a long, sordid history
Monday, October 19th, 2009so, I have a kitten now, his name is Jack, he’s from Coney Island. He’s pretty much the cutest fucking kitten ever and he sleeps in my lap all day while I draw. You know what this means…yes, I will be subjecting my readers to endless links of adorable photographs and you can expect Jack to appear regularly in the comics. Yep, I’m THAT person now and I don’t care how annoying you think it is.
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October 19th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Yeah, he pretty much *is* the cutest fucking kitten ever.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:44 am
A homeless guy once chased me halfway across a bridge because I wouldn’t take a bite out of his chocolate bar!
It was a MARS BAR, fyi.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:55 am
“It’s only blood.”
Oh, good, it’s only the fluid I was most worried about potentially getting on me.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:11 am
It’s cool - I’m that cat wierdo, too. The doctors say it’s almost normal.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Yeah, it’s just blood. It just carries, AIDS, hepatitis, and slew of other tasty diseases. I also received my mini comics. They were good! My favorite part is you and your brother filling up the crack in table with rotting veggies.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Once in Seattle a homeless guy asked for change and when i mumbled sorry he yelled, “OH! YOU GOT CHANGE FOR TITTIES BUT NOT FOR ME!” Thats my only homeless story.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:42 am
aww, Jack’s adorable. /
October 19th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Might want to check what’s between Jack’s legs. He appears to be calico, and most of the time, calicos are females. “Very rarely (approximately 1 in 3,000[3]) a male tortoiseshell or calico is born. These animals typically have an extra X chromosome (XXY), a condition known in humans as Klinefelter syndrome, and undergo an inactivation process like that in females. As in humans, these cats are almost always sterile because of the imbalance in sex chromosomes. Some male calico or tortoiseshell cats may be chimeras, which result from the fusion in early development of two embryos with different color genotypes. Others are mosaics, in which the XXY condition arises after conception and the cat is a mixture of cells with different numbers of X chromosomes.” - Wikipedia
This does not detract from Jack being, in-fact, adorable
October 19th, 2009 at 11:57 am
i already know that jack is a girl. I just keep saying “he” so it stuck. He’s not a calico though, he’s a persian. Or maybe a mutt.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Your facial expression in panel six is too awesome.
Jack is awesome! Congrats!
October 19th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Jack is a calico cat…it’s not a breed like Persian, just a colour pattern of white, red, and black. So to describe her markings, you’d say she’s a calico tabby, just like you’d say orange or grey or silver tabby. Tabby’s just the typical stripey cat markings with the M on the forehead. As far as breed goes, she’s probably a mutt like you say, likely mostly American Shorthair.
Jack’s a good solid name. We have one too, but he is a good solid boy-Jack.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
That is one super-cute little kitty. Not as cute as my kitty, mind you. But your kitty is really cute.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
It’s better to think of them as “grouches” ala Sesame Street.
October 19th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I like asking peoples for change! it’s an exciting / high risk way of getting to know strangers
October 19th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I have a good Scottish kitty named Jack (really, from Scotland!). He’s a frekin’ horse of a ginger cat. It’s a good name, boy or girl. Good for you, I’m glad you have a fuzzy to greet you when you come home:D
October 19th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
I’ve been wanting a kitty for a while :(. Kitties are loner pets. Jack’s cuteness rivals Bonk Bonk Bonk Bonk’s ^_^
October 19th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Imma cat person, but prepare for your apartment to smell horrible no matter what kind of expensive cat litter you buy. Cats are also the ninjas of animals and Jack WILL pounce on your face when you’re sleep.
October 19th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Nice kitten. My dog’s name is Fred and if you tease her about it, she’ll rip your face off.
October 19th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
This is a slippery slope you’re going down.
You might just start off with one cat, but soon, you require more and more, until you reach the point where your apartment smells like cat piss and tuna, and the neighborhood children simply refer to you as “That crazy cat lady.”
October 19th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I want to adopt a bum.
Get him a job and make him pay rent.
Nah, I’d rather have a hobo. They’re cleaner.
I wish I wasn’t allergic to cats…
God’s sense of humor can at times be desperately cruel.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Kitteh!
October 20th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Is he a jumping Jack? I’ll bet he is!
October 20th, 2009 at 4:21 am
i’m glad i’m not the only twenty something still mistaken for a teenager. Jack is the happiest little kitten i did ever see. congrats!
October 20th, 2009 at 5:58 am
What i liked most about this comic strip is how much your drawing and composition skills have improved compared to your earlier efforts. Especially the last panel. And every row acts as a two panel mini-strip.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Oooh, cat! *envy*
October 20th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Thats not the cat stalking you? what gives? I thought you two had a thing
October 20th, 2009 at 8:49 am
I’ve been reader for a while now and always love your stuff (alright, almost always) but now that you have a KITTY, you’ve moved up to the top (well, closer to the top than before) of my Bookmarks list.
Kind of like Jonah Hill’s comment in “Funny People”–”if you put “Cute Kitten” in the title of your YouTube video, you’ll get a million hits.”
So just change the name of your strip to “Smutty Drawings AND a Cute Kitten,” sit back, and watch the cash roll in! Oh wait, would that be selling out your artistic integrity? I am such a philistine.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:51 am
My favorite part is when bums get mad at you for not giving them money, even though they are quite obviously lying to you when they ask for it.
“Hey, can I get a dollar so I can catch the bus to the animal shelter to do some volunteer work?”
“No money, sorry.”
“WHAT THE FUCK!!”
October 20th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
That last panel needs to be a t-shirt. I’d buy it.
October 20th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
ooooh man i smell trouble with the new kitty. i’m telling you now julia, jack will use his cuteness to manipulate you. don’t say you weren’t warned. can we expect a barrage of double-dose-of-irony LOL cat pics then?
October 20th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
if your apartment reeks of cat shit with only one cat, you’re doing something wrong.
christ, it’s like those commercials with the woman febreezing everything instead of…i don’t know, flushing the toilet or doing the laundry.
anyway, enjoy! (and be prepared for more advice you didn’t ask for THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE)
October 20th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
unsolicited! that’s the word i wanted. dammit.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
oof, yeah, I know what I’m in for, unsolicited advice wise. But I’ve already owned many cats in the past so I can just kind of glaze over it. I agree about the smell though, if your house reeks of shit from just one cat, you’re just 20 cats shy of being crazy cat lady material because those bitches don’t clean shit. They’re Frebreeze bitches.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Cute kitty. Invest in a laser pointer. Hours of entertainment!
October 20th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Haha, I’m a Febreeze bitch
October 20th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Sweet Jesus, that’s a good looking cat!
October 21st, 2009 at 7:18 am
That actually is quite possibly the cutest kitten I’ve seen. Hwuuuuh *explode*
October 21st, 2009 at 11:35 am
Congrats Julia!! Your kitten is super cute!!
October 21st, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Holy shit your kitten is the cutest of all kittens.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Once you level up your Crazy Cat Lady stats, you should be able to take out Crazy Street Bums and Unhygenic Junkies with your +5 cat turds no problem. Also, remember to upgrade your Shopping Cart with Garbage Bags Full of Hair and Blankets as soon as you can!
October 21st, 2009 at 10:44 pm
hey there awesome lady! we just bought “pee in the sink” drawing from RocketShip
awesome!yey!more whiskey for u!
October 21st, 2009 at 11:59 pm
That is one cute kitteh. BRING ON THE CAT COMIX
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:13 am
She’s (he’s) like the very zenith of calendar cats. But cuter. And without the Valium the evil calendar people give them to hold the fuck still.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:10 am
I remember this dude who used to roam downtown SF. We would call him the scream. This was back in 2001. He would walk the streets shouting obscenity at the top of his lungs. like FUCKIN ASS FACE BITCH FUCKING FUCK YOU FUCK FUCK FUCK! I was working on the 13th floor of a building there and would hear it all clear as day. I remember one day, a bar owner across the street came out, talked to the guy, and they went in the bar for presumably a drink, and he stopped shouting for about 15 min. 8 years later, I am staying at a hotel off union square for business, had my window open, and what do I hear? FUCKING ASS FACE BITCH FUCKING FUCK YOU FUCK FUCK FUCK! I should have bought him a drink.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:31 pm
KITTEN OH MY JESUS GOD SO ADORABLE
October 24th, 2009 at 6:09 am
Your kitten is adorable. Also he is quite possibly female.
October 24th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I’m a self proclaimed “hobo-sexual.”
October 26th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Awwww man! I hate how mean they were to you! But on the bright side, yayyyy kitten!!
January 4th, 2010 at 6:37 am
hah..i was once chased by a bum because according to her i didnt gave her enough money,and she got all agressive
March 4th, 2011 at 11:54 pm
I was on the bus and this bum commented on my shirt. We ended up talking for like 10 minutes. He said things like someone from a tv show gave him money, then he said you’re more likely to get cancer from standing behind a bus than being a smoker. And he said all doctors are liars. My friend ended having an argument with him.