Predator

 

Yet another true story! This happens on a regular basis, actually. Storm is a great hunter. Luckily for the birds and mice in the neighbourhood, he doesn't get to go outside, other than on our balcony. But still he manages to hunt and catch everything that invades (t)his space!

Laptop Memories

This is a true story. Though I didn't take my laptop to the beach or held it near fire, because I don't think you should do that. 

I am not completely laptopless at the moment, I have my father's old laptop (from 2007, I think that officially makes it an antique), and I borrowed my brother's old laptop (slightly newer) so at least I was able to use Photoshop to colour my comic again. I think I prefer the water-coloured ones I did the past few weeks though, so I may get back to that. 

But still... I miss my old laptop :'(

Halloween

Halloween is not something that is widely celebrated here in the Netherlands, as far as I am aware of. If it was though, I'd hope a feline version was celebrated as well. A while ago, I learned that horrible things are done to black cats in some countries, in particular this time of year. Seriously, it's just a black cat! A furry bundle of cuddles! Love them, don't hurt them! 

Oh, and I promise to hand any cat, black or any other colour, a big festive Halloween cat-treat if it shows up at my door! (Which is unlikely, by the way, since I live on the 4th floor, but still.)

Happy Halloween! 

Smelly

This really happened! Well, without Storm standing on two legs and pointing at my shoe, but he did sniff it and look at me as if he thought it was the origin of the smell. Cunning, but I did not fall for it! ;)

Toys

You are probably wondering what happened to this comic to make it look so... different. Well, my work-pc crashed, so I couldn't scan and colour my comic like I always do. So what I did was draw it (you probably saw that coming), colour the original with watercolour/pencil/marker (which was extremely scary), and then I took a picture. Which is why it looks rather horrible. It should be a temporary issue though, I hope all is back to normal by the time I post the next comic.

I don't like laser mouse toys. I noticed they confuse Storm, because he can't find his 'prey' after hunting it. Even when I tried to make certain the red dot 'disappeared' under furniture when we were playing with the laser mouse, he still kept looking and searching for it. So Storm was frustrated and I felt guilty, not exactly the way you want to feel after a nice play-workout with your cat! So we stick to crumpled up paper mostly now :D

My Bubble Fox Guest Comic

Jon Esparza asked me to do a Bubble Fox guest comic for him, which you can find here: http://bubblefox.thecomicseries.com/comics/199

I had a lot of fun drawing this, and I just had to make my cartoon self and Storm meet Bubble Fox!

Great Expectations

So what would Storm really do if he had a lot of money to spend? (let's just assume he could grasp the concept of money) He would probably not buy a gigantic litter box... Food maybe? I don't know, he doesn't seem particularly interested in food, as long as it's there, he takes a few bites and leaves it for later. And if he feels it's time to be fed, he gently headnudges me in the direction of his dining corner. Toys? No, he has enough of those, I am sure he would agree with me on that. Perhaps a large garden (we don't have that) with lots of birds (to watch, I hope) and flies (to hunt). And grass to eat. I would appreciate that too, by the way, though I probably wouldn't join him with the grass eating...