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Augh. I've got so many things to share with you that I can't share just yet. It's maddening...but summer ought to be interesting!Meanwhile, there are lots of incidental characters scattered throughout Season 1. So, naturally, we've turned to crew members' cats for inspiration. This little newsie is based on Fable's Cornish Rex kitten, Dirac. Fable did the initial sketches for him, and Kayla Stith followed up with the design.Also included are some of the actual newsies we referenced. Based on their ages (1910s-1920s), these photos are all almost certainly in the public domain now, but I wish I had original sources. Nearest I can get is to say I found some of them on Shorpy. The bottom left photo is from Olive St. in St. Louis.

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Sevenmolt

OMGOOOOOOD OMGOMGOMG I LOVE HIM <3

Licial

The tiny guy 🥺

Catsonaut

LITTTLE GUY OMG ITS A LITTLS GUY I LOVE LIL GUY

Elorista

Oh my god he's so cute 😭

Meadowhaven

Aaaaaaaa he is so cute and precious! What a face! I love him already.

Kintor

What an adorable design. He's really going to stand out, even if he's just a background character.

Syd D.

Oh he's SO precious. I love him. I'd kill to see a sphynx design in the LD verse, I love highlighting the cool pedigree breeds that are new. Purebred cats have only been a thing for about two hundred years (unlike dogs!) so it's really fun to see this stuff translated into other mediums.

Luna Yoshi's Art and Stuff

So cute! And calling it now: people in the YouTube comments will wonder why a rabbit is in a comic/mini-episode all about cats. You just KNOW someone is going to bring it up.

QuantumQwerty

Ahweee, lil guy! Can’t wait to see more of the duder

Abby_DrawZZZ

OMG HES SO PRECIOUS!! ❤️❤️

Vet

My dad use to hawk newspapers as a kid. He was born 1922. By 6 he was expected to be a supporting member in his family. So he did odd jobs in his neighborhood to help the family. Especially tough times after 1929…his father only had one leg, the family furniture business was no more, and a fire destroyed the family home…..so he had to work at whatever he could and still go to school. He remembered wearing knickers as all the boys wore them. He grew up in Bladensburg Maryland just outside Washington DC. Those old photos bring those memories of his stories from back then.

Vince Heliotrope

The big ears just kills me with cuteness everytime. I love it. :3

Hitman Heller

Getting some mild Klonoa vibes from their design. Very cute!

morriStock

I’m looking at one of the sketches & it makes him remind me of Judy Hops.

Vespid

This is who killed Atlas

DAB

Jacob Riis-core

This Person

HE’S SO CUTE! I WANT TO SQUEEZE HIM!

KyonFoX

So adorable

Jonboy

I can already picture this wee lad ducking into the Little Daisy Cafe for a coffee break in-between selling papers!

Tiger in man's clothing

Newsies were often lookouts and informants for less than legal organizations. Who pays attention to newsies? Even many servants of the time looked down on newsies.