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Grumpy Cat: The Grumpus and Other Horrible Holiday Tales

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Grumpy The Grumpus and Other Horrible Holiday Tales is a collection of stories featuring everyone's favorite feline sourpuss that will help keep you in the grumpy spirit all throughout the most joyous season of the year!

Grumpy Cat and her friends star in an origin story parody of the popular Christmas figure The Krampus in the title story.

The book also includes other brand new short stories,

• “Grumpy the Snowcat”
• “Santa Claws”
• “Grumpy Cat vs. Merry Martians”
• “Deck the Grumpy Halls”
• “You’re a Mean One, Ms. Grumpy”
• “The Christmas Curse”

...and more!

Grumpy Cat returns to comics in style with this all new collection of short stories by acclaimed industry writers and artists...don't miss it this Holiday Season!

104 pages, Hardcover

Published November 28, 2023

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996 reviews2 followers
December 2, 2023
Although the world was only graced with 7 years of life of Grumpy Cat (real name: Tarder Sauce), the spirit of the prickly puss lives on. In a brand new collection of holiday stories, Grumpy Cat and her ever so positive brother Pokey, celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and Three Kings Day in ways only feisty feline could. The title story of the Grumpus is Grumpy Cat's Christmas time warning to her brother that the holidays is not a season of glee but doom! Later we learn that cinnamon is Grumpy's greatest foe. Witness as aliens make first contact with Grumpy and Pokey in order to learn about Christmas. A malevolent spectre warns Grumpy of potential Christmas future troubles before this collection wraps up with Grumpy filling in for Old Saint Nick.

There have been Grumpy Cat (And Pokey!) comics before. But from what I can tell none of them were holiday specials. That means that the complete Grumpus and Other Horrible Holiday Tales is 100% all-new material! And I had a humongous amount of fun with this book!

There are a number of tales involved in this book including Steve Orlando, Derek Fridolfs and Silvia Bancora. Each story has differing art as well as differing ways of story framing. One tale is done in rhyme. Another is told partially. I'm thankful for that variety as I think if all the stories were told in a similar fashion, it would have gotten a tad stale. The main thing is that throughout 9 different tales, the snarky catatude of Grumpy and the wide-eyed wonder of Pokey never wavers!

Recommended by Amazon for readers aged 12-14 I think that there's something for everyone. Think the Grumpus, which is a Grumpy Cat version of Krampus or the Ghost of Christmas Future is too intense for the young readers in your life? Just skip those tales for the all-ages fun of the 'Grumpy Cat Vs. Merry Martians' or the hilarious chaos of the Hanukkah entry. Then in later years when those readers get old enough to read those slightly more intense Christmas Carols, it'll be brand new material for them!

A new holiday classic from a beloved feline icon. I miss Grumpy Cat.
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754 reviews5 followers
December 12, 2025
Grumpy Cat has been a part of our Christmas traditions since my oldest daughter was little. Every year we have to watch Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever at least once. So, when I stumbled across this comic, I just had to check it out and read it with my kids. It’s full of cute little Grumpy stories (told in Aubrey Plaza’s voice in my head of course!) that my kids and I enjoyed. Definitely check it out if you’re a Grumpy fan. Or if you’re just a little bit grumpy yourself.
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April 17, 2024
Funny, clever, and at times cute retelling of classic Christmas stories such as A Christmas Carol, Frosty the Snowman, The Grinch, etc. -- but in a not-nice, mean-spirited Grumpy Cat way.
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