
Well, the comics will be a little late.
(I am following the advice of Alley Cat Allies and leaving them be, but…well, it’s going to be interesting for a few weeks.)
I haven’t even introduced you to this lady properly! Um, here she is!
Lots of cute talking creatures, one girl, no plot.
Well, the comics will be a little late.
(I am following the advice of Alley Cat Allies and leaving them be, but…well, it’s going to be interesting for a few weeks.)
I haven’t even introduced you to this lady properly! Um, here she is!
Every Saturday there’s a wild party in the kitchen and last night was no different.
(Don’t worry, he got more treats after the canine cleaning crew came through.)
My summer has been busy, but here are some highlights. This comic took me weeks to make.
I am planning to make a lot of these drawings better. In fact, this is how all the comics start out. But for now, this is what we have, and if you’ve never checked out the alt text to the comics, now would be a good time.
Or do you prefer these kind of comics?
Yeah, I didn’t think so. (Also I don’t think blacking out my userpics for a few days fixed anything, but I think you know that, too.)
Anyway, the comic seems to be a Saturday comic now. How about that. For what I have planned, the next two weeks need to have two comics or else I HAVE FAILED.
I am opening voting on which bit of this comic you’d like to see more of, give me a direction to go in the future.
Okay, well, it needs work. And I need to learn how to use the WordPress app.
But here we are.
One possible future.
Or not.
I’m playing with some drawing apps, sitting with my tablet is impossible right now.
And apparently so is posting an image with the app?
…what is this crap?
I know I was planning silly drawings, but this is ridiculous!
Universe, give me time to draw, and I will draw more detail.
Stay tuned.
Cats know how to have a good time.
Hello, how have you all been? This is the comic you’ve waited over a month for, and I haven’t worked out the layout yet, but wait, did I just make a comic about kittens in the afterlife? That’s not funny.
STOP SPEEDING DOWN STREETS.
The rest of this month we’re going to catch up on what everyone else has been doing on their summer vacation, and look at it this way, we got the horrible part out of the way! Unless you count the art in the next six comics as the true horror. Think drawing really fast because that’s all I got time for right now. You’ve been warned.
I mean, I have some made, I just have to finish them and maybe have them look better than this, but what do you want from me? I haven’t drawn in a month!
I cut everything else out, so checking if my friends and family are okay is next. Be okay, people! Wear masks and social distance so I don’t come and break your kneecaps! I mean unfollow you. Or avoid you. Wait, I’m already doing that. Don’t mind me. You do you.
There’s a lot going on here, and I do want to make comics about all of it, well, not all of it, but I want to make sure my Mum can see them and she’s in the hospital fighting off Legionella pneumonia right now so I just don’t really feel like going HAHA LET’S COLOR MY SHIRT or anything much right now. I did want to get my hello summer strip in here, and here it is.
The comic is taking July off, but it will be back in August because I had quite a few comics in the works when everything went very wrong. As of today it’s getting tiny bits better every day, and that’s all I can ask for. Well, I’d like my Mum home for my birthday, too, but we were in the hospital on the original one so way to celebrate, Mum!
While she’s away, I’ve taken over the things she usually does, so there will be comics about that when I think it’s funny again. Legionella isn’t funny, though. No idea where it came from, but if it’s in our showerhead or faucets or even that puddle under the sink I had fixed while my mother was on a ventilator, that’s a problem. All you need to know is staying home and not catching Covid-19 was cool, but the water got stagnant in a lot of places so keep that in mind and continue to be terrified of breathing along with me. Hello. Sorry.
The peach cat who now lives in my yard ran around my house and busted back out the door like a Looney Tune so I don’t know that he’ll be living with us any time soon, but he just squeezed under the fence and plopped down in the grass for the evening.
Did I ever mention I schedule these? Yeah, see, I’ve scheduled EVERY summer series, but I just don’t have anything ready this time because I manage my time well only in my head first thing when I wake up and then NOPE. The only schedules I can live by right now are breakfast for cats when my Fluffy son decides it is and dinner by 7 for humans and everything else is sort of around that.
There are a whole lot of comics to look back on, if you like. When I find a layout that displays images instead of text, that’ll be even more fun!
This is how I cope with devastation, okay?
Apparently the neighbor and I had differing opinions on what “Cut to the fence line” means. No, it’s not really funny. But I’m trying to force myself to see it as a metaphor for how abuse of power kills the beauty in the world.
A lot is going on in the world, and a lot is going on in my house, so I didn’t get to draw anything this week to show my support for Blackout Tuesday and the Black Lives Matter protests taking place following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Amaud Aurbery. I didn’t really want to go, “Oh look, a cutesy rendering of the victims of systemic racial injustice!” because that felt very wrong to me.
But I remembered this comic I drew back in November of 2017, which at the time I debated posting because gosh, I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but now I realize there are only seven readers of this comic and they need to know, in case there was any question, that I am 100% anti-racist and I’m here to keep listening and keep learning and hopefully see some real healing and much-needed lasting change coming.
(And yeah, at the time the most outrageous thing I’d seen the President of the United States do was toss paper towels to the people of Puerto Rico devastated by Hurricane Maria. Now I realize he’s fine with tear gassing people and letting Covid-19 spread as long as it didn’t crash the stock market. He still fails to recognize why Colin Kaepernick was kneeling. I’m not fine with that. There’s so much I’m not fine with. And that’s why I draw.)
Back to silly pictures of squirrels on Wednesday. Go be the change you want to see in the world, kids. ✊🏿
Still trying to wrap my mind around what kind of service station allows someone to leave on a flat. I guess this is my review?
(I left on the flat because I didn’t have a flat when I got there and once again I trusted someone to do something and tell me if something was wrong instead of covering it up and hoping I wouldn’t say anything. I wish I’d been doing a funny dashboard video that morning because wow that would’ve been hi-LAR-ious! We hobbled around the block, right back to the service station, and he put on the spare. Now next time I take my car out, I gotta go get a tire. I also gotta get another service station.)
I would have loved to have video or a photo of when they did this. The purring, wowee wowee.
Today is 16 years since I started posting silly comics and to celebrate I thought I’d do it in the style of the early ones, which was all I can throw together in a half hour.
Thank you for reading.