It's Showtime, Sophie: A Breaking Cat News Adventure

Breaking Cat News #9

by Georgia Dunn

This just in: Breaking Cat News is now Best Cat Wrestling – One night only!

It’s slumber party time at the Breaking Cat News studio when Tommy, Sophie, and Beatrix visit the Big Pink House! Intrepid reporters by day, the cats have a secret life as professional wrestlers in Best Cat Wrestling, and they’re hard at work putting together the best show ever! Sensitive artist Sophie says she doesn’t want to play, but she confides to her diary that she longs to be included and make friends, she just doesn’t know how.

Join the fun as Sophie, with some help from her new friends, steps into the spotlight on the grandest stage of them all: Tusslemania!

The fun doesn’t stop there! The “More to Explore” section includes all new paper dolls of the cats of Breaking Cat News as their wrestling characters!

Genres: Humor, Graphic Novels, Cats, Graphic Novels Comics

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 27, 2026

Reviews

[Adam Fisher · Rating 1 out of 5]

Review being submitted to School Library Journal for an upcoming SMS article.

[AquaMoon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely delightful, as always!! As an introvert and artist, I've always felt a bit of a kinship with Sophie. But I have to wonder when Iggy and Ora Zella will be introduced in the print format of the comic. Perhaps the next book?

But OMC... The Existential Dread storyline.... LOL!! That's too good. Too good. And I love Sophie even more now!

p.s. YES, baby Yoda is cute, I guess. But to me he just looks like a hairless variety of a Mogwai. Much like a Sphynx is a hairless variety of a Cat.

p.p.s. I named one of my cats Gizmo, because when he was an itty bitty kitten he looked a lot like Gizmo (from the movie): Brown & white & fluffy with ears and eyes far too large for the rest of his body. He grew into his ears, but he's still got those enormous Studio Ghibli eyes.

[Latte Hawthorne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it! Hopefully next book will include Iggy and Ora-Zella!

[Norman Cook · Rating 4 out of 5]

The conceit behind these reprinted newspaper comics is that the cats in a suburban household report their cat news to... someone. It's a strange mix of realism and fancy. On the one hand, the cats wear clothes and have microphones, yet they are bewildered by things like Christmas trees and snow. Somehow, Dunn pulls it off, creating calm and cozy adventures that probably appeal to youngsters and adults alike. In times of turmoil in the real world a book like this is a sweet reminder that life can just be normal, or at least as normal as can be with so many cats running around a house. Dunn's art style is loose and cartoony, giving it a cute look, although it's sometimes hard to tell some of the cats apart.

[Stella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Georgia Dunn has another Breaking Cat News book out. If you aren’t familiar with this amazing female artist (and now single mother of two), check out any of these nine books, and advocate for your local newspaper to run her strip on the comics page. It cheers me up daily! Some of the books have unique stories that haven’t appeared before. This book is just a year of old strips with no apparent new content…but in color! And with paper dolls at the end. So fun to revisit the characters.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like that there were just vignettes about the core kitties and family in this one. It did feel pretty short- the cute paper dolls in the back are a nice addition, though!

I really enjoy the BCN crew a bunch and love supporting Georgia and her work!

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another fantastic Breaking Cat News collection from the inimitable Georgia Dunn!