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November 27, 2006
Peek-a-Choo, I See You
Wow. Well. Um. That's...interesting. And a little earlier than expected.
Last we heard from former frequent Shrubville visitor and Stantis insider Charles Brubaker, Stan The Man would be taking December 11-16 off to recover from rotator cuff surgery; filling in would be a "liberal cartoonist." But it seems he's starting his recovery early.
Once I was able to decipher the URL in the margins of today's strip, I went to a website called deviantART. I still don't know what it is, but I found this:
"All righty folks! For people who like seeing my stuff outside dA, here's a little news for you. Scott Stantis, artist of Prickly City, had surgery on his shoulder, and is taking time to recover. So he asked me to fill in for him for a week.
That's right! Starting November 27th for six whole days, the newspaper will have my Prickly City comic running in it. Go check it out, yo!
If you don't get Prickly City in your newspaper, you can still see the comic at ucomics.com starting on the 27th. Yay me!"
Well, Ms. Shira-Chan, if you're listening, which I suspect Scott Stantis told you not to do, let me say: You drew the best Prickly City ever. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not being snide. This is sincere. I think this will be a great week. In fact, I'm going to write Universal Press Syndicate and ask that the change be made permanent. I would like nothing more than Winslow and Carmen to turn into cute manga characters who go off and fight with Pokemon and Dragonballz and Transformers and Speed Racers and, um, you know, He-Men and shit. Watch out for that manga-hole, Winslow! Duck, here comes Pikachu! Fire the Dragonballz now! What a delight the strip would turn into.
Three Cheers for Shira-chan! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!
PS: If you're wondering how/why Stantis chose this young woman to fill-in for him...from the artist herself: "[Stantis] lives near me. I dated his son for a while without even knowing it! :) We're really close and I have dinner with his family all the time."
Comments
Just to let you know Shira Chan was involved with "Prickly City" before.
Anyone remember that Sunday strip where Carman and Winslow was fighting ala "Dragon Ball"? Well, she penciled that strip.
Posted by: cb at November 27, 2006 07:47 AM
Oh, and since we're talking about deviantArt, I might as well plug mine (And coincidentally, I have MY own rendering of Carman and Winslow in the gallery)
cbrubaker.deviantart.com
Posted by: cb at November 27, 2006 07:51 AM
As per CB, here's the first Shira-Chan Prickly City.
Posted by: CJo at November 27, 2006 08:26 AM
So does this mean I should go back and edit my original post to say it looked like it was drawn by a 13 year old girl instead of a boy? Her drawing has improved greatly since then, though.
http://www.shrubville.com/archives/2005/11/shojo_wienie.htm
Posted by: The Furnace at November 27, 2006 09:23 AM
