The Feline that got away-Cool Kat: AKA ORSON KATZ+A surprising connection(To my affinity to Cats and OMAHA)

No Fanart Fridays today.

Things in life just happen so I need a break.

In the meantime, How's about a nostalgia trip to one of my old Drawings.

This does take me back.

This wasn't my idea.

This was an idea made by someone I knew who's working at the 

Pacific Autism Family Network Community Centre near YVR Airport.

He asked me personally to create a concept for this comic strip featuring a cat named COOL CAT.

I also had my own say about such a basic premise.

You can't just create a one-dimensional character called COOL CAT and just call him that.

You need a backstory and a birthname.

So I came up with the name ORSON KATZ.

This is Orson Katz shown below.

(Pay no attention to the Fiery Sprinter wording above the Y-7 rating. 

I no longer use Fiery Sprinter name as my company. 

My Company is now MAVERICK MARTINEZ.)

Why two cats?

Well, the plan was to have the same cat with another persona called COP-OUT KING.

And the rat?

Well, I needed to create a mediator, 

sort of a Principal Skinner/Lamar Bone style kind of character who would at all odds discipline the main character but also bond with him as well.

The result, was Dr. James Norvegik.

He's a 2 year old Berkshire Rat

(Rat's don't live long so I need to be true to biology)
who's also half Ukrainian.

And he's a therapist.

However, the idea never got off the ground. 

Why you ask?

A multitude of problems I encountered from the start.

But let's simplify the problems so I can get this over with.

The problem was of course, the premise of the character, according to this description page this guy sent me:

This reeks of TUDE, a problematic personality trait that ensures that that's the only defining thing about the character which in turn risks turning or already made the character one-dimensional.

Had to use GEX because using Sonic would have been egregious.

Plus, Sonic has an all-around personality compared to GEX...

Unless you bribe the Gecko with both money and a suit with Glasses, 

and spy training from Pierce Brosnan.

Another reason for backing out of the ORSON KATZ comic was because of this sick Schmuck below:

Ladies and Gentleman, 

that tiger you see above is the infamous COOL CAT, voiced by Larry Storch.

He's from Looney Tunes' much maligned Seven-Arts era.

That Tiger above looks nothing like the staples of anything Looney Tunes.

That's because he comes from an infamous period in time when Depatie-Freleng Enterprises took over the Looney Tunes after retiring the rest of the classic characters.

The irony is that Looney Tunes was being taken by one of the original animators since the 1930s.

That being Friz Freleng.

"Pink Panther and Inspector Clouseau we are not!!!"

Anyway, everybody hated COOL CAT.

Fans and even the executives at Warner Bros. in the 1960s could not take this tiger anymore to the point that they don't even feature him as a staple in anything Looney Tunes related nowadays.

Barring his return to TV via the beloved MeTV Toons Channel 

as well as a purported cameo in TINY TOONS UNIVERSITY.

There are multiple reasons why ORSON KATZ never got off the ground but for the sake of this blogpost, I'm kind enough to simplify it to the two examples I described.

But this did give me experience with designing Anthropomorphic Animal Characters. 

Aside from the Designs above,

I also experimented with drawing my Cat MISO THE FELINE

And it's also a given I do this blogpost because of my interest in developing a Tv Series concept based on Reed Waller and Kate Worley's OMAHA THE CAT DANCER Comic from the mid-80s to 2013.

I don't know why but you can tell that I have affinities for Cats since I have my Miso to thank me for that since 2018 when I adopted her.

I don't know if I'll ever revisit the Orson Katz Concept in the future but if possible, I'd like to fix the issues that plagued me in 2019 and restart the concept but just with a greater control of the premise, as well as not be jinxed by the ghost of Larry Storch and his COOL CAT character he voiced in the mid to late 60s.

Clash of the Dark Skinned Athletic Girls-Patti Mayonnaise vs. Lemon Yakishio

I was capturing some DOUG episodes on my 

Avermedia Live Gamer Portable 2Plus using RECentral on my AM5 PC as the capturing computer and using my MSI Laptop as the host machine and the CHROME Browser to bypass that stupid HDCP crap.

and while I was checking the MP4 File that I've captured to make sure the image is in perfect high quality 4K/60fps without artifacts or chromatic aberration, I had an epiphany.

Let's compare two athletic dark-skinned female characters and see what makes the two different from each other.

That being PATTI MAYONNAISE from DOUG

I'm using  the original 1993 Patti from the Nick era because Fandom,

 and I personally like long haired Patti better.

and 

LEMON YAKISHIO from MAKEINE: TOO MANY LOSING HEROINES

Yeah, having to compare a former Nicktoon girl with a Japanese girl with Tan skin from a more recent Manga/Anime series is pretty.....  I can't find the word I'm looking for.

Anyway, what's similar is to the two is that Patti and Lemon both are dark skinned.

But Patti's skin is due to an acrylic cel paint choice made by Jim Jinkins to allow the character to blend well with the rest of the characters who have literal colors for skin tone.

Lemon on the other hand, 

She's Japanese.

And TOO MANY LOSING HEROINES takes place in Toyohashi, Aichi, which is relatively south of Japan.

But my guess is that during one of Lemon's vacations turned opportunities to perfect her exercises and figure, she decided to sunbath with her track suit.

As you can see in the image above, Lemon has tan lines.

I know everyone knows what Lemon looks like with her Tracksuit on but for those who are curious:

Another difference between Patti and Lemon are their choices for Boyfriends.

Throughout the 9 years of the show being on the air via two networks, 

Patti has DOUG FUNNIE for a boyfriend.

Despite Doug himself being a so-called ridiculously average, It's made clear that Patti still prefers her ridiculously average Best Friend for an actual boyfriend.

Lemon on the other hand is an interesting case as she has her self-proclaimed boyfriend from Childhood.

That being Mitsuki Ayano.

But when Mitsuki doesn't reciprocate Lemon's feelings, 

all while Kazuhiko Nukumizu and Anna Yanami are watching from the sidelines, 

Lemon now has only one more choice:

She may not be open about it in either the Light Novel, Manga, or Anime,

But's it's obvious who Lemon now has feelings for.

And unlike Patti, who is Doug's first Love Interest,

Lemon is actually the second Love interest to Nukumizu

Nukumizu's first love interest is actually Anna Yanami

And Nukumizu also has a third love interest as well: Chika Komari.

But some may ask, what about the other girls DOUG as with during his 9 year run on television?

Beebe Bluff doesn't count as while she's kissed Doug, Beebe prefers Skeeter.

While I've seen some people think that a Doug and Connie Pairing is perfectly viable due to the two being both shy, picked on by Roger, etc

which may have exacerbated once Connie lost several pounds and became a hottie,

I'm team DOUG & PATTI all the way

I'm more mixed on who I ship Nukumizu with though.

The Light Novel, Manga, and Anime have all ended their run so it's left up to us fans, fan artists, etc. to determine who's the emerging Winning Heroine of Makeine.

Yes, I took too long to make this post since it's way past Valentines but that's not the reason why I made this post in the first place.

On a side note, I think I've figured out what causing them IDLE BSODs on my PC:

THE INFAMOUS 572.16 DRIVER VERSION.

(Jayztwocents did warn us about that Driver Version though I'm still on my RTX 4080.)

To a point that Nvidia patched it up with the 572.42 Driver Version.

As of now, I've updated my driver version to Version 772.60

And I'm firmly using the Studio Drivers due to being a content creator.

(Please note that them Drivers will change since making this post.)

For those who may be asking, while I have used some Avermedia screenshots of Patti from the Disney era, I did cherry picked my screenshots so that have her with long hair to maintain some consistency with my AMAZON Complete Nickelodeon Series DVD VLC Screenshots because why not.

We all know where to watch DOUG on streaming

but for Makeine, CRUNCHYROLL is the way to go.

Family Day 2025-Childhood Photos

Back in April 2024, 

Youtuber Clint Basinger, aka LGR,

uploaded a video dedicated to his very first Digital Camera he owned in his teen hood which was an INTEL POCKET PC CAMERA.

The Camera was susposed to a webcam but it also served it's secondary purpose as an entry level Stand-Alone digital camera when not being used as a Webcam.

The computer he had at the time was a COMPAQ PRESARIO 5000US

The specs weren't that great according to Clint himself.

His PRESARIO's specs were:

AMD DURON 750mhz Spitfire CPU

64MB PC100 SDRAM (He upgraded to a 128MB Module from PNY)

30GB Hard Drive

16MB Nvidia Riva TNT2 Vanta LT Card(Replaced with a 16MB 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000AGP)

& it came with Windows ME before he downgraded to 98SE a year later before upgrading to WINDOWS XP.

Anyway, we're not talking about Computers, or LGR.

What we're talking about is my Childhood and it's FAMILY DAY so that means, I want to share some photos from my Childhood and provide some minor commentary about some of the photos I have.

That's why I mention LGR's Intel Camera because that video on YouTube actually inspired me to look through my photos and share them as well as document everything related to those photos

So for Family Day 2025, here are my selected photos I'll be sharing based on my childhood:

Dad and I playing SUPER MARIO ALL-STARS on our little woodgrain TV.

Walk across Lonsdale Quay with my Late Great-Aunt Tere.

(She passed away in January 2021 to Natural Causes.)

Me on my Vobis Highscreen Sky PC from 2000

with it's original ACER CRT Monitor.

Christmas 2000, I wore my first Construction Helmet....

Nah just kidding. It's a Plastic Helmet meant to compliment a toy construction set.

Here' it's without it's sticker

Some father-son Bonding with Reuben playing with the Purex Box.

One of my Childhood Cats.

This one is Oliver. He was an older cat by the time we got him.

Passing by a girl playing on her viola.

This was when I was at the Grandville Island Marketplace in 2001.

WHO LET ME DRIVE WHEN I WAS 9 YEARS OLD!?

My dad letting my Previous Cat PEACH sleep in front of his Dell Laptop.

PEACH looking somewhat unamused with my Lego 8-Bit Luigi.

Me with my previous Desktop PC:

MDG Horizon 2400.

I apologize for the low lighting in this digital photo.

Aged Six back in 2004, and beside me was my pet Gerbil MONTY.

Another Papa Reuben photo. This time watching TV at a Hotel during our 

January 2002 Vacation to Banff, Alberta

My room in 2006 in my STAR WARS PODRACING Tent.

Yes, that's a date stamp on the bottom right.

This was when I was recognized for Diligence back in Elementary School.

Peach curious about what's inside my mother's Wine Glass back in 2008.

Me when I accompanied my mother to Disney on Ice 

while wearing a Mario Hat and playing on a DSI XL.

Me standing in front of a statue during the June 2011 Stanly Cup Finals.

Little did I know what was to happen that month that us Vancouverites would call

a infamous day in the history of Hockey and that wasn't the first time.

The best 15th Birthday gift back in 2012 was being re-united with my father

December 2017 to January 2018,

My cousin KALED and my Aunt Wendy visited me.