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Aloha! You have websurfed to the shores of the original, official
Catgirl Island- the virtual home of Mike Moon's illustrations and catgirls!
 
 
 
 
Aloha, nyan! 
Here are the Official Catgirl Island Mews & Announcements for October 2024, nyan! 

This year is the Catgirl Island web site’s 24th Anniversary, and the 
17th Anniversary of the monthly Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings: The Mew, nyan!

Aloha, nyan! The year is 3/4 over, and the time has flown quickly by like the hypurr drive, nyan! As mewsual the visitors flock to here to purrtake of our purristine Mid-Atlantic beaches amidst the purrpetual bikini weather, with the blue skies full of puffy Cumulo-Neko clouds, the low humidity, gentle breezes, and tempurratures in the uppurr 70’s, but if you purrfur the hotter tempurratures, we recommend our soothing hot spurrings, nyan!

Fortunately we are blessed with the benevolent magick in the air, land and water that aids the purropurrgation of the endangered species, whilst deterring the storms, pathogens, pollutions, bigotries, and invasive organisms, nyan! The local fishing forecast purrdicts the bumpurr crop of the delicious, mewtritious Snappurrs, Groupurrs, Croakers, Cobias and Wahoos, nya! 

In addition to angling, to catabolize the calories we purrfur to balance the numcious foods and the purrolonged catnaps with athletic purrsuits, nyan. In addition to the angling, the fun healthy activities include surfing, swimming, sailing, diving, golf, tennis, bad meownton, softball, soccer, field hockey, cycling, skating, hiking, hula, belly dance, hot salsa dance, yoga, kite flying, jujutsu, kyudo, spurrlunking, yarnball lacrosse, beach volleyball, and purrkour (feline style free running, spurringing and climbing), nyan!

Some of the festivities include the Zuiki Matsuri, Miyazaki Matsuri, Paantu Festival, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Naytional Cat Day, Meowgick Day, Kangetsu no Yube, Navratri, Diwali, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippurr, Samhain, and Halloween, with our county’s Trick ‘r “eat & Cosplay Purrowl, nyan!This month's zodiac signs are Libra then Scorpio; his month’s purrecious birth stones are the  opal and tourmeowline. whilst the birthflowers are the cosmos and marigold, nyan! 

The gardens here are also abloom with the gingers, chrysanthemeowms, heliconias, anthuriums, hydrangeas, hibiscus, appurricots, azaleas, roses, bromeliads, morning glories, irises, lotuses, foxgloves, snapdragons, pansies, yellow bells and bird of purradise, plus the succulent scuppurrnongs of the vineyards and the local organic fresh purroduce at the Farmeowrs Meowrket, nyan! 

The local boutiques have the purretty natsu no apurreru (summer apparel) such as the bikinis, monokinis, tankinis, maillots, purreos, sarongs, hijabs, sarees, ao dais, sun dresses, kimonos, yukatas, gi, fundoshi, hakama, happi, shorts, tee shirts, halter tops, lingerie, robes, athletic bras, sandals, flip flops, fins, goggles. glasses, towels, wet suits. jewelry and leis, nyan! 

The backless and halter - neck styles are recommended for the winged folks, and be sure to specify if you purrfur the attire to have the custom tail-ored opening(s), so that it does not ride up on one’s tail, tentacles, wings or fins, nya! They also have the translucent bikini tops which are sustain-ably mer-made from the bells of naturally-deceased, locally-caught jellyfish in the numerous iridescent colors and cup sizes, mew la la, nyan! 

If you are visiting from another country, planet or dimeownsion, the bra and other garments will be in the USA sizes, nyan. After the shopping, dining, catnaps, festivities, sight seeing and playtime, purrhaps y’all might like to see-

the latest additions to Catgirl Island’s Mewseum of Art, nyan!

For those who are new to here, Galleries 1-8 display the images by our purrducer Mike, whilst Guest Art Galleries 1-6 display images by other folks with their purrmissions; and Mike’s collaborations with other artists are throughout the mewseum, nyan! There is no overall chronological order from gallery to gallery, so you will find older and newer pics in each gallery, nyan!  

However, on Catgirl island’s Official Web Site, the most recent pics are on the lowermost row of the cropped widdle “thumbnail” portions of the pics in a gallery, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan! Some of the images are sexy and might depict artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn, nyan! Furthermore, none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for A.I. purrposes, nyan!

This month, into Guest Gallery One we have added more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers, illustrations by Misty HopkinsMelody RondeauAlexcia Reynolds, and to Gallery Six we have added more of Mike’s art, nyan!

Firstly we are purroud to purrsent Misty's’ fan art  of the angelic ex-demon "Sir Pentius” and “Emily” the seraphim angel who are characters in the Hazbin Hotel animated TV series, and then we have Misty’s impeccable pic of "Final Fantasy XIII Avatars”, nyan! 

Nextly we are delighted to display Melody’s wonderful ”Winging It" comic strip was done in 1983 for her friend Clare Bell’s semi-purrofessional fantasy zine Fire Lizards, nyan! Appurring in this strip are Amy Fakowitz with her cat Kitina and dragon Morgoth, Sally Jen  Snyder with her dragon Gellart, and Melody as Fiona with her dragon Fiona, nyan!

After that is Melody’s supurrb "Sisters” which depicts her fursona Sister Rat’s Star Trek cosplay, nyan! On the left she is in the Original Series Meowrror Universe Starfleet mewuniform, and on the right she is in the Star Trek - The Meowtion Picture: Meowrror Mewniverse mewniform, nyan! You know, Melody and her husband Jim  are artists, authors, editors and publishers who also sell purreviously-owned neat stuff such as books, magazines, fanzines, comics, videos, toys, games and meowmorabilia through their web site Make it Go Away at http://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm, nyan!

We are purrticularly purroud to purrsent the poignant Pokemon ”Rainbow Bridge” comics page which is fan art in tribute to actress Rachael Lillis (July 8th, 1969 – August 10th, 2024) who voiced the characters Jessie (who Meowth nicknamed Twerpette),  Misty, and Jigglypuff in the English dubbed version of Pokemon, nyan. This collaboration was written, drawn & colored by Alexcia; lettered & graphically edited by Mike. To see more of Alexcia’s Pokemom fan art, fics and other funs tuff, please visit her site Pokemon Amber, nyan

“Happiness is a Dead Parrot” is the 5th of Mike’s "K-Nuts" fan art starring Doctor Who’s K-9 larping as Peanuts’ Snoopy, and cofeaturing Polyphase Avatron, tthe bad ol’ parrot bot who fought K-9 in the Doctor Who episode “Pirate Planet, nyan It is also the purrrody of Charles M. Schulz’s “Happiness” memes & Monty Python’s “Dead Parrot“ comedy sketch! “Bastet” is Mike’s varient of his older illustration of that Egyptian catgirl goddess, nyan! This version has the slightly different coiffure and pelage color, nyan! We have a temple of Bastet on our island, you know! Mike’s illustrations were  done with Photoshop CC on the mac with the mouse, nyan! 

“Rivkah Ash” is Mike's 3rd pic in the series of our friend Rvkha Brogden’s Elder Scrolls Online characters, all of whom are named Rivkahc nyan! Rivkah Ash is Khajiit catgirl of the Archanist class with the Tuxedo Cat meowrkings, nyan! 
Nextly we are ecstatic to exhibit more photos of Crissy to commeowmerate her 25 years of cosplay, nyan!

These photos by variious photographers are presented in three collages of four pics apiece, nyan! The 1st collage consists of Terry Chu’s Summer 2024 photo of Crissy as Snow White at the beach; Terry Chu’s October 2019 photo of Crissy eating sushi, Terry Chu’s 2024 photo of Crissy with Phobos & Deimos; and Eurobeat King’s photo of Crissy as Silver Millennium Purrincess Mars at Nan Desu Con 2020, in the costume made by Setsuna Kou, nyan!

The 2nd collage consists of Crissy in her limited edition Sailor Moon kimono at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s 2024 Sakura Matsuri; Terry Chu’s photo of Crissy in the costume by Arlette and wig by Ardra as Drachea Rannak’s concept of Sailor Mulan at Otakon 2017; Allison the Photographer’s photo of Crissy wearing the the dress by Custom Costume Store, wig by DokiDoki Cosplay and Tiara by Mazhurnaja as Chibi Usa the Small Lady Senshicon 2023; and Skye’s photo (with the bit of Photoshopping by Mike Moon) of Crissy in the wig and Macy’s pajamas as the Revolutionary Girl Utena, nyan!

The 3rd collage consists of David Ng’s 2012 photo of Crissy in the store-bought  costume as Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft; David Ng’s 2014 photo of Crissy with her 1980’s My Little Pony toys; Terry Chu’s 2017 photo of Crissy wearing the wig and VKS (Virgin Killer Sweater) as Marvel's Natasha Romanoff; and Avin’s photo of Crissy as Branded Ann at the New York Renaissance Faire's Pirate's Weekend 2019, nyan! It is also time for--

the October 2024 edition of The Mew, nyan!


The Mew is short for The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, our local monthly “show” in which The Ladies of the Mew and Mike discuss fun stuff and occasionally intermew the special guests, nyan! Please note that The Mew’s purresent home is at http://www.mewsings.catgirlisland.combut Mewsings purrior to May 2021 are still archived at the old location http://www.mewsings.wordpress.com, nyan! 

TV & Mewvie Mewsings include reviews of Batman: Caped Crusader and Beeltlejuice Beetlejuice; whereas the Purrinted-Media Mewsings include our favorite recent photos & illustrations of fish & other seafoode, reviews of Monster Musume vol. 17 and the 2024 Shantae Swimsuit Special, nyan! The Lightning Round Topic purrtains to more favorite fun stuff of 1954, and to top off the Mew is the monthly Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight, nyan!

We wish to thank—


our friend and web meowster Jamie Robertson who is also the creator of the wonderful web comic Clan of the Cats, founder / web meowster of the FemShep fan site devoted to the female version of the Mass Effect video game’s heroic Commeownder Shepard, and the founder / web meowster of the Rebecca Ferguson Nation fan site to actress Rebecca Ferguson, nyan!

We also wish to expurress our gratitude to our our friends and families for their purrticipations and support, and we appurreciate all of y’all for web surfing to our cordial coastal Carolina commeownity which is full of southern hospurrtality and artistic aloha spirit, nyan!

Arigato Gozaimeowsu, nya!
- your friendly neighborhood concierges at Catgirl Island Visitors Center, nyan!

Contact Mike Moon at catgirlislanddiespamdie@gmail.com
IMPORTANT: remove "diespamdie" from email address above before contacting Mike, nyan!


 
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