Gerbil Baby
Shaenon: Today’s the last day of the Skin Horse 5 Kickstarter drive, so back now or forever hold your peace. We’ve raised enough to publish not only Volume 5 but a reprint of the currently-unavailable Volume 1, so soon the world will be flooded with wonderful wonderful comics. Thank you so much to everyone!
Meanwhile, this isn’t strictly Skin Horse related, but please enjoy Robin dressed as a gerbil from my previous strip, Narbonic, for Halloween. Thank you so much to the amazing Valerie for making the gerbil suit. I mean, wow.
Channing: Val has been wowing me with her exquisite gerbil crafts for ages, ever since she made little beadwork gerbils for attendees of the second Narbonicon, but this may be the culmination of gerbil-related art. Can she top this? I do not know if it is possible to do such a thing. Thank you, Val!
It wouldn’t be impossible to introduce a gerbil into Skin Horse … someone just has to give Artie the hiccups.
1. Awwwwww. The amazing Valerie strikes again—assuming this is Valerie Kaplan who did the wonderful colored paper dolls for Narbonic.
2. Every picture of Robin I see, I’m struck by how much he looks like Andrew. Is that what Andrew’s baby pictures look like? (Well, okay, not the gerbil suit, but how rad would that be?)
I second that Awwwwww.
That was me, yes! Thank you!
*changes display name accordingly but sees it does not change her already-posted comment* Oh well.
Let me know if you ever make a digital 3D gerbil so I can print out a few hundred.
Robin looks much happier in his Hallowe’en costume than some babies I’ve seen.
I wonder if you might sometime or other do a collection of the various autobiographical strips you’ve done, such as the recent “Ultimate Baby Fighting Championships” strip, the pregnancy announcement strip, the one about meeting They Might Be Giants, the courtship and marriage proposal strips… Either a backup feature in a Skin Horse book, or a separate booklet like “Perils of the Lady Gamer” would be welcome.
(TUNE: “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”, Randy Brooks)
[CHORUS:]
Robin’s being dressed up like a gerbil!
Cosplay from the old Narbonic strip!
Gotta say, his cuteness is incurable!
His parents know, he makes the readers flip!
See him used for advertising,
For his Mom’s Kickstarter drive!
And it’s really not surprising
That they’ve fully funded Skin Horse Volume Five!
Now he’s smiling for the camera,
With a twinkle in his eye …
And his cuteness overwhelms us!
We throw money at his folks, and don’t know why!
[repeat CHORUS]
Aw…
Life would be so much more relaxing in general if Cosplay and such were mainstream enough that people regularly wore it to work and as part of their daily life.
There was a job-hunt commercial a few years back w/ all the commuters dressed as their dream job.
I can tell you it’d encourage me to finish my chain mail shirt I started well over a decade ago. I even have 20 pounds of web-purchased rings still in the basement waiting to be assembled….. (easier than rolling and cutting my own – which is how my chain coif was made).
Yaaaay! I am glad he evidently finds it comfortable! Obviously he’s still swimming in the thing, but since it’s fleece, I made it with winter in mind, so that’s good.
I started plotting this ever since I learned Shaenon was pregnant. I’m very pleased with the results. You can’t see the tail here… ooh, you know what I could make? Belt-loop gerbil tails! (Though with the tuft, they do look more like lion tails to the uninitiated. Perhaps paired with ear headbands… they’d need support wires…)
That grin makes me smile back even though it’s a picture.
Aaand, just like that, the Volume 5 pledge drive is over! Thanks to all of you for your overwhelming and humbling response to this comic. Y’all rock.
Yep, Awww! And fleece? No wonder he’s comfy!
That costume is indeed spectacular, Valerie. Beautifully done! You are basically my new hero.
But when Jeff asked, “Can she top this?”, I immediately thought, “I bet she could!” And then I started thinking of some possible ways–you know, in case Valerie doesn’t already have enough on her plate:
— A gerbil Halloween costume for older, ambulatory children
— A retro-style gerbil Halloween costume–you know, the kind that consists of a mask and a plastic tunic with a picture of the thing you’re supposed to be dressed as
— An adult-sized gerbil Halloween costume
— An adult-sized “sexy gerbil” Halloween costume (if only because it seems to be a rule that any Halloween costume has to come in a “sexy” version)
— A costume for the gerbil!Artie character at the NarbonicLand theme park (they’d have to hire a human actor to play the human!Artie character, though)
— Gerbil-ears hats for park patrons
— A gerbil costume for the mascot at U. of Shaenon (Go, Fightin’ ‘Speriments!)
— And, of course, more costumes like this one, for other fans with adorable infants
… Anyone have other ideas to add?
I refuse, on principle, to so much as ponder the design of a sexy gerbil costume.
Good choice
Fair enough. I can’t say I’m a fan of the trend myself, but it seems to be a rule, which was really the only reason I mentioned it.
But I notice you didn’t say “no” to any of the others….
I’m not saying “yes” to any of the others either, but they are not a matter of principle. 😉
I would love to see Unity in a “Fighting Experiments” tee shirt. Any artist types willing to give it a try?
Soooo cuuuute!!!!
Ohmygodlookattheprecioussnoogieoogumz!
All three of mine wore the same gorilla suit for their first winters. Warm. And funny!
Nyaaa? >O.O_-^<
(Belated congratulations from Darkstarr and myself to Shaenon and Andrew on the little tyke. Hope he grows up to be nothing at all like either of us!)