The vernal tourism is purrone to escalate here as visitors from the regions purrtake of our purrpetual bikini weather in the uppurr 70’s, under the lush arbors and the puffy Cumulo-Neko clouds in the Blue sky over our NC OBX island and the surrounding waters of Mew Hanover County, nyan!

If you purrfur the much hotter tempurratures, we recommend the soothing soak in our hot spurrings, which have the purrticularly rejuvenative purropurrties, nyan! Fortunately we are blessed with the benevolent magick in the air, land and water that aids in the purropurrgation of the endangered species, whilst warding away the storms, pathogens, pollutions, bigotries, and invasive organisms, nya!

The local fishing forecast purrdicts the bumpurr crop of the delicious, nutritious Snappurrs, Groupurrs, Speckled Trout, Sea Bass, Blue Fish, and Bluefin Tuna, nya! In addition to angling, to catabolize the calories we purrfur to balance the numcious foods and the purrolonged catnaps with athletic purrsuits, nyan.

Such fun and healthy activities include surfing, swimming, sailing, diving, golf, tennis, bad meownton, softball, soccer, field hockey, cycling, skating, hiking, hula, belly dance, hot salsa dance, yoga, kite flying, jujutsu, kyudo, spurrlunking, yarnball lacrosse,beach volleyball, and purrkour (the local feline style of free running, spurringing and climbing), nyan!

The gardens here are abloom with the chrysanthemeowms, gingers, heliconias, anthuriums, hydrangeas, hibiscus, appurricots, azaleas, roses, bromeliads, morning glories, irises, lotuses, foxgloves, snapdragons, pansies, yellow bells and bird of purradise, plus the succulent scuppurrnongs of the vineyards and the local organic fresh purroduce at the Farmeows Meowrket, nyan!

The local boutiques have the purretty spurring fashions of the bikinis, maillots, purreos, sarongs, hijabs, sarees, ao dais, sun dresses, kimonos, yukatas, gi, fundoshi, hakama, happi, shorts, tee shirts, halter tops, lingerie, robes, athletic bras, sandals, flip flops, towels, wet suits and leis, nyan!

The backless and halter - neck styles are recommended for the winged folks, and be sure to specify if you purrfur the attire to have the custom tail-ored opening(s), so that it does not ride up on one’s tail, tentacles, wings or fins, nya! If you are visiting from another country, the bra and other garments will be in USA sizes, nyan.

They also have the translucent bikini tops which are sustain-ably mer-made from the bells of naturally-deceased, locally-caught jellyfish in the numerous iridescent colors and cup sizes, mew la la, nyan! After the shopping, dining, catnaps, festivities, sight seeing and playtime, purrhaps y’all might like to see-

the latest additions to Catgirl Island’s Mewseum of Art, nyan!

For those who are new to here, Galleries 1-8 display the images by our purrducer Mike, whilst Guest Art Galleries 1-6 display images by other folks with their purrmissions; and Mike’s collaborations with other artists are throughout the mewseum, nyan! On our web site, the most recent pics are on the lowermost row of the cropped widdle “thumbnail” portions of the pics in a gallery, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan!

Some of the images are sexy, and might even depict artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn, nyan! We should also meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for A.I. purrposes, nyan!

This month into Gallery Five we have added illustrations by our purrducer Mike Moon, and in Guest Gallery Three we have added new imagery by Misty Hopkins, Alexcia Reynolds, Rvkh Brogden, our webmeowster Jamie Robertson, and more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers, nyan!

Firstly we are purroud to pursent “Krile” by Misty, who used Krita for this illustration of Krile who is a friend’s Pictomancer character in the Final Fantasy XIV video game, and looks so peppy, happy cute and stylish in the kemonomimi hoody, nyan!

Then we are ecstatic to exhibit more photos of Alexcia Reynolds'’s “Punk-achu Costume”, nyan! Based on Pokemon, Punkachu is her cute punk version of Pikachu with a pink meowhawk, nyan! To see more of Pokemon fan art and fiction by Alexcia and friends, please visit her web site Pokemon Amber, nyan!

Then we hare "Stormy“ by Rvkh, who used Procreate with the Apple Pencil upon her Apple Ipad for this pic of her original character Ryane who is a mysterious angel who keeps to herself and eludes gazing eyes most of the time, nyan! There is a 1.5 meownute time-lapse art purrocess video for this illustration at Rvkh's Youtube channel!

Nextly is "Stormy“ by Jamie who used Photoshop, Corel Painter, and the graphics tablet for this latest lovely image of his original character Chelsea Urania Kate Chattan, who is the heroic witchy coastal Carolina human were-pantheress and the mane purrotagonist ofhis urban fantasy webcomic Clan of the Cats, nyan!

Jamie and Rvkh’s illustrations were done as storm- themed purrompt for the meowmbers of the Starry Eyed Artist Collective at Facebook, nyan! Nextly we are delighted to display four more collages of Crissy Volpe, and each collage is compurrised of four photos by various photographers, nyan!

The 1st collage includes MadMister Smiley’s 29 June, 2006 photo of Crissy with the makeup and outfit inspired by Kevyn Aucion’s “The Biba" makeup tutorial; Naci Tuzcuoglu’s photo of Crissy as Marvel’s Natasha Romanoff / the Black Widow wearing the wig by Arda-Wigs and the licensed costume at Big Apple Comic Con 2018; PopeCerebus’ photo of Crissy wearing off-the shelf garments & accessories as Final Fantasy VII’s Tifa Lockheart at Otakon 2012; and then quartet is topped off by the photo of Crissy is as Wednesday Addams, nyan!

The 2nd collage includes David Ng’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2023 as (Ursula disguised as) Vanessa of The Little Mermaid, wearing the costume (which she altered) by fhfhgf30; Otis casey’s photo of Crissy atNew York Comic Con 2012 as Streetfighter II's Chun Li in the costume made by Jenybean(?); Lynna’s photo of Crissy as Sailor Witch Mars at Otakon 2023 in the costume desighed by jaqirabbit and made by Alyce; and MadMisterSmiley’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2023 in the green elegant gothic lolita Dress made by Momosfairytaleworld, nyan!

The 3rd collage includes Tony K’s photo of Crissy in the licensed costume as Batgirl at the New York Comic Con 2011 with 2023 photoshopping by Mike; Night Life Cosplay / Photography’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2012 as Sailor Moon’s Hino Rei / Sailor Mars in a sailor suit made by Avian Firefly with certain store-bought items; David Ng’s 17 June, 2017 photo of Crissy as Sailor Mars in the Millennium Ball Gown made by Setsuna Kou; and Steph’s photo of Crissy as Fruits Basket’s Tohru Honda at Nan Desu Kan 2010 in the winter school uniform made by Milanoo with alterations by Patti & Steph, nyan!

The 4th collage includes Eurobeat King’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2011 as Fruits Basket’s Tohru Honda in the winter school uniform made by Milanoo with alterations by Patti & Steph; David Ng’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2011 as Fruits Basket’s Saki Hanajima in the winter school uniform made by Milanoo with alterations by Patti & Steph; David Ng’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2015 as Hino Rei in the Fruit Maid (from the fourth Sailor Moon artbook) costume made by Avian Firefly; and Eurobeat King’s 2011 photo of Crissy as Super Mario Brothers’ Purrincess Daisy in the costume made by Patti & Steph, nyan!

Nyow on to Mike’s latest four pics, nyan! “Zara Redux”is Mike’s pairing of his original 2005 and revised 2024 Photoshop and Mouse pics of Zara, who was a singer, spy and underground fighter with telekinetic powers and the snarky, bubbly, charming purrsonality in the Star Wars fan fic by our artist / cosplayer friend Tonomurabix, nyan! The original 2005 version is on the left and the 2024revised / nekomimi version is on the left, nyan!

“Ao Pen No Nekomusume” is Japanese for “The Blue Ballpoint Pen catgirl”, which in this case is Mike’s pic of our friend Mara-shi’noh who is a Hot Salsa and Kizomba dance teacher, a wife. mom, and grrrandmom, depicted here lounging upon the pillows in her bandeau bikini!, mew la la, nyan! Her daughter Peppurr-Minta is running for the island’s mayoral re-election this year, nyan!

Mike used the Derwent pencil, Sakura Micron pens, Faber Castell colored pencils and Copic meowrkers for the next two sketches, which were commeowssioned at this year’s fun widdle WhatTheHell?! Con on the mainland at lovely Guilford College, nyan. “Sam” is the sketch of - and for- Sam Moore, who was one of the artists at the con, nyan! “Venti” is fan art of the character from the Genshin Impact video game, which was done for the Guilford College Yachting Club’s Commeowdore Jordan! It is also time for -

the Apurril 2024 edition of The Mew, nyan!

The Mew is short for The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, our local monthly “show” in which The Ladies of the Mew and Mike discuss fun stuff and occasionally intermew the special guests, nyan! Please note that The Mew’s purresent home is at http://www.mewsings.catgirlisland.com, but Mewsings purrior to May 2021 are still archived at the old location http://www.mewsings.wordpress.com, nyan!

This month's movie mewsings include our favorite films of 1944, and reviews of Dune: Part Two, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, nyan. The Comics and Manga reviews include Vampire Princess Violet Story, Violet: Princess of the High-Throne #1, Scary Powerful: Women of Horror Planet, and Flying Witch manga vol. 12, nyan. That is topped off by our WhatTheHell?!Con report and monthly Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonimimi Spotlight, nyan!

We wish to thank—

our friend and web meowster Jamie Robertson who is also the creator of the wonderful web comic Clan of the Cats, founder / web meowster of the FemShep fan site devoted to the female version of the Mass Effect video game’s heroic Commeownder Shepard, and the founder / web meowster of the Rebecca Ferguson Nation fan site to actress Rebecca Ferguson, nyan!

We also wish to expurress our gratitude to our our friends and families for their purrticipations and support, and we appurreciate all of y’all for web surfing to our cordial coastal Carolina commeownity which is full of southern hospurrtality and artistic aloha spirit, nyan!

Arigato Gozaimeowsu, nya!
- your friendly neighborhood concierges at Catgirl Island Visitors Center, nyan!

Contact Mike Moon at catgirlislanddiespamdie@gmail.com
IMPORTANT: remove "diespamdie" from email address above before contacting Mike, nyan!