Omgekat

First, thanks to Gijs for p roviding me a much more sane translation of Dutch for the Speed Planet Blurb below:

Dicebox is a comic by Jenn Manley Lee about the characters Griffen and Molly. A beautiful comic which eventually will span 36 chapters, divided over four (books). The first one is now online.

Gijs also did not know what omgekat —from the Zone 5300 blurb— meant, but from context and Gijs guess, I’m pretty sure it’s design or re-design.

And actually Gijs wasn’t referred to Dicebox by either of the Dutch sites, but by OnlineComics.net, where I recently listed Dicebox in the Science Fiction section.

Another native speaker of Dutch, Piet, has cleared up the meaning of “omgekat” for me:

Your description of re-design kind of fits the bill. It is the illegal action of changing the identity of a car after you have stolen it. You do this by removing the existing serial number and applying a new one. Usually the new one is derived from a dump.

I think that’s pretty cool. A very interesting analogy for a re-design, especially when I think of certain graphic designers’ work.