I think that Ferd'nand is about the cartoonist's life-long hobby of huffing paint fumes. 'Splains a lot, really.

Since i'm the insufferable who has to give an explanation to everyting (and hey, i'm an attention whore too!) here's my two cents.

I think i've seen what happens to Ferd here. you start mixing a little of two colors to make a third, you don't like it, add more of one, more of the other, then you get the color you want. and a whole lot of it. hey, just happened to me, painting a F-4 airplane model.

Calvin and Hobbes made the same joke, only more masterfully.

http://24.138.4.101/ottawa/040301/100_0041.JPG

That's a pic of Wooly, he's a pretty able fella. Probably around 16 LB or so. He has the four "regular toes" plus two on the sort-of-inside of each paw, which have retractable claws too, plus another toe-pad between them which is just a pad with a claw with no bone or anything in it.

As for ferd'nand, I dunno. maybe he's mixed bleach and ammonia together and is irritated by the fumes? I have no idea...makes no sense whatsoever.

I wish we could get MST3K up here...

Woo! LAZER eyes!

DANA-NANA-NANA-NANA, BATSPLUT!

ah, that Stanley Kubrick link was cool. I wanna be an obsessive packrat when I grow up...more so.

As to the Ferd'nand, it reminds me of this early 50's Dr. Seuss film, "The Five Thouasnd Fingers of Dr. T," where the kid is mixing all the things from his pockets (marbles, slingshot, bubble gum, live frog, etc.) in an old paint can in order to make a sound-dampener that will stop Dr. T's fiendish piano stylings, and the plumber turns to him and gives the paint can the look that Ferd'nand has in the last panel and says, "Watch out! A mixture like that could be...ATOMIC!"

That's a Netflix rental right there, if you've not seen it.

Marc:
Well, I see why he's called Wooly!
If they have NetFlix in Canada, they've got about 15 DVDs of MST3K. Almost entirely of the Mike years, however.

Mimi:
I haven't seen any, really, of the Sci-Fi ones. I still think the series lost some of its basic dynamic when Joel left. I thought it worked better with 2 wisecrackers and a wiser personality as a moderating influence than it did with 3 wisecrackers. Like a dad and his kids, rather than 3 frat boys.

Kiru:
I have Dr. T on VHS somewhere.
I remember when my whole third grade saw it in the school auditorium. Everybody HATED it. It was just too damn weird for our little minds.
Within a few years I'd be too damn weird for the rest of my grade, but that's another story.

I don't know if Netflix has it, but the documentary Live Nude Girls Unite is really good.

LaGrey:
Thanks! Your mentions of "Live Nude Girls" and "lubricated dildo" should get us some interesting Google ads.

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"Whatever of not I'm successful depends on what day it is and who you ask..."

I tried explaining DaveyKinsFoxFireKintobarPackbellGonterman to someone the other day in instant message. I think I came off more insane than he did. Really, consider explaining to someone who he is and what he does and how he does it. Go on. Try it.

Editing to add for LillyJoe: I wanted to say before we get a new comments for April, everytime I click in here, the title gets me "Speed...." it's like it was a little reminder of RC. :) Which is nice.

M3:
Verdammt! I almost included the bit you quoted on my link, but my brain read it as "Whether or" not "Whatever of." That's what I get for just assuming Davey has a brain.

DVK is hard to describe. "It's like porn with his ego as the object of masturbation, as directed by an Ed Wood without the talent" was the best I ever did. In the Real World, I don't know anyone who can stand even a few pages of him. And the online consensus isn't much better.
Show of hands? Who here "likes" (in the relative sense) reading Gontercrap?
(Bill holds up hand)

Great, from His site: "Sentient costumes that share their lives with their human hosts which wear them. The main character is one such costume, referred to as a Zoot. Her name is Scarlet FoxFire, a vixen detective who chose a budding cartoonist named Jim Goodlow as her host."

The drawing looks like a female fox wearing Gonterman's clothes *shudder* and of course, he continues to spread the impression that furry slash cartoonists are well adjusted people.

Bill: Are you cutting back on caffeine, and if so, has there been any progress w. Young's Syndrome? (Progress defined here as good progress!)

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I miss one single night (we haven't paid phone bill at home) and teh good stuff happens.

So is gonter reusing scarlet the zoot for that comic? i had the idea of starting a wager about what animal ears will have the next creation of his.

I sort of like reading him, when i'm reading it, it makes me feel better about my own horrible art, but afterwards (and this can lasts sometime, so it sorta affects when i draw) i get this horrible feeling i could end up like him.

BYRON IS TEH SPECIAL CUTENESS IN FUR! awesome eyes. does his fur always have that bluish tints? if so, how uber cool.

I can only read The Gont if it's MSTed.

Davey-kins can revamp his site using all the neatoriffic templates he wants. He can repackage his works however much he wants, but it still remains the same old crap. Scarlet PI is just his years-old Foxfire comic. And even when he adds new material to his site, it's still rehashings of the old stuff. Still got Scarlet in some guise; still got a Gonty self-insertion; still got Jonathan Brisby, who isn't a copy of the NIMH character but an homage to Mickey Mouse, honest.

It's almost enough to make me miss Night Soldiers. *almost*.

Ahem. Sorry, didn't mean to stir up the anthill on Gonty! I do enjoy reading his stuff because like Zef said, it makes me feel better about MY writing and frankly my life and attitude towards it. Heh. Gonterman - Living Reverse Psychology! Frankly I find it fascinating how he functions on a basic human level.

And really, one should never ever have to utter the sentence "Well she's a sex robot boydguard sidekick that's also part rabbit with ears and a tail and she wears the old Playboy Lounge style costume ALL the time." Or explain "Um, I think that's one incaration of the author in the hologram talking to the animal-suited-symbiotic incarnation of the author about something yet another incarnation of the author did while he was married to Sailor Moon? Maybe?"

Our own MSTing project for 70s Show is going great, I can't believe the nice reaction we've been getting, and a huge list of requests to MST. It's very fun. I've got just the sort of random brain to MST and move on. I re-read it later and don't remember half the stuff attributed to me :) No short term memory! "The birds kept eating the olives." Ole!

I did stop in for this reason - A four eared cat! http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/03/26...ten.reut/index.html