Recently, I had mentioned owning three sketch books - two of them containing 'fat furry' art, and the third one containing basis 'funny animal' images. It was the latter book in which I had collected the most artwork...

Since 1991, this third sketch book (which, in a previous life, was used as a ledger) possesses the most unique diversity of anthropomorphic imagery imaginable, including drawings from some of the following "FA" residents:




Not to mention the talents of webcomic artists, such as Scotty ("Commander Kitty") Arsenault and Thomas K. ("Newshounds") Dye, professional comic book artists like Kevin ("TMNT") Eastman and Stan ("Usagi Yojimbo") Sakai, and professional comic strip artists such as Jim ("Garfield") Davis, Patrick ("Mutts") McDonnell, and (the late) Jeff ("Shoe"/"Pluggers") MacNelly.

And in the nearly twenty years since I'd began this collection, said sketch book is barely one-third full! (It's a really BIG book!)

Back in March, 2003, when I'd ventured to Orlando for "Pawpet Megaplex" (as it was called then, before dropping 'Pawpet' in its title), I got to meet Tzologeist for the very first time, and I was thoroughly impressed by her own talents for drawing a menagerie of 'funny animals'. I had brought along the big black sketch book, as well as one of my 'fat furry' sketch books (the one with its own black cover), and I'd wanted her to contribute something to the latter book. However, at the time, I'd lent out the 'fat furry' sketch book to another artist; so, instead, Tzologeist rendered the following illo to the big black sketch book (with a very special "thank you" at the bottom)...

If "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", I would probably rather hang out with this fat furry fem ferret, than her oil-painted counterpart (applied onto canvas by this otter artist).

Characters and image © Tzologeist
Touch-ups and editing © Rob Cat