So true....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTh1mpmYsE0

Gracious!

My word!

Good gravy !!!!

And that's why they call it 'The New Boob Tube'...

But, how do you know that her's are new?

Okay. XD You win with that one. So many innuendos!

^.^

for the bride cake, based on her fur color I'm going to say creamy vanilla with a little chocolate sprinkles along the outside edge and a nice maraschino cherry on top with a little bit of the syrup drizzled around it...

but I'm just guessing, I'm a cook not a baker

I got the idea for this from a travelogue where the chirpy host goes to Italy and is a little surprised to encounter "St. Agatha's Breasts" cakes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassa.....i_sant%27Agata

And while I was researching those, I discovered that there's a town in Portugal that makes...well...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articl.....ortuguese-town

In the original version of the script, the bride cakes were also going to have doll-baby figures baked into them, and whoever found one was supposed to have good luck for the following year, like the Mardi Gras King Cakes. But I ran out of room for the text, and anyway, mixing breast and womb imagery might have been a little too much.

" . . . mixing breast and womb imagery might have been a little too much."

This is FurAffinity.

(evil giggles)

That's for true. I've seen a helluva lot worse than that.

I keep wanting to say, "You know that's physically impossible..." but my head hurts too much to bother.

assuming this cake DOES get into the comic visually, would that be the first sorta nude we'd get? weird to think the closest we got is maybe a butt shot or side boob, it's been fairly tame and PG-13 at worst

Well, that's intentional, on my part. I think implied nudity is more interesting than actual nudity. It also gets me past any censors. I'm not looking to acquire an "N" or "X" rating from The Belfry!

It has been suggested that I could post nudes on my higher-tier Patreon page. I feel that there are so many artists who draw nudes better than I do out there, that mine would look like stick figures in comparison (I'm looking at you, Zummeng!) It might bring in some more patrons, but...do I really want to go there? I've got young nieces and nephews I have to think about. I had done a drawing of a nude Madam Jade for the story "The Madam Jade Trophy Game," and even though it was just a tiny thumbnail on my desktop, my five-year-old niece saw it and asked in an uncomfortably loud voice "Why did you draw boobies on that wolf?" Their parents--born-again Christians--were in the next room, and I cringed to think they'd heard that. They already think I'm a weirdo for drawing a furry cartoon. I'm not in a hurry to add nudity and prove them right! ("Mo-o-om! Dad's looking at naked foxes again--!")

I'm a bit of a vanilla whitebread square prude with a side order of coward. While I think about how the mechanics of hyena sex works, ( heavy breathing heavy breathing heavy breathing) I'm probably never going to actually show it in the comic strip. I'm also reluctant to accept commissions of that nature. I feel it would be a betrayal of my characters' trust. Add enough zeroes, however...(said the hypocrite.)

I had it in mind to do a short graphic novella about Madam Jade's biography. I wrote out the text. Then I balked at drawing it, because I just couldn't overcome my discomfort about drawing nudes having sex. Again, Zummeng does it brilliantly, and makes it funny. Anything I could do would pale in comparison.

So I'm instead going to hint, suggest, and fandance my way around it. As Star Trek costume designer Bill Theiss once said, "the dress is sexier if it looks like it might fall off..."

oof, hiding the stash and adult stuff is always "fun". doubly so if you got tykes around at all. personally i double tuck away anything like that and make sure it's not even close to hinted at where it is (and i live with just my wife with no need for as much cover and still do so).

Now, Kathy, you wouldn't be a hypocrite; you'd be a capitalist. Of course, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

So you're prudish and uncomfortable with drawing even the most basic of uncensored nudity unless it's some rare exception, yet will constantly throw in sex jokes on a regular basis? I'm not surprised nor personally disappointed, but with all the innuendos, double entendres, characters being generally lustful/horny almost all the time, literal sex workers and male prostitutes, the sometimes juvenile behavior when referencing or talking about sex, and now mention of an erotic cake I'm not surprised some readers are expecting some visual payoff to it all. Too bad for them it's just the only reason this webcomic has a PG-13 rating.

I'm sorry it disappoints you. But I'm not going to draw nudity, other than the implied nudity I've been using for years.

I thought I just said I wasn't disappointed.

Oh, I misinterpreted your comment. I read it wrong. My apologies.

There's also a funny story about a newspaper editor who disapproved of Mort Walker drawing a navel on Miss Buxley. This gent would carefully excise every navel with a razor knife before running the comic strip in his paper. He kept them in a container on his desk, however, called the "Beetle Bailey Belly-Button Box."

When Mort Walker heard about this, he thought, "Challenge accepted!"--and drew a large crate of navel oranges arriving at Camp Swampy.

From thenceforth, Miss Buxley kept her belly button.

And another funny anecdote--if you carefully watch the backgrounds of older Looney Tunes cartoons, you will often find naked women--in paintings or calendars hanging on the walls.

Those guys at Termite Terrace knew how to slide 'em by the censors...

My fave along those lines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPUsQc-OEI

This was MEANT to be cut; inexplicably, the censors left it in...

Third strip: I got cable because the reception out here was so bad.

Oooh, erotic cakes. -Homer Simpson

*whispers to the bride & groom... ELOPE!!!!! Surely there is a an Elvis Yeen somewhere to do the ceremony????

Vix

Have they never heard of mastos cups?