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Merch Alert

December 3, 2025

While we wait for the next zine to arrive (fingers tap, knuckles redden, eyeballs rotate completely so that they resemble hard boiled eggs) well at least we’ve got merch season! Here are those few odd or personalized items whose availability I trot out once a year or so, probably around until the end of the month. We have all the books back this year if you wanted signed books! We also have an empty tin of licorice eyebrows. One day someone will buy that tin The tin has been purchased.

For professional things made and sold by professionals with professional guidelines on how to get your order before the holidays please direct your attention to Topatoco! Isn’t there someone in your live who needs a novelty Ozymandias trophy?

The Other Places

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 –

via mastodon
via email (and millionaire) at Substack beehiiv
via millionaire at tumblr
via billionaire at bluesky
via billionaire at instagram
and, for luddites who don’t mind web-based subscription platforms, there is a (millionaire-adjacent) patreon that sends out zines

Or, as drewtoothpaste.bsky.social said: “‘why would you use that site? don’t you know it’s financed by someone evil?’ yeah well i made my own websites and you all stopped going to websites so i have to use the evil ones you like instead of my own.”

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.