Breaking Cat News
Breaking Cat News is a syndicated comic strip created by cartoonist Georgia Dunn. It is syndicated through Andrews McMeel Syndication. Publication history. Dunn created the strip after moving back to her native Westerly, Rhode Island after living in Seattle. The strip debuted on March 12, 2014, at first self-syndicated by Dunn; and has appeared on the GoComics website since October 20, 2014. Andrews McMeel Publishing published the first collection of the strip in 2016. Dunn wrote in the foreword that she got the idea when one of her cats made a mess and the others showed  up as if to investigate, which led Dunn to create voices for them as if they were television news channel reporters. Characters and story. The main characters in "Breaking Cat News" are based on Dunn's own cats Elvis, Lupin, and Puck. They are drawn in watercolor and ink. The characters' personalities are based on the personalities and behavior of their real-life counterparts. Also in the cast are a human family referred to as the Woman, the Man, the Toddler, and the Baby. In a January 5, 2020 broadcast, when the Baby becomes a toddler, they change the reference  terms to The Boy and The Girl. Other people, cats, and a few other creatures appear as the live coverage continues. Because this is "news important to cats", a typical lead story might be "There's a great big box in the living room!" or "Someone ate all the flowers and threw up in the hallway." However, there are larger story arcs, like a new cat, Goldie, being adopted, the Children developing (potty training, learning to walk, becoming Toddlers), the weather, Tommy the stray finding his Woman, et cetera.