This one is a keeper! I love all the groupings, but Beatrix dozing while Trevor reads—smart phone at her side—is so sweet! Christmas is for children and kittens and mice and puppies of all ages. Thank you for the beautiful Christmas card, Georgia!
I was introduced to a ‘new’ Christmas song today. So… I can imagine all our favorite Cats (and friends!) singing it. Please go check out “Thank God It’s Christmas” by Queen (written by Roger Taylor / Brian May and sung by Freddie Mercury). It seemed to fit so well with this year!!
Hello Orbsters! Just checking in with a couple of updates. We had a little excitement at our mall shortly after Santa left for the evening on Thursday night … and by “a little excitement” I mean “a gang member saw a member of another gang outside of Macy’s and fired five shots at him.” Story here: https://www.wral.com/police-one-wounded-when-two-people-exchanged-gunfire-in-crabtree-valley-mall/19434825/
On the positive side, it’s meant a lot more security the last two days. And this weekend has been insanely busy thus far – 300 visits over the past two days, up from around 50-60 per day. I get to pick up a couple of extra shifts this week, too, as a fellow elf, age 16, was in the mall for all the excitement and her parents are understandably a little nervous about her facing that possibility again for $8.00 per hour. (Actually, I learned today that all of us have separately made a plan for what to do in that situation. Such is the state of our world.)
In happier news, I have an interview on Monday for a possible promotion, one that is set up for me to work from home permanently, not that nine straight months with at least three more planned hasn’t felt permanent at times. Will keep you all posted.
This one has it all. The artwork is so beautiful, it glows. I love seeing all of the BCN world’s furbabies here, especially Tabitha and Sir Figaro. These days, we don’t get to see them as often. :)
I’m sitting here, drinking my morning catfeinated coffee from my “Joys of Reading” BCN mug and, as a ::mumble, mumble:: birthday present, just got a notice from Zazzle that my “BCW” mug is ready for the courier to pick up. Life is pretty good. ☺
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to everyone at the Station and the Orb at Breaking Cat News. May your celebrations be everything you want them to be. I get a gift every morning, seeing Georgia’s strip and reading all of you.
This strip so warms my heart. I keep going back and noticing more and more details, little touches (some brought to my attention by other readers). It’s beautiful, and perfect! Cat bless us everyone!
Thanks so much for the lovely holiday card, Georgia … and thanks as well for making a very difficult year a lot brighter with your art, your good humor, and the wonderful community that has gathered around the BCN gang.
Happy Holidays to everyone in the Orb, and may the year to come be brighter and filled with more joy than this one has taken away.
I spy Buzzy Mouse! Love love love Sir Fig’s plaid pants. And Baba Mouse’s plaid nightgown which matches Burt’s plaid pants! (Plaid is my favorite color, and I love the way Miss Georgia paints plaids).
Hello Orbsters! Asking for some extra thoughts through this Christmas season. My little girl Sakika had a mini heart attack Saturday. I spent a very cold night sitting in the parking lot of the emergency vet clinic. After three hours of waiting she was released back to the loving arms of her mom. She is now on special medication and I am watching her and counting her breaths as our wonderful vet taught me. She is fourteen years old but except for her little heart she is as healthy as a puppy. So any happy thoughts are so appreciated.
Georgia, thank you so much for another year of daily bright spots. I look forward every day to BCN and I’m never disappointed. Today’s strip is a beautiful Christmas card. Wishing you, Ryan, the Boy and Girl, and Elvis, Lupin, Puck and Goldie a very Merry Christmas and a very happy year to come!
We get our Sunday paper on Saturday so I was thinking about advising the Orb to have a hankie ready. I see I’m not the only one who cut it out and added it to their holiday displays, and eagerly awaiting the calendar.. ❤️ everyone’s comments and wishing the best to the Orb, the BCN crew and creators.
Merry Christmas to the Orb and Georgia, thank you for a year of bringing us joy during these dark days! Wishes to everyone that 2021 will be be much improved over 2020.
Ack! I couldn’t remember everyone’s names! (I blame exams. Bad for the brain.) Had to go review them in the About tab which leads me to point out that Beatrix still hasn’t been added to the cast of characters! Also, someone remind me which is which of the robber mice? Say left to right?
Sacagawea Day: Honoring the Shoshone woman to whom the U.S. owes a great deal. Without her and Charbonneau’s aid, the Corps of Discovery Expedition of Lewis and Clark would not have been as successful as it was. Indeed, it may have failed entirely.
Cathode Ray Tube Day: On which we celebrate the demise of these leviathans of waste heat. The only ones unhappy about their passing are, of course cats, who have always considered them belly warmers par excellence.
Go Caroling Day: I have never lived anywhere that caroling was done. A good custom, but this year may have put an end to it. However, we still have this prospect: https://www.zazzle.com/here_we_come_a_yowling_ornament-175228316428090088 which should satisfy any and all desires for music and fellowship. Wassail! Wacht Heil!
National Sangria Day: After such a lovely serenade, a LARGE glass of hot sangria is recommended. Trink Heil!
Merry Christmas to all! Yes, even if you don’t celebrate, I wish you joy. Seriously, I travel all over the world and have joined in with Jewish, Hindu, Islamic and Buddhist celebrations and various other national and religious festivals I don’t even remember the name of, and I can’t understand why people are offended when someone wishes them good things. I have always been grateful for experiences, even a few of the more scary ones.
If you feel you can’t bring yourself to share the happiness of others, at least don’t be offended if others are kind enough to invite you to join in. You don’t have to convert to a different religion to share well wishes and celebrations.
Most of us have celebrated other people’s birthdays many a time. I was wishing them well and sharing fun, not somehow becoming involved in their birth.
Beautiful Christmas card and all the best to everyone at this time of the year. That being said, I have to say that I just can’t handle any more. ‘Unhand me you mess’. I know that is from yesterday’s strip but I just can’t stop giggling about it. How does it look to have a perfectly sane, [sometimes] sensible person wandering around laughing like that? I tell you it is not dignified. But I love it and intend to steal it.Ok, I now return you to todays excellent comic.
Love this so much! Thank you, Georgia, for the amazing world of BCN, and thank you to the wonderful community known as the Orb which has formed in response to it. Merry Christmas to all! ♥
Le'letha Premium Member about 4 years ago
And to you as well, Georgia & family, and to everyone here.
DorseyBelle about 4 years ago
It’s a beautiful card!! All the beloved kitties and their mice and dog friends. Squeeee and awwww!
kgornick Premium Member about 4 years ago
Matching jammies for all! Thank you Georgia for a gorgeous card, and all the love and laughter this year.
AllishaDawn about 4 years ago
O.M.C.!! That is SO cute!!! Such a lovely family.
Strob about 4 years ago
She must have asked the robber mice to ‘say cheese.’ :-)
And my favorite part is seeing Beatrix so happy, safe and warm.
Sue Ellen about 4 years ago
This one is a keeper! I love all the groupings, but Beatrix dozing while Trevor reads—smart phone at her side—is so sweet! Christmas is for children and kittens and mice and puppies of all ages. Thank you for the beautiful Christmas card, Georgia!
marilynnbyerly about 4 years ago
And the Tommybaum returns!
DennisinSeattle about 4 years ago
OMC, this is the best Christmas card I will get this year!
I Mad Am I about 4 years ago
I was introduced to a ‘new’ Christmas song today. So… I can imagine all our favorite Cats (and friends!) singing it. Please go check out “Thank God It’s Christmas” by Queen (written by Roger Taylor / Brian May and sung by Freddie Mercury). It seemed to fit so well with this year!!
Gent about 4 years ago
Since the sentence has been left incomplete, let me complete it for you.
Merry, cozy, happy, safe, and sound Feed The Bear Delicious Cakes Day.
Okay, folks. I’m waiting. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
deadheadzan about 4 years ago
Beautiful, beautiful card. Thanks, Georgia. I love Tommy in his long Johns!
catmom1360 about 4 years ago
Merry Christmas to Georgia and her family. Thank you for bringing happiness, joy and fun into our lives during this most horrible of years.
TampaFanatic1 about 4 years ago
Wonderful card, everyone looks so peaceful and cozy!
skipper1992 about 4 years ago
Hello Orbsters! Just checking in with a couple of updates. We had a little excitement at our mall shortly after Santa left for the evening on Thursday night … and by “a little excitement” I mean “a gang member saw a member of another gang outside of Macy’s and fired five shots at him.” Story here: https://www.wral.com/police-one-wounded-when-two-people-exchanged-gunfire-in-crabtree-valley-mall/19434825/
On the positive side, it’s meant a lot more security the last two days. And this weekend has been insanely busy thus far – 300 visits over the past two days, up from around 50-60 per day. I get to pick up a couple of extra shifts this week, too, as a fellow elf, age 16, was in the mall for all the excitement and her parents are understandably a little nervous about her facing that possibility again for $8.00 per hour. (Actually, I learned today that all of us have separately made a plan for what to do in that situation. Such is the state of our world.)
In happier news, I have an interview on Monday for a possible promotion, one that is set up for me to work from home permanently, not that nine straight months with at least three more planned hasn’t felt permanent at times. Will keep you all posted.
catmom1360 about 4 years ago
Puck and Lupin have the same jammies and Elvis the same pj pants – can just see them in their clothes closet choosing which ones to wear.
WelshRat Premium Member about 4 years ago
Same to you. Love Bea’s booties.
Jungle Empress about 4 years ago
So. Many. Jammies. I especially love Bea’s!
222jo about 4 years ago
Happy Holidays to Georgia and all the orbsters. Stay safe xx
andycat Premium Member about 4 years ago
And to you and yours.
Lady Bri about 4 years ago
This one has it all. The artwork is so beautiful, it glows. I love seeing all of the BCN world’s furbabies here, especially Tabitha and Sir Figaro. These days, we don’t get to see them as often. :)
cat19632001 about 4 years ago
Oh, look at Tabitha’s sleep mask.
Felines Navidad to her and Sir Figaro.
cat19632001 about 4 years ago
Lupin toe beans!
cat19632001 about 4 years ago
I’m sitting here, drinking my morning catfeinated coffee from my “Joys of Reading” BCN mug and, as a ::mumble, mumble:: birthday present, just got a notice from Zazzle that my “BCW” mug is ready for the courier to pick up. Life is pretty good. ☺
arolarson Premium Member about 4 years ago
Have a peaceful and safe holiday everyone!
arolarson Premium Member about 4 years ago
Latest Installment from Georgia
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJAgZpPpwdO/?igshid=cjgt4f5a250a
Just got word mine is ready to ship, Yea!
Tigrisan Premium Member about 4 years ago
This is the perfect Christmas card! Thank you, Georgia, and Merry Christmas to you and yours and to everyone in this wonderful ‘catmmunity’ :)
Super Fly about 4 years ago
Thanks for all the cat comics! Happy(er) New Year? Yes!
drmickeyg about 4 years ago
Christmas wishes to Georgia and family and to all the commenters here: “May your days be merry and bright!”
SunflowerGirl100 about 4 years ago
Happy Holidays to All!!!
Santana about 4 years ago
To you and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May cats and dogs surround you
At Christmas time and all the whole year through
I’m looking at an e-card with four softly singing mice
That warms me in the early morning light
They got tiny song books before them, hummin’ a beautiful sound
Cool jams they’re a-puttin’ down, all around
On the cats, and the dog, and the Tommybaum
And I’m hopin’ next year’s better and we’re no longer feelin’ dread
A Christmas wish to all you folks with love
So let Nat, Agnes, and Violet bring it
With sweet Alice, c’mon let’s sing it
Especially with you, with you-oo-oo-oo-you-oo-oo
To Goldie, Lupin, Elvis, Pucky, your family & good friends
May all you cats be happy with a joy that never ends
May treats and love surround you
At Christmas time and all the whole year through
May your life be filled with fun times, may your every wish come true
May you find the simple pleasures in everything you do
May your days be blessed with the very, very best
Both now and the whole year through
We sing it in our Christmas card to
You and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
At Christmas time and all the whole year through
❤️ Thanks so much for all the warmth and laughter ❤️ *[Tony Romeo – My Christmas Card to You (Partridge Family)]
David Jones Premium Member about 4 years ago
The absolute Merriest of Christmas cards. Thank you, Georgia.
rs0204 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to everyone at the Station and the Orb at Breaking Cat News. May your celebrations be everything you want them to be. I get a gift every morning, seeing Georgia’s strip and reading all of you.
Sincerely, RS.
artchick530 about 4 years ago
This strip so warms my heart. I keep going back and noticing more and more details, little touches (some brought to my attention by other readers). It’s beautiful, and perfect! Cat bless us everyone!
morningglory73 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Thank you Georgia for all your adorable drawings.
diskus Premium Member about 4 years ago
Best holiday wishes to all!
Kitty Katz about 4 years ago
From A Charlie Brown Christmas: Christmas Time is Here
Christmas time is here
Catnip and good cheer
Fun for all that kitties call
Their favorite time of the year
Snowflakes in the air
Fuzzy blankets there
Books to read, and Tommy trees
That seem so real we swear,
Quiet in the air
Nap time everywhere
Yuletide by the fireside
And food enough to share
Christmas time is here
Georgia’s drawings near
Oh, that we can always see
Our cat friends through the year
Bucinka about 4 years ago
This is beautiful artwork. Keepsake-worthy!
lsnielson about 4 years ago
Happy Holidays to all. May they be merry and bright and all you wish for.
Solarbear Premium Member about 4 years ago
Happy holidays all! With love from me and my new chihuahua/whippet mix, Bucky.
So grateful to have a new dog for Christmas!
Font Lady Premium Member about 4 years ago
Reboot has taken to hugging my arm while he sleeps. He wraps all four legs around my arm and actually squeezes.
Hooligan918 about 4 years ago
Sweet!
ladykat about 4 years ago
Georgia, what a lovely card! Let’s hope that 2021 is a better year for all of us.
GSD Mom Premium Member about 4 years ago
Thanks so much for the lovely holiday card, Georgia … and thanks as well for making a very difficult year a lot brighter with your art, your good humor, and the wonderful community that has gathered around the BCN gang.
Happy Holidays to everyone in the Orb, and may the year to come be brighter and filled with more joy than this one has taken away.
azevedan about 4 years ago
Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays / Hopeful New Year
BluebelleCat about 4 years ago
Georgia, if you should decide to start making Christmas Cards, may I suggest you begin with this! Absolutely beautiful and precious!
booksandtea about 4 years ago
Ugh, Tommy and Sophie are too cute.
Casey Jones about 4 years ago
Is it me, or is the Elvis Abiding?
hfelder7219 about 4 years ago
I think this is my all-time favorite strip! And there have been many great ones!
DorseyBelle about 4 years ago
I spy Buzzy Mouse! Love love love Sir Fig’s plaid pants. And Baba Mouse’s plaid nightgown which matches Burt’s plaid pants! (Plaid is my favorite color, and I love the way Miss Georgia paints plaids).
mistercatworks about 4 years ago
Thank you. Now I have my temporary Christmas poster. (Already ordered my BCN calendar.) Merry Christmas to all.
My own original Christmas card:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9fnchlj915gzaqb/Merry%20Christmas%20to%20all%202010.jpg?dl=0
mcbridges_2000 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Merry Christmas. Thank you for the wonderful stories.
PommieMommie about 4 years ago
Hello Orbsters! Asking for some extra thoughts through this Christmas season. My little girl Sakika had a mini heart attack Saturday. I spent a very cold night sitting in the parking lot of the emergency vet clinic. After three hours of waiting she was released back to the loving arms of her mom. She is now on special medication and I am watching her and counting her breaths as our wonderful vet taught me. She is fourteen years old but except for her little heart she is as healthy as a puppy. So any happy thoughts are so appreciated.
azkfwecho Premium Member about 4 years ago
I just wish I could click on the heart more than once for this panel!
anomalous4 about 4 years ago
What? No one’s called Sunday Funday yet??? Well, here it is, starting with a collection of Tommybaums from Georgia’s Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CI864Avptz3/
I leave it to my fellow Orbsters to supply the dad jokes & other bad jokes… 8-D
anomalous4 about 4 years ago
OT: COVID cooties
xsintricks about 4 years ago
Merry Christmas Georgia, Ryan, and Family.
chuckydoodle about 4 years ago
Happy and Healthy Holidays to one and all. Thank you Georgia for your WONDERFUL work throughout the year
Catmom about 4 years ago
Georgia, thank you so much for another year of daily bright spots. I look forward every day to BCN and I’m never disappointed. Today’s strip is a beautiful Christmas card. Wishing you, Ryan, the Boy and Girl, and Elvis, Lupin, Puck and Goldie a very Merry Christmas and a very happy year to come!
Joan Tinnin Premium Member about 4 years ago
Merry Christmas and a much better year to come to you, Ms Georgia, and yours. Love your artistry so much
Zoomer&Yeti about 4 years ago
OMC. This is just beautiful.
Merry Christmas, Georgia and Family!
Cat food server about 4 years ago
We get our Sunday paper on Saturday so I was thinking about advising the Orb to have a hankie ready. I see I’m not the only one who cut it out and added it to their holiday displays, and eagerly awaiting the calendar.. ❤️ everyone’s comments and wishing the best to the Orb, the BCN crew and creators.
LucyLuLu about 4 years ago
Merry Christmas to the Orb and Georgia, thank you for a year of bringing us joy during these dark days! Wishes to everyone that 2021 will be be much improved over 2020.
La Gata Loca about 4 years ago
Ack! I couldn’t remember everyone’s names! (I blame exams. Bad for the brain.) Had to go review them in the About tab which leads me to point out that Beatrix still hasn’t been added to the cast of characters! Also, someone remind me which is which of the robber mice? Say left to right?
cemunsey Premium Member about 4 years ago
Is that the tiniest, cutest little Bea tail sticking out in front of her left foot?! Squeeeee worthy for sure!
KL about 4 years ago
So beautiful and touching! Thank you, Georgia. I wish you a lovely holiday too, and the same to all my fellow BCN fans.
scaeva Premium Member about 4 years ago
Today is:
Sacagawea Day: Honoring the Shoshone woman to whom the U.S. owes a great deal. Without her and Charbonneau’s aid, the Corps of Discovery Expedition of Lewis and Clark would not have been as successful as it was. Indeed, it may have failed entirely.
Cathode Ray Tube Day: On which we celebrate the demise of these leviathans of waste heat. The only ones unhappy about their passing are, of course cats, who have always considered them belly warmers par excellence.
Go Caroling Day: I have never lived anywhere that caroling was done. A good custom, but this year may have put an end to it. However, we still have this prospect: https://www.zazzle.com/here_we_come_a_yowling_ornament-175228316428090088 which should satisfy any and all desires for music and fellowship. Wassail! Wacht Heil!
National Sangria Day: After such a lovely serenade, a LARGE glass of hot sangria is recommended. Trink Heil!
RonBerg13 Premium Member about 4 years ago
and to you also…
maggijoseph Premium Member about 4 years ago
My favorite of all is Bea snugly asleep with Trevor at her back.
scaeva Premium Member about 4 years ago
May you always have the same, Georgia!
JLChi about 4 years ago
Merry Christmas to all! Yes, even if you don’t celebrate, I wish you joy. Seriously, I travel all over the world and have joined in with Jewish, Hindu, Islamic and Buddhist celebrations and various other national and religious festivals I don’t even remember the name of, and I can’t understand why people are offended when someone wishes them good things. I have always been grateful for experiences, even a few of the more scary ones.
If you feel you can’t bring yourself to share the happiness of others, at least don’t be offended if others are kind enough to invite you to join in. You don’t have to convert to a different religion to share well wishes and celebrations.
Most of us have celebrated other people’s birthdays many a time. I was wishing them well and sharing fun, not somehow becoming involved in their birth.
KJM15 about 4 years ago
Beautiful! Merry Christmas to you and yours, from Rhode Island, Georgia!
serenasakitty about 4 years ago
Beautiful Christmas card and all the best to everyone at this time of the year. That being said, I have to say that I just can’t handle any more. ‘Unhand me you mess’. I know that is from yesterday’s strip but I just can’t stop giggling about it. How does it look to have a perfectly sane, [sometimes] sensible person wandering around laughing like that? I tell you it is not dignified. But I love it and intend to steal it.Ok, I now return you to todays excellent comic.
knight1192a about 4 years ago
Just realized what’s missing. Needs Tillie to be purrfect.
willie_mctell about 4 years ago
Glad to see that Beatrix and Trevor are warm and safe.
about 4 years ago
This is simply beautiful. Nicely done, Georgia!
asrialfeeple about 4 years ago
Thank you so much for that ubercute card, Georgia! Hope you, yours and the rest of the Orb have a purrfect Christmas.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d6/27/18/d627184968209f13128bba4f53ee219b.jpg
jwarrenphd about 4 years ago
And a very Merry Christmas back to you, your family and all the kitties Georgia!
C and O 2666 about 4 years ago
This year more than ever, make sure your Hope, Peace, Love and Joy shine through. [Imagine Rudolph wearing a mask with his nose glowing through it.]
cat19632001 about 4 years ago
Goldie looks so happy with her new family and lovely in her pretty pink nightgown.
arolarson Premium Member about 4 years ago
And Cat bless us everyone!
Mountaingreenery about 4 years ago
This is so lovely. That beautiful seasonal glow, and everyone happy and in their cosies. <3
piwismom about 4 years ago
Love this so much! Thank you, Georgia, for the amazing world of BCN, and thank you to the wonderful community known as the Orb which has formed in response to it. Merry Christmas to all! ♥
jemelvin about 4 years ago
Wonderful matching jammies! Now if only my four would go along with the idea…sigh.