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Pickle and Nancy @pickleandnancy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

A little bit of yoga to get this #Caturday underway - have a great day everyone, love Nancy 🐈‍⬛💕

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 13/11/2025

1974-11-15 - well yeah, otherwise the cans will explode

A single panel, black and white, Heathcliff comic from 1974. Outside a house, Fire fighters are holding out one of those trampoline thingies that people jump out of a window onto. 3 fire fighters are holding it and looking up at a window, where Heathcliff is in a top-floor building throwing cans of cat food out. The fire fighter tells the fire chief, "So far, all we're getting is cans of cat food!"

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 07/11/2025

1987-11-07 - might as well just call it mouse food

A single panel black and white Heathcliff comic. In the Nutmegs' living room, with the kitchen in the background. In the foreground, Heathcliff is holding a pool cue in front of his food bowl, which has a printed H on it. He's hitting pieces of food towards a mouse hole in the wall, where two mice are looking out excidedly. Grandma Nutmeg is in the kitchen in the background with an angry look on her face, holding a bag of "Kitty Lumps.". The mouse says, "I'm getting to like this dry cat food!"

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 06/11/2025

1981-06-15 - Wait, isn't Pops usually the grizzled convict?

A single panel black and white Heathcliff comic. Inside a jail cell, a gruff looking convict is standing at the bars with his clothes shredded and scratches all over. He looks concerned and pleads with the prison guard. Pointing towards Heathcliff, who is lounging comfortably on the bottom bunk, he says "He insists on the lower bunk!"

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 05/11/2025

1978-02-17 - the joke is that the pharmacist is actually a Harm-acist, and Heathcliff is going to get mercury poisoning

A black and white single panel Heathcliff comic. Heathcliff is in a pharmacy, where a pharmacist is leaning over a counter handing Heathcliff a bottle of pills. Heathcliff has a sour look on his face, and is sticking out his tongue. The pharmacist says "Grind up two of these in your tuna fish".

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 27/10/2025

1977-08-12 - Why are Heathcliff and Iggy looking at me? And why is Grandpa so happy that they're about to capsize? And where are the Epstein files?

A single-panel black and white Heathcliff comic. Grandpa, Heathcliff, and Iggy are on a small sailboat on the water, with a few other sailboats in the deep background. The boat appears to be right on the verge of capsizing, as it is heeled over about 50–52° to starboard.

Heathcliff and Grandpa are pulling on the ropes in an attempt to bring the boat back, leaning over the edge of the boat. For some reason, Grandpa looks really happy as he does this, although he's inches from drowning.

Iggy and Heathcliff both look at the reader. Heathcliff looks annoyed, and Iggy looks happy. Iggy says, "We'd capsize for sure, if it wasn't for Heathcliff!", implying that Heathcliff is fat

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 06/10/2025

says a guy with a swear word in his name 👿

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 06/10/2025

1981-10-09 - such an important game requires bolded text

A black and white single-panel Heathcliff comic. Grandpa Nutmeg is relaxing in a hammock, and Heathcliff, Iggy, Marci, and Willy are jumping for joy and throwing a volleyball around. A little excessive. the caption says "VOLLEYBALL!!". It's unclear who is talking.

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 19/09/2025

45 years of professionals pointing out fire hazards (1980-07-16, 2025-09-19)

A single-panel black and white Heathcliff comic. Heathcliff is standing next to an absolutely massive pile of "Beware of dog" signs, looking pleased with himself. In the foreground, a fire fighter says to Grandpa Nutmeg, "The chief says his collection constitutes a fire hazard."

A single panel color Heathcliff comic. In the city, outside a Tailor's shop, two workers stand outside, admiring Heathcliff, who is walking away wearing a MEAT cape. One remarks to the other, "Fire."

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 17/09/2025

you think this is the same bird? (1974-05-14, 2025-09-17)

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 16/09/2025

His extermination methods have been refined over the years. (1976-02-18, 2025-09-16)

Iggy and Heathcliff come to the door, and a woman is standing there, taken aback. Heathcliff is wearing a gangster get-up, complete with tommy gun. Iggy says "You phoned for an exterminator?"

Heathcliff is driving a stage coach full of mice, with a yak or bison or something pulling it. He's wearing a cowboy hat and holding a whip. Some people are standing outside looking at him and they say "The exterminator came highly recommended."

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 15/09/2025

The beginning of a beautiful friendship. (1976-02-16, 2025-09-14)

A black and white two-panel Heathcliff comic. In the first, an alien in a flying saucer is talking to some cats. It says, "Take me to your leader".

In the second panel, the cats point the alien to Heathcliff, who is sitting on porch steps with a pleased look on his face.

A modern Heathcliff comic in color. An alien and Heathcliff are walking down the sidewalk with fish in fishbowls on their heads, with a flying saucer in the background. The fish both say "Bro". The Alien says "Bro."

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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

George Gately’s “Heathcliff” first appeared on September 3, 1973. (I’ve known people who thought Heathcliff was meant to capitalize on Garfield’s popularity, but since Garfield first appeared in 1978, that’s clearly not the case.) Here are the first four dailies:

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 02/09/2025

1973-09-08 - in 1973: 38 pounds of fish in 2025: single chicken nugget

A black and white single panel Heathcliff comic. Grandma Nutmeg is at the grocery store, pushing a cart, in front of the checkout stand. The checker is ringing up items, and has an angry look on his face. Heathcliff is sitting in the cart with ice hanging off his fur, and a satisfied look on his face. Grandma Nutmeg looks alarmed as the checker says "Plus twenty dollars damage in the frozen fish department!"

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 26/08/2025

People tell these stories as if the kids are asking hard-hitting rhetorical gotcha questions. Kids generally ask questions when they actually want to know the answer. If you respond with bizarre cagey answers to simple questions, they're going to be way more confused than they started.

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 06/08/2025

1976-06-22 - is it still animal abuse if another animal does it?

A two-panel heathcliff comic. In the first panel, at the vet's office, Heathcliff and Grandma Nutmeg are in the background sitting in the waiting room. In the foreground, the Vet is holding a pill next to an angry dog, while it bares his teeth at him. He says: "I'll be with you as soon as I can get him to take his pill."

In the second panel, Heathcliff walks over and nonchalantly pulls the dog's tail. The dog opens his mouth, dazed, and the doctor happily tosses the pill in there.

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 30/07/2025

I bought a few of those books off eBay and scanned them in. I didn't keep track of the sources, but that may be where I got this one :)

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Vintage Heathcliff Comics @vintageheathcliff.heathcliff.cat · 30/07/2025

1979-09-12 - In 1979, blue jeans had only recently gone mainstream. Just a few decades earlier, they were banned in schools and seen as rebellious—so seeing 'even Heathcliff' in jeans was crazy 👖🐱