Kitten Construction Company: Meet the House Kittens (Family Comic Friday)

When Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield and expert on humorous cats recommends a new graphic novel series about funny felines, you follow his lead. That’s why this week’s Family Comic Friday is all about the glorious gato as we review the first volume of Kitten Construction Company!

Kitten Construction Company: Meet The House Kittens
Story and art by John Patrick Green
Published by First Second
Pages: 70+
Retail: $17.99

Marmalade, Samson and Bubbles are all serious about building houses. But as cats, they are only looked at as cute, cuddly and funny! In order to get some respect, the kitties wrangle up some help and decide to show the people of Mewburg that they are the real deal when it comes to house construction!

Upon a recent trip to my local library, I found this book as it was being shelved on the new shelf in the young readers graphic novel section. I asked the librarian shelving it if the book had been popular and she said that it’s constantly in checked-out rotation. I just happened to get lucky when I did to grab it.

Both the recommendation of the librarian, the patrons of the branch, along with a glowing endorsement on the back cover from Garfield’s Jim Davis won me over in giving this book a read and man, am I ever glad that I listened to them all!

Kitten Construction Company was so much fun! I haven’t laughed so hard at something related to those with nine lives this side of a Youtube marathon of cat videos. Disney Adventures’ John Patrick Green obviously knows his felines. He gets the attitudes perfect. When Bubbles is distracted by a laser pointer, Green is flawless in how determined pussycat plumber is to ‘have that red dot!’

The artwork of the cats themselves are just adorable. Each one has personality and style. And all of the character kitties are extremely memorable.

This book debuted late last year. Had I found out about it sooner, it might have been my top hit of the 2018 season. It’s too late to do anything about it now. But better late than never, huh?

Book two in this new series, A Bridge Too Fur, debuts this October. So, before then, if you know of a fan of comic books and graphic novels aged 6-10 years old, check out the Kitten Construction Company. I guarantee that you’ll be so impressed by the antics of these purr-cocious carpenters that you will want them to build all of your future homes and places of business!

Kitten Construction Company: Meet the House Kittens debuted in print and digital platforms on September 4, 2018.

Worth Consuming!

Rating: 10 out of 10 stars.