ВГ Катс: Комикс про видеоигры и котов

Webcomic by Scott Ramsoomair

The comic series often includes video game based humor and satire targeting the video game industry.

Ramsoomair said that he began the strip due to boredom at work; he created comics during his lunch breaks. The comic's protagonists, Leo and Aeris, were both named after Ramsoomair's real life pet cats, Prior to taking the VGCats. com domain, the comic was hosted at www. vgcats. cjb. net. For a period, VG Cats was affiliated with BuzzComix. During April 1 (April Fools' Day), Ramsoomair replaces the regular home page with fake pages, like a "Krug" page in 2003 or a Myspace profile for Solid Snake in 2007. In 2006, Ramsoomair made a strip depicting creatures from Maxis' video game Spore, and Maxis created a version of the strip replacing all the drawn characters with in game versions, and sent him custom figurines of the creatures. In February 2022, Ramsoomair announced the end of the webcomic in a now deleted post on Patreon. However, he later began to update the main Patreon account again on July 20, 2023, and released a new addition to comic sometime in December of the same year.

Ramsoomair said that VGCats was "basically along the lines of Penny Arcade." The comic originally focused on 2 gamers;

VG Cats is not a plot driven comic, though there are several characters that are staples of the comic. Ramsoomair said that all of his characters "relate" to him "at some point." Joystiq has defined them as "adorable characters who feel most at home with violence, language, and sexual innuendo". Central characters in VG Cats include:

Aeris is blue eyed female cat with pink fur. She has a short temper, and frequently verbally and physically abuses Leo. Her violent behavior extends to how she interacts with other characters, often assaulting other characters in the strip, as well making sarcastic quips towards them. She is also shown to have an interest in fan fiction, as well as both reading and writing yaoi. Aeris made her first appearance on September 4, 2001 in Strip #2, "Pika? ".

Leo Leonardo, The Third is a green eyed male cat with grey fur. Leo is shown to be unintelligent, impulsive, and have a loose grasp of reality. It is implied that Leo may have been born with Intellectual disability. He does, however, occasionally show signs of intelligence, and even takes part in similarly violent behavior as Aeris. Leo was introduced on September 4, 2001 in Strip #1, "Feelin' Gassy".

The alter ego of Scott Ramsoomair, Pantsman is an incompetent superhero who concealed his identity by wearing trousers and sometimes underpants on his head. His greatest weakness is vodka cooler, which causes him to drop his trousers and transform into "Peter Pantsless". He also wore a pair of jeans around his neck, to provide a two tailed cape. He was introduced in Strip 37, "I Like Bunnies", to help explain the inconsistent updating of the comic.

Chris Boe, a friend and associate of Ramsoomair, created an animated adaptation of VG Cats. Only the first half of the first episode, "Episode 1: A Tale of Two Kitties", has been produced, and was released on January 21, 2006. Boe wrote and animated the episode.

Bad Mushrooms, a sprite comic created by Ramsoomair prior to the creation of VG Cats, is hosted on VGCats. com. It has not been updated since 2008. Super Effective, also done by Ramsoomair, began in April 2008 as a comic parody of the popular game series Pokémon. On the same day as the aforementioned comic, Scott stated in a blog post that the site's advertising revenue was no longer able to sustain him financially, Afterwards ZeStuff hosted the VG Cats Store. As of 2008 Shark Robot hosts the VGCats store. As of 2008, Ramsoomair is no longer affiliated with CafePress, but it still sells VG Cats merchandise on its website.