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[aesmael]

    I finished reading Casey & Andy last night and I wish it had been better. It really could have been. The geekiness and mayhem were frequently hilarious. Unfortunately, it nearly invariably fell apart where it came to women in the comic.
    lost_angelwings  has written extensively (I have this bad habit of sending people strips that particularly irk me) about the sexism that keeps creeping in (I wrote a little of it too) and I really do not feel like going over it again. There would be times when I thought it was getting better and then something would show up to make me think I had been too optimistic again.
    It is a real shame, since the rest of the comic was generally of a highly hilarious nature. Did go downhill toward the end though, as he (the real Andy) lost his enthusiasm for creating it. As the comic stands now, it has been on indefinite hiatus for a year now, stopped in the middle of what was to be the climactic final storyline.
    Also, as far as I am concerned Quantum Cop (and Crook) are female. It is pretty clear that the characters are intended to be male but I am going to read them how I want for my own enjoyment.

    And, that being done with, I am now reading Cat and Girl. I read some of it already in the past, which is why I can say at the beginning that Cat and Girl is one of my very favourite comics. Normally I prefer ongoing storylines to the gag-a-day format, so this is an exception. I want to say it is a blend of the surreal and the absurd, but not knowing about artistic movements (oh look, something else to learn about) I am not confident to say so.
    When I started reading Calvin and Hobbes I thought it reminded me of Cat and Girl, but although they could both be described as "A young child and ver talking animal companion" that is really not where the similarity lies. More likely it is the sense I get where, even when what the two characters are saying to each other works as a conversation, it still feels as if they are not really talking about the same thing.
    The Far Side is something else Cat and Girl reminds me of. Again it is difficult for me to put a finger on why, but I think it is that blend of surreal and absurdist humour.
    I am not sure why, either, I feel compelled to comment on art styles, but Cat and Girl has the feel of a newspaper comic to me, albeit with cleaner lines and larger format.
    Cat and Girl are Pokemon
    Cat and Girl find The Teddybear Picnic
    Cat and Girl versus The Printed Word (also there are Beatnik Vampires)
    Cat and Girl battle International Communism
    Cat and Girl live La Vida Loca
    Cat and Girl versus an International Army Comprised Solely of Bees
    Cat and Girl search for the Real America
    Cat and Girl see Death at Denny's
    Cat and Girl versus the abandoned House
    Celebrating a Century of Cat and Girl
    Meet the Cast of Cat and Girl (does not include Grrl, who commutes from a different year)
    Those are all from Cat and Girl Primitif, which I surmise to be strips from before the comic went online. You can find the others at the bottom of the archive page.
    The first actual strip is Cat and Girl in Cyberspace. I think it sets the tone for what follows fairly well. But, I really am not good at critical assessment of works. Which is why I do not do reviews.

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[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

Cat and Girl seems quite fun and crazy :D