Slapstick

One of my favorite forms of  humor is slapstick. A comic strip, like Bug Pudding, explores humorous situations and certainly plays around with words to create both humor and extra meaning, but occasionally all heck breaks loose and it just gets visually funny. Here are a couple of recent panels:

In this first example Monroe, a turtle who has experienced a lot since he lost his shell to climate change, is losing it after inhaling strange vapors and turning orange. It’s a “Hulk-A-Maniac” moment with a full on “choke slam” ala the WWE.

In this second example, Agile has given Monroe a gift of a replacement shell made from a pumpkin. And we get to enjoy the road rage that follows as Monroe wants to show his “appreciation” by ringing Agile’s neck.

For a cartoonist, some of the most enjoyable moments in drawing a comic strip come from doing the slapstick panels.