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Alley Cats
September 9, 2009 Favourite target of a well-hurled bootjack, alley cats are one of the most punished cartoon creatures.THE ARCHETYPAL CARTOON CAT is scrawny, disheveled, and black, though (except for anonymous bit players whose sole function is to bring bad luck) not entirely black, but black with white jowls. That’s how Rube Goldberg drew cats. It’s how Ernie Bushmiller drew them, to say nothing of George McManus (Bringing Up Father), F. Opper (Happy Hooligan), Fred Willard (Moon Mullins), Milt Gross (Dave’s Delicatessen) and C. L. Sherman (Pete), to name a few. It’s the color scheme of Krazy Kat, Felix the Cat, the Cat in the Hat. In reality, such cats are uncommon—have they …
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ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012
online content:
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Anatomy of an Occupation
What really happened at Occupy Toronto? [full text] -
The Death of Networks
Occupy and the Arab Spring are often glowingly compared to the decentralized, democratic internet. But that very similarity may have doomed these movements from the beginning. [full text] -
Tenth Anniversary Timeline
A decade of Maisonneuve. [full text]
also in this issue:
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Face the Music
How can someone who passionately loves music also be a terrible singer? Tim Falconer takes up voice lessons—and discovers the surprising science of tone deafness. -
The Big Job
As a teenager, Deni Y. Béchard went to Vancouver to live with his father, an ex-con with a penchant for telling tall tales. He met a man desperate to forget the past. -
The Homesickness of Astronauts
"She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon." - [see full issue contents]