Concept and Influences
The basic concept of Laugh-Out-Loud Cats, as a review by The A.V. Club describes it, is "that two hobo cats from a long-lost early-20th-century comic speak in 21st-century net-slang". The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats comics are presented by Adam Koford as having been produced originally by "A. Koford", his grandfather Aloysius Gamaliel Koford, for a short-lived syndicated newspaper comic strip that started in 1912. Koford has pointed to a number of influences on the series (or rather, "cultural touchstones show evidence of being influenced by my great-grandfather's handiwork", as he puts it): the 1973 road movie Paper Moon and the 1941 comedy film Sullivan's Travels, the character design from the 1910s comic strip Old Doc Yak by Sidney Smith, the cartooning style of Hank Ketcham and Al Wiseman from Dennis the Menace, and the work of cartoonist B. Kliban.
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