Mark Kausler’s CatBlog

Felix Arrives in the Sunny South

Howdy Readers! First off we have a color drawing by Cathy Hill, my favorite cartoonist. She’s celebrating Halloween night this year and many years past in “Halloween Cat and The Ghost of Halloween Past”. She can design her own cats besides channeling Otto Messmer’s Felix. These cats were inspired by shadows on the bedroom walls.  The Felix strips this time are from 19321009 to 19321022. Felix continues his “100 Smiles” trek to the Sunny South. He meets a real Georgia Peach in the 10-10, and some good natured black folks in the 10-17 and 10-18 strips. Felix gets a bad sunburn in the 10-21 and meets Danny Dooit for the first time, at least I think it’s Danny, since it looks like an early version of him. I wonder if cats can really get sunburned through their coats? I think their noses would be most vulnerable to sun exposure. In the 10-9 Sunday, Felix pulls a Tom Sawyer and paints the Farmer’s fence. Felix just manages to paint the farm animals with stripes and spots and himself 100% white! In the 10-16 Sunday Felix saves the Farmer’s feet from the pinch of new shoes by accidentally fishing the Farmer’s old shoes out of the brook! The old shoes are worth a million to the Farmer, so he rewards Felix with a big feed! I hope you are continuing to enjoy the comics from Felix’s best year, 1932! Mark