To take the TH White stance on panels 2 and 3, I think it’s best to choose ‘undone’ over ‘done’ most of the time. Here read ‘most of the time’ as ‘when no one is looking.’
From the pool of available data we may infer that girl is older than a high school graduate, did go to college, is not employed (steadily), and is getting pudgy.
Girls responsibility can only be to herself, and to exploit the machine’s works to her advantage as much as possible.
BTW, did I ever mention that I wonder how when and why the Vampire turned corporate? I mean, he’s already dead… Maybe it depends upon when you become a vampire in the first place. If it was long ago, you could live off your distributed dividends….
Two of my favorite things about C&G are the little line that forms under the eye of a stressed character, and the way everybody always develops T-Rex arms when they are frightened.
I don’t think it’s only a choice between subservience to the apparatus and ceasing to function *all of the time.* It would seem to be the most common scenario, but sometimes a certain critical mass is reached when stopping the apparatus becomes a viable option rather than simply dropping out of it.
But in a time when there’s very little class-consciousness it comes down to purely personal, moral choices all too often, and how do we build on that?
I think my father had a relapse of SCB (sickle cell bohemia) shortly before divorcing my mother… He’s now 53 with a contract based work-from-home job, a 42 foot wooden canoe end sloop in constant need of repair, and a penchant for wearing long patterned socks with shorts… I don’t think he’ll make it.
Hmmm, what about someone who refuses to wear shirts they didnt but on the internet? and makes me feel bad for buying two pairs of jeans on sale at jcpenny? theres nothing wrong with department store sales when my only other option is…well…short. right?
I think there’s a third option: Becoming a cog that bounces around inside the machine, monkeying things up. The machinists will never find you, because you’ll always be in a different place. If enough of us cogs choose the bouncing life, eventually the whole machine will become bouncy and start to serve us instead of the other way ’round…
this seems to be part of a trend I like to think of as the Golden Age of Cat and Girl. Fantastic comics, great art, excellent themes, gorgeous dialogue. if only I knew where it ended, if it has…..
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October 6, 2015
全体を通じて 素晴らしい物事のデザインパターンはあなたはちょうどのための努力とハードワークに関して。 場所を正確にあなた実際に置き忘れ私が個人的に第一号だったにあなたの細目。As people say, the devil is in the details… And that couldn’t be much more accurate at this point.Having said that, allow me tell you exactly what did work.Your text is certainly pretty powerful and this is possibly why I am taking the effort to comment.I do not make it a regular habit of doing that.2nd, even though I can see a leaps in logic you make, I am not confident of exactly how you appear to unite the points which inturn produce the final result.For right now I will yield to your issue however hope in the near future you connect your facts much better.
August 18, 2009
Every goddamn time I come here I get validated.
August 18, 2009
i love panel four.
that is exactly what i used as a response to that question around 11-15.
August 18, 2009
How old *is* Girl? I never really thought about it until now.
August 18, 2009
spot.on.
August 18, 2009
Now I want to know the cure…
August 18, 2009
…so THAT’S what my problem is! Good to know, lol.
August 18, 2009
Panel four is great – a little bit of meta-ness in that we don’t seem to know how old Girl is either.
August 18, 2009
To take the TH White stance on panels 2 and 3, I think it’s best to choose ‘undone’ over ‘done’ most of the time. Here read ‘most of the time’ as ‘when no one is looking.’
August 18, 2009
brilliant, thanks
August 18, 2009
OOHH I think I may be SCREWED!
August 18, 2009
From the pool of available data we may infer that girl is older than a high school graduate, did go to college, is not employed (steadily), and is getting pudgy.
Late 20s?
August 18, 2009
But, I guess that time travel negates all. I wonder if Cat and Girl have a wife?
August 18, 2009
Girls responsibility can only be to herself, and to exploit the machine’s works to her advantage as much as possible.
BTW, did I ever mention that I wonder how when and why the Vampire turned corporate? I mean, he’s already dead… Maybe it depends upon when you become a vampire in the first place. If it was long ago, you could live off your distributed dividends….
August 18, 2009
Two of my favorite things about C&G are the little line that forms under the eye of a stressed character, and the way everybody always develops T-Rex arms when they are frightened.
August 18, 2009
Sickle Cell Bohemia awareness month would be so annoying.
August 18, 2009
I don’t think it’s only a choice between subservience to the apparatus and ceasing to function *all of the time.* It would seem to be the most common scenario, but sometimes a certain critical mass is reached when stopping the apparatus becomes a viable option rather than simply dropping out of it.
But in a time when there’s very little class-consciousness it comes down to purely personal, moral choices all too often, and how do we build on that?
August 18, 2009
Oh god oh god oh god! What’s the cure?! What’s… the… CURE!? It’s too late for me but maybe I can still save the young…
August 18, 2009
@ Ian R: “T-rex arms” Hilarious and apt.
I am so glad there is Cat and Girl. Thank you for creating this, Dorothy.
August 18, 2009
I love girl response in panel 4, “I know stuff.”
August 18, 2009
damn apostrophe misuse. “girl’s response”
August 18, 2009
As someone nearing 31, this particular strip… worries me.
August 19, 2009
I think my father had a relapse of SCB (sickle cell bohemia) shortly before divorcing my mother… He’s now 53 with a contract based work-from-home job, a 42 foot wooden canoe end sloop in constant need of repair, and a penchant for wearing long patterned socks with shorts… I don’t think he’ll make it.
August 19, 2009
Did I mention he was working to get his VW Westfalia van to run on biodiesel? It’s bad.
August 19, 2009
Honestly people, the cure is terrible. How terrible? Let’s just put it like this;
Two pale figures
Ache in silence
Timeless
In the quiet ground
Side by side
In age and sadness
I watched
And acted wordlessly
As piece by piece
You performed your story
Moving through an unknown past
Dancing at the funeral party
August 19, 2009
Bah; the cure’s not that bad.
A friend of mine is nearing 40 and I got her to read _Walden_ for the first time… she didn’t keel over and die (yet).
August 19, 2009
It doesn’t matter what your responsibility to the machine may be. You either keep spinning or get ground to dust. Just say’n…
August 20, 2009
Hmmm, what about someone who refuses to wear shirts they didnt but on the internet? and makes me feel bad for buying two pairs of jeans on sale at jcpenny? theres nothing wrong with department store sales when my only other option is…well…short. right?
August 20, 2009
i’ve been reading a tonne of “dykes to watch out for” and i now think that mo’s case of scb is terminal.
August 23, 2009
I love girl and cat but I can’t read it any more because it makes me too depressed.
August 23, 2009
This is great news! I still have a decade until I have to worry about becoming a loser…
right???
August 27, 2009
Can’t I just live my dreams?
September 1, 2009
I think there’s a third option: Becoming a cog that bounces around inside the machine, monkeying things up. The machinists will never find you, because you’ll always be in a different place. If enough of us cogs choose the bouncing life, eventually the whole machine will become bouncy and start to serve us instead of the other way ’round…
March 16, 2010
i love this!!!! especially the last panel.
September 26, 2011
this seems to be part of a trend I like to think of as the Golden Age of Cat and Girl. Fantastic comics, great art, excellent themes, gorgeous dialogue. if only I knew where it ended, if it has…..
November 27, 2011
Love it! Awesome expressions on simple characters
December 11, 2011
best of the best thanks
August 4, 2012
This, and Rogers first comment, is my favourite thing on the internet.
October 5, 2013
Haha, You the Vampire Man!
October 6, 2015
全体を通じて 素晴らしい物事のデザインパターンはあなたはちょうどのための努力とハードワークに関して。 場所を正確にあなた実際に置き忘れ私が個人的に第一号だったにあなたの細目。As people say, the devil is in the details… And that couldn’t be much more accurate at this point.Having said that, allow me tell you exactly what did work.Your text is certainly pretty powerful and this is possibly why I am taking the effort to comment.I do not make it a regular habit of doing that.2nd, even though I can see a leaps in logic you make, I am not confident of exactly how you appear to unite the points which inturn produce the final result.For right now I will yield to your issue however hope in the near future you connect your facts much better.