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