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Cat Cartoons!

January 21, 2016January 10, 2017 andertoons

Cat cartoons! People love cats, and they certainly provide cartoonists with plenty of cartoon fodder, so it’s no surprise that I’ve done my fair share of cat cartoons over the years. Here’s just a few of my favorites nicely organized into some creative categories for your browsing pleasure:

Election Cats

No cats were harmed (or drawn) in this cartoon. And I discovered it’s trickier to draw campaign posters than you’d think.

Dieting Cats

This cat has a lot to think about. I mean really. Soul searching time.

Doctor Cats

Anthropomorphic cats are simultaneously the easiest and hardest to draw.

Computer Cats

My cat doesn’t do this. I had to look it up. I also like the coffee mug.

Easy to Please Cats

This was a good two hours of drawing and a fair bit of Google Images research for a little tiny quiet joke. Totally worth it though.

Photogenic Cats

Second row, far right is my favorite. He looks a little woozy.

Unpopular Cats

How does the fish drink? Theories welcome.

Tasty Cats

Me too. Wait, hold on… Nope, on second thought…

Business Cats

It tested great with cats.

Proofreading Cats

This joke makes me feel-ine happy. I just ruined it, didn’t I. My apologies.

Over-Scheduled Cats

OK joke, but love the photo in the background.

Seussian Cats

Seuss is SO hard to get right. Reader’s Digest bought this one later and I then had to color it like Seuss. Argh!

Distracted Cats

I bet it’s like yawning, They’re all going to do it in a second.

Nap-tis Interruptus Cats

Thought about using the same art for both “Me” and “Ow,” but I’m an artist, damnit!

Intolerant About Lactose Cats

I hate drawing thought bubbles. They’re trickier than you think.

Want More Cat Cartoons?

Still not satiated? Check out all my feline funnies! Then take a nap. You’ve earned it.

How To Draw A Cartoon Cat – Tutorial

June 11, 2012January 10, 2017 andertoons

Summertime and the living is easy. Especially for my cats who love nothing more than finding the sunniest spot in a room and settling in for a good warm nap. So in that spirit I thought I’d show you how to draw your very own sleepy cat cartoon. (Just try to draw quietly so you don’t wake anyone.)

When you’re finished, feel free to tweet, pin, email or otherwise share a pic of your sleepy cat cartoon with me and I’ll post it here at the blog! Enjoy!

How To Draw A Cartoon Cat – Tutorial

Pretty easy, right? You should try out my other how-to-draw tutorials too:

And feel free to check out all of my cat cartoons here.

Cat Cartoons Part 2

July 12, 2011January 10, 2017 andertoons

Cartoons and cats go hand in hand. At the very least cartoonists certainly chat them up:

Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. – Jim Davis

Meow is like aloha – it can mean anything.- Hank Ketchum

Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you’ve skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn’t that much to say. – Matt Groening

And now my own small additions to cat cartoondom:

A take on the old “you’re getting sleepy…” hypnotism thing, except that I figured that might be redundant for a cat. So I went the other way.

I’m fairly sure if you knew everything your cat had done that at some point legal advice would be required. Plausible deniability is much much better.

Getting all the of elements of this cartoon to read in the right order was a challenge. You need to recognize the delivery, scuba gear, a cat and then the fish. Tricky, but worth it.

I almost never work in multiple panels, and captionless gags are the hardest to do, so while this one was a bit of a stretch for me, it’s also one of my personal favorites.

You’d think being a cat would be enough for this applicant to stand out.

I wrote this early one morning while getting my coffee. That’s often a good time to write as the editor in my head hasn’t gotten up yet.

Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed my cat cartoons! Feel free to browse ’em all here!

Cat Cartoons

July 5, 2011January 10, 2017 andertoons1 Comment

People love cats. I mean they really love cats. For crying out loud, at one point they were literally worshiped. Worshiped!

So drawing cat cartoons puts me a little on edge. I haven’t spent lots of time observing or studying them. I can’t say they’re my favorite thing to draw. And, well, the ever-changing collection of hairballs and why-did-you-eat-the-dog-food-you-know-it-makes-you-vomit stains don’t exactly put me in the mood very often.

But they’re a staple of every cartoonist worth his or her salt, so a few times a year I make myself sit down and come up with a few new batches of feline funnies.

Here’s just a few:

I love animals in meetings. Talking animal cartoons are fairly common, but putting then in a conference room with a coffee mug or two makes me giggle audibly while I’m drawing them.

It’s interesting that the above symptoms would signal some sort of impending illness for any other species, but not for cats.

That fish on the right is either scared out of his gourd, or kind of poorly drawn. Probably a little of both.

The trick with this cartoon was drawing the container large enough to write “floss” on it legibly, but not so big that the reader wondered “why did she buy twelve pounds of floss?!”