Animal Alphabet archives

And that’s all, folks. This whole Animal Alphabet thing has been a blast to do. When I started doing it after the cartoonist Ben Towle came up with the idea on Twitter and called for others to join in I didn’t really think I was going to do every letter. I figured I would only [...]

The penultimate Animal Alphabet entry. Tweet

A Xenopus is an aquatic, egg-shaped frog with slick, mucous-like skin in case you wanted to know. More X animals will be posted here on Monday. There really aren’t a whole lot of X animals to choose from. Tweet

Almost to the end. See all the Animal Alphabet entries to date here: http://animalalphabet.tumblr.com/ Tweet

We’re into the ghetto of the alphabet, animal-wise. Not a whole lot of choice for any of the remaining letters except W maybe. We may see a lot of doubling up of animals over on the Animal Alphabet project for the last few letters but you never know what people are going to come up with. [...]

I’ve learned in doing these Animal Alphabet drawings that I’m more comfortable and successful when I don’t try to force a jokey situation on the poor animals. I was doing that with the early entries and some of them were not bad but gradually I began to focus more on just drawing the animal and [...]

I basically had two ways I could have gone with this one and I decided that drawing Peter Brady into one of these Animal Alphabet drawings would just be too weird. Tweet

Only a little late this week. I’m more of a dog person than a cat person so this is the first time I can think of in a long time that I’ve drawn one. These kind of cats are pretty neat though.   Tweet

My latest entry in the Animal Alphabet project. Kind of a straightforward piece because Rhinoceroses are just so upfront with you about everything. Tweet

  Quails are not usually this plump I don’t think. I’m not sure why I decided to make this one such a fatty but it happened. Tweet