“Cats in Victory” Fan Art
Here’s some more fantastic fan art from Jandan. These are the dogmen from my short story “Cats in Victory.”
Cats in Victory was a long-running series of mostly unfinished cat vs. dog picture books I did starting at about age 4. I recently rewatched season 1 of Thundercats, which just came out on DVD, and found the show nowhere near as good as I remembered, and I was actually kind of irritated by a lot of the unexamined subtext of the show re: ugly and/or different = evil / mindless deference to authority (especially supernatural authority) / reflexive violence, so I decided to resurrect Cats in Victory, which in its original incarnation was wholly shaped by these messages I absorbed as a kid, and repurpose the fictional world as a critique of some of the values (or lack thereof) of children’s television.
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:28 pm
[...] fiction mag Lightspeed, edited by John Joseph Adams. For more on the origins of the story, read this post here. Basically it’s a response to some of the stuff that bugs me about the Saturday morning [...]
March 5th, 2010 at 9:39 am
[...] include my short story “Cats in Victory.” (For more on the origins of this story see here.) To celebrate, I’ve been kicking it old school with some classic Cats in Victory adventures [...]