Kiti Howaito

According to her biography on the Sanrio website, ティ・ホワイト or Kitty White lives 'somewhere in Suburban London'. It's strange to think that this most Japanese of kawaii icons supposedly comes from Bromley or Croydon or Dagenham. Even odder, Hello Kitty has a pet cat! Oh, and her blood type is A.

This is my attempt at reproducing a generic TV newsroom, along the Sky News model of clashing colours, big video screens and star interviews that reveal absolutely nothing.

Jones' favourite show

The only way the real world imposes itself on the cats in this strip is through the TV set, which is why I use photographs and screenshots on the TV screen. Well, that's how I explain it now - it was originally a device I used to save having to draw caricatures of famous people. The irony is, the picture research takes twice as long as it would to do the drawing.