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Games ship rats play: caricatures of typical scenes from ship rat life (by me)

Ship Rats in Space: sample-art from SF comic with ship ratty heroine

Games ship rats play...

This series of cartoons appears in Pro-Rat-a, the journal of the British National Fancy Rat Society. New cartoons will be added to this page after they are printed in Pro-Rat-a.

Sequence of caricatures of ship doe on heat, patting buck's shoulder, scampering and springing in the air, and sitting down lashing her tail

"I'm in the mood for love..."

Caricature of small ship doe riding on back of large fancy buck, kneading his shoulders

A nice relaxing massage

Caricature of ship rat climbing up broomstick handle

Polar exploration

Caricature of ship buck being picked up by the scruff, dangling quetly with feet tucked up but glowering

Reflex (in)action

Caricature of ship buck hanging upsidedown by toes from bars, giving Gallic shrug

"Batty? Moi?"

Caricature of ship rat chewing human toe-nail

Nail-biting tension

Caricature of ship rat's face with both ears folded back across the top of the head

A fetching eardo

Caricature of two buck ship rats, one crouching, one on tiptoe, kicking at each other

Rodent kung-fu

WATCH THIS SPACE...

Ship Rats in Space... (art by Greg E Beettam)

This is Clemens, ratty heroine of the science-fiction comic Xeno's Arrow. The artist swears he didn't intend her to be a Rattus rattus: he just mixed a Norway rat 50:50 with a squirrel... For more information see suggested reading-list, or visit Xeno's Arrow website.

Comic-type drawing of alien creature, resembling large ship rat with donkey ears, perching on a metal barrier

Comic-type drawing of alien creature, resembling large ship rat with donkey ears, clinging to tree-branch and watching approaching space-ship