Space Cat
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Space Cat is an underground cartoon by Fish Griwkowsky which begun as a joke illustration in a Canadian university newspaper in 1993. Detailing the exploits of Zingers the Space Cat from planet Spectacula, the plot-arc-heavy strip is published in campus newspapers across the Great White North, including The Gateway.
Continuing an ongoing storyline started in 1979, Space Cat was sent to Earth by Melnadron, Corporate Emperor of Spectacula. There, the cat encountered and tormented Scott Fonzerelli, a Canadian sandwich artist caught up in dead-end Generation X. As time passed, Space Cat abandoned Fonzerelli and met a one-eyed demon named Zorpius, a secret agent sent from heck to prevent the Earth's destruction and subsequent soul-creation. This was an unnecessary caution, as our hero had already been seduced by Earth's sins and charms, including drugs and Japan's chaotic wonder. It was here the Space Cat began to be tailed by the Hidden Ninja, who began to lurk silently in the corners of the strip. Meanwhile, a galactic war waged far from Earth resulting in the near-annihilation of Spectacula.
After moving to Vancouver and enduring a tramatic battle against the Time Dogs - who revealed to Space Cat that he would eventually effectively destroy the planet a thousand years hence - our green fuzzball fled to Chicago, attending George Jefferson High for three years, annihilating it after its principal hanged himself, fully blaming Space Cat. At the school, Space Cat befriended Juki Homna, a Japanese-American student who it was eventually revealed was killed by her boyfriend and could generally only be seen in her ghostly form by the cat. Unfortunately, SC's uber-nationalist, anti-human grandfather attacked the two, but was waylaid by the Hidden Ninja, and the two teleported to regions unknown.
Then, without explanation, Homna vanished.
Lately, Space Cat has been bumming around Chicago, like the Merle Haggard song says, avoiding the advances of Melnadron, who would have him return home to use his special abilities to liberate Spectacula. Oh, and there are lots of jokes in the strip, incidentally.
The entire run of the strip can be found at zardex.com.
