An actual photograph of me watching fights play out in the comments across social media lately. 😅

Outside, it’s a cold and rainy night. Inside, dry and toasty. I’m under a pile of fluffy blankets, wearing fuzzy socks, with not one but two hot water bottles. I’m locked into a cozy bedtime harder than a little frog in pajamas in a children’s book.

Part Two of the surprise special bonus broadcast “What the Golden Mouse Did…” is up on the BCN Patreon! You can find our Patreon here: patreon.com/breakingcatnews I’ve always asked folks to pay what they can, all of the content is unlocked at every tier!

OMC!! Looks like the Threadless Breaking Cat News shop is having a sale until November 20th! T-shirts are just $15 and many other items are on sale too! You can find our shop here: breakingcatnews.threadless.com

So good, @findingdeefish.bsky.social !!!

My Mom and I stayed up way too late watching an entire season of Doc Martin, so yeah, you could say I party…

My son: “I’m sad David Lynch died.” Me, in an overly loud David Lynch voice, ala Agent Gordon Cole: “I’m never far from you! I’m speaking to you through your Mom RIGHT NOW! I can speak through ANY adult and EVERY electrical socket—“

While watching a compilation of 1980s Thanksgiving commercials on YouTube… Me: “Aw!! Dick Butkis! I forgot all about Dick Butkis—“ My child, stern: “Mom, LANGUAGE!!”

Every movie is a trilogy when fall asleep watching the same movie three nights in a row 🥰

Because I work about two months ahead in the comic, it’s Christmas in my studio right now (to get into the spirit!l for writing!) and Thanksgiving in the rest of the house and let me tell you… Peak cozy! …Also the front yard is still Halloween 😂 Really just reveling in the holidays over here 🤭

“Perfect Strangers”, is one of my favorite tv shows, going back to being a little kid in the 1980s. In 2017, I wrote a season outline for a reboot, just for fun. It popped up in my memories recently, and I’m really proud of it! I hope folks enjoy it ❤️ #perfectstrangers #tgif (1/3)

Me, immediately after turning everything off and locking the door, “Did I turn everything off and lock the door?”

Snoopy in the streets (friendly, outgoing, mischievous). Garfield in the sheets (napping for hours, covered in lasagna)…

We need a bill to ensure each and every member of Congress, the Senate, and the president lose their income for their entire term any time a government shutdown is triggered. Share if you agree!

Whenever my inner monologue gets negative, and I begin to speak unfairly to myself, (as we all do from time to time) I whisper “Wow, I don’t think the men who raised me—Bob Ross and Mr. Rogers—would appreciate this!”

Do you mean to tell me that the makers of New Coke don’t understand why the public hates the expensive new trend no one wants??

You’ve heard of an “Irish goodbye” (leaving a party without telling anyone), but how about a “Roanoke goodbye”? (Writing ‘CROATOAN’ on the bathroom mirror in lipstick and disappearing out the window…)

Me in my 30s: I need some really cozy, fluffy socks! 🥰 Me in my 40s: I need some really cozy, fluffy socks! With little grippies on the bottom, like hospital socks have. Preferably tiny suction cups, like an octopus tentacle! 🥰

This song, but the lyrics are just about my hunger-cravings pleading with me to order Taco Bell in the middle of the night… youtu.be/YdGc_7Scres?...

DISCLAIMER: I did not make MurderCake! I bought him at the Fred Meyer Snohomish, WA location. Some angel in their baking department made him! I will, however, love him forever. It was a joy to know you, MurderCake! 🥲❤️

Me, for 25-27 years: “I hate when they go back and update the special effects in movies! Please, keep the originals just as they are!” Also me, for 25-27 years: “…You can fix ‘The Langoliers’ tho 🥺👉🏻👈🏻…”

Prepping early, I filled the giant plastic Jack-o-Lantern that I use to hand out candy. I put it in my studio, so my kids wouldn’t get into it before Halloween. And LET ME ASSURE YOU: IT WAS A REAL BAD IDEA. GUESS WHO GOT INTO IT BEFORE HALLOWEEN. THAT’S RIGHT, IT’S YOUR GIRL, ME.

PNW folks, I know this is an atmospheric river, but could it also be the start of… ✨ The Big Dark? ✨

Editorial cartoonist @claytoonz.bsky.social recently suffered a stroke. Artists are encouraged to draw his comics buddy Pizza Rat! Here’s Pucky interviewing Pizza Rat, who would like to share Clay’s GoFundMe with you all: Here’s link to Clay’s GoFundMe! www.gofundme.com/f/clayjones

There’s a bonus broadcast—the size of a double Sunday strip!—on the Breaking Cat News Patreon today! I couldn’t fit every storyline into newspapers, so the crew is reporting to you live with a bit of extra-happenings over there! You can find our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/c/breakingca...

“Do you ever worry you’ll run out of ideas?” What upsets me more than anything, creatively, is that I could write entire daily comics about Our IX Lives, the Wildlands Creatures, Dr. Scuttles and his home, Home Style and Thimblefist’s adventures, all at once, if I only had the energy and the time.

I’ve failed so many picture captchas, that at this point I have to assume I’m a robot that my parents built.

Friend: “Do you have a long black cloak with a hood? Sorry if that’s a weird question, you just seem like you would—“ Me: “Yes, of course!”

This isn’t the end of the First Amendment; this is the moment our founding fathers wrote the First Amendment for. It was a lifeline in their absence, ensuring that when a troubled time arose generations later, we would be free to continue speaking up, asking hard questions… (1/2, continued…)

I’ve been thinking of this advice from my childhood often lately… It’s good advice. ❤️

Me: I can’t stand all these reboots and remakes and sequels! Stop mining our childhood and write something new! Also me: A “Fast and the Furious” and “Transformers” crossover would be sick, right??

If you need a cute kitten to bat AI into the trash, Ora Zella has you covered! 🥰 breakingcatnews.threadless.com/designs/ora-...

They told us to stop passing silly notes in class, and now we pass memes and reels in DMs all the time. 🥲 It’s kinda lovely. 🩷

POV: It’s a weekend morning in early autumn. Your kids are playing on the living room carpet. You’re hanging out on the couch with your Mom, watching British mysteries and laughing at inside jokes. Cinnamon buns are in the oven. Cats are napping in every free spot. Outside, it’s crisp and raining.

Light brown sugar is kinetic sand you can eat by the handful in an emotional emergency. Follow me for more hot baking tips 🫡

Me fumbling a wad of bills in the drive-thru: “Sorry, I don’t handle cash a lot, that’s why I look like a raccoon that found a wallet right now—“

I know the last panel of today’s strip is a little fresh, but in my defense: When it comes to feeding cats, some mornings are just like this 😂

I worked hard last week, packing up my childhood home, helping Mom sell it, filling a storage pod with boxes, sorting, carrying items back and forth for days… And tonight, the Nana, the Boy, and the Girl are laughing at MST3K while I make soup in the kitchen. There it is. That’s why I did it. ❤️

Sitting and disassociating for 20 minutes after a shower is a vital part of the hair drying process. 😌

I just realized Miss Piggy can never die, she can just go on being a celebrity for centuries, and I got really emotional. 🥹🩷

I love today’s BCN Sunday strip for many reasons. 🤭🩷 Miss you, Nana Dee Dee, SO much! I’ll never turn my back on a recliner! 🤣

When a Dad dies, his eldest daughter is crowned King Dad.

Everyone keeps asking if we’re traveling for the Reubens 🙏🏻❤️ The timing is wild, for sure!!

The Norman Rockwellian scene of Mom, the kids, and I gathered around the cellphone, to watch this Second City skit 🤣: youtu.be/knlJOHnr11A

Overheard at bedtime tonight, my 10 yr old daughter, softly and earnestly singing: “…A single Mom, who works two jobs, who loves her kids and never stops… Eight gentle hands and the heart of a fighter… …I am a spider…” 🥹😂❤️ youtu.be/jfHeAhG30V0?...

Hear footsteps walking down the hall, the knob turns, the bedroom door opens, no one’s there. Hello, New England. I missed you too. 🥹😂

THIS WAS A GREAT IDEA AND I STAND BY IT 🤣

I ask you, weary, humble, broken… …How many Spider-Man movies am I to endure in this lifetime?

I’m so proud of this illustration of my woolly bear character, Colonel Pillar, dealing cards in today’s comic strip. This was a lot of little action sketches and careful thought to get those three arms and the order of the cards landing right. ❤️

AI has turned every Google search result into a recipe blog from 2010; where we had to scroll & scroll & scroll through paragraph after paragraph about the writer’s one summer in college when she picked fresh blueberries off a little road on the coast, all just to get to THE. DANG. MUFFIN. RECIPE.