The Cats Have a Comic Book – Buy Issue #1

first panel of the comic book

The Winchester-Nabu Detective Agency and the Case of the Roughed-Up Rodent

Buy Gus and Oliver’s first comic book:

The Winchester-Nabu Detective Agency cats, Oliver and Gus, investigate a near-fatal attack on a shrew, but they make a huge mistake! Can the cats and their human companions keep the unpopular shrew safe from the Chipmunk Mafia? Get the digital version right now:

In this 22-page one-shot, private detectives Oliver Winchester and Guster Nabu investigate an attack on Shrewise Peete, a local critter. The humans, Amber and Joe, take Ollie and Gus out to the neighborhood where they can talk to informants and friends to gather information about this crime. They question a chipmunk, a squirrel, a blue jay, and the fairies in the garden. Why would this little shrew have any enemies?

The Winchester-Nabu team discovers that they made a big mistake! Can they fix it in time for the shrew to regain her health?

segment from comic page showing Gus following Oliver

Print copies are currently available only through directly purchasing them from me at comic conventions or comic/book shop appearances.

You can buy the digital version of The Winchester-Nabu Detective Agency and the Case of the Roughed-Up Rodent through Amazon and Gumroad.

cat comic issue 1 collage: cover page, credits page, page 1

Meet the Team:

I’m Amber Love, a writer from New Jersey. I’ve been published in projects with Northwest Press, Red Stylo Media, Shelly Bond, and Steve Bryant’s Athena Voltaire: Pulp Tales. She also writes mystery novels when possible. Now entering the seventh year, I write up the weekly case files of Oliver and Gus from their adventures outside in nature and inside a haunted Colonial house.

Margaret Blane drew and colored the art. She who lets her art speak for itself. Instagram @w_f_blane.

Haley Rose-Lyon did all the lettering and page designs. She is a middle-school drama award winner, writer of things, editor of stuff, dog-mom, human-wife, and impassioned comics letterer. She’s lettered for Image Comics, Legendary Comics, Dead Reckoning, and a slew of lovely small-press publishers.

Ismael Franco designed the Winchester-Nabu Detective Agency logo.

Review Copies:

I’ll gladly send book bloggers and podcasters digital review copies. Please email me at amberlovescomics at gmail dot com to request it.