The curse of ears
Pounce
Sometimes a drawing comes flowing out of your pen that is just right. Panel 4 is one such drawing. That’s a T-shirt contender. I also had fun in the first three panels depicting Smith’s expression using just the eyes.
…and repeat
Just a record of standard cat behaviour. Bella’s favourite game, once she’s tired of chasing her mouse up and down every level of the cat tree, is to place her mouse directly behind one of the posts and then try to catch it by pouncing at the post with her front legs splayed either side of it. If she doesn’t make it difficult for herself it’s not worth doing.
Bnerk?
Friday the 13th Part One
Every Friday the 13th I go a bit meta, and engineer a comic that goes wrong in some way. In the past the strips have been posted upside down, reversed, had the cast replaced with dogs, gone all blurry and so on. The script is essentially the same every time, with Jones pointing out that it’s Friday 13th in the first panel, supplying some exposition in the second panel, and Smith saying “Well nothing has gone wrong yet” in the third panel, as everything goes wrong around him. In this case, something’s gone wrong with the soundtrack settings, and we’ve switched to Hindi in the last panel. Hopefully Google Translate hasn’t made too much of a hash of the translation
Answers to Thursday’s quiz
A few of these may be unknown to American readers. Similarly, a few others may be unknown to Europeans. So here are a few links…
And spot they typo. Mr Jinks has become something much more interesting!
A tour of the tree
Just for comparison, here’s Billy and Bella’s new tree. It’s essentially the same as the one in the strip, except the balls have been knocked off the top seats already, and the den at the top of the tree has been relocated to another part of the room so they have a extra place to hide and scratch. Billy and Bella were, of course, observing the one week ignoring rule when this photo was taken
Picture spot quiz
I co-hosted a quiz on behalf of my Am Dram group, the Hastleons, this weekend. It went very well, we raised £275 towards this spring’s production of Sister Act. One of the rounds was a picture quiz, which I set about one of my specialist subjects, cartoon cats. There are sixteen cats here – how many can you recognise?
Answers on Thursday.
Pick of the posts
Of course, this is only because the sofa is in the next room. If that was available they would have chosen that.
Geronimo!
