The Catgirl Island Mews & Announcements for January, 2009
Aloha and Happy Mew Year, y'all! Goodness where did 2008 go Things stay busy on Catgirl Island with so many festivities, activities, and catnaps, nya. While the outer banks weather is still mild enough for bikini time, the nippier mid Atlantic breeze is known to bring the ghosts out of the maritime forest. If one is not careful on a night walk to see the ghost lights & fox fire, her tail might get pulled by a spooky tree, nya! But the mysterious night walks are hard to resist, as catgirls are curious, with eyes wide and ears purrked while purrowling for those things to pounce upon.
Special observances of the month include Mew Years Day, Ume (Apricot) Festival, Snow Festival, and Martin Luthor King Day. Among the numerous sporting events are the basketball, billiards, climbing, cricket, cycling, dancing, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, kites, martial arts, orienteering, parkour, racing, roller derby, rugby, sailing, shooting, skiing, soccer, surfing, swimming, tennis, and beach volleyball. Of course, the fishing is a purrfurred sport, be it at the lake, river, bay, beach, pier or deep sea to catch that fresh fish dinner.
For that special catgirl in your life, this month's gemstone is the Garnet, hint hint. If that is too purricey, a nice Carnation would bring a happy swish to a catgirl's tail. The flowers would go well in an arrangement on the table to accent that fish dinner, nya. To accompany the meal, we suggest the island signature treats of the cran apple nummy berry cocktail, a crab cake appurrtizer, and the extra special baked yams for the dessert. A serving of flavorful rich cream would also be just the thing to elicit a happy purr from the contented catgirl, nya.
This month's updates include the monthly Catgirl Critics' Media Mewsings in which the Ladies of The Mew (and Mike) review and discuss cinema & television, mewsic, games 'n toys, literature, comics 'n manga 'n anime, cons, cosplay and other visual & purrforming arts, purrdominantly purrtaining to the genres of science fiction, fantasy & horror. In this January edition of The Mew, Myayr, Lizzy, Jenjen & Vonny also intermew several cast members of Jamie Robertson's
Clan of the Cats as a special featured purresentation, nya!
Speaking of
Clan of the Cats, December 15th was the 2nd part of the beach volleyball story collaboration between Mike & Jamie. This was a continuation of the filler story there from April 1st, 2008. This trilogy will conclude in the 2nd anthology book of
The North Carolina Web Comics Coffee Clatch, which is supposed to be published in February, nya!
Mike's annotated three pages for Part Two of that tale may be viewed in
Gallery Two of the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art. Also on display there are a pic of a "Fortune Cookie Catgirl", two of Katrina's
Zodiac Angels "Ashley & Rose", and a few of the "Ladies of
Clan of the Cats" here for their appearance on The Mew. Mewest pics will be on the bottom row of that gallery's page, nya!
Also in February, Mike will be so very honored to be a returning guest at
What The Hell?! Con, February 6th-8th 2009 in Greensboro, NC! It is such a wonderful event sponsored by those kind folks of the Guilford College Yachting Club, nya! Then in March Mike and other NCWCCC members will be at
Stellar Con 33 March 13-15 2009 at the Radisson in High Point, NC. It is one of the oldest science fiction conventions in the state, nya! It is sponsored by the swell folks of SF Cubed.
Mike hopes to have an artist table again at
Animazement XII, May 22-24 at the Raleigh Convention Center. The staff & volunteers at Animazement are so friendly, industrious clever friends, nya. It is so much fun and it keeps growing, which is why they have relocated to that big new Convention Center! We're also hoping to make the annual trek with fellow members of the
Carolina Comic Book Club to
Heroes Con, June 19-21 at the Charlotte Convention Center! We've tried to go every year since the early 80's because it is a wonderful event for those who love comix, nya!
Thank you for surfing to our cordial coastal Carolina community- and we wish y'all plenty of southern hospitality and aloha spirit, nya!
