Tip Dressed Up: Bobby Sox
Shaenon: Wow, pants! At some point, I’d like to do a series of sketches of Tip in outfits inspired by Bugs Bunny’s hottest drag looks: bobby soxer, hillybilly girl, Eskimo girl, lady hunter who says, “Ah would just looove a duck dinnah!” I got this outfit from a book of Marty Links cartoons, Links being one of the foremost illustrators of 1940s-era teenage girls in rolled-up pants, oversized men’s shirts, and ponytails.
Channing: As of this writing, this is my favorite Tip outfit; but then again, I must confess a certain pre-existing affection for late-40’s / early-50’s fashion. This will surprise no one who remembers the character of Imogene Reliant Frog, the poodle skirt-clad employer of Narbonic RPG star and eventual canon immigrant Titus Misanthropie (who was, in turn, the brainchild of the remarkably-tall J.S. “Fortunato” Towne.) Keep fighting the good evil fight, Titus.
Justin Grubbs (the_purple_knight) says: Poor Tip looks so scared in that first picture. Was he bullied as a child?
Andrew Perron (ununnilium) says: Awwwww! Still manages to look girly with pants. His best outfit so far, IMHO.
David Harmon (mental_mouse) says:
Justin: I took that for a “skinned knee” pose. Though in pants it might be a “torn knee” pose.
Quibble: The second cuff roll is suspiciously small & neat, given he’s taken a pair of full-length pants (apparently lined, at that), and rolled them clear up to his knees. And compared to the rest of the body detail, his right elbow has gone missing. (Even with the arm straight, there should be some sign of it!)
John Breckenridge (jbrecken) says: Tip doesn’t shave?
Dave Van Domelen (dvandom) says: Well, he probably shaves if he’s going to be wearing hose or tights, since I’m told those look horrible with hair under ’em. But if he’s just going bare-legged for a while, he’d let the legs go…and he’s probably so damned virile he’d have to shave his legs every few days anyway. 😉
Rockphed (rockphed) says: Real men wear tights without shaving!
Edwin Quantrall (reynard) says: And I imagine that they itch like hell too!
Sor Cyress (sorcyress) says:
Oh come on now.
I don’t shave my legs and I wear tights upwards of twice a week or so. It’s not itchy (although it does feel a little weird when you take the tights off, due to the hair poofing out) and, while I avoid hose like the plague, opaque tights look fine with hair under them –you’d have to be *really* bushy to destroy the lines, which Tip does not seem to be.
(My few reccolections of wearing hose make me think that it looks a little strange if you get close up and look, but from a distance, they look fine on hairy legs.)
~Sor
bzzzzd (bzzzzd) says: This looks like a teenaged Tip, esp. the standing pose, both around the face and the lack of bulk he now shows.
Elaine Corvidae (elaine_corvidae) says: Considering that a class I had in college analyzed Bugs Bunny as the modern American version of the Trickster, I have no problem seeing the connection between Bugs and the cross-dressing Tip. Although I’m a little sad that Tip looks so scared.
Matt Katinas (nidoking) says: Almost got a Guybrush Threepwood (circa Curse of Monkey Island) vibe going there.
Brian Rogers (billionsix) says: There is a Tip Jar on the front page now! A… TIP … jar! Get it? “Tip” jar? eh?? eh???
James Rice (jhrice) says:
“There is a Tip Jar on the front page now! “
Yes there is. I tried it last week. Seems to work.
Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing) says: Yes, but are you sure it will work for everyone? No you are not. The only solution is for everyone to use the tip button immediately, just so we can see if it works several thousand times in sequence. I am particularly eager to see people to experiment by taxing the system with large sums, in case that might make a difference.. IT IS FOR SCIENCE.
Brian Rogers (billionsix) says: *sulks because everyone ignored my terrible pun*
Thanks, guys, you have helped me through a dark period. I think that I appreciate
satire, but it often goes over my head. I read it anyway. Maybe it’ll seep in some day, and I’ll be too smart to stand. Yup.
Huh, Bugs as Trickster? of course.I never saw it before, though.