For my 300th comic, I figured the best way to celebrate would be to create a tribute to the professionals who inspired me to draw cartoons as a child, and help me improve as an adult cartoonist. Most of these were the characters I copied and “borrowed from” as I ironed out my own style. And these are only the cream of the crop, there were so many more I had to leave out, unfortunately. I owe a ton to these amazing artists and writers.
From left to right:
Jason Fox of Fox Trot
Huey ofย The Boondocks
Jeremy ofย Zits
Elly of For Better or For Worse
Bucky of Get Fuzzy
Hobbes of Calvin & Hobbes
Snoopy of Peanuts
Rat and a “Croc” of Pearls Before Swine
Harvey Pekar of American Splendor (who I know is a little out of placeย with all the comic strip characters, but I had to include this guy. He’s from Cleveland, after all.)
Coming Soon:
Swing back here on Halloween to catch a Special Update! It’s gonna be waaaay worth it, folks.
Coming Even Sooner:
Later this week I unveil another surprise (I am full of ’em lately) just for you lovely readers. Polish up those thinking caps, and get your imagination in full gear! We’re gonna have some fun ;0)
Absolutely brilliant stuff, Dawn! Congrats on #300!!
congrats on #300
Congrats, Dawn! Great strip…I love it when people give respect to their influences and give us a little insight into their process. Here’s the next 300!
Congrats on 300 Dawn! Nice comic–I especially enjoy it when I get to see your great use of color.
By the way, I’m right behind you… ๐
Awesome, Dawn! 300 is quite the milestone! And my vote is for more color. This comic looks great!
300..and here the strip doesn’t look a day older than 200.
congrates!!!
Awesome job. Congrats on the milestone. I never did get that Get Fuzzy humor.
300 – this is madness! Madness?! This…is… brilliant. And yes, awesome use of all those characters (Huey from The Boondocks jumped out at me first) as well as Harvey Pekar…
Congrats! Great job on #300.
Congratulations on 300 !
300 of the most clever, innovative and interesting strips on the net =)
This is awesome. Love all the characters in the last panel, most all are my favorites. It’s amazing there’s still room for everyone else with Jeremy’s feet. ๐ Congrats on #300, you do a wonderful job and I’m looking forward to where the next 300 will take our duo, or shall I say trio with Nettika getting more time in the panels. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations! 300 is a huge accomplishment.
Nice use of the characters, btw. Fun to see Harvey in there with the others ๐
Dawn, congratulations on 300! WoohoO!
Thanks everyone! It’s wonderful to hear from all of you, I’m glad you’re enjoying the extra effort I put into the COLOR update! And one of my little secrets is that after the unemployment storyline (continuing next week), I am planning to go back to FULL COLOR for every update again! How about those apples?
Oh, Dawn! I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! The strip is so awesome and a wonderful tribute. HAPPY 300TH STRIP!!! (and YAY for full color returning! It adds to the charm of ZF!)
300! WOOHOO!!! Congrats!! Keep on truckin’, man…
Color updates! YES!! Love this one, man! Great nod to all those comics… you nailed them all (love Snoopy!!).
Don’t know the guy, but I’m not from Cleveland either… ๐
Congrats!!! 300!! Woohoooo!
WOW!!! This is awesome! Brilliant! Looks like they’re gonna need a bigger dog house.
Grats Dawn! What a wonderful tribute to the comics that inspired you and on your 300th comic no less ๐ Keep up the amazing work.
Awesome job Dawn. Great color work too!! Congrats!!
Wow, Dawn! That is so freakin’ awesome! You outdid yourself with your 300th. It’s just so beautiful to read and you captured everyone wonderfully. I wish you much success and congratulations on this milestone. Let’s see 300+ more! ๐
Congrats Dawn! This is a great achievment!
Awesome job, Dawn! Btw, Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, Pearls Before Swine are my all-time favorite strips as well (along with The Far Side). Coolness.
Watching the Phillies win the NL, then hitting #300? Man, somebody’s on a roll!
Sweet!
Happy Birthday to Zorphbert and Fred!
Well done, Dawn!
Can’t wait to see the next 300 strips!
Heroic regards from Germany!
Way to go!!
wow, I am overwhelmed with the amount of comments! Thanks so much everyone! It’s hard to imagine Z&F hitting #600, but I hope to get there!
Congrats on the 300th comic
CyberDog
you have guts, i’m absolutely terrified of listing my inspirations. of course restraining orders not withstanding…
Congratulations on 300 comics, Dawn! A big accomplishment.
What? No Family Circus?!!!
-C.