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My niece checked this out from the library for me (!) and she nailed the recommendation. This is a man who has spent a not insignificant amount of time observing the minutiae of domestic cat behavior, and he translates it to a graphic medium adorably. Super cute.
I should have read this one first! Not incredibly better, but better. I don't own a cat myself so maybe if I did I'd find more of this funny, but my friend's cat does a lot of the stuff Misty does in this one, so definitely more relatable. The looks on the cat's face or how it lunges and bites are adorable in Brown's style.
If you're a cat owner or even just a cat lover you will have observed many of the behaviours Jeffrey Brown documents in this collection of mostly one-page comics about his cat Misty. Even those you haven't consciously noticed before are instantly recognizable. How many of us have admired our cats' ability to contort themselves into all kinds of shapes, or have seen a cat end up skidding down a hallway chasing a toy, or know how it feels to have a cat crawl into your lap when you are at your lowe...
Just about the most fun you can have reading a book. Delightful.
A series of short and clever vignettes that any cat lover will identify with and even dog lovers are sure to get a chuckle from. The simple art style only adds to how smart the observations are.
★ 5.0 Stars ★
Cat Getting Out of a Bag mostly comprises single-page cat-related comics, and is therefore one of Jeffrey Brown's most "accessible" books; it could easily be a gift to a relative or a volume kept on the coffee table. But Bag should not be dismissed as just a "cute cat book." With his felt pen drawings, Brown here has used space and "action words" most inventively - "PURRRRRS" span panels; cats jump through frames; in one comic the onomatopoeia "KTHUMP" shows the path of a bounding feline. Brown
Spot-on, and adorable.
review 1: I adore this book. I am enthralled by the drawn figure of the kitty and also impressed by the authors observations. I want to make a couple of the pages into posters or cards. review 2: i didnt think id read this before. but clearly ive been here before and i am totally just as enthralled! it was hysterical and precious and spot on.
Thank you, Becky! Perfectly describes what it's like to live with a cat, the good, the bad and the adorable.
In general, people tend to be either “dog people” or “cat people.” Jeffrey Brown is clearly a cat person. In “Cat Getting Out Of A Bag And Other Observations,” Brown explores all things feline with a keen eye and a warm heart. Mostly wordless, the book is a series of comics about all the weird things cats do, interspersed with some very lovely and more complex drawings of - you guessed it - cats. Having made his name as a brutally honest autobio cartoonist and now mainly known for his YA comics,...
This was so hilarious, would recommend for anyone who has had a cat before. I definitely recognised all these behaviours!
I like this Jeffrey Brown character. One does not come to him for spectacular art (though the crude style never detracts from the material; just the opposite, in fact), but for the opportunity to see familiar and often overlooked mannerisms and habits depicted within an instantly relatable situation. Here, he proves that his characters needn't be human or at all anthropomorphized to fit seamlessly into his perceptive little universe. Just about every weird thing I've ever seen the various cats i...
Made me smile when I really needed to...just like my cats do.
Now I really want a cat.
Disclaimer: I love Jeffrey Brown.However, the reason I thoroughly enjoyed this is because I have six cats. Every single page contains behaviors I have seen in my own cats time and time again. If you have cats, or if you simply love cats, this book might be for you.
Above this, there's a picture of Gwen in her "Da Cat Queen" shirt that El got for her for her birthday last year. (Eleanor told Liz the idea she had, and Liz designed it based on El's specs. I thought it was a great gift idea, and the shirt is super-cool).Anyway, if you can't see it, join me in shared annoyance of only being able to see pictures in reviews when reading them on a computer instead of phone - which is where we've all been for years, now.I saw this at the library and immediately tho...
It was cute and obviously I love the subject matter, but some of it I just didn't get.
I really don't like Jeffrey Brown most of the time. He's in that school of comix artists who write uncomfortable strips about their uncomfortable lives and always make me feel voyeuristically dirty for reading them. These are the kind of people who, if the comics are to be believed, must go around intentionally screwing up their relationships for the sake of having material. Insecurity, stubbornness, and sheer stupidity bleed off of every panel. Brown's illustrative style is unimpressive as well...
Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations is a primarily a collection of nine-panel cartoon pages which offer daily events in the life of a house cat. This would be things like getting under the fresh sheet when you are flicking it into the air to make the bed or watching birds through a window and giving those odd little grunts because the glass prevents a pounce. The funniest thing for me was to see how universal were the things that I often imagined to be entirely an expression of indiv...
