Thank you!
Shaenon: I can’t thank everyone enough for keeping Skin Horse going with the guest weeks while I worked on my own side project. But I’ll try. Thanks so much to Mike Lynch, Justin Hall, Brenton “Dazhbug” Loeffelman, Tea Fougner, Elena Diaz, Artaban, and Vincent Kukua. And everyone who contributed Sunday art. And just everyone. Hurrah!
Channing: Lots and lots of thanks, all around. So many thanks. You would not believe how many thanks. Thanks to all of you for keeping up, thanks to all the filkers for all your filking, and thanks to all the artists who kept us going and made it so I didn’t have to draw the darn strip myself for a couple months. If you’d like to check out our daily guest artists’ work elsewhere, please use the handy-dandy compilation list below!
Gorgoth the Dominator: Mike Lynch
The Most Evil Swimsuit in the World: Justin Hall
Hugey P and Daisychain: Brenton Loeffelman
Think Yourself Human: Tea Fougner
Hedgies, Hedgies, Hedgies!: Elena Diaz
Whatever Happened to the Millipedes: Artaban (no online gallery)
Nightmarchers: Vincent Kukua
And thanks also to our additional Sunday folks: EdddddTheMadGenius, Jabberwonky, Windy Wanderings, Michael Jantze and Jenn Manley Lee. I don’t have some of you Sunday folks’s online presences in my notes since some entries were harvested from the phpBB forum, so leave your contact information in the comments if you’d like your links included here!
Thank you all, once again.
Discussion (14) ¬
Do we return to the regular cast now or is there more of this arc with our favorite spinoff characters?
This current storyline continues for one more week with Shaenon art, and then a new storyline begins.
Welcome back, Shaenon!
Yay! More Shaenon art, hopefully involving Unity wrecking stuff… and even more weirdly good things!
My only ongoing question – and my apologies if this has been previously covered in the comments – Has this all been Canon?
I’m assuming yes, unless Shaenon or Jeff say otherwise….
Jeff has still been writing this, and since he’s officialy the writer for this comic, I’d say “yes, it has been canon”
(cue cannon puns)
Puns have been a given. Highest and lowest form of humor at once.
I’ve been hoping its canon for a while – the ‘bonding’ at the end of the Hawaii segment gave me more hope since the ‘flash forward’ in that one arc implied those two get hitched.
ON a related note – I’m astonished how many cultures have the ‘night parade’ or ‘wild hunt’ variants in them. Hawaiian, Japanese, and Celtic. The rest seem to be local variants of those three, with North America and Europe being influenced mostly by the Celtic version.
No storylines in “Grillo Parlante” were run by Shaenon (except the weeks she drew herself, obvs.) So there may be some non-canonical elements and details, since I suppose in the strictest sense of the word we both have to sign off on something to make it “officially” “happen.” I usually like to use the typical expanded-universe caveat, “canon until proven otherwise” in situations like this.
(TUNE: “My Favorite Things”, Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Shaenon, the coolest cartoonist on earth now,
Took some time off ’cause she had to give birth now!
Substitute artists then came in a flock,
These are a group of cartoonists that rock!
Mike Lynch drew Gorgoth, the veg’table ruler!
Then Justin Hall drew a swimsuit, much cooler!
Brenton drew humpbacks, and mice in a flock …
These are a few of the artists that rock!
Then Miss Tea
Showed you’ll be a
Human, if you think!
’Cause being half-human and also half-skunk,
I tell you, it sure … does stink!
Diaz drew hedgies, “How cute!” we all cried out!
Artaban showed how the millipedes died out …
Vincent drew Nightmarchers, spirits who stalk …
These are some more of the artists that rock!
Birth was drainin’
For poor Shaenon …
Friends picked up the slack!
But still, though we like the cartoonists that rock,
We’re glad to have Shae-non back!!
No, thank *you* both, for creating this wacky, wonderful comic that so many of us enjoy, and for providing the opportunity for some of us to contribute towards the world you have both built. It was an honor.
And thanks to the rest of the fans, who were super-duper supportive of us newbies!
*Applause* That is one heck of a thank-you. Stuff like this? This is why you’re awesome
and I would think a baby would be a little more than a side-project
Welcome back, Shaenon! Love your version of Hugey P.
It’s been great seeing everyone’s art styles. 🙂