{"id":30233,"date":"2019-09-03T05:09:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T02:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=30233"},"modified":"2019-09-03T05:09:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T02:09:44","slug":"kittee-tuesday-clavelouxs-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/03\/kittee-tuesday-clavelouxs-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Kittee Tuesday: Claveloux’s Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s interest in our fascinating felines.<\/p>\n

This week, a panel of Lovecraft’s trans-lunar leaping Ulthar cat-army from \u201cThe Language of Cats\u201d by Nicole Claveloux<\/a>. The two-page strip appeared in Heavy Metal<\/em> magazine’s Lovecraft special-issue in October 1979<\/a>. I see the Heavy Metal<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Language of Cats\u201d is not in the fine new The Green Hand and Other Stories<\/a><\/em> collection of Claveloux’s scarcer work. Hopefully the “Cats” strip can eventually be properly re-published in crisp scans, alongside the long masterpiece \u201cOff Season\u201d by Zha and Claveloux (which also appeared in English in Heavy Metal<\/em>). And ideally without the colourisation which bedevils reprints of older b&w line-art comics these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s interest in our fascinating felines. This week, a panel of Lovecraft’s trans-lunar leaping Ulthar cat-army from \u201cThe …<\/p>\n

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