Today I’m celebrating seven years of Savage Chickens! Here are all of the characters who appeared in more than one cartoon in year #7. See how many you can identify!
It has been a busy year! The book came out, I had my first signing, I was on radio and other blogs, and I even did some public–speaking gigs. Plus a whole bunch of interviews. Next year is looking like even more fun: I’ve got a few new book ideas, the German edition of my book comes out in March, and I’m going to be a special guest at San Diego Comic-Con 2012. Crazy times!
Anyway I want to thank you all for making this year so amazing. I really could not do this without you, and I hope that you enjoy all the stuff I have planned for Year #8!
Your Top Ten
These were the most-visited cartoons during the past year:
- How To Cure Your Arachnophobia
- Spot the Differences
- I Love You More
- Crawling Onto Land
- Brick House *
- Chewbacca *
- Neighbour Noise
- How to Drink Absinthe
- Corporate Survivalist
- Hallucinations *
* second year on the Most Visited list!
Doug’s Top Ten
Here are my top picks (alphabetically) from the rest of the past year’s cartoons:
- A Short History of Time Travel
- Cat Explorer
- First Draft
- Godzilla Attacks!
- I Love My Job
- King Kong
- Off the Hook
- Sarah Connor?
- Ultimate Cat Tree
- Uncomfortable Silence Bear
Did your favorite make this year’s top ten lists? Post your favourite cartoon(s) in the comments and you could win a Savage Chickens book!
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Buy my new book!
Nice, hopefully it will go forever. [grin]
Congratulations!
Chickens are great!
Congratulations! My favourite from 2011 was the romantically overcompetitive I Love You More.
Congratulations, great 7 years
Congratulations! My favourite from the past year was the Carnival of Knives.
Congrats and many thanks, Doug! I love Savage Chickens more! 😉
I only discovered your cartoons this year, but I went back and read them all. Really funny, and so hard to pick a favourite. ‘Starfish Wars’ cracked me up though, as did ‘First Draft’ and so did ‘National Treasure’.
Thanks for the laughs, looking forward to many more.
Andi in New Zealand.
YAY! here’s to the next 7! Thanks Doug, for all your hard work.
🙂
Congrats on 7! I really get a kick out of your cartoons. The catnip attorney series has to be my favorite in a long time. The only thing missing was the cats getting high!
Hi Doug,
Thanks for the entertainment and insight. I’m spreading the word by posting some of your ‘toons on my Facebook page- and, of course, giving credit and a link to your site.
Congratulations!
Congrats! I hope to enjoy your good humour for 7 years more!
I’m going to vote for the Breakdancing Anaconda.
Adorable Hedgehog and
Adorable Hedgehog: Round Two
Those ones are my favorites! Congratulations for another year. Ana
Congratulations! 7 years making people laugh is a lot! Keep it up! My favourite cartoon last year was “I Love My Job”.
My fave is the one with therapy tech support :)) love those jokes!
Also, congratulations *7!
Savage chickens…..Can’t start my day without it!
I think “First Draft” is possibly my favorite SC strip ever.
“Catnip Mouse: Defense Attorney” has been making me laugh loads, much to the bemusement of my friends who just don’t seem to get it.
Happy 7th anniversary!!! I love Savage chickens, they always make me giggle.
My favourite of the year is I Love You More (strangely enough, a game I have played more than once). But my all-time favourites are Chewbacca and Tigger.
Congratulation!!!! i love this page.
My favourite post is “Eight steps”… this cartoon was a mirror of my life 😉 and the second place is “I love you more”
Congratulation!
My Favorite was “I Love My Job”
Congrats!!!
I love your art and creativity!
I love all of them, but being a Scrabble fan, I especially liked “A Challenge” https://www.savagechickens.com/2012/01/a-challenge.html
Congratulations!
I always look with a certain envy at your chickens. I wish I could make people laugh with so simple means (I am too baroque, sigh).
Favourites are almost all the strips, but cat adventures and the takes to Star Wars and Terminator are what get me most.
Keep clucking!
Congratulations, Doug. Your work is awesome, and very influential. Most of all—the most important thing—is that Savage Chickens is FUNNY! If I want an instant laugh, all I have to do is think about The Abdominal Snowman. I admire your endurance. To keep coming up with ideas day after day is sometimes easy, sometimes hard. But your example tells us to keep going anyway. Happy 7, and I wish you great creativity, great health, and great success in the next seven years and beyond. Thank you for bringing such a wonderfully, unique creation into the universe.
–Jimmy :>)
My favs: RoboCat, The Ultimate Cat Tree, the most recent Catnip Mouse :D, Cat Adventures #7 (so true!), Conclusive (I emailed the page to a few friends;), and Attention Span. Oh, I can’t really choose. You’re great and well, happy 7th anniversary!
Congrats. I really look forward to my daily chickens. As a cat owner, I have to say that I really liked the recent “catnip mouse” editions.
This is my birthday too! I think my favorite was Insufficient.
Thanks for the smiles & giggles!
I loved ultimate cat tree!
Congrats on seven great years!!!
My fav was Godzilla, I’m a big fan of Godzy and own many of the figurines and toys. So anything that includes this Monstar will be a plus for me. Thanks for sharing your work Mr Savage.
AV
Happy Anniversary! May there be many,many more.
My fave was ‘Being Social’ from Mar 21rst
Can’t pick my favorite from this year. There were a lot of great one. All time favorite – Employee Satisfaction Survey
Loyal reader for at least half of the seven years.
Making life better one cartoon at a time for seven whole years! Congrats! My favorite one was Narcissatron.
My favorite was – Spot the Differences
From this year “Thank You” is by far my favorite comic. It’s also my favorite overall, but I love “Season’s Greetings” from 2009.
I love SPOT THE DIFFERENCES, but my all time favorite is LIFE IN 8 EASY STEPS!
Dear Doug, a few years ago I sent you an email mentioning you should draw some chickens working in a chicken plant and that you should do a book.You did respond and I love the fact you did create a book. I have been a fan for 5 years and I love the chickens and their Shenanigans. My favorite one is Ultimate Cat Tree. I still love any star wars and chuck norris.Have you ever done a Dr.Who chicken?
Thank you for all the chickens.:)
Nichole Shockley.
Yes! he has done a Dr. Who Chicken 😛 “gummy bear?”
Forgot the date sorry
loved many, but Ultimate Cat Tree was my favorite!
perhaps an “Ultimate Chicken Coop” could be in the works?
Favorite from all years: Chaos in Hell!!!!
(librarian humor–still on my office door)
My favorites are always Chuck Norris; my favorite is when he did battle with Adorable Hedgehog.
Hi Mary! I’m Mary too! Doug actually made Chuck Norris vs the Adorable Hedgehog for me and my kids by request. Glad another Mary likes it too! Cheers!
Seven?! Wow, congrats! I’m still very much enjoying every Savage Chicken as they fly into my mailbox 🙂
I really loved every Freud cartoon, especially “Known Issues”. 😀
So happy for you Doug! Thanks again for the daily splash of humor! Have a great day and many more SC Birthdays!
Oh, and if your creative spirit is willing, would love to see crazed chihuahuas creating chaos! I have three and it is wild around my house.
But only if the creative spirit is willing….it has to be right ya know!
🙂
My favorite from 2011 is The Ultimate Cat Tree. Surprised it didn’t make the top 10.
P.S. Happy anniversary. Thank you for seven wonderful years of starting my day with a smile on my face! Keep up the great work, and keep those cats coming!
The corporate survivalist series is the best one last year.
I still think that the best characters are the ninja chickens 🙂
And in three more years you can make it TEN
seven years! omg, you’re going to start school this year! that’s awesome! 😛 thanks for all the great cartoons, specially the one with the pope – first draft. still makes my day every time. hope your chickens will be a ray of sunshine for generations to come.
Happy birthday!
I love reading your Chickens every day. I usually wait until I’m at work (because they help me get through the day). My recent favorite was “Conclusive” — I wish I could have put this up on my computer screen as the background. Instead, I just bookmarked it to come back to periodically. 🙂
Congrats on 7 years!!
My favorite is The Cat Tree. No doubt that you have or had cats in your life!
Congrats! My favourite of the past 7 years has got to be ObiWan Kenobi’s Jedi Quiz!
“Corporate Survivalist” is my favorite.
Favourite goes to “How to Drink Absinthe”, although it omits the initial “Fly to somewhere in Europe so you can get the REAL stuff” step.
Doug I love the chickens.Big fan for 6 years. My favorite cartoon is (The internet of the future)
All cats all the time.Congratulations!
Congratulations,and many more years of chickens to come..I hope.Any chance of a vain budgie character?
I think “Cat Dreams” deserves a spot in the top 10.
Another great year, congrats!
My favourite cartoon from this year was the ultimate cat tree. It took me three tries before I could spot all 22 cats. Also, my cats would love me forever if I got them one of these. They’d also never spend time with me ever again. 🙂
congrats! 😀 I love savage chickens very much! I check it every single day (married days are jealous) my favorite comic this year was this one 🙂
https://www.savagechickens.com/2012/01/looking-ahead.html
good luck and hope we have more chickens many years! 😀
Congrats and keep them coming! My favorite cartoon last year was “A Short History of Time Travel”.
Hello!
I think one of my favorites was definitely the Mighty Sarlacc series. 🙂
Definitely “I Love You More.” Would you consider combining cats with chickens some times?
Great Seven Years!
I have to agree, my fave is ‘A Short History of Time Travel’. Hitler with a T-Rex AND a lightsaber is pure genius.
Thanks for all the ‘toons.
Congratulations on year 7!
My favorite comic? Easily has to be the Tigger one.
https://www.savagechickens.com/2008/09/tigger.html
Yay Doug!! Congratulations on 7 very funny and cool years. I love the PROD300 cartoons as my favorites, they usually remind me so much of my job politics.
I really like that “short history of time travel” cartoon!
https://www.savagechickens.com/2011/02/a-short-history-of-time-travel.html
Hi,
my favourites were Narcissitron and
“The Oxfordian Theory” but I really enjoy almost everyone of your cartoons. Good work.
Yay! Congrats!
I love the new Catnip Mouse. I see big things in his/her/our future.
My faves from the past year are
1)
https://www.savagechickens.com/2011/11/live-life.html You are DEAD ON about life!
2) https://www.savagechickens.com/2011/11/sorry.html My husband has learned this lesson well.
3) https://www.savagechickens.com/2011/10/math-homework.html This plays out at my house at least a couple of times per month.
If you could draw Adorable Hedgehog in my copy that would be awesome! 😀 (If you want to make my husband happy you could draw Chuck too.)
Very impressive run of comic strips. Congratulations!
My favorite is “Applause”. But I also love the “decorate your cubicle” ones. I frequently will pin a cartoon of yours above my desk and they’ll add a moment of lightness when I’m feeling “cubicalized”.
Happy Anniverasry and thanks for the chuckles…
Lana
Congratulations on 7 years! My favorite this year was “Ribbons!”
Better Watch Out made me laugh so hard. It is hands down my favorite of the year.
https://www.savagechickens.com/2011/12/better-watch-out.html
Congratulations and may there be may more years of chickens!
Congratz! Myh personal favourite must have been “Death Works at Home” 🙂
godzilla attacks was the best one last year
good luck and have a great year
My favorite SC for the year was Chuck Norris versus the Hedgehog because you made it special for me & my kids. I have a laugh every day because of you Doug, no matter what else is going on in my life. Your daily SC also keep me and my son in touch since he is away at college. Thank you! (now don’t go getting the 7 year itch!!)
hallucinations.
congrats on 7 years!
Two of my favorites are on these lists, Neighbor Noise(we live in a townhouse) and A Short History of Time Travel. I got my library system to get your book(Salt Lake County) and I checked it out right away. Love, love, love the interactive pages!
You and your chickens rock!
Happy 7th year! Congrats. 😀
Thank you so much for my morning laughs – my favourite, having survived corporate Australia in the 80’s 90’s and 00’s is Go Team – https://www.savagechickens.com/2011/05/go-team.html
*snorts* there is no “I” in “horde”
Congrats!
And yes, “I love My Job” … 😉
Five Years was my favourite, I’m not going to think too closely about what that says about my attitude towards work. Uncomfortable Silence Bear and the Corporate Survivalist ones come in close behind though.
Tough choice, but I’m going with “How To Drink Absinthe.” Bwaa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
Congrats!! I only discovered SC a few months ago. Can’t remember how I came across it but am very glad I did. I think my fav is Ultimate Cat Tree (my 3 cats would LOVE it), and Noisy Neighbour Checklist. I should give that to the foot-stomping jerks above me. 🙂
Kudos. As Joseph Campbell said: Follow your Bliss. Your search for the meaning of Life resonates with me. The Far Side, Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes…. Too cool. Never trust anyone without a sense of humor. I pick OCD Santa with I Love You a close second. Spiders forever…. Jerry Mackel
I love Savage Chickens! They make my day when I open my inbox at work. My absolute favorite is “Thank you” and on the wall in my office-https://www.savagechickens.com/2011/12/thank-you.html
Thanks for all the laughs!
“I Love You More” was my favorite Savage Chickens cartoon this year!
i love savage chickens!!!!! 🙂 my fave last year was sarah connor! super fun!! 🙂 i want the booook! come to the philippines!!
Happy 7th year anniversary, my faves are
1. A SHORT HISTORY OF TIME TRAVEL
2. CRAWLING ONTO LAND
3.CHEWBACCA
4. HALLUCINATIONS
5. TIGGER
6. VULTURES
7. HOLIDAY HORROR
Congratulations! I don’t comment much, but I’ve kept up with the chickens daily since year 1! I really liked Paying Attention and the epic cat tree as well.
I didn’t realize you had a twitter account! I also retweeted, as everyone needs more chicken love in their life.
Congratulations Doug! I don’t have to tell you to keep up the good work because I know you will. Keep those sticky notes coming!
very happy to see an udderly useless mutant made the the panel dead center even
Thanks for the chuckles cluckles high falooten hilariusiosness that has kept me and obviously others in stitches of laughter through the years. Love you my cartooning friend if I maybe so bold. willwot zombie chicken please stand up and count heads.
brrrrrrrriiiiiiiaaaaaaannnnsssssssss
Adorable Hedgehog & Adorable Hedgehog: Round Two.
But they’re all really good. But there’s something about Chuck Norris vs. the Adorable Hedgehog. If I don’t win a copy (likely), please give us a third installment of Adorable Hedgehog!
Wheres the rancor?
Alas, the Rancor appeared in only one cartoon so he didn’t make the cut for the Year 7 pic, which includes only character who appeared in more than one strip. Yikes if I did all of the characters it would be a pretty gigantic sticky note! 🙂
The procrastinator 😀
Sarah Connor?
Keep up with the Chickens, dude! Awesome stuff!
Congrats! I also love the Adorable Hedgehog but Job Well Done is scarily true…
While I would like to see Chewbacca and a cat, my personal favorite is The Challenge, Welsh Edition.
7 years of chickens, may this strip endure forever. my favorite strip is Chewbacca,
Congratulations on your success with Savage Chickens. It is one email that I never delete without looking!!! I have to say that my favorite is a tie of: The Ultimate Cat Tree and I Love You More.
hooray, congrats, and may all your chickens be savage!
Ultimate Cat Tree is one of my all-time favorites!
Hey Doug! Congrats on seven years! First got the comic feed from a friend and subscribed have loved it for 2 years now…very inventive stuff way to go Chickens!!
Congrats on seven brilliant years!!!Thanks for bringing such a brilliant and fun outlook to the mundane.
Although I love almost every cartoon, the cartoon “First Draft” with the Sistine Chapel brings an out loud laugh every time.
I really like the PROD3000’s strips, but “Make the Boss Look Good” is quite simple and extremely funny!
Keep up the excelent work!
Congrats Doug! I’m happy that I stumbled onto the Savage Chickens a few years ago. I love all the characters and on-going jokes! My favorite this year would have to be the “Ultimate Cat Tree”. Thanks and here’s to many years to come!
of course, the best one is Zombie Chicken!
My favorite comic is the 16 candles/Molly Ringwald one you did for my mother and me for my 16th birthday.
My favorite is ultimate cat tree! I look forward to your comic every day! Thanks!
I really loved the Ice Cream Man cartoon. There is just something about a giant scary ice cream cone chasing chickens that cracks me up!
Congratulations on 7 years!
Keep up the good work! Every one of these cartoons is a favorite. Browsing through the older ones of the past year, I found ‘Engine Trouble’ (and many more) once again very amusing.
https://www.savagechickens.com/2011/03/engine-trouble.html
Congratulations!
Happy 7th! Yay! I love all the Star wars references but i think this year, for sheer detail, Ultimate Cat Tree is adorable!! Thanks for making me laugh every morning! 🙂
Browsing through last year was so fun 😀
I don’t have a favourite, but the Ernest Handyside one made me think.
Hope you keep drawing for another 7 years!
My favorite this year was Thank you (December 2nd?). It went all around the office here, like a secret fantasy to many… All those PROD3000 cartoons are my favorite, they ease the pain…
Love “Brick house” – especially since Three Little Pigs is my 2-year old’s favourite book right now.
For 2011 – love Chuck Norris, Short History of Time and I love you more.
Your cartoon is the first web-page I look at each day – starts the day off great!
Keep them coming!!!
Best ever? Chicken Poetry Reading, Feb. 13, 2006. From your lists, I’d pick Ultimate Cat Tree. Although your sly sense of humor jolts me better than dark roast coffee, the “Cat Tree” reminds me that cats and SAVAGE CHICKENS bring me joy daily. Thank you!
I loved Copy Cat Killer and Conclusive.
Pretty sure my personal favorite was the Philosopher and the Physicist cartoon.
Congrats Mr. Savage! My favourite is the one with the bear attacking Adam in Sistine Chapel’s ceiling. Fabulous!!!
Well, now this is tough. But after careful consideration I think my top three are:
Thank you-the one where he is grateful to be fired, Paying Attention-reading the blog and not knowing if that is worse than not paying attention in the beginning, and my personal favorite-Conclusion-hey-you are just an a**hole. I love, love, love Savage Chickens!!
It’s amazing what a simple angle of a beak can convey! Also, Freud looks great in that sketch. Time for the Ms. Chicken-verse during season 8!