From the monthly archives: January 2007
Savage Chickens debuted on the web two years ago today! To celebrate, I’m introducing a new Behind the Scenes page. Click the above image to see the evolution of an SC cartoon and more!
Doug’s Top Ten
A year ago, I picked my favourite ten cartoons of the year. This year, it was much more difficult to choose, but here they are:
- The Cactus
- Explosion
- Morning Commute
- Outside the Box
- Pet Rock
- The Prairies
- Protest Rally
- Psycho Hotline
- The Shawshank Installation
- Snowflakes
But the most blogged-about cartoons of the year were completely different:
Don’t see your favourite cartoon here? Post it in the comments below!
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Here’s the story behind the creation of this comic:
- I began with the idea of the A-Team being hired to do non-A-Team tasks. Like rolling pennies.
- It wasn’t working for me, so I changed the mundane activity and mixed up the design. But I can’t really draw rakes. And I was still stuck on the idea that the mundane task would make B.A. Baracus furious.
- Months later, I picked up the old cartoon to give it another try. I added the flan pun and chicken versions of the actual A-Team characters.
- Finally I dropped the original ‘mundane’ idea completely and turned it into a lost episode. I added eyebrows to Face to make him more Face-like, and moved the flan to Hannibal’s side of the cartoon so the flan joke and image would be closer together. Here’s the full-size version.
I’ve been watching hours and hours of old Tom Baker Doctor Who episodes. Tom Baker is the Shatner of the UK. Awesome!
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