It all began with Hepcats & "Omaha" the Cat Dancer

Some time ago, my oldest brother sent me a flyer in the mail. It was from a comic store with the comic series HEPCATS by Martin Wagner(print/online). This in turn reminded me of sneak reading "OMAHA" THE CAT DANCER by Kate Worley and Reed Waller (print/online) when I worked as a student computer lab admin. These were both stories that showed animal-headed people could be serious, adult, and for mature audiences. Mind you, they were still explicit, but in how they visually tackled real-life subjects. 

 

Here are other titles I got into because of Hepcats and "Omaha": 

THE CLASS MENAGERIE by Vince Suzukawa - (webcomic completed) Anthro animal college students and their lives within a dorm. Fun and real and oh so slice-of-life. 

 

ALIEN DICE by Tiffany Ross - (webcomic ongoing, & now on the webcomic app TAPAS! Go check it out!) A white human woman who ends up in a galactic  game and falls for one of its enslaved players from another world. It's an epic far-reaching series and highly enjoyable.

 

THE SUBURBAN JUNGLE by John "The Gneech" Robey - (webcomic completed) A lioness model going through life and career, while trying to navigate her romance with a tiger male model and all of their family and friends. Funny. Poignant. And so relatable.

 

SABRINA ONLINE by Eric W. Schwartz - (webcomic completed) A female skunk with the same degree I have and who went straight into another career as I did. Very raunchy, dirty jokes and gags galore. Not for the faint-of-heart or easily offended(& I don't mean for bigoted jokes. Those are never funny & treated as such in this comic) by sex and intimacy jokes.

GOLD DIGGER by Fred Perry - (print ongoing) Don't let the title fool you. It's literally about a gold-digging Lara Croft-type sexy archeologist and her adopted sister who happens to be the last of her were-cheetah clan. Yeah, you heard right. As they travel the world, they encounter aliens, mythical beings, and magical creatures who are so much more than in their original mythologies. I mean, there's ninja leprechauns in this! What's NOT to love?

KEVIN AND KELL by Bill Holbrook - (ongoing) A wolf and a rabbit get married. And that's all you should know to enjoy this episodic romp through suburbia, mixed-marriages galore, and the brilliance of putting all these animals with real-world ethnic backgrounds into the mix.

These are just a *few* of the stories that inspire me over the years.