I find that how I approach John Porcellino’s King-Cat Comics as an object suits the comic itself, like riding your BMX down to the convenience store for the latest issue of Spider-Man on a dusty summer day. I don’t collect King-Cat. I forget about it for awhile, bump into it unexpectedly, hang out for a bit, then drift away once again.

My most recent exposure to King-Cat Comics was at the Toronto Comics Art Festival last year. I picked up two issues on a whim, between purchases of Walt and Skeezix Vol. 3 and some Chip Zdarsky art. A few months later I had my cousin over. He wanted to know what I had been reading recently and so I compiled a stack for him to take home, including those issues of King-Cat Comics. Over the past decade my cousin’s art has become more pared down and refined, and I thought he would appreciate the similarities. A few weeks later he came back, handed back the rest of the comics, and asked for more King-Cat.

Every time I go to Toronto I visit The Beguiling and pick up an issue. I get to keep it for a few weeks, then I hand it over to my cousin. I will never see them again. It feels right.

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