Leona, Cat Woman

[Goddessartist]

Happy New Year's Eve Everyone!

Here's one of my favorite drawings, Leona. I sketched her from my imagination some years ago.
I seem to have a thing for cats, women, and dragons.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Yeah, but who doesn't?

[Goddessartist]

5. LOL true.

[GiqueCee]

2. That side-eye glare...

... tells me to watch out for those claws!

[Goddessartist]

6. Well, I'm sure,

like me, she's a Scorpio, so yes, watch out for those claws!

[ChazInAz]

3. My mental image of Tigerishka.

A fascinating alien in Fritz Leiber's novel "The Wanderer".
Fritz had a thing for cats and women, too. Don't think he ever said anything about dragons to me, though!

[Goddessartist]

8. I'll have to read that!

That's a really good name for her. I also call her Felina.

I love cat women. I posted Panthera a while back - she's since almost finished.
She has a dragon and a raven.

[niyad]

11. I am in awe!!!

[Goddessartist]

12. Oh thank you so much!

[Goddessartist]

14. Thanks again

for telling me about that book. I'm going to order it!

[ChazInAz]

16. Probably on Kindle.

Fritz is hard to find in book shops, nowadays. He was a mentor and friend during my brief career as a writer. He was a great guy. We shared many of the same bad habits, despite the considerable difference in age!

[Goddessartist]

17. I found it

and can get it in hard copy, or audio to listen to as I do art. I love to read, but mostly spend my awake time doing art. Books are really the best as they seem to unfold as a movie in my mind as I read.

I'm intrigued as there's a cat woman involved, and the summary sounds fabulous! I'm a big sci/fi fantasy geek, and have attended many conventions, starting at Dragoncon in Atlanta in 2000. I sold a piece there for 3k. Blew me away, as I didn't really intend to sell it, and put a high price on her.

I've met Harlan Ellison (what a flirt! - told me I'm 'stunning') lol. He visited our friends up here when he attended Norwescon. That was a long time ago. II know and am friends with lots of artists in that genre.

I'd love to read some of your writings.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-wanderer_fritz-leiber/427522/#edition=11644220&idiq=27181201

[ChazInAz]

18. I knew Harlan, too.

First met him at St. Louiscon '69, along with Fritz and many others of the New Wave.
I later participated in a Science Fiction writer's workshop run by Harlan, with Fritz as one of the mentors and "bad influences" . Harlan was a force of nature and I admired him hugely.

My own writings were published in a few minor mags under a pen name, as well as hack work as a stable writer for DAW. I ran out of things to say and stopped writing years ago. I saved no copies of my work...it was ephemeral.
Thank you for asking!

[Lovie777]

4. Nice...................

[Goddessartist]

9. Thank so much!

[niyad]

7. She is amazing! Thank you!!!

[Goddessartist]

10. Thanks so much!

[AllaN01Bear]

13. wow. this.

https://www.boomermagazine.com/lee-meriwether-catwoman/

[Goddessartist]

15. Ooh I've always loved her!

I thought she was just perfect! I would imagine being a cat when I was little.