Reviewed by Jeanne
I love cats and I like creepy (not horror) so this title was a
natural for me. A young woman named Flora moves into an old mansion with a
supernatural vibe. She soon discovers it’s
occupied by big white marshmallow of a cat who can shapeshift and who likes to
play tricks. That’s pretty much the
setup. There’s no real storyline to it,
though other characters are introduced, such as Oscar, a former schoolmate who
has a crush on Flora. His attempts to
flirt with her are constantly undermined by Creepy cat.
Each page is sort of a vignette, a joke with a visual
punchline usually provided by Creepy Cat. I’ll admit there are some I don’t
get. This is a manga style graphic
novel, and while I have read a few manga I’m not a regular consumer. I tend to get a little confused: I understand
about reading back to front but the dialog always throws me—I read the last
part of a sentence first. I’m also a bit
hampered because I’ve found volume 2 of the series but not volume 1 so I’m a
little hazy on the backstory. (There are four volumes total.) I do understand that Flora needs to keep Creepy
Cat a secret, or else an organization dedicated to investigating Mysterious
Animal Sightings might take him away.
What I’m not hazy on is how much I love this little book. For me, the art is a cross between Charles Addams
and Tim Burton: Flora reminds me of Wednesday.
All the human-ish characters tend to be thin and pale while Creepy Cat
and friends are pudgy round creatures with never-changing smiles. I am besotted. Those faces!
That maddeningly adorable way they cheerfully cause chaos! They enlarge and
fly and split into numerous little cats and do all sorts of strange and enchanting
things. I may not understand all that’s going on but I do know one thing:
I want my own copies of
these books.
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