Chapter 30 page 33 ~ the end
Ba-dum-tishhh.
I guess this would be a good time for some end credits, huh.
(Don’t leave yet, though — you don’t want to miss the post-credits bonus scene.)
Thanks to my family for their invaluable support. Especially my parents, who’ve helped pay off my student loans and bought at least one copy of everything I’ve ever worked on.
Thanks to creators like Kohta Hirano, Naoko Takeuchi, and Stephen Colbert for the amazing creative inspiration. (Anyone who hadn’t noticed the influence in the comic before, I’m sure you will now.)
There’s been a lot of misery and political backsliding in the world over the years this comic was published. Thanks to everyone who’s out there fighting it. As both Hillary Clinton and the second Care Bears movie tried to tell us: we’re strongest when we’re all together.
And a special thanks to all the readers, sharers, commenters, retweeters, fanart-drawers, and Patreon supporters of But I’m A Cat Person. Whether you commented on the latest update to say you just binge-read the whole archive, or you’ve been with us on this journey since page one, or anything in between — you’re all wonderful people, and I couldn’t have done this without you.
Sparrow: In this house we love and support every type of Being there is . . . but I’m still mostly a cat person.
I’m wondering about the Dove. I think last we saw them they were working on the dig in Israel with the Donkey. I don’t think we saw much if anything of their master, or who their master was and how they were connected to Josh back 2000 years ago when the Dove played angel.
Gotta say, it’s kinda sad to see the comic’s ending- but also, congratulations on getting through it! You deserve to celebrate.
Congratulations! What a lovely last page.
It’s always bittersweet to see a favorite comic end, but I’m d… https://t.co/yfQqfQQY2B
Yayyy! Great ending!
Awwww! It’s over!
Yayyy, now I can read through the whole thing again!
Yayyy, now we get to see what Erin’s next project is!
*sniff* It’s over. But what a ride!!! It has been an honor and privilege to read this epic work. Thank you for all of the new ideas to consider, for your support of all kinds of people, but most of all, for this incredible story.
Don’t worry, I will be sticking around for the bonus scenes. :D
I found this comic totally by fluke one day, I think it was an ad on something else I read but who knows. At the time, I was in the midst of writing what is now my first novel and surrounded by what I felt were kind of skewed ideas of representation.
See, before I found your comics, webcomics and stories with LGBTQ+ rep fell into one of two categories: its there, and all the characters only personality trait is that they fit some check box for representation or theres a constant metaphorical neon arrow pointing to them saying “Look! gay!” and drowning out any other attempt at personality traits, or its there, but you would have literally no idea if you didn’t check the characters page and read the fine print on the characters profile saying they’re trans.
I desperately wanted to write stories with better representation vs visibility myself, but I had literally no frame of reference for what that would look like.
finding BICP and by extension, Leif and Thorn, was a godsend in that regard. for some beautiful reason, all your characters manage to be actual people with visible LGBTQ+ status without being consumed by that as their only identity. they were all real people, with real struggles and life, and oh god the inclusion of a character who hasn’t got themselves all figured out is also wonderful.
it helps that BICP deals with a lot of themes and tropes I love, like language, modern fantasy settings, and dealing with questions of the nature of humanity versus what defines a “person”, all with a mostly optimistic view on things.
What’s more is that in the time span of reading your comics I’ve discovered a lot about my own identity, and it helped a lot to see people who were and felt like me in your stories to help piece it together. it was refreshing to see such a nonconfrontational attitude about being any degree of LGBTQ+, because holy crap people who know me know i am utterly terrified of all the infighting that goes on, especially as someone who is ace and has been told “thats not a thing” before.
needless to say i look forward to whatever you do next, because i adore your inclusive, optimistic, and definitely snarky writing style.
AW BEAUTIFUL BUT SAD. :-) I’m not going anywhere; bring on the bonus scene! ;-) A great ending to an awesome comic!
“We’re strongest when we’re all together” is AT LEAST 2000 years old. I’m pretty sure Hilary copied it from somewhere. Probably the Carebears movie. :-)
See https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSonsAndTheSpears for some examples.
Anyway, for case I didn’t mentioned it yet, this was beautiful comics and I’m sad it wasn’t longer, but on the other hand it’s good it’s finished and don’t end in half with hiatus as many others.
And looking at all those LGBTQ comments … it was great how you managed to make LGBTQ comics which is still interesting for people who don’t care about LGBTQ plot points …
Congratulations on crafting a wonderful story that was a true pleasure to read. I won’t go in depth as Erynn Q did, but I love that your characters are people not tropes.
Congratulations, what a great work. *sob* Thank you so much.
This last page is so beautiful, I’d love to have it on my wall.