Tag / Scrumpy

by Andrew Pilcher

Down the rabbit hole

smith-pilcher-917-190217I don’t know why the phrase ‘Oh my ears and whiskers’ suddenly popped into my head, but I’m very glad it did. After checking it was from Alice in Wonderland rather than Peter Rabbit, I was up and running.

So why am I going on about it being so cold? I think its because I’m doing weightwatchers at the moment, a combination of showing solidarity with Linda who’s been doing it since the summer, and weight management as part of my fight against diabetes. In the past four weeks I’ve managed to lose 12lb, but it’s also meant that I’ve been feeling the cold a lot more now I’ve lost several layers of protective blubber. And it’s been cold anyway.

by Andrew Pilcher

Card

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I couldn’t resist the Sienfeld reference in this one. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

by Andrew Pilcher

David

smith-pilcher-907-160125David. As in the guy who slew Goliath in the Bible. Probably never known as ‘Slingshot Ears’.

by Andrew Pilcher

Snow bunny

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Christmas Tree

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A merry Christmas to everyone everywhere.

Having established that that strip has a ‘giving’ tree, the opposite of Charlie Brown’s kite eating tree, it made sense for it to join in with the Christmas festivities.

If today’s strip is flashing in an alarmingly epileptic way (like it has been on my iPad) try reloading. That cured it for me.

by Andrew Pilcher

The Christmas Bunny

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This is one of those images that just suddenly came to me unbidden, and I wasn’t going to waste it.

by Andrew Pilcher

The size of the void

smith-pilcher-858-151002“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams

More musings inspired by New Scientist, and the books of Stephen Baxter. If you haven’t come across Baxter before, I recommend him highly – his books are rooted in hard science and tend to evoke the same sense of wonder that Arthur C Clarke at his height was able to produce. He can plot a story over aeons of deep time and make you gasp with the way he describes the universe gradually, inexorably winding down to nothingness. Scrumpy’s sense that the universe is ultimately pointless is based to a large extent on his special brand of majestic cosmic miserableness.

by Andrew Pilcher

Earthworm Gossip

smith-pilcher-844-150831This strip brought out some controversy about the state of Scrumpy’s tail. It is claimed that most breeds of rabbit have white tails no matter what colour the rest of the rabbit is. My explanation is that Scrumpy did originally have a white tail, but he thought it looked too cheerful, so he now goes to a bunny salon in St Leonards once a month to have it dyed a fetching shade of ‘misery grey’.

by Andrew Pilcher

Fifty shades of Scrumpy

smith-pilcher-830-150729The greyscale colouring in the last frame looked rather boring when done in my usual flat style, so I broke one of my rules and added a Photoshop filter to it – in this case the ‘reticulation’ filter.

Isn’t a grey crayon called a pencil?

by Andrew Pilcher

Splatch!

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