Pusheen Corp. is an Illinois-based company dedicated to bringing smiles to the faces of fans around the world. Founded in 2010, Pusheen Corp. develops Pusheen content and products, working with more than 100 licensees globally. Pusheen herself made her first appearance online in a 2010 short series of comics by Creator/Founder Claire Belton written together with Co-Founder, Andrew Duff. That project, Everyday Cute, quickly spun off into the original Pusheen.com Tumblr blog. Within a short period of time, the comics and GIFs posted to Tumblr became a viral sensation, with images of Pusheen being shared across the internet hundreds of thousands of times every week.