Day: February 4, 2008

Royal Occidental Tuna Fisheries, Ltd.

I’m not much of a cat lover (though heaven knows I’ve tried to warm up to a few in the past), which is part of the reason the whole lolcats phenomenon leaves me a bit cold. However, Adam Koford‘s brilliant cartoons of the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats takes the idea, twists it around, and throws in a few more strokes of brilliance, and the result is both adorable and devious.

All yer bass

The basic gimmick as described at the Flickr archive is:

“From 1912-1913 he [grandfather Aloysius “Gorilla” Koford] produced a comic strip which was featured in 17 newspapers, including the Philadephia Star-Democrat, the Tampa Telegraph, and the Santa Fe Good-Newser. The strip was entitled “the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats” and featured the exploits of one Meowlin Q. Kitteh (a sort of cat hobo-raconteur) and his young hapless kitten friend, Pip.”

It's a trap!