What's Michael?
Series · 11 books · 1990-2006
Books in series
#1
What's Michael?, Vol. 1
Michael's Album
1990
Everyday cat and human interactions mingle with fantasy stories featuring the fat cat Michael and other felines.
#2
What's Michael?, Vol. 2
Living Together
1991
Whether he's getting sick or playing baseball, Michael never fails to entertain! Sit down to read one story in the 88-page anthology, and you're bound to stay down until the whole book is finished!
#3
What's Michael?, Vol. 3
Off the Deep End
1997
Everyday cat and human interactions mingle with fantasy stories featuring the fat cat Michael and other felines.
#4
What's Michael?, Vol. 4
Michael's Mambo
2000
Everyday cat and human interactions mingle with fantasy stories featuring the fat cat Michael and other felines.
#5
What's Michael?, Vol. 5
Michael's Favorite Spot
2001
Everyday cat and human interactions mingle with fantasy stories featuring the fat cat Michael and other felines.
#6
What's Michael?, Vol. 6
A Hard Day's Life
2000
Described by Wizard magazine as "Japan's version of Garfield, Heathcliff, and Krazy Kat all rolled into one," What's Michael? is graphic fiction like no other, blending slice-of-life comedy, both subtle and slapstick, with off-the-wall flights of fancy. But whether the situations are believable or bizarre, the giggles are real and rapid-fire. From the horror of guests who won't leave to Michael's night on the town, all paths lead to laughs!
#7
What's Michael?, Vol. 7
Fat Cat in the City
2000
Everyday cat and human interactions mingle with fantasy stories featuring the fat cat Michael and other felines.
#8
What's Michael?, Vol. 8
Show Time
2000
Described as "Japan's version of Garfield, Heathcliff, and Krazy Kat all rolled into one," Makoto Kobayashi's What's Michael? mixes all-too-real feline folly with hilarious fantasy scenarios to create one of graphic fiction's true comedic originals. From the upsides of leftovers and air conditioning to the downsides of litter boxes and neutering, the laughs proceed without delay.
#9
What's Michael?, Vol. 9
The Ideal Cat
2002
Described as "Japan's version of Garfield, Heathcliff, and Krazy Kat all rolled into one," Makoto Kobayashi's What's Michael? is one of graphic fiction's true comedic originals. It combines day-to-day cat scenarios every cat lover (and hater!) will recognize, with off-the-wall flights of fantasy that will have readers scratching their heads, while holding their sides from laughter. If you've had about enough of "Superhero of the Week Summer," maybe it's time to switch gears and have a few - or more than a few! - laughs with What's Michael?!
#10
What's Michael?, Vol. 10
Sleepless Nights
2005
Described as "Japan's version of Garfield, Heathcliff, and Krazy Kat all rolled into one," Makoto Kobayashi's What's Michael? combines true-to-life feline behavior every cat-lover (and hater!) will recognize along with off-the-wall trips into the realms of the fantastic (vampires?) and the ridiculous (cat high school?!). Whether unlocking the mysteries of where cats sleep or analyzing the structure of the cat pecking order, the answers always come with loads of laughter!
#11
What's Michael?, Vol. 11
Planet of the Cats
2006
Described as "Japan's version of Garfield, Heathcliff and Krazy Kat all rolled into one," Makoto Kobayashi's What's Michael? mixes slice-of-life cat reality with out-of-this-world cat fantasy into one tasty dish of laughter that even cat haters will find delicious. This, the final volume of the collected series, includes the What's Michael? epic, "The Planet of the Cats," a sci-fi feline farce that will put you into comedy orbit!
Authors
Jane Espenson
Author · 11 books
Jane Espenson is an American television writer and producer who has worked on both situation comedies and serial dramas. She had a five-year stint as a writer and producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and shared a Hugo Award for her writing on Conversations with Dead People. Between 2009-2010 she served on Caprica, as co-executive and executive producer for the series. In 2010 she wrote an episode of HBO's A Game of Thrones, and joined the writing staff for Series 4 of Torchwood, which will air on Starz in the US and the BBC in the UK in 2011. She will be co-writing the pilot episode for the US remake of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
Doug Petrie
Author · 4 books
Doug Petrie is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Makoto Kobayashi
Author · 5 books
Makoto Kobayashi (小林 まこと, Kobayashi Makoto) is a Japanese manga artist. Kobayashi's professional career in comics started in 1978, when he won the 'Shōnen magazine New manga artist' award for his work Grapple Three Brothers. Over the years Kobayashi has published a number of sport manga, specifically about Judo, starting from his first serialised work Sanshiro of 1, 2 (1981-1984), winner of the 1981 'Kodansha Manga Award'. However, his best known comic book, especially in the West, is What's Michael? (1984-1989), a humour strip about an orange cat, for which Kobayashi won another 'Kodansha Manga Award' in 1986.
小林まこと
Author · 5 books
English bio at Makoto Kobayashi
