For awhile, Eichhorn had another side ritual putting cat faces on plants, which helped him gain early notoriety on the blogosphere. “When I would take studio breaks, I’d be like let’s make a stupid cat collage; I didn’t show them to anyone until I thought to put them on tumblr,” he recalls. “I stopped making them a couple years ago, but people still ask for them, and I still have a folder full of hundreds of thousands of weird, awful, and creepy cat portraits from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.”