Recent Comments

1. 2 months ago on @Tavicat

   Pippi is a girl, Fargo and Pippin and boys. But the Three Stooges still fits.

2. 8 months ago on @Tavicat

   The backgrounds are more metaphorical than literal, and I use color to represent the mood as it changes. I also usually try to balance everything out by having a warm background color in the middle, while the left and right panels are cool colors.

3. 8 months ago on @Tavicat

   That’s me being stupid and tired and accidentally writing in the comic number “#888,” instead of the title, which was supposed to be “Masked.” Argh!

4. over 3 years ago on @Tavicat

   Sorry this comic got posted twice, everybody! I got confused about the date and loaded it up wrong!

5. almost 5 years ago on @Tavicat

   The correct pronunciation for Haiku in Japanese is 3 syllables: Ha-i-ku. Fargo is a smart boy.

6. about 7 years ago on @Tavicat

   Tavisha and I would like to thank all of you who have stuck with our comic for the past year. Today’s comic marks the end of the daily updates. But don’t worry, Pippi and Fargo won’t be going away. Starting today the comic will be updated twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays. We hope these new adventures will feel as irreverently fun (or as frustratingly weird — you know, like cats) as all our previous efforts.

7. about 7 years ago on @Tavicat

   Reposting this for those who missed it when I posted on the 24th: “Hi, this is Rikki Simons writer for @Tavicat. These comics are based on our real cats, Pippi and Fargo, and they were all originally published on our tavicat.com site between 2008 and 2015 on a weekly basis. In October of 2011 Fargo passed away from kidney and heart disease. He was 14. We loved him so much and it was very difficult to continue the strip after that. There was a long pause of almost a year before we took it up again. When we decided to continue the strip, the question of what to do about Fargo’s mortality plagued us, but rather then skip it completely we decided it would be better if he just became a ghost and he haunted Pippi. We thought of doing a series of comics where we show how he passed away and we started those comics, but they became too painful to finish, and so we decided to skip to his after life. I’m sorry these strips have been so affecting. He was our best friend in the world for many years.

   Since there are no comics where Pippi and Fargo’s owners are shown experiencing Fargo’s death, we are toying with the idea of bringing him back to life in a future strip, but before we do that we want to show what his absence brings to Pippi’s view of the world.

   Thank you for sticking with us this past year. We’ve been dreading this storyline coming up for our GoComics audience. We hadn’t looked at his death in so long, it hurts all over again."

8. about 7 years ago on @Tavicat

   Reposting this today for those who missed it yesterday:“Hi, this is Rikki Simons writer for @Tavicat. These comics are based on our real cats, Pippi and Fargo, and they were all originally published on our tavicat.com site between 2008 and 2015 on a weekly basis. In October of 2011 Fargo passed away from kidney and heart disease. He was 14. We loved him so much and it was very difficult to continue the strip after that. There was a long pause of almost a year before we took it up again. When we decided to continue the strip, the question of what to do about Fargo’s mortality plagued us, but rather then skip it completely we decided it would be better if he just became a ghost and he haunted Pippi. We thought of doing a series of comics where we show how he passed away and we started those comics, but they became too painful to finish, and so we decided to skip to his after life. I’m sorry these strips have been so affecting. He was our best friend in the world for many years.

   Since there are no comics where Pippi and Fargo’s owners are shown experiencing Fargo’s death, we are toying with the idea of bringing him back to life in a future strip, but before we do that we want to show what his absence brings to Pippi’s view of the world.

   Thank you for sticking with us this past year. We’ve been dreading this storyline coming up for our GoComics audience. We hadn’t looked at his death in so long, it hurts all over again."

9. about 7 years ago on @Tavicat

   There was a real Fargo: http://www.tavicat.com/cats

10. about 7 years ago on @Tavicat

    Hi, this is Rikki Simons writer for @Tavicat. These comics are based on our real cats, Pippi and Fargo, and they were all originally published on our tavicat.com site between 2008 and 2015 on a weekly basis. In October of 2011 Fargo passed away from kidney and heart disease. He was 14. We loved him so much and it was very difficult to continue the strip after that. There was a long pause of almost a year before we took it up again. When we decided to continue the strip, the question of what to do about Fargo’s mortality plagued us, but rather then skip it completely we decided it would be better if he just became a ghost and he haunted Pippi. We thought of doing a series of comics where we show how he passed away and we started those comics, but they became too painful to finish, and so we decided to skip to his after life. I’m sorry these strips have been so affecting. He was our best friend in the world for many years.

    Since there are no comics where Pippi and Fargo’s owners are shown experiencing Fargo’s death, we are toying with the idea of bringing him back to life in a future strip, but before we do that we want to show what his absence brings to Pippi’s view of the world.

    Thank you for sticking with us this past year. We’ve been dreading this storyline coming up for our GoComics audience. We hadn’t looked at his death in so long, it hurts all over again.