Moeel, who studied fashion at Parsons School of Design, began drawing her Pink Cat character and posting to Instagram for fun, writing about her daily life, and her following grew organically. “Sometimes I say she’s got a collar or a chokehold around me because I’m like, ‘I just want to get a job, I don’t want to do this anymore!’ There’s so much uncertainty when you have to eat what you kill.” “I really think of it like I’m an artist that’s channeling a spirit and a zeitgeist,” she said. as much as we are connected to the technology that is propelling our evolution forward.”įor all the parallels between Pink Cat and its creator, to Moeel the character feels like an invented alter ego. And we must understand that we are connected to other species. “We have crossed the threshold of being defined by our physical bodies. “More than ever, the relationship between us and animals is being tested, and the survival of our species depends on us understanding that we are no longer Homo sapiens, that we are transhuman,” she writes in the foreword to “Don’t Care Didn’t Ask Plus I’m Baby,” her recent book collecting more than 1,400 Pink Cat panels. So Moeel hopes to attract more readers who are willing to buy into the cult of the cat - and also to induct them into her own idiosyncratic brand of mysticism. “I grew up on ‘Garfield.’ I grew up reading ‘Calvin and Hobbes.’ So yes, please do that to me.”Ī post shared by The Pink Cat chosen species of avatar is no accident and surely contributes to her success from ancient Egypt to viral cat memes, the allure of the feline may be our one cultural constant. With her peculiar tastes and relatably dark wit, Pink Cat has the makings of a Gen Z Garfield - a comparison Moeel welcomes. The mélange of quippy one-liners, internet-inspired dialogue and bright illustrations has attracted more than 250,000 followers, with individual posts routinely racking up more than 10,000 likes.

“It is the document of how the spiritual and physical are a journey of transcendence with regard to the expansion of consciousness.” “Pink Cat is an experience on Earth,” explained Moeel over drinks in Hollywood. With panels exploring tarot and astrology, party culture and polyamory, Pink’s exploits have endeared her to a stable of (mostly) young social media users. Pink Cat, the plucky feline star of the Bay Area native’s 5-year-old series, is covered in tattoos, balances her spiritual practice with occasional drug use and speaks in the punchline-heavy parlance of the internet. Scrolling through digital artist Saba Moeel’s Pink Cat Daily comics on Instagram is a bit like mainlining meme and hip-hop culture directly into one’s veins.

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