Love the “floaty” in the last panel. But I don’t understand when and how Fargo died. Had he used up all his nine lives? There was the strip on Wednesday, April 19, where someone said to Fargo: you’re going to die. That was when Fargo was attacked by the Pippi sand worm. But I didn’t think anything of it, since it was in a fantasy. And then nothing about dying in the next day’s strip. What did I miss?
Hi, this is Rikki Simons writer for @Tavicat. These comics are based on our real cats, Pippi and Fargo, and they were all originally published on our tavicat.com site between 2008 and 2015 on a weekly basis. In October of 2011 Fargo passed away from kidney and heart disease. He was 14. We loved him so much and it was very difficult to continue the strip after that. There was a long pause of almost a year before we took it up again. When we decided to continue the strip, the question of what to do about Fargo’s mortality plagued us, but rather then skip it completely we decided it would be better if he just became a ghost and he haunted Pippi. We thought of doing a series of comics where we show how he passed away and we started those comics, but they became too painful to finish, and so we decided to skip to his after life. I’m sorry these strips have been so affecting. He was our best friend in the world for many years.
Since there are no comics where Pippi and Fargo’s owners are shown experiencing Fargo’s death, we are toying with the idea of bringing him back to life in a future strip, but before we do that we want to show what his absence brings to Pippi’s view of the world.
Thank you for sticking with us this past year. We’ve been dreading this storyline coming up for our GoComics audience. We hadn’t looked at his death in so long, it hurts all over again.
I am SOOOOOOO hoping that Pippi is having a Pam Ewing dream – even to the extent that she was only imagining his heart condition. I don’t want sweet Fargo to be dead!
Hello~! This is Tavisha one of the owners and creators of this comic @tavicat ~! Rikki and I have been trying to post comments here but, for whatever reason, it wasn’t working for him. We’d like to answer all your Qs you might have concerning Fargo. First, here’s a link to some older photos of them: http://www.tavicat.com/cats <3
rlcknight Premium Member about 7 years ago
Love the “floaty” in the last panel. But I don’t understand when and how Fargo died. Had he used up all his nine lives? There was the strip on Wednesday, April 19, where someone said to Fargo: you’re going to die. That was when Fargo was attacked by the Pippi sand worm. But I didn’t think anything of it, since it was in a fantasy. And then nothing about dying in the next day’s strip. What did I miss?
rikkiTikki Premium Member about 7 years ago
Fargo is really gone in real life then?
RikkiSimons creator about 7 years ago
Hi, this is Rikki Simons writer for @Tavicat. These comics are based on our real cats, Pippi and Fargo, and they were all originally published on our tavicat.com site between 2008 and 2015 on a weekly basis. In October of 2011 Fargo passed away from kidney and heart disease. He was 14. We loved him so much and it was very difficult to continue the strip after that. There was a long pause of almost a year before we took it up again. When we decided to continue the strip, the question of what to do about Fargo’s mortality plagued us, but rather then skip it completely we decided it would be better if he just became a ghost and he haunted Pippi. We thought of doing a series of comics where we show how he passed away and we started those comics, but they became too painful to finish, and so we decided to skip to his after life. I’m sorry these strips have been so affecting. He was our best friend in the world for many years.
Since there are no comics where Pippi and Fargo’s owners are shown experiencing Fargo’s death, we are toying with the idea of bringing him back to life in a future strip, but before we do that we want to show what his absence brings to Pippi’s view of the world.
Thank you for sticking with us this past year. We’ve been dreading this storyline coming up for our GoComics audience. We hadn’t looked at his death in so long, it hurts all over again.
Strawberry Hellcat: Gair I gall, ffon I’r anghall about 7 years ago
I am SOOOOOOO hoping that Pippi is having a Pam Ewing dream – even to the extent that she was only imagining his heart condition. I don’t want sweet Fargo to be dead!
tad1 about 7 years ago
Too bad about Fargo. :( At least he gets to torment Pippi as payback.
tavicat creator about 7 years ago
Hello~! This is Tavisha one of the owners and creators of this comic @tavicat ~! Rikki and I have been trying to post comments here but, for whatever reason, it wasn’t working for him. We’d like to answer all your Qs you might have concerning Fargo. First, here’s a link to some older photos of them: http://www.tavicat.com/cats <3
Alec McLure Premium Member about 7 years ago
I just love the “floaty” sound(?) effect