I just did a post with some of my all time favs on Buzzfeed. If you could help out with some upvotes that would be awesome!! (Yellow buttons at the bottom.)
I think the deal with Buzzfeed is if we can generate enough buzz it might get featured. 🐝🐝🐝 🤞
2021-09-23 14:31:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The number of times I've sent our eldest to his room and wished it could be me heading up there! The initial script for this one was:
F: Go to your room! NOW!
V: NO! You go to your room!!
F in bedroom, chilling: Why did I not think of this sooner?!
It was OK, but a little obvious. Then I thought she could be in there, texting Joel saying "Maybe he...
2021-09-16 17:11:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Kicking off Comictober 2021 with Day 1: Shadow!
(Yes, it's a direct quote)
2021-09-16 15:32:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Actual thing that happened. Our kid is weird.
Probably not going to do a bonus panel to this one because I need to push onwards into the October comics. Things about to get spooOOOooky! 👻
2021-09-14 18:24:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This one pretty much went exactly like comic above -except J lowered 6yo to the ground in disgust, rather than yeeting him. We figured having him chuck him would make it pretty funny, but I worried people might take it all too seriously. The key was making the 3rd panel as silly as possible and realizing that if people DID get offended, I could assure them that he'd land on his feet. 😁
I messed with the words quite a bit. The 1st version above is truest to what was ...
2021-09-13 19:00:56 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a remake of one of my oldest comics and one that's very close to my heart. Those first few months of becoming a mom were some of the worst of my life. My firstborn would cry almost constantly. The sleep deprivation, social isolation and constant feeling of failure drove me the brink.
One of the few things that kept me sane was carefully planning photoshoots. I'd get the staging area ready to go, make sure he had the right outfit on (not too early t...
2021-09-11 16:46:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Sneak peek at Fran's (and my!) Halloween costume! Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil. This will be my October avatar and on the Comictober prompt list we're currently putting together.
2021-09-09 20:24:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This happens to me ALL THE TIME. I yearn for freetime and then I waste it all trying to figure out what to do. J will often come home to find me MORE stressed than when he left, because I've driven myself mad looking for the "perfect" thing to do. (Spoiler alert: there isn't one.)
I prefer to squeeze a comic into 2 rows, but it wasn't adequately showing the passage of time here, so I broke panel 3 into 3.
I used this picture as pose reference for panel 1:
2021-09-08 19:13:51 +0000 UTC
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4yo was watching some dumb YouTube surprise egg video and was FURIOUS when the man dared to open the blue egg against his wishes.
Dora the Explorer is the classic example of these types of videos and I knew people would get a kick out of a Litterverse Dora. I wasn't exactly sure what animal she should be though, so I took to Twitter to find out! I had a bunch of...
2021-09-02 13:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I realized I hadn't done an animaly comic in a while so I reviewed my ideas list and "gecko kid always loosing tail" caught my eye.
The story of this one was easy enough, but I needed to make it 100% clear that they were all looking at his (lack of!) tail. This involved quite a bit of rearranging to get it juuuust right.
Once I started neatening things up, I had a hard time putting Jeffery in the initial pose I'd drawn. The proportions in my roughs are often so off, th...
2021-08-25 17:06:12 +0000 UTC View Post
(Reposting this because the GIF shows up better than the video here)
Which toy would you go after? 😊
BONUS Panel!
Been looking forward to remastering this one, but not so much dealing with the animation! Oh my word, it's always such a pain!! Not the animation itself, but getting it to display properly on the various sites.
Before (2019) and after:
2021-08-19 16:34:58 +0000 UTC
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I'm absolutely mortified to discover that ink has been rubbing off some of my signed prints!
If this has happened to one that you've bought, please send a photo and order number to contact@litterboxcomics.com and I will send you a replacement. Really sorry guys! What a mess.
2021-08-18 14:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I honestly don't know why I found the notion of kids calling makeup and hats "filters" so funny. I ran the idea by J first and then Daneman on the podcast and neither of them really got it. I was going to drop the whole idea altogether, but then @sveninframes messaged me and said he'd heard it on the podcast and I sho...
2021-08-09 16:38:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Do other people do this? I can't tell if we're just weird. 😅
Edit: BONUS Panel!
@WhatsUpBeanie has her first book out AND she did a comic a couple of days ago where she turned into a dog. How could I NOT draw Pupper-Beanie?! I'm going to surprise her with it tomorrow, so shussssh for now! 😁
2021-08-04 18:19:46 +0000 UTC View PostStressing myself out trying to get the buffer back up. I hate being in a situation where I'm completing a comic the day before I post it -always feels like I'm running out of time!
Rather than posting the new comic I have, I'm going to repost some classics today and give myself some breathing room to get a few more under my belt for next week.
2021-08-04 14:46:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The Pet Foolery crossover comic wiped me out and then I had another (hopefully very exciting!) thing to take care of, so I'm playing catch up a little! Gotta get that buffer back up!
2021-08-03 20:30:28 +0000 UTC View Post
6yo "It's lucky for skeletons with their ribs, because if they eat something, it will just fall out of their ribs and then they can just eat it again. Like imagine the yummiest thing in the world!"
2021-08-03 16:09:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Get comfortable, because this is a long one!
Pet_Foolery has done collabs with Stuffed and Vixiearts before, where they took turns doing panels. I really wanted to make this part of the joke; like our 2 comics are...
2021-07-30 20:02:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Pixie and Brutus crossover comic!!!
BONUS Panel:
The color changing bath tablets are basically the only way my children smell remotely OK.
Me "Time for a bath!"
Kids "NO!"
Me "What color are you going to pick?"
*kids come running*
They delight in grossing me out, which includes picking yellow and drinking the bathwater. I try not to think about it too much. The more revulsion you show, the more they'll do it and if I drained the tub and started over every time they peed, we'd never l...
2021-07-30 14:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The full comic should be going out tomorrow, but I wanted to give you guys an early look at a panel! @Pet_Foolery and I went back and forth on the script and then took turns drawing panels. It's turned out pretty great! I can't wait to show you! I'll be posting a bunch of behind the scenes stuff too. This has been quite the adventure!
2021-07-30 04:42:41 +0000 UTC View Post
OK, so just between you and me, I'm trying to work out a crossover comic with @Pet_Foolery. Here are Pixie & Brutus as they'd appear in the Litterverse, but blending the 2 narrative styles is proving DIFFICULT!! The silver lining is once we DO figure it out, I'll have a bunch of outtakes to show you here. I'm on attempt number 4 now.
The tricky thing is doing justice to all the character...
2021-07-26 16:54:59 +0000 UTC View Post
