'Take a photo - it'll last longer!' says Girl, her ice cream dropped on the sidewalk. 'But not very long', she says. Cat takes a picture. 'Our digital footprints are vapor trails - all our photos stored on platforms with no obligation to preserve them. All the music we made - the movies we loved - locked away on corroded disks and unrecoverable hard drives. All our emails, our conversations, our relationships - disappearing - app by app - until no record of us remains.' Cat and Girl look at each other, worried. In the final panel they skip happily together through a field a la Akbar and Jeff.
  • David Thomsen
    September 16, 2026

    You still got that Trophy of Perpetual Futility in stock?

  • Bill Freese
    September 16, 2026

    I place this comment here for historians of the distant future to contemplate.

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September 13, 2023

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus) illustrated by Charles Dessalines D' Orbigny (1806-1876). Digitally enhanced from our own 1892 edition of Dictionnaire Universel D'histoire Naturelle.

As the monoplatforms that displaced the monoculture shudder (above: monotremes), we here at the Cat and Girl social media department (employees: 1/28 of a person) would like to celebrate the fact that all the feeds and accounts you need to keep you from looking here, at this website, are – briefly – working. So come join us for your distraction-from-environmental-catastrophe needs –

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What’s in your time capsule?

June 26, 2023

Drew a comic about time capsules, Flushing Queens and how long 5,000 years is – over at the Nib.

All Times Are Limited, Strictly Speaking

November 25, 2022

For the next week the attic store is going to be OPEN AGAIN for orders. There’s a limited amount of stuff in there! And I have a limited amount of patience with the current modern era of packing and shipping things. So this will be it for the next couple of months, good luck getting three Graces on coasters when you decide you need them THEN.

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