Victorian Etching Pixel Smoking Cat

Retro monochrome pixel-art illustration in a [monochrome 1-bit Victorian pixel-art etching] style. The scene features an oversized [black cat] sitting upright in a narrow urban alley, rendered with dense dithering, stippling, crosshatching, and chunky 1-bit pixel texture. The cat wears a [tall black top hat] tilted slightly backward and [round wire-rim spectacles] on its face, holding a [curved smoking pipe] in its mouth extending to the right, with pale gray smoke curling upward in ornate wisps. The cat has a dignified, eccentric expression, long whiskers, shaggy fur, and a curled tail stretching along the lower right. Composition & Lighting: The cat dominates the center-left, facing slightly up and to the right. The left background consists of a dense vertical wall of old newspaper clippings, posters, and building facades rendered in abstract unreadable text blocks and halftone grids; the right side opens into bright white negative space with faint architectural line art. The ground plane is lightly textured with hatch marks and paper scraps. Palette & Constraints: Strictly stark black, white, and muted gray palette with zero color. Whimsical gothic steampunk mood reminiscent of an 8-bit retro video game splash screen mixed with an antique woodcut engraving. Crisp pixelated outlines, no smooth gradients, no modern objects, and all background text completely illegible.