Pawsed!
So it’s time for another break update. I’ll cut to the chase for anyone who doesn’t want to read a lot – I’m going to remain on indefinite hiatus for now. I really have no idea when I’ll start again.
I know this is disappointing, and I’m sorry. I was really hoping that as I got closer to the 1 year mark for the break that I would feel like returning. I’m pretty sure I’ll eventually get back there, I just need to stay “pawsed” for now, especially with all the extra stress and anxiety from what’s currently going on in the world.
Regarding the Patreon, please feel free to suspend your pledge if you want to. I can’t close/suspend the Patreon without blocking access to everything and losing the grandfathered account, but I know money is getting tight as the economy goes downhill and I’m not currently active with the comic, so it’s totally understandable. I am still doing monthly wallpapers for the $5 tier for now though, so if you dig those they’ll be around for a while. That being said, The $1 tier is set as a general tip jar and I greatly appreciate anyone that is still supporting me as an artist. It really does mean a lot to me, so thank you!
Finally, I still intend to print Volume 3, but I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to do it this year. There are so many restrictions in place – both from tariffs and now because of Covid19 – and everybody is tightening their belts anyway, so it’s probably better to hold off on a Kickstarter for now. But I’ll try to do it sooner if possible.
I’m still active online otherwise, so if you want to follow me and my general art you can find me on Twitter at @celesse. I know it’s pretty different in style from Gamercat, but it’s there if you’re interested! And you can check there to confirm that I’m not dead, don’t have cancer or disprove any other weird rumor people try to start ;)
In true GaMERCaT fasion, I would like to tell you to ‘hang in there’ ^ w^ Thank you for the update (and the wonderful pun) and I hope there will one day come a point in your life you’ll be able to resume your lovely webcomic. Until that day comes, I wish you the best (after that day comes too, as well as if it never comes) and stay awesome~!
You mean,PAWsome?😹
Thank goodness you didn’t comment ‘first’ or some guy would probably rage
Thank you! I do really appreciate the support and kind words :)
Awwww man! First the strays and now gamercat! So many great thing must come to an end! Anyways, hope you borrowed your friends stardew valley journal and stay safe!
the virus just had to show up am i right lol, it can get very boring sometimes having to stay inside for multiple weeks but a wise cat gave me a solution…play video games! we will all get through this crisis together and i hope you all stay safe until its over.
True gamers have self isolation at max level
Doom Cat, Why do you think so much like me?
BTW we have not only self-isolation down but also more ideas for what to do other than games too.
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I live like this every summer, it’s nothing new to me, the problem is that during breaks you deplete YouTube of interesting videos and burn yourself out of the games
Or that’s just me
I only started reading gamercat about maybe 1-4 months ago, I enjoy the comic and I am sad that it’s been ‘pawsed’ for about 1 year. Continue the updates, please.
Totally understand. I miss the kitties and the laughs, but you take care of yourself and do what you need to do. We’ll be here waiting when you get back!
Me too.
Thank you! We’ll see how this year goes ^^
me toooooooooo
indefinite
lasting for an unknown or unstated length of time
When I discovered this comic last year I have been waiting for something to even happen here, so this makes me a happier person.
I have read every single comment on every single comic and no longer have anything more to do.
need more clan members in clash royale join with this tag #LRVYOLCU
I’m sorry but I only play games that are FUN so no.
Hello there! Have you ever heard of Raid: Shadow Legends? (don’t worry I never played it)
no
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That game among other mobile variety games is NOT FUN! But you should really play “The Room” games.
Jeez, ‘The Crusher Of Your Dreams’ you really crush dreams :/
That’s the point! :}
I play Cookie Run: Ovenbreak because it’s fun and I love the lore
play brawl stars!
Man, all my friends are OBSESSED by that game…..
if I was stressed, I would think DOING a comic instead of not-doing-it would be the relief. Especially getting patronbucks for it, instead of havin to worry about different work
I actually quite enjoy my shop, I’ve been running it even before I started Gamercat. But I probably won’t have any cons to do this year so I’ll have more chill time and might get back into the comic groove.
Thank you for updating us! That’s all we wanted (well, okay we really wanted new comics, but we understand if you’re not quite up to it yet and are just glad to hear DIRECTLY FROM YOU that you’re okay). Stay safe and be sure to keep those talented hands washed! ;P
Thanks for understanding! And I’m washing my hands a ton ^^
XD
Glad you’re okay – please take all the time you need and stay healthy!
Long time reader, and long time checker XP
Glad to see your alright and to see an update
Whatever may come in the future I hope your safe and will always love your works even if it ends here
Stay Safe!
Haha, thanks for checking back even while it’s been on break! And thanks for the support ^^
Finally next update! This is my favorite comics, so please do not quit it!!!
I knew not to give up! It was worth checking every week! :]
I’m so happy you wrote something! I really hope one day you will restart with Gamercat, but don’t feel obligated
I’m glad my little update helped ^^ I hope I can resume it too!
Wow i actually thought you were dead. i found this comic one day, and a few months later, it stops. Take your time coming back if you need to.
I’m always a little surprised when people think I’m dead/gone since I’m so active online for the rest of my work ^^; But I guess most people don’t associate me with the comic for some reason.
anyone play animal crossing new horizons cuz i think gamercat should play it,it was really good
yes
Lol made bridg yesterday
What is animal crossing exactly, other than a more interesting and complicated town-building game that isn’t restricted to mobile? It’s not complicated enough for me though, Civilization VI is more complicated, yet the switch controls for it SUCK. (if you’re a veteran gamer then you know what the Civilization games are, I’m not, my dad just had a Steam account that already had Civ V on it.)
tom nook sez: here is your nook phone your tent and your ITEMIZED BILL
the itemized bill is the funniest part
play ACNH teach your kids the fun of dept
Gamercat already played one of the Animal Crossings (I forgot which one)
I think one of them was new leaf, in the comic Gamercat says something about being a mayor
He played also pocket camp
ACNH PLEEEEEEASE
i don’t usually comment
ok
like ever
ok i know i said i was done commenting but i feel the urge to say this.
WHY THE HECK DOES AN UPDATE GET POSTED THE DAY AFTER I SAY I’M DONE COMMENTING!
also just a P.S. i’m not done commenting forever i’m just going to comment much less than usual
yeah I saw your comment saying that you were done lol
That is sad, that you wanted to stop commenting, not that the day after you say that you’re done commenting an update gets posted.
well glad your not dead :3
FINALLY AN UPDATE!! THANK GOD YOURE ALIVE!! I hope you’re doing well otherwise!
Also, have you ever played Deemo? It’s a tap-to-the-rhythm story game. It’s really good <3 another good game is Incredible Mandy, which I am currently working on completing. I can also see GC quitting Incredible Mandy very quickly because it is little bit hard and it’s a puzzle game.
You like puzzles!!!! Play The Room games,they will confuse you for a couple of hours at least, especially The Room 3 and The Room:Old Sins VERY FUN and VERY CONFUSING.
Also if you like tap-to-the-rhythm games then play an old game called Rhythm Thief it’s an old game but harder than most games, make sure that you know the beat WELL or you will never finish.
or just slap all of the buttons repeatedly, that works too, in the hang glider level (Thank goodness that there’s only ONE) it is VERY HARD to find any beat.
BTW it is also partially a puzzle game so very fun, very hard, very annoying, very old, and very only on 3DS.
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I take it back. Incredible Mandy is a good game, but story wise it is not worth three dollars. The story is more confusing than the puzzles! I just figured out the story. At least I’m sure I have :p
DUH-DUH-DUH DUH DUH-DUN DUH NA-DUH DUH!SUPER SMASH BROS ULTIMATE! Is a game I’d like to see gamercat play,and I feel very sorry for people who’ve never played it.Try it,it’s one of the best fighting games ever!
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agreed.
I also agree with Doom Cat!
Who do you main? It’s Dedede for me!
ALL OF THEM!!!! (other than animal crossing characters and a few others as I suck at the game D:)
;)
Villager,mii isabelle,jigglypuff,kirby,peach,inkling,
I main a bunch of different characters (Byleth, Hero, Piranha Plant, Joker, Falco, Kirby, Lucario, and more)
I’ve never played it, but I think I’d always choose inkling girl
I can’t wait for the next dlc to come (even though I never played ARMS)
Dude, do the thing that’s best for you; and when you feel like going back to drawing, come back. And if you don’t – be as awesome at the next thing you move to as you are/were with GamerCat.
Thank you, the support for anything I might do is very much appreciated! Though I can hopefully do some more Gamercat at some point ^^
From one of your fans, I hope Gamercat and his family, (don’t forget his servant Malcom!) find a way to get past this outbreak. Stay safe and healthy everyone!
They’re definitely washing their paws and staying inside, even if it is getting so nice out (the torture!)
This comic and comment section is the best thing to do during the COVID-19 outbreak/shutdown.
I totally agree
ok i was just on my thread on klei “staring at a brick wall” (it was made as a joke) and then some people joined in and even changed the wall a little and i will give the artist credit.
the skeleton looking dude is called minespatch, they also drew the fish person
the person who drew the creature that looks like ori is named dragonmage156
the person who drew the creature holding toilet paper pricing and it $500 is named HorseyTheYes
the person who drew the creature holding the brick and with a cube head is named zee_dragon
and the person who drew the cyclops seagull is called Sunset SKye
i’m the person who put the plug creature
heres the link
i forgot this one by accident
the person who drew the tiny creature with the skull on its head and looks like a fox is called Kuba5565
Hi Celesse! Thank you so much for the update I’ve been a fan since the beginning and I love this web comic. I know because of the things going on in the world its hard to get back into it so just hang in there. Thanks for everything.
Read my comments on other commenter’s comments and I usually discourage their games and ideas unless I can relate to them, and that is very rare as I don’t like most games, as games are majoritively those annoying city-building games for mobile that there’s too many of and advertise themselves too much because no one plays them because they’re too repetitive.
you are a monster
Every Monday, I throw a pillow. The pillows arn’t doing so well.
I’m happy you choose to keep your hiatus on an indefinite amount of time so you don’t have to feel anxious about a deadline especially considering that 2020 seems to want to kill us all.
Let’s hope that everyone (exept Dave) makes it out on the other end okay.
Why did this become a reply?! I didn’t even come close to pressing the reply button. *sigh* [Bleep]ing gravatar…
Who is this “Dave” you speak of? My name isn’t Dave I’m just curious. 🤔
My worst enemy. Dave and I hate eachother on a personal level and we always try to sabotage the other ones life at school.
Oh, that reminds me. In sweden schools are still open. Don’t ask why they’re still open because I have no idea.
Pewdiepie do something about this
What can Pewdiepie do about this? Besides. If he critizised swedens way of handling this, whilst what he would say would most likley be accurate, the media would proboably twist it to say something like “Pewdiepie betrays his own country” or some **** like that.
How could pewdiepie do something about this? Jag vet att han är svensk men han bor ju inte i Sverige längre. Det och Nyheterna kommer troligen att vrida och vända på det för att få honom att se ut som en riktig jävel vilket han inte är. (Note. In this context “Jävel” whilst techniacly a swearword in the swedish version when translated to english it should come out as devil which isn’t a swearword.)
Good for you.
Hang in there girl. We good!
If you DO get back into comics, can you have GamerCat play SMM2 story mode?
What’s SMM2? Is it an acronym for Splatoon 2?
That dose not even fit the acronym, so no.
I just looked it up, it’s Super Mario Maker 2, at least officially anyways.
I can’t wait for the update that releases on the 22nd!
*Mission Failed we’ll get em next time intensifies*
What?
I just referenced to a meme. And as The Crusher Of Your Dreams said, SMM2 does mean Super Mario Maker 2
Hope your gonna be able to continue! Stay alive, give us updates just so we know that your not gone! Hope you start the comics soon :D
If not, oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But you could at least restart another one or some mini comics.
It’s not letting me comment -.-
Well THERE IT GOES finally -.- I’m a little annoyed
I was just trying to post and link to a comic if you want to read it while your waiting for update or comics on this
Here’s the link
https://m.webtoons.com/en/slice-of-life/cat-loaf-adventures/list?title_no=1381&page=9&webtoon-platform-redirect=true
Pls no ban cause I posted that
THERE IT GOES finally
Gamercat inspired me to teach to my cat how to play videogames
How’d it work out?
Ehm…. I think my cat will never be a gamercat
It didn’t work out
Maybe dangle ing a string near the controller?
Mmm…… I’ll try
teach your dog to slay demons. trust me, you’ll want a companion.
Try doing games like bioshock. Or something interesting from remedy studios
Have you considered choice based games like dragon age & mass effect?
Who are you asking?
I was so scared! With a year of silence, I thought you gave up on Gamercat completely!
I’m happy for you!! its good to hear from you again T^T maybe we could do some fan art in the meantime? just an idea…
That sounds like a good idea but I think that could lead to potential worries for her.
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Man its such a shame that she hasn’t been posting this year. There is so much stuff that has happened this year that would have made for some great comics.
As a fan of your work, please stay safe. We are living in troubling times and it’s many of the small things which can keep us going. I’ve been taking Calvin & Hobbs, Get Fuzzy, and other comics to keep my spirits up.
Don’t underestimate how important and valuable a smile or a laugh is. Withe eveything going on, we all meed more of them – and we have GamerCat to re-read to bring it to us.
Please stay safe, and may your light shine on. :)
I am hooked with this gamercat because I love cats, and we do have a lot of cats in our house. They are the sweetest. Hope to read more after this pandemic
Very “PAW”-some!
cute little paw beans
You keep these precious kitties safe. We’ll all get through this pandemic, I swear it.
If this is not allowed to do i won’t do it again.
Visste du att det finns en svensk barntidning som handlar om en anthrophomorphisk björn med blå byxor och blå luva vid namn Bamse som äter honung för att bli världens starkaste och kämpar mot skurkar som ofta försöker bli av honom ibland via kidnappning och mord som att falla ner från ett stup eller att dränka honom?
transltion by google: Did you know that there is a Swedish children’s magazine about an anthrophomorphic bear with blue pants and blue hood named Bamse who eats honey to become the world’s strongest and fights against villains who often try to get rid of him sometimes through kidnapping and murder like falling down from a dive or to drown him?
That’s almost a perfect translation. The only word that is wrong is dive, a more suiting word would be cliff or precepie.
But yeah other than that the comics real. I have over 20 comic books from him and they are a fun read. It’s really interresting how a kids comic targeted at younger audiences sometime involve kidnappimg or murder. I kid you not i skimmed through a Bamse comic maybe 1 or 2 years ago and the villans kidnapped Bamse, bound him up, put him in a crate and threw the crate of a pier to try and.drown him.
I know I’m a bit late to the party, but I’m going to add my voice to the chorus of others.
Take all the time you need.
I know it is a stressful time and I know how that can pile on when you already have things going on in your life.
Having followed your art for almost seventeen years now (all the way back to the days of Arcy and Frog UwU), I know you are a dedicated artist who loves what they do, even if you need to take a break for your health from time to time. It is not an uncommon thing for wonderfully talented artists like yourself to need a health break.
So again, take all the time you need, take care of yourself. I don’t want GamerCat updates at the expense of your health, I would much rather wait as long as it takes so you have the time to look after yourself.
Celesse, take as long as you need. I think your entire fanbase is just glad that the comic wasn’t abandoned like we all thought it was. Art isn’t something you can force, and something you should never force at the expense of your health, so please, only return when you’re ready. If the hiatus last another month, year, or even decade, if you do not believe you can continue, please don’t.
Hey, I am perfectly happy with your break :) I love reading the old strips from time to time, too
That being said, burnout is inevitable, so it’s good to do your best to avoid it. Have you ever thought of maybe just posting on here weekly with, instead of a comic strip, maybe a short paragraph about the creative progress or maybe just whatever you feel like writing? It might be nice to hear what you have to say about everything a bit more often.
Hope you’re stayin safe
hey. i am here to say that you deserve a break, like me. you get stressed a lot, i don’t i get it. but, you can do anything. your comics were here for me like i am for my bunny, Daisy, and all of the people of earth. i love reading your comic strips, it’s a cute break from the violence of killing demons. i hope to see your comics again someday. i read through them every once and a while. it’s nice. see you hopefully not in hell, but see you making more comics. :)
It’s unlikely you’ll be able to read this. I just want to say, have an amazing break. I’ve loved every single one of your comics, and take as much time as you need with everything. You’ve made my life so much happier, and I thank you for that.
Hoo boy, looks like it’s getting to two years.
Oh wow I just realized that it has been an entire year now
At least she gave us a break update. It leaves hope that when Celesse finally does end the comic, she’ll tell us rather than abandoning it
well the time has come, i’m going to be gone for a while (as long summer vacation lasts) so dont worry because ill be back
Can’t wait for more gamercat
GIVE US MORE, THIS IS MY SOURCE OF HAPPINESS!!!!
SAME!!!!
YHAAAAAA!!!
We need your comicses! WE NEED
This is a great thing, I think everyone feels this information is very valuable, thank you
I hope that GaMERCaT wears mask and washes his paws.
well he already has a bandanna, so he has that going for him
It’s improbably that the virus can infect pets, too.
how about doing a comic strip with Roblox
I LOVE this comic its my favorite <3 :3 :D
No offense but the only one who will be playing roblox is glitch if you catch my drift
I do, and I don’t even play roblox
“Why not read the archive?”
*Proceeds to read every gamercat comic ever made*
👍
Who knows?
K you now what? Never mind.
You make no sense
If you started up the comic again soon, you might get som ieads because of the virus.
looks like nothings changed
Just a few days, and the theories about the gamercat’s author dying will restart
Anyway, I don’t think it’s dead