Product Description

Sit on the couch. Speak. Engage in witty banter and share ideas with friends who really understand your predicaments. Sounds like the perfect café. Especially if you're a dog.

Pooch Café is the home away from home for Poncho and his canine buddies. No Collar, No Service marks the second collection of the hip hit strip Pooch Café, named for the place where Poncho, Boomer, and the rest of their pals regularly gather to discuss life among the humans and to hatch their plans to catapult all the world's cats into space. But you won't find this spot on Main Street. Its actual location is a canine secret compromised just once when they tried to get a pizza delivered.

Poncho is as passionate about his love for his master, Chazz, as he is about his distaste for kitties. When Poncho and Chazz move in with Carmen and her medley of cats, Poncho pals up with "Fish," a goldfish who conveniently speaks dog, to learn the lay of the land. Poncho views his master's new life as a threat to the sacred man-dog bond, despite Carmen's efforts to make peace with Poncho using love, tenderness, and cheese. Good thing there's always the gang at the café.

No Collar, No Service is the latest saga of a strip that captures the intensity of the human-dog bond in a way that resonates with pet lovers everywhere.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #462864 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Paul Gilligan studied illustration and animation at Sheridan College in Toronto and comedy writing at the National Film Institute. He has won awards for both illustration and design as a freelance illustrator for a diverse array of publications such as Entertainment Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, Men's Fitness, Disney Magazine, NFL Properties, and Bon Appetit, among others. Pooch Café is his first syndicated comic strip. He lives in Toronto.

Customer Reviews

Quirky, original humor and amazing art!
Pooch Cafe has quickly become my favorite comic strip, and I don't even LIKE dogs! Paul Gilligan has a talent for originality, and I appreciate it. If you're tired of cookie-cutter comics, try Pooch Cafe.

A fresh comic you might actually laugh out loud reading
Pooch Cafe was recommended to me by Amazon.Com, I suppose because I enjoy FoxTrot, Calvin & Hobbes and the like. It's fresh and funny - definitely worth a look if you're hunting a new comic strip to fall in love with.

Pooch Cafe is laugh out loud funny
Move over Calvin & Hobbes - there's a new dog in town. I read the daily adventures of Poncho and gang in The Daily News but having a whole collection in one book is just non-stop laughs. Pooch Cafe is far superior to most strips out there because of the wit, humor and simplicity of the story lines. I enjoy introducing people to Pooch Cafe and once the've read a few frames they become instant fans too. Canine kudos to creator, Paul Gilligan, for sharing this funny little masterpiece of a strip with the rest of us.