I have some very exciting news! If anyone out there is going to San Diego Comic Con this year, I will be at the GoComics booth doing a signing! (It is looking like sometime on Friday July 22–I’ll announce better details once I have them!)
Oh! I wish I could go! 😀 *feeling wistful* I wonder if I could get my cousins that live in San Francisco to go over and get a signed copy of BCN for me . . . *plotting and planning*
Toddler has a bit of confusion. He calls either Lupin or Elvis “Puck”–I forget which, now, but it’s in the archives–and thinks Puck is a girl. Puck disagrees.
Feb 1, 2016:”The Toddler has given us names”
Puck is ‘Mom Cat’, Lupin is ‘Puck’ and Elvis is ‘Dad Cat’. Elvis approves of his extra name. The others, not so much.
I was reading pearls before swine yesterday and Steven learned how to scan photos into his script. That got me thinking about all the characters and people in real life and maybe a photo of them could slip in. Maybe a photo bomb?
I am training my two kittens not to beg and it is funny to see how they try to do different things to get their way. Love the strip as always.
Yay, it’s Thursday! (Also known as the other day in the week when new BCN is published, don’t ya know.) Poor Pucky, I hope he gets plenty of treats even if he doesn’t get ham from the table. Our cat is in the habit of sitting right in front of the refridgerator in the mornings, since he gets a slice of deli meat every day. It’s a bit salty for him, but I think it’s okay- he’s 16 this month, my sweet little kitten <3
My Noah-the-Floof, who is a Birthday Boy today (1!) always lies on the floor right in front of the fridge the moment I open its door. I have to physically drag or shove him out of the way or he’d get squooshed when I closed the fridge door. Cats!
Got my book on Monday, read it start to finish on Tuesday, and submitted a 5* review to Powell’s on Wednesday, but for some reason it hasn’t shown up on their website. In fact, there aren’t any reviews of your book there, which I find just a little strange. I don’t want to submit another review in case the first one suddenly appears, so I will hold off a little. Have a great time in San Diego, I’ll bet the cats will miss you and give you a big welcome when you return home to them. Kind of sounds like the makings of another adventure for the news team!
Thank you!! 😀 I’m very excited! I will miss the cats (and kids and Man) terribly while I’m there–but thankfully it is not far from where we are living now!
We can’t keep our cats off the table, but they don’t get to eat what’s on our plates until we’re finished – then I bring a plate to the sink and Loki especially follows me in order to lick it, I think he thinks he’s saving us from having to wash the dishes!
Congrats on the ComiCon gig – hopefully you’ll pick up new readers by the boatful there! (Sadly, my BCN book has STILL not arrived, it appears to be lost in the mail! WAH!)
I still think my Loki is related to your Loki because he does the same exact thing! He will escort us out of the kitchen and then wait until we are sitting down to hop in the sink to lick a spoon or two. His favorites are the egg pan and the ice cream scooper!
Dinner theater:
Cat – Ooh, that looks interesting. Can I have some?
Me – Dude, it’s green beans.
Cat – Pleeeeeease?
Me – No, seriously. *Steamed* green beans.
Cat – I looooooooove you.
Me – Ok, fine.
Cat – OMG! OMNOMNOMNOM!
Me – God, you’re strange.
Sasha: what are you taking out of the microwave, it smells awesome
Me:it’s sweetcorn, you won’t like it.
Sasha:i wont know until I try it. Go on. Let me try
Me:seriously. There’s no meat no dairy just vegetables
Sasha: PLEEEEEEEEASE
Me: ok fine, but you won’t like it….
Sasha: nom, mmmm good. Can I have some more
And that is how we ended up needing to allow for sasha to have some of the sweetcorn if we wanted to steam it in the microwave and not have ladders in tights from her climbing our legs to beg for some
Well, Puck is the singular grammarian (yes, yes… pun quite intended). I also applaud his inherent knowledge that indeed neither of them is supposed to possess a battery.
Unfortunately, the last panel does not augur well for Puck, as it appears that he will be the one getting in trouble for the aforementioned possession of said battery.
ROTFL! Oh, whiskers! 😀 I’m gonna use that expression. Heehee!
Oh dear . ..I’m pretty sure they’re NOT supposed to have that battery too! Goodness! The things kidlets and kitties get their hands and paws on! 😮
That’s fantastic, congrats on the comic con signing!!
I love the phrase “Oh whiskers.” So cute.
Mealtime always feels like a circus in our house, what with our dog sitting under the table waiting for something to fall and a cat or two actually sitting on a chair with a child.
For Toddler, “This” is a good word.
it covers soooo much territory!
When mine were toddlers, they loved to go to the refrigerator, point, and say “this!” a lot.
Ohhh, undercover Pucky ! So smooth on the shades. I would have thought this was a job for invisible Lupin, but someone has to cover the desk. Yes, they are all good boys and deserve a treat.
Willy Cat cried for asparagus one day. He enjoyed steamed green veggies (including green beans) as a treat for the rest of his sixteen years, never saying no to asparagus. He once stole cooked broccoli off the kitchen counter after the veterinarian said to cut back on the kibble.
My mom had a cat that was watching them eat green beans, they gave him one and he picked it up on his claws and ate it! he didn’t have a fork like his people, so he made do!
Well different hats for different cats I guess. At our house Thistle (Puck’s virtual twin) will take your arm off for green beans and go “best of three falls” for any other cooked vegetable that might appear in his bowl. We’ve yet to find a veggie he won’t eat, including left over salad bits. He’ll beg on hind legs at the table and paw at your plate to see if he can capture anything. Endearing but a bit scary for unaware dinner guests.
He does know that jumping onto the table or counter is a “squirt-bottle felony” but he still gets mighty wet sometimes when there are good leftovers.
My last two kitties I had before Tuulikki were Mozza and Morgana. Both loved green beans, preferably raw but cooked too. Mozza loved them to the point of being obsessed with them. Morgana had her fill with 2 or 3 but Mozza could easily eat 5 to 8 depending on their size. When I came home from grocery shopping, he’d try to root through the bags like a little kid, hunting for his treats. And the thing was, he could tell by their smell if I bought some even through they were in a plastic bag and with all the other food smells around it. Both got them daily and it was no easy thing, sometimes, to find good fresh green beans out of season. I used to handpick them from so-so beans. I have so many hilarious stories relating to both of them, my other cat, a very old grumpy girl who disliked them and beans, and the games I had with both using beans.
Mozza didn’t just love beans but had a thing for quite a few other vegetables – potatoes being his second favourite. I can imagine him with Puck. He’d be eating the veggies and would happily give Puck the ham if it was handed them!
Fortunately, Amazon is generally good about replacing lost items, and they’re sending me another copy of BCN at no cost to me! Unfortunately, it won’t be here until next Tuesday – and I’ve never been a patient person…. 🙁
Georgia,
Not sure how much the rest of the country knows about ComiCon’s reputation, but here in SoCal it is well known — be prepared for some very interesting visitors. Some of whom will be quite literally out of this world.
The mention of Pearls Before Swine put me in this frame of mind: The Toddler had that small source of DC power. Fortunately he did not add some table top NaCl, thus avoiding a case of
wait for it
A Salt and Battery scurries under the sofa for safety
Ah, yes… Pastis is well known for his prize-winning groaners… for which the others (usually Rat) tend to threaten him with some assault and battery of their own!
I’ve had cats who would seriously fight people for veggies. Any kind of veggies. To the point where you had to eat hunched over to protect your plate (we didn’t have a dining room/table). Our current pair are mostly ambivalent about veggies, although the little calico insists she must check out everything just in case it turns out to be food. The older tux is only insistent when seafood is on the menu.
Xena looks positively offended if you try to offer her “people food.” She sleeps through human meal times. The Toddler would have no luck disposing of his dinner in this house.
When I was little, our cats were exclusively outdoor creatures, although they did occasionally sneak in past an unwary human with his hands full of grocery bags. Fortunately for us kids, we had a little ledge where the table legs attached to the top, and we used that small space to dispose of our unwanted items (like Brussels sprouts). Mom and Dad knew about “the ledge”, but they never managed to catch any of us in the act, so they didn’t know who to pin the crime on.
Thank you to all of you who reminded this old lady (42 and I still don’t know the question that fits the answer) about the names. Of course I’ve read every strip, but I forget some stuff. Thanks again!
My two boys are mostly just insistent on being part of whatever I’m doing, and if that’s eating, even better!! Topher in particular loves to lick out of my container of ranch dressing when I’m eating fries, pizza, or chicken. He doesn’t go for the chicken, just the bowl of ranch. He really is my kitty son.
The girl, luckily, hasn’t picked up on that aspect of what her brothers do, although she seems to want to do EVERYTHING THEY CAN DO TOO and be JUST LIKE BIG BROTHERS. She’s only just over 1, and follows them around endlessly.
MEGA congrats on the Comic-Con appearance! Sadly we won’t be able to attend since it’s on the other side of the country from us. We pre-ordered the book,got the book,LOOOOVE the book! Please,ma’am, we want some more!
Monica, your Loki and mine are probably twins of some sort! (Oddly, I can’t reply directly to your comment, and I see the # symbol on top comments for a “permalink” something isn’t available to me when I tried to reply directly, strange indeed….) Anyway, that aside, I tend to think of my Loki as more like Elvis here, because as the only boy cat he’s *very* protective of the house! He likes to lurk on top of the refrigerator at night, too {g}….
One of our past kitties was an absolute food thief. She was around when our youngest was a toddler and once stole a drumstick out of his hand when he was holding it out to the side from his dinner plate by jumping up and grabbing it with her teeth. Our son screamed and the cat lost her prize. She also had a real sweet tooth and would lick the frosting off of brownies, cupcakes and cake unless the before mentioned would have sprinkles on them which she hated. Hence, all of our frosted brownies had sprinkles on them even after she died. She also loved gingerbread cookies and egg nog!
My long gone alpha cat Norton (because he was rescued from a sewer-think Ed Norton of the Honeymooners. He had a little brown vest, too) would jump on the counter if he smelled chilli beans and if I didn’t watch him he would eat the beans out of the can. I tried to keep him from it, there’s onion and garlic in those, but sometimes he’d beat me to it and get a lick in.
As a reader of your beginning BCN adventures (I still have your first comic in my favorites list) I join all of your adoring fans in loving praise of your success! You have given so much of your self to your amazing work. I am very proud for you.
Oh my whiskers (My iPad wanted to autocorrect to whiskey, which is weird because I work with cats but I can’t drink). My cat Ryu has been known to eat green beans, but he’s stubbornly refused to be trained to stay off the table and away from people food. Which is weird, because he doesn’t eat much cat food, he’s always been a healthy weight… He just wants the people food.
My family had a dog when I was little, and I can say firsthand that dogs have one advantage over cats – they eat the table scraps you throw o the floor. Cats don’t and seven-year-old me had to eat the onions anyway – Blech!
Our lilac Siamese Enzo absolutely adored corn on the cob. We always saved a bit for him. He’d pin it down wiith a paw and eat every last kernel that was left.
When I was a child we had a cat who adored mushy peas. My cat Paige will take or leave just about any people food (she did make a daring assault on some roast chicken once which was quite impressive) but will physically snatch out of my hand… pieces of flour tortilla wraps. Um, Paige? Cats are not supposed to like bread…
For those who don’t believe that a cat might actually want green beans, I invite you to visit YouTube and search for the title “Broccoli Kitten LOVES Broccoli”.
Dickens, a tabby I had long ago, would be in the sink gobbling up seeds and melon bits any time we had cantaloupe. Unfortunately, the seeds made her throw up. We had to make sure everything had gone down the disposal before we walked away from the sink.
How wonderful for you!!! Wish i could be there, but tickets to the west coast from the east coast are out of my budget right now. HOpe you can do something on the east in the future.
YAY! First year I’ll be going in a while (due to … things) I was wondering if you were going to be there! 😀 I will absolutely make time to hit up your booth!!
Yeah, my cat eats all sorts of vegetables. Most memorable is the time I dropped some raw asparagus on the floor, and she scooped in and gobbled it down. She also recently helped me to thin out my lettuce sprouts in the garden by deciding to eat the pile of plants I had pulled up.
I have some very exciting news! If anyone out there is going to San Diego Comic Con this year, I will be at the GoComics booth doing a signing! (It is looking like sometime on Friday July 22–I’ll announce better details once I have them!)
Congratulations! I wish I could go!
Me too. Have you SEEN how hard it is to get tickets? 🙁
Ahhh! Come to something near Boston someday! Lol!
What?! That is exciting Georgia! ^^;
Oh! I wish I could go! 😀 *feeling wistful* I wonder if I could get my cousins that live in San Francisco to go over and get a signed copy of BCN for me . . . *plotting and planning*
Say, you wouldn’t happen to have a spare ticket for a booth babe, would you?
Heh, just kidding. Have a great time!
Mom Cat? Did I miss something?
You did indeed! =)
http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/the-toddler-has-given-us-names/
“The Toddler has given us names” – Dad Cat, Mom Cat, Puck.
http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/the-toddler-has-given-us-names/
yes, there was a strip where the Toddler named Elvis “Dad Cat”, Puck “Mom Cat” and Lupin “Puck”.
here http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/the-toddler-has-given-us-names/
Toddler has a bit of confusion. He calls either Lupin or Elvis “Puck”–I forget which, now, but it’s in the archives–and thinks Puck is a girl. Puck disagrees.
Feb 1, 2016:”The Toddler has given us names”
Puck is ‘Mom Cat’, Lupin is ‘Puck’ and Elvis is ‘Dad Cat’. Elvis approves of his extra name. The others, not so much.
http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/the-toddler-has-given-us-names/
Hi Georgia,
I was reading pearls before swine yesterday and Steven learned how to scan photos into his script. That got me thinking about all the characters and people in real life and maybe a photo of them could slip in. Maybe a photo bomb?
I am training my two kittens not to beg and it is funny to see how they try to do different things to get their way. Love the strip as always.
That’s a possibility! 😀
Oh whiskers! Oh my cat! I love the kitty cuss words!
Puck with sunglasses; how mysterious.
Very big news. Congratulations!
Wow! How cool! Wish I could be there 🙁
Yay, it’s Thursday! (Also known as the other day in the week when new BCN is published, don’t ya know.) Poor Pucky, I hope he gets plenty of treats even if he doesn’t get ham from the table. Our cat is in the habit of sitting right in front of the refridgerator in the mornings, since he gets a slice of deli meat every day. It’s a bit salty for him, but I think it’s okay- he’s 16 this month, my sweet little kitten <3
My Noah-the-Floof, who is a Birthday Boy today (1!) always lies on the floor right in front of the fridge the moment I open its door. I have to physically drag or shove him out of the way or he’d get squooshed when I closed the fridge door. Cats!
Elvis does this too!
We have a fridge with the freezer on the bottom. Less cat squishing now.
Got my book on Monday, read it start to finish on Tuesday, and submitted a 5* review to Powell’s on Wednesday, but for some reason it hasn’t shown up on their website. In fact, there aren’t any reviews of your book there, which I find just a little strange. I don’t want to submit another review in case the first one suddenly appears, so I will hold off a little. Have a great time in San Diego, I’ll bet the cats will miss you and give you a big welcome when you return home to them. Kind of sounds like the makings of another adventure for the news team!
Thank you!! 😀 I’m very excited! I will miss the cats (and kids and Man) terribly while I’m there–but thankfully it is not far from where we are living now!
Love how the toddler is giving Puck everything BUT ham. Even a battery that he inexplicably had with him at the dinner table!
“I’m pretty sure neither of us is supposed to have this” Kids and cats often have a way of having what they aren’t supposed to have.
The Toddler is not giving away any of the good stuff!
Loved Puck’s dark glasses.
I just noticed Bea is sending the notices now. So busy, that girl! lol
Puck is going to wait a long time before he gets any ham!
Pucky looks very sharp in his shades, but alas no ham. You’re a cruel Woman eating it all yourself!
We can’t keep our cats off the table, but they don’t get to eat what’s on our plates until we’re finished – then I bring a plate to the sink and Loki especially follows me in order to lick it, I think he thinks he’s saving us from having to wash the dishes!
Congrats on the ComiCon gig – hopefully you’ll pick up new readers by the boatful there! (Sadly, my BCN book has STILL not arrived, it appears to be lost in the mail! WAH!)
Oh no!! I hope it arrives soon! And thank you, Alison! Elvis loves to try and lick plates too! Haha!
I still think my Loki is related to your Loki because he does the same exact thing! He will escort us out of the kitchen and then wait until we are sitting down to hop in the sink to lick a spoon or two. His favorites are the egg pan and the ice cream scooper!
I shall have to go about saying “oh whiskers”.
Yeah!! That’s my birthday… Boo.. I’ll have to be in Indiana. 🙁
So neither kid has been randomly dropping food on the floor? Impressive! 😉
Oh no, never fear… They do that too! Haha! That’s another headline for another time, probably with Baby.
I am reminded once again that Pucky is “Mom cat”!
Why is Pucky ‘Mom cat’?
That is the name The Toddler gave him.
A post I made to Facebook back in 2012:
Dinner theater:
Cat – Ooh, that looks interesting. Can I have some?
Me – Dude, it’s green beans.
Cat – Pleeeeeease?
Me – No, seriously. *Steamed* green beans.
Cat – I looooooooove you.
Me – Ok, fine.
Cat – OMG! OMNOMNOMNOM!
Me – God, you’re strange.
One of my half-Siamese black cats of some decades back was absolutely nutzoid over green beans.
Like my Mozza (who’s gone now). I bet your black kitties never suffered from hairballs with all that fibre!
The cat I grew up with loved green beans, lima beans, peas… and corn on the cob. She LOOOOOVED corn on the cob.
Sasha: what are you taking out of the microwave, it smells awesome
Me:it’s sweetcorn, you won’t like it.
Sasha:i wont know until I try it. Go on. Let me try
Me:seriously. There’s no meat no dairy just vegetables
Sasha: PLEEEEEEEEASE
Me: ok fine, but you won’t like it….
Sasha: nom, mmmm good. Can I have some more
And that is how we ended up needing to allow for sasha to have some of the sweetcorn if we wanted to steam it in the microwave and not have ladders in tights from her climbing our legs to beg for some
I applaud Mom Cat’s proper use of the singular “neither.”
Well, Puck is the singular grammarian (yes, yes… pun quite intended). I also applaud his inherent knowledge that indeed neither of them is supposed to possess a battery.
Unfortunately, the last panel does not augur well for Puck, as it appears that he will be the one getting in trouble for the aforementioned possession of said battery.
ROTFL! Oh, whiskers! 😀 I’m gonna use that expression. Heehee!
Oh dear . ..I’m pretty sure they’re NOT supposed to have that battery too! Goodness! The things kidlets and kitties get their hands and paws on! 😮
That’s fantastic, congrats on the comic con signing!!
I love the phrase “Oh whiskers.” So cute.
Mealtime always feels like a circus in our house, what with our dog sitting under the table waiting for something to fall and a cat or two actually sitting on a chair with a child.
Just think if there was a dog in the house! The dog would be in hog heaven!
Congratulations on Comic Con! That’s awesome news! Green beans — boo.
For Toddler, “This” is a good word.
it covers soooo much territory!
When mine were toddlers, they loved to go to the refrigerator, point, and say “this!” a lot.
He LOVES “This!” Haha!!
Ohhh, undercover Pucky ! So smooth on the shades. I would have thought this was a job for invisible Lupin, but someone has to cover the desk. Yes, they are all good boys and deserve a treat.
Haha. We are all good boys who deserve treats. Nice
Willy Cat cried for asparagus one day. He enjoyed steamed green veggies (including green beans) as a treat for the rest of his sixteen years, never saying no to asparagus. He once stole cooked broccoli off the kitchen counter after the veterinarian said to cut back on the kibble.
When I was growing up we had a cat named Ivannah who would growl like a dog if you tried to take her broccoli away!
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My Molls used to love broccoli, It’s the only vegetable she Was ever interested in. I used to wonder if it tasted of catnip.
“We are all good boys who deserve treats” — Love it!
Awesome. Which I could go but I’m on the east coast.
My mom had a cat that was watching them eat green beans, they gave him one and he picked it up on his claws and ate it! he didn’t have a fork like his people, so he made do!
Some ally! He is keeping the good stuff.
But maybe, he can be trained.
Actually, he can be trained. It is a question of whose training will win out.
“Ham, Ma’am?”
Haha!! I love “Ham, Ma’am!”
The first child has graduates to “Toddler” and the parents are so busy with the baby that “Toddler” gets glimpses of new freedoms. Love this!
Lol!
Well different hats for different cats I guess. At our house Thistle (Puck’s virtual twin) will take your arm off for green beans and go “best of three falls” for any other cooked vegetable that might appear in his bowl. We’ve yet to find a veggie he won’t eat, including left over salad bits. He’ll beg on hind legs at the table and paw at your plate to see if he can capture anything. Endearing but a bit scary for unaware dinner guests.
He does know that jumping onto the table or counter is a “squirt-bottle felony” but he still gets mighty wet sometimes when there are good leftovers.
I just noticed the blissful face on the Woman in the last panel. So adorable!
My last two kitties I had before Tuulikki were Mozza and Morgana. Both loved green beans, preferably raw but cooked too. Mozza loved them to the point of being obsessed with them. Morgana had her fill with 2 or 3 but Mozza could easily eat 5 to 8 depending on their size. When I came home from grocery shopping, he’d try to root through the bags like a little kid, hunting for his treats. And the thing was, he could tell by their smell if I bought some even through they were in a plastic bag and with all the other food smells around it. Both got them daily and it was no easy thing, sometimes, to find good fresh green beans out of season. I used to handpick them from so-so beans. I have so many hilarious stories relating to both of them, my other cat, a very old grumpy girl who disliked them and beans, and the games I had with both using beans.
Mozza didn’t just love beans but had a thing for quite a few other vegetables – potatoes being his second favourite. I can imagine him with Puck. He’d be eating the veggies and would happily give Puck the ham if it was handed them!
Mozza had to do a sniff test on this bean as it wasn’t at its best. Heck, it’s a BEAN and was quickly wolfed down!
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Because she’s eating ham!
Fortunately, Amazon is generally good about replacing lost items, and they’re sending me another copy of BCN at no cost to me! Unfortunately, it won’t be here until next Tuesday – and I’ve never been a patient person…. 🙁
Your patience will be rewarded, it’s well worth the wait 🙂
Georgia,
Not sure how much the rest of the country knows about ComiCon’s reputation, but here in SoCal it is well known — be prepared for some very interesting visitors. Some of whom will be quite literally out of this world.
The mention of Pearls Before Swine put me in this frame of mind: The Toddler had that small source of DC power. Fortunately he did not add some table top NaCl, thus avoiding a case of
wait for it
A Salt and Battery
scurries under the sofa for safety
HA!!!
Ah, yes… Pastis is well known for his prize-winning groaners… for which the others (usually Rat) tend to threaten him with some assault and battery of their own!
Just what I needed today – a nice laugh with lovable cats.
I’ve had cats who would seriously fight people for veggies. Any kind of veggies. To the point where you had to eat hunched over to protect your plate (we didn’t have a dining room/table). Our current pair are mostly ambivalent about veggies, although the little calico insists she must check out everything just in case it turns out to be food. The older tux is only insistent when seafood is on the menu.
I remember the days of “this” and “that”. 🙂 (Actually, with mine, it was “dis” and “dat” for a really long time- that soft “th” is a hard one!)
Xena looks positively offended if you try to offer her “people food.” She sleeps through human meal times. The Toddler would have no luck disposing of his dinner in this house.
When I was little, our cats were exclusively outdoor creatures, although they did occasionally sneak in past an unwary human with his hands full of grocery bags. Fortunately for us kids, we had a little ledge where the table legs attached to the top, and we used that small space to dispose of our unwanted items (like Brussels sprouts). Mom and Dad knew about “the ledge”, but they never managed to catch any of us in the act, so they didn’t know who to pin the crime on.
Thank you to all of you who reminded this old lady (42 and I still don’t know the question that fits the answer) about the names. Of course I’ve read every strip, but I forget some stuff. Thanks again!
My two boys are mostly just insistent on being part of whatever I’m doing, and if that’s eating, even better!! Topher in particular loves to lick out of my container of ranch dressing when I’m eating fries, pizza, or chicken. He doesn’t go for the chicken, just the bowl of ranch. He really is my kitty son.
The girl, luckily, hasn’t picked up on that aspect of what her brothers do, although she seems to want to do EVERYTHING THEY CAN DO TOO and be JUST LIKE BIG BROTHERS. She’s only just over 1, and follows them around endlessly.
MEGA congrats on the Comic-Con appearance! Sadly we won’t be able to attend since it’s on the other side of the country from us. We pre-ordered the book,got the book,LOOOOVE the book! Please,ma’am, we want some more!
Thank you, so much! I am very excited!
Monica, your Loki and mine are probably twins of some sort! (Oddly, I can’t reply directly to your comment, and I see the # symbol on top comments for a “permalink” something isn’t available to me when I tried to reply directly, strange indeed….) Anyway, that aside, I tend to think of my Loki as more like Elvis here, because as the only boy cat he’s *very* protective of the house! He likes to lurk on top of the refrigerator at night, too {g}….
One of our past kitties was an absolute food thief. She was around when our youngest was a toddler and once stole a drumstick out of his hand when he was holding it out to the side from his dinner plate by jumping up and grabbing it with her teeth. Our son screamed and the cat lost her prize. She also had a real sweet tooth and would lick the frosting off of brownies, cupcakes and cake unless the before mentioned would have sprinkles on them which she hated. Hence, all of our frosted brownies had sprinkles on them even after she died. She also loved gingerbread cookies and egg nog!
don’t know much about comi con. only that it’s a big event and being invited to be there as an author is really big time. congratulations.
Thank you, Alexa!
My long gone alpha cat Norton (because he was rescued from a sewer-think Ed Norton of the Honeymooners. He had a little brown vest, too) would jump on the counter if he smelled chilli beans and if I didn’t watch him he would eat the beans out of the can. I tried to keep him from it, there’s onion and garlic in those, but sometimes he’d beat me to it and get a lick in.
As a reader of your beginning BCN adventures (I still have your first comic in my favorites list) I join all of your adoring fans in loving praise of your success! You have given so much of your self to your amazing work. I am very proud for you.
Thank you, Taffy!!
Oh my whiskers (My iPad wanted to autocorrect to whiskey, which is weird because I work with cats but I can’t drink). My cat Ryu has been known to eat green beans, but he’s stubbornly refused to be trained to stay off the table and away from people food. Which is weird, because he doesn’t eat much cat food, he’s always been a healthy weight… He just wants the people food.
Yes they ARE good boys! This is the best, most adorable comic and I look forward to it more than the Boys want ham!
“I would like some ham. Ham please”. For some reason, this has me in hysterics! I think Picky has earned himself some ham.
Pucky! Stupid autocorrect!
Poor Pucky..Mom Cat always makes me laugh…and his patience is wonderful..so funny:)
My family had a dog when I was little, and I can say firsthand that dogs have one advantage over cats – they eat the table scraps you throw o the floor. Cats don’t and seven-year-old me had to eat the onions anyway – Blech!
Our lilac Siamese Enzo absolutely adored corn on the cob. We always saved a bit for him. He’d pin it down wiith a paw and eat every last kernel that was left.
Ernest Dotson – What are you trying to say with your post.
When I was a child we had a cat who adored mushy peas. My cat Paige will take or leave just about any people food (she did make a daring assault on some roast chicken once which was quite impressive) but will physically snatch out of my hand… pieces of flour tortilla wraps. Um, Paige? Cats are not supposed to like bread…
For those who don’t believe that a cat might actually want green beans, I invite you to visit YouTube and search for the title “Broccoli Kitten LOVES Broccoli”.
How fun!! Wish I could be there as well. I hope you have a wonderful time. 😀
I love “Oh whiskers” and “Is potato”.
“I’m pretty sure neither of us is supposed to have this.”
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Dickens, a tabby I had long ago, would be in the sink gobbling up seeds and melon bits any time we had cantaloupe. Unfortunately, the seeds made her throw up. We had to make sure everything had gone down the disposal before we walked away from the sink.
I burst out laughing literally when i got to the bottom of this strip.
How wonderful for you!!! Wish i could be there, but tickets to the west coast from the east coast are out of my budget right now. HOpe you can do something on the east in the future.
“I’m pretty sure neither of us is supposed to have this.”
Gold.
Exactly how I expect well-mannered cats to talk.
“Oh, whiskers” is right up there with “Oh, my Cat” and “Oh, my Gouda”!
YAY! First year I’ll be going in a while (due to … things) I was wondering if you were going to be there! 😀 I will absolutely make time to hit up your booth!!
Yay!!!! Thank you!
So sorry I won’t be able to make it. My current travel budget will only stretch as far as the local supermarket… 🙁
So Puck likes Potato Salad but not so much plan potatoes. 🙂
I live in San Diego. I may have to go to ComiCon this year just to see you!
Approximately: “What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?”
Yeah, my cat eats all sorts of vegetables. Most memorable is the time I dropped some raw asparagus on the floor, and she scooped in and gobbled it down. She also recently helped me to thin out my lettuce sprouts in the garden by deciding to eat the pile of plants I had pulled up.
My late lamented Office Cat, Zak, loved those mushy little canned Petits Pois and their juice.