#23 Blossom Driving

Blossom is a good traveler. I wonder if he'd be a good driver? Perhaps it's a good thing we'll never know. This is the last of the cat comics for now... but knowing me, there will be more in the future. Next week- video game comics.

Comic Cats #35 Scott McCat

Scott McCloud is one of the few comic book characters that I've drawn here that is also an actual person. He draws himself into his books on the theory and ideas behind comics and their creation. If you want to make or understand comics on a deeper level, you need to read his books, no excuses. He is also the creator of the 24 Hour Comic challenge. The Challenge has inspired many a sleepless, caffeinated creator to create a complete comic with 24 pages in 24 hours. My favorite 24 hour comic is by a French artist named Boulet, who kindly put it all online. It's called Darkness.

Comic Cats #32: Catless

Princeless is a new all-ages comic parodying fairy tales and re-spinning them in a more female-empowering light. It's funny, it's smart, and it's one of those titles that will engage readers of any age. If you want to see what I mean, one of the best conversations of issue #1 can be found online here. I'd suggest reading that, then picking up all of the issues you can get your hands on.

#22 Reno

Reno was a bit young when he was rescued from the fields, so he would crawl up on my shoulder (usually by scaling my shirt with his claws- ow) and suck on my earlobes for comfort. He did that so much that by the end of the trip I had little scabs on each side of each ear. He was a little hellion cat, that one.

#32 Yotsucat

Yotsuba makes a second appearance in my webcomic! I blame it on the fact that her hair's fun to draw... and green. Who can resist that? She's one of the more surreal comic cats I've done, since I decided to turn her clover hair into four cat ears.

#21 Montana Cats

An introduction to the two kittykats that I know best from Montana. Yay two-page spread!

#20 Playing Cats

 I wonder why we didn't fight to be the well-adjusted, healthy cat with a loving family and financial stability. I guess that just didn't have enough dramatic tension and narrative potential to it. I forget what the problem with having two or more defects/enhancements on your cat was, but I do recall that it was a capital-P-Problem. Ahhh, the mysteries of youth.

#19 Scooped Princess

 Princess has a rather different reaction to being picked up. Apparently, when that happens, I am a train. I'll walk around with her on my back, and she'll purr the whole time. I think she's got me fairly well trained.

#18 Scooped Pippin

Each of my cats reacts differently to being picked up. Pippin starts purring and looking as sad as he can. Pippin also attempts to burrow to get away, which doesn't work so well. He could probably just jump or wiggle a lot... but maybe that doesn't occur to him.

Saturday Update: Other People's Cat Art

Here's a cat picture by someone other than me! (I can only WISH I drew that cat person.) My friend and art buddy Clemence started a blog of her work. She does mostly illustration and animation, and can work wonders with ink and watercolor. Seems she's branched out into digital media too, with great effect. She's done a couple of GORGEOUS comics, and it's awesome that she's putting her work out where more people can see it without having to travel to France (although, come to think of it, it would be a good excuse to go traveling...) Her work is at http://clemence-maret.blogspot.com.

Cara Bean mentioned me in her blog post "Winter Brain"- seems she liked the Bean Cat. Yay! You can also see some doodles from the comic that she's been working on for MeCAF. She's got some great ideas on how to stay on track with a comic deadline- get someone to be your boss and check in on you, and be their boss in return. It's simple, yet brilliant.

#17 Uses for Cats

Cats can be useful in their own ways... you just have to get rather creative and realize that they'll never work exactly like you need them to (or sometimes even VAGUELY like you need them to, depending on the function desired).

#16 Princess' Thoughts

Princess thinks she's royalty. Name aside, we haven't proven this theory, although she's content to act like it until we've got conclusive data either way. (If we do ever have conclusive data negating her royal status, she's prepared to ignore it until it goes away.)

#15 Pippin & Princess Intro

Meet Pippin and Princess, my cats. They'll be the stars of this comic for the next few weeks.

#14 Comikitty Cover

Pippin and Princess make their internet debut. Comikitty is going to be all about cats- mine, others', real and imagined. This is what happens when you let a crazy cat lady near comics; hopefully you all enjoy the consequences.

To celebrate working on a new comic series, I decided to kick it into overdrive. Every day Monday through Thursday I will post one panel depicting a comic book character as a cat while Comikitty updates on Fridays. This means that for the next few months, there will be new Life Imitates Comics content every weekday. Enjoy!