What's Michael? (ホワッツマイケル? Howattsu Maikeru?) is a Japanese manga series created by Makoto Kobayashi. In 1984, it began its serialization in the Weekly Morning magazine. The manga shows Michael, an orange American Shorthair tabby cat, his feline friends, and other domesticated pets in a series of humorous episodes. It is currently released in the US by Dark Horse Comics. The manga was presented in the standard left to right American reading format. In 1986, What's Michael? received the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.