Dark Side of the Horse

A huge shout out for the new arrival on the GoComics pages, Dark Side of the Horse which is drawn by the super talented Finnish cartoonist Samuli Lintula who goes by the name Samson.  The strip started out in June 2008 when it was drawn on what appeared to be Post-it notes. Since then, Horace the horse and his sparsely surreal world have evolved into a beautifully rendered and spectacularly offbeat strip. I really can't say enough about it.  Everything from the bleak humor to the restrained use of colors really blows my socks off.  Since I'll be in Helsinki at some point next year I'm planning to stalk him.

Undercover

A most excellent image from the camera of NYT shutterbug  Stephen Crowley. Is there a photograph anywhere that couldn't be improved with the addition of someone in a rabbit costume?

Houdini's Magic

Never thought of Harry Houdini as a "rabbit-in-a-hat" type of magician.  More of an illusionist and escape artist.  However, he wasn't able to hide the Amoco Oil Company ads that appear throughout this little book from 1927.

Rabbits Against Chimp Sniffing

It's always funnier when you add a monkey.

Don't Blink

I don't know anything about this image or where it came from, but it's adorably cute and the pink rabbit-thingy does look a bit like Weenus.

Comic Con

Yesterday's "spay-on tie" strip featured Weenus's comic collection.  Although he collects the "Radioactive Mosquito" series, the covers are actually all famous (and highly valued) *real* comics. I copied the covers quickly during the coloring phase.  You might recognize the tiny covers in this blown up version.

Lepus Puttupus

It looks like this is some crazy miniature golf course in Texas but what do I know.  From the thrilling lens of Annabelle Texter.  Her awesome Flickr stream is here.

Creepy Furry Parenting

This is either a traumatic Easter outing or an example on exactly how not to raise a child.  Via Grottu Orloff's Pad.

Talk Like a Parrot Day

I find the idea of a National Talk Like a Pirate Day rather absurd.

Rabbit and a Hat

Business at the hat store improved greatly with the introduction of personal rabbit shoppers.

Rabbit Heads and Red Pajamas

One of my all-time favorite artists, Kaz, did this cover for the now sadly defunct Nickelodeon Magazine back in 2000.

Insectopia

Yesterday's strip features mosquitos. 

I just got back from Guatemala (photos coming soon) where I was able to get a few strips drawn in addition to a bit of sightseeing and mudslide avoiding.  Since Central America is mostly hot and humid for most of the year, there are always a lot of insects which I always find both fascinating (since they are generally speaking completely mad looking and ten times the size of insects in California, and bothersome (since they tend to enjoy the exotic Hemoglobin libations that can be found within my veins.  Thus, they tend to crop up in my rabbit strips a lot. This one was done in Brazil last year.

And here's one from Mexoco in 2008.

Snoopy Against Magic

I had a lot of fun at the Charles M. Schulz Museum Sketch-a-thon on Saturday.  Here's me at my post just before it started.  I made the cut-out characters the night before.

As well as me, there were seventeen amazing cartoonists at the event including this years Reuben Award winner Dan "Bizarro" Piraro.  I was in between Mike Gray who does animations for Nickelodeon and Greg Knight who works on Star Wars stuff.  Both amazingly talented guys.

It was great to meet so many wonderful people.  Here's a photo of Rabbits fan, Erica, who let me deface her sketchbook with a doodle. There's some more photos here.

Zis Rabbit Into My Hat

A snippet from a Potsy the Parrot strip from the ever-entertaining Big Blog of Kids Comics. This was a strip drawn in the 1943 by Don Arr (real name Don R. Christensen) and appeared in Giggle Comics.

Jack Rabbits Against Bad Postcards

From the excellent Bad Postcards blog:

WORLD’S LARGEST JACK RABBIT
Odessa, Texas

Verso: “True Plains Rabbit lives only in the West. Burro-like ears gave him his name. Color is protective, blending with sand and dry grass. Very long legs made him a swift runner. Clocked at speeds to 45 miles an hour. Object of hunts with Greyhounds. The rabbit was prized by Plains Indians for food and fur, to the white man a reminder of Desert-Hard Life. In Drought and Depression times, it was a source of meat for thousands, Subject of many tall tales. Hero of World’s only Jackrabbit rodeo in Odessa, May 1932.”

The postcard is from 1967.

Sixty Peanuts

I'm one of the fifteen "extra" cartoonists appearing at the Schulz Museum this Saturday in addition to this years Reuben Award winner Bizarro cartoonist Dan Pirarro.  If you are anywhere near the Santa Rosa, California area, please plop by to say hello and get some free Rabbits Against Magic goodies.

Rabbit on a Wire

Words fail me. Is that a robot bull lurking in the bushes? Via tinybunnywoman.

The Annoying Clipboard Syndrome

The amazing Canadian Rina Piccolo (Tina' Groove and Six Chix member) was filling in for Hillary Price on her Rhymes With Orange strip last week and doing a most excellent job.  I'm sure most of you remember back in July last year when Hillary and I both ran the exact same Jaywalking joke on the same day.  Well, on Sunday the coincidence gods were at it again as Rina and I both decided to run with a street clipboard joke!  Thanks to Alex Hallatt for pointing it out and also for turning me onto Rina's awesome and very edgy Velia, Dear strip.

Quentin Against Magic

If you look in the last panel of yesterday's strip you'll see a small lugworm in the seat behind Eightball.  This is a thrilling piece of white hot crossover action featuring Quentin from the most excellent Ollie and Quentin strip.  He was surprisingly hard to draw.  The position of the eyes and the curved body to indicate a seating position are very subtle.

Butterflies Against Magic

A couple more magical top hat activity in the comics community lately....

First from all-round wonderful cartoonist Ralf Hagen, this The Barn strip from last week features a neat magic trick.

And today's Tundra features a cute little twist.  I love the way Chad Carpenter draws his rabbits.