Dos Gatos Episode 3: Boring Night

This is a series of comics invented by the hypermodern artist Mary Church and I in the winter of 2016 when I was living with her in St. Petersburg, Florida. She had already been planning a graphic novel about a cat, so I suggested we should do a comic strip featuring two cats, a couple named “Artamis” (male) and “Butterball” (female). The stories are done in the tradition of “Itchy & Scratchy” from The Simpsons, which was in turn a parody of the Tom & Jerry cartoons from the 1940s. The two cats are loosely based on Mary and I, so the whole series is a parody of our relationship.

So I sat down and drew out rough sketches of what the story would be for each episode which she would then draw the images for professionally. But my drawings and stories, though amateurish, made her laugh so long and so hard that she said there was no way she could do any better (although I disagreed). But here’s the third episode, entitled “Dos Gatos, Episode 3: Boring Night”: