Black Cat Appreciation Day (Patreon)

In hoor of Black Cat Appreciation Day I give you the four stages of Jill Thompson's beautiful cover for "What The Cat Dragged In", a Beasts of Burden one-shot that centered on Dymphna the Witch Cat.

She became one of my favorite characters after she debuted as a villainous witch's familiar in the second Beasts story, "The Unfamiliar", and this was cemented in the third story, "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, where she raised a batch of zombie roadkill dogs to try to kill our heroes). I really enjoy writing her as she deals with her former life as a familiar, how she deals with the dogs and the Orphan. And Pugs, who still doesn't really trust her.

"What The Cat Dragged In" won an Eisner Award for best single issue some years back.

Still my favorite project of all time and I'm aching to get back to writing new stories. The next four are plotted/planned, with the first halfway written. Folks who have been around a while might remember that the next story is about the cats, the Swifties (they had that name before the singer arrived on the scene, I'm not changing it), The Orphan and Dymphna. Dealing with the death of one of their own in the last Burden Hill story. Once I clear my commissions and commitments I'm going back to it. Hopefully sooner than later. I'm not getting any younger and I need to finish this storyline before I go bye-bye.