Housepets is the winner of the 2009 and 2010 Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Comic Strip! Follow the adventures of the pets of Babylon Gardens. You can read it for free online at http://www.housepetscomic.com In case you wanted a dead tree version, here it is! Comes with bonus art as well as a special "abbreviated" cast page. Housepets is suitable for most audiences. Here are some testimonials: "I thought the book was great! Although when I got to the color parts it started tasting funny." --Sasha "Incredibly good, well worth the price, but I managed to read it in only a few seconds. This is the problem with comic books." -- Peanut Butter Sandwich "It includes me, so it can't be ALL bad." --Bino "I don't show up until the next book so I would say, wait for that one." --Keene Milton This book has been approved by the Local Good Ol' Dogs Club, union 442.
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Chiunque ami gli animali desidera di potere parlare con loro, interagire con loro come se fossero umani, anche solo sapere che la loro vita si svolge in autonomia, con i suoi momenti di gioia e di tristezza.
Rick Griffin rende 'reale' tale desiderio, in questo primo libro, il primo anno di avventure degli animali antropomorfi domestici di una comunità suburbana. E attenzione! L'autore, forte di un brillante sense of humor, è sempre capace di sorprendere il lettore con citazioni nascoste di 'pop culture' e di ribaltare i luoghi comuni senza mai autoreferenziarsi!
Un must.
Rick Griffin rende 'reale' tale desiderio, in questo primo libro, il primo anno di avventure degli animali antropomorfi domestici di una comunità suburbana. E attenzione! L'autore, forte di un brillante sense of humor, è sempre capace di sorprendere il lettore con citazioni nascoste di 'pop culture' e di ribaltare i luoghi comuni senza mai autoreferenziarsi!
Un must.
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A left-field surprise!
21 agosto 2012
Di Andrew B.
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I knew nothing of Rick Griffin, or Housepets, or anything relayed to the artist or genre, really. And even today, I still don't know how I was led to it on Amazon. But I was, and it looked funny, so I bought it. I am really, really glad I did.
Griffin manages to do several things that make a strip successful. He keeps each strip fully self-contained, and at the same time keeps the arc of the story going. The characters are instantly endearing, and you very quickly care about them and the world they live in. And that is the delicate balancing act that Griffin achieves; he manages to neatly sidestep the many problems that quickly sink amateur comics. He avoids the "fanboy" approach, where the creator insists on beating the audience over the head with the nuances of their created world; he simply plays the story out, and lets the details emerge in their own time, unforced.
And his art is fun to look at. Right from the get-go, his clean lines and well-drawn perspective and anatomy tell you that he knows what he's doing, but it's really in the details; facial expressions, small environmental details, and gestures---all things crucial to a well-drawn strip---are a blast to look at, and constantly entertain.
Of course, none of this would mean anything if the strip weren't funny. And funny it is, very often on the laugh-out-loud side. The characters with their nuances and relationships are all grin-inducing, and I found myself laughing aloud at least twice a page. Occasionally, the strip is touching or even dramatic, but it is the humor that keeps the strip rolling, and keeps the viewer wanting more.
I think it says a lot about a comic artist when they put as much into their creation as Rick Griffin does, and if more artists did, then the world would be a brighter place.
Griffin manages to do several things that make a strip successful. He keeps each strip fully self-contained, and at the same time keeps the arc of the story going. The characters are instantly endearing, and you very quickly care about them and the world they live in. And that is the delicate balancing act that Griffin achieves; he manages to neatly sidestep the many problems that quickly sink amateur comics. He avoids the "fanboy" approach, where the creator insists on beating the audience over the head with the nuances of their created world; he simply plays the story out, and lets the details emerge in their own time, unforced.
And his art is fun to look at. Right from the get-go, his clean lines and well-drawn perspective and anatomy tell you that he knows what he's doing, but it's really in the details; facial expressions, small environmental details, and gestures---all things crucial to a well-drawn strip---are a blast to look at, and constantly entertain.
Of course, none of this would mean anything if the strip weren't funny. And funny it is, very often on the laugh-out-loud side. The characters with their nuances and relationships are all grin-inducing, and I found myself laughing aloud at least twice a page. Occasionally, the strip is touching or even dramatic, but it is the humor that keeps the strip rolling, and keeps the viewer wanting more.
I think it says a lot about a comic artist when they put as much into their creation as Rick Griffin does, and if more artists did, then the world would be a brighter place.
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Quality you come to expect from Rick Griffin
10 marzo 2012
Di SCotter
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First I'll start off by saying that the print job is fantastic. The pages feel sturdy and the ink contrasts perfectly with the paper for easy reading. While I still would have preferred a hardcover copy, its nice have a physical copy of the webcomic I follow religiously.
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Great Book
8 novembre 2011
Di Ramis Wells
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I'm going to a convention this month where the author of the book is going to be and the book arrived much sooner than the expected arrival date. I'm so glad that it arrived quickly because I'm a fan of his work and I wanted to have his book on hand so he could autograph it for me :-)
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