Welcome to Multiversity Comics, a comic site written by people who love comics, for people who love comics. And cats.
Long time readers might recognize the old blurb above, which would show up whenever you looked up Multiversity Comics on your search engine of choice (in fact, I didn’t know that we had changed it until I Googled the site). As such, you can’t be surprised that when the most adorable cat-related webcomic on the the internet* has a Kickstarter project, it’s going to get a plug in this column.
*Only because I’d be willing to bet Detective Space Cat wouldn’t want to be called cute.
Doctor Cat debuted in 2011, and it has been eliciting awwws ever since. If you have never seen it, it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like: the adventures of a cat who happens to be a doctor. Sarah Sobole’s webcomic never fails to get a chuckle, a happy sigh, or both, due to both her cute as a button artistic style and delightful sense of humor. Sobole is trying to raise $8,500 in order to print the first two stories, and in the span of four days she is already almost there. So why should you, hypothetical person who has never read Doctor Cat, contribute? Well, a picture, as they say, is worth… well, a lot of words:
It only takes $6.00 to get .pdfs of each book, but that’s to be expected — aside from a few book-specific strips, the comics can be seen online at doctorcatmd.com. Still, if you only have a few bucks to spare, and you’ve enjoyed Sobole’s comic and wish to see her succeed, every bit helps. If you only want one of the books, you can get the smaller of the two, Doctor Cat’s Day Off, for $10.00, or the larger, Doctor Cat, for $17.00. But let’s be real: you want both. For $25.00, you get both physical copies, and if you bump it up to $30.00, you get the .pdfs as well. Maybe not a necessary upgrade for some, but if you have the cash to burn, why not? And if you’re paying five dollars more, why not pay another five for a print to be thrown in as well (that’s $35.00, for those who are mathematically challenged).
The final goal isn’t terribly high, so there aren’t too many high dollar incentives for you big spenders… and, in fact, while there were sketch/watercolor tiers available, they’ve since been booked up. Still, if you have $500.00 to spare and a burning desire for Doctor Cat to be in print, you can be the one lucky fan to appear in the background (and get the books, and the .pdfs, and a print).
There are some people in the world who don’t read web comics. There are many reasons to feel sorry for them, but their lack of Doctor Cat is near the top of that list. While we could laugh at them and feel smug and superior, I don’t think Doctor Cat would prescribe that course of action.
