Ghostbuster Sighting

Watch Out Sudsy!

Not everyone in Zaghaven likes having a ghost around.
(Actually NO ONE in Zaghaven likes having a ghost around.  You feel me?)

Crack in the Drop

A Clue!  The Frankie's Apartment Crew love a good clue!  We just don't know what to do with them.

Pier 25A

Boat Restaurant on Northern Blvd!

Happy Anniversary to My Favorite Wife

Melia.

Sixth Borough ZAP ATTACK

1970: KFC sent these Cupola roofs out to all their franchise affiliates, weathervane and all.
By 1990, all of these types of buildings were gone.  Except for the KFC in Zaghaven.
Then, one day, that disappeared as well.  Found it the other day in Northport, LI.
They might try to pretend that it's a Happy Wok but they're still frying chicken all the same.

SEARCH FOR THE SIXTH: Impossible To Judge

We collect the junk that's gonna "BRING US BACK" to the Sixth Borough.
Or, to "Bring the Sixth Borough Back".  Whichever.
I don't know about this skateboard I found in my grandmother's attic.

My grandmother can be a really crazy bitch.  She has price-tags on all the stuff up there.  In her
closet too.  She even has a price tag on my old bicycle in the basement.  Hey, it might be a
Redline, but 700 dollars?  I asked her what my cut would be if she ever found a maniac
dumb enough to buy it and she just shoved a Stella D'oro in my mouth.

Anyway, at 45 dollars, this ugly-ass no-name brand dragon-board is definitely NOT Sixth Borough.
I only bought it because it might be.  And it is kinda fly, though.

PINBACK: Pre-Watchmen Smiley-Face

I used to think these were corny, then I didn't, then I did again.
Suffice it to say, it's probably the #1 most iconic Pinback.
The Pinback with the most ICON status.

Blue Kills Park: Enter At Your Own Risk

At the fringes of Zaghaven is the elusive Blue Kills Park.  Blue Kills is amorphous and wobbly.
It is both an enchanted forest and an imaginary cesspool.  It changes, it swallows things up, and
it spits other things out.  Whole neighborhoods have disappeared into the Kills, to be
transmogrified, reimagined, and possibly bootlegged in some other part of the universe.  

There are lots of ways into the park.

Don't bother trying to remember how you got in.

It will never be the same on the way out.

Blue Kills: Revolving Platform

You have to watch out for those darn Revolving Platforms in Blue Kills.
Tree Roots come up out of the ground, grab you by the ankles, and the ground starts spinning.

Blue Kills: Critters

BIRDLINGS

17-YEAR CICADAS

MEDDLING CHILDREN

OUT-OF-WORK DUCKS WHO WANT TO GET INTO SHOW BUSINESS

Blue Kills Park: Firework Detritis

People always blow off fireworks at Blue Kills. It's like a thing. 4th of July every day. Cops look the other way, mostly because the Green Pumpkin holds the most sway in Blue Kills, not the cops. No one's ever seen the Green Pumpkin in person but he's got Pumpkin-Guys on his side that do a lot of pumpkin-stuff for him.

 

Blue Kills: Graf

Rubbish Gets Arrested

BUSTED!!!
Apparently Supermarket Grazing is illegal...

Howard Plus Sighting

Howard Plus was this St. Bernard who hung out with us briefly in the early Aughts.
He never said much and mostly just laid around, except for when there were photo opportunities.
He'd sit straight up, stare 1000 yards in the distance and pose like a proud Roman statue.
Then one day, he just disappeared...
After some snooping and interrogating (I am RAT after all), I got to the bottom of the mystery.
One night Mr. Parfenix (who else?) had the shakes real bad.
He couldn't contain himself any longer so he syphoned out the boozy contents of
Howard Plus' first aid barrel with a hose while the pooch was sleeping and partied 'til dawn.
When Howard woke up to his empty barrel, he split town feeling betrayed and useless.
Apparently, he was spotted this past Winter at the Mount Airy Lodge in The Poconos.
That Resort with the champagne-glass shaped hot tubs and wacky commercials.
Anyway, we miss you Howard Plus.

Steven LaChay

Steven LaChay calls himself a Stylist and is always criticizing everyone's outfits.
"Why do you wear that ratty bow-tie everyday Rubbish?".
"Sudsy, your ghost sheet is just plain scary".
"Looks like you slept in your pajama-outfit Frankie".
To be honest, I don't think Steven gets the finer points of being a Cartoon Character:
We wear the same crap everyday!  How else are you going to be recognized?!

Steven thinks that this pattern is going to be "IN" in a major way.

Snowmen Marshmallows

Looks like Bill the Snowman is up to his usual fly-by-night schemes
 to drum up a few extra bucks by lending his image to cheap marshmallows.
He outta be ashamed!

But he did come up with this excellent design though.

Paper Cut-Out Robot Head

I have no clue on how to fold this thing together, but I do know that his eyes are the bomb!

"Rubbish The Rat" in Sign Language

This is how you say my name in Sign Language.
It actually reads "Trash Rat", but that'll have to do.

OXBERRY Field Guide

The Oxberry Field Guide was used on an animation drafting table under your drawings,
in order to keep "Clicks" (single cartoon frames) aligned with each other.
I'm sure it still gets used somewhere, even though most cartoons are done on computers these days.

The New York Bowler April 2013

Looking on eBay right now for the other 267 issues of The NY Bowler.

*NOTE: Please don't read the article.
You will lose your mind and won't be able to find it again.