Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 18, 2020

Elvis was easily talked into being the hard boiled detective and he certainly looks great in that role! Looks like he is all decked out with a jaunty fedora and has a camera that means business!

Is Puck using his pussy cat eyes in the third panel? That will melt a harder heart than Elvis has.

Pucky! That’s not fair! How could you use the sad kitten eyes on Elvis? You know that everyone is helpless against that!

Granted, he’s being a little grumpy right now, and it’s a not so guarded secret that he does know how to play (even if he thinks it is), and yes, it probably would be good for him to play a little and unwind a bit . . .

Okay, maybe the sad kitten eyes were justified. (It worked, at least.)

Sad Pucky eyes can ask for anything they want and I will move the world to get it for them. This is a fact.

Hard boiled as opposed to over easy?

Elvis is lucky – he could have been assigned the role of hard-boiled yegg.

Elvis, you own that role!

Lupin toe beans! And Burt, why’d you throw Lupin under the bus?

Hey! a “Photo Finish” might actually help to solve this mystery!! Good Work, Pucky!

Serious work things like writing with an unsharpened pencil, Elvis? You sweet big fake. You just needed to be asked to join in so you knew you were wanted.

I just noticed something in yesterday’s strip. The Woman seems to be polydactyl on her left front paw!

A hard-boiled reporter is always better than a paid propagandist or a biased one.

Call the attic spirits, a contemporary has arrived!

Oh, Pucky, no! Don’t make that face! My poor little heart can’t take it!

Pucky really wants to be a lounge singer.

That camera looks a bit small to be a Speed Graphic, as used by hard-boiled reporters and photographers.http://www.anatomyfilms.com/speed-graphic-large-format-snapshot/

Incidentally, a Noir question. Aside from “Double Indemnity” and “Maltese Falcon”, how many old B/W films actually used the Venetian blind shadows? I’m having a hard job tracking them down.

#IstillbelieveLupin

All that photo needs is something around the edge for Lupin to have been framed!

Hmmmm, do I detect a whiff of righteous guilt in the air?

i luv the fadora

Love it! Elvis will get the story!

I’m trying to come up with some Elvis/Weegee mashup and failing. Too early in the morning! I need my tea…

It’s OK to take a break, Elvis. August is the traditional vacation month for the news staff. Let Tommy and Sophie do some feline interest stories while the Fab 4 Felines indulge in role play.

Pucky looked so sad! I’m glad Elvis decided to join in the noir fun!

Elvis, there is no room today for your objective reporting. You must create news to fit the rabid sector of-the audience you serve. Pavlov’s dog and such. Burt your doing just fine on that front. Good boy!

Hard boiled and left pawed….Perfect !!

Oh the news reporters these days, what drama they do.

That Elvis is a good egg!

Where do they get all those hats?

No one believes me

Except myself

It really peeves me

‘Cause I wasn’t on that shelf

Ain’t misbehavin’

Although I’m no saint it’s true

I know for certain

The crimes I done

I’m through excusin’

It’s just this time I’m not the one

Ain’t misbehavin’

Even tho’ I’m bratty ’nuf for two

[Ain’t Misbehavin by Andy Razaf / Fats Waller / Harry Brooks]

I love how this is moving back and forth between the current time and looking like an old time detective movie like you see on TCM (or our summer movie series that we didn’t have this summer in Central Ohio).

Adorable Pucky as a lounge singer is just slaying me with cuteness! (What a great character actor that boy is! Throw him a prop and watch the action unfold…)

Actually took the time to listen to yourself as you were saying it, eh, Elvis?

Too bad, Elvis….Georgia overruled you!

A hard-boiled reported “Flash” whose flashbulbs may have popped at an inopportune time, causing “someone” to knock over a vase. “Yissssss”

Now that’s the spirit, Elvis!

Today is:

The day the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified and women gained the right to vote. Ladies, please step up your game! ;^D

Helium Discovery Day —Which can also be “Talk Like a Duck Day.” Don’t inhale too much, you might float away.

Bad Poetry Day —Just because it rhymes doesn’t make it good poetry. Someone should have told William McGonagall, who made a career of bad rhymes—his books are still in print! These days, I’m stymied by what some judge to be good poetry. To be considered good, it seems it has to be “Ose, ose, and morose.”

Pinot Noir Day —I’ll drink to that. This refers to a wine grape that is nearly black and grows in a cluster shaped like a pine tree, or so the French say. So it’s “black pine wine,” which doesn’t sound very appetizing. The French have a talent for this sort of thing: Give it a French (or French-sounding) name and people will think it’s marvelous. In this case, the wine speaks for itself. Nunc est bibendum!

National Ice Cream Pie Day —I have only one question: How does one bake an ice cream pie? Why not call it an open-faced ice cream sandwich? That way it comes with instructions.

As Sophie might say, “It’s not sport Elvis. It’s THEATER. It’s ALL theater!”♥ (P.S. It’ slightly painful for me to look at the word theatre misspelled, but I know most of y’all aren’t in Commonwealth countries, and I don’t want to cause you pain.)

Elvis is playing the part originally written for Lee Tracy.

Robert John: Sad Eyes

Looks like it’s taking up way too much time

The mystery should finish up today

The news goes on now, I miss the whole news crew,

Puck, why do you look at me that way?

…….

Sad eyes, turn the other way,

I don’t wanna see you cry,

Sad eyes, alright I’m gonna play,

I’ll solve the mystery, I’ll try!

I have a classic Fedora, dark grey with a Black band. I have had it for 40 years and I bought it at a little shop called “Hats In The Belfry”. I wear it as often as I can.

I often thought I would have been right at home in the late 20’s and 30’s.

for THE classic “sad eyes” from Nov 10,2017 https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2017/11/10

Poor Pucky looks so sad and perhaps a little scared of stern Elbiff.

Elvis isn’t going to listen until Lupin can be proven innocent.

Is this where Garfield gets his news

Job well done, Puck…kudos!

I’m seeing a remake of The Front Page here! (Also, can Burt start doing the chyrons for the people’s news? That particular one would be very useful right about now)

Who’s a cute little hard-boiled reporter? You are, Elvis! You are!!!

Yissssssssssssssss

Hit him with the sad eyes, Puck!