Run Goro, Run!

I borrowed Goro (one of my Martians) for the run cycle test. It's based on the Preston Blair example. I'm not sure who (or what) he's running from, but I know it was provoked.

Look out, Earth!

On second hand, don't look out.

Jerkwater Planet

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Scorpion Fun

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Earthling Scorpions

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Supporting bad behavior (or ideas) with inflated language annoys me. It was one of the reasons I left teaching.

Stupid Noises

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I named him Goro after a character from the opera Madama Butterfly. The latter Goro was a scheming troublemaker, and not the most sucessful trickster. In the show he actually gets his butt kicked by Madama Butterfly when she catches him spreading vicious rumors.

I toyed with naming him Thycho (after an astronomer), but "Goro" seemed to fit him the best.

Scorpion Abuse

If it has pinchers, don't get it mad at you.

Pound Foolish

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Evil Pet Tricks

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That reminds me...

Years ago I worked at a pet store where a Severe Macaw watched me sweep around his perch with great interest. As soon as I put the broom down he'd swipe his beak across his food dish to send a new shower of food over the floor. He thought it was a game!

Table Manners

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Talk-o-doodle-doo

Working overtime this week and last week, which means less time for the blog for now. Ah well, it beats being unemployed.

Giant Green Potato

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Who are the Triton Brothers?

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Triton is Neptune's largest moon and really has a backward orbit compared to Neptune's orbit.
p.s.
Update:
Shortly after I posted this, a flap came up in England when, as a movie promotion, a giant drawing of Homer Simpson appeared next to the ancient Cerne Abbas Giant.* Local pagans were outraged.
Another case of crassness perceived as blasphemy.

*Unlike similar hillside carvings, the Giant is believed to be only about 400 years old. One theory is that it's a goof on Oliver Cromwell (garbed up as Hercules). If that's true, than both the Giant and Homer are satirical cartoons!

Just the Fax, Ma'am

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Bone vs. Bonehead

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I like the expressions on Thycho (the runty guy). Vespa (the other one) looks stiff. A cartooning book I read said "Don't kid yourself: If it's bad draw it over!" I spend half of my cartooning time redrawing what doesn't work. I hope it will get easier with practice.

The Martians VIII

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I showed this to two people before posting it. One thought it was funny, the other said they didn't get it.

The Martians VII

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It's tricky for me to make this stuff look balanced and eye-friendly using just black and white. It's gonna take practice to get it right.
I considered making the sky black in the final panel (it would look better that way) but didn't want to rip off "Krazy Kat".

The Martians VI

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For this one the catch was to use strict black and white, with no gray scale.

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Looks a bit derivative of Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes, but I wasn't trying to rip him off.

The Martians V

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I find it trickier to work in gray scale than in color- I often use gaudy colors as a crutch to make a mediocre drawing more eye friendly. So I did this as a challenge. When I was done I discovered this probably should have been done in greens instead of gray. Oh well. Check back for a photoshopped version.

Martians IV

More Martian fun.