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Besides drawing anthropomorphic gags, I like going to weekly meetings of Scrabble Club 276 in Lauderhill, Florida. Every Wednesday, the congregating members play three rounds of the popular board game - mainly for fun, but also for weekly prizes!
One of the things I like to do is collect comic strips with references to Scrabble, and attach them to the club's bulletin board (for everyone else to see). Among my favorite gags are one with 'funny animals' - such as the deer playing Scrabble with a rabbit ("Z-O-O... twelve points... and it's on a Triple Word Score space!") and a nearby hunter who comments on the play ("Wow! A 36-point buck!")...
Inspired by said strips, I'd decided to draw one of my own - this time with a pair of married beavers, engaged in a round of Scrabble in their den (pun intended)... only to have it come to an abrupt halt, when the husband ate all of the wooden tiles (and half of his rack, too)!
"Scrabble"®Selchow & Righter Co.
One of the things I like to do is collect comic strips with references to Scrabble, and attach them to the club's bulletin board (for everyone else to see). Among my favorite gags are one with 'funny animals' - such as the deer playing Scrabble with a rabbit ("Z-O-O... twelve points... and it's on a Triple Word Score space!") and a nearby hunter who comments on the play ("Wow! A 36-point buck!")...
Inspired by said strips, I'd decided to draw one of my own - this time with a pair of married beavers, engaged in a round of Scrabble in their den (pun intended)... only to have it come to an abrupt halt, when the husband ate all of the wooden tiles (and half of his rack, too)!
"Scrabble"®Selchow & Righter Co.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fat Furs
Species Beaver
Size 1000 x 307px
File Size 127.1 kB
Yeah, it was just coincidental that I'd rendered this 'beaver gag' a few days after professional cartoonist Mark Parisi drew a similar 'beaver gag' for his comic strip "off the mark". (In his gag, a family of beavers are eating around the dinner table - made of wood - when the father went past the plates and on to the table itself! His excuse: "Sorry! I just don't know when to stop!")
I was planning on doing a similar gag about "playing with your food", by coming up with 'Sudoku Soup' - a broth with numerical noodles, which the consumer would have to organize in square bowls with 81 chambers (one for each digit). Of course, by the time the grid is filled correctly, the soup would be too cold to eat! "Caveat emptor!" It's still a WIP...
I could imagine how many points he would've got (and how much bigger his belly would've expanded) if he'd consumed the 200 wooden lettered tiles in a boxed set of "Super Scrabble"! Between the slapping of his flat tail, the rattling in his belly, and the unexpected belches, this fat beaver could turn into a walking one-man... er, one-mammal band!
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