It's Kind of Sad, Really

I picked up some X-Men comics at the library today, and spent the afternoon squeeing over them. Xena-kitty wanted to sit in my lap, so I figured I might as well introduce her to the marvels of the x-universe.
...yes, I talk to my cats. They don't generally answer back. The next is a kitty-comic of sorts, in which Michiko (aka Michi aka Horrible Kitten aka Bad Bad OWW!...)

I should mention that Xena is a Jedi cat as well as a Gumbie cat*. There's no particular reason; she just is. Fortunately for the world, she mostly uses her powers for convincing people to give her food.

Oh, and check out Lackadaisy! It is a comic set in Prohibition-era St. Louis, by a lady who draws cats much better than I do.

* "She sits and sits and sits and sits/ and that's what makes a Gumbie cat." --T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Doodle Retrospective, Part I

In the process of cleaning my room, I found the box with my first-grade "journals" in it. Since I have nothing else to post, I present these for your amusement:







This reads, "Me and Krissy and Snpc", by which I meant Spiderslop, a rubber snake to which I was much attached. Also, I thought that "spiderslop" was a really cool name.

My old cat Meeps, crowned and inexplicably holding plates of cat food.

Well, it saves on art supplies...

I offered up my hole-digging skills as a Mothers' Day gift, and consequently spent most of this afternoon helping my mom dig up and transplant a venerable and well-rooted azaelea. After being outside all day, I thought I'd try my hand at some more plant-dye painting. This was the rather trippy result:

I used a shrub with reddish leaves (mom told me the name, but I forgot) for the tree, dandelions for the background, and various leaves on the grass.

Cat Wars!

The Kitties are most often seen cavorting on the dry-erase board of Annex 201 these days, but they've existed in their current incarnation since I was in 7th grade. Here's a comic drawn when I was 14 or so, starring Xena, Jedi Master:

...and in belated honor of No Pants Day:

I Ate'nt Dead...

...just kind of busy. And I haven't really produced anything blog-worthy in the doodle department, but I figure I ought to put something up here, this being after all a Doodle Blog. Speaking of which, I have a question for my readership (all three of you): quality or quantity? Would you rather have sporadic, infrequent updates of fully-inked-and-maybe-colored cartoons, or bi-weekly (something like that) doodlements of varying quality and exciting-ness?

I have no idea where any of this came from. None. Let's see...we've got a sort of double rat, a gator dog, a golem, and a man who apparently contracted the chicken pox before being dumped in a peat bog. Also, it amuses me that all you can see of my notes for twentieth-century African history are "legit pharaoh", "barbarian strength", and "queen of Ethiopia".