Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for March 12, 2021

Well, that didn’t work!

This just in: Leprechauns are smart enough to be scared of Elvis! (And small enough to slip under doors!)

Elvis! You interrupted an interview! How will we ever get the story now?

The tension is leaving me BREATHLESS!! Elvis means to catch him a leprechaun…..it is funny when the wee creature utters Merciful Heavens as he RUNS from Elvis! Right under the door……

Elvis, leprechauns can bring you good luck – or bad.

OT: Della update

I think Elvis might know 4 warrior women who can also slip under that door. What would be scarier to the kids—one leprechaun or 4 mice?

Okay, not what I expected. =O Certainly an interesting twist. =3

Pucky, the leprechaun threatened the Kids. Elvis is a mite protective of young folks, as you discovered yourself once upon a kittenhood. Let the defender cat defend!

And Goldie, looks more like Puck threw off Elvis’ aim, allowing the leprechaun to run under the door.

Panel #3, right out of “The Incredible Shrinking Man”:

https://youtu.be/1i3sGFdZwDg

Roscoe has been to the vet for… The Operation .

Well, stay away and you won’t fall into the traps! Simple.

That door will not stop Elvis from protecting his children!

Puck might need to dig out the tin can phones to begin hostage negotiations!

Think of the terrified children, who have only Pengo and the Fox for protection.

Man, Elvis has certainly taken a severe dislike to the little green intruder. Hopefully the Boy or Girl opens the door now to let Elvis continue to establish order in the household. Elvis reminds me of a blue point Siamese my mom had who would act like that anytime he saw any of the little lizards that are quite popular here in Central Florida: green anoles, brown anoles, skinks, and geckos. My cats will stalk them on occasion but not with the determination of that Siamese just like Elvis chasing the leprechaun.

Merciful Heavens! OMG, this is hysterical! This whole story line. I love it.*still laughing

Puck looks so cute in panel 2, looking down at the leprechaun and holding the mic at its level. Panel 3 is plain awesome once you “see” Elvis’s eye and arched eyebrow!

Atta boy, Elvis. At least you tries to pounces upon it and eat it, like I tolds you to yesterday.

Oh nooooooooooooooes! Cliffhanger time!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: For the last time, I don’t have your gold!

Duffy: That’s what they all say. Now I’m gonna take everything off your shelves until I find it.

Elvis-Anum: Get down from there. Fine, I’m coming to get you!

Duffy: Ha! Duffy O’Doyle can outclimb any Meese! Now prepare to watch all your inks and pens fall to the floor…OOF!

WHAP!!

Beatrixia: No one outclimbs a polydactyl kitten!

Happy BCN Origination Day!!!!! On this day in 2014, the first BCN web comic (“Everything is broken”) was posted.

(Note: On GoComics, if you go back to the start, it will send you back to an alleged January 1, 2010 strip. This is a coding error by GoComics. The strip did not exist in 2010 and the “bacon strip” that is shown actually comes from April 2, 2017. But I digress…)

Georgia’s first self-published BCN strip was posted on March 12, 2014. Since then, BCN has gone from being a web comic on its own page, to being part of the GoComics line-up (in October of 2014), to being a daily newspaper strip (in 2017)—and it has now generated four books, multiple calendars, decorative pins, and a wide range of wonderful items (such as mugs, cards, t-shirts and magnets) available for purchase on Zazzle.

(By the way: if any Orbster has the know-how to edit Wikipedia, the BCN entry on Wikipedia is in need of serious updating. It only mentions the first book. But I digress…again…)

Georgia Dunn wrote a blog post back in October 2017, describing the momentous night before the very first strip was posted. See:

http://www.georgiadunnstudio.com/2017/10/the-night-before-breaking-cat-news-was_92.html

It is well worth a read (although, if you are a big softie like me, you will want to have the tissues handy). It is scary to think how close we all came to never getting to meet Elvis, Puck, Lupin & the rest of the gang.

But let’s not dwell on that. Instead, this is a day for celebration: Seven Years of BCN!!!! Here is to 50 more!

that didn’t go as planned!

Gallant effort, Elvis.

Well, you can tell by his brogue & wee green socks

He’s a leprechaun, no time to talk

Magical as unicorns

They’ve loved their gold since they were born

And now it’s all right, it’s okay if

Elvis can look the other way

Pucky tries to understand

Fairy traps’ effect on this tiny man

Whether you’re a prankster or whether you’re a gangster

You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive

Feel the door breakin’ and everybody shakin’

And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive

Well now, we look low and we look high to

Find his pot o’gold, we really try

Got the wings of fairies on his shoes

He’s a spry li’l man and cranky, too

You know it’s all right, it’s okay

He’ll live to see another day

We can try to understand but

He’s an angry, scary man

Whether you’re bratty or whether you’re catty

You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive

Hear the kids shriekin’ and everybody freakin’

And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive (ohh)

(Maurice Ernest Gibb / Robin Hugh Gibb / Barry Alan Gibb – Stayin’ Alive)

Watching the wee one skooch under the door was pure gold in itself.

Okay, Plan B.

I still say they are after his lucky charms…or lucky kitty treats…Lucky Kitty charms they are fishily delicious….

The classic horror story twist: “Instead of locking the creature out, we have locked ourselves in with it!”

The leprechaun is sounding a bit Scottish …

Hmmm… sounds more like a Scotsman to my ears…

I’ve seen this happen with a mouse. Fortunately, there was a cat on the other side of the door.

I like how this strip shows the different personalities of Puck and Elvis, Puck going for the interview to get the whole story and Elvis just jumping in in protective mode.

I just noticed the glass doorknob. I love older houses with glass doorknobs.

Breaking Cat News reflects an amazing artist & her family. God bless them.

The cats have one important job as residents of the Pink House. Love and protect their humans, particularly the little ones. I can feel Mr Kitty’s ghost sitting on the back of my chair as he shakes his head in disgust at this kitty failure. His disdain when those mice are allowed to scamper around the humans’ food and stuff is the stuff of legend.

I just love panel 3!

Love the third panel. Elvis’ eye of doom.

Hmm, the kids may lay traps for leprechauns, but I don’t think they’re the ones behind thefts . . .

Holy shillelagh!

Indoor cats are often not very good hunters. They should have put Goldie on it.

Angry Elvis face….

Yup, the vile raccoons are after the leprechauns’ gold. Someone should tell them leprechauns are too smart. They don’t just hand over the gold just because you trap them. They’ll promise to tak you to where it’s buried and then they’ll pull a fast one on you and you’ll never find it.

OMC! That eye in panel 3!

NEXT COMIC: they all trap the leprechaun and throw it out the window

The Children must be saved!

in cat world everything look like catnip toys to them !

Origination Day photos on Instagram. Posting in case the link at the bottom of the page disappears.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMU-SNQpvJX/?igshid=mua6ttip2yvs

Elvis meets the Law of Unintended Consequences