Animal

Vam­pire bat car­toon for Hal­loween. Vam­pire bats are hip­sters. They only come out at night and they hang from their toes when they sleep.

This is an illus­tra­tion of a cute gray kit­ty with a bell col­lar around his neck. I love kit­ties. They are domes­ti­cat­ed but they have a wild streak inside them. It is cool to watch their preda­tor instincts kick in when they are hunt­ing a tiny bug or lizard. They go into a hyper cute nin­ja mode that is a rem­nant of their lion ances­tors. Bells are like a kit­ty alarm sys­tem to pro­tect our song­bird bud­dies from being eat­en. This is one of my favorite ani­mals.

Chick­adees are so small and cute. They flit and jump around in a matrix of abbre­vi­at­ed jerks and pops. I am almost cer­tain they are tiny machines. I used to watch them feast at my grand­ma’s bird feed­er.

I love lis­ten­ing to birds go off at sun­rise in spring. It is like they have been beat down by harsh win­ter weath­er and they cel­e­brate the return of warmth and green­ery. I live next to a col­lege cam­pus and it is inun­dat­ed with large old growth trees and song­birds. When I walk out­side to go to work I am hit by a deep field of cacoph­o­nous echo­ing hap­py bird sound that is unlike any­thing I have heard before. It is like some­thing out of a vast swirling dream­scape where birds are sen­tient machines and their songs have a secret cod­ed mean­ing.