I already am a Wolverine

I love Liz Climo’s simple and highly amusing animal-themed comics, particularly her Halloween themed ones that I’ve been chuckling over this week. This X-Men comic is probably my favourite thing on the Internet right now.

12 Types of Cat

‘I love cats. They are cute. They are independent. They can be good companions but they are not needy. Besides nothing says “home” better than a house with a cat in it.’

I could have said exactly that but these are the words of Lingvistov to introduce a series of excellent and amusing illustrations – 12 Types of Cat.

Here are 6 of my favourites:

Lingvistov’s other cat series are great too, including: 15 Truths About Cats and If My Cat Could Speak…

Miniature Calendar

Yes, it would seem that I now post on my blog so rarely (I’m just too darn busy!) that when I do it is almost certainly Japan-related… well, the artist behind these is Japanese at least.

Tatsuya Tanaka has been creating these stunning miniature dioramas each day since 2011! The images form a calendar – the miniature calendar. Although I have hardly skimmed the surface of the calendar, I’ve picked some of my favourites from the last few months (plus some others that I nabbed off of Bored Panda) to share.

Starting with today’s miniature.

This is my favourite.

2 Kinds of People

There are only 2 kinds of people in this world, those that find this blog hilarious and those that have no sense of humor whatsoever. – Joao Rocha, Portuguese art director (and also creator of Kim Jong Il Looking at Things)

I’m the second option/option on the right.

I’m the second option/option on the right.

I’m the second option/option on the right.

I’m the first option/option on the left.

I’m the first option/option on the left.

I’m the first option/option on the left.

I’m the second option/option on the right.

I’m the first option/option on the left.

(Found these via Bored Panda, by the way.)

Punny Pixels

Punny Pixels is an amusing and well illustrated Instagram and Tumblr featuring – yep, you guessed right – puns!

Some of my favourites:

And because it’s Valentine’s day, here are some Punny Pixel cards:

Didga the Skateboarding Cat

I first watched this video a few months ago. I think it was shared on Facebook or Twitter by some cat profile that I like/follow. I was wowed at the time and I was wowed once more when I watched it again tonight (I’d mentioned it to someone at work earlier today and so found it to share with them). And so, now I’m sharing it here because…

This cat is AWESOME!

Over 5 MILLION [views]!! World’s BEST Skateboarding CAT! Go Didga! The Action starts when Ollie, a skateboard, takes his friend Didga, a CAT, for a ride around the beautiful beach town of Coolangatta, Australia. On the way Didga ‘shows off’ by jumping on, off, up and even over obstacles. One of those obstacles happens to be a large Rottweiler dog. FYI – 18 months of teaching then practicing, 6 months of that for filming and editing, so please, don't try this at home.

I also follow Didga on Instagram – it’s an excellent profile with beautiful photos and video clips of this amazing feline – usually in some stunning Australian settings too. Plus there’s a few dogs there too, if you’re not such a cat-person as me.

If Japan was made of Lego…

If Japan was made of Lego, it would still be ridiculously cool.

Originally posted over on Tokyo Desu.

Fat Cat Art

Svetlana Petrova is a Russian artist and the owner of Zarathustra. Zarathustra is a very fat ginger cat and Internet star – but for reasons unlike any other feline Internet star.

“I’ve had cats before and included them in my work, like playing in theatre shows and I’ve made costumes for them. But I thought, ‘What can I do with Zarathustra, because my mother spoilt him and he’s so fat’. Zarathustra likes posing and is a really intelligent cat. He likes to lie on his back and make strange faces like he's speaking with somebody, so I began to take photos of him and inserted them into paintings.” – BBC News

Global Language… for Animals

I saw this ‘Most languages agree on the sound cats make’ illustration on the Catnip Times page on Facebook, this evening. Finding the cats in the illustration adorable, (Well, I would. They’re cats, but still…) I did a nifty little ‘search Google for this image’ to find it’s source – because as is the way with the Internet and social media, the Catnip Times didn’t say where the artwork was from.

Google worked it’s magic and I found this Design Taxi article and a link to the illustrator’s blog – James Chapman. As the Design Taxi blog post is over 6 months old, it’s great to see some more recent illustrations (and animations) by James. What’s more, they’re all in the language theme!

Animal sounds:

Other sounds: