Sunday Funnies Bun Toons! YAY!

I think it’s Super-bowl Sunday….?

So let’s get this out of the way:

Okay.  Awareness of the big game has been acknowledged.  Go Fightin’ Yanks, or Walruses, or whatever mascots are involved.

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While the rest of the culture is focused on the sport-ball, they might be missing this huge announcement:

I mean, who isn’t enjoying all these DC “location” shows about places WITHOUT their iconic citizens?  After F.S.0.T.F.0.S. debuts, I’m waiting for “Light Breakfast:  The story of a B&B in a lighthouse, run by Aquaman’s father before he meets his mom.”

Or BATCAVE: 1812.  A cavern’s place in a forgotten war.

Eurgh.

Ty the Guy OUT!

There have long been comic books that played this game, by the way…

To be fair, Superman was on the cover, and in a framing sequence in this one.

He was just on the cover of this one–nowhere to be found inside.

Supes didn’t even make the cover of this series, which followed the stories of Luthor and Perry White as younger men.  The new WB series is supposedly about Lois Lane and Luthor solving mysteries together….so SORT OF like this comic, only not really.

The original “Gotham” comic book….without the homicidal, overacting Penguin.

Heck….they even DID a Fortress of Solitude comic book in the 80s.

 

KRYPTON:  Coming soon to SyFy Channel this month.

No Kal-el.  No Jor-el.  No Lara.  Probably no Beppo.

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For last week’s Bun Toon, click above

Yet Another Another Honest to God True Life Adventure! YAY!

The honesty!  The veracity!  The truth!

It’s only funny when it’s true, unless it’s funnier when it’s not.  But in this case, it is.

According to the news, it turned out to be nothing nefarious.  It was a heart attack – another ticker brother taken from the field, but no foul play involved.

So I’m allowed to walk through the park all I want, now.

But I always was, apparently.

Ty the Guy OUT!

If we’re talking about police and rabbits in the bonus section, there’s only one that counts.

Sam, and or Max.  They’re both freelance police officers and one of those names is the rabbit.  I think the other one’s a dog.

click on it to make it larger.  It’s funny.  It always is with Steve Purcell.

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All the News in Fits and Sprints Bun Toons! YAY!

If I wasn’t here you’d have to rely on the news cable stations.

There’s so much going on.  But what is the BIG STORY?

The red pants have been appearing regularly around here since 2011…

No kidding.  The Bunny wore them for quite a while, especially if the strip that week had something to do with DC or Superman…Here’s a toon praising the Grant Morrison run on Action Comics from 2012.

LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT SUPERMAN’S BATHING SUIT AREA

It can launch energy balls

…or fire off rockets

The little red pants were the only part of Superman to survive Doomsday.

Without them, the world would never have had this photo.

I’m proud to have worn them.

Ty the Guy OUT!

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LAST week’s Bun Toon.  Click above, I’m still here.

Where Have I Been Bun Toons?

It’s been more than a month since the last Bun Toon.  But where was the lost lagomorph? The runaway rabbit? The curtailed cottontail?  The castaway cuniculus?

Deadlines and holidays, actually.

Unless I’m still lying.

Ty the Guy OUT!

I tried to find a comic book featuring the word “SHITHOLE” in the title, just to keep the bonus section topical, but the closest I could come was this late 20th Century treasure from Great Britain featuring the talents that helped create Judge Dredd.

Thank god for the new era of civil discourse and class.  I’m happy to contribute to the destruction of the culture.

Happy MLK Day to two thirds of America.  For the remaining third:  Happy whatever-you-racists-do-today day.

For the last Bun Toon, last YEAR! (and it was a re-run anyway!) click the image above.

 

Deadline Doom Bun Toons! BOO! @#(*&!

‘Tis the season to placate editors.

The deadline is not just looming, it’s zooming past, and I don’t have five spare minutes to sleep or eat without drawing, so I certainly can’t draw something else….The Bun Toon must re-run this week…I’m out of choices.

Here’s two of LAST YEAR’S holiday themed Bun Toons to satisfy your ravenous appetite for rabbit based cartoon stories.

See you next week, when HOPEFULLY I’m a little caught up.

In theory, that Bun Toon above works just as well with Mueller as with Santa.

And now, this:

Merry non-denominational holiday season to you and yours.

Ty the Guy OUT!

To find the answers to these important animal questions, click the link above to last week’s BUN TOON

 

Moo! Bark! Howl! Bun Toons! YAY!

Four legs good.  Two legs bad.  Screw the penguins.

It may be the information age, but there are so many mysteries yet unsolved….

Someday we’ll find out of the critters have souls.

After we’re done eating them, I mean.

Ty the Guy OUT!

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This is the oldest of my many, many Walt Kelly ANIMAL COMICS I’ve picked up over the years.

You can see proto-Albert and proto-Churchie in the drawing.  Pogo, one assumes, is off sleeping somewhere before his debut.

I’m still crazed for Kelly and Pogo, but haven’t picked up any new issues for a while, as they’re no longer dirt cheap “kiddie comics” that no one wants, like they were when I was young.  Apparently Golden-Age “animals” are popular now.

 

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For last week’s slightly animal-themed BUN TOON, click the burnt creature carcass above.

By the way, Flounder, like all flatfish, have what is called the “wandering eye mutation”, one of the more controversial elements of the evolution/intelligent design debate.  Once a joke gets explained, it’s no longer funny, so I’m explaining it here, long after it wasn’t funny to begin with.

 

Bun Toons goes to the Birds! YAY!

I’m thankful that rabbits are so easy to draw.

’nuff said.

Ty the Guy OUT!

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As someone who’s always been a colleague of Lulu (if not a dues-paying friend), it’s nice to see her bring a gun to a hatchet fight.  That’s the spirit.

Some friends of Lulu brought a bomb.

For last week’s Bun Toon (somewhat on the same subject) click the image of a beloved industry icon of the past.

Uncomfortable for Everyone Bun Toons.

I’ve always heard these were “rumours”, but I know of other creators who were with me when this stuff happened in front of us.  It wasn’t a secret to anyone we knew.  But still, they’re “rumours”.

In a month where Louie CK, President G H W Bush, Kevin Spacey, and so many others are being outed as sexual miscreants, let’s hope the dam is finally broken.  This stuff happens ALL the time, with lovable, respectable men we don’t want to believe are capable of such creepy activities.  I’m still reeling from Bill Cosby.

Was Julius Schwartz a predator or a lovable (but dirty) old man?  I don’t know.  I didn’t really know him.

But he genuinely pulled this “whoops, did I run my hands over your nipple?” trick in front of me.  More than once.

When women tell you it’s happening, believe them.

When men know it’s happening.  Say something.

Otherwise it’s everywhere.

Ty the Guy OUT!

Schwartz appeared as himself in a couple of cameos in DC Comics and ended up an official fictional character in the DCU.  He met Superman a few times, helped rescue a dimension-lost Flash, and was uniquely chosen to survive the destruction of “Earth Prime” during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, arriving on the final Earth 1 at the conclusion of it all.    Oh, and he helped create the DCU in the first place.  So there’s that.

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For last week’s equally disrespectful Bun Toon about another legendary creator, way more important than I am, click here.

 

 

 

Frankly Speaking, Bun Toons! YAY!

Reminding  you of a time when newspapers still existed…The SUNDY FUNNIES!

You guys have no idea how much I enjoyed enjoying DK III.  That was part of the experience to me – the growing sense that I wasn’t hate-reading it.

In fact, it was darned, rootin-tootin’ GOOD.

But retroactively, the whole thing gets jingly-bingly in my memory now.

Eurgh.

Ty the Guy OUT!

Not my first time Bun Tooning Frank Miller in this position.

A few years ago:  My idea of the next “big thing” in publishing.  If only they’d listened to me.

 

For last week’s “spooky” themed Bun Toon, click the sperm-bunny-ghost.

BOO Toons! YAY!

Y’know- without the bunny ears, cartoon ghosts look a bit like sperm.

I’m a world traveller, and as a result, I’ve learned things NO ONE else knows.

It must be true.  It’s on the internet.

Ty the Guy OUT!

The BONUS Bun Toons for today include a couple of my favourite Halloween Memories:

That story is absolutely true.  This was a long time ago, before Gal Godot was a household word and movies had yet to discover Stan Lee.  Yes, there WAS such a time.

As you can see, my family opts for traditional Swedish costumes during the holiday.

MORE BONUS MORE:  SOME OF MY FAVOURITE HALLOWEEN COVERS:

The golden age of everything is twelve.  This comic came out around the time I was twelve, so it’s probably my fave Halloween cover.

This one came out when I was in my late forties.

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For last week’s philosophical Bun Toon, click the image above.