Cat (kat), n. ...

This is a illustrated humor book, with the them of cats in each cartoon. There are 150 illustrations with some having captions or word balloons and others that are just site jokes. It's humor is a mixture of The Far Side', and Garfield having been written three years before Garfield, and five years before Far Side. It's art varies with each drawing, from caricature outlined cats to realistic cats. Although the author is listed as B. Kliban some of the drawings are signed "Burton Rustle," and "Nort", who are along with others, in the dedication page mentioned as being "formerly unrelated but now family." Some of the illustrations are such as; A cat getting it's paw prints taken at the police station; A cat with lowered eyebrows walking by a picture of Mickey Mouse; A artist painting with a cat on his lap, drawing a woman, and the cat on his lap is painting the cat on the woman's lap.