Keytar Kittens - Characters

All the Keytar Kittens are based on real cats that I have owned over the years. Also, and just for a little bit of nerd-cred (and as a hat tip to fans of my previous comic strip, The Packrat), they're all holding real (if occasionally inaccurately-drawn) keytars that exist in the world. You'll probably notice that all the keytars are glued to the kittens as if by magic. This is because I hate drawing straps. I didn't think a comic strip about talking kittens needed to worry too much about realism.

There's sure to be more characters to be added as time goes by; I've owned a lot of cats, and there's definitely a lot more keytars out there, too.

I found Blizzard trapped in my garage during a really bad snowstorm and adopted him on the spot. He was a trusted friend for many years. Blizzard plays a Syntar, which is technically the first-ever keytar made. Less than a dozen actually exist; Blizzard should be careful toting around this valuable analog instrument! Oscar was a big, fat, beefy cat we had back in the '80s. One Friday the 13th our cat Savannah got out and had relations with the neighbor's cat, right around midnight. Naturally, she later had 7 black kittens, and Oscar, for all his girth, actually started out as the runt that nobody wanted to adopt. He is now forever a Keytar Kitten, performing on a red Roland Axis, my favorite keytar. Henry was one of the first cats to come home to our family, and lived about the longest as well, despite a near-fatal accident when he was just a kitten. He decided that the comforting warmth of our station wagon's engine was a nice place to take a winter nap, and when the engine started up, the nap was almost a permanent one! He came through fine though, and now he'll forever be playing on a Moog Liberation. It's one of the heaviest keytars ever made, an old 1970s-1980s analog brute that sounded really amazing!

My parents' friends had a litter of seal point Siamese kittens when I was very young, and gave one to my Dad. He was born & raised in the South, and one of his favorite towns was Savannah, Georgia, thus the name. Savannah was a cross-eyed cutie, and had a four-octave singing range whenever she had to take a car ride to the vet. In the comic, she plays a little Yamaha SHS-10. Snooky showed up one day while my family's house was being built. She was a nice little brown tabby that I must admit I don't remember too well, because she wasn't with us for very long. Snooky has a Roland AX-1, which is appropriate, because I don't really know much about those, either, except they're very big and very plastic.


I found Blizzard trapped in my garage during a really bad snowstorm and adopted him on the spot. He was a trusted friend for many years. Blizzard plays a Syntar, which is technically the first-ever keytar made. Less than a dozen actually exist; Blizzard should be careful toting around this valuable analog instrument!	Oscar was a big, fat, beefy cat we had back in the '80s. One Friday the 13th our cat Savannah got out and had relations with the neighbor's cat, right around midnight. Naturally, she later had 7 black kittens, and Oscar, for all his girth, actually started out as the runt that nobody wanted to adopt. He is now forever a Keytar Kitten, performing on a red Roland Axis, my favorite keytar.	Henry was one of the first cats to come home to our family, and lived about the longest as well, despite a near-fatal accident when he was just a kitten. He decided that the comforting warmth of our station wagon's engine was a nice place to take a winter nap, and when the engine started up, the nap was almost a permanent one! He came through fine though, and now he'll forever be playing on a Moog Liberation. It's one of the heaviest keytars ever made, an old 1970s-1980s analog brute that sounded really amazing!


My parents' friends had a litter of seal point Siamese kittens when I was very young, and gave one to my Dad. He was born & raised in the South, and one of his favorite towns was Savannah, Georgia, thus the name. Savannah was a cross-eyed cutie, and had a four-octave singing range whenever she had to take a car ride to the vet. In the comic, she plays a little Yamaha SHS-10.	Snooky showed up one day while my family's house was being built. She was a nice little brown tabby that I must admit I don't remember too well, because she wasn't with us for very long. Snooky has a Roland AX-1, which is appropriate, because I don't really know much about those, either, except they're very big and very plastic.