Previously in Stick Cats: To save the Manx Militia from the terror of the Octo-Kitty, Steve fashioned teleportational chewing gum containing the enzymes of the Catnip Rose. The Cats quickly began to chew, hoping that Steve's radical plan would send them to the Litterbox Desert in the nick of time!

NEXT: Sifting through the remains!

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This Stick Cats pin up was originally drawn (and I know this is gonna sound ridiculous, so bear with me) as a mural for the indie book store experiment, Fleeting Pages.

See, the book store was occupying the space of a closed down Borders. And the former Borders was so big that Fleeting Pages could only fill up the second floor with books. That meant there was a giant first floor that was sitting around empty!

Jodi, the creator and manager of Fleeting Pages, put out a request for black and white art that could be printed out on a large scale and turned into an installation sort of thing. Not a mural exactly, but I don't really know a better word for it.

To be more specific, it wasn't as simple as being printed out and taped up -- Jodi wanted the image to be something with multiple planes because she has a unique process for turning a single image into a three-dimensional display. So I took an hour or so and dreamed up this Stick Cats scene with a foreground, midground, and background (obviously there's no background here in this pin up... that's because I think the action looks better without it!).

Honestly, I never quite understood the process she was planning to use. I'm a cartoonist that makes 2D digital images. Jodi knows all about about mixing art and spaces, but explaining the technical aspects of preparing my digital art for her 3D display was tough. So the mural/installation/3D display was never printed.

But that's all good because I'm psyched to share this moody Stick Cats action scene with you, mural or not!

Previously in Stick Cats: Eating the Catnip Rose the gave the Cats the ability to locate the Octo-Kitty in the Litterbox Desert... but is there enough time to save the Manx Militia from certain death???

Special thx to Katie Henderson for drawing the first panel of this comic, helping me successfully transition the Stick Cats back to their normal forms.

If you've been following Stick Cats, then you may have noticed that it keeps slipping later and later into the week (from Monday to Wednesday to Thursday to Thursday night). THAT STOPS HERE! In fact, I'll have a Stick Cats pinup posted in a couple of days, and then #11 will be posted early next week. I haven't decided it yet... but I'm even thinking about doing more than one Stick Cats a week (not like anyone really cares, but I might do it anyway).

Stick Cats #10 on Tumblr
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