Strange Tails

THE STORY OF STRANGE TAILS

Fizzbert, Rufus, and Suzy Curious are elderly feline siblings who live in an antique shop called Curious Objects. Fizzbert and Rufus spend their days napping in overstuffed armchairs, while Suzy tends to the shop, rearranging here, tidying there, cataloguing everything. She's a retired librarian, but old habits die hard. She must constantly wake her brothers up to remind them that snoring is not allowed in the shop. She must also communicate from time to time with their humans, who do a fair job of providing meals, but are lousy at running a shop.

Strange Tails began as an inkling of an idea in 2010 in Chicago, IL when visual artist and writer Kenneth Gerleve and writer and editor Todd Summar decided that they wanted to combine their talents into a project that would provide a creative outlet for both. The duo is inspired by the aesthetic of the Gothic and German expressionism (such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), vintage cartoons, illustrated novels, as well as modern art, absurdist films and humor (David Lynch) and horror movies of the 60s, 70s and 80s.