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HAPPY 1ST ANNIVERSARY CAT COMIC CONNOISEURS!!!

(First image by Mega, second image by Bell)

Whew. Sure, the journey getting here has been troubled, but it's also been incredibly fun! Some additional thoughts can be found below :3

First off we're going on a couple months long hiatus for health reasons. As I mentioned a couple days ago I realized that the current output was a little unviable on my own, so instead we're just gonna put out one big update at the end of october! Alongside this Mega will begin assisting in the inking of pages, it's something that he's been urging me to allow but I put off for awhile. Should help things get done quicker & make the divvy a bit more fair. Besides that we're also going to continue doing misc art inbetween pages, so don't expect this blog to full on stop posting or anything.

Anyways, as for the anniversary itself... kind of insane to think it's been one entire year since we unveiled the first pages! In hindsight I'm still proud of a majority of the stuff I've made for this comic. Sure, it could be better, but mulling about the past does no good when we have the present right at our fingertips. My main goals for the future are to get more comfortable in my process & ideally begin on chapter 2 by the end of this year.

Anyhow thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy both my & mega's art. We put a ton of effort into making em :]

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It's incredibly funny to look back on my pre-production stuff with hindsight Especially the gretta things. I really hyped her up to be like vicious when her characterization ended up becoming

This basically

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hah... I just had a really weird and specific dream?

so like, I was playing some sort of cac rpg where you'd use resources from across the world to resuscitate npcs in the main hub (with them all being different types of underwater animals for some reason?), except I never actually left the hub or began the game proper. I just saw all these greyed out husks, was given the opprotunity to revive one, and a prompt to collect more stuff to revive the others.

another thing I remember is that the main characters, with them being samantha & some sort of non-anthropamorphic clam girl. her appearance was essentially like one of those spongebob clams but with a hair bow & cartoon eyes, and also her mom (who had an actual body with a wide figure) was one of the aformentioned npcs. no gretta or bouncer in sight I guess.

the last thing I remember happening is me poking around the files, apparently the game constantly kept a second window open that'd close if you tried to look at it. another thing is that if you editted sam's hp value to be 666 her icon would become all black with yellow pupils & her name would change to "THE BLACK CAT" before the game abruptly crashes

anyhoooooooow idk what else to say about this. the cats have now invaded my dreams, fun!

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oh I just remembered gretta appears without her outfit for 1 page in chap 0. I should draw her like this again i really dig it

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once again working on a page today, apple is also like halfway done coloring a page too. didn't get to work on as much cat-astrophe stuff as I wanted to due to burn out buuuuut I'm gonna try and get at least 5 page sketches done before september starts. praying that seasonal depression doesn't hit too hard 🫡

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update to the previous post: antagonist designs are being worked on. obviously can't show them yet, buuuuuuut they're coming along very well :]

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btw samantha isn't an outdoor cat she's just really good at escaping containment. also her owner just kinda left the back door unlocked a lotta the time

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wow... one whole year of cac... very awesome very powerful...