{"id":21789,"date":"2020-03-13T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=21789"},"modified":"2020-03-12T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T17:11:37","slug":"madame-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2020\/03\/13\/madame-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Nancy Pe\u00c3\u00b1a<\/strong>, translated by Mark Bence<\/strong> (Life Drawn\/Humanoids)
\nISBN: 978-1-59465- 813-6 (PB Album)<\/p>\n

Churlish men have joked about women with cats for eternity. Here’s a superbly irrepressible cartoon collection BY<\/em> a woman about her own cat. It’s hilarious, extremely addictive and among the top five strips about feline companions ever. Laugh that off, guys\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Toulouse-born Nancy Pe\u00c3\u00b1a probably caught the comics bug off her father: a dedicated comics collector. She studied Applied Arts and became a teacher while carving out a sideline as a prolific creator of magazine strips and graphic novels such as her Medea<\/strong> series, Le Cabinet Chinois<\/em><\/strong>, Mamohtobo<\/em><\/strong> and many more.<\/p>\n

Hectic as all that sounds, she still found time to invite a companion animal to share her life\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Madame<\/em> is a cute little kitty who shares her house and converses with her. The bewhiskered treasure (Madame, right) has a vivid interior life – probably swiped from a number of deranged mad scientists and would-be world conquerors – and is the mischievous stuff of nightmares all those legally responsible for a pet know and dread. There is nothing the tiny tyke won’t attempt, from drinking artists ink to exorcising the artist’s long-suffering and utterly unwelcome boyfriend.<\/p>\n

Madame knows what she is and what she wants and will baulk at nothing – not even the laws of physics – to achieve her aims\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

The engaging bombshell bursts of manic mirth are rendered in engaging duotone (black and blue, but I’m sure that’s not symbolic of anything) with titles such as ‘Madame flirts’<\/em>, ‘Madame suggests’<\/em>, ‘Madame insists’<\/em>, and ‘Madame smells’<\/em> as the wee beast moves in, makes allies of the other felines in the area and promptly takes charge: wrecking the life and house of her carer and only giving in return permission to be adored. Every cat person alive will identify with that\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Available in paperback and digital editions, Madame<\/strong> Cat<\/strong> is a sparking example of domestic comedy. Mixing recognisably real events with potent imagination and debilitating whimsy, Pe\u00c3\u00b1a has introduced a classic cartoon character who is charming, appalling and laugh-out-loud funny. If you’ve been thinking of getting a cat, along with all the medical and pet-care books, get this too. You won’t be sorry. Well, not with the book, at least\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Madame\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a9 2015-2016 La Bo\u00c3\u00aete \u00c3\u00a0 Bulles & Nancy Pe\u00c3\u00b1a. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Nancy Pe\u00c3\u00b1a, translated by Mark Bence (Life Drawn\/Humanoids) ISBN: 978-1-59465- 813-6 (PB Album) Churlish men have joked about women with cats for eternity. Here’s a superbly irrepressible cartoon collection BY a woman about her own cat. It’s hilarious, extremely addictive and among the top five strips about feline companions ever. Laugh that off, guys\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 … <\/p>\n

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