So after talking to my group and Mike, my idea is tentatively going to be about a cat that wanted to be a dog. The idea behind this would be that the cat was actually a metaphor for being transgender, and that the reason why it wanted to be a dog was because it felt uncomfortable in its own skin. The plot behind it would be that the cat was unsure about who it wanted to be, and so it would imitate different animals in the hope that it would eventually be who it wanted to be. When it found a dog it realised that’s who it wanted to be all along, and its friends and family would be happy that it had eventually become happy too, and it would be accepted by its fellow dogs as another dog.

I did some tentative sketches and coloured some drawings of what potentially the cat and a dog might look like in the book itself.

I know the images aren’t great but hopefully I can get some clearer drawings down when I get down to sketching properly. It was pointed out to me that my cat looks like Simon the Cat, which was actually unintentional, but I did some research and I guess I could consider the comics an influence because I do like the rounded style of Simon Tofield’s drawings, especially the way the cat is depicted as quite fat and thick-looking.