Rabbits Submissions Package

For anyone interested, here are the samples of strips from 2012 that I included in my submissions package for the 2012 National Cartoonists Society Divisional Awards.

This year was only my second time submitting (I became an NSC member in 2011) and I went with all Sunday strips to highlight my coloring and art.  You are allowed to submit up to 12 pieces.

Reuben Rabbits

Last week, the National Cartoonist Society 2012 divisional awards for the Reubens were announced and incredulously, my little feature was named as one of the nominations for Best Online Comic - Short Form. It's truly a great honor to be nominated.  The other nominations are the incredible Ten Cats by Graham Harrop and the fabulous Mac by the uber-talented Michael McPharland so my chances of winning are minuscule but I hope to be in Pittsburgh to see them collect the award.  By a weird coincidence, all three of us hail from the British Isles, live in North America and are syndicated on GoComics!  Michael also has homefield advantage being a Gotham resident.

If you're curious about the nomination process for the Online Comics category, read this.

The full list of nominations is as follows:

TELEVISION ANIMATION Todd Kauffman, Executive Producer, “Sidekick” Alberto Mielgo, Production Design, “Tron: Uprising” Rich Webber, Director, Aardman Animation Studios, “DC Nation” FEATURE ANIMATION Rich Moore, Director, “Wreck-It Ralph” Joann Sfar, Director, “The Rabbi’s Cat” Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Director, “The Secret World of Arriety” NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION Mark Brewer Bob Rich Dave Whamond GAG CARTOONS Roz Chast Sam Gross Mick Stevens Jack Ziegler GREETING CARDS Bill Brewer George Schill Jem Sullivan NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS Brian Basset “Red and Rover“ Jeff Parker and Steve Kelley “Dustin” Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman “Zits“ NEWSPAPER PANEL CARTOONS Tony Carrillo “F-Minus” Dave Coverly “Speed Bump” Hilary Price “Rhymes with Orange” ONLINE COMICS – SHORT FORM Graham Harrop “Ten Cats“ Jonathan Lemon “Rabbits Against Magic“ Michael McParlane “Mac“ ONLINE COMICS – LONG FORM Vince Dorse “Untold Tales of Bigfoot“ Meredith Gran “Octopus Pie“ Pat N. Lewis “Muscles Diablo in Where Terror Lurks“ MAGAZINE FEATURE/MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION Barry Blitt Daryll Collins Anton Emdin BOOK ILLUSTRATION John Manders John Martz Dave Whamond EDITORIAL CARTOONS Clay Bennett Michael de Adder Jen Sorenson ADVERTISING and PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION Luke McGarry Ed Steckley Wayno COMIC BOOKS Amanda Connor “Silk Spectre” Evan Dorkin “House of Fun” Bernie Wrightson “Frankenstein Alive, Alive!” GRAPHIC NOVELS Derf- “My Friend Dahmer” Joseph Lambert “Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller” Chris Ware- “Building Stories” REUBEN AWARD FOR “CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR”: Brian Crane Rick Kirkman Stephan Pastis

Rabbits Against Bunday

Yet another shout-out for my favorite webcomic of all time, Laugh Out Loud Cats by the amazingly prolific Apelad.  The feature is currently up to #2229 and going strong (by comparison Rabbits Against Magic is only up to #1795).

Rabbits Against Egg Boiling

A festive bunny day to all readers of this blog.

Rabbits Against GoComic Gremlins

A sneak peak at Sunday's strip.  This is pretty much what my house looks like at the moment with a 21 month old toddler roaming around.

Surfin' Baby

Not sure why today's strip didn't load on GoComics but here it is for you to enjoy/groan at.

Happy Holidays

Here's my holiday/New Year card this year.  I always manage to sneak in a few Rabbits characters. Thanks for reading and have a splendid celebration of joy and peace.

Rabbits Against Skeletal Remains

Over in my former homeland, fellow Brit cartoonist Dan Brown of The Independent has won the Political Cartoonist of The Year award from the Political Cartoon Society.  Congrats Dan and nice Rabbit skeleton.

Rabbits Against Surreal Removal of Endoskeleton

No idea where this one came from but thanks to Mostly Forbidden Zone for the top hat tip.

Ace in the Hole

Ace Gorham was born in 1901.  According to Magicpedia he worked as a product salesman for the Standard Oil company and became a successful magician in his spare time.  There is no record that he was able to pull a cartoon rabbit out of a hat.

Headless Rabbits Against Magic

I don't remember if I've posted this one before but if I have it's worth re-running.  It's an early piece from the great Sam Gross which was reprinted in Taboo, a collection of what was then risqué and controversial cartoons.  Thanks to Mike Lynch for the link.

Rags Rabbit Against Magic

Billed as "the funniest rabbit in comics", Rags Rabbit was one of a rare foray into the Funny Animal genre from Harvey Comics. It ran for eight issues back in the early fifties. Rags appears to be the larger of the two rabbits here (his tiny sidekick is called "Pesky" for reason that will become apparent if you read more). Via Super I.T.C.H.

Rabbits Against Bronze Casting

I really love the work of illustrator  Óscar Villán. I discovered him through his children's book illustrations.  He recently had his Pequeño Conejo Blanco (Little White Rabbit) character cast in bronze. He has a nice Flickr stream here as well.

Dibs From Down Under

The austere Australian Cartoonists Association did a nice little write up on my humble little comic strip this week.  Thanks guys! Or to put it in words you can better understand, ¡sʎnƃ sʞuɐɥʇ  ˙ʞǝǝʍ sıɥʇ dıɹʇs ɔıɯoɔ ǝlʇʇıl ǝlqɯnɥ ʎɯ uo dn ǝʇıɹʍ ǝlʇʇıl ǝɔıu ɐ pıp uoıʇɐıɔossɐ sʇsıuooʇɹɐɔ uɐılɐɹʇsnɐ ǝɹǝʇsnɐ ǝɥʇ.

Negative Space

Because nobody likes a fat rabbit.

Geckos Against Robot Mosquitos

I expect the gecko is being punished for his irritating British accent.

Rabbits Against Leafy Clothing

A dress made of lettuce... really?

Rabbits For Productivity

You really should.

Rabbits Against The Summer Volume of the Breviary of Renaud

"Summer Volume of the Breviary of Renaud"

Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305.

Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 107, fol. 105r

Rabbits Against Freud

This seems like a real life New Yorker cartoon.

Captions anyone?