Klondike Kat by MartenFerret on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

This is Klondike Kat: a character from the 1960s that I remember watching as a segment from the Underdog cartoon that aired on Nickelodeon.
Klondike is a wildcat who serves as a mountie in the Royal British-Canadian Mounted Police.

Klondike's antagonist is a criminal mouse named Savoir Faire ...and from that one can deduce 'Klondike Kat' was a Tom-and-Jerry type show (and one would be correct).

I didn't care much for the show, but whatever---the shorts lated only several minutes each.. ^^

Pencil...

The featured pencil is an official 'Government of Canada' pencil, circa 1960s.

There exists a great variety of these pencils, albeit the featured one is my favorite, with its warning that 'Misuse [of the pencil] is Abuse'.

Luckily, I didn't use this pencil at all: I drew Klondike with a 'Zephyr' by Wallace Pencil Co., and delineated it via an unbranded 'Par-Value' pencil.

Someone out there has a collection of these pencils. To learn more about them, click here: pencilseh.weebly.com/governmen…

I have a fair few myself; these are they (there are some repeats): sta.sh/0k3dq3zri99

The 1917 isn't upside-down, it's a left-handed pencil (yes, those exist).

The topmost red pencil has writing in both English and (what I presume to be) French.