Poit!
Parp Honk
It’s good to have an extended range of characters that can pop in and out of the strip as required. This is Dave the Swan – we haven’t seen him for a couple of years, I’ll have to bring him back this summer if I can find something for him to do. (Actually, as I’m currently writing scripts for June, I know where the cats are and he’d fit in perfectly…)
90 degrees
Another Friday 13th cartoon – this year is full of them. And there’s going to be another one in November.
Euphonia!
The rustle of spring
We’ve had a reprieve from the winter this weekend – on Saturday it was actually shirtsleeves weather. Winter is due to resume on Monday and will probably continue until June. At least the seasons in comic strips are a bit more predictable, and I can bring out Dave the parping daffodil for his annual appearance.
Polka dots
Cath Kidston is one of those girly things that this bloke just doesn’t understand. Our Cath has a range of boutiques in chi-chi locations selling inexpensive tat for vastly inflated prices, just because they have a polka dot pattern or a chintzy facsimile of a 1950s fabric print printed on them. It’s the same trick that Hollister pulls on clothes that would normally be found in Walmart, only this seems to be aimed at a generation of young people who want to pretend they’re living in a Ladybird Book.
The spider and the ‘fraidy cat
Fight or flight
Billy and Bella will spend an entire day prowling around something on a wall, mewing at it to some down and trying to work out if they can pounce up at it. The thing in question invariably turns out to be a picture hook.
Living on the ceiling
This kind of practical joke is so much easier if you have claws.
This will be the last cat tree strip for a bit – it’s finally starting to get a bit warmer so the cats can go outside and play in real trees again.
Doing a Jeffy
I always liked those Family Circus cartoons where Jeffy would go out for a wander and you could follow the dotted line to see what his doings were. This is the cat equivalent – it’s a bit more acrobatic that Jeffy could ever manage, but what the hey? I’ve seen Bella chase her own tail up and down the cat tree much like this – it’s like a competition to find the longest distance between two points.