#3: The Book Cat

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Easter Egg: Though the text is too small to read, several titles from my collection appear on the bookshelf. I'd love it if you checked out these indie authors:
Rise of the Discordant, Going Green, A Shot at the Big Time, Kind of Like Life, S.E.L.I.A.'s Promise by Christina McMullen Christina's Link Tree
The Broken Bottle, How Green Are Your Eyes?, Capturing the Wry by John Hartley John Hartley's Blog
Godhunter by Isobel Lynn Isobel's Author Website
Shadow of the Elders by Will Elm Will's Author Website
Cascade and Blight (Books 1 and 2 of The Sleep of Reason trilogy) by Rachel Rosen Rachel's Website
They have not been published as of the time of this post, but my books The Night Plummer & The Mockemortician and Bivy & R The Story in the Margins also appear on the shelves. Walter Thinman's Bookery
Other books appearing on the shelf include The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
I may bring back The Book Cat for future strips as I add more indie authors to my collection.
Description:
Panel 1: Betty Boops Boops (a small gray fish paddling a green canoe upside down through the air.)
Panel 2: A gray cat with bright green eyes walking upright wearing a rainbow striped crop top and a plaid skirt pulls a flat gray wagon by a rope attached to a green dragon head hitch. On top of the wagon is a tall light brown bookshelf filled with books. On top is a lit lamp with a cord hanging down through the double-layered top shelf and down through two more shelves where it is plugged into a small outlet on the righthand side of the middle shelf. Betty Boops Boops paddles above the wagon with the bookshelf.
Panel 3: Betty Boops Boops has paddled beyond the bookshelf and has now turned around.
Panel 4: Betty Boops Boops exclaims "The Traveling Book Cat!"
Panel 5: The cats says, "Full Disclosure: I'm a cat. Cats are known to eat little fishes. However, I have a no eating the customers policy."
Panel 6: The cat continues, "Browsers and gawkers aren't covered under the policy. But, I'm not hungry right now. Soooo."
Panel 6: The fish replies, "No need for coercion. I (red heart symbol) books. I'll take 3!"