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There is something special coming for Halloween weekend. So we are starting a count down to it with revisits of past creepy artwork, all ladies with a dark and/or twisted side to them or story around them or a connection to the comic book world.
So sit back, put on some spooky music, and enjoy the nostalgic and scary visual tales we weave!
I hope to hear a few of your own or your own interpretations of these artworks in the comments!
Today's entry is the first of the "Hanged Man" images. In 2019 . I started doing posters for each Arctic Comic Con, an Alaskan Comic Book and Fan Convention. Each major comic book company was slated to get a representation, and I wanted to start with the ladies. So, kicking it off is DC's Batman Ninja's version of Cat Woman nose to nose with my youngest of my fur babies, Miss Muffet.
I had way to much fun researching all the different Cat Womans as I tried to decided which I wanted to do (and I still plan on eventually doing a Julie Newmar one some time in the future) and researching aerial dancers and acrobatics for inspiration.
Story time this time is not about the picture but about how Muffet came into our lives and acquired her name. Not necessarily a Halloween theme but a story none the less.
We had just come back from the Alaskan Steamposium, a sadly no longer in business Steam Punk Convention, and we were tired so went right to bed. The next day, I went to the store to get some food and came back to unload both the food and the equipment we had used at the convention.
Merow
I didn't think much of it at first, it sounded like a kid making cat noises and not a real cat.
Merow
Then I realized it was coming from my car, from under the engine hood actually.
Merow!
So I popped the hood and here, nuzzled up against the side of the engine was this tiny gray palm sized kitten.
Merow Merow Merow!
I spent the better part of over an hour search for her mom or if there was any other kittens about. It was way to cold to leave her out there plus a lynx with a bad temper and a brown bear had recently been in the area. I didn't want kitty to get hurt or ate.
So I set the live trap I keep for the insane number of kittens a neighbor down the road unleashes upon the neighborhood every spring regardless of how many times we report him. I was hoping if she came back we'd catch her and reunite her with her lil one. Then I took the little fluff ball nestled in the palm of my hand inside.
Merow
We never did catch mom or find any trace of her. Lil one was to little, not quiet weened, to take to the shelter. She'd need fostering first. And she had taken to my husband right away.
The decision was a quick and easy one to make.
We had to quarantine her from the other kitties for a week or so though until she was big enough for her first round of vaccines. So we set up the play pin I use as an exercise run for my chinchilla as a temporary living space. It was fully enclosed with a mesh roof...
Merow!
... that the little overly adventurous kitten soon learned to climb and crawl across hanging upside down from by her claws.
Merow
So hubby took to singing "Spider Cat, Spider Cat Does whatever a spider can.." But I refused to call her Spider Cat, so we compromised on Miss Muffet, inspired by the nursery rhyme.
.... she has grown up a lot as time as passed, now to heavy to hang upside down by just her claws, though she still periodically tries to. Now she has acquired a title to follow her name and responds to it just as much if not more.
Miss Muffet, the Evil Fluff
Merow!
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