Rabbits Against Flat Cutouts

Today's strip is one of those rare instances where I coincide the theme with a holiday of sorts.  Typically I avoid all the religious holidays to focus on the quirky celebrations of tomfoolery (April 1st), mortality (Day of the Dead) and high seas shenanigans (Talk Like a Pirate Day).  Today marks the tenth Valentine's Day I've spent with my spousal unit.  maybe I'm getting slushy in my old age.

Today's delightful Google Doodle features a magic rabbit around about the 41 second mark.  The awesome artist responsible, Michael "Lippy" Lipman, created it in Flash.  Now that Adobe has started winding down the format in favor of HTML5 and Adobe Air I wonder if we will see the end of the golden era of computer generated animations as the tools become less accessible to creative people.  Anyway, happy Valentine's Day.

The Ears Have It

There's a lot going on here, although what intrigues me is the strange kazoo embedded into the larger rabbit's body.   Is it some sort of curious lupine musical instrument or a fifties bong perhaps?

Fats Calico

Not a rabbit but without a doubt, the greatest animated gif of all time.

The WIld Front Ear

I long for a return to the astonishing colors of the fifties.  Technicolor... come back!  All is forgiven.

Rabbits Against Magic Sets

Another great Liō strip.

Incredibly Strange Rabbit Picture Number 47

It's hard to know where to start with this one.  From the prosthetic leg to the Bugs Bunny headed wreath comprised of sad looking discarded toys this image has it all!

Who the heck is John Glynn?

In case you're wondering, he's my editor at Universal. I slipped his name into today's strip to make sure he was paying attention (and he was!).  John is a frequent guest in many comic strips. Here's a brief selection.

Rabbits Against Earbud Tangles

Oh how I love this strip. Let me count the ways.  More over at Dark Side of the Horse.

Incredibly Strange Rabbit Picture Number 46

Looks like a Playboy Club derivative after the lawyers got a hold of it.

Roomsaid Against Magic

Going To Pot

This series is based on a real life artifact, the "Fountain" readymade by the Dadaist Marcel Duchamp in 1917. Marcel Duchamp began his career as a gag cartoonist submitting panels to Parisian literary journals. Comics historian M. Thomas Inge has suggested that the “R. Mutt” signature Duchamp scrawled at the bottom of this famous “readymade” was an explicit reference to Bud Fisher’s Mutt from Mutt and Jeff.  Duchamp gave up art in 1923 and spent the rest of his life playing chess to the exclusion of almost all other activities.  And people say Dalí was odd.

Playrabbit Magazine Cover

Is there such a thing as too many rabbits?

Incredibly Strange Rabbit Picture Number 45

Happy 2012.

Feelgood Rabbit Image of the Day

Cute, cuddly, nice and rounded and look at that nose.  And the girl isn't bad looking either.

Christmas Yahtzee!

I broke down this year and did a holiday themed strip for the first time.  Usually I only do themed strips for the offbeat holidays like April Fools, Talk Like a Pirate Day, and Day of The Dead but for some reason I was feeling festive.  I guess Vic Lee over at Pardon My Planet was having similar feelings because we both coincidentally did the same "toy not included" joke.  I'm afraid Vic's super awesome art blows mine right out of the water.

Rabbits Against Walking The Plank

I don't know what this means but Happy Holidays!

The Saddest of All Lugworms

The super wonderful and extra lovely Piers Baker announced yesterday that his daily comic strip, Ollie & Quentin is to end at the end of this month after four years of syndication.  In a sign of a continuing poor market for newspaper cartoon sales this is the latest in an ever increasing list of great strips (My Cage, It's All About You, What The Duck, The Quigmans, Clear Blue Water, Bob the Squirrel, etc.) that have been forced into premature retirement.  He writes in length about his decision on his blog.  The good news is that he has a mouth-wateringly beautiful new book out (also in e-book form) and Ollie & Quentin will re re-run from the very beginning on the Daily Ink.  My best wishes go to him and his future endeavors.

Ghosts In The Machine

Due to a "site upgrade", there seems to be a few bugs over at GoComics this week and as a result all my hard work on yesterday and todays strip never showed up! 

Sunday's strip featured a cupcake joke.  You don't see many of those these days now that the craze has died down.  I expect they'll be a flurry of gourmet donut jokes in the not too distant future. Notice the "guest" appearance of Horace and Chicken in panel five!

Today we see a confused Eightball lamenting his dead cuttlefish. There's a pet store on my way to the subway called "La Casa de Canarias" (House of Canaries) that has a huge pile of cuttlefish in the window.  They must be the canary equivalent of a juicy bone or a sticky bun.

Buni Against Magic

... and for good reason!  Ryan Pagelow's always excellent Buni strip appears every Monday, Wednesday and Friday over at GoComics.

Main Frames Against Laptops

There's a cafe in San Francisco that proudly offers no WiFi because of the proliferation of laptop enthusiasts who swarm every coffee shop in the area, usually for hours, carefully nursing a cup of coffee.  Many cafe owners have covered up their power outlets so that depleted batteries becomes a factor in freeing up the tables. I often feel inadequate entering these establishments with just a newspaper.