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.

Rabbits Against Recipes

Yum!

¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!

A sampling of my annual Day of the Dead strips.

Creepy Rabbit Costume

Happy Halloween!

Hairy Gorilla Hand Against Magic

Another classic Tall Tale from the maestro Al Jaffee.

Arctic Hares Against Magic

The great Alex Hallatt has turned her hand towards the dark arts this week (and the end of last week as well) in her awesome strip Arctic Circle.  Go see for yourself over at Daily Ink and/or Comics Kingdom.

Russians Against Rabbits

Not  a magic rabbit per say, but a delightful retro cosmonaut image

nonetheless. 

Getting Sketchy With Picasso

I'm going to be sketching the patrons of the DeYoung Museum this Friday... in the style of Picasso!  The event is free* so if you're in the Bay Area, stop by and say hello and get an original Cubist sketch of yourself.

* Does not include admission to the special exhibits.

Victorian Gentlemen Dressed as Animals

I think I found my Halloween outfit for this year.

The Perils of Top Hats

A couple of great rabbits/magic panels this week from Dan Pirarro (Bizarro) and Dave Whamond (Reality Check).  Nice going guys.

Many Rabbits Against Magic

Not Disney's Oswald the *Lucky* Rabbit but  instead an obscure Dell comic from 1948.  According to the excellent Big Blog of Kids' Comics:

Dan Gormley was a principal artist for Four Color during the 1940s and 50s; and certainly one of the unsung names that made that historic comic so superb. He has become better known in recent years for providing a great deal of the artwork on John Stanley's take on Bushmiller's Nancy; but his best stuff came when working in his own highly individual style - usually on various Walter Lantz creations (like here with Oswald Rabbit). This is from Four Color No. 183, March 1948; and Gormley did all the pages as well as this super cover.

You can see the full comic here.  Thanks Mykal.

Rabbits Against It's Magic Charlie Brown

One of the "extra features" on the "It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" is a heretofore unknown to me TV special called "It's Magic Charlie Brown" from 1981.  Amazingly this is the 21st television special out of a current total of 45 made featuring the Peanuts characters.  I had no idea they'd been so many.  I really enjoyed Woodstock with rabbit ears being pulled out of the hat.

Foxy Rabbit Cruelty

"A Magic Story" photographed by Ellen Von Unworth for Vogue Italia, September 1997.