Easter Bun Toons! YAY!

Now it can be told!

It’s BUNNY DAY!  It’s BUNNY DAY!  The day rabbits RULE!

This holiday season, I’m finally answering the question that has dogged this annual springtime egg festival for centuries:  Why is Easter represented by a RABBIT?  Weeks and months of dedicated research has revealed the surprising…

 

 

Do you think it was a CO-INCIDENCE that the Supreme Court was taking up the issue this week?  The Bunny is a close friend of Justice Sotomayor, and she pulled a few strings to get this sorted out for her fuzzy LGTBQ pal.

I’m off to spend the evening protesting the local Maybelline Cosmetics plant out here in Mississauga with the local PETA folks from my home town…join me if you’re out this way.  We could use the warm bodies.

Ty the Guy OUT!

Now, your BONUS Easter Comic Book Moments:

Because on Earth, eggs are normally hidden by rabbits, not by parents.

Ah, I can’t leave it at just that…

If you’ve never gotten your hands on an old Walt Kelly Mother Goose Holiday Special, you’ve never seen the glory that all-ages comics can attain.  These things are some of the most beautifully illustrated comics of ANY era…

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for yesterday’s Easter Bun Toons Re-Runs, click the drunk rabbits above

For last week’s Bun Toon about CNN looking like morons…click Candy Crowley

 

For the Bun Toons Archive, click the Year Round Bunny above

LAST WEEK on the ‘net

Thursday March 14

CLIENT: Ty Templeton @tytempleton from Guerilla Printing

LAST WEEK on the ‘net

Monday May 28

Y’a de l’amour dans l’air from le journal de montréal/BANDE DESSINÉE

Tuesday May 29

Shining Lantern  from In One Ear…

MARVEL FOR AUGUST from Relax comic shop

The internet reacts to gay people in comics from ALL DAY COMICS

Parting Shot: What a Gay Superhero Looks Like from Comics Alliance

Make Mine Amalgam!! from TALKING COMICS!

Wednesday May 30

Video: BILL THE BOY WONDER: THE SECRET CO-CREATOR OF BATMAN by Marc Tyler Nobleman from Mike Lynch Cartoons

Side-Whiskered With “Gorgeous” from Loose Cruse:  The Blog

USA: “UN MILIONE DI MAMME” PROTESTANO CONTRO MARVEL E DC PER IL RICORSO A PERSONAGGI GAY COME MODELLI DI RIFERIMENTO from COMIX FACTORY

Alien Abduction from Hero Sandwich

Thursday May 31

How straight and gay superheroes act from forbidden planet international

The New Countdown 5: 31/05/12 from Manga Forever

Friday June 1, 2012

OBI-WAN KENOBI by Adam Gorham from Spitballin’

Mo’ Homo Fridays from CRAZY ON COMICS

SAturday June 2

Comics, canines and kicking butt with Batman from thespec.com

Ty Templeton, simples e direto em desconstruir o falatório from Queer Comics

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LAST WEEK on the ‘net

Click here to read our Bun Toon about DC’s Gay Character Reveal

Wednesday May 23

Secret Origins #37, February 1989, cover by Ty Templeton from Comic Book Covers

Bill the Boy Wonder, The Secret Co-Creator of Batman – A Book Review from Successful Teaching

tHURSDAY MAY 24

Honouring the best in comics from thewhig.com

Sunday May 27

LGBTDC Bun Toons! YAY! from A ROBIN HOOD’S MUSING

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LAST WEEK on the ‘net

Monday March 5

Mister X from Scoop

Tuesday March 6

WASTELAND: The John Ostrander Interview from THE FACTUAL OPINION

Friday March 9

Archie Sales Figures for 2011 from Comics Worth Reading

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LAST WEEK on the ‘net

Monday February 27

Marvel Sets ‘Spider-Man’ Digital Comics One-Day Sale from The Fandom Post

Thursday March 1

80-Page Thursdays: Justice League Quarterly #5! from Random Happenstance

 

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Bun Toons Countdown 2011 – #3. YAY!

This entry into the Top Five is an odd one.  First, it had nothing to do with comic books (though eight out of the top ten Bun Toons did), second, it’s not funny, nor is it meant to be,  and finally, though I wrote it, it’s one of the few Bun Toons this year that I didn’t draw.  Jason Laudadio drew the piece, a wonderfully skilled artist from Toronto and WOW did he knock it out of the park!

It was posted the week that America retired their Space Shuttle program, and that country gave up on putting  human beings in space for the foreseeable future.  This Bun Toon was my comment on it.  A number of news sites following the story of the shuttle’s retirement picked up our contribution to the conversation and it went all viral, as the kids say.

It’s a nice feeling when you do a little heartfelt piece, just to keep the wheels of creativity greased, and tens of thousands of people end up reading it.

Again, round of applause for Jason Laudadio’s art on this story.  Go tell Jason you love him.

As I said before, the Prometheus Toon wasn’t about comic books, so I was very surprised it was popular, but I can never gauge what people out there are going to react to.

AND NOW FOR A BOTTOM FIVE BUN TOON!  

BWAH HAH HAH!

Checking in for the failure side of things is a Bun Toon I was really pleased with when I did it, and my buddy Dan Slott called me up afterwards to tell me it was the funniest one I’d ever drawn.   (I have to keep remembering that mentioning the now-world-famous Dan is name dropping nowadays!  HAH!)

Anyway, here’s one that amused me and Slott, but not that many other people.  It’s about the dying media of newspaper comic strips.   Too dead a target, I suppose.

As I child, I would have LOVED to see Wolf’s World in the paper.   Every day, they eat something new.  A cat, a dog, perhaps an orphan or one of their own, the possibilities are endless.

See you tomorrow with the #2 Bun Toon that turned my comments section into the hottest all-star hangout on the internet for a couple of days…that, AND the miserable failure that was my Bun Toons death scene.

Ty the Guy OUT!

Just dropping in…

I’ve been busy up the wazoo lately, finishing up some pages for a Simpsons issue and teaching at the Toronto Cartoonists Workshop, and wrapping up the fixes of the fixes of the notes of the Bill Finger: Secret C0-Creator of Batman book, and playing with some Hoverboy ideas…and buying a new car to replace the one that died by the side of the road from last week (well, my wife did all that work, but I got to be consulted a few times.)  So I figured, after a flurry of activity, I’d have a couple of days of down time to put together a big blog entry about the ten weirdest comic book deaths,  best super-hero nipple slips, or the greatest inkers of all time….something fun that you guys deserve…

…When I was asked yesterday if I had time to do one of those DREAM gigs that you pinch yourself when it comes in.    I’ll promote it like a crazy monkey when I’m allowed to, but in the meantime, I have a couple of fourteen hour workdays ahead of me to make room for this new bit of fun.

Damn, I love my job sometimes.  Even if it pulls me away from my delightful blog for a day or two.

Ty the Guy OUT!

Give me a couple of days, and the super-hero nipple slips will get their due, I promise!

Good Lord!  Ty wasn’t kidding?!?  There are actual super-hero nipple slips?!?

 

Meaningless Trivia Contest with NO PRIZES!

For many years, Marvel comics used to give out “No-Prizes” for spotting mistakes in a published story, and then later, for offering SOLUTIONS to a mistake in a published story. A winner actually got NO prize (though sometimes, the office would send an empty envelope with no prize inside.)

So just for today, I’m bring the concept back.  A couple of days ago I accidentally discovered a piece of bizarre trivia while typing up some notes on a script I’m working on, and I’m curious to see if anyone else has ever discovered this odd trivia as well.

That’s the trivia up above.  The photo on the left and the image on the right.  If you know what I’m talking about, this image should be enough to figure it out.

First person to post what I’m talking about in the comments section gets NO PRIZE.  I’m simply curious to see if anyone else knows this odd fact but me.  Ya gots 48 hours.

Ty the Guy OUT!

Here now your bonus clue:

That either made it much easier to figure out, or it hopeless confused you.