Birdfight!

Cardinal trounces a gang of goldfinches, from the slowly-being-completed graphic novel Feeder Birds.

This is the very short version: the fight currently goes on for 18 panels.





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16 Responses to “Birdfight!”
  1. teamwak says:
    March 31, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    What do I say? What can I say?

    Is this the reason your sub-conscious is in tatters?

    Or is this communist propaganda from a leftie? The heroic red bird single-handedly smashes the might of the gold (capitalist) birds?

    Or have I just been reading your blog too long?

    🙂

  2. greyaenigma says:
    March 31, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    What Does The Cardinal Want?

    That’s no fight. That’s a massacre. It’s like a thousand goldfinches cried out at once and were silenced.

    Clearly this is the Catholic church smashing rival sects.

  3. edo_fanatic says:
    March 31, 2007 at 6:46 pm

    This is great. Sin City with birds.

  4. medox says:
    March 31, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    Holy crap. Cardinals are violent, violent birds.

    • Anonymous says:
      March 31, 2007 at 10:22 pm

      Well, that’s what started me on this project. I had a house in the country and I got a bird feeder so I could watch the cute li’l birdies, and they weren’t cute at all. They were vicious, violent, territorial little assassins. And so a graphic novel was born.

  5. ndgmtlcd says:
    April 1, 2007 at 2:49 am

    Considering that these days I flip through so many Franco-Belgian BDs just brimming with artless violence it’s something of a relief to know that a related art form (The US graphic novel) will be coming up with some artful violence once _Feeder_Birds_ is out.

  6. teamwak says:
    April 1, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    Theres loads of nature out there ripe for adapting

    You may have hit an un-tapped source here.

    Have you ever seen Japanese hornets in action? 50 off them can take out a hive of 10,000 honey bees. Ive seen this doc where they just fly up to the hive a start biting bees in half. The ground was just littered with bee heads and bodies! They then lay there eggs in the bodies of the bee lava for later, then leave!

    It was a total massacre. Quite shocking really lol

    • Todd says:
      April 1, 2007 at 1:05 pm

      Re: Theres loads of nature out there ripe for adapting

      Yes, but everyone knows that insects are vicious, remorseless killers. I wanted to do something with an animal that no one thinks of as cutthroat and violent. But just watch them for a few minutes and you realize quite easily that birds used to be dinosaurs.

      • teamwak says:
        April 1, 2007 at 3:56 pm

        Re: Theres loads of nature out there ripe for adapting

        You may find this interesting then 🙂

        • Todd says:
          April 1, 2007 at 11:50 pm

          Re: Theres loads of nature out there ripe for adapting

          It was in St. James’s park that I saw a seagull swoop down and eat a baby duck. Birds are ugly, ugly creatures.

          I’m not quite sure why that clip belonged on the TV news though.

          • teamwak says:
            April 2, 2007 at 12:26 am

            Re: Theres loads of nature out there ripe for adapting

            I would be interested in your views on Hitchcocks The Birds in the light of this new avian fascination.

            • Todd says:
              April 2, 2007 at 1:48 am

              Re: Theres loads of nature out there ripe for adapting

              Ask and you shall receive.

              Although I guess I should warn you that my views on Hitchcock’s movie have nothing, in my mind, to do with Feeder Birds. My inspiration for Feeder Birds has more to do with Scarface than Hitchcock.

              • teamwak says:
                April 2, 2007 at 11:12 am

                Re: Theres loads of nature out there ripe for adapting

                Something like “Say Hello to my leetel beak!” ? 🙂

                Anyway its a original idea, so good luck!

  7. mikeyed says:
    April 1, 2007 at 8:17 pm

    I like it when feathers become fists. It always suggests realism.

    • Todd says:
      April 1, 2007 at 11:57 pm

      At first I was going to limit the violence to what birds are capable of: pecking and scratching. But I was already having them gesture and point with their feathers, so I thought what the hell.

      They also kick with their tiny little claw-feet.

  8. 3dmark says:
    May 22, 2007 at 3:48 am

    Absolutely love it. Very clean, nice composition and use of color. It makes me think of Frank Millers DKR.