{"id":32422,"date":"2025-03-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=32422"},"modified":"2025-03-13T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:06:06","slug":"madame-cat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/03\/13\/madame-cat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Nancy Pe<\/strong>\u00f1a<\/strong>, translated by Mark Bence<\/strong> (Life Drawn\/Humanoids)
\nISBN: 978-1-59465- 813-6 (Album PB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

Churlish men have joked about women with cats for eternity. Here\u2019s a superbly irrepressible cartoon collection BY<\/em> <\/strong>a woman about her own cat. It\u2019s hilarious, extremely addictive and among the top five strips about feline companions ever. Laugh that off, guys…<\/p>\n

Toulouse-born Nancy Pe\u00f1a 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>, Le Chat du kimono<\/em><\/strong> and many more. She also illustrates books such as the award winning Les Guerriers de glace<\/em><\/strong>, Quelle \u00e9pique \u00e9poque opaque!<\/em><\/strong> or Oh P\u00e9n\u00e9lope<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hectic as all that sounds, she still found time to invite a companion animal to share her life\u2026 by which I mean a cat not a man. He\u2019s just there for shelves, jar lids and sarcasm…
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\nMadame<\/em> is a cute little kitty who shares Pe\u00f1a\u2019s place and converses with her. The be-whiskered treasure (Madame, right?) has a remarkably vivid interior life – probably swiped from any number of deranged mad scientists and would-be world conquerors – and is the mischievous stuff of nightmares all those of us legally responsible for a pet know and dread. There is nothing the tiny tyke won\u2019t attempt, from drinking artists ink to exorcising the artist\u2019s 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…<\/p>\n

The engaging bombshell bursts of manic mirth are rendered in engaging duotone (black & blue, but I\u2019m sure that\u2019s not symbolic of anything) with titles such as \u2018Madame flirts\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Madame suggests\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Madame insists\u2019<\/em> and \u2018Madame smells\u2019<\/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 gives in return permission to be adored. Every cat person alive will identify with that.
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\nThere are four collections to date but only the first is available in English editions, but Madame<\/strong> Cat<\/strong> is a sparking example of domestic comedy and will surely find someone to continue the translations. Conversely you can catch new adventures every week at the website of newspaper Le Monde<\/em><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

Mixing recognisably real events with potent imagination and debilitating whimsy, Pe\u00f1a has devised a classic cartoon character who is charming, appalling and laugh-out-loud funny. If you\u2019ve been thinking of getting a cat, along with all the medical and pet-care books, get this too. You won\u2019t be sorry. Well, not with the book, at least…
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\n\u201cMadame\u201d \u00a9 2015-2016 La La Bo\u00eete \u00e0 bulles & Nancy Pe\u00f1a. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Nancy Pe\u00f1a, translated by Mark Bence (Life Drawn\/Humanoids) ISBN: 978-1-59465- 813-6 (Album PB\/Digital edition) Churlish men have joked about women with cats for eternity. Here\u2019s a superbly irrepressible cartoon collection BY a woman about her own cat. It\u2019s hilarious, extremely addictive and among the top five strips about feline companions ever. Laugh that off, … <\/p>\n

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