A Chilling Thought

All of our experts agree, clicking to enlarge is the way to go!

(Part 4)

That class that hazes together stayses together.

Next week, the series continues!

 - Nolan P.

Owlful Puns

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(Part 3)

Written by my past self in '08. Direct all complaints to him.

Next week, more Eddie!
 - Nolan P.

What a Hoot

Should you Click to Enlarge? Yes.

(Part 2)

I've gotten a lot of practice thanks to the daily drawings I've been doing since January - all that work has definitely paid off. This week I've been making an effort to put more time in with drawing and getting stuff done. So far so good - I got this comic finished, rebuilt my buffer for daily drawings (I was barely squeaking by for the last month), and started a Possum Tails Tumblr! If you have a tumblr account and don't want to bother with Facebook or Blogger, I'd recommend following it. For now I'm just airing older comics there, but it'll catch up after a month or so.

I've been making the comics for this series in a "Sunday" fashion with shading and other fanciness, simply because I can. It takes quite a bit longer, but I like how it looks. I've found that listening to podcasts while drawing makes it go by a lot quicker.

The difference between this comic and the original (6/5/11)?

Significant.

Stay tuned - new Eddie comic comin' atcha next Friday!
 - Nolan P.

What's In the Fridge?

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(Part 1)

If this comic confuses you, it's kind of doing its job. There's not really a punchline here, I'm just kicking off another series.

In other news, Possum Tails is back from its month-long hiatus. I think I learned a bit about perspective over the break. A little bit, anyway. But I can draw the fabled other side of the classroom now, so that's pretty exciting.

If you're wondering why there's a dead owl in the freezer, that's a very reasonable thing to wonder. Owls don't usually inhabit freezers. Even Snowy Owls, which don't seem too bothered by the cold, rarely congregate between the ice cream and tv dinners.

Truth is, Eddie is based off another dead freezer owl by the same name that resided in the real-life Animal Care Class freezer. If I'm remembering the story right, someone called the school about an owl that had flown into a telephone wire, and they came to pick it up. I guess the plan was to use the owl (which didn't survive the accident) for educational purposes or have him stuffed or something, but for whatever reason he was just left in the freezer. Don't worry though, he wasn't alone in there. He had the company of some gouldian finches, a nile monitor, and countless mice and rats. It was kind of a neat little dead petsicle community they had going. Plus, the canned mealworms were chilling out just one room below.

Between the scientific mounts on the walls, the owl in the freezer, the hippo skull on the table, and the daily feederfish, mealworm, and cricket massacres, Animal Care Class had a lot of death in it. But I suppose that's all part of life.

Oh, and for those who are curious, Eddie is portrayed here as an Eastern Screech Owl. (I can't remember the real Eddie's species, it's been too long.) I might try to write about them later.

The series will continue next week. See you then!
 - Nolan P.