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List Price: $9.95 | | Publisher: Corbett Features
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Editorial Review:
The First collection of Ginger & Shadow, Barry Corbett's webcomic about a pair of cats and their family. When the Garricks decided to adopt a cat, they had no idea what they were in for. These mysterious and narcissistic creatures would turn their world inside out.
Kitty Nirvana (Ginger and Shadow) Reviews:
Kitty Nirvana is a fun read 
2009-01-09 - Great fun! Well written and well drawn. I highly recommend it for anyone who likes a good laugh.
Highly recommended, especially as a giftbook for fellow feline fanciers.
2008-02-07 - Kitty Nirvana: The First Ginger & Shadow Collection is a webcomic anthology following the (only slightly exaggerated) adventures of author's two cats, who were adopted from an animal shelter when they were 6 week old kittens. Ginger is the queen of cool cats, self-assured, manipulative, suave, while Shadow is more nervous, soft-hearted, sentimental, and unusually pacifistic among carnivores. Their adventures with one another and their family are sure to strike a chord among cat lovers of all walks of life. "'I'm really getting fed up with this diet thing.' 'You're just built for comfort, not speed.'" The charming black-and-white art captures the essence of cartoon felinity in this wonderfully entertaining collection. Highly recommended, especially as a giftbook for fellow feline fanciers.
Well drawn, good, clean, funny fun.
2008-01-07 - I can so relate to these two felines. My wife and I have two cats, Tigger and Shadow... look so much like these characters as a matter of fact. I love good humor, especially anthropomorphic style cartoons like Opus, Snoopy, Red & Rover. I put Barry Corbett's characters and his ability to make me laugh right up there with the others. Looking forward to book #3.
Kitty Nirvana is a Very Good book!
2007-12-26 - Cats. We are useful visitors in a world they are quick to make clear to us belongs to them. Putting two of them with opposite personalities (based on his real life pets) in a hapless family, as cartoonist Barry Corbett says, creates strips that practically write themselves. Some of these are funny. Some insightful and a few are a little self-conscious (and if there is one thing cats are not, it is self-conscious). By the way, I once had a cat that when annoyed with me would hit at the computer keyboard. I would see pages and pages of "nnnnnnnnnnnn...."
I liked the series where Ginger is trying to teach the introverted, people pleasing "Shadow" how to be cool. There's also an interesting parallel when Ralph Garrick, the burly man of the house, tries to clue in the male Shadow on male/female differences. I love it that the rather hip mom is off to a Star-Trek convention and the segment on cats learning "the Zen of sleeping" is inspired. There's a lot to like, even parts that fail (a cat with a black patch in search of the great, white woodchuck that cost him his eye) show cleverness. And, anyone who has a cat (I have four) can attest to the authenticity of lines like this: "I could use a catnap. It's been about 23 minutes." The accomplished drawings are full of energy and cat grace. Yet there is something that still needs to evolve here. And it will.
In a single page of prose, titled "Diary of a Comic Strip," the author tells how his cast of characters and his technique have grown over the years. You can see the same thing in early Peanuts collections. It is as if the personality of each character has to come into its own over time. When that happens, there are more than cute observations about cats and human foibles. There is fresh insight into something shared by both the reader and the cartoonist. It's recognition that is both surprising (we thought we were the only ones who felt it) and reassuring (now we know that others feel this way too). Our reaction when that happens: to laugh.
Better than "Cats"
2007-12-07 - Cats have been perennial fodder for comic strips from "Krazy Kat" to "Cicero's Cat" to "Heathclif" to "Garfield". Unlike Garfield, "Ginger and Shadow" is funny, beautifully drawn and right on the money when it comes to the not so secret lives of cats. Anyone who's ever owned a cat (if anyone can actually own a cat, I think cats would beg to differ on that point) can relate to the feline follies of Ginger, Shadow and a wide variety of other characters including Patch, Pilferin' Pete, Feral Frankie and the human family that puts up with it all. Barry Corbett, known on the web as the creator of "Rafferty" and "Embrace the Pun", has another winner with this strip. If you're saying to yourself, "Sure, but it's no 'Funky Winkerbean' ", you need to take your meds and curl up with a copy of this book to see what a real comic is all about.
No cats were harmed in the writing of this review. For the record, this reviewer has never seen "Cats", but is pretty sure "Kitty Nirvana" is way better and definitely a lot cheaper.
