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.
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.