Louis Wain: The Artist Who Made Cats Famous, One Postcard at a Time
Long before cats ruled the internet, they ruled the postcard rack. One artist is largely responsible for that: Louis Wain, the English illustrator whose wide eyed, upright, endlessly expressive cats became one of the most collected postcard subjects of the early 1900s. Wain started drawing cats in the 1880s, when the idea of a cat…