Anyone who shares a home with a cat knows the house rules are refreshingly simple: the cat writes them, and everyone else obeys. Perfectly good food gets rejected, keyboards become beds, and urgent demands for attention arrive at exactly the wrong moment. Somehow, we still find them irresistibly adorable.
San Diego cartoonist Lucas Turnbloom knows the drill better than most. In 2017, he and his wife adopted Sugar, a rescue cat who had been passed between several homes before landing in a shelter. It took her about a month to settle in, and then, as Turnbloom put it, “She would start doing strange things.” He began drawing comics about her antics simply to make his wife laugh, until she convinced him to share them online. The response was so strong that his series, How to Cat, became a regular feature on GoComics in 2019, with Sugar reimagined as Sweetie, a round little feline with an angelic face and a talent for chaos.
Whether she’s making a mess, testing her human’s patience or plotting new ways to get exactly what she wants, Sweetie always seems to have the upper paw. Scroll down to see the latest comics, and tell us in the comments which one reminds you most of your own furry troublemaker.
