Sticky Rabbits

I drew this strip in memory of Harry W. Coover, the inventor of Super Glue who died last month.

The great Tom Gammill who draws The Doozies clearly works closer to deadline than I do since he ran this a few weeks ago.

And the fabulous Dave Coverly beat everyone to the post with this Speed Bump classic from January.

Military Rabbits Against Easter

When rabbits ride chickens in military formation, woe be unto personkind. From Mark's Scrapbook of Oddities and Treasures.

Dramatic Escape From The Mole Men Episodes

This is the entire epic week of strips that ran this week.  I'm still not sure if this proves the existence of Mole Men in the rabbit's back yard or just some very soft soil base.  In retrospect I see the door in the first panel of the last strip is way too small.  It seems to have temporarily shrunk to the point where Eightball would have trouble getting his ears through without getting splinters.  It's rookie mistakes like this that really hold me back from the big time.

The Big Rabbit and Fertility Celebration Is Coming Soon.

One Day One Deal Against Magic

Woot! is a clever little site that sells a different heavily discounted (with free shipping!) T-Shirt every day which lasts only as long as supplies last which is generally 24 hours.  This ephemeral approach has made it very popular and artists, cartoonists and designers flock to have their images emblazoned onto Wootish cloth.  It was recently taken over by Amazon and is now expanding to sell other stuff but the T-Shirts remain as innovative and as wonderful as ever.  But why am I mentioning all this and giving them a free plug?  Well they frequently have voter "derby" competitions and recently ran a "magic" theme which produced these excellent entries of which, sadly, none made the cut, so I am hereby memorializing these wonderful designs here.

Rabbits Against Early Morning Calls

This strip reminded me of a similar animal comparison joke:

Q "What's the difference between a bison and a buffalo?"
A "You can't wash your hands in a buffalo"

Rabbits Against Internet Connectivity

Here's this weeks failed struggle by Weenus to rid Eightball of his online connectivity.  Now switch off your computer and go take a walk in nature :-)

Reality Television

I really like Dave Whamond's excellent panal strip Reality Check which runs over at comics.com (until the end of the month anyway). It has just the right amount of bizarre humor and funny drawing to make it an essential read every day.  His strip today makes a great companion piece to my Rabbits strip from last February, although in both cases the programming is worth every penny.

Pencil Droppings

Well you know when you're scraping the blog barrel when you start writing about dropping one of your art supplies, especially if it isn't a bottle of ink all over your finished masterpiece while on deadline, but I was reminded of how amazing the process we call "scanning" is follow an incident earlier today. 

I generally scan my originals in at 600 DPI, a size that would have crashed all but the most powerful computers 10 years ago but nowadays is probably standard. The detail when viewing full size is greater than you could see with the naked eye causing my clean inks to look crude and all the minor flaws to be glaringly prevalent.  The bullet hole above in Eightball's foot is the accidental result of a mechanical pencil tip bouncing on Bristol board.  It was easily removed with Photoshop.

Gross Rabbits

Sam Gross, a favorite of this blog, delivers another wonderful magic rabbit gag, his second of the year of this ilk to grace the pages of the New Yorker magazine.  Maybe the economy really is rebounding.

Top Hat and Feathers

Monty is one of my favorite strips. I'm especially partial to Fleshy, the furless psychotic cat seen here performing some rabbitless magic.  The strip, which started off as Robotman, has been running for over 25 years now and was originally started by United Features Syndicate to tie in with a toy merchandising campaign. Jim Meddick was asked to draw the strip after a young Bill Watterson turned the opportunity down.  He went on to create his own strip Calvin and Hobbes.

Hotel Melancholia

Here are this week's strips about Trixie's battle with depression and a failed world although of course her salvation is a sense of humor and a passion for the arts which is pretty much my view.

Ta-Daaaaaaaaaaaaa Against magic

Yesterday's Pearls Before Swine features a nice magic rabbit panel.  I'm fascinated by Stephan Pastis's development as an artist.  The longer he draws his strip the more adept he becomes at rendering his characters in what is now a totally individual way.