Image description: A four page black and white comic of my tortoiseshell cat, Bunny, complaining that I won’t let her in from the screen porch.
Page 1
Panel 1: A small tortoiseshell cat sits on the other side of a glass door, looking up sadly, saying, “Mama! Mama, help! I’m in the screen porch!”
Panel 2: She scratches at the door. “Mama! Mama I’m trapped! I’m trapped in the screen porch! Mama!” she cries.
Panel 3: She looks through the glass with her sad, innocent expression. “I see you, Mama! Can’t you hear me? Why won’t you let me in? What have I done, Mama!”
Panel 4: The left corner is dominated by a close up of her face, as she reminisces about the cat tree in the screen porch. We see her perched on the very top, looking out over the backyard.
She says, “Was I not grateful enough, Mama? You gave me a throne, here in the screen porch! A place where I could look down upon the world as a god!”
Page 2
Panel 1: While she’s perched atop her cat tree, it begins to rain outside. Bunny looks askance at it from behind the screen.
“But I couldn’t touch it, Mama!” she narrates, now in boxes instead of word balloons, “I could see the rain lavish the earth, but never feel its cool caress!”
Panel 2: A paw rests on the screen. On the other side, two birds chirp, unbothered by the presence of Bunny.
“I could smell the blood of the song birds, but never taste its warmth! I lived as Tantalus in this screen porch, Mama!”
Panel 3: Sitting on a cushioned chair, bunny looks out over the yard, barred from her by the porch screen.
“Tormented by what I could never reach!”
Page 3
Panel 1 : Another reminiscence, this time of Bunny running through the open door to the screen porch earlier that day while I was taking out the garbage.
“And yet I returned, again and again and again! Was that my sin, Mama? Is this my punishment? To be condemned forever to a hell of my own choosing?”
Panel 2: Returning to the present, Bunny looks up from the otherside of the door, her eyes wide.
“Is this what you call justice, Mama?” She says. “Is this what you call love?”
Panel 3: From Bunny’s perspective we see me; I am ignoring her, going about my business. She calls out to me, “Answer me, Mama! Mama!”
Panel 4:I glance back at her, unmoved by her cries. “Mama!” she yells.
Page 4
Panel 1: Pulling out we finally see more of the wall which has the door to the screen porch. Directly beside it is a cat door that goes through the wall, out into the screen porch. Another cat, Bunny’s sister Maggie, is coming through the cat flap with no issue.
I say, “ Bunny, I know you know how to use the cat door.”
Clawing at the window, tears in her eyes, Bunny screams “MAMA!!”
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[ID: a six panel comic about me and my cat Bunny.
Panel 1: A cat's harness and leash lay on the ground, sans cat. "Bunny!"
Panel 2: I am squatting in front of a bush, saying, "Bunny, come out of there!" Bunny meows from inside the bush.
Panel 3: Head in my hand, I say "Ugh what do I do... They usually try to run inside if they hear a loud noise..."
Panel 4: A thought bubble shows, Bunny and her sister, Maggie, scratching at the door in a panic because of a lawnmower noise. "Maybe one of my ringtones would work?" I say.
Panel 5: Looking at my phone settings, one of the ringtones is called 'Bark'.
Panel 6: Playing the ringtone causes Bunny to zoom out of the bush, hissing.
Panel 7: Back in the house, Bunny is hiding under the couch, and I think to myself, "Am I a bad mother?" End ID]
I've been trying to let my comics be a little less polished
Also, cat tax under the cut
[ID: four pictures of my cats. The first two are Bunny, a tortoiseshell cat with a big orange nose sleeping on a comfy couch and lying atop a pillow. The other two are Maggie, her sister, who has a more black pattern. In the first she is laying on a pillow places on a glass coffee table and in the second she is sitting very politely in the middle of a tile floor. End ID]
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The Anarcats
Who needs the Aristocats anyway?
A series of four images that are just simple goofy pencil doodles in a cartoony style. There are titles handwritten on them.
EAT THE RICH AND BUTTHOLES: A cute cat is cleaning her booty
SEIZE THE MEANS OF PAWDUCTION: a kitty sits sleepily with his tumtum hanging out. He will seize things later probably
SOLIDARITY: Three cats interfere with a desktop computer
RELAXING IS A REVOLUTION: A cat stretches happily
GENERATE NO PROFITS: Three cats enjoy a sunbeam
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Issue Four of Shade's Choice, my Two-Faced prequel is available for purchase on itchio right now! There's also a bundle with all four issues, as well as one for issues 3 and 4, in case you picked 1 and 2 up previously. Enjoy!
Now that Shade's troubled brother has taken leadership of the Longshadows, Shade vies for power, and for safety of her street-cat partner, Lily. But her brother's dark plans and the conflict between the two groups seek to drive them apart.
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Everything in our house belongs to Pesto!
This comic will be in Cats & Snacks - our new book! If you missed the KS you can still get the books with extras over at sarahgraley.com/cats for a limited time!
Psst! We're going to be at Swansea Comic and Gaming Convention this weekend! Come see us at Swansea Arena! Find out more over at https://scgc.org.uk/scgc-2023-guests/
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