A watercolour comic strip

Pussy Wrangler

110 drawings, one man, a great many cats

He herds cats and women. That is the whole premise and it is where the name comes from. Mostly watercolour over ink, mostly four or six panels, and mostly the same two men getting into something.

Mersh is the one in the shades. He runs a strip club, he rescues cats, and the cats have names and opinions — Clarence, Marge, Louie. Royce is his buddy. Royce runs a barbecue food truck called The Juicy Hippo. Best pulled pork in Florida. He is also the one who turns up to bail Mersh out of jail, which happens.

Whatever I wrote underneath these at the time is still under them. Mersh has his own page now, with the noir and the Kitty City work on it.

The story 26

In order, start to finish. Most of these are proper scans now instead of photographs of the sheets.

The first cartoon of the PUSSY WRANGLER. Of course called pussy wrangler because he herds cats and women.

Mersh's buddy, Royce, runs a bbq food truck called The Juicy Hippo. Best pulled pork in Florida.

Famous people come through Mersh's strip club.

Sometimes Mersh has to run for his life.

He just wakes up with his hair like that.

That time when mersh took a dab that sent him into another universe.

Flirting 2: notice the same girl from flirting 1 is behind Mersh in line... he misses it again.

After renting a boat and stocking it for a nice relaxing day of fishing.

There is a script

A disgraced cop, a rented room, and a food truck in the parking lot. The strip is the gag version. The script is the real one, it is finished, and I would genuinely like notes on it.

Read the scriptPDF · 229 KB

Concept art 29

Working out who everybody was — the cats, the trucks, the lettering, and what Mersh looks like from the side.

Pussy wrangler... of course it's going to be Clarence!

Pussy Wrangler, Mersh — picture by Ray Patrick

Help mersh get to 5k so he can be the anti-hero we all need.

Doodles 6

The margins. Things drawn while thinking about something else.

Work in progress 21

Inks before the colour went on, the title card twice, and a few things that never found a page.

Kitty City, Comics, Pussy Wrangler — watercolor cartoon by Ray Patrick

Pussy Wrangler, Mersh — watercolor painting by Ray Patrick

The people in this are caricatures of broadcasters. The strip club, the plot and every word anybody says in a panel came out of my own head. Mersh has his own page, the city in the book is Kitty City, and the writing is on the stories page. More cartoons in rayraytoons, the paintings in the gallery, and any of it can go on a mug — merch.