by John | Sep 8, 2013 | Uncategorized

Original art from Ten-Story Love #196, 1954. Artist unknown.
If you’d like to read the entire original romance story in all it’s wildly sexist, cat-dissing glory, it’s here.
↓ TranscriptWOMAN: Someone peed in my shoe!
CAT: You mean…besides me?
Artist Unknown Restoration & Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
©2013 Last Kiss Inc
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by John | Jul 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
I wrote this gag for the “pet issue” of The Dayton City Paper—which runs Last Kiss every week. Yes, I do requests—occasionally. And this one was a bit of a challenge. Romance doggy style!
Below is the original romance art…which is at least as strange as the version I did!

↓ TranscriptSCENE: A dog is sitting next to a man and a woman who are on a park bench.
DOG (thinking): Too much talk! When’s he going to sniff her butt?
Color by Dan McConnell
by John | Jan 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
↓ TranscriptWOMAN #1: His mom loves me! His boss loves me! Even his cat loves me!
WOMAN #2: Now if only you can convince him...that he loves you!
by John | Sep 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
You’ll never sleep alone if you have a dog!
↓ TranscriptSCENE: A man is holding a woman from behind her back. She looks back at him in distress.
MAN: I need love!
WOMAN: Buy a dog!
Art by Charles Nicholas & Vince Alascia Color by Allen Freeman
by John | Aug 5, 2010 | Blog

Worship me or I'll crush you!
Many thanks to everyone who saw my recent post about my cat Cous Cous and commented here or on Facebook about how beautiful/adorable/magnificent she is.
For those of you who expressed concern about her size. Well…
She’s not quite as heavy as she looks. She weighs 15 pounds (down two pounds from a couple of years ago) and she could probably stand to lose another pound. But according to our vet she isn’t actually obese.
She’s almost certainly part Maine Coon and those cats are huge. Bigger than some dogs. Smaller than your average tractor trailer.