Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft’s interest in our fascinating felines.

This week, a panel of Lovecraft’s trans-lunar leaping Ulthar cat-army from “The Language of Cats” by Nicole Claveloux. The two-page strip appeared in Heavy Metal magazine’s Lovecraft special-issue in October 1979. I see the Heavy Metal online shop still appears to be shipping paper copies of that issue, though I’d guess they might perhaps be reprints rather than 1979 originals.

“The Language of Cats” is not in the fine new The Green Hand and Other Stories collection of Claveloux’s scarcer work. Hopefully the “Cats” strip can eventually be properly re-published in crisp scans, alongside the long masterpiece “Off Season” by Zha and Claveloux (which also appeared in English in Heavy Metal). And ideally without the colourisation which bedevils reprints of older b&w line-art comics these days.