Apologies to Scott McCloud, natch. I love Zot and his Comics series, but come on, you don’t have to reach so much in order to fill up page space.
But seriously: Understanding Comics as a must-have, and if you want to make comics, get Making Comics (!!??!!). It is very thorough and very enjoyable, especially if you’re a total geek like me. (Get Reinventing comics if you want to be a completionist)
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Hand Turkey!!!
It has a name. It’s savaga turkey!
That was how I used to make turkeys cause I used to be REALLY bad at art.
Same here.
Who didn’t? XD
I didn’t. I don’t ever recall attempting to depict a turkey in artform.
…
That’s how I still draw turkeys…
My turkeys always look like ducks, mao! -_-”
The major problem for me is: I can’t draw hands. at all. I end up with a kind of deformed afro turkey.
@All
LOL, same here!!!
My turkeys look like a beachball with legs
I…have never drawn a turkey…o___O I feel like I’ve missed out..
Dun worry, nya! =3
U can nao practice drwing one, nya! ^w^
I feel I must!
*produces drawing implement and Drawing Hat* I doubt it’d be as awesome as that turkey though. ; 3;
…
Naow I have a strange urge 2 draw a turkey
…(might not though).
despite the fact that awesome turkey is awesome this comic scares enlightens and disturbs me all at once
isn’t that the same turkey from Peanut’s comic
The Spot (superdog) comics are supposedly drawn by Peanut, so yeah it’s likely he would reuse the idea.
actually I think this one is relating to spot(superdog)’s undercover professer self
…on crack
Wait, we can say “crack”?
I, in your place, wouldn’t risk it. maybe “under the influence of”
I know this isn’t relevant to your comment, but I like your avvie. I LOVE Mustangs! =]
wait, what happened to spot?
He got a bit too close to some red Orphanite.
Think he’s too blue and nerdy.
This is his secret identity. Like Clark Kent and Superman.
Oh I know that. XD
I’m just referring to a song I heard.
“White and Nerdy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
You DO know how old that parody is, don’t you….?
Hmm, an interesting interpretation, certainly.
Awesome!
Cool! <3
Spot’s insane! (about comics) Yay insanity! (about comics)
Haha! I have to go read that book now!
I COMPLETELY understood that!! I’m so amazed!!
Completely and utterly a WIN.
At 8th Panel: I WANT A HAT LIKE THAT!!!!!
BTW Rick, it sounds like you were really hyper upon making this COMIC (!!!!!!) just by analyzing the energetic tone.
Nah, that’s just Scott McCloud’s general tone in his book
Why Isn’t my avatar showing up?
I’m seeing a rat with a torch.
Har-har. I meant on my 5:37 comment
Oh, as god is my witness I never noticed that was you.
Gravatars are based on a hash of your email address. You’ve got a different hash on that comment so you may have accidentally typoed it, or the comment software may have made a mistake generating the hash.
Sadly, when you make a mistake in a comments post, there isn’t a way to correct it.
Hey, Argent! Since we’re talking about avatars, I thought you might enjoy this thing I just found:
http://xkcd.com/20/
I did the same thing with my ferret. RIP Špeh =’(
I feel like Peanut basically captured the essence of the book!
Although the bit about defining art may have gone a bit over his head.
Lawlolawl…
I’m surprised how much better Peanut’s drawing is.
Epic comic!
“Peanut’s style ‘got better’ because it’s rather difficult to draw that crappy on purpose.”
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/04/03/aka-the-non-canon-adventures-of-spot/#comment-4640
lol that was funny! Also, I’m actually up at 1am for an update! ^^ Never thought it would happen. Now I’m a true HP! fan!
I would stay up until something like 3:00 for an update.
I’d just get a sleeping bag, a tent, and a big sack of food and water…
And plop that next to my computer, open iTunes and camp out for 2 days! :3
It’s fun. ^_^
Well, there has to be a limit somewhere, right?
For me I have to wait until 7:00 pm for an update.
That’s what you get when you live on the far-side of the timezone.
I’m not as hardcore as you guys… But I still love HP!
I would stay up later for an update but for me, it’s only 10:00 that I have to wait to but I would stay up til 3:00 for an update!
Is it sad that I already learned all of this in Art Appreciation from my college level professor?
Wow, Spot really is smart.
I love Scott McCloud’s series thingie. It helped so much when I was starting the comic, and it still helps now.
I’m going to replace “comic” with “Internet comment” and ask for government grants
Wish me luck
Try a petition. That’s seems to be easier.
No real idea what this strip is aboot. I only understood that it’s a sort of spoof for comic makin, but who’s McCloud exactly and what’s aboot that book of his?(Yes I know it’s a book aboot making comics, thank ya very much. XD)
Iddemditto, nya! ?O.O?
Ah never heard of tha book, nya… ÓwÒ
Look at Franks link, it’s not bad i must say.
Educate yourself:
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Reinventing-Comics-Scott-Mccloud/?isbn=9780060953508
the “browse inside” sample is well worth it
Hmmmm… almost looked it through, but saw that pages are left out. XD
Thx for the link now i get it.
Yes, they’re the publisher. They want you to buy the book. Of course they’re going to leave pages out. Plus, it would violate the legal rights of the writer if the whole book was up.
…Oh wait, I forgot who the writer was for a moment.
I think I already explained to ya who it is, right? ;P
So, I guess this is gonna be a week on the hot spot…
Du-dum tch! X3
ITYM
http://instantrimshot.com
Sew U lik pressin’ Buttons?
http://silent-dagger.deviantart.com/art/The-Button-29402015?q=boost%3Apopular+button&qo=17
lol! Siwwy buttons, nya! X3
Fox Mcloud? From starfox?
Nuuu, Scott McCloud, from “I’ve Heard He Does Comics.”
Do a barrel-roll, nya! X3
The fact that the hand-turkey is actually breathing flames at the cavemen makes this comic EXTRA-hilarious! In fact,….let me just say the winning phrase “fire-breathing-hand-turkey”…..
There,…see? WIN!!!!
We call it “Savage Turkey;” it makes infrequent appearances.
Maybe you should see its first appearance:
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/11/27/a-thanksgiving-intermission/
When did he get that shirt?!
That’s Zot!s shirt!
I see no one-off tag.
This is an arc. = P
Lol I have read this book SO MANY TIMES for school (that’s what I get for taking the same teacher multiple times), so I found this absolutely hilarious. Thumbs up.
Wait. Spot’s gonna educate us about comics…?
So this comic is about comics. And this comic is within a comic.
Therefore a comic within a comic will be about… comics.
oh…
…….
whose been messing with my medication?!
Well, I think this is a comic in a comic about a comic about comics.
Lets see:
a comic (spot comic) in a comic (houspets) about a comic (understanding comics) witch is about all the comics in the world …
yea i think that’s it … arfff
I got lost somewhere at “comic”
I got lost at “well”
@.@ Confuzzeling ain’t it, mao…
Epic!!!
Scot McCloud’s books must be obligated lecture for all those who wanna be comic artist. He’s AWESOME!
Great strip
Great Zot!
Education… You’ll find it anywhere… Even in cute comics like this ^^
Wait a minute, Bloodgun? Has Peanut been watch “Atop the 4th wall”.
Oops, I meant watching.
Wait so what happened to spot?
He probably tired of graph theory ( http://www.housepetscomic.com/2010/02/22/the-dayjob-of-spot/ ) and changed over to the Department of Comics!
Not very funny! Hah!
Are we safe to assume that Spot’s name will now officially be Spot McCloud, or is this a non-canon one-off?
Wait, arc, I mean. Arc
No I don’t think his name will be Mc Cloud
So, I have to ask… Is that censorship BY aliens, or censorship OF aliens?
*puts on his WYSIWYG t-shirt*
DUUUUUUUUUUDE! Blood Gun #1 is AWWWWWWWESSOME! It has BLOOOOD and GUUUUUNS!
WYSIWYG: the computer version of “Exactly what it says on the tin”
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
Thank you so much for getting that
I don’t know about you but I like saying the word “Juxtaposition”.
“Juxtaposition Juxtaposition Juxtaposition!!!”
Well… that and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”.
Try saying that three times.
That,that,that
Are you referencing El Chavo del Ocho?
–http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chavo_del_Ocho
Never, never, never, never, never. (Wm Shakespeare)
no. he said say “THAT” three times.
Yah. I said to say that three times…
Wait what?
EXACTLY! you said say “THAT” three times so I said “THAT” three times
Iiiiiiits Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it lout enough, you’ll always sound precotious! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
You know, you can say it backwards, dociousaliexpiisticfragicalirupus, but that’s going a bit too far, don’t you think?
There! “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” said three times! You never said I had to say them one after the other! Or even that I had to say them all forwards!
Or out loud!
you do know backwards is the letters in the opposite side of the word so it would be: suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus
First thing I thought was “Woah, Scott McCloud”
then i was all “oh, it’s SPOT McCloud”
Oh man, I just finished reading the Scott McCloud book just the other day too!
..Evil alien censorship. :3
XD
I recognized the style right away. I love McCloud’s art books. X3
I think Scott goes on a bit much about his infinite canvas thing on the web. Making the reader scroll all over creation is just a wee bit abusive. It’s a “funny once”.
Oh Sweet!
already got McCloud’s “Making Comics” book on my wish list ;3
……that runner in panel 5 with the dog head = awesome XD
*is lost*
BTW: congratulations to Rick and Housepets on winning the Ursa Majors Award for Best Comic Strip!
YEEEEE-HAH!!!
Wolves to the BBQ, cats to the (yarn)ball, all the GOD club’s dogs ready for the GREATEST STREET PARTY EVER!
Kudos, Rick, this is SO well-deserved!
*purr*
when i draw a turkey it looks like a football XD
Interesting.
Buy Spot McCloud’s book today and get your free Evil-Alien-Censorship-Protective Pyramid Helmet absolutely free!
you forgot “handy”
A free Pyramid Helmet that’s free? I -must- get one!
100% tin foil
I read “understanding comics” but never heard of “making comic” that Rick speaks of. Could anyone please provide a link? :3
http://www.scottmccloud.com/2-print/3-mc/index.html