...cat to survive a trip into space.  Meet Felicette, plucked from the streets of Paris to become Astro Kitty!  (chat de l'espace).  On October 18th, 1963. she went suborbital and did quite well.  So well that 3 months later those goddamn scientists killed her and autopsied her brain.  You would think that at the time Algeria was more important than dispassionate cruelty.  Piloting solo into space makes Felicette anthropomorphic, and the people who killed her animals. On October 24 a second cat was launched but the craft could not be recovered for a day and the kitty died. 'Felicette' is French for 'Little Lady Felix'.   Pauvre chat!  This is one of the other 14 cats used for the program, the picture is too good to ignore. Thanks for nothing, Starcat. Back home. Of course there was nothing to be found by killing her, nothing.  Here she is with the people she loved and trusted. Sorry sons of bitches. (Misérables fils de putes).

  Jingle Jangle Tales # 11, December 1944.  George Carlson. Everything in a Carlson strip is anthropomorphic.  I usually disapprove of talking birds as I don't think they are realistic! https://www.scottedelman.com/2015/01/09/1952-comic-book-ad-promised-to-land-you-a-movie-contract/   Brownwood Bulletin, September 19, 1966    Jingle Jangle Tales # 15, June 1945.  Dave Tendlar.  I assume that every other gag writer in the entire U. S. A. was pinned down by hostile fire on Okinawa. Blanche Seal Hunt (1912–1973) was the creator of the Little Brown Koko series of children stories, which initially appeared monthly in HOUSEHOLD Magazine for more than a decade. In full-length book form, Little Brown Koko titles sold more than 600,000 copies.   ...are white .  The only saving grace to this illustration is that it shows a (Semetic) white father about to stab his blond son to death because God told him to do so , a self negating bit of assumed white supremacy if I ever saw

 This is early Furry comics work, Animal Bite Comics, Everyman Studios, 1979.  I am reprinting one of the stories, without authorization, of course.  This site should be noticed enough to get sued, make my day. Doug Hansen, Editor. This is the most heartfelt tribute to a beloved cat I have ever read.  Scaramouche is a riveting adventure novel published in 1921 by Rafael Sabatini.  The above was drawn in 1978.  I think this is Mr. Hansen in the below link.   http://doughansen-art.com/about

 Benny The Bear and The Polar Twins, Jingle Jangle Comics # 2.  April, 1943 Edited by Stephen Douglas, principle artist George Carlson with other work by Phil Sturm, David Tendlar, and Emanuel Demby.  There are others but the entire crew is hard to find.  Jingle Jangle ran for 42 issues in the 1940's and is now remembered soley because of George Carlson. https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2016/01/george-leonard-carlson.html    June, 1943.  Frederick Stanley    What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? Scotty The Sleuth Hound.  Is it me or does Scotty look familiar? https://www.deviantart.com/bscruffy   Cold, wind, peat, mountains, bagpipes and plaid produces a rugged if craggy breed.  Good to have him inside the tent barking out than outside the tent barking in.    The little blue faced fox thing is getting a well deserved thrashing for trying to steal honey.  Now he is going to be 'a real man'.  The gangleader bee with a distinct Brookl