Space Cat

Space Cat is an underground cartoon by Fish Griwkowsky that began as a joke illustration in a Canadian university newspaper in 1993. Detailing the exploits of Zingers the Space Cat from planet Spectacula, the plot-arc-heavy strip is published in campus newspapers across the Canada, including The Gateway.
Plot
Continuing an ongoing storyline started in 1979, Space Cat was sent to Earth by Melnadron, Corporate Emperor of Spectacula. There, the cat encountered and tormented Scott Fonzerelli, a Canadian sandwich artist caught up in dead-end Generation X. As time passed, Space Cat abandoned Fonzerelli and met a one-eyed demon named Zorpius, a secret agent sent from hell (not heck) to prevent the Earth's destruction and subsequent soul-creation. This was an unnecessary caution, as the hero had already been seduced by Earth's sins and charms, including drugs and Japan's chaotic wonder. It was here the Space Cat began to be tailed by the Hidden Ninja, who began to lurk silently in the corners of the strip. Meanwhile, a galactic war waged far from Earth resulting in the near-annihilation of Spectacula.
After moving to Vancouver and enduring a traumatic battle against the Time Dogs, who revealed to Space Cat that he would eventually effectively destroy the planet a thousand years hence, the green fuzzball fled to Chicago, attending George Jefferson High for three years, annihilating it after its principal hanged himself, fully blaming Space Cat. At the school, Space Cat befriended Juki Homna, a Japanese-American student who it was eventually revealed was killed by her boyfriend and could generally only be seen in her ghostly form by the cat. Unfortunately, Space Cat's uber-nationalist, anti-human grandfather attacked the two, but was waylaid by the Hidden Ninja, and the two teleported to regions unknown.
Then, without explanation, Homna vanished. Since then, Space Cat has been bumming around Chicago, like the Merle Haggard song says, avoiding the advances of Melnadron, who would have him return home to use his special abilities to liberate Spectacula.
Other uses
Space Cat is also the name of a children's science fiction book by Ruthven Todd, published in 1952. The book and its sequels had no relationship to the comic series.

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