“A Human Infant” by Shaenon Garrity and Andrew Farago!
Channing: Today’s piece is by far the most interesting and imaginative piece of “Skin Horse” fan art we’ve ever received. Talented fans Shaenon Garrity and Andrew Farago have actually spent nine and a half months crafting a human infant in honor of–
Okay, okay. You get it, no sense protracting the gag. Ladies, gentlemen and bizarre half-lady half-gentleman hybrids, it is both my pleasure and my distinct honor to introduce you to Robin Kelty Farago (the smallish dapper chap on the right), born July 6, weighing in at seven pounds and four ounces and lengthing (?) in at nineteen and a half inches long. These figures are subject to rapid change and are doubtless already wrong. You know kids. Shaenon reports that the little fella enjoys eating, sleeping, and having hair. We should all do so well. Welcome to the world, little guy!
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Shaenon, congratulations to you and that little Italian guy you hang out with. You’ve got a beautiful kid.
Congratulations on growing a second head! XD
I mean baby! 😮
Huzzah and congratulations to all involved! 🙂
Squeeeee! At last! Congrats! Wookit da tiny fist…
🙂
Bien fait les gars!
Congratulations! Now that you have an analogue backup, I’m sure you’re proceeding to stage three, and I’m looking forward to the headlines!
WEll done what a handsome little guy he is! 😀
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!
Oddly, it left off the “l!” Anyway, I’m impressed that you two made that. You do good work.
Oh, it only left it out on my phone screen. Weird.
Eh, I would have gone for the parakeet.
Congratulations Sharon and Andrew!
Congrats!
tune: “Alma,” Tom Lehrer, 1965
The sixth of July dawned portent-ious
For labor and other things birthy
And then came the blessed event-ious
Now Shaenon will be much less girthy
Robin Kelty!
You make our hearts go all melty
Here come two decades of fun
All for Andrew and Shaenon and son
The dad is a little Italian
At least that’s what J.C. Wells called him
Right now he must feel like a stallion
For making half of a not-bald him
Robin Kelty!
Seven pounds four ounces svelty
That oven baked quite a bun
And now Andrew and Shaenon have son
With parents so darned creative
Art will someday be his calling
‘Til then he sleeps vegetative
And wakes up pooping and bawling
Robin Kelty!
Great parent cards you’ve been dealty
And all the fans’ hearts you’ve won
Because Mister Farago drew 10 Cups in tarot
And Shaenon gave birth to a son!
Wonderfully inspired Manifesta, and why not, with such inspiration! Oh boy oh boy oh boy!
Congratulations, Shaenon and Andrew (and Robin)!
Also secondary congratulations to Mr. Wells for steering the ship whilst the captain is indisposed.
Thank you. I’m doing my best (and you’re helping!)
Congratulations, Sarge and Andrew!
anybody else notice the incredible detail that Shaenon got on Robin Kelty? Perfectly complete and not a bit overdone
BABEH!
Congratulations Shaenon, and hello Robin.
Well done, everyone!
D’awwww
You took him out of his original packaging?
Welcome to the world R.K.!
Congratulations!
Congratulations to the new parents and welcome to the world little one! It gets a little crazy here sometimes, but it’s a good place on the whole, and it seems that you’ve chosen good people to start things out with. :~)
My god, you’ve successfully created life!
Note To Self: I should never be allowed to be a father
Not exactly–both Shaenon and Andrew are alive (we assume, anyway), the gametes they made were alive and combined to form a little mini-person. So it’s more that they engaged in a complex process of genetic recombination, splicing bits of his and her DNA together to assemble a living being. Something no non-mad scientist would ever consider feasible…
Mad science doesn’t care much about “feasible”
.Welcome Robin !!! Congrats Shaenon and Andrew.
Awww . . . a larval apeling, freshly expulsed!
I squee.
Awwww!
Congratulations!
Mazel tov! He’s very cute.
Congratulations! He’s adorable.
Congratulations, Shaenon and Andrew!
AND NOW ON TO THE EXPERIMENTS.
Unfortunately, Its a mutual experimentation between parents, and parents and child, and there is no control group, so you are in for a lifetime of inconclusive results with very few do-overs.
I wish ALL OF YOU much health and happiness. Including my fellow fans and readers.
Good one, Manifesta! I’d forgotten that little Lehrer gem. (My stupid comments always end up at the end, so I hope you see this.) Anyway, much love to Shaenon & Andrew … here’s my contribution …
(TUNE: “Rockin’ Robin”, Bobby Day)
(Oogity boogity boo … boogity boogity boo!) (x3)
(Coo! Coo! Koochie-coo!)
He lived in his mommy, nine months long,
Came out on Sunday, big and strong!
All those artistic genes he had,
He’s gonna win awards like Mom and Dad!
[CHORUS:]
Robin’s Reuben! (doot doot doo!)
Robin’s Reuben! (doot doot doo!)
He’s gonna win a Reuben, no ribbin’, it’s rubbin’ off!
Soon as a pencil he can hold,
Draws his own comic, six months old!
Get him a Wacom, he won’t stop!
First word’s gonna be “Photoshop”!
[repeat CHORUS]
He’ll get a lotta sponsors on Patreon!
Gonna host a panel at Comic-Con!
He’ll keep on drawin’, and before you know,
He’ll out-draw DeSouza and … Foglio!
Of course, that’s a maybe, he still can choose!
He might drive a truck, or he might sell shoes!
But it doesn’t matter what you do …
Mommy and Daddy, they still love you!
[repeat CHORUS]
(Oogity boogity boo … boogity boogity boo!) (x3)
(Coo! Coo! Koochie-coo!)
Good one, Eddurd! And congratulations to Shaenon and Andrew!
Thanks heaps for the kind words and the earworm, Ed. Now I’ll be singing “Oogity boogity boo … boogity boogity boo” for days on end.
Congratulations!
MAZEL TOV!
Congratulations – a work of art!
I suspect the little one’s hobbies also include pooping. Babies are good at pooping. And keeping mom and dad awake when they’d rather be sleeping.
And yet, for all the stress, it can be one of the most wonderful things in the world.
Congratulations.
Congratulations. I’ve always enjoyed having hair, too.
So, has Robin said ‘Hello World,’ yet?
Seriously congrats to all parties involved!
Congratulations!
An Italian boy with the initials RK? Can’t think of any nickname you can make from that.
congrats. I’m so happy for you two!
Congratulations to you both on the new baby! 😀
Congratulations! May your child live a life filled with portent and free of prophecies.
Congratulations on the baby~!~
Congratulations to Shaenon, Andrew, and Robin (Beta?)!
Congratulations to Shaenon and Andrew, a long and happy life to Robin, and the best of fortune to all.
Congratulations Shaenon and Andrew! Be sure to follow the owner’s manual for best results.
Wait, what? You mean these things still don’t come with one??
Heyyyyy! You made a baby! Congratulations!
MAZEL TOV!
And you think he’s cute now, just wait a couple years ’till he starts shakily acquiring vocabulary. Whoo!
Yay!
Congratulations to the parents and welcome to the newborn 🙂 May you have a long life, good health, happiness and all that jazz.
Great choice of name, by the way.
– Robin.
Congratulations.
Aww, it’s a little Shaenon-Andrew hybrid! Congratulations.
Thanks, everyone! Robin is exactly a week old today. Andrew is dancing him around the room and singing Carole King songs to him.
Aww. Congratulations on having such an adorable kid, Shaenon and Andrew!
Conga Ratz! Best of luck in your child-rearing experiment!
AWWW!! How cute! congradulations on your own Beta!
Best of luck to the three of you!
Yay! Congratulations (with added squee!)
Mazel Tov! Best wishes to all three of you. And a swift recovery, Shaenon, you’ve been through a lot.
HUZZUH! And bright blessings on y’all!
It’s alive! It’s alive!
And nary a lightning storm was involved. Now that takes talent.
Congratulations to all involved.
Congratulations! He looks like a very fine specimen.
Congratulations!
Congratu-friggin-lations! Hope all goes well post-natally and I can’t wait to meet ’em in person at the Museum!
Congratulations! I hope both you and your son are doing well, and wish you the best in the coming sleepless months!
Look at those lips! Oh, goodness, he is a CUTIE!! You guys are gonna be beating girls off with a stick!
BABY! Congratulations all around! 😀 I hope recovery is swift and easy, and that he’s sleeping through the night for you soon!
AWWW!!!!
Congratulations! Also AAAAAAAH cute cute and I am beyond redemption.
Congratulations! Especially on the “he enjoys sleeping” part.
Congratulations, and happy birthday, Robin! 😀
Congratulations all around!
Congratulations, Shaenon and Andrew! And welcome, Robin!
Also, you should thank your parents (or Uncle Jeff or whoever) for posting this photo. Years from now, should someone try to put one over on you, you can send them the URL as (adorable) proof that indeed you were not decanted from the replicating pod full-grown–and that all of us here are witnesses.
Congratulations to Shaenon and Andrew!
Congratulations! He’s beautiful!
The biggest commendation in the world to the three of you
Yay! The world needs more guys name ‘Robin’!
-robin
Congratulations!
*thumb pointing upward*
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Awesome! congratulations and best wishes to you all
Congrats 🙂
Two things: 1) Look out the Period of PURPLE Crying.
2) NEVER let CPS inside your house unless they have a warrant.
A.G.
… You could have left some sort of warning.
Heck, I’m normally strongly against the whole “trigger warning” phenomenon… but if someone is about to spring photos of newly spawned humans out of nowhere, I’d generally appreciate some form of advance warning so I can avoid being subjected to it.
I’m really going to have to start making a list of webcomics with random baby photos sans warning… so I can avoid them in future. Either that or the next time I attempt a webcomic, I just post Goatse or suchlike at random intervals.
Yeah, this is not exactly a cool thing to say. It’d be great if you could demonstrate some respect for the co-creator and her family. Please?
Soooo cute!!!!
Bit late to the party, but congrats on (wow) now over one year with your larval apeling. I hope they, and you, are flourishing.
Spoiler: Robin is now well on his way to world domination 😉
Little bit late but, heck, congratulations on a beautiful baby!
Close to ten years late here, but since I’m rereading the archives – congrats!