Playin' Possum

He's not playing, he's totally dead.  

Zombies!

In other news, a friend challenged me to draw some cartoons about zombies, which aren't really known for being comedy gold mines.  But what the hell, I like a good challenge... unless it's too hard, then I consider it a stupid challenge.  I'll take a shot at this one though.  Here's some sketches.

 Ok... This was the first one, and I think I found a
happy medium between grotesque and funny ha ha.

Next came this happy fella, he's kinda a summer zombie
as you can tell by his sandals and breezy short shorts.

I'm all for equal opportunity, so I had to inculde a woman  zombie.
I like to think that before her "accident" she once told someone that
she wouldn't be caught dead without her purse and pearls.

Then there's this little guy... Ah, where to begin.  I wanted to
do a zombie dog.  But I couldn't seem to nail the vapid zombie expression
of the others.  To me he just kept looking sad... probably misses the lower half
of his torso.

I'm assuming they can't read, not English anyway.  I usually try and write something about the inspiration for the cartoon... But I just don't remember with this one... I think I might have been watching animal planet at the time.

For those who don't know, this is a pretty accurate representation of what an Aardvark actually looks like.  It's as though an Ant Eater and a pig had a drunken one night stand.  The pig was looking for something long term but Ant Eaters are known for fearing commitment.  Then three months, three weeks and three days later.  BAM.  Aardvark.