Roll over, Herriman - tell Walt Kelly the news!

A small, but proud, moment in the life of another aspiring cartoonist Doper.

Just had my first strip published on the Web! :smiley: Here’s a link:

http://www.carpaltunnelpress.com/critchett1.html

Would love to know what you all think. I have two or three more strips in the works, but no firm plans to continue on a regular basis - just getting used to the tools and tricks of the trade for now.

Nonetheless, I’m grinning like a naughty schoolgirl over here.

Very funny, very well done!
But stop grinning that naughty schoolgirl grin at me.

Thanks for your support, lesa! :slight_smile:

For all you lurkers out there, another strip should be up soon.

I thought it was cute. Is the strip going to be about the hamsters or the humans or both?

Well, it’s more about the hamsters with the humans providing backdrop. It’s more an experiment at this point than anything else - just getting used to inking, and coloring, and re-acquiring my drawing skills. There’s other non-Critchett stuff coming along, but the Tzeroling’s recent acquisition of a RL hamster provided a number of ideas.

But where’s the possum? :confused:

Good strip anyway!

Ain’t no mice or “kets” in there, either, but you didn’t seem so concerned about them, didja? Huh? HUH?! Piker.

Thanks for the kind words :smiley:

You know, I opened this thread purely because the title read like a palindrome to me. You know how palindromes often have that weird, distinctive cadence and vaguely-related words? “Ten animals I slam in a net” - that sort of thing. Well, the title just sounded that way to me, and I thought it was cool. And if that ain’t mundane and pointless, I don’t know what is.

Cool strip, BTW.

He’s referencing the creators of Krazy Kat and Pogo, respectively. And respectfully, too, I might add. Two pioneers of the comic strip.

A nice comic, Olentzero. I especially like his teeth, for some reason. Clean lines and good use of color and silhouette, etc. Very well done. And congratulations. I don’t begrudge you your grins.

Ha! And I say again - Ha!

(But it does give me flashbacks of when I was but a lad and we had these two hamsters… It ended badly.)
-Rue. (laughing throught the tears)

bump Part 2, in which Our Hamster debateth the nature of the Supreme Beings with his erstwhile room-mate, is now up for your viewing pleasure.

Cute strip. I’ll add it to my web favorites like Dieselsweeties, Sinfest and Penny Arcade.

Thanks! I can’t promise regular updates just yet, but keep it there and check back every so often. :slight_smile:

And I’ll definitely feel like I’m in good company there.

Not bad. Looks like you got some potential there. Keep it up.