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Hi! Welcome to my small corner of the internet, where you can see the slice of life of Mickey, a silly cat who won't hesitate to dish out tough love, and his 'hooman' Suzy, a girl who can understand cat-speak. Suzy and her adorable cat encounter magical worlds, everyday scenarios, and random things together.

I started this webcomic in mid-October 2018, after years of only drawing intermittently. I'd been feeling discouraged about doing cartoon drawings of my own, especially when I'd come back home from work and look at all the existing art out there -- it was all at once inspiring and daunting to try to pick up my pen again.

Upon discovering Inktober, I decided to tackle the challenge by doing whatever cute drawings I wanted, without feeling like I had to create the *perfect* final product. From that experimentation, these cute comics were born and have continued since.

I enjoy animation, comics, and story-telling in general, so this is my way of creating a world that will hopefully bring in new characters as time goes on and make people smile.

I hope you can feel the joy and love that went into every single of these cat comics. Enjoy!

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Growing up, I read a lot of Calvin & Hobbes and Garfield, which is what drew me to the art of comic-making in the first place. Over time, my style has changed from a typical comic strip format to a more graphic novel style format, which I can attribute to all of the amazing graphic novels I've been introduced to in the last few years. Some of the major influences have been works like The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang, which so effortlessly create a whole new world through images and storytelling. As I've become a graphic novel author-illustrator myself, I now incorporate overarching storylines into my comics online as well.

When I first started drawing 4-panel comics, it used to take me 6~7 hours for each one. Now that I have become more familiar with my characters and developed my own comfortable drawing style, drawing a 4-panel comic usually takes me around 2~3 hours. This of course does not include the process of coming up with the concept, which varies. For my longer-form comics, which are more in a graphic novel format, they can take me around 8 hours to even sometimes over two days per 'episode,' depending on how complex I decided to make the panels. These longer-form comics also require me to prepare the story ahead of time, in script format, so it can take even longer when the entire process is put together.

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When thinking of what I want to write and draw about, sometimes, I will be reflecting on a theme and trying to generate ideas. Other times, the ideas come more naturally, when I'm going about daily life or feeling inspired by the real world around me.

Creative work is an exciting and fun process for me, but it's not without its own challenges. Burnout is definitely one of the biggest challenges (in addition to many others) that artists face, including myself. Cat & Cat Comics on Instagram has grown into a whole graphic novel series called Cat & Cat Adventures, published by HarperCollins. Working on these books in addition to other books, all while trying to balance creating new free Instagram comics, definitely has taken its toll, and for a period of time, I had to deal with a wrist injury and burnout from over-work. Now, I try my best to take a more balanced approach, and I don't commit to creating new online comics every other day like I used to, so that I can make sure that the work I do create is the highest quality, because I've put in 100% of my mind and effort into it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

HEAR HEAR! Your gender is not determined by the things you like, and the things you like don't have a gender.

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What I'm most grateful for in my creative journey so far has been all of the people who have reached out to me, written reviews for my Cat & Cat Adventures books, and shared with me their stories of how they resonated with a particular comic, storyline, or character.

I think seeing the impact my work has had on people's lives, even if it's not the most significant event in their life, is the most enjoyable part of creating art. My second favorite is probably coming up with the concept and ideas in the first place. Building a world is such a personal experience, and I love every aspect of it, from designing the characters to adding small details that bring them to life.

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Cat & Cat Comics was started as a hobby of mine, something I drew and posted online for fun outside of my day job. The responses to my comics motivated me to continue sharing my random comic ideas, and over time, it grew into a community, which I'm very grateful for.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kids or animals, there’s no such thing as privacy. This is going to happen. Every. Damn. Time.

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My previous experience was not in art at all, but in healthcare and technology. I got my Bachelor's degree in molecular and cellular biology and a Master's degree in computer science. Before I moved to working as an author-illustrator full time, I was working in the tech field. All throughout my life, I've been drawing and writing for fun, but it was only in the last couple of years that I started digital art. I still have so much to learn, but it's been great growing as a creator.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh Squashy! You can come live with me, my three other rescue cats, and my cat-loving rescue dog!

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What motivates me as an artist is an inner desire to create, as cheesy as that may sound. I have so many ideas inside of me, characters who want to speak and share their stories, universes, and different timelines that are itching to be drawn. Even within the Cat & Cat universe, I hope to weave together positive, helpful messages that inspire people to be kinder and be more loving to both themselves and each other, and as I continue to tell these wholesome, silly stories about Squash, Ginny, Mickey, Minnie, Nana, and more, I want people to feel joy when they think about my 'Cativerse.'

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Until Bazzy, our 19 year old cat, died (19 years and almost 5 months to be exact, and we were his parents since he was 9 weeks old), we also had four cats, including one brought in as an abandoned 5-6 week old kitten (when Baz was a bit over 17). When you have multiples, it really hits you how they all have their own little faces and personalities, and just how dead wrong the stereotypes are. They mirror humans in those ways, more than you’d think.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s a little piece of heaven right here on earth. Try it and you’ll see (it’s OK to substitute the animal of your choice, even a person, or any combination of them all).

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This should be a first date—-you would really get to know what kind of person your date actually is, just by how they act—-especially toward the animals. More importantly, your animals can help screen them as potential SOs for you. Animals almost always have a sense of whether someone’s a good person or not. Trust their instincts on this, since we humans are susceptible to being blinded by love/list/fear of loneliness and will allow our judgment to become clouded so much we even ignore our own “Spidey Sense”.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh. No. It. Does. Not. If I gave in every time, my dog and cats would be living on treats, and always be too full to eat their normal food. Like a kid who wants to live on candy. If they did, they’d end up malnourished and really sick.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

✨ yasssssss queen! ✨ (sorry i had to :p) too much gender discrimination. We can never be “too this” or “too that.” We are ourselves! This is our path. Not yours.

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