We finish off the calendar year (but not our top five list) with an almost winner, and an annual wrong turn. All very fitting for 2012.
Back in the summer, a web-comic called “Order of the Stick” put together a Kickstarter campaign, hoping to publish a kick-ass collection of their strips (a delightful parody of Dungeons and Dragons, drawn stick-figure style). They needed a good chunk of cash to publish, something like forty thousand dollars if I recall…
But they raised over a million.
So I did this Bun Toon the next week.
My Bun Toon didn’t raise a million dollars, but it raised a decent audience for a fun laugh, which is what we’re all about at Bun Toon central. If I worked JUST for the money, I’d have gone into meth dealing like my mother always wanted me to.
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Our lovable loser this time out is entirely my fault. When the Zombie Apocalypse broke out this fall, I did a sequel to a Bun Toon that finished 2011 in my bottom five. The RETURN of Contessa Kristine Margarite Von Shoenefeld proved as unpopular as her first outing the previous year.
I keep suffering for my art, and now it’s your turn:
Obviously I’m the only one who finds her funny. I guess I’ll just have to do ten or fifteen more of these until I convince you.
Tomorrow is the start of 2013, and I’ve saved our TOP BUN TOONS of this year for tomorrow instead of today. This way I start the next year with GRAND SUCCESS and it has NOTHING to do with my mis-reading the calendar a couple of days ago when I started this. That would make me look stupid.
Even with a “twenty-eight charisma orb”, I gotta give it to you Ty on the colors: that yellow T and green cape, well, it a 28 charisma be not…
Cheers!
Steven Willis
XOWComics.com
I was sold on Contessa in 2011. Then she lost me with the Zombie thing. Zombies are yucky. Thank you, though, for not showing excessive amounts of entrails and innards….