Purposeless and meandering, a sort of sketchbook of half-formed gags and observations, but completely and absolutely packed with cats. There's a reviePurposeless and meandering, a sort of sketchbook of half-formed gags and observations, but completely and absolutely packed with cats. There's a review on here that claims this bit of 70s visual fluff was a big influence on Garfield, for whatever that may be worth to you. Of course I've seen these, the style deeply in ingrained in 20th-century-memory, but it never occurred to me that they might occur in a book rather than just ambiently exist out in the world....more
Well here's another that will obviously need some illustrative scans to explain seeing as there really aren't any online yet, and no reviews here. SufWell here's another that will obviously need some illustrative scans to explain seeing as there really aren't any online yet, and no reviews here. Suffice to say for now that the 70s were so weird that even their novelty cat literature is far more inspired than today's. (okay, barring that amazing junji ito maybe). But anyway, the Strand dollar racks continue to totally not let me down.
Most of the stuff in this book are actually sort of photo comic strips or sequences of actions, but here are some standalone images. If you're lucky, I'll turn some of the sequences into gifs sometime.
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