Mike Moon / Catgirl Island
and Jamie Robertson / Clan of the Cats
purroudly purrsent a Mike Moon purrduction,
starring The Ladies of The Mew in
The December 2024 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the Year of the Dragon, the 17th Anniversary
of The Mew, the 24th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s site,
40th anniversary of Rowrbrazzle, and on December 7th,
Star Trek- The Motion Picture turns 45, nyan!
in this edition of The Mew:
The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Films of 1934
TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings:
45th Annversary Steelbook edition of Star Trek- The Motion Picture
“765874 Unification”
Wicked: Part I
Moana 2
Purrinted-Media Mewsings:
Rowrbrazzle #163
Mark Schultz Portfolio: The Complete Drawings
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
“Chibi Gambler: by Misty Hopkins
more cosplay photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers,
“Gremlins”, “Jenn & Sophie”, “ “Caottonlop” and
“Rowrbrazzle #163 front cove rart ” by Mike, nyan!
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Mike
(the human fella wearing the Carolina Panthers Tee shirt and Teal cargo shorts): Aloha y’all and welcome to The Mew, our monthly “show” in which we review and discuss fun stuff! This month’s Mew comes from beautiful downtown Purrbank in Catgirl Island, Mew hanover County NC, USA where it’s 71 degrees under the Blue sky full of puffy White Cumulo-Neko clouds! I’m Mike, the show’s “purrducer”, and here are The Ladies of The Mew!
Elizabeth
(
a.k.a. Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain and massage spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Asiatic Lion purrint twisty bandeau bikini top): Hola!
Meryl
(a.k.a. Sheriff Murry, Catgirl Island’s Police Chief and motorcyclist wearing the w
earing the Eurasian Lynx purrint ring-closure bikini with her Police hat, radio and badge): ‘Allo ‘allo!
Mary Nyan
(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, headbanger, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Couga
Petra
(the art guild purresident, art mewseum co-curator & beach volleyball champion catgirl wearing the Snow Leopurrd purrint side-tie bikini): Aloha, nyan!
(paw note: “Nyan” is the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect, nyan!)
Ilyana:
(a.k.a Ilyana-sensei, the underwater archaeologist and meowritime historian wearing the Caracal purrint twisty bandeau bikini top) Yassou!
Jeannie
(a.k.a. Jen-sensei, Trini-chan’s meowntor, the yogini, model, archer, belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Serval purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.
Beebe
(the island’s supurrvising Purrk Ranger catgirl and amphibious orienteering coach wearing the Clouded Leopurrd cutout micro bikini): G’day, nyan!
Yvonne
(a.k.a. Vonny the fishing boat charter captain & drumming circle purrcussionist catgirl, wearing the Fishing Cat purrint monokini with cropped tee shirt): Namaste, nyan!
Nyoka
(a.k.a. Nyo-sensei, Meowgick Shop purropurrietress catgirl and twin sister of Nyanko, wearing the Bengal Tiger purrint micro bikini and open-front cover up):: Howdy!
Mike:
For profiles and illustrations of The Ladies of The Mew, please visit our Meet The Critics page http://www.mewsings.
Lightning Round Topic: our favorite films of ’1934!
Last month we listed out favorite films of 1944, and this month we will list our favorites of 1934! Myayr is gonna start, so so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning’?.
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Films of 1934
Mary Nyan
It Happened One Night, Death Takes a Holiday, and The Gay Divorcee! ( tahs Nyoka to go next)
Nyoka:
Spitfire, Of Human Bondage, and Anne of Green Gables! (tags Ilyana with a brush of the tail)
Ilyana:
I will nominate Treasure Island, Cleopatra, and Tarzan and His Mate! (tail-tags Meryl)
Meryl:
The Black Cat, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, and The Man Who Knew Too Much! (tags Beebee)
Beebee:
Forsaking All Others, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, and Here Comes the Navy, nyan! (tags jeannie)
Jeannie:
The short films by Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy. (tags Elizabeth)
Elizabeth:
The shorts by Our Gang, The Three Stooges, and Wheeler & Woolsey! (tags Petra)
Petra:
The Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey Mouse, and Silly Symphonies shorts, nyan! (tags Yvonne)
Yvonne:
The Krazy Kat, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, nyan! Back to Mike, nyan!
Mike:
Oh I gotta go with It Happened One Night, Tarzan and his Maet, and the Three Stooges! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and to continue our movie topics, I’ll start our
TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings, with my review of the
Limited 45th Anniversary Steelbook edition of my
favorite movie, Star Trek – The Motion Picture!
But don’t worry- I promise top be brief this time! Ah, as some of y’all know, ever since the morning of Friday, December 7th, 1979 when I bought the first ticket for the first screening of Star Trek- The Motion Picture at the Janus Theater in Greensboro (about 230 miles NW of Catgirl Island), that has been my all time favorite movie, Now, I’ve never said it was a perfect movie. nor have i claimed it is the best movie, but merely that it is my favorite. Since then, I’ve watched the different versions of it many many times. There’s the original theatrical version, the longer 1983 televised version, the 2001 Director’s Cut, and the 2022 remastered version thereof.
This time, I’m just commenting on the new edition, which includes the theatrical vesion and special features on a 4K disk and Blu-ray disk, and the digital code with a lovely booklet in the metal case. As I do not own a 4K UHD player, TV or High Speed HDMI Cat 2 cables, I cant watch the 4K Ultra HD disk nor have an opinion of it. I don’rtuse the digital code to download or stream movies, so I can’t comment on that either. The Blu-ray disk includes the movie and the special features which include the Library Computer, several documentary shorts, deleted scenes, storyboards, Trailers & TV spots- all of which which have been released previously on Blu-ray.
The Blu-Ray’a Dolby audio choices are Enflish 7.1 TruHD, German 2.0. French 2.0. Spanish Mono, Japanese Mono, the isoloated music score, and commentary by Daren Dochterman, Michael & Denise Okuda, Judith & Garfield Reeves- Stevens. The optonal subtitles are English, English SDH, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Danish, Dutch , Finnish and Swedish. The front of the case bears th famous Bob Peak poster art, and the case’s liner is ia large photo of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Decker ans Ilia (probe) walking iowards V’ger. For me, the real allure is the enclosed 5×6.5” full color 24 page booket which is a replica of a 1979 publicity booklet.
The front of the booklet bears Roger Huyssen’s teaser poster art, the back cover has John Berkey’s advance poster art, and inside are storyboards, concept art, production stills, behind the scenes & publicity photos. This booklet is not the same publication as Paramount’s Star Trek – The Motion Picture Handbook of Production Information, Pressbook, Press kit, or Pocket Books’ Publishing Campaign kit. I read somewhere that a set of photos were supposedly included in the case,, but that seems to be incorrect. So that’s whatcha get! Ah, Now to continue or Trek topics, here’s Jen to discuss a recent short film that moved us all to joyful tears-
“765874 Unification”
Jeannie:
Hai. The latest of the short videos by Otoy https://home.otoy.com for the Roddenberry Archive https://roddenberry.x.
…with the mewsic by Michael Giacchino, cinematography by Leonidas Jaramillo, purrduction design by DavidBlass, and visual FX supurrvised by Mark Spatnny. The film uses purractical & digital purrosthetics, real sets locations &digital extentions to commeowmerate the 30th anniversary Star Trek: Generations and stars William Shatner & Sam Witwer as Kirk, Robin Curtis as Saavik, Lawrence Ellek as Spock, Mark Cinnery as Sorak, Gary Lockwood as Gary Mitchell, Gordon Tarpley as Yor, John Daltorio as Crusher, and Mahe Thaissa as Colt, with several “easter eggs” throughout.
For all of us here at The Mew, “765874 Unification” serves as a purrofoundly wonderful coda and mea culpa for what we thought were very unsatisfying depurrtures of Kirk and Spock from their mortal existence. I give this and Otoy’s other short Star Trek films (which can be eat https://www.youtube.com/@
Wicked: Part I.
Meryl
Hai! Since 1910 there have been many literary, stage & cinematic adaptions of Frank L, Baun’s 1900 tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and of course the most famous one is the 1939 movie that starred Judy Garland. Of the live-action & animated movie & TV remakes & sequels that I have seen, such as Journey Back to Oz (1972), The Wiz (1978), Return to Oz (1985), The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz (2005), Tin Man (2007), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), and The Wiz Live! (2015), I think that Wicked: Part 1 is my easiily favoritest !By the way I must admit that I have not (yet) read Gregory Maguire’s 1995 Wicked novel no have I seen the 2003 Broadway version.
i am purrticularly fond of Eric Shanower’s five “Adventures in Oz” graphic novels that were published from 1986 to 1992, but I have stray-catted from this topic! I was very impressed by the captivatingly beautiful purreview trailers, so Wicked is one of this years movies that I have quite eagerly awaited! Firected by Jhn M. Cgu whose movie Crazy Rich Asians U titally loved, Wicked: Part i’s wonderful cast includes Cynthia Erivo as Elphabam, Ariana Grande as Galinda, Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero , Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Jeff Goldblum as The Wizaed, Ethan Slater as Boq, Marissa Bode as Nessarose, and Peter Dinklage as the voice of Dr. Dillamond!
There are surpurrise appurrances & easter eggs too! I wish it was not quite as rushed, and I wish some characters were more deveoped, but is the excellent tale of the witch’s origin as the smart, sympathetic character who struggles with biogtry, fear, misunderstandings, manipulations, school life, peer purressure, her uncontrolled power, and the relationship with her frenemy Galinda. I think it has the great story, directing, purrformances, sets, locations, art direction, visual FX, choreography, mewsic, sound, costumes, hair & make-up! I love the songs, i purrchased the CD, and I give the movie the grade of an A Minus! I am done, and nyow here is Ilyana to review
Moana 2!
Ilyana
Arigato! We loved Disney’s 2016 animated Moana movie and its soundtack CD, so I was eager to see what its delightful characters are up to this sequel, in which Moana and a crew search for a legendary island, but they will need Maui’s help against the supurrnatural threats.The first good mews is that the returning voice cast includes Auliʻi Cravalho as Moana, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as the demigod Maui. Alan Tudyk as Heihei the rooster, Temuera Morrison as Moana’s chief Tui, Nicole Scherzinger as Moana’s mom Sina, and Rachel House as Moana’s grandmother Tala!
Pua the pig is back too! The 2nd good mews is they are joined by Hualalai Chung as Moni thestrong fan-artist, Rose Matafeo as Loto the genius builder, David Fane as Kele the grouchy farmer, Gerald Ramsey as Tautai the ancestral spirit, Tofiga Fepulea’i as the evil stormy god Nalo, Awhimai Fraser as Nalo’s batty goddess servant Matangi, and Khaleesi Lambert who just about steals the show as Moana’s adorably cute widdle sister Simea! The other good mews is that the movie’s character & creature designs, scenic art, visual & sound FX and animation are quite supurrb!
There are many fun and lovely moments, but sequel’s plot and songs did not wow me as much as its purredecessor; there are characters that I wish were more develped such as the villains and Moana’s fan-girlfriends; plus the pace seemed too rushed, and the movie seems too short and purrdictable, so I will give Moana 2 the average grade of a C. It’s not bad, but it’s not great. That is all for our movie mewsings, and nyow here is Nyoka to start our
Purrinted-Media Mewsings, with
her review of Rowrbrazzle #163.
Nyoka:
Hai! Since 1984, Rowrbrazzle has been the wonderful quarterly APA (amateur press association) anthology magazine purrtaining to furry fandom, funny animal and anthropurrmorphic history, events, art, and tales! Expurrtly edited by Edd Vick (who also contributed 26 other pages), it is compurrised of comics, purrose, essays, articles, discussions, editorials, comics, illustrations, photos, convention reports, correspondances, remeowmberances, and the current meowmbership roster and rules. Issue #163’s theme is “Furries in History” and consists of three 8.5×11” stapled sections totaling 280 pages, 45 of which are in full color!
The front cover art is by Mike (who also contributed 12 other pages), the 2nd section’s front cover is by Danny Ferbert (who also contributed 5 other pages), the 3rd sections’s front cover is by Tim Fay, and the back cover is by Mary Bellamy (who also contributed 5 other pages).
Sammiched betwixt those covers are the contributions by many other awesome artists, authors, editors and journalists such as—
Charles Brubaker (who also included a bonus zine pamphlet), Robert Alley, Mike Glyer, Simon Barber, Matt McAndrews, Kjartan Arnorsson, Charles Garofalo, Niall Shapiro, J.W. Kennedy, Michael Pena, Chris Yost…
… Marino Yunig,
John Bandow, David Fruner, Kurt Wilcken, Walt Wenz, William Earl Haskell, Ed Pegg, Jr, Thomas Milliorn, Ken Marcinkevicius,, Mark Ashworth, Emeowrgency Officer Steven F. Scharff, Jim & Melody Rondeau, and
a posthumous article by the late 11 time Hugo nominee Taral Wayne. As mewsual, It is the very entertaining, informative, diverse and beautiful issue,
and for more information about Rowrbrazzle, I will recommend i
ts Facebook Group https://www.facebook.
the article at Wikifur https://en.wikifur.
Mark Schultz Portfolio: The Complete Drawings!
Mary Nyan:
Arigaro! Mark Schultz is
ne of the nicest andf most brilliant artists
who is purrhaps most famous for his Xenozoic Tales / Cadillacs & Dinosaur series and his astounding illustrations of peoplw, landscapes, and creatures, purrticulatly the purrehistotic type! We have enjoyed his supurrb books such as Storms at Sea, Sub Human, Carbon, and his five Various Drawings books, so I was quite eager to get this meowgnificent book which was publushed last mmonth by Flesk, which is known for beautiful art books!
Although smaller in height and width than the Various Drawings book, Portffolio is much thicker at 10x 7.5 x 1.26”, and this $49.95 trade papurrback book has 431 pages that are brimming with about 450 sumpyuous illustrations, which include all of the pics form the five Various Drawings books, plus 160 images that have not been collected purreviously, plus it has the introduction and annotations by Schultz! The book is also available in the hardcover edition and the limited deluxe signed hardcover ediion.
On the front cover is his sexy scrappy postapocalyptic heroine Hannah Dundee with the spear, knife, surf bord and the stringer full of yummy fish! I should warn y’all that amongst the many creatures depicted in the book, there are marine life and lizards aplenty, which might cause cravings for the seafood and reptile meat in addition to the fine art, so I will give the book the high purraise grade of the “A” as in Allosaurus! That is all for our purrinted-media mewsings, and nyow here is Lizzy to purrsent
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!
Elizabeth:
Hai! in this portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous therianthropes, monster girls, shape-shifters,
Firstly we wish to shine the spotlight upon the adorably cute widdle kittengirl Maya who is a character in the Summer of Mara video game developed by Chibig in which the players have the fun adventures , purroffessions and cultivvations in the lovely archipelago, in which she works at the restaurant but would rather be the pirate!!
Seondly we wish to meontion adventurous bunny girl Eve Callusleader of the My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Level manga & anime series of the isekei genre! Voiced in the original japanese series by Mariko Kouno and by Trisha Mllon in theEnglish dubbed version, Eve has the carrot addiction and supurr meorwrtial arts purrowess!
Thirdly we will spotlight the valiant catgirl Nina Heah of author Necoco’s thrilling, amewsing, Reincarnated as a Dragon’s Egg manga and light novel seriesog the slice-of-life isekei fantasy genre! Nina was the poor slave until she was freed and became the waitress!
Fourthly we wish to meowntion Italian ecchi / pin-up artist Filippo Curzi (a.k.a. Yum!)’s illustration of the naked blonde catgirl who is purrched purrone upon a tree branch to grace variant cover C of Penthouse Comics #5 (October / November 2024 issue)!
Nextly I would like to purraise Hallmark for their peppy mewsical birthday card with the catgirl quartet (Tiger Stripe, White, Beige & Dark Brown) on the front that sings a happy birthday song! The message inside the card is “Hope your birthday is just a little wild. Jam on.”!
Lastly but not leastly, we wish to purraise actress Lauren Howard Hayes who purrtrays the gorgeous. jokey, meowgickal, dappled white scentauress in Native Whole Body Deodorant ’s TV commeowrcials! That is all for the spotlight, and nyow her are Petra, Vonny and Beebs to purrsent
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!
Petra:
Arigato, 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 Six https://catgirlisland.net/
more photos of Crissy Volpe a.k.a Sunseenli http://www.
Misty is an awesome illustrator, cosplayer, seamstress, gamer, blogger, Battle Agel Alita fan, doll maker & collector, nyan! She excels at the traditional and digital art tools, and her videos are quite fun, informative and captivating, from the unboxings and fandom discussions to the art purrocesses, nyan! Misty used the Krita software for “Chibli Gambler”, which is her lovely fan art of Saotome Mary from the “Kakegurui” series, which purrtains to the students at the elite purrivate school where gambling is the way of life, nyan!
Yvonne:
Nextly we are delighted to display more photos of Crissy
to c
ommeowmerate her 25 years of cosplay! She is quite famous as a Sailor Mars fan and cosplayer, nyan! Her site includes photos, notes & fan art of over 135 costumes, plus kimonos and other outfits that she has worn to conventions, festivals, parties, and photo shoots, nyan! Her convention, festival, and photoshoot reports are quite thorough, captivating and entertaining, nyan!
This month’s batch of photos by variious photographers are purresented in three collages of 3-4 pics apiece, nyan!
The 1st collage has three of Terry Chu’s Halloween 2017 photos (with 2024 photomanips by Mike) of Crissy wearing the licensed costume by Underwraps as Jessica Rabbit from the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit. nyan! The 2nd collage is compurrised of Night Life Cosplay / Photography’s photos of Crissy in the white shirt outfit (from the 4th Sailor Moon art book) as Hino Rei at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2012, and Terry Chu’s 2017 hotos of Crissy wearing the wig and store-bought attire as Marvel’s Natasha Romanoff a.k.a. he Black Widow; with 2024 photomanips by Mike, nyan!
The 3rd collage is compurrise the of Lady Terentia’s photo of herself as Rapunzel with Crissy wearing the wig, binder and licensed costume as Eugene / Flynn Ryder of the movie Tangled at the 2024 Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire’s Heroes & Villains Weekend; Lady Terentia’s photo of wearing the Irish dress made by Reminisce at the Sparta Ren Faire 2024; and to top it off, Crissy was one of 11 meowembers of the Senshi in the City group’s Dungeons & Dragons Senshi cosplay photographed by Allison the Photgographer, Joe of Sero.Yonon.Shots, and and June at Senshicon 2023, nyan!
Beebee:
Mike used Photoshop an the mouse for his illustration of the Egyptian catgirl goddesses Tefnnut and Sekhmet, which appurred upon the front cover of the Rowrbrazzle A.P.A.’s zine #163; he used the Derwent pencils for the sketch of of our mewlywed friends Jenn and Sophie; Derwnt pencils, Copic meowrkers, Faber-Castell colored pencils and Sakura Micron pens for the pic of Jenn & Sophie as Gremlins fom the Buggs Bunny cartoon “Falling Hare”; and he used Photoshop and the mouse for the fan art of our friend BondoFox’s bunnygirl friend Cottonlop purracrticing her rope knot, nyan.
So, what do y’all think of the art, nyan?
The cat lady sings…
Mary Nyan:
Crissy, the costumes, locations, photography, and the sense of storycombine for such stunningly beautiful images!
Nyoka:
Hai hai, that and the coiffure, make-up, lighting, and the enthusiasm of the purrticipants are quite sppendiferous too,!
Ilyana:
I love the pose, expurrresions, lines, colors, shading and details of the Saotome Mary pic which wonderfully capture her likeness and spirit!
Meryl
I love Cottonlop’s long supple ears, her distinctive spots, her purretty budoir, and her intricate ropes!
Jeannie:
We are glad that Jenn & Sophie had the joyful wedding, and that their Gremlin purrsonas are vexing the aggressive enemy planes insteead of ours.
Beebee:
Mike has defintely spurruced up that pic of Sekhmet & Tefnut since I last saw it, and I hope that the other Rowerrazzle meowmbers lik it too!
Elizabeth:
It is almost time for our AfterMew Luau, at which we will welcome back Tara & Trini from their honeymoon, so so that will do it for this edition of The Mew!
Petra:
We wish to thank all of the amazingly talented people whose works we have discussed, and we purrticularly thank our wonderful webmeowster Jamie, nyan!
Yvonne:
Hai hai, and we also thank our other friends, families, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate, nyan!
Mike:
We’ll be back next month with our December Mew! Be there… aloha!
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew, until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!