Four Cats Have Their Relatable Story Told By UK Artist
If you could tell the story of your life with cats (and maybe another human, but mostly the cats), wouldn't you want to share that story? Would you also share your cats' stories with the world?
Sarah Graley, an artist from the UK, creates comics about everyday life with her fiancé, Stef, and their four cats: Pesto and Toby, sisters born in 2013, and Pixel and Wilson, Pesto's kittens.
A life with four cats is never dull, and these cats provide plenty of inspiration for her comics. Sarah says that her biggest inspiration, however, is Stef. They've been engaged for ten years now and enjoy every minute they spend together.
If you're as obsessed with cats as we suspect you are, that may be hard to believe. But that's okay because Sarah's comics are indeed about her fiancé and her cats.
She publishes her cat comic work on her social networks and has released comics such as "Our Super Adventure: Press Start To Begin," the "Our Super Adventure" collection, and "Video Games and Pizza Parties," which was funded by Kickstarter.
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3. Astronaut Kitty? Yes.
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5. Cats DO take up a lot of bed space.
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"I’ve always enjoyed drawing and telling stories, and comics are the perfect combination of those things! I went to university in the UK to study illustration, but my course wasn’t amazing. It did give me the time to work on comics alongside my studies, though, and Our Super Adventure was one of the things that came out of that time! Shortly after that, I created a fictional comic called Pizza Witch and posted it online, which eventually led to an editor from Oni Press getting in touch and asking if I’d like to try making a Rick and Morty comic," Sarah says.
7. Do you think the cats heard him?
Sarah says that the pandemic and the lockdowns changed the way they live and work. "It’s been a weird year! We feel lucky to have each other, as we haven’t really left the house much at all! We miss seeing our families—there are nephews and nieces on both sides that we haven’t seen in ages! We also miss comic conventions a lot; we normally attend around ten a year, and we love getting to meet fans of the comics! When everyone is vaccinated and things are safer, we’ll be excited to see them happen again! We did start streaming a lot during lockdown, though; that’s been a really nice way to connect with people who like our comics and want to see us being bad at video games or drawing funny stuff."
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Sarah and Stef have been quite busy in the months behind us: "We’ve been writing a Spider-Man comic series for IDW! It’s called Marvel Action Spider-Man, and the first issue will be available in comic shops around the end of March! Stef and I wrote the story, and an incredible artist named Phil Murphy illustrated it! We’re also still creating Our Super Adventure comics on a weekly basis and are writing, drawing, and lettering secret projects!" So keep your eye out, as it's already March. We can't wait to see what this fantastic couple has come up with.
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13. "Cover me in cats" is my new life motto.
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15. Delicious Cinnamon Roll Cat
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19. Do your cats miss you when you're away?
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23. Kitty Fluff: Majestic
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