A black cat with pointed ears and glowing yellow eyes sits upright against a bold red ground, clutching a tiny gift-wrapped present in its paws while a small white mouse dangles from its mouth. The composition balances playful humor with a darkly comic sensibility, rendered in a flat, graphic style with textured details that give the cat a mischievous charm. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.