Phone photo 3004

This mole is sure one busy animal. It is now as close to my back door as it can get. The cats enjoy using the molehills as outdoor litterboxes, but if they see a hill moving which indicates a mole is active they just sort of bat at the rising dirt in a quizzical way.

Back in the 1980s and early 1990s I had a cat named Ahab who was a superb mole catcher and would deliver them on the porch.

But, I'm no lawn nut, obviously. Most of it is moss anyway. I say, let nature take its course and truth to tell, this is pretty interesting. In my 19 years on this place, this is the first mole to venture here.

City Limits Gazette # The world is so big and we are so small, yet we're turning it to shit in no time at all (Dec. 1992)

Logo by Maximum Traffic, Evergreen Mafia, CLG 1992 index, Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein responds to Max, Bil Keane Watch by Jeff Snee, CLG reader profile of Brad Foster, yet another Bil Keane Watch by Russell Rose, ye gods another Bil Keane Watch by Bryan Willis, (sigh) another Bil Keane Watch by Maximum Traffic, Ahab the cat 1982-1992, Comics Journal small press index by Gary Usher.

The "Evergreen Mafia" article cited above is included here. I'm guessing David George was the editor who reprinted this profile. David no doubt supplied the names of us lesser knowns, padding the list a bit within those square brackets since we were not listed in the original piece. The term "Evergreen Mafia" was first coined by Jay Kennedy ca. 1982.

Natural Functions

1st edition, February? 1986, 60 copies, orchid cover, enlarged digest size.

2nd edition, April 1986, 30 copies, orchid cover, enlarged digest size. (The version scanned and posted here)

Available as a print-on-demand, 1994, as part of the Reprint Series. Regular digest size.

Special Fandom House edition, 1994, 20 copies, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, July 2005, 5 copies (1 blue, 4 yellow), regular digest size. (Wraparound cover example scanned and posted here)

This comic will soon be available in the Mortyshop, 50 copies from the original master copy, enlarged digest size.

"How Cats Got That Way" is up there on the list of my most popular stories, judging by how many times it has been reprinted and commented on. It is true that I'm really much more of a cat person than a dog guy. Ironic considering the name of this blog, eh?

I don't have anything against dogs, in fact I like them a lot. But cats are self-contained furry enigmas. They don't fetch, they don't do well with collars, and they don't need to go for walkies. They say they are too cool for those trifles. I live with four cats and sometimes at night I swear I can hear them in the next room chanting, "Cats rule! Dogs drool!" They all love Sarah and call her by name, but I'm known to them as "Mr. Food Giving Man."

This comic was dedicated to my buddy Ahab, who lived to be 10 years old. I found a photo of him sitting in the bathroom sink about the same year this comic was drawn, when he was around four years old. He was very slovenly, liked to eat potato chips, and had the most beautiful cat voice I have ever heard. He had so many ailments that the vet told us he was going to build a new wing to his clinic and name it after Ahab.