The quote on that cover is so outrageously fanatical, so utterly devoid of truth (metaphorical and material), the cover art is so crazy… that this cover starts to suggest clinical schizophrenia.
And there are darker, related examples. Just have a look at the sad decline of another cat-fixated artist… whose cat paintings gradually descended into virtually Lovecraftian madness (CAUTION! Disturbing art): http://www.cerebromente.org.br/gallery/gall_leonardo/fig1-a.htm
See? It starts with “harmless” cats in human clothing, and ends with… crawling chaos. You have been warned! Cats are evil! Evilll!!!
[OVERACTING]
Oh sure, try to fool us into believing cats can write with a quill – but you didn’t reckon on the cat writing on the wrong side of the envelope! What a giveaway!
Oddly enough, I am less bothered by the weirdly realistic cat head sticking out of that early English Renaissance outfit than I am by the bizarrely outsized cat’s paws sticking out of the cuffs.
In other words, a cat head stuck on an otherwise human body with human hands does not trouble me. But this … The cat head is so very realistic. Where do those paws come from? Why are they so big? How long are those forelegs? What is the shape of the creature under those clothes?
I keep thinking there’s some kind of otherworldly horror hiding beneath those clothes. It’s only through the greatest of coincidences that its head and one set of it’s pseudopods looks remotely like a kitty.
@Herm: Andre Norton, a major fantasy author, was a woman who took a pseudonym because when she published her first novel in 1934 the feeling was that nobody would buy fantasy written by a woman.
I don’t think she wrote anything about kitty cats.
Cool, thanks Allesandra. I have an old, battered copy of Catseye from somewhere. Probably a candidate for this site, in fact – the cover is very pink… and cattish.
Dang! Someone beat me to posting this, Although I was going to enter all 5 volumes in a go. Yes, there are 5 of these lovely abominations out there. All of them have covers in which a classical portrait has the person replaced with a cat, to variously ludicrous effect. My personal favorite was vol. 3, where the cat is obviously going to a masque…with a cat mask.
In the books’ defense, they aren’t bad collections of short stories featuring cats. All science fiction or fantasy…And there isn’t a single story featuring cat people!! Which is almost unbelievable, but a nice change. Some of the cats talk, though.
There being no cat people, however, makes the covers an even odder choice.
Puts me in mind of my neighbors cat Hieronymouser Bosch. And yes that was his name. Til he was flattened by a mail truck.Silly cat couldn’t read but he was always expecting a postcard.
Other than the font and giant paws, I’m okay with this. But then I wuv kitties.
Norton wrote a classic short story featuring a cat (All Cats Are Gray), and a whole juvenile novel about cat people (Breed to Come). Also several books where a guy has a giant telepathic cat, probably some others. She liked the felines. Google her and you get a photo of her holding a rather handsome tuxedo beastie.
Any clues as to the nature of this “sacred and secret” pact? Does it have anything to do with the sinister feline cabals depicted by Louis Wain in his “normal” period? (see link in A.R.Yngve’s first post). What really sent the man mad? And is there any connection with the Great Mermaid Conspiracy?
Don’t count your kittens before they are scratched…
Before he eats he has to say amousing grace..
You’ll get so many you will have to prepare a …ologue.
If I try hard enough or post a lot more is there a chance one will be funny? (Rhetorical question)
@Alessandra Kelley: I know I’m a little late to the party, but I thought she wrote about very little else BUT cats. That and Native American stand-ins.
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April 20th, 2012 at 9:15 am
The quote on that cover is so outrageously fanatical, so utterly devoid of truth (metaphorical and material), the cover art is so crazy… that this cover starts to suggest clinical schizophrenia.
And there are darker, related examples. Just have a look at the sad decline of another cat-fixated artist… whose cat paintings gradually descended into virtually Lovecraftian madness (CAUTION! Disturbing art):
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/gallery/gall_leonardo/fig1-a.htm
See? It starts with “harmless” cats in human clothing, and ends with… crawling chaos. You have been warned! Cats are evil! Evilll!!!
[OVERACTING]
April 20th, 2012 at 9:42 am
Oh sure, try to fool us into believing cats can write with a quill – but you didn’t reckon on the cat writing on the wrong side of the envelope! What a giveaway!
April 20th, 2012 at 11:14 am
Kind of reminds me of this album cover. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bb/Klaxons-surfing-the-void.jpg/600px-Klaxons-surfing-the-void.jpg
April 20th, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Oddly enough, I am less bothered by the weirdly realistic cat head sticking out of that early English Renaissance outfit than I am by the bizarrely outsized cat’s paws sticking out of the cuffs.
In other words, a cat head stuck on an otherwise human body with human hands does not trouble me. But this … The cat head is so very realistic. Where do those paws come from? Why are they so big? How long are those forelegs? What is the shape of the creature under those clothes?
April 20th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Pigeons, fish, mice: you are not safe. It’s a cat, dammit! Run for your lives!
April 20th, 2012 at 3:27 pm
What about font problems? My eyes are suffering here.
April 20th, 2012 at 4:12 pm
How many chins does he have? Fat cat or what!
April 20th, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Two words: opposable thumbs.
April 20th, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Cat goin’ down with heat stroke in about 5 minutes in that outfit.
April 20th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
How much depth is there in this picture? Doesn’t Kitty rest her head against the shelf?
April 21st, 2012 at 6:45 am
I’m reminded of a Hans Holbein painting. Could it be based on this? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Portrait_of_Georg_Gisze%2C_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg
April 21st, 2012 at 4:19 pm
I keep thinking there’s some kind of otherworldly horror hiding beneath those clothes. It’s only through the greatest of coincidences that its head and one set of it’s pseudopods looks remotely like a kitty.
April 22nd, 2012 at 2:24 am
At the risk of drawing much ire … Kittyspeare asks, “I can haz kwill pen?”
April 22nd, 2012 at 9:04 am
Hans Holbien wants his portrait of a 16th C German merchant back
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holbein,_Hans_-_Georg_Gisze,_a_German_merchant_in_London.jpg
Gods knowing the original painting just makes that monstrosity that much worse – some artist actually sat down and thought that turning Georg Gisze into a cat was a good idea and not a huge case of WTFery
April 23rd, 2012 at 3:57 am
Thank you, i couldn’t remember the name of the painting or the artist Catfantastic was ripping off. It was driving me nuts.
April 23rd, 2012 at 11:19 am
Pretty awesome art homage, actually – but those paws, yeesh.
I think I own another cat-related book by this Andre Norton chap. I’m not surprised. The feline conspurracy runs deep!
April 23rd, 2012 at 12:04 pm
That font has given me a migraine…
April 23rd, 2012 at 12:15 pm
@Herm: Andre Norton, a major fantasy author, was a woman who took a pseudonym because when she published her first novel in 1934 the feeling was that nobody would buy fantasy written by a woman.
I don’t think she wrote anything about kitty cats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton
April 23rd, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Cool, thanks Allesandra. I have an old, battered copy of Catseye from somewhere. Probably a candidate for this site, in fact – the cover is very pink… and cattish.
April 23rd, 2012 at 4:29 pm
*Alessandra. Sorry, I swear that was what I typed.
April 23rd, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Pink? Egads, that’s not even a book about cats.
April 25th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Dang! Someone beat me to posting this, Although I was going to enter all 5 volumes in a go. Yes, there are 5 of these lovely abominations out there. All of them have covers in which a classical portrait has the person replaced with a cat, to variously ludicrous effect. My personal favorite was vol. 3, where the cat is obviously going to a masque…with a cat mask.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0886775914/ref=dp_image_z_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
In the books’ defense, they aren’t bad collections of short stories featuring cats. All science fiction or fantasy…And there isn’t a single story featuring cat people!! Which is almost unbelievable, but a nice change. Some of the cats talk, though.
There being no cat people, however, makes the covers an even odder choice.
April 26th, 2012 at 1:44 pm
@Stevie T – if you think about it, going to a masqued ball as yourself is really a brilliant disguise. “Your cat mask is so life-like!”
April 28th, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Somehow I can’t help imagining the next line of that cover quote must have been something *really* crazy…
October 22nd, 2013 at 5:20 am
Puts me in mind of my neighbors cat Hieronymouser Bosch. And yes that was his name. Til he was flattened by a mail truck.Silly cat couldn’t read but he was always expecting a postcard.
October 22nd, 2013 at 10:10 am
“No, no, I wanted ‘shellfish,’ not something ‘shelf-ish.’ Look, just pop it in the front and be done with it.”
October 31st, 2015 at 7:02 pm
Fat cat Nasti C
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November 17th, 2016 at 1:33 am
The font brought to you by too much catnip.
November 17th, 2016 at 10:55 am
SPAYFANTASTIC
January 6th, 2017 at 4:42 am
Other than the font and giant paws, I’m okay with this. But then I wuv kitties.
Norton wrote a classic short story featuring a cat (All Cats Are Gray), and a whole juvenile novel about cat people (Breed to Come). Also several books where a guy has a giant telepathic cat, probably some others. She liked the felines. Google her and you get a photo of her holding a rather handsome tuxedo beastie.
February 5th, 2017 at 12:17 am
I tawt I taw a puddy tat.
*empties cache, hits refresh*
I did! I did taw a puddy tat!
February 5th, 2017 at 1:41 am
On this site, any random page is liable to get you a puddy tat, or at least a puddy tat person.
February 5th, 2017 at 1:44 am
@GSSyvester ex-noob: Yes, and there’s a conveniently placed hyperlink to test that hypothesis.
February 5th, 2017 at 3:16 am
Not as many as I’d hoped, actually.
Whole lotta cleavage, tho.
February 5th, 2017 at 8:49 am
Any clues as to the nature of this “sacred and secret” pact? Does it have anything to do with the sinister feline cabals depicted by Louis Wain in his “normal” period? (see link in A.R.Yngve’s first post). What really sent the man mad? And is there any connection with the Great Mermaid Conspiracy?
February 5th, 2017 at 5:48 pm
Meh. More like “Catadequate” if you ask me.
February 5th, 2017 at 5:53 pm
@Tom: Well, let me ask you. Do you think that this is more ‘Catfantastic’, ‘Catadequate’ or ‘Catinsufficient’? Take your time. 😉
February 7th, 2017 at 2:29 am
@DSWBT: Well I say it’s catpassable. Cattolerable. Catcompetent.
At least it didn’t leave me catatonic.
February 7th, 2017 at 3:41 am
Cat-equate, as it were.
February 9th, 2017 at 1:10 pm
I suspect that after a brief paws for thought, some truly godwaful puns are about to arrive…
February 10th, 2017 at 5:14 am
Why would you purrdict that?
February 10th, 2017 at 6:12 am
Don’t count your kittens before they are scratched…
Before he eats he has to say amousing grace..
You’ll get so many you will have to prepare a …ologue.
If I try hard enough or post a lot more is there a chance one will be funny? (Rhetorical question)
February 10th, 2017 at 12:07 pm
Well I for one am feline better. Concatulations. This site is pawsome!
May 31st, 2018 at 1:50 am
Shouldn’t this have the “Cats!” tag now that it exists thanks to “Magicats!”
June 1st, 2018 at 9:36 pm
We gato stop making such puns. They should be a feliney offence.
June 2nd, 2018 at 12:03 am
@Tor: Not nekorarily.
June 2nd, 2018 at 5:45 am
@GSS ex-noob, Tor et al: enough of this chat.
June 2nd, 2018 at 7:46 am
@GGGxN: Well, if not a feliney, then at least a misdemeow.
October 13th, 2019 at 3:38 am
@Alessandra Kelley: I know I’m a little late to the party, but I thought she wrote about very little else BUT cats. That and Native American stand-ins.