Squeeeeeeee. After a long day at the computer, just as I’ve hit the wall and am ready to call it quits, I get a REWARD. Breaking Cat News pops up in my Inbox. Thank you, Georgia, for ending my day on such a happy note. Love Puck’s true colors! Can’t wait for the whole gang to be back. They are so missed.
Georgia! Thank you for this wonderful surprise strip! It’s so great to see the boys again! And much congrats on getting Breaking Cat News into the newspapers! You’ve worked so hard and deserve much success!
Georgia, so happy your getting ahead on GoComics and still have time for this beloved original site. Bea’s email notice went directly to the dinner party so I came to BCN, scrolled down and was happy beyond words to see a new original. It looks wonderful – fonts and all. I’ve really missed the comments – GoComics is wonderful but people seem to be more stilted than they are here. I’m furious with Spellcheck – the strip where Lupin was crash landing I wrote something snide – can’t remember what but he sure didn’t remind me of Shadowfax. Spell check changed it to Shadowbox (sheesh). I love today’s comic. Thank you.
I just adore the new look! Puck’s true colours can finally shine through! And looks like poor Elvis will have to get used to it being a black tie affair. Hehe! 😀 Thanks for making my otherwise completely boring Monday something special Georgia! <3
I am doing a happy dance. Soooooo happy.
Hope all is going well with you Grorgia, the kids, the man and the boys. As much as I like reading the old strips I just love your new work.
Can’t wait till you are back in March.
Oh my Cat! A new strip! Woohoo! I love it. Dear Georgia, is it possible that you could give us a short overview on what has changed with how you do the art on the strip? I can see that something has changed, the design of the cats seems different to me. More simplified? Is that possible or am I imagining things? And what did happen with the colors? What did you use to color with before (I always assumed it was art markers) and what has changed in the new strips? I understand if you are too busy but I would love to have some insight into your process :). Thanks!
This feels like finding an oasis while crossing the desert! We’ve missed you (Georgia) & BCN so much! Wishing you best of luck with wider publication of BCN…..and please hurry back to us.
I have to say, this is an extremely clever in-universe explaination for this slight change to the art style. I assume the change is for the sake of the newspapers, particularly the dailies (which are typically printed in black-and-white)? Anyway, great to see this brief interruption to the station break, and congrats on getting past the first step toward getting in the papers! Hope to see you in the Providence Journal one of these weeks!
YAY! Even a one-time Special BCN is such a welcome treat. Lupin looks puzzled about the new News Desk color. Elvis appears distrssed about his new tie color. Even Alice has changed, but looks quite happy. Thank you, Beatrix, for our post-Thanksgiving present. 😻👏
So happy to see this brief interruption in my email this morning! I knew I missed you, but hadn’t realized how much. Love Puck’s new look! Can’t wait ’til you return in March for good!!!!
Pucky’s got a problem…”true colors” vs. keeping full detail on his facial expressions, since eyebrows and mouth detail won’t show up clearly. That means that Lupin and the viewers may not be able to “read his whiskers” on camera. There might be a Political Correctness Conflict between Black Cat Heritage Sensitivity and Reasonable Accommodation for Disability Issues. From the reader’s point of view, the large blocks of stark black clash with the subtle watercolor work. Burt, can you help, is a compromise possible?
Love it! Lighting does make a difference! Our little dilute Torti looks pretty much gray in normal lighting, put her in very bright lighting and you can actually see the patterning and her fur.
Yea! And richly saturated blacks on the robber mice, too. Not quite sure why Elvis is so upset, but then, that’s rather normal, isn’t it? Color of his tie, perhaps?
Good luck with the newspaper launch, Georgia! We’ll keep appreciating anything you can throw our way meanwhile.
Ahh, Butt really knows his way around the controls. Every good cat knows you need to walk across them for maximum efficiency. Or to fix them. Either way!
Love the interruption. It sure brightened my day, much like the snow we just woke up to!
Thanks for the new comic, and we hope y’all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
I saw in the sample strips on uClick that Puck was shown much blacker than we had been seeing him. It is wonderful to have an in-strip explanation! But I do worry that it limits his facial expressions when we can’t see his eyebrows.
I was thrilled to find the new BCN this morning in my comics feed. Glad to see you up and running although we have been enjoying the reruns. I now have all your reruns in my BCN book that my daughter gave me for my birthday. Happiness all around.
This is great! Thanks for the treat, Georgia, although I’m afraid I reacted like Elvis at first, with suspicion. I put on the brakes after the first panel and examined it closely, to be sure it was really what it seemed! And how nice to see Alice and Natasha! Can’t wait until everyone’s back.
IT’S CHRISTMAS! Wait… No… BCN!!!!!!!!! X-D My joy at this moment knows no bounds… Oh, boys, I missed you! Even a brief peek is phenomenal! Thanks for that, Georgia! I can’t wait for publication and a more permanent reappearance! (Also hoping that someday we can view the letters to Elvis again!)
Yes! Update plays with color vs ink. In old newspaper printing solid black areas made for uneven ink distribution-in this new digital era, can’t wait to see BCN in the funny papers!. What, spell check for comments too? Happy holidays are here again!
Hello everyone! I hope you all had a terrific Thanksgiving! I’ve missed you all during this break, and I can’t wait until ‘Breaking Cat News’ is back everyday.
I have big news: ‘Breaking Cat News’ will be launching into newspapers this March!! YES!! It is happening! Right now sales folks from Universal Uclick/GoComics (my syndicate) are on the road pitching the comic to newspapers all over the country! If you would like BCN in your newspaper, please write or call them to tell them about the comic! If newspaper editors have heard about ‘Breaking Cat News’, they’re more likely to add it to their funny pages! That’s something you can do right now that will help me tremendously. Not every paper will want add a new comic this year. If you want BCN in your paper, please let them know!
I recently gave an interview to the Basket Case webcomic review, and explained a bit more about the break and when BCN is coming back. You can read it here: https://webcomicsinterviews.com/2016/11/21/georgia-dunn-interview/ Please know that the comic WILL be returning, and I’m a little stir crazy for it to return too. I am finally creating a backlog though, to prevent the comic from being late in the future. I’ve gotten a lot done behind the scenes, and I can’t wait to share it with you!
We are still on break, this is just a quick strip to say hello and show you one of the station updates–Puck’s beautiful rich black fur! I hope to surprise you again very soon… like… Sometime in December soon… Down in the laundry/break room the kitties are all a buzz about their favorite soap opera running a Christmas special this year? Burt, Puck, and Natasha seem especially excited. Something about the middle of December? Something about a cat with an eye patch? And another cat lost at sea? (I seem to be missing a lot going on under my roof, whatever that show is it sounds awesome! Any of you watch this?) Anyway, I’m sure we’ll see what they’re talking about soon enough!
Have a great rest of the day! It’s my birthday–I’m 35 today! Thank you for making the past couple of years amazing; this time next year we will be many months into new BCN strips and the break will be a distant memory. Thank you so much for your patience and your encouragement. See you soon!!!
OMG!!!! Happy Birthday Georgia! I just turned 35 on the 16th of November! 😀🐱 I cannot wait to find out what happens with Our Nine Lives and a certain hubby lost at sea and lost kittens! 😊❤️
What a wonderful surprise this strip was! I was on GoComics a little after midnight and was so shocked to see a new post. Oh how I’ve missed BCN. Burt is clearly an AV master with his cord batting and control walking. Pucky looks wonderful. I can hardly wait for the Christmas soap opera special.
Happy birthday, Georgia! What a wonderful surprise! You’ve given US a gift! So good to see all my fave kitties again. Good luck with the daily comic launch!
I combined several Photoshop filters over the white letters, I’m not certain which ones though, I apologize! I sort of messed around until I got it right (that’s a good way to describe all of my digital efforts, lol!)
It looks like it’s pixelated. I don’t know if that’s actually a “Photoshop” filter. I use it with other software (and I don’t know if that’s actually the name for it in all of the programs I use). Basically it borrows pixels from the surrounding areas (in this case, the black border around the letters) and creates a “digital snow” effect.
Happy Birthday, and thanks for the bonus strip and the “teaser” of what’s to come next month!
Happy Birthday!!! It’s your birthday and you’re giving US the gift today, thank you!! I got a couple copies of the BCN book for Christmas gifts. One is going to my vet’s office for their waiting room! 🙂
Welcome back, if only for the moment! It’s good to see the studio renovations are moving forward.
Speaking as a theatrical lighting designer, yeah, you can do a lot of good “dialing down the brights.” It’s amazing
how a few points down on a control channel can change the entire look of a scene or set.
I’m pleased to have Tommy as a colleague and can’t wait for mid-December!
PS: Somebody above posted “Black Cats Matter.” I want that on a T-shirt!
I LOVE the reactions of Elvis, Lupin, and the mice! I don’t know what’s cuter, Lupin going slightly poofy at the sudden change in the news desk or Elvis’s “WTF happened to my tie?!” look.
Today is MY 35th birthday, too! Happy birthday, birthday buddy! I hope you have something that makes your day as lovely as a suprise Breaking Cat News update just made mine.
Welcome back. I missed you and your family in the comics, but I have been following you on Twitter. Congratulations for becoming syndicated! I will write a letter to the Denver Post asking them to add you to their list of comic strips! Again, welcome back! I look forward to reading and enjoying Breaking Cat News!
Happy Birthday Georgia, and thanks for sending US a present! It’s so good to see the boys again! I am very confident that you’ll be in lots of newspapers — once the editors read the strips, they’ve got to publish them! Have an awesome birthday with your beautiful family!
JoAnn
I’ve been reading this for a while, but this is the first time I’ve commented. Like everyone else, I’m thrilled to see a new strip! On Mondays I work 8:30 am to 8:30 pm, and your strip always helped me get through the last couple of hours, so it was especially sweet to see the new strip tonight. Thanks!
We have almost the same birthday (I turned 37 on the 23rd). So have a very happy birthday Miss Georgia!
It is so wonderful to see the first station change! Those rich colors are beautiful! And seeing Elvis checking out his tie just made me giggle (and I NEEDS a giggle tonight!).
So looking forward to seeing what our intrepid reporters are up to. And getting back to dailies… March can not get here soon enough!!!
Thank you so much for continuing to share your beautiful gift with us!!!
So thrilled and delighted to see BCN back on the air! I love Pucky, and am happy that his beautiful sable fur will appear as Cat intended. Happy birthday, Georgia! Many purrs from my black cat, Jeremy, and felicitations (felinatations?) from me.
I was up nursing my sweet baby and saw the notification email – totally made my sleep-deprived day/night/whatever time it is. Love BCN and excited for the future!
Saw it this AM. Thrilled. Puck, like Piglet after his bath, has “returned to his own comfortable color.” I did like Puck in gray because we have a round faced blue named Otis who resembles gray Puck.
What a fabulous way to have started my morning yesterday! I am so excited to hear BCN has been picked up by the papers. I’m going to do what I did when I discovered Puck, Lupin and Elvis, spread the word to my cat group from FB to contact their newspapers and ask for the strip to be put in. Wishing you the best birthday ever, Georgia.
So thrilled that you made it to the newspapers! I never doubted that your talent would be recognized. Thank you for the Thanksgiving treat! Accurate Puck and walking across the controls! You are a genius.
This is Grand Duchess Anastasia. In no small part because of BCN, she and her sister Grand Duchess Tatiana have come to establish a local station. She would like Puck to understand that not only is there nothing wrong with being a gray cat, there is much right!
So pleased to see this little surprise, Georgia. Very happy for your success but what chance to read you in future in English papers? Have a great Christmas x
Happy belated birthday Georgia! It was so awesome to see this strip during the break! Inky Puck is great, though I’m a little concerned about seeing his facial expression clearly. Also, just wondering, will the strips published in newspapers be exclusive? Will your overseas fans be able to see them somehow?
They will be on GoComics, too! I am not sure if they will be on this site, only because traffic has been hard to handle on this site. The Man has said he may be able to make the main page direct to the daily GoComics BCN site, while the archives and about pages and such stay the same!
I was so happy to see breaking cat news in my e-mail one of the best thing that has happened all month.
I wish you and, your cat family and, your people family a very Merry Christmas.
Ok, so I have the address of the head office of my local. What should I actually say in terms of how they can check out the comic & who to contact if interested? Thank you.
Hello! One good way to do it is to let them know there is a new comic you would like to see in your paper, and tell them why you like BCN. The email editors can contact is: salesdirector@amuniversal.com and the phone number is 18002556734. Universal Uclick also has a page set up for news paper editors to see samples! That page can be found here: http://www.universaluclick.com/comics/breaking-cat-news They can certainly look at this site and the BCN page on GoComics too, but that page will show them what the newspaper strips will look like!
Love the new look Georgia! If I may make one observation/suggestion: now that Puck is black you can’t really see his nose anymore! Is there any way of adding that in future strips?
I emailed my local paper, the Oregonian, and they agreed to take a look at it. I really believe it will be a good fit for them, so am keeping my fingers crossed. i,too, love the new and blacker Puck, but do miss some of his expressions. He had veto expressive eyebrows, which get a lottle lost.
Georgia, I know that this has already been mentioned but with pucks new color it is hard to see his eyebrows and his face is much less expressive. I know this may be difficult to change as you have already created future comics but I think that if you can change it to restore some of the expression to his face it would really be good. My favorite cat has always been puck because of his expressive face!
I got an e-mail from Goodreads today showing my my year in books. At the top of the list next to a ribbon of honor was: “HIGHEST RATED ON GOODREADS
Breaking Cat News: Cats Reporting on the News that Matters to Cats
by Georgia Dunn”. Wish I knew how to upload a screen shot of it.
Georgia – Congratulations for everything! I’m so happy for you. BCN will be more famous than Calvin & Hobbes down through the ages. I do not say that lightly.
“The House of Mitford” by Jonathan Guinness, the son of Diana Mosley, is selling on Amazon today -paperback only- for $6. After today $15 something. The $6 may be just be for Prime, though. Rave reviews and if you’ve read it, I apologize for interrupting what must be a highly hectic, overly busy but wonderful time for you. You have so earned it.
Thank you for making these dire days worth waking up for my daily fix of BCN. It still makes me laugh and smile as if I just found your web site. A rare and welcome luxury.
The cats solution to everything: Walk across the controls…Hello to the mice in the last panel!
Indeed. I often have to fight to regain control of my keyboard!
At least my Blossom gets attention for it regardless. 😀
Squeeeeeeee. After a long day at the computer, just as I’ve hit the wall and am ready to call it quits, I get a REWARD. Breaking Cat News pops up in my Inbox. Thank you, Georgia, for ending my day on such a happy note. Love Puck’s true colors! Can’t wait for the whole gang to be back. They are so missed.
Georgia! Thank you for this wonderful surprise strip! It’s so great to see the boys again! And much congrats on getting Breaking Cat News into the newspapers! You’ve worked so hard and deserve much success!
Back? Please?
Georgia, so happy your getting ahead on GoComics and still have time for this beloved original site. Bea’s email notice went directly to the dinner party so I came to BCN, scrolled down and was happy beyond words to see a new original. It looks wonderful – fonts and all. I’ve really missed the comments – GoComics is wonderful but people seem to be more stilted than they are here. I’m furious with Spellcheck – the strip where Lupin was crash landing I wrote something snide – can’t remember what but he sure didn’t remind me of Shadowfax. Spell check changed it to Shadowbox (sheesh). I love today’s comic. Thank you.
I just adore the new look! Puck’s true colours can finally shine through! And looks like poor Elvis will have to get used to it being a black tie affair. Hehe! 😀 Thanks for making my otherwise completely boring Monday something special Georgia! <3
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH so excited to see the boys back! Best early-christmas present ever! 😀
Hey! BCN’s back!
SQUEEE! Welcome back, guys! Love Burt walking across the controls… 😀
Fantastic! Love Puck’s corrected look!!
I am doing a happy dance. Soooooo happy.
Hope all is going well with you Grorgia, the kids, the man and the boys. As much as I like reading the old strips I just love your new work.
Can’t wait till you are back in March.
Yay! More BCN! This just made my day! 🙂
I love it too!
Is this it? Are we back on the air? I thought it wouldn’t be ’till March!
I’m officially confused…..
Oh my Cat! A new strip! Woohoo! I love it. Dear Georgia, is it possible that you could give us a short overview on what has changed with how you do the art on the strip? I can see that something has changed, the design of the cats seems different to me. More simplified? Is that possible or am I imagining things? And what did happen with the colors? What did you use to color with before (I always assumed it was art markers) and what has changed in the new strips? I understand if you are too busy but I would love to have some insight into your process :). Thanks!
Finally, Puck as he is in real life! AWESOME! Sorry it’s only a station break, but we’re loving it! You rock, Georgia!
Yay. Love this. Welcome back!
I knew obsessively clicking the bookmark whenever I was on would eventually yield something! Hooray! So cute!
OMG!! They’re back!! *clutches tablet* Yay!!!
This feels like finding an oasis while crossing the desert! We’ve missed you (Georgia) & BCN so much! Wishing you best of luck with wider publication of BCN…..and please hurry back to us.
OMC! You look great, Puck!
Hello boys! And look the desk changed colour too! Missed everyone. See you in March.
Welcome back!
Oh joy!, my life is complete 🙂
Welcome back!
You’re back!! Joy!
I have missed this so much. I hope that you’ll be back regularly soon.
I have to say, this is an extremely clever in-universe explaination for this slight change to the art style. I assume the change is for the sake of the newspapers, particularly the dailies (which are typically printed in black-and-white)? Anyway, great to see this brief interruption to the station break, and congrats on getting past the first step toward getting in the papers! Hope to see you in the Providence Journal one of these weeks!
Thank you, Colleen!!
Great to see the boys again! I’ve been missing them. Hope all is well with the family!
YAY! Even a one-time Special BCN is such a welcome treat. Lupin looks puzzled about the new News Desk color. Elvis appears distrssed about his new tie color. Even Alice has changed, but looks quite happy. Thank you, Beatrix, for our post-Thanksgiving present. 😻👏
SHE’S BACK!!
and an all now colour spectrum too boot!
They’re back! Ya hooooooo!
inky Puck!
!yay!
Lighting and angles, dear cats. That’s what makes the TV go ’round. 😄
Thanks for the surprise comic. I have enjoyed seeing the original ones again but have been missing your new work.
Finally!
The drought has been relieved by a few drops of water!
I’m just so glad to see the boys again.
Any idea when the station break will end?
So happy to see this brief interruption in my email this morning! I knew I missed you, but hadn’t realized how much. Love Puck’s new look! Can’t wait ’til you return in March for good!!!!
Woohoo, an update.
Puck is looking really majestic in his true colours.
Pucky’s got a problem…”true colors” vs. keeping full detail on his facial expressions, since eyebrows and mouth detail won’t show up clearly. That means that Lupin and the viewers may not be able to “read his whiskers” on camera. There might be a Political Correctness Conflict between Black Cat Heritage Sensitivity and Reasonable Accommodation for Disability Issues. From the reader’s point of view, the large blocks of stark black clash with the subtle watercolor work. Burt, can you help, is a compromise possible?
Love it! Lighting does make a difference! Our little dilute Torti looks pretty much gray in normal lighting, put her in very bright lighting and you can actually see the patterning and her fur.
In her fur! Darn AutoCorrect
A new strip! It’s like Christmas has come early this year! Thank you, Georgia!!!
Welcome back, Breaking Cat News! We missed you!
Yay BCN!!! Happy Happy Happy!!! Miss you soooooooo much! Puck you certainly are a handsome devil but I’m still saving myself for Lupin!!
My black cat, Misty May, approves, Pucky! Good to see the team back in action – thanks for this gift, Georgia!
Yea! And richly saturated blacks on the robber mice, too. Not quite sure why Elvis is so upset, but then, that’s rather normal, isn’t it? Color of his tie, perhaps?
Good luck with the newspaper launch, Georgia! We’ll keep appreciating anything you can throw our way meanwhile.
Welcome Back.
Ahh, Butt really knows his way around the controls. Every good cat knows you need to walk across them for maximum efficiency. Or to fix them. Either way!
Love the interruption. It sure brightened my day, much like the snow we just woke up to!
Thanks for the new comic, and we hope y’all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Oh my! I know I typed in Burt!! Shame on me for not proofreading before hitting “Post Comment”!!
Gah! You’re back! Temporarily? Welcome back though!! ^___^
Ahhhhhhh!!!! New inky puck ? You just made my holiday, Georgia, with this delightful surprise.
I saw in the sample strips on uClick that Puck was shown much blacker than we had been seeing him. It is wonderful to have an in-strip explanation! But I do worry that it limits his facial expressions when we can’t see his eyebrows.
Still, I love the new strip. What a treat!
So, THAT is why my staff are always batting my cords and walking across the controls- they are apprentice about cats.
Hooray for Burt. We miss everyone, will continue to wait for March. Sounds like much wonderfulness is occurring.
Cheers,
Roger, Diva and their woman
Woo Hoo – new BCN
thanks Georgia
I was thrilled to find the new BCN this morning in my comics feed. Glad to see you up and running although we have been enjoying the reruns. I now have all your reruns in my BCN book that my daughter gave me for my birthday. Happiness all around.
Woohoo! It’s back!!!!
Hooray
So good see see you back!
TO see. (Argh)
This is great! Thanks for the treat, Georgia, although I’m afraid I reacted like Elvis at first, with suspicion. I put on the brakes after the first panel and examined it closely, to be sure it was really what it seemed! And how nice to see Alice and Natasha! Can’t wait until everyone’s back.
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! it’s back! back!
Welcome back reporters!
Yay! Love the new “lighting”! You go, Puck! So glad to see a new strip!
Oh My Cat! Something new.
Yay!!
So thrilled to see some of the behind-the-scenes magic!
Hurrah for black tomcats!
And hurrah for the station break being… well, interrupted, but I wish it was OVER!
I was just going to post “When will BCN be back?” And here’s the answer. Wonderful. 🙂
YOU’RE BACK!
Welcome back.
Welcome back, I’ve missed you all!
Yay! New BCN and all about my favourite little Pucky!
IT’S CHRISTMAS! Wait… No… BCN!!!!!!!!! X-D My joy at this moment knows no bounds… Oh, boys, I missed you! Even a brief peek is phenomenal! Thanks for that, Georgia! I can’t wait for publication and a more permanent reappearance! (Also hoping that someday we can view the letters to Elvis again!)
Yes! Update plays with color vs ink. In old newspaper printing solid black areas made for uneven ink distribution-in this new digital era, can’t wait to see BCN in the funny papers!. What, spell check for comments too? Happy holidays are here again!
NICE!
I loved it.
Thanks for writing/drawing! You do a great job.
Be still my heart! I can go on now, I have my BCN dose. Anxiously awaiting December.
WELCOME BACK!
Yay welcome back!!
Hello everyone! I hope you all had a terrific Thanksgiving! I’ve missed you all during this break, and I can’t wait until ‘Breaking Cat News’ is back everyday.
I have big news: ‘Breaking Cat News’ will be launching into newspapers this March!! YES!! It is happening! Right now sales folks from Universal Uclick/GoComics (my syndicate) are on the road pitching the comic to newspapers all over the country! If you would like BCN in your newspaper, please write or call them to tell them about the comic! If newspaper editors have heard about ‘Breaking Cat News’, they’re more likely to add it to their funny pages! That’s something you can do right now that will help me tremendously. Not every paper will want add a new comic this year. If you want BCN in your paper, please let them know!
I recently gave an interview to the Basket Case webcomic review, and explained a bit more about the break and when BCN is coming back. You can read it here: https://webcomicsinterviews.com/2016/11/21/georgia-dunn-interview/ Please know that the comic WILL be returning, and I’m a little stir crazy for it to return too. I am finally creating a backlog though, to prevent the comic from being late in the future. I’ve gotten a lot done behind the scenes, and I can’t wait to share it with you!
We are still on break, this is just a quick strip to say hello and show you one of the station updates–Puck’s beautiful rich black fur! I hope to surprise you again very soon… like… Sometime in December soon… Down in the laundry/break room the kitties are all a buzz about their favorite soap opera running a Christmas special this year? Burt, Puck, and Natasha seem especially excited. Something about the middle of December? Something about a cat with an eye patch? And another cat lost at sea? (I seem to be missing a lot going on under my roof, whatever that show is it sounds awesome! Any of you watch this?) Anyway, I’m sure we’ll see what they’re talking about soon enough!
Have a great rest of the day! It’s my birthday–I’m 35 today! Thank you for making the past couple of years amazing; this time next year we will be many months into new BCN strips and the break will be a distant memory. Thank you so much for your patience and your encouragement. See you soon!!!
OMG!!!! Happy Birthday Georgia! I just turned 35 on the 16th of November! 😀🐱 I cannot wait to find out what happens with Our Nine Lives and a certain hubby lost at sea and lost kittens! 😊❤️
What a wonderful surprise this strip was! I was on GoComics a little after midnight and was so shocked to see a new post. Oh how I’ve missed BCN. Burt is clearly an AV master with his cord batting and control walking. Pucky looks wonderful. I can hardly wait for the Christmas soap opera special.
Last, but not least, happy birthday!
Happy birthday, dear Georgia! And you gave US a present – a little backwards, yes? But sweet and appreciated. Enjoy your special day!
Happy birthday, Georgia! What a wonderful surprise! You’ve given US a gift! So good to see all my fave kitties again. Good luck with the daily comic launch!
I meant to ask, how did you achieve the “static” look of the off air Breaking Cat News letters?
I combined several Photoshop filters over the white letters, I’m not certain which ones though, I apologize! I sort of messed around until I got it right (that’s a good way to describe all of my digital efforts, lol!)
It looks like it’s pixelated. I don’t know if that’s actually a “Photoshop” filter. I use it with other software (and I don’t know if that’s actually the name for it in all of the programs I use). Basically it borrows pixels from the surrounding areas (in this case, the black border around the letters) and creates a “digital snow” effect.
Happy Birthday, and thanks for the bonus strip and the “teaser” of what’s to come next month!
Happy birthday. You gave us a great gift. 😻😻
Happy Birthday!
Wow, you had the birthday and we all received the most delightful present. Happy Birthday !
Happy Birthday!!! It’s your birthday and you’re giving US the gift today, thank you!! I got a couple copies of the BCN book for Christmas gifts. One is going to my vet’s office for their waiting room! 🙂
Thank you, Tia!
I hope you had a birthday as wonderful and creative as you are!
Pucky is so happy, yay! Elvis seems irritated though, what’s up with that?
His tie now appears black!
HUZZAH! THE FIRST NEW STRIP IN MONTHS!
in the first panel, Lucky is holding something in his right paw. a container of sugar?
*Pucky
YAY! Welcome home! Er… I mean BACK! SO good to see you.
Welcome back, if only for the moment! It’s good to see the studio renovations are moving forward.
Speaking as a theatrical lighting designer, yeah, you can do a lot of good “dialing down the brights.” It’s amazing
how a few points down on a control channel can change the entire look of a scene or set.
I’m pleased to have Tommy as a colleague and can’t wait for mid-December!
PS: Somebody above posted “Black Cats Matter.” I want that on a T-shirt!
CC
Happy, happy birthday -and fingers crossed for the newspaper launch – the gang is sure to inspire as much love and affection as they do on this site 😍
Thank you so much, Georgia and a very happy birthday to you!!
I love how surprised Elvis is by his tie color!
Happy Birthday 🎈🎉 ! Will be reaching out to the Cincinnati Enquirer to get BCN here.
I LOVE the reactions of Elvis, Lupin, and the mice! I don’t know what’s cuter, Lupin going slightly poofy at the sudden change in the news desk or Elvis’s “WTF happened to my tie?!” look.
Today is MY 35th birthday, too! Happy birthday, birthday buddy! I hope you have something that makes your day as lovely as a suprise Breaking Cat News update just made mine.
Hey, wow!! That’s awesome!! Happy birthday to you too!
Speaking of toning issues, it reminds me of how my scanner likes to scan my artwork much lighter than it is.
Yay!!!!!!!!!
Aahhh what a treat! Thankyou sooo much xxx
Happy birthday, Georgia! How nice of you to give all of us BCN fans a gift–a brand new strip. Thank you so much.
Happy Birthday! And three cheers for the A/V guy!
Black Cats Rule! We have a new intern here at BCN COLUMBUS. He is also black and beautiful.
Hooray!!! BCN is back on the air!
Welcome back. I missed you and your family in the comics, but I have been following you on Twitter. Congratulations for becoming syndicated! I will write a letter to the Denver Post asking them to add you to their list of comic strips! Again, welcome back! I look forward to reading and enjoying Breaking Cat News!
Happy Birthday Georgia, and thanks for sending US a present! It’s so good to see the boys again! I am very confident that you’ll be in lots of newspapers — once the editors read the strips, they’ve got to publish them! Have an awesome birthday with your beautiful family!
JoAnn
this has totally made my day. I recently lost one of my cats to cancer and it’s been a hard couple of weeks.
I’m so sorry, Connie. I’m glad this could be a comfort!
Yay!! So happy to see another comic. 🙂 And now Puck will be black. 😀 Because Black is beautiful.
Hope to see BCN in my state paper. ((Lansing State Journal, pleeeease.))
Black Puck! Awesome! I’m psyched for the return of the strip.
I’ve been reading this for a while, but this is the first time I’ve commented. Like everyone else, I’m thrilled to see a new strip! On Mondays I work 8:30 am to 8:30 pm, and your strip always helped me get through the last couple of hours, so it was especially sweet to see the new strip tonight. Thanks!
You’re welcome, Marie! Thank you for reading!
Happy Happy BIrthday Georgia. Hope the BCN crew (and The Man) remembered!!
Happy birthday, Georgia! Many many blessings to you and yours…for caring and sharing and touching so many lives with a bit of joy and grace!
We have almost the same birthday (I turned 37 on the 23rd). So have a very happy birthday Miss Georgia!
It is so wonderful to see the first station change! Those rich colors are beautiful! And seeing Elvis checking out his tie just made me giggle (and I NEEDS a giggle tonight!).
So looking forward to seeing what our intrepid reporters are up to. And getting back to dailies… March can not get here soon enough!!!
Thank you so much for continuing to share your beautiful gift with us!!!
Hooray, thank you!! And a happy birthday to you too!
So thrilled and delighted to see BCN back on the air! I love Pucky, and am happy that his beautiful sable fur will appear as Cat intended. Happy birthday, Georgia! Many purrs from my black cat, Jeremy, and felicitations (felinatations?) from me.
Thank you, Jody!!
I was up nursing my sweet baby and saw the notification email – totally made my sleep-deprived day/night/whatever time it is. Love BCN and excited for the future!
Awww!! I’ve been there not too long ago! <3
Saw it this AM. Thrilled. Puck, like Piglet after his bath, has “returned to his own comfortable color.” I did like Puck in gray because we have a round faced blue named Otis who resembles gray Puck.
Just sent an email to our local paper asking them to get BCN!
Thank you, Jenna!! <3
Happy Belated Birthday from a fellow Sagittarian! Hannah J.
Hooray!! We’re in good company!
Happy Belated Birthday Georgia
What a fabulous way to have started my morning yesterday! I am so excited to hear BCN has been picked up by the papers. I’m going to do what I did when I discovered Puck, Lupin and Elvis, spread the word to my cat group from FB to contact their newspapers and ask for the strip to be put in. Wishing you the best birthday ever, Georgia.
Thank you!!!
Yay! You’ve done Pucky proud 🙂
So thrilled that you made it to the newspapers! I never doubted that your talent would be recognized. Thank you for the Thanksgiving treat! Accurate Puck and walking across the controls! You are a genius.
This is Grand Duchess Anastasia. In no small part because of BCN, she and her sister Grand Duchess Tatiana have come to establish a local station. She would like Puck to understand that not only is there nothing wrong with being a gray cat, there is much right!
(https://goo.gl/photos/H55PFZU1fuaQGbndA)
So glad to see a new comic up! Even though you’re not really back yet, but thanks for this. We fans appreciate it. 😀
Be proud of your black cat heritage, Puck! My Bagheera certainly is! Black cats FTW. 😀
Reply from Cleveland Plain Dealer request to add BNC to comics:
George Rodrigue (editor)
To Patty Z
CC Ellen Burbach Today at 2:36 PM
Thanks for letting us know. We will take a look.
G
…YAY!
Hey, that’s a start!! Yay!!! Thank you!
So pleased to see this little surprise, Georgia. Very happy for your success but what chance to read you in future in English papers? Have a great Christmas x
Yippeee!!!
My Aunt emailed her local New Jersey paper too!
That is awesome! Thank you!!
Happy belated birthday Georgia! It was so awesome to see this strip during the break! Inky Puck is great, though I’m a little concerned about seeing his facial expression clearly. Also, just wondering, will the strips published in newspapers be exclusive? Will your overseas fans be able to see them somehow?
They will be on GoComics, too! I am not sure if they will be on this site, only because traffic has been hard to handle on this site. The Man has said he may be able to make the main page direct to the daily GoComics BCN site, while the archives and about pages and such stay the same!
Great news! It just made my day! I’d be glad to see the new strips wherever it is convenient to you, thank you Georgia!
I was so happy to see breaking cat news in my e-mail one of the best thing that has happened all month.
I wish you and, your cat family and, your people family a very Merry Christmas.
Ok, so I have the address of the head office of my local. What should I actually say in terms of how they can check out the comic & who to contact if interested? Thank you.
Hello! One good way to do it is to let them know there is a new comic you would like to see in your paper, and tell them why you like BCN. The email editors can contact is: salesdirector@amuniversal.com and the phone number is 18002556734. Universal Uclick also has a page set up for news paper editors to see samples! That page can be found here: http://www.universaluclick.com/comics/breaking-cat-news They can certainly look at this site and the BCN page on GoComics too, but that page will show them what the newspaper strips will look like!
Thank you for asking me!!
Sooo happy to see the new comic & Puck in all of his black glory!! (Has anyone noticed the typo? Puck says, “on broacasts” instead of “broadcasts”??)
Uh oh! I better fix that, thank you!
Love the new look Georgia! If I may make one observation/suggestion: now that Puck is black you can’t really see his nose anymore! Is there any way of adding that in future strips?
Yay! New strip!
I emailed my local paper, the Oregonian, and they agreed to take a look at it. I really believe it will be a good fit for them, so am keeping my fingers crossed. i,too, love the new and blacker Puck, but do miss some of his expressions. He had veto expressive eyebrows, which get a lottle lost.
Uhh, make that very expressive, and a little lost.
Georgia, I know that this has already been mentioned but with pucks new color it is hard to see his eyebrows and his face is much less expressive. I know this may be difficult to change as you have already created future comics but I think that if you can change it to restore some of the expression to his face it would really be good. My favorite cat has always been puck because of his expressive face!
Additionally the harshness of the black does not match the softness of the watercolors. I am looking forward to BCN in newspapers!!!!!!
LOL BUTT
Congrats, also happy birthday.
*quietly chains you to the comic while you’re distracted *
There, break over! lol.
Haha!!!
YAY! I found a book of BCN at my library and read it just to get through the week. So happy it’s back!
I would say just add a dab of pink except that my jet black cat’s nose is as black as he is!
I’ve really missed the boys. It made my day to see them being their usual selves.
Thanks for the strip and, belatedly, happy birthday.
I got an e-mail from Goodreads today showing my my year in books. At the top of the list next to a ribbon of honor was: “HIGHEST RATED ON GOODREADS
Breaking Cat News: Cats Reporting on the News that Matters to Cats
by Georgia Dunn”. Wish I knew how to upload a screen shot of it.
That is awesome! Thank you for telling me!!
YOU’RE BACK!!! Don’t ever leave me again!!!
Georgia – Congratulations for everything! I’m so happy for you. BCN will be more famous than Calvin & Hobbes down through the ages. I do not say that lightly.
“The House of Mitford” by Jonathan Guinness, the son of Diana Mosley, is selling on Amazon today -paperback only- for $6. After today $15 something. The $6 may be just be for Prime, though. Rave reviews and if you’ve read it, I apologize for interrupting what must be a highly hectic, overly busy but wonderful time for you. You have so earned it.
Thank you for making these dire days worth waking up for my daily fix of BCN. It still makes me laugh and smile as if I just found your web site. A rare and welcome luxury.
Margaret Holman
Thank you so much, Margaret! I have not read that one yet, I will have to get it! And I must let my sister know, too!
Hi Georgia,
I love Puck’s black fur, but I really miss his expressions. Could you please draw in his nose and eyebrows again? Maybe with grey?
I miss Gray Puck Already.