How many times have I had this dream? How many decades have I been out of school?? What is the cat version of the dream??? Georgia, you raise so many questions…
I know what it’s like to fall asleep with my eyes open! I used to “zone out” in math class and I still do it sometimes if I am bored! Only now, I refer to it as “meditation”.
Elvis – I’m 78 and still have an anxiety dream at least once a year – Physics of all things – always physics and never took a single course. What a nightmare! At least my eyes are closed (I think). My Spooker Puss does this and she really seems discombobulated when she wakes up. She’s 16 going on 3 and is certain she rules the world.
Lovely as always, Georgia! Poor puck with his dry, tight eyes and his dreams of math class. “Dare me to boop his nose?” Oh Lupin, if you did that… and I love love LOVE Elvis’ crooked eyes. I even got a one-panel warning before he woke up! And poor panicky Elvis with his brushy tail in the last panel. Awwww…
Haha! I haven’t seen a cat fall asleep with eyes open, but my older kitty, Uma, has fallen asleep while sitting completely upright. Over the course of 20 minutes, her head started to droop, body started to somewhat sit (it looked quite uncomfortable!) and then she fell off of the bathroom counter. She looked quite embarrassed, and it was difficult not to laugh.
I have heard some people can train themselves to sleep with eyes open… Sounds difficult and a little creepy!
Went to Go-Comics first; then have been waiting for here! LOVE IT! Thinking I’m going to like having BCN in two places. Go-Comics to read; then BCN.com for the comments!
“Why do my eyes feel tight?”
Because, like all people know, math is a horrible bi*** goddess (please pardon the phrase).
…and I am glad to have been done with it as of 17 years ago (freshman year of college)!
Of course, I needed some of that math a little over a year later and already forgot it. But after 11 years at my real post-school career I haven’t used anything more advanced than the very basic, core fundamentals of calculus. Everything else has faded away. Computers do the heavy stuff for us. It’s more about knowing how to use the tools than how the tools work.
I had a cat with some facial scarring and/or nerve paralysis, and one of his eyes never opened or closed all the way. I called it his “goony eye”. It always looked weird when he was aleep with it partly open.
Georgia, have you ever done a panel where a cat sleeps with its tongue out? We call it ‘airing its tongue’ and only some cats do it. It’s like they fall asleep while licking their fur.
I don’t think our second cat Chester slept with his eyes open, but he did sleep so soundly on my wife’s lap that I could put my fingers in his mouth and gently pull out his tongue without him waking up.
Elvis waking up reminds me of when my Lucy Furr (RIP) used to have nightmares. (She had PTSD from previous people.) She used to sleep motionless–eyes closed–not chasing mousies, but then would wake suddenly with a yelp and dash across the room. Must have been recurring nightmares.
Fortunately, she was willing to accept my comforting, and over some years these nightmares got less frequent.
I wrote a blog post today going into some of the things that have been discussed since the two sites synced! This explains a little bit about how I came to be syndicated and what it has meant to ‘Breaking Cat News,’ and also a bit about each site, the daily strips I’ve been working on, and such… http://www.georgiadunnstudio.com/2016/06/behind-scenes-of-what-goes-into-making.html
I just read the blog. When you described how much it helps for people to follow the strip on GoComics I immediately signed up for and account and subscribed to BCN. After everything ww set a GoComics I went back and finished reading the blog. I can hardly wait for daily strips! You have no need to worry. You’re marvelously talented and I have complete faith in you. However you manage dailies, I know it will be a success. Plus, I get to read BCN Every. Freakin’. Day. ☺️
Puck poking Elvis resulting in That Face!!! So funny. Also poor Elvis having the math class dreaded dream. I used to have the back in school unpleasant dream about once a month and now that I am finally 73, seem to be free of it. I sympathize with Elvis and anybody else that suffers through this type of dream.
My husband and I always look for coincidences in comics (on gocomics.com) when two unrelated comics talk about the same thing – and that happened today with Breaking Cat News and …. one other strip that’s about a cat. Anyone else catch it? 🙂
I DID!!! I may have that certain strip on my favorites page (because I have always and will always love it) and when I checked in on the comic this morning, I sucked my breath in and the Man said, “What is it?” And I showed him. I swear–it’s 100% coincidence, but like, WHAT ARE THE ODDS, RIGHT??
It makes me secretly hope that cartoonist hears about BCN today and sees the strip, BUT ALAS I DREAM.
Maybe we all need to write to that certain cartoonist…. oh heck, let’s say his name — Jim Davis & Garfield! — and point out the wonderful BCN comic to him!
Yes, on first view that is exactly what I thought. This particular cat seems to do that more often on Mondays.
I wonder what would happen if Lupin, “The Cat of Adventure” meets this particular one…
While I can’t say I’m completely thrilled by the idea of shorter strips, I’d much rather have shorter strips that will continue over a burned out artist. Do what’s best for you!
…As for lullabies, when my niece was born my brother used “Still Alive” from Portal as the most common lullaby, as it sounds enough like a lullaby that the baby didn’t care. Though the family got some giggles listening to it!
I have subscribed to GoComics for years. Love the daily email of old and new comics. I’ve paid for the Pro version for the last few years also (It’s less than $12 a year) because you cartoonists deserve paying customers.
I noticed that too! And I also noticed that on my gocomics phone app, sometimes BCN comics are sooo tiny, and I cannot zoom in enough to see it. I thought maybe it was just because I have Windows Phone, and developers do not always do great jobs on apps for WP. (Though all other comics I view there are just fine.)
**Thanks, Georgia, for your blog post! I admit, I felt guilty even thinking about checking out the comic over there first, even though if it weren’t for GoComics, I would never have found Breaking Cat News. I will for sure be on the gocomics app to view there too, since it helps!
I think I figured it out. The comics on gocomics have a standard width and are consequently displayed slightly larger than on the blog here. I assume after scanning, Georgia resizes the comic for her blog and submits the same size to gocomics. When the comic is then enlarged on gocomics it becomes slightly blurry and loses it’s crispness because of the lower resolution. It’s a bit of a shame since the line-work and gorgeous colorization are a big draw of the comic.
Finally got ours today, after USPS lost or misdelivered the first—hope it at least garners a new fan for you! I have work to do, and all I want to do is read the book …
Wanted to post on the blog site, but I don’t have the social media accounts, so this is in response to your blog post:
First: Thank you for laying this all out for us.
Second: You are inspiring.
Third: You are extraordinarily fortunate—thousands of us believe in you. For most people, they’re lucky to have just a few, or even one—sometimes not even themselves. So when doubt assails you, just take our word for it. This is, after all, our field of expertise: we know what makes us laugh and feel good. Nobody knows this better than we do … yet you seem to know it, too. 👍
Tried to comment on both your blog post and gocomics….with no luck. Both of my two are looking forward to sleeping on a newspaper death err ing your strip. Neither sleeps with eyes open, but Mr Bunnyfoot sleeps very, very soundly….
I love, love, love this one. Why is it always math class? And for the record, teachers have those back to school panic dreams, too, even 11 years after they retire. I am certified to teach English grades 7-12 and Reading grades K-12. Those are the only subjects I ever taught, but I’ve had back to school nightmares where I find I’ve been schedule to teach a math class, and I’m trying to explain to the principal that math is not my strongest subject. Then there are the dreams of walking into the classroom on the first day of class to discover you have 45 students and 25 desks, so you call the office for help, and they say they’ll send more desks!
Oh tigger, this worries me. I graduated college just 10 years ago and I have regular nightmares about having to go back to high school to finish getting my diploma, even though I have a college degree. I was hoping eventually that anxiety would fade!
I wonder if Elvis is picking up on his human’s fears and anxieties…
I once got gouged in the middle of the night by my 20 pound tabby Theo having a nightmare. I doubt he was dreaming of school, but he seemed really relieved to wake up in bed.
I have been out of school almost 25 years and I still have that dream. Another is that my class schedule is in tMy mail box and I have forgotten the combination to the post office box lock.
I have similar dreams, though not necessarily about math class. I also have one were I can’t find my class schedule and don’t know we’re I am supposed to go.
That happened in real life to one of my high school teachers. The biology teacher was also one of the football coaches, and unlike some of the coaches who are “forced” to teach classes, he was a very good biology teacher. In my senior year, the administration told him, “You’re teaching physics this year.” He pointed out that he was a biology teacher. The reply was basically, “Ehh, science is science. We need a physics teacher, so you’re teaching physics.” It was interesting. As far as I remember, he did a pretty good job with it, although from time to time, one of the other students and I had to help him with the trigonometry. “No coach, that’s opposite over adjacent.”
Georgia, I just read your blog post. I’ve had a GoComics account for a while now but never understood that reading BCN on GoComics will help you achieve your dreams! Thank you for letting us know! I will make it a point to always read BCN on GoComics now and will post comments there too! Of course I will still visit this site too (love the comments)! And I just have to ask: does anyone know what dreaming of missing school classes mean? I’ve been out of school for 40 years but like Elvis (and so many others!), once in a while I dream that my final exam is tomorrow but I haven’t attended class all semester and then I wake up in a panic!
That happens to me a lot, too. When I click the “reply” button and it takes me to the bottom of the page, I know my comment won’t match up with the comment to which I’m replying. I find that if I click the reply button a second time, the reply box will appear directly under the comment. Sometimes it takes two or three tries, and even then doesn’t always work.
Hmm … That seems to be what happens when you click the “reply” button in the email. If you click the reply button here it works properly. Could be a bug in the notification system, which I don’t think we should ask Georgia to hunt down, though maybe she could get the cats to catch it …
Seriously, the best work around might be to start an email reply with “@” so even if it doesn’t go to the right place, readers will know what the reply references. alternatively, post a quote before your reply.
Georgia, you’ll be glad to know that I am actually paying GoComics to send me your strip (and others) every day. I am happy that some of this ends up in your family finances!
It’s so delightful to read these twice, once here and again at GoComics.
Elvis, I still have anxiety dreams about people math class well into my adulthood.
Oh my goodness! The face when Pucky pokes him is too funny!!!
Love it!!!
How many times have I had this dream? How many decades have I been out of school?? What is the cat version of the dream??? Georgia, you raise so many questions…
I HATE THAT DREAM SO HARD!
I can imagine how Elvis would react if the Baby slept like this..
I know what it’s like to fall asleep with my eyes open! I used to “zone out” in math class and I still do it sometimes if I am bored! Only now, I refer to it as “meditation”.
OMG Panel 4…I can’t even… XD
I laughed loudly at that one – unfortunately at the wrong time in the news so got some strange reactions
I never have trouble in math Elvis…. 😛
Btw,
Try waking up to a cat sleeping with its eyes open next to you…
*grin*
Is that what cats dream about?
They’re so mean to Elvis!
Rule in our house is let sleeping cats rest!!
Soon enough a curious smell or sound will waken them.
So much Twilight Zone happening in this one. 🙂
Hahahahahaha!!!
As someone who tends to sleep with her eyes open, which makes my partner uncomfortable, I feel for Elvis. 🙂
All the same, this is hilarious.
Elvis – I’m 78 and still have an anxiety dream at least once a year – Physics of all things – always physics and never took a single course. What a nightmare! At least my eyes are closed (I think). My Spooker Puss does this and she really seems discombobulated when she wakes up. She’s 16 going on 3 and is certain she rules the world.
Lovely as always, Georgia! Poor puck with his dry, tight eyes and his dreams of math class. “Dare me to boop his nose?” Oh Lupin, if you did that… and I love love LOVE Elvis’ crooked eyes. I even got a one-panel warning before he woke up! And poor panicky Elvis with his brushy tail in the last panel. Awwww…
I love the fourth panel so much!
Haha! I haven’t seen a cat fall asleep with eyes open, but my older kitty, Uma, has fallen asleep while sitting completely upright. Over the course of 20 minutes, her head started to droop, body started to somewhat sit (it looked quite uncomfortable!) and then she fell off of the bathroom counter. She looked quite embarrassed, and it was difficult not to laugh.
I have heard some people can train themselves to sleep with eyes open… Sounds difficult and a little creepy!
Good Morning Georgia, and family!
Went to Go-Comics first; then have been waiting for here! LOVE IT! Thinking I’m going to like having BCN in two places. Go-Comics to read; then BCN.com for the comments!
Be sure to read from the very first BCN episode here!!!
I enthusiastically second Chef Hom’s recommendation.
LOVE this comic…..hate that dream….brrrrr
Keep up the amazing work!
“Why do my eyes feel tight?”
Because, like all people know, math is a horrible bi*** goddess (please pardon the phrase).
…and I am glad to have been done with it as of 17 years ago (freshman year of college)!
Of course, I needed some of that math a little over a year later and already forgot it. But after 11 years at my real post-school career I haven’t used anything more advanced than the very basic, core fundamentals of calculus. Everything else has faded away. Computers do the heavy stuff for us. It’s more about knowing how to use the tools than how the tools work.
I’ve had that dream for every class imaginable. Poor Elvis!
“We shrunk your eyelids!” – best line ever! I love Lupin’s highly enthusiastic mischief streak!
I had a cat with some facial scarring and/or nerve paralysis, and one of his eyes never opened or closed all the way. I called it his “goony eye”. It always looked weird when he was aleep with it partly open.
Georgia, have you ever done a panel where a cat sleeps with its tongue out? We call it ‘airing its tongue’ and only some cats do it. It’s like they fall asleep while licking their fur.
I have not, but I have plans to, as Elvis does this even more often than falling asleep with his eyes open! Ha!
In our house, exposed sleeping cat tongue is called “tonguie” and it regarded as the cutest of the resting cat faces.
I have that dream too, and it’s always math class! Poor Elvis.
ALWAYS math class for me too, ha!
Panel 4, snigger 😀
I don’t think our second cat Chester slept with his eyes open, but he did sleep so soundly on my wife’s lap that I could put my fingers in his mouth and gently pull out his tongue without him waking up.
Thank heavens Tabitha doesn’t know anything about this. She’d never let Elvis forget!
The 4th panel! People dreams! Nose bopping threats! So funny! <3
Elvis waking up reminds me of when my Lucy Furr (RIP) used to have nightmares. (She had PTSD from previous people.) She used to sleep motionless–eyes closed–not chasing mousies, but then would wake suddenly with a yelp and dash across the room. Must have been recurring nightmares.
Fortunately, she was willing to accept my comforting, and over some years these nightmares got less frequent.
http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2016/06/06
Oh my cats!!! Today must be National “cats sleep with your eyes open” day!!! It’s contagious!!
No one is mentioning Lupin “We shrunk your eyelids!” He is so happy to deliver that message. LOL
I wrote a blog post today going into some of the things that have been discussed since the two sites synced! This explains a little bit about how I came to be syndicated and what it has meant to ‘Breaking Cat News,’ and also a bit about each site, the daily strips I’ve been working on, and such… http://www.georgiadunnstudio.com/2016/06/behind-scenes-of-what-goes-into-making.html
I just read the blog. When you described how much it helps for people to follow the strip on GoComics I immediately signed up for and account and subscribed to BCN. After everything ww set a GoComics I went back and finished reading the blog. I can hardly wait for daily strips! You have no need to worry. You’re marvelously talented and I have complete faith in you. However you manage dailies, I know it will be a success. Plus, I get to read BCN Every. Freakin’. Day. ☺️
Sorry for all the typos. When I comment on the iPad it happens much more often. This was the rare time I didn’t re-read before posting.
Thank you, Megan!!! I think I have an email or two from you to answer, too, I’m sorry! I’m trying to catch up on those. 😀
Puck poking Elvis resulting in That Face!!! So funny. Also poor Elvis having the math class dreaded dream. I used to have the back in school unpleasant dream about once a month and now that I am finally 73, seem to be free of it. I sympathize with Elvis and anybody else that suffers through this type of dream.
I have this dream too 🙂 great comic..I feel like I need a pic of the real Elvis sleeping with his eyes open..lol
Haha! at last! The story of how Elvis falls asleep with his eyes open! Love it! 🙂 <3
My husband and I always look for coincidences in comics (on gocomics.com) when two unrelated comics talk about the same thing – and that happened today with Breaking Cat News and …. one other strip that’s about a cat. Anyone else catch it? 🙂
I DID!!! I may have that certain strip on my favorites page (because I have always and will always love it) and when I checked in on the comic this morning, I sucked my breath in and the Man said, “What is it?” And I showed him. I swear–it’s 100% coincidence, but like, WHAT ARE THE ODDS, RIGHT??
It makes me secretly hope that cartoonist hears about BCN today and sees the strip, BUT ALAS I DREAM.
Maybe we all need to write to that certain cartoonist…. oh heck, let’s say his name — Jim Davis & Garfield! — and point out the wonderful BCN comic to him!
Yes, on first view that is exactly what I thought. This particular cat seems to do that more often on Mondays.
I wonder what would happen if Lupin, “The Cat of Adventure” meets this particular one…
While I can’t say I’m completely thrilled by the idea of shorter strips, I’d much rather have shorter strips that will continue over a burned out artist. Do what’s best for you!
…As for lullabies, when my niece was born my brother used “Still Alive” from Portal as the most common lullaby, as it sounds enough like a lullaby that the baby didn’t care. Though the family got some giggles listening to it!
Luke–Toddler, ha–loves that song! We play it in the car sometimes. He has adored it since he was tiny.
I have subscribed to GoComics for years. Love the daily email of old and new comics. I’ve paid for the Pro version for the last few years also (It’s less than $12 a year) because you cartoonists deserve paying customers.
Got my book today from Amazon – but it was time to feed the cats so I had to put it aside. Can’t wait !
Yay!!!
CN – should we wave bacon under his nose? CN – you have bacon?
Huh, is it just me or is the image quality here better than on gocomics? It seems blurry there for some reason.
I noticed that too! And I also noticed that on my gocomics phone app, sometimes BCN comics are sooo tiny, and I cannot zoom in enough to see it. I thought maybe it was just because I have Windows Phone, and developers do not always do great jobs on apps for WP. (Though all other comics I view there are just fine.)
**Thanks, Georgia, for your blog post! I admit, I felt guilty even thinking about checking out the comic over there first, even though if it weren’t for GoComics, I would never have found Breaking Cat News. I will for sure be on the gocomics app to view there too, since it helps!
I think I figured it out. The comics on gocomics have a standard width and are consequently displayed slightly larger than on the blog here. I assume after scanning, Georgia resizes the comic for her blog and submits the same size to gocomics. When the comic is then enlarged on gocomics it becomes slightly blurry and loses it’s crispness because of the lower resolution. It’s a bit of a shame since the line-work and gorgeous colorization are a big draw of the comic.
Finally got ours today, after USPS lost or misdelivered the first—hope it at least garners a new fan for you! I have work to do, and all I want to do is read the book …
Wanted to post on the blog site, but I don’t have the social media accounts, so this is in response to your blog post:
First: Thank you for laying this all out for us.
Second: You are inspiring.
Third: You are extraordinarily fortunate—thousands of us believe in you. For most people, they’re lucky to have just a few, or even one—sometimes not even themselves. So when doubt assails you, just take our word for it. This is, after all, our field of expertise: we know what makes us laugh and feel good. Nobody knows this better than we do … yet you seem to know it, too. 👍
Thank you, Ross!! 😀
Panel # 4 is in the running for best panel of the year! Loved it all!!!
Yes, yes it is!
Tried to comment on both your blog post and gocomics….with no luck. Both of my two are looking forward to sleeping on a newspaper death err ing your strip. Neither sleeps with eyes open, but Mr Bunnyfoot sleeps very, very soundly….
Georgia, well done, indeed! Used to have a cat that slept with eyes open, and it always freaked the other cat out. LOL
We–Us and Puck and Lupin too–all have feelings about Elvis doing this, lol!!
I love, love, love this one. Why is it always math class? And for the record, teachers have those back to school panic dreams, too, even 11 years after they retire. I am certified to teach English grades 7-12 and Reading grades K-12. Those are the only subjects I ever taught, but I’ve had back to school nightmares where I find I’ve been schedule to teach a math class, and I’m trying to explain to the principal that math is not my strongest subject. Then there are the dreams of walking into the classroom on the first day of class to discover you have 45 students and 25 desks, so you call the office for help, and they say they’ll send more desks!
I’m so interested to know that teachers have these dreams too!!
Oh, the expression on Elvis’ face when Puck pokes him! “Dare me to boop his nose?”
I feel like one of the mice should have taken advantage of this situation…
First time in a while I’ve laughed out loud..and again..and again!! Love the wicked sense of humor!!
Poor Elvis! Getting picked on by his younger brothers!
Oh tigger, this worries me. I graduated college just 10 years ago and I have regular nightmares about having to go back to high school to finish getting my diploma, even though I have a college degree. I was hoping eventually that anxiety would fade!
I wonder if Elvis is picking up on his human’s fears and anxieties…
I once got gouged in the middle of the night by my 20 pound tabby Theo having a nightmare. I doubt he was dreaming of school, but he seemed really relieved to wake up in bed.
I have been out of school almost 25 years and I still have that dream. Another is that my class schedule is in tMy mail box and I have forgotten the combination to the post office box lock.
I have similar dreams, though not necessarily about math class. I also have one were I can’t find my class schedule and don’t know we’re I am supposed to go.
That happened in real life to one of my high school teachers. The biology teacher was also one of the football coaches, and unlike some of the coaches who are “forced” to teach classes, he was a very good biology teacher. In my senior year, the administration told him, “You’re teaching physics this year.” He pointed out that he was a biology teacher. The reply was basically, “Ehh, science is science. We need a physics teacher, so you’re teaching physics.” It was interesting. As far as I remember, he did a pretty good job with it, although from time to time, one of the other students and I had to help him with the trigonometry. “No coach, that’s opposite over adjacent.”
Georgia, I just read your blog post. I’ve had a GoComics account for a while now but never understood that reading BCN on GoComics will help you achieve your dreams! Thank you for letting us know! I will make it a point to always read BCN on GoComics now and will post comments there too! Of course I will still visit this site too (love the comments)! And I just have to ask: does anyone know what dreaming of missing school classes mean? I’ve been out of school for 40 years but like Elvis (and so many others!), once in a while I dream that my final exam is tomorrow but I haven’t attended class all semester and then I wake up in a panic!
Hmm, that last comment was supposed to be a reply to Sue Ellen’s comment. I clicked on the Reply button there, but it posted at the bottom.
That happens to me a lot, too. When I click the “reply” button and it takes me to the bottom of the page, I know my comment won’t match up with the comment to which I’m replying. I find that if I click the reply button a second time, the reply box will appear directly under the comment. Sometimes it takes two or three tries, and even then doesn’t always work.
Hmm … That seems to be what happens when you click the “reply” button in the email. If you click the reply button here it works properly. Could be a bug in the notification system, which I don’t think we should ask Georgia to hunt down, though maybe she could get the cats to catch it …
Seriously, the best work around might be to start an email reply with “@” so even if it doesn’t go to the right place, readers will know what the reply references. alternatively, post a quote before your reply.
Georgia DOES have the best comment section, doesn’t she? <3
And Chef Hom has a good reminder. This is one of my all time favourites for a good old fashioned archive crawl.
Elvis’s expression in the second to last panel. Priceless! XD
I have to say you scared hell out of me. For a bit I thought he might be dead.
On the other hand: “WE SHRUNK YOUR EYELIDS!” ROFL!
As per usual you made me laugh, Georgia
XD just XD
In case it’s any comfort to anybody, I am a math teacher and I still have anxiety dreams about math class.
Georgia, you’ll be glad to know that I am actually paying GoComics to send me your strip (and others) every day. I am happy that some of this ends up in your family finances!