Louis Wain Fact #8:
Wain’s work is often confused and conflated with that of his contemporary, G.H. Thompson. Certain accounts even go as far as to say Thompson was an alias of Wain, but this was not the case. Thompson and Wain were separate individuals, and although they both often drew caricaturised animals, they each have styles that are recognisably distinct from the other.
![Cats in Wain’s illustrations are often literate, especially in his school and home drawings. When the titles of books are included and discernible, Mice and How to Eat Them or alternately, Mice and How to Love Them and Home Sweet Home are seemingly popular books among catkind. Unlike Come Birdie Home, these do not seem to have real-world equivalents.](https://catland.distin.org/imagehosting/trivia/thompson.jpg)