Sunday Funnies from Moose Kid and Friends

August 9, 2015 2:00 AM

"Moose Kid Comics is a glorious 36-page, free to read, digital children’s comic. It features over 40 of the best comic artists working today. No-one involved makes any profit, all artists have given their time for free.
We created Moose Kids Comics for three main reasons: 1. To entertain comic readers and win new audiences. 2. To show how fantastic a children’s comic can be when artists create it themselves. 3. To open up the discussion about how we can make children’s comics great again."
[for children of all ages... if you enjoy the 'non-children's' comics of any of these artists, you'll likely enjoy these]

(in order of appearance) Issue #2:
Moose Kid by Jamie Smart (previously here)
The Storymaker by Emily Kimbell and Jamie Smart
Cecil P. Wombat by Jess Bradley
Gurber by Tom Plant
Gimbal And Chug by Alan Ryan
Baked Alaska by Steve Tillotson
Doctor Weirdbeard, Monster Medic by Aaron Blecha
Gary The Goblin by Rianne Rowlands
La Mariposa by James Lawrence
The Anomalies by James Downing
Moss The Goth Panda by Aisyah Stevens
Pet Crusaders by Gary Northfield
Tippy! by Feltmistress & Jonathan Edwards
Beasticles by Viviane Schwarz
Flora And Fauna by Laura Howell
Fist Bump by Craig Knowles
Nantastic by Matt Baxter
Sir Loynstake by Rick Eades
Young Tank Girl (yes, THAT Tank Girl) by Alan C. Martin & Warwick Johnson-Cadwell
Crunchwood by Dan Gaynor
Sunny Von Monster by Aaron Alexovich
Hocus Baloney by Mark Stafford
Sir Baby by Rikke Asbjorn
Big Things Hiding Behind Small Things by Andrew Waugh
Crombie the Zombie by Tom Paterson
Lonely Jonesy by Alexander Matthews
Food Fighters by Stephen Waller
Tiger Patrol by Lindsey Lea
The Amazing Seymore by Rachael Smith (previously here)
Porc by Andreas Schuster
Trash Planet by Hamish Steele
Andy Of The Ants by Wilbur Dawbarn
Primrose The Apothecat by Samantha Davies
Doug Slugman P.I. by Joe List
The Li’l Dead Guys by Roger Langridge
Meatskull by Chris Garbutt
Kit & Marlowe by Vincent Woodcock
Last One Out by Will Kirkby
Nicholas the Ridiculous by Chris Garbutt
Mister Plops by Tom Plant and Jamie Smart

Issue #1:
The Amazing Tale of the Moose Kid by Neill Cameron (previously here) & Abby Ryder
Gurber
Porc
Cecil P. Wombat
Marvin Stinkypants by Sarah McIntyre
Hocus Baloney
Pet Crusaders
Doctor Weirdbeard, Monster Medic
Crypto-pocalypse! by William Tallman
The Anomalies
True Story by Aaron Alexovich
Baked Alaska
Trash Planet
Meatskull
Crunchwood
Sir Loynstake
Rosie And Rufus by Mike Pearse
Beasticles
Flora & Fauna
Young Tank Girl
Tiger Patrol
Food Fighters
Scrambles by Chris Garbutt
Primrose The Apothecat
Gimbal & Chug
100 Demons by Afonso Ferreira
The Amazing Seymore
Airlock Homeboy And Doctor Whatsup by Nigel Auchterlounie (previously here)
Big Things Hiding Behind Small Things
Doug Slugman P.I.
Beelzababy by Tom Paterson
Ratters The Cat by Rikke Asbjorn
Nantastic
The Li’l Dead Guys
Badgers Of Fury by Vincent Woodcock
Andy of the Ants
Gordon-zilla by David Leach
Last One Out

BONUS 4 page comic of The Amazing Seymour!

posted by oneswellfoop (16 comments total)

Lots to enjoy here, but for comics aimed at children, could we at least edit out it's/its errors?
posted by oheso at 2:53 AM on August 9, 2015

maybe have some cartoons about prepositions, too?
posted by thelonius at 2:56 AM on August 9, 2015 [3 favorites]

well, we are looking at a British-based project here, and I've heard a story that the original script for this had "Its" without the apostrophe...
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:28 AM on August 9, 2015

I've heard a story that the original script for this had "Its" without the apostrophe...

Preposerous!
posted by oheso at 4:32 AM on August 9, 2015

Awesome!
posted by signal at 4:33 AM on August 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

And for the record, I firmly believe that promoting children's literacy and love of comics is more important than strict apostrophe discipline.
posted by signal at 4:34 AM on August 9, 2015

And for the record, I firmly believe that promoting children's literacy and love of comics is more important than strict apostrophe discipline.

And I believe they are not mutually exclusive propositions (or prepositions)!
posted by oheso at 4:50 AM on August 9, 2015 [3 favorites]

I love these so much, I love that they take kids seriously, and don't talk down to them, and make great work about it.
posted by PinkMoose at 4:55 AM on August 9, 2015 [2 favorites]

WORLD: "Here is a lovingly illustrated work of art for your children, created by over 50 people, which you can read or give to them for free!"

METAFILTER: "Yes, but it has a couple typos, so,"
posted by jeffehobbs at 6:58 AM on August 9, 2015 [10 favorites]

… and it's like I'm seven again, settling down with Krazy Comic and a pack of Wrigley's PK. Yeah, that was 10p well spent.

There's clearly a lot of DCT/Fleetway/Baxendale/Viz/Deadline DNA in here. It's glorious, messy fun.

(but I did spend some of the time making Sam-the-Eagle lèse-majesté noises at the delivery format: a zip file full of JPEGs … ugh. I spent a good while in the late 90s doing R&D on online comic delivery formats for a friend's [ultimately failed] online comic. This was still the era of dialup billed by the minute in the UK [you stateside wankers have no idea of your privilege, srsly] so files had to be tiny. All those wasted hours working on proprietary formats with shaky plugins and horrible expensive development licences, when now DSL in a couple of seconds gives you a bloody zip file full of JPEGs … gaahh!)
posted by scruss at 7:37 AM on August 9, 2015

These are great fun, thanks!
posted by childofTethys at 7:53 AM on August 9, 2015

MetaFilter: Making Sam-the-Eagle lèse-majesté noises at the delivery.

This looks like great fun; thanks, 'foop!
posted by MonkeyToes at 8:40 AM on August 9, 2015 [4 favorites]

Of course the first thing that popped into my head was Space Moose.
posted by lagomorphius at 9:59 AM on August 9, 2015

MetaFilter: Making Sam-the-Eagle lèse-majesté noises at the delivery.

Not surprising, given that Sam the Eagle looks exactly like Greg Nog.
posted by grobstein at 12:33 PM on August 9, 2015

Oops I doxxed Greg Nog sorry
posted by grobstein at 12:35 PM on August 9, 2015

the first thing that popped into my head was Space Moose.
My childhood cartoon moose was totally Bullwinkle and I was always frustrated at how the Official Gold Key Comic could never get Bullwinkle's snoot right (but Gold Key did a lot of characters that didn't look right - you hear me, Evanier?). And, frankly, the original show didn't get his snoot right until the 2nd season (but they we literally training animators in a brand new studio). But then, almost nobody gets it right - I know all my childhood drawings failed miserably (and were a major reason I never pursued cartooning professionally). The one thing that kept the 2000 Rocky & Bullwinkle movie (the one with Jason Alexander as Boris) from being TOO awful was a halfway-decent 3D Bullwinkle (as opposed to the short that accompanied the Mr. Peabody movie... argh.). Whoever did Bullwinkle's original design had to be the most sadistic artist in the history of animation. But I digress...
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:16 PM on August 9, 2015