fable Siegel, Katie Frances, Kare Valgon, and Daniel ...

Maribel Hotel

Some of the preliminary concept art for various sets around the Maribel Hotel and Marigold Room. Of course, we wanted it to look very different in character from the Lackadaisy Speakeasy. Artwork by Salem Pullen<...

Viktor Plush / Card Game Updates

Just a little update on some outstanding BackerKit stuff we've been working on.

- Viktor has been exceptionally obdurate about becoming a plushie, but we've finally landed on something we're pretty happy with. The coat is kind of a bonus we didn't expect to be possible, but hey, there it i...

Animation Previews

Just a quick peek at some more cats moving around on screen. We'll be releasing a preview out in the wild sometime this spring, but wanted to give you all a first look + some extras just for your eyes for now.

(Don't mind Atlas sipping on that ectoplasm there. Coloration is temporary until...

The Boy and his Mom

Freckle costume changes for Season 1 (most of them, anyway) and Nina's character sheet.
Getting close to being able to compile all of the Season 1 sheets into a big collection for you all.

If you happen to have any trouble viewing this, you can find it here too:
2025-04-05 05:25:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Backer Pin Set Prototypes

These, uh...these were hard to make.

More specifically, it was difficult to settle on a technique. Just hard enamel wasn't working out the way we anticipated, and the designs had to go through multiple revisions to arrive at an approach we felt would give us a quality pin. Then it was hard...

A Room with a View

A little look at the minor chaos and details in Ivy's dorm room, which pops up in Episode 1.

Background art by the amazing Eran Fowler!

The Band Presents...

The back cover art for a planned vinyl music collection (release TBD).

I had a request for the line art in one of the streams in which I worked on this, so here's that too:

 If anyone has troub...

Disapproving Looks from Cats

Will have some completed art of the band, and maybe even some photos of the Viktor plush prototype to share shortly, but here's a little Viktor and Mordecai clip with tied down rough animation in the meantime.

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Animation here by 2025-03-08 06:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Winter Art Heap

Another collection of recent art board drawings.
Everyone was beginning to suspect that Wick's date was actually three ammonites in a trench coat.

If you have any trouble viewing the full res image here, you can 2025-02-28 11:50:34 +0000 UTC View Post

The House Wins

Someone stop Virgil from investing in meme coins.

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A little rough animation by Sam Kessler, Olivia Johnson,...

Too Many Cats

Some of the background characters and single-appearance characters we've designed for Season 1. We have to put thought into who fills the busy city streets and speakeasy dancefloors as a matter of visual worldbuilding, but also because we can't leave animators guessing at what to draw. (The middl...

Art Board Smorgasbord

Part 1 of...many. I've been doing tons of these all winter long, trying to fulfill backer/supporter drawings, so I figured I'd start compiling them for sharing.

In case you have any trouble viewing this at full resolution, 2025-02-07 06:51:31 +0000 UTC View Post