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Day 803 - The Advent of Admiral Kitty
Originally uploaded by lrayholly

When we first started Cosmos, the idea was to both give you guys, the readers, an idea of the Hellcats Universe beyond what you see in the main strip. We figured we could show some backstory and flesh out some characters without interrupting the ongoing story. It also meant that it would give Max a chance to write some of the strips and me a chance to draw some. Something that both of us have been wanting to switch off on for quite some time. 

The only problem was that I've been so busy with the strip and with other projects that I hadn't had a chance to draw one. But, last week, when I realized Mother's Day was coming up I had an idea. 

For those who don't know, the character of Admiral Kitty is based on my mother, who had been begging me to appear in the strip for quite some time. And of course, ever since she first appeared, she's been begging for more. Well, as a special Mother's Day present, i thought I'd surprise her by putting her in a starring role of her very own strip. Well, a one panel one, and figured I'd even make it in color.

So Happy Mother's Day, Mom! I love you.

And happy mother's to all the baby's mommas out there. And all the momma's mommas. 

Enjoy the special color Cosmos, a look at the past of the Cosmic Hellcats team during the third intergalactic war. Come back on Monday to see Adventures continue and come back next week to see another peek at the Hellcat's Cosmos.

-Mav

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It's been a while since I posted any new notes here, other than the comic. I certainly hope everyone has been enjoying it. Please, let us know, either by commenting on the comics themselves (you can create an account or simply click "comment anonymously" or by sending us mail at feedback@cosmichellcats.com.

Hopefully we'll get some new sketches up in the sketchbook soon. In the meantime, we're happy to share this fanpic from flickr user, Mickey Sacks. Mickey is also petitioning for a  place being a future Hellcat. Now that we've had several people ask, I'm going to issue a formal challenge. If you'd like to be a Hellcat in a future storyline (or perhaps a TEDD-IJA, like Kennedy), then please send a picture of yourself dressed as a Hellcat to us at feedback@cosmichellcats.com. Maybe one day you'll be in the comic.

And we'd still like to see hand drawn fan art as well. It's been a while since we got any of those submitted. So if you'd like to take a shot at drawing the Hellcats, please do so and send it to us and we'll post that here as well. Maybe one day we'll even have a week of guest strips or something that people can do. But one step at a time.

Anyway, what do you think? Should Mickey be the next Hellcat?

-Mav

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I created the Cosmic Hellcats fanpics section, because I thought it would be cool to see some interpretations of the characters from other artists. And by interpretations, I was kind of expecting drawings. 

It really never dawned on me that we'd have people submitting photographs. But I think it's great that they do. It seems everyone wants to be a Hellcat.

I couldn't be happier.

This is from Lrayholly who has informed us that the one thing the Cosmic Hellcats team is missing is an older member. So she has created the character of Mz. Kittie, an elderly but feisty felinoid from back in the old days. I actually think the idea shows some promise. What do you think? Could Mz. Kittie be a Hellcat?

We'd love to see more people's Hellcat creations, either photos or drawings and your interpretations of the official characters, or just any other comments about the comic or the site you happen to have. Please write us at feedback@cosmichellcats.com. We look forward to it.

-Mav

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Steph felt that there needed to be more fan art pictures of Damsel and Amaya, so she sent this in.

We've been quite pleased with all the submissions for the fan art section. Thank you all for participating. 

We're always looking for more. So if you have any Hellcats pictures and would like them posted here, we'd love it if you'd send them in to feedback@cosmichellcats.com.

-Mav

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In some ways, posting fanpics is more fun than working on comic itself. Don't get me wrong. I love writing the comic, and without the comic there's nothing for people to send in fan pics for. But it's always nice to see that there are people out there who like the strip.

This one was sent in from Like_Shipwrecks. She says that she tried to draw a hellcat, but it wasn't working out so she decided to just dressup as one. Her original drawing is below. I don't know, as good as the drawing is, seeing her is even better. 

What do you think? Have we found the next Cosmic Hellcat?

If you have fan art, or you've dressed up as a character from the strip, send it to us at feedback@cosmichellcats.com.

-Mav

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I love it when I can just ask for something and it happens.

I asked for more fan art of the girls and we received this sketch from another of my Flickr peeps, Helder.

Helder did a sketch of all four girls, which is awesome because now they're all represented in the fanart section at least once. But more importantly I like that he used a very different style from what we normally do here. It's always nice to see different interpretations of the characters.

Of course we still want more fan art as well, so if you feel like drawing any, or if you just want to tell us what you think of the strip or the book, please email us at feedback@cosmichellcats.com.

-Mav

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For those who don't know, I co-host a podcast based on one of my other art projects (365 Days, a daily photographic, self-portrait journal) with a guy named Stephen Poff. 

I made a comment on one of my 365s that I was looking for Hellcats fan art to add to the site, and Stephen was nice enough to draw one. So here are Damsel and Sarah.

Sarah, at two pics, now has more fan drawings than any of the other Hellcats, I'm sure they're jealous; especially Amaya, who has none. So now is your chance, draw your favorite Hellcat (or Hellcats) and send it to us at feedback@cosmichellcats.com, and we'll add it here on the site. And if Sarah is your favorite, feel free to draw her too. She loves bragging. 

-Mav

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Since there's no update to the comic itself til Monday, and since so far in the current story, only Damsel and Amaya have appeared, I thought it might be a good time to post these sketches of Chaste and Sarah by Kristoffer Smith.

Kris is a local Pittsburgh artist and comic book creator and insanely talented. He's been "in the biz" since he was a teenager and had his own table at comicon. He stopped by our booth and saw the comic on the first day, and then came back a few hours later with this sketch of Chaste, simply because he liked the book.

The next day, Sarah asked him to do one of her, so he did that as well.

I love Kris's art and hopefully there'll be some future Hellcat project we can collaborate on.

If you have Hellcats fan art, please send them to us at feedback@cosmichellcats.com.

Flickr user Elston, who is a member of my 365 Project recognized me and approached me at the Con.

We spoke for a while about my 365 book and the Hellcats comic and he asked if it was ok if he took a picture with me and the team for his daily self-portrait. Being total camera whores, we of course obliged. 

He also gave us a picture of Chaste that he took at the convention before he even knew that i was involved in the project.

Thanks to Elston, and if anyone else has any pics they'd like to share, please send them to feedback@cosmichellcats.com.

-Mav

We had a great time at Comicon, of course. The book did really well and we met a lot of fans and even did a couple of interviews. The girls seem to have had a blast. I keep looking around Flickr and seeing Hellcat pictures popping up everywhere.

Took a lot of pictures out there of a lot of people in a lot of great outfits. Decided to add them here. In the future, any pics we have from fans, be they photos with max, the girls, and myself, or fanart that people have drawn will be added to the Fan Pics section of the website. I actually have a couple of really good sketches by Indy Comic artist Kristoffer Smith that I will be putting up as soon as I have time. But until then, enjoy these photos from the con. Even more pictures from comicon, including all those without the 'Cats, but with some great costumes nonetheless are on my flickr page. If you have your own pics with the 'Cats you'd like uploaded here or if you have any fan sketches, please send them to feedback@cosmichellcats.com.

Also, we're hard at work on issue 2 of Cosmic Hellcats IX. But until then, be sure to check out the website for the new Web Comics section of the site for the brand new Cosmic Hellcats Adventures webcomic that Max and I just started. We'll be updating it a couple times a week with further exploits of the 'Cats. These will probably even be sillier than what happens in the main book, which from now on is going to center more on story. Hopefully, we'll also be making Adventures into a published comic or manga as well, once we have enough of them. But that's off in the future. Until then, just enjoy them here. 

The first issue of Cosmic Hellcats IX is also still available. So if you don't have it yet, head over to the Bookstore and grab a copy. The more we sell, the sooner issue 2 can come out.