Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 27, 2019

’Tis Tillie!

And a ghost mouse!

Have we met that cat before? The one who looks like Popeye?

Oh, and it looks like Agatha and Charlotte are back…

“Spoopy is an internet slang term used to describe something that is “spooky” but in a comical or cute way, such as a puppy in a ghost costume or a goofy Halloween video. It is based on a viral picture of a Halloween decoration that misspelled spooky as spoopy."

This one is written in real handwriting, rather than “Breaking Cat News font.” Gives it a nice feel.

“Now when the day goes to sleep and the full moon looks

Night is so black that the darkness cooks

And you come busting in all my dreams, making me see things I don’t want to see”

https://youtu.be/kTvKaLW5bu8

Was Puck out looking for the Great Pumpkin?

This needs to be a poster. <3

“Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart. And I love you.”

And with a little tweaking, you can sing it to ‘Grim Grinning Ghosts’ ♥

Baba Mouse and Beatrix on a broom! With bats! I think that’s them in the last panel as well.

The moon in panel 2 looks like Lupin to me. Who do you think the moon in the last panel is? Also, I love devil and angel Puck, lol!

I love every single detail in this one—even the ones I haven’t discovered yet. Of course, Tillie is my absolute favorite along with new favorites Kitty Moonface and Angel Pucky! Thank you Georgia. This one’s a print it out and stick it on the fridge keeper!

Now we know why Baba always keeps a broom handy. It’s her mulit-purpose tool—cleaning tool, mouse disperser and transportation. And of course Beatrix is her apprentice!

With Elvis’ poofage and yowl, he looks a bit like a Were-Dandelion! :)

Shoulder Devil for beans!!!

You may think this be the end. And you will be right.

Lupin’s coffee mug is getting into the mood.

Spoopy?

Nice to see Tillie again.

Sunday Funday!!!! The Mega-Orb gives so much, I’d like to give back to the Orb, but of course, I can’t do it alone. Since soon we will no longer need a spoiler zone, I think if we had a designated spot each week for folks to share something fun, great news, a funny story, a joke, anything. This is not to prescribe that this is the only place or time to do it, if you have great news or something to share at anytime, by all means DO so!

Just like the spoiler zone, whoever thinks of it first on a Sunday should start it, even if you don’t have something to share!!!

Hi, Tillie~!

What are the boys doing outside?

Georgia has really outdone herself with today’s strip!

Even the tree is smiling.

Lovely to see Puck and Tillie dancing.

And there’s a heart-shaped pumpkin at the end.

The nighttime color scheme is lovely.

“The Jellicle Moon is shining bright . . .”

What is the devil Puck holding? It looks a little like a key…but to what?

I don’t celebrate it, but I love this strip.

Halloween, the perfect day to celebrate Puck and Tillie’s ongoing special friendship!

This one is an All-Timer. Beautifully drawn Georgia. Thank You!

Love little Agnes (I think) peeking out from behind the tombstone in Panel 3.

From Hair: Aquarius

When the Moon shines full just like a cat,

And the howling wind blows cold without an end,

The ghosts come out and do their dance

With all their living friends!

…….

This is evening of the Dance of the Ghosts and Friends,

Dance of the Ghosts and Friends,

The Ghosts and Friends!

The Ghosts and Friends!

…….

This is no time for the Doom and the Gloom

Kitties flying on their brooms!

Going out, let’s all be spoopy!

Find the Great Pumpkin with Linus and Snoopy!

…….

The Ghosts and Friends!

The Ghosts and Friends!

The Ghosts and Friends!

The Ghosts and Friends!

Wonderfully done, Georgia. I wish I knew how to print it off, I would love to frame it and put it on my kitchen wall!

Off topic, after 5 years of emptiness, the apartment above ours is rented out. I believe it’s to a friend of the landlord. Just have to figure out if it’s the mother, the daughter (late teens or early twenties) or both. She/they seem friendly. I’ll have to bake some banana bread and take it upstairs as a welcoming gift.

I love absolutely everything about this strip! So many wonderful details, but I think my favorite panel may be Puck with his little angel and devil.

That is a very sweet poem and strip for Halloween.

Puck, there’s no need for a poof-tail. It’s your friend Tillie.

On the next manned/womanned/felined trip to the Moon, maybe they can take pictures of its cat ears.

Couldn’t resist: King Harvest’s Dancing in the Moonlight

We go out on Halloween night

When the Cat Moon is big and bright,

It’s a supernatural delight,

Everybody dancing in the moonlight!

…….

Meeting all our ghost friends out tonight,

Watching Baba’s magic broom take flight,

The night is cool, the moon is bright,

Everybody’s dancing in the moonlight!

…….

Dancing in the moonlight!

Everybody’s feeling outta sight!

Ghosts and live dance together for one night!

Everybody’s Dancing in the Moonlight!

Cats across the nation can be seen practicing for Halloween, silhouetted with arched backs against the moonlit sky.

Love the smile on the tree in panel 2!

Thanks, Georgia Dunn; this strip is a fabulous treat (with no tricks at all), just in time for Halloween!

This strip is a complete delight!

Wonderful Wonderful strip

And the best news is Puck seems to have avoided the dreaded Ladybug costume, this year. “But I’m a boy!”

Heh I was just at Disneyland and in my head this song goes with “grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize!” :D

This has to be one of the most supportive comment communities ever. That being said, I’m asking for thoughts and prayers today because my Grandma has just entered hospice after being diagnosed with extremely aggressive, rare cancer. Thanks everyone for any thoughts and or prayers.

Spoopy! Love it!

Halloween, or Hallow’s Eve, or All Hallow’s Eve, is in the Old Religion (pre-Christian, Celtic-Germanic), the festival of Samhain. This is supposed to be the night when the spirit realm and the realm of the living were closest, a night to remember and perhaps meet those who have “passed over” into the spirit realm. It was not necessarily a night of fear and dread, but of reunion and sometimes reconciliation. I think Georgia has captured that perfectly in this strip.

How does the extremely talented and creative Ms. Georgia Dunn come up with such beautifully detailed, love-filled and spirit-lifting masterpieces every single day? So grateful she shares her considerable gifts with the world.

On a related note, here’s a previously-recorded behind-the-scenes look at one of her extras getting ready for this scary sweet night. With a tiny ladybug binky no less!

https://twitter.com/SlenderSherbet/status/1187418652993380352

Spoopy?

LOVE the final Halloween Sunday strip of the year. Always nice to see Tillie.

Y’know, I understand why the story of Millie and Tillie can’t be adapted to the current strip. But, Ms. Dunn, you really should consider turning it into a book.

“Hang on, Spoopy,

Spoopy hang on!

Spoopyness takes place

In the scary part of town

Witch cats and ghost cats, yeah

Cause poofy tails all around

Puck knows it’s only Tillie

And the Admiral, too

Baba, Bea & Golden Mouse

Get ‘spoopy’ with you!

And so we say now….."

Love this strip. Love Georgia’s imagination..dont know how she does this day after day, book after book. Keep up this great work. Cant wait for the 2020 calendar and the new books. You are a treasure

The Green Manalishi With The Two Pronged Crown

The ghost and the pussycat went to play / On a beautiful pea-green field

(Lots of lines I can’t remember off the top of my head)

And they danced by the light of the moon, the moon / They danced by the light of the moon

That’s what came into my head when I saw this strip.

It’s Tillie!!!! My holiday is complete!!

Is there a tune for this? 8’3

Apologies to Classics Iv

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In the cool of the evening

When Lupin’s gettin’ kind of spoopy

Babba Mouse call Beatrix up and ask her If she would like to go with her on a broom ride

First she says no,

She’s got some plans for the night

And then she stops, and says,

All right

Love is kinda crazy with a spooky Tillie cat like you

You always keep me guessin’

I never seem to know where you are floatin’

And if another ghost looks at you

It’s for sure his little eye will be a-winkin

Elvis howls confused, cause he doesn’t know where the Golden Mouse stands

And then she stops, andand stares at himd

Love is kinda crazy with a spooky Tillie cat like you

Tillie!

If you decide someday to stop this little haunt that you’ve been playin’

I’m gonna open my heart, not gonna lock it up tight

Just like a ghost, you’ve been a-hauntin’ my house

So I’ll dance with you

On Halloween!

Love is kinda crazy with a spooky Tillie cat like you

Tillie!

Tillie!

Oh-whoa, all right,

I said Tillie!

Yeah, yeah

I said Tillie!

While I don’t think that this will ever replace the original Peep Toads strip, this one too, is magic.

dancing in the moonlight is never a bad idea! (and OT, there is another feline who enjoys an “impossibly small box” today https://www.gocomics.com/texts-from-mittens/2019/10/27?ct=v&cti=2084216)

Tilly, my favorite ghost cat. She’s a real crackerjack.

It’s early, yet, but perhaps I should put this here.

Loreena McKennit, “All Souls’ Night”

“Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides

Figures dance around and around

To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness

Moving to the pagan sound

Somewhere in a hidden memory

Images float before my eyes

Of fragrant nights of straw and of bonfires

Dancing till the next sunrise

I can see the lights in the distance

Trembling in the dark cloak of night

Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing

A waltz on All Souls Night

Figures of cornstalks bend in the shadows

Held up tall as the flames leap high

The Green Knight holds the holly bush

To mark where the old year passes by

I can see the lights in the distance

Trembling in the dark cloak of night

Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing

A waltz on All Souls Night

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides

Figures dance around and around

To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness

Moving to the pagan sound

Standing on the bridge that crosses

The river that goes out to the sea

The wind is full of a thousand voices

They pass by the bridge and me

I can see the lights in the distance

Trembling in the dark cloak of night

Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing

A waltz on All Souls Night

I can see the lights in the distance

Trembling in the dark cloak of night

Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing

A waltz on All Souls Night"

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I fear not the coming of darkness

for I have seen the dark night fall,

Lights in the distance may guide me onward

when I heed the raven’s call. —Roald Littlemarten

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“The road goes ever on and on

down from the door where it began,

and I must follow, if I can,

pursuing it with weary feet

until it joins some larger way

and wither then, I cannot say.” —J. R. R. Tolkie

TILLIE YAY! I love Tillie, she’s my second favorite character right behind Sophie!

Spoopy? Is that a typo Georgia? That is one of my favorite typos. XD

Elvis?

OMC THE HAPPY MUG

Has no one mentioned Pucky poofage in panel 3, complete with scared robber mouse?

Lupin said “spoopy “

It. Says. Spoopy.

I’m planning in the BCN game’s World 3 you can play as Elvis and Tillie in the attic of the house.

The oldest and the youngest in their pajamas, riding on a broom…Elvis’ full-out howling…and sweet Pucky-pie choosing friendship over fear, along with another magical night scene by Georgia, make this one of her best strips to me.