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Today in the Kitchen

I drew this a couple of weeks ago when Lyra caught a bird and brought it into the house. Majka seemed very uncomfortable and didn't quite know how to react to this lifeless body. However, a week later when Lyra caught a bird in the yard, and didn't kill it, Majka was happy to finish the job and gobble it up. Sorry birds.

Lost in translation.

Sometimes Majka's love and excitement for Lyra gets lost in translation and just leaves Lyra terrified. 

Koshka Lyra

I have no commentary for this one...

If you want to see more Lyra/water themed comics you might appreciate this.

Ivan Ivanovitch

More comics will be coming soon. I've been lazy about scanning lately. But now with Fun-A-Day underway I have an ever growing stock pile of comics waiting to be digitized. So, until then here's one panel from a comic I wrote about 5 years ago entitled "Kirill and Ivan Ivanovitch in the Land of the Former Bolsheviks".
The story is based on the time Kirill and I went to MediaPlay to get him a new discman (oh how things have changed....) there was a wall of discmen and Kirill complained that there were a million choices but they would all break in a week. He then went on to declare "say what you will about the Soviet Union, but at least back then when we'd go to buy something at the store there was only one and it would work".
So in the comic Kirill and Ivan Ivanovitch (who was the cartoon persona of our big orange cat, Bandit but with glasses) go back to Russia to buy a proper discman only to discover that his favorite marketplace from childhood had been replaced with a Walmart - where he ends up buying the discman anyway.

Probably not one of my best comics ever, though there are some pretty good panels. This one, of Ivan Ivanovitch in front of St. Basil's Cathedral, is my particular favorite.

Russian Lessons

Lately I've been practicing Russian, drawing cats and inking with brushes - this is where they all come together. I've had this plan for a while to put together a Russian Tutorial mini-comic. It will be something along the lines of a Children's Picture Dictionary, though more specific to things relevant to my life - like the parts of a cat, for example.

This is a photo of the real Koshka Lyra - much stripier than her snowy white comic counterpart. But her eyes are just as giant.

February 12, 2010

Sorry for the lack of post yesterday. I'm posting two today because Blogger was having issues yesterday and not letting me post.

The following is a sad but true tale of what happens to cats who hang out next to bathtubs.

February 6, 2010

February 2, 2010