My Cage is an American daily comic strip by Melissa DeJesus and Ed Power and was distributed by King Features Syndicate. The strip debuted on May 6, 2007, while the final strip ran on October 31, 2010. My Cage was the first "manga-inspired" comic to be syndicated by King Features. The strip was then in reruns on Universal Uclick's gocomics.com from November 5, 2011 until November 5, 2020. As of June 1, 2015, new strips and reruns can be found on Patreon. The comic is set in a post-human world of anthropomorphic animals, in which the protagonist attempts to juggle a soul-sucking corporate career with freelance writing. Characters Norman T. Platypus, the strip's protagonist. Norm is a twentysomething aspiring freelance writer who works as a supervisor for the fictitious corporation McGuffin Inc. Despite his income, he believes he was happier before his job ("poorer but happier.") He regularly shaves the fur on top of his head to "make a statement about baldness," though he has yet to explain what the statement is. During the final strips, Norman briefly gave up on his dreams of being a writer after discovering that Bridget was pregnant, deciding that working at MacGuffin Inc. was worth it if it meant he could give his child a stable life just before receiving a letter from a Hollywood producer that they were interested in buying a script he had sent them earlier. Bridget T. Dog, Norman's girlfriend and later wife, an assistant manager for Video Cavern. Unlike Norman, she enjoys her job. Her interests include painting and Lost. She is often called a "Hippie." On May 10, 2009, Bridget and Norman broke up but later got back together. After becoming engaged, Bridget became somewhat stressed over the approaching wedding, cramming massive quantities of food as a way to cope with it. These feelings were later pacified when she ran into a former boyfriend and realized that her love for Norm overshadowed any doubts she might have about their future. Towards the strips' end, Bridget and Norman eloped to get married in Vegas and she became pregnant with his child. That baby child, named Sally Platypus, was finally born in May 2017 during the second year of the Patreon My Cage webcomic run and at the time of the 10th. anniversary of the My Cage comic strip newspaper run launch. Squishy, Norman's pet amoeba who is depicted with