Pusheen

Pusheen is a female cartoon cat who is

the subject of comic strips and sticker
sets on Facebook. Pusheen was created
in 2010 by Claire Belton and Andrew Duff
for a comic strip on their website,
Everyday Cute. More recently, the
Pusheen character has been used in
social media posts and on the Pusheen
blog.
 Pusheen the cat

First appearance 2010

Created by Claire Belton

Andrew Duff

On the official Pusheen website Pusheen

is described as being a female domestic
shorthair which is grey and tabby. The
original comic strip series included
characters modeled after Belton, Duff,
their dog named Carm (short for
“Carmen”), and Pusheen, a chubby grey
tabby cat based on Belton's cat that now
lives with her parents in Oregon.
Pusheen's name stems from the word
puisín, which means kitten in Irish.
Pusheen is sometimes seen with her
sister, Stormy and her brother, Pip.
Occasionally Pusheen and Stormy are
drawn in different themes, such as
Pusheenasarus Rex, where Pusheen is a
dinosaur and Stormy is in a dinosaur egg.
She can also be a Pusheenicorn,
Purrmaid, and many other themes.
Pusheen has a mom, dad, husband, a
sister named Stormy, a brother named
Pip, and two kids.

History
Pusheen first appeared in May 2010 in
the comic strip "Pusheen Things" on
Claire Belton and Andrew Duff's website,
Everyday Cute.[1] In 2011, Belton and Duff
launched a spin-off site dedicated to
Pusheen. In 2013, Belton published I Am
Pusheen The Cat, a collection of comic
strips featuring Pusheen.[2]

Pusheen has become well known for

appearing in sticker sets on Facebook,
which are images that can be attached to
personal messages or comments. The
feature, including a set of Pusheen
stickers, was introduced to Android in
April 2013, and added to the main
website in July of the same year.[3] In an
article for PC Magazine on emoji and
unicode, Sascha Segan referred to
Pusheen as Facebook's "proprietary
emoji", being used as a form of vendor
lock-in.[4]

In April 2017, the Pusheen Corporation

acquired office space in the Park Ridge
suburb of Chicago. The offices are used
as a workspace for artists and
photographers.[5]

Social media
Pusheen is an example of the popularity
of cats on the Internet. An exhibition at
the New York City Museum of the Moving
Image examined the phenomenon,
highlighting Pusheen alongside other
celebrity cats such as Grumpy Cat and Lil
Bub.[6] The Facebook page for Pusheen
has over 9.2 million fans as of February
2019.[7] The brand has expanded with
merchandise including an app. Pusheen
has expanded and moved beyond just
Facebook and now takes part in multiple
social media platforms such as:
Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter. This
cartoon cat also has many fan pages
within the platforms and blogs dedicated
to celebrating the comic. Its popularity
has even allowed the Pusheen Corp to
create an app that is an expansion of
their sticker collection that started on
Facebook. Within each social media
account that is officially owned by the
creators of Pusheen the cat has gained
over a million followers and counting.
Due to this rise in popularity the company
has started releasing GIFs on their
website several times a month.

Merchandising

A store filled with Pusheen merchandise

The Pusheen corporation started selling
Pusheen merchandise after the
popularity of the cat took off in July
2010.[8] The first Pusheen merchandising
was sold on the Everyday Cute website
as a charm keychain, and necklace. From
there the Merchandising expanded and
now Pusheen Corp have teamed up with
many brands to create and sell
merchandise in stores such as Barnes &
Noble, Hot Topic, and Petco. They
expanded their merchandising to the
website formerly known as Hey
Chickadee, which was rebranded as The
Pusheen Shop in April 2019.[9] The
website features merchandise
collections dedicated to the cartoon cat,
which range from plush toys by
manufacturer Gund, clothing,
accessories, knick-knacks, blind boxes,
and much more.[10] They even have a
quarterly subscription box, called the
Pusheen Box (which is a popular trend
within online shopping) that is filled with
Pusheen Products. The latest place to
buy pusheen merch is
shop.pusheen.com.[11]

References
1. "Comic 1: Pusheen Things" .
Everyday Cute. May 2010. Archived
from the original on October 28,
2010. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
2. Glein, Kelsey (April 2, 2014). "What's
Right Meow: Meet the Internet's
Most Famous Kitty, Pusheen the
Cat" . InStyle. Retrieved February 24,
2016.
3. Wang, Abigail (July 3, 2013).
"Facebook Stickers Now Available
On the Web" . PC Magazine.
Retrieved February 24, 2016.
4. Segan, Sascha (May 22, 2015).
"Bring On the Emoji" . PC Magazine.
Retrieved February 24, 2016.
5. Johnson, Jennifer. "Pusheen gets
green light for office in Uptown Park
Ridge" . chicagotribune.com.
Retrieved 2017-09-22.
6. "Cats on the internet to star in New
York museum exhibition" . The
Week. July 22, 2015. Retrieved
February 24, 2016.
7. "The Official History Of Pusheen, The
Animated GIF Cat That's Taking Over
Facebook | Unicorn Booty" . Unicorn
Booty. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
8. "Everyday Cute » Blog Archive » The
shop is up!" . 2010-10-28. Archived
from the original on 2010-10-28.
Retrieved 2017-09-22.
9. "Hey Chickadee is now The Pusheen
Shop!" . Facebook. Retrieved
2019-09-09.
 10. "Pusheen" . Hey Chickadee.
Retrieved 2017-09-22.
11. "Pusheen Box" . pusheenbox.com.
Retrieved 2017-09-22.

External links
Official website

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