Felix Revolts

It's not bad enough that Felix the Cat Asks for some spaghetti, and he's given some hot, hot mustard. Now the city council is calling cats pests and talking about scatting them out of town, so Felix organizes all the cats in town into a midnight concert. Then he tells the mice that the cats are on strike.

It's high fantasy on the. Heap, not only with the detachable tail of the little black cat, but the general attitude of this, like the plebes walking out on Rome in Tacitus. It's nowhere near as highbrow, and very funny, too.... but so is Tacitus.

Felix wanders near a fish market, but the owner comes out and beats him up (this is brutal) and kicks him across the street to another eating establishment. There, Felix walks in and observes a guy pigging out on his spaghetti. Felix pleads for some food, like a dog, but the man only throws him a gob of hot mustard. (Man, there are mean people in this cartoon.) Poor Felix's mouth is on fire and he races out of the diner, hopping up and down in pain. He runs away, finds a pond and drinks it dry!

He continues his walk and overhears a bunch of anti-cat speech coming from City Hall. He peeks in the window, sees the mayor making a proclamation "Therefore be it resolved that we starve these feline pests out of our town."

Wow, I told you the people here are nasty! Felix shakes his fist and says, "I'll get the gang and we'll see about this."

The rest is Felix and his thousands of feline allies vowing to make life miserable for those people and to restore cats to their rightful status, which they do in a humorous way. This is a pretty solid Felix cartoon, enjoyable all the way.