It has taken me some time to finish wrapping up production of this title but things are finally taking shape. The latest development in my comics creation and production scheduling is that two of my titles will now be merged. These two titles are my most recent project working title…The Cat Cooking Comics In Kappabashi and my longer, earlier work Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics. The former, that took the form of some of a sequel to the previous title,…now becomes an additional chapter…actually the final chapter of the Blotting Paper graphic novel. My initial thoughts were to make it a stand-alone comic…despite it having some connections to the main title by virtue of sharing some of the same characters…however, I have now opted for closure of the production period…and time to wrap it all up in one bundle. This means that The Cat Cooking Comics In Kappabashi will cease being a proposed stand alone comic title…and instead become a chapter title of Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics. Despite this manga merging, their blog posts that were completed with the different title of The Kappabashi Cat Nos. 1, 2 and 3…will remain as existing blog posts, retaining their original title and date and history, and accessibility on this site. Sorry about the changes but I hope that has clarified matters.

The above image shows a rough cover design of the proposed comic The Cat Cooking Comics In Kappabashi…that is now being merged with Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics as Chapter 6…the final chapter of the intended 300 page graphic novel. Although the Doctor Comics character does not appear in this chapter one of his cats, Cohl, does. Living in the Kappabashi area of Tokyo…Cohl learns the Japanese form of woodblock printmaking called sosaku hanga. This is the same method that Doc had employed…and demonstrated to his cats at their home in Sydney whilst making a series of creative prints. This edit wraps things up in terms of the story. In this final chapter Cohl becomes, as the title of that chapter infers, The Cat Cooking Comics In Kappabashi. Wherever he was at this time, I am certain that Doc would have been impressed and offered his enthusiastic support.

^{(Art and Photo-©2018 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)}

_{A page from The Cat Cooking Comics In Kappabashi …now Chapter 6 of the graphic novel Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics. (Art and Photo-©2018 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)}

Above, a page from Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics showing Doc at work making woodblock prints…an act that Cohl would have observed on several occasions back in Sydney when Doc and the cats lived together…and that would have possibly inspired Cohl to take up printmaking on his arrival in Japan.

^{(Art and Photo-©2018 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)}

Above, yet another page from Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics…showing Cohl being impressed by examples of the the art of celebrated Japanese printmaker Shiko Munakatta… whose exhibition Cohl’s new Japanese friend Moto takes him to see…and below, another page from the same title…showing Cohl’s visit to an art supply shop in the Asakusa area of Tokyo…where he purchases woodblock printmaking tools, again thanks to his knowledgeable art school friend Moto. _{(Art and Photo-©2018 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)}

_{(Art and Photo-©2018 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)}

Yet another page from The Cat Cooking Comics In Kappabashi…now Chapter 6 of Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics…showing Cohl’s artistic development with his manga mixing…his printmaking and his creative layout of prints…with panels and pages from the randomly found manga during his travels in Tokyo.

_{(Art and Photo-©2018 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)}

I hope these edits will bring these separate units together under the one title of…Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions Of Doctor Comics. It seems the best solution at the moment.

_{(All text, photos and artwork-©2018 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics).}