#matt tarpley

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Cat's Cafe

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I'm moving out today, so I gotta keep my prized books in secure packaging.

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Cat’s Café by Matt Tarpley

Matt Tarpley’s Cat’s Café is a gentle, fun, and uplifting read. The colourful and sweet artwork is super cute and I love that the book so sensitively and accurately deals with mental health issues.

I adored the second book in this series so I just had to get my hands on the first one! And I love this one just as much! This book is like a sweet and warm embrace that you’ll want to return to again and again.

This easy-to-read book introduces us to Cat’s Café. This cosy and cute neighborhood coffee shop is a beacon of friendship and warmth for everyone. This book is filled with so many different and lovely animal characters like kind café owner Cat, anxiety-riddled Rabbit, and coffee-obsessed Penguin (me too, bro) and his feisty little pet Kiwi. These characters are sweet, funny, and relatable as they navigate friendships, feelings, mental health issues like depression and anxiety, and self-esteem troubles.

I particularly love the comics of the animals cheering each other on and supporting each other through sad and difficult times. I also appreciate the well-balanced storylines. Although the book is extremely positive and uplifting, it doesn’t shy away from gently and sensitively depicting the dark times. There are heavy and serious moments when the characters face self-doubt and loneliness. However, there are also many wonderful and light comics filled with sharing coffee with friends, openly asking for and giving support, making new friends, and achieving goals. I also really love the comics where Tarpley invites us into the story like when he asks us to celebrate our wins.

The adorable artwork is colourful and so fun! Every page is a delight and brings a smile to my face! I particularly love the variety of cute animals with their distinctive and expressive faces! They all have such excellent and memorable personalities that really shine through. I particularly love the cuteness and cosiness of the coffee shop. I also love the beautiful blues of the underwater world with Whale and bestie Remora as well as the gorgeous nature scenes filled with fall colours and snow!

I cannot recommend this book enough! It is just a perfect pick-me-up filled with goodness and warmth. I can't wait to see more in this series!

☕☕☕☕☕ out of 5 cups of coffee!

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[ID: A four-panels, digitally drawn comic, titled "How to say no", and signed 'Matt Tarpley' and 'Catscafecomics'.

The first panel is "Keep it simple". There is a rabbit that extends its paws in front of it in a defensive gesture, and says "NO.".

The second panel is "Turn it off". There is a penguin, sitting at a table, that closes its computer and says "That's enough for one day."

The third panel is "Put your needs first". There is a cat in bed, under a blanket. It's holding a phone in its left paw and says "Thanks for asking, but I still need time."

The fourth and last panel is "Set boundaries". There is an unknown small pink animal talking to a gator who is drawing at a table. The pink animal says, enthusiastically: "Can you make me a logo? I pay in views!" The gator responds: "Sorry, no. I can help for a fee though." /end ID]

How to say NO

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Sometime I just wanna be a duck with a knife.

Credit/Copywright - Matt Tarpley

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Fuente: Matt Tarpley #Me 🤣

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My favorite thing about comics is finding independent artists online or at conventions. I love finding the most unheard of pieces of media hidden in the back of comic book stores, or a small artist promoting their webcomic online, or reading through Webtoon Canvas. I love having conversations with people who are making their own comics for the first time and looking at their OCs and worldbuilding.

Because after years of supporting people, years of liking their work online, years of scrapped ideas, hiatuses, and highs and lows,

Owning a physical comic book by someone who you've watched struggle for years to achieve their goals is the most satisfying experience in the world

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Matt Tarpley, en Cat’s Café [web] https://www.catscafecomics.com/ [tumblr] https://catscafecomics.tumblr.com/ [facebook] https://www.facebook.com/catscafecomics/ [twitter] @CatsCafeComics [instagram] https://www.instagram.com/catscafecomics/

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Cat's Cafe

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Cat’s Cafe Review

Book: Cat's Cafe Author: Matt Tapley Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Genre: Comics and Graphic Novels Publication Date: May 26, 2020 Rating:

The Low Down: Serving up more than just coffee and tea, Cat’s Café provides its cast of adorable characters a gentle, supportive space and a hefty serving of the warm and floofies. Welcome to Cat’s Café, a neighborhood coffee shop where all are welcome! Based on the popular webcomic, Cat’s Café introduces readers to the adorable denizens of this world. There's Penguin, who has a bit of a coffee problem; Rabbit, whose anxiety sometimes overwhelms him; Axolotl, whose confidence inspires his friends; the always-supportive Cat, who provides hot drinks made with love and a supportive ear for anyone's troubles; and many, many more. With a sensitive take on real issues and a gentle, positive outlook, Cat’s Café is about the power of acceptance, friendship, and love ... and delicious cups of coffee. My thoughts: *Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for a review!* At first I thought this was just going to be a wholesome, lighthearted and cute comic collection with adorable animal characters. And I mean... it was.

But then sometimes it would dig deeper, and cover more sensitive topics. But even if it did cover more hard stuff and hit me in the feels, it was still one of those books that truely did feel like a safe space to me and would wrap me in a hug. What really hit me about this book was the way in which it handled anxiety and other mental illness, with rabbit as one of the characters, and other topics. I personally saw myself in rabbit and hyena A LOT, and it made me cry seeing the other animals being so sweet, wholesome and supportive. This comic collection will definitely stay with me for a long time.

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[Image Description: a six panel comic. In the first panel, it features a cartoony blue whaleshark with a red cartoony pilot fish on its temple like a hair bow. The whale shark is in the middle of the sea, smiling up at the title, "Waves of Life", by Matt Tarpley. The title words are in a wavy light blue font against the darker blue ocean. Second panel: titled "Scary Waves", it shows the whaleshark in the middle of a large ocean wave about to crash down. The whaleshark looks scared. Third panel: titled "Makin' Waves", shows the grinning whaleshark breeching, that is, leaping out of the water to splash back down on its side. In this particular panel, the pilot fish is on its stomach. Fourth panel: titled "Slappy Waves", it shows the whaleshark with its head poking out of the water, grimacing as small waves smack it in the face. Fifth panel: titled "Swirlin' Waves", it shows the whaleshark upside down and caught in an underwater spiral currant, it's eyes replaced by swirls to show dizziness. Sixth panel: titled "Wavy Waves", it shows the whaleshark peaking its head out of the water and waving its fin at the viewer. There's a speech bubble coming from the whaleshark that says "Hi!" End I.D.]

Waves of Life

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