Comic Strip Edits

Cross posted from https://blorp.blahaj.zone/home/posts/https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.blahaj.zone%2Fpost%2F44379568/comments/https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.blahaj.zone%2Fcomment%2F21505748

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/lemmyshitpost/p/1279403/golly-that-sure-is-swell-billy

Part 1 here:
https://piefed.social/c/comicstripedits@lemmy.world/p/2060361/richard-scarry-updates-some-job-titles-ruben-bolling-edit

Once again, although these may have started as edits, at this point they're more like parody / tributes. I'm sharing this series because these are topical and seem to go over well. I do have a lot more pure edits that are pretty much in the 'potential lead balloon' category, so you know...

Original version: https://discuss.online/post/42273483

It's always surreal when my edits get posted by Gallagher.

Cross-posted from "[Missing Character] Heathcliff without Heathcliff" by @gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone in !fill_in_the_blank_comics@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/heathcliffwithoutheathcliff?source=share

Zippy the Pinhead is an alt / underground comic that's been running since the 70's.

https://i0.wp.com/comicsgrinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/zippy-the-pinhead-bill-griffith.jpg

If you're an old-head like me, you may also know him as co-creator of the Wacky Packages trading cards.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1EPciE9E8L.jpg

One thing that's a little different here is that (as I understand it), Bil Keane actually cooperated with Griffith in letting him finish this strip. Keane evidently liked to 'let his pants down,' make some wild (unofficial) FC comics, and collaborate with his artist friends. That's fooled me a couple times now when it comes to Family Circus comics.

I love this one-panel comic, but to me the original makes too strong of a case for KAM ("Kool-Aid Man") being the jar, not the liquid. The jar, because it's more permanent, and has the face & body. Meanwhile, the liquid is only temporary, and will be remixed and re-consumed.

ORIGINAL:

https://i.imgur.com/L10hePs.jpeg

So I used GIMP to remove the face on the jar. Now KAM has a stronger case to potentially be the drink itself, not to mention he looks much more fun at parties.

Not really sure where the best place is for more of the authors comics, but here's a start: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22pizzastrike%22+comics&udm=2

Red Meat is (or was) an indie / underground comic that began in 1989. The idea was for author Max Cannon to take stock characters and have them interact via speech bubbles with minimal movement and scenery change. So the first panel usually wound up looking very much like the last, only with changing text. Here's an official strip, below:

(right-click as needed)

Built on top of that (or alongside, whatever) was a cool webtool that allowed visitors to select two characters from a pool of two dozen+ and add their own text. Unfortunately the tool doesn't seem to work anymore. I found it fun to play with, and there was a long archive of user-submitted toons, a lot of them pretty amusing IMO. And really, just a tool to format text in to speech bubbles still seems oddly elusive even today, but that web-tool handled it like a boss.

As for the OP comic, it was created long ago by, uh... someone, and if you want to read more of the official "RM" comics, the first link offers a few dozen.

I thought this was an edit at first, then realised that it's parody / tribute. Oh well, I'm a bit loosey-goosey that way, so let's roll with it.

First of all, the Aussie artist Caanan Grall has more here:
https://occasionalcomics.com/

And as a bonus, I love this Evy Thomas cosplay:

With all due respect:

Yes.

That's too bad, because I came here to chew bubblegum...

(NSFW, probably -- violence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du5YK5FnyF4