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“Cats in Victory” Fan Art

December 22, 2009 by David Barr Kirtley 2 Comments

Here’s some more fantastic fan art from Jandan. These are the dogmen from my short story “Cats in Victory.”

David Barr Kirtley Cats in Victory Art Illustration Jandan

Cats in Victory was a long-running series of mostly unfinished cat vs. dog picture books I did starting at about age 4. I recently rewatched season 1 of Thundercats, which just came out on DVD, and found the show nowhere near as good as I remembered, and I was actually kind of irritated by a lot of the unexamined subtext of the show re: ugly and/or different = evil / mindless deference to authority (especially supernatural authority) / reflexive violence, so I decided to resurrect Cats in Victory, which in its original incarnation was wholly shaped by these messages I absorbed as a kid, and repurpose the fictional world as a critique of some of the values (or lack thereof) of children’s television.

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  1. David Barr Kirtley : Blog : “Cats in Victory” Short Story to Appear in Lightspeed Magazine says:
    February 3, 2010 at 10:28 pm

    […] fiction mag Lightspeed, edited by John Joseph Adams. For more on the origins of the story, read this post here. Basically it’s a response to some of the stuff that bugs me about the Saturday morning […]

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  2. David Barr Kirtley : Blog : Lightspeed Magazine Issue 1 Table of Contents says:
    March 5, 2010 at 9:39 am

    […] include my short story “Cats in Victory.” (For more on the origins of this story see here.) To celebrate, I’ve been kicking it old school with some classic Cats in Victory adventures […]

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David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, for which he’s interviewed over four hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. His short fiction appears in the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories.
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