Today Is National Spay Day

You know, that’s one topic I’ve never really touched on in the comic strip yet.  I’ve covered FIV, ferals, diabetic cats and a ton of other things but never the neuter/spay issue.  I’ll have to put that on the list for future work.

The Fleas Are Back

Well, one of them is anyway.  I’ve had a bit of a writers/drawers block trying to figure out new things for the strip and decided to go back and re-introduce fleas again.  They've only shown up twice in all this time…no, wait. I think they’ve showed up four times.  Heck.  Well, that’s still not enough, so they’re coming back again doing weird flea stuff. Then they go away, they're not regular characters.

The first time the owner saw crop circles in Marcus’s fur – signs that the tiny spaceships needed to come get their fellow fleas to return to the mother planet.  The second was the ‘Girls Gone Wild’ flea video. The third was the grandson of the flea tagged as ‘male’ in the female Gone Wild video.  And the fourth was the Crime Noir going on in Marcus’s head/neck fur that ended up as a murder suicide. 

Don’t expect anything normal in my comics.  I’m not regurgitating anything that’s been published a thousand times before by other cartoonists.  This is MY comic strip and it’s not going to be duplicating anything done by anyone else.

Technical Help For A Freebie Project

There was a Pet Expo in our city this past weekend. One thing I did notice was that a lot of the different breed rescue tables there were selling home made coloring books. 

 

Most of them were pretty awful pictures, I suspect they went online to find copyright free line drawings – nearly all were from the 1950’s – and they were roughly 10-15 pages each, with a word puzzle and a maze at the end. 

 

It appears to be a new fad.  But I was left with the impression that anything that looked that awful could be done far better and sell at the same price.  Or be used as a giveaway item in a Kickstarter funding project.

While researching how to make coloring books (it was all basically a no brainer, no real need to google it) I ran across a neat website that automatically makes word search puzzles out of the list of words a person can come up with. It’s a really neat site and worth passing on.  http://www.puzzle-maker.com/WS/index.htm