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Cat and Girl #1
Cat and Girl Volume I
What is this book? 204 pages of words where there ought to be pictures and pictures where there ought to be words. There is every Cat and Girl cartoon from 2003 to 2005, except for one. There are a few cartoons you haven't seen before, some cartoons so extensively reworked you will swear you have never seen them before, and a subject index.
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First published January 1, 2006
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August 3, 2014
It's only halfway through reading Cat and Girl that for me to enjoy the comic, I have to come to accept that the jokes don't have a punch line. It's probably more precise to say that I don't get the punchlines. Which also serves me just fine.
To say that Cat and Girl is smart is a bit of an understatement, because the topics and situations here are very existential and provide in-depth commentary about our very serious and current socio-economic situations. The comics are longer format and dialogue driven fleshing out the intricacies of capitalism, job hierarchy, gender roles, music and art (yes, those two should be separate) and many other aspects of our culture. When I get the jokes, it's great, but most of the time I'm just surprised at how masterfully Gambrell comments on these issues. It's very witty and/or biting commentary.
Cat and Girl is probably too smart which might just mean that it's dense. And if it's really that dense, maybe that just means it will entertain for many more reads to come.
To say that Cat and Girl is smart is a bit of an understatement, because the topics and situations here are very existential and provide in-depth commentary about our very serious and current socio-economic situations. The comics are longer format and dialogue driven fleshing out the intricacies of capitalism, job hierarchy, gender roles, music and art (yes, those two should be separate) and many other aspects of our culture. When I get the jokes, it's great, but most of the time I'm just surprised at how masterfully Gambrell comments on these issues. It's very witty and/or biting commentary.
Cat and Girl is probably too smart which might just mean that it's dense. And if it's really that dense, maybe that just means it will entertain for many more reads to come.
April 2, 2009
It's a strip about a [pipe-smoking:] cat and a girl who worries too much. Add in various zombies (including Joseph Beuys), hipsters and paint-drinking and you've pretty much got it covered.
Curiously, I found reading the comic online a little more enjoyable than reading it in book form. I can't exactly say why.
Still, if you're not afraid of having to think about references occasionally - particularly applicable if you're not American - then this is definitely worth checking out. When it's good, it's superlatively so.
Curiously, I found reading the comic online a little more enjoyable than reading it in book form. I can't exactly say why.
Still, if you're not afraid of having to think about references occasionally - particularly applicable if you're not American - then this is definitely worth checking out. When it's good, it's superlatively so.
April 27, 2007
Cat: "A hipster walks into a bar. He says, 'This bar sucks - its filled with hipsters.'"
Ha! Though the comic that's from is from two days ago, so its not in this book, which came out last year sometime. Mulzer and I each have a Cat and Girl shirt, AND we were in the "Donation Derby" on her web-page. Which rocks.
Ha! Though the comic that's from is from two days ago, so its not in this book, which came out last year sometime. Mulzer and I each have a Cat and Girl shirt, AND we were in the "Donation Derby" on her web-page. Which rocks.
December 15, 2016
Cat and Girl are true heroes. I have loved them online for quite some time, but my friend Henry's ownership of the print volumes has enabled me to transfer that love to the physical realm. Not in a dirty way. Get your minds out of the gutter, all y'all.
March 13, 2008
Reading this book helped keep me sane while visiting my mother in Panama. And yes: people will give you strange looks on the beach for reading such things.
July 14, 2009
Funny funny funny! Volume II is funny too!
June 29, 2016
Cat and Girl is criminally under appreciated.
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