A little animal humor courtesy of the sinfully funny webcomic “Pinkerton” drawn by some guy named Mike or something. He hangs on Twitter and I annoy him. Anyway, the last panel features his characters Buckley, Steve, Tucker and Martin the moose who apparently can punch Mr. T’s face off. If Mike doesn’t sue me, we’ll continue Jeff’s Zoo job Wednesday.
Busy guy is me. Drawing two guest strips, one super-sized, then I have my submission for the Webcomics Cookbook which is a full page original strip, and I’m doing the cover for the Cookbook. All due this week. So, if I miss Wednesday, don’t worry, I’m still drawing!
Scorpions. Some post Michael Schenker music for you. Schenker ended up in UFO in the later part of the 70s then split to do his own thingy. Anyway, like ’em or hate ’em, they came up with a song for today’s comic that’s dead on. The other choice was a Simon and Garfunkel song, and crap, who can stand that on a Monday? Yep…
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Pinkerton! Oh, man. I love that strip too. But then again, you have great taste in music so I’m not surprised your taste in comics is just as great. 🙂
Yeah, Mike has a sense of humor that rocks my day normally. 🙂
‘Just make sure you clean up after the moose’ is the sort of line that should go down in history…
I mean, what do moose really do beside eat and crap? Bingo…
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Is that the “anals” of history?
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Hmmm… I guess it is! 🙂
Don’t worry…the dog will just eat the moose crap.
What is it with dogs and cat crap? I save a ton on dog treats by having cats in the house…
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It’s so common they even have a name for it! Coprophagia 😀
Yeah I heard somewhere it’s the proteins or something in cat crap that dogs like. Still… ugh. My Vizsla/retriever mix loves the cat crap. Luckily I have no sense of smell so when he licks my beard, I can’t smell it on his breath.
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ewww I wouldn’t let that dog kiss me…
‘ Anyway, the last panel features his characters Buckley, Steve, Tucker and Martin the moose who apparently can punch Mr. T’s face off. ‘
Ah, serves me right for not reading your blurb before commenting (earlier). I’d wondered why you seemed to have suddenly lost your ability to draw! Whew for the explanation…
I usually can capture the essence of other characters. I could have been a “go-between” artist… the guy who draws the frames between the major scenes drawn by lead animators on the old classic movies. Those were the days when men were men and cartoonists wore ties to work and drank whiskey from the bottle.
Yes….
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Erm, no, that’s not what I meant. What I meant – there’s no nicey-nicey way to say it – is that the source material you ‘borrowed’ from is incompetently drawn to the point of being eye-melting. It’s not that you’re the *only* good artist doing webcomix, but ay caramba the good ones are thin on the ground. Back in the old days of newspaper comix, the weakest art was mostly at the level of Walker & Browne (acceptable) and the strongest was at the level of Walt Kelly (intricate and beautifully shaded), with Garry Trudeau occupying a space somewhere above the middle line (and FWIW your characters sometimes have a deliciously Trudeauesque look). In today’s online comix world, it looks to me like anyone who can draw dodgy blobs or unrealistic-looking geometric-shape characters gets to wear an I Am A Webcomic Artist badge 🙁
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OH, I know what you were saying, but I like Mike’s work and art is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. His writing is top notch with some great puns and wit. Mike’s art is pretty good in my eye but I know what you are saying. There are thousands of “webcomics” that are not only poorly written but poorly drawn as well. I do not put Mike’s in either of those categories.
1977 has come of age like a fine wine, but I have a long way to go in my opinion. But, the comic does what it is suppose to do: entertain. Regardless if I’m a world class comic artist or not.
RE: Pogo… that strip rocked and Walt Kelly was a genius in art and writing. No argument there!
I think I’ve ranted enough here 😛
Your art *and* writing continue to improve by leaps and bounds every month. And as far as your claiming that X or Y is a ‘good artist’ and has ‘great puns and wit’, let’s just remember that even great authors/artists/musicians often have absolute crap taste in *other* colleagues, so it’s wise to never take their recommendations in their own fields 😛
One thing I’ll continue to stand on, though – your work is kinetic. Kinetic kinetic KINETIC. Even when the characters are standing still, one can see the natural lines of movement between them***, and IMO this is a vital thing in comix art! Kinetic-ness is why, say, XKCD – which is deliberately drawn in a minimalist, primitivist style – rocks so hard in the area of visuals alone (and of course what lies behind that is REAL galactic-class wit…).
*** Especially Lorraine’s breasts!
Tafkan, I thought the ranting was going to end, yet it had to continue for one more paragraph. Think you made your point in a sentence or two. A bit overboard perhaps?
Byron, this is a cool strip. Had a not seen a link to it from Pinkerton Facebook, I may have never discovered it.
Hey M.T.! Thanks for enjoying the comic! Glad you found it!
TAFKAN: I’m kinda cloudy on how you feel about my artwork….seeing how you’re being so vague and all. LOL. You have the makings of a fine critic, my friend.
26,748 daily subscribers can’t be wrong.
‘26,748 daily subscribers can’t be wrong.’
Of course they can. Viz Stephenie Meyer, the Wayans brothers, and so on ad nauseam. All that your numbers prove is that Sturgeon was an optimist.
I’m not Byron, nor am I in any way related to him, so I can speak openly. Oh, and I *did* have the makings of a critic; that’s why I became one, once upon a time.
Nothing more to be said here.
This is all sorts of awesome, Byron. i am so honored. thanks, man
Thanks man! How else would I get the term “moose poop” into my comic’s comments if it weren’t for your wonderful characters!
Arrgghh, matey!!
Today must be Pinkerton day, Imagine This features one of Mike’s characters today as well.
I call dibs, man. So Lucas is gonna have to re-do his comic… 😛
Mike’s writing is too damn funny, so I’m not surprised his characters pop up everywhere.
LOL –love the “guests” well done!
Yeah, I love drawing other creator’s characters. Makes me look at their style and see what I can do to improve mine.
Awesome guest appeareance, hilarious punchline 😀
Excellent guests and hilarious punchline! XD
Well done!
Hmmm… another post the WordPress Spam Bot ate… Sorry about that. But now you get double the fun! Glad you like the comic! Come on back and join the party if you can!
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I love a good cameo appearance. 😀
Thanks George… I think a certain time traveling youngster may show up someday…
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Yayyyyyyyyyy, Pinkerton critters!!!
YAAAAAAAAY Pinkerton critters!
Hmmm… the Spam-a-lot bot of WordPress seems to be having a mental breakdown as you were tagged as Spam. What? So, we get the YAY-squared. I’m just a bass player trying to make it in this silly techno world…
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