Badly Drawn Mat

The official Tumblr of Badly Drawn Kitties

[badlydrawnmat]

Jesus Christ it's Mat Sherer.

Yeah, I’m still kinda here, lurking.

[toreeartfarts]

[badlydrawnmat]

“A lot more expensive too.”

[duckreblogs]

REBLOG IF IT'S OKAY TO DRAW SEXY / NUDE FAN ART OF YOUR OC

Some people are cool with fan art, but what about naked pin-up fan art?

[arsondadko-deactivated20161107]

It’s actually encouraged…

[jklind]

Some things go without saying!

[sannyatelje-deactivated20181217]

just leave it here…

[maxblackrabbit]

Damn right.

[writerswritecompany]

[metaphortunate]

Leslie Knope.

I have no fear.

[laurashapiro-noreally]

Sue Perkins, Mel Giedroyc, Mary Berry, and Paul Hollywood. I might be a little worried.

[vincennesdimanche]

Houdini and Doyle.

I feel confident.

[spank-the-villain]

The Golden Girls. #ciner1013 was right, I should have been watching Daredevil

[meret118]

Love It or List It. I’m doomed, but my grave will be in a fantastic location with a gorgeous view, and the funeral service and luncheon after will be beautiful and elegant.

[tamalinnlj]

I last watched Daredevil. Thank god, I’m safe!

[babbleismysuperpower]

the magicians. i honestly don’t know if i’m going to be ok or not.

[lasrina]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I’ll be rescued, but in the process three drug dealers, the Pontiac Bandit, and a corgi will make their getaways while a warehouse burns down and someone ends up wearing a bunny suit.

[tkingfisher]

I caught two thirds of an episode of Metalocalypse. Damage will be extraordinary and I will likely die of burst eardrums, unless for some reason the accountant feels I ought to survive. 

[the-real-seebs]

A friend of mine and I just binge-watched Fringe. The good news is, we’ll be fine. The bad news is, the collateral damage may exceed two universes.

[vastderp]

it was almost FMA but then it was 11.22.63 instead FUCK FUCK FUCK I’M DOOMED

[elanorpam]

dragon ball super. it’s gonna be entertaining to watch at least

[jumpingjacktrash]

i last watched agents of shield

you only think you kidnaped me actually it’s part of a clever scheme to get you to reveal your hydra contacts and now the building is surrounded good luck

[teratocybernetics]

Arrested Development. I am fucked.

[spookychan]

Garnet. 

I’m in good loving hands.

[doubtingsalmon]

Walking Dead. That’s a hot mess of characters, part of which are trying to save me, part responsible for the kidnapping, and part trying to eat me.

[thebiggestnerd]

Osomatsu-san. I am so fucked…

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Rick and Morty. Im very afraid

[chrispco]

I’m re-watching the kidnapping episode of Angie Tribeca right now, and I think that means I have an obligation to reblog.

Anyway… everyone dies unless TBS renews us? (Go watch Angie Tribeca. It is the goofiest and best thing ever.)

[badlydrawnmat]

The Doctor and Clara.

I’m gonna be fine, but my kidnappers are basically dead.

[awd-eheroes]

I’m a horrible person… I’m sorry…

[ebonyleopard]

Omg you made me lol in a Texas Longhorns

[badlydrawnmat]

Maybe it’s because I’ve been awake too long, but I can’t stop laughing at this.

[sarah531-deactivated20180901]

I just realised where Kylo got his name from:

Ky = sKYwalker

Lo = soLO

Ren = literally just his birth name with an R

which means that when he was choosing his super scary Dark Lord name, he just mashed up the surnames of the most positive figures in his life. poor sod can’t even evil right

[taiey]

literally a ‘what is your star wars name’ meme

[paxbe]

2nd two letters of your mother’s last name Last two letters of your father’s last name

1st three letters of your name but with an R

[diet-dr-shasta-phd-deactivated2]

Chen Rlx

[spookylass]

Eaum Rli

[h0ld-back-the-night-deactivated]

Onie Chr

Fuck me

[oovwee]

Joey Rar

Oh fuck I am this series Jar Jar.

[tinsnip]

Aren Rna. Or maybe Ran? Aren Ran is a cool name, I’m cool now.

[maggierobots]

Adam Rat. Apparently I’m a cereal box mascot in the Star Wars universe.

[siphersaysstuff]

Neak Rreg

I’m pretty sure “Neak” is an Ewok.

[chrispco]

Two chains of this showed up on my dash, and this is the better one due to so much Jar Jarring.

Anyway, Aren Ris?  “Chris” becoming “Rhr” is less a name and more something you grumble in a drunken stupor, so I slid down to the vowel.

[badlydrawnmat]

Trer Rat

[badlydrawnmat]

They had been staring at it for fully ten minutes before they became aware that Marvin, hanging between their shoulders, was in difficulties. The robot could no longer lift his head, had not read the message. They lifted his head, but he complained that his vision circuits had almost gone.

They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn. The first letter was a ‘w’, the second an ‘e’. Then there was a gap. An ‘a’ followed, then a ‘p’, and ‘o’ and an ‘l’.

Marvin paused for a rest.

After a few moments they resumed and let him see the ‘o’, the ‘g’, the ‘i’, the ‘s’ and the ‘e’.

The next two words were ‘for’ and ‘the’. The last one was a long one, and Marvin needed another rest before he could tackle it.

It started with ‘i’, then ‘n’ then a ‘c’. Next came an ‘o’ and an ‘n’, followed by a ‘v’, an ‘e’, another ‘n’ and an ‘i’.

After a final pause, Marvin gathered his strength for the last stretch.

He read the ‘e’, the ‘n’, the ‘c’ and at last the final ‘e’, and staggered back into their arms.

‘I think,’ he murmured at last, from deep within his corroding rattling thorax, ‘I feel good about it.’

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

[badlydrawnmat]

What is your process for scripting and planning out plotpoints for your story? What is your comic-making process?

Holy man, how long has this been sitting here? Didn't Tumblr used to have a thing showing when you had unread messages?

My comic-making process sucks. I start work at 5am, and on Sundays, I usually have quite a down period between about 6 and 8. So I pull out my tablet and open my “BDK Scripts” file in Google Drive, and try to write five comics. I rarely have anything planned out more than a week at a time. For example, as of right now, I have no idea what next week’s comics will be about! Maybe I’ll find a way to continue this little Drew/Lucy story. Or come to think of it, next week leads up to Lydia’s birthday. Man, I don’t know.

[badlydrawnmat]

Since this is the only channel of communication we share..."January 5, 2016 An old running gag from BDK's early days. Does it still work? I can't even tell anymore. " Yes it does, still as good as then.

Excellent.

[badlydrawnmat]

And here’s the Badly Drawn Kitties for Nov. 13. Again, not sized for Tumblr.

[badlydrawnmat]

Derp... what's with the comic website? Won't load for some reason O_o

I have no idea. It seems like anything generated by its updating script isn’t working; pages I built myself, like the Cast and Archive pages, still work, but the meat of the site has gone blank. I’m going to look into it this weekend, and I hope I can get it fixed. But I’m sort of back-of-my-mind worried that I’m going to have to completely rebuild the site with a more reliable updating script.

[badlydrawnmat]

This is the Badly Drawn Kitties from Nov. 12, since the site is F’d. Of course it isn’t sized for posting on Tumblr, so you can’t really see it properly, but it’s the best I can do.

[caylakluver]

I’m facing the apocalypse with The Rock, Ezio Auditore, and Darrell Hammond. I’ll take it.

You?

[wordswithkittywitch]

I’m majorly screwed. I just marathoned 8 MS3TK movies. Zap Rowsdower, Jodie Lee Thompson, the Pumaman, and I are just going to walk in circles until we’re killed and our bodies are looted. As robots heckle.

[waywren]

….so I’ve got the MC from Ana no Mujina, the Supersizers, Conan, and Kaito. ….man, Mujina and Conan are going ot have SO much work looking after us. But thanks to them we’ll probably be fine!

[joisbishmyoga]

James Bond, Edogawa Conan, and the Mythbusters.  … Welp, everything’/ going to blow up with aesthetically athletic acrobatics.

[tephra]

I have Kaitou Kid, Maxim (the Jagermonster), and… hmm, how do I deal with an ensemble cast? Depending on chapter the focus shifted between Sephiroth (sane!), Zack, Cloud (still a trooper), and Aeris. I think I am remarkably unscrewed.

[athelind]

I am GOLDEN.

The last three things I watched or read:

Person of Interest. John Reese is kind of a trump card.

Red Lights, whose protagonists are played by Cillian Murphy and Sigourney Weaver.

Warbreaker, by Brandon Sanderson, where even the fluffy pampered princesses turn out to be clever and formidable when faced with situations that should be out of their weight class. Oh, and there’s magic.

Amusingly, if I’d answered this yesterday morning, I might be even better off, with an entirely different cast:

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Steven Universe, and volume one of the Wonder Woman Chronicles. Twilight Sparkle, Steven and Diana? The zombies haven’t got a chance.

Now I really wanna see Etta Candy and the Holliday Girls dealing with a zombie apocalypse.

[the-gneech]

The cast of Psych; Korra; and Brahma, Vishnu, Shakti, and Kali.

Not only am I set, I’m going to have a great time.

[chrispco]

Read: Pearls Before Swine comics collection. I will killed and zombified by Rat for fun on day one.

Played: Simpsons: Tapped Out. So Homer Simpson is my survival guide? Dude probably caused the apocalypse! (He’ll make it, but anyone following his example is totally dead on day one.)

Watched: Deliberately, Steven Universe - but, when it ended, ESPN was the background. The protagonist of that segment was… Chris Berman? If I somehow make it through day one, I’ll WANT to die.

Enjoy you long sagas of fanfic-quality badass heroism, everyone. I’ll try not to bite you as I shamble around.

[badlydrawnmat]

Member #1: Mario. He’s really good at smashing things’ heads, so I’m probably not too bad off there.

Member #2: an Inkling from Splatoon. Armed to the teeth (or beak; it’s an anatomical grey area), but how lethal the weapons are is up for debate.

Member #3: Isaac. When at his most effective, he can kill Satan himself. But it all depends on what kind of items the environment spawns.

I think I’ll be okay, depending on how effective the Inkling’s weapons turn out to be and what items Isaac gets.

[badlydrawnmat]

I don't know if the website names are a jab at the way anime renames famous brands. Or a jab at the websites themselves.

They’re not really jabs at all. I don’t want to use real things in my comic, but sometimes I need brand names. And sometimes those brands equate to real things, so I want to give them names that sound real and unique enough to be plausible, but that are also evocative enough that people more or less understand what I’m talking about. I don’t really like “punning” the real names if I can avoid it. For example, there is a comic out there that I am blanking on the name of right now, but it’s quite popular, and it has an MMO in its canon that is called (if I remember correctly) “World of Lorecraft.” That’s fine, it tells you what you need to know in a transparent manner, but it’s a little too on-the-nose for me. I even find my own use of “Chitter” a little borderline; it sounds a bit too much like “Twitter,” even if chitter is a real word that is more or less synonymous with the word twitter. If I had it to do over again, I might call that social media platform “Chatter.”

I think too much about this sort of thing. The video game Dirk has been playing? The reason I never mentioned its name until recently was that I couldn’t think of one, and every time I started trying to think of one, I went so deep down that rabbit hole that I was getting distracted from writing the rest of the comic and had to pull myself back and go, “This isn’t important right now!” Ironically, when I finally wrote a comic that needed the name of the game, I came up with it very quickly.

Addendum: It is very possible to use punned-up names for comedic effect. If I wanted the names to be the jokes themselves, I might have listed them off in a rapid, increasingly transparent manner. Like I might have had Lucy say something like, “Dirk’s getting super popular on all the biggest social media platforms! Chitter, Bumblr, Readdit... He even has his own group on Facenook!”

[badlydrawnmat]

I really need to know. Yustar=youtube, Chitter=Twittter, Porover=Reddit, Invadr=Facebook, but what is Tendrils???

First of all, I’m really happy someone got Porover. I’m proud of that name. And I’m also happy they got that Invadr was Facebook and not Tumblr.

To answer your question, Tendril is Vine.

[catcomixzstudios]

Gage’s Favorite Comics - Badly Drawn Kitties

Today’s Comic: Badly Drawn Kitties by Mat “badlydrawnmat” Sherer

Rating: Young adults and up (nothing explicit, but certainly implied) Genre: Comedy, with a largely queer focus Status: Updates Monday-Friday every week

If there’s one lesson I seriously hope that people take away from me making these posts, it’s that any series, not matter how good it looks, can only go so far without great characters. And Mat has great characters down to a science.

The more minimalist art style works to the benefit of this rather low-key but none-the-less amusing comic. It’s perfect if you’re looking for a more relaxing and chilled-out read. Stories on much grander scales often can’t even compare with the heart that Mat has between the relationships of his characters.

Another benefit to the comic is the extremely inclusive nature of it. Not only does it star queer and trans characters, it also features a hypersexual individual, a couple in a BDSM relationship, and swinging, among other things. These aspects aren’t brought up just for sex appeal or to be the butt of a joke, as each character has their own life and interests.

Beyond that, the comic touches upon countless other topics and ideas. Mat’s interest in sports (hockey specifically), nerd culture, music, etc. tend to spill over into the comic and continue fleshing it out even further. 

Badly Drawn Kitties is a fantastic comic for a more down-to-earth experience with a focus on everyday character life (with a sexually diverse twist). Whether or not you agree with the title, you’ll certainly agree that they’re well written.

(First Comic) (Character Info) (The BDK Patreon) (Mat’s Twitter)

[badlydrawnmat]

Everyone look. Someone likes my stupid comics.

[badlydrawnmat]

I hope this isn't a real social media platform. http://badlydrawnkitties.com