September 26-27 I will be at SPX in Baltimore, MD, tabling with that Latin sensation Aaron Diaz!
For those that have bought DAR! Volume One, I am holding a sorta contest in which you profit off of my inability to use a spellchecker! To learn more, head on over to Ye Olde El-Jay!
Man, this has been a lot of exclamation points for just one entry!
Oo, one more announcement, just for the road:
Steve Lieber and Jeff Parker, two of my studiomates and all-around favorite people, have a release party coming up for Underground, their comic being put out by Image Comics. If you’re in Portland, I really recommend you come check out this shit!
Underground Release Party and Signing
Freeeeeeeeee!
September 23, 2009
6-8pm
Bridge City Comics
3725 N. Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR
RSVP on Facebook (Or just show up)
Put a stereo in the space the raccoon’s living and leave it on. The noise will annoy it and force it to find somewhere else to live.
I’ve been a fan of your cartoons for several months now, ever since I first saw you on Alison Bechdel’s blog. The last panel made me burst out laughing out loud! :-D
Hahaha, that last panel killed me.
hey, uh, the link to dresden codak is spelled wrong. “dresden,” not “dresdan”
Scary! o.o Maybe you should lure it away with raccoon prons…
Erika,
Just a correction but SPX is in Bethesda, MD, not Baltimore. There’s about 40 miles of Maryland between those two!
Beyond that, YAY for SPX! I will be there and I hope to see you and buy books!
Having read all your DAR! comics, somehow I knew you’d end up being mauled to death by a raccoon. Great comic! (I had to throw in that exclamation point)
But they’re sorta cute…
It’s afraid of you more than you are of it does NOT apply here…
ALSO. I love the TV in panel 5. That’s how we do.
@Alex : yes, but so are bears.
Also I totally love panel 3.
This could go on a “psycho-raccoon” T-shirt.
I don’t think we have pests as annoying as these, around here.
By a raccoon trap, and bait it with peanut butter.
Wait, there is a comic where Erika doesn’t go for the jacking off punchline?
I have a friend who loves raccoons. He’ll get quite a kick out of this one…
To deal with raccoons you need to adapt the “little old lady + fly + spider + bird + cat” equation.
The solution can be found if you work out what a little old lady would need to swallow to find a raccoon…. that wriggles and jiggles and tickles inside her…
Then get your floor to swallow whatever that is.
Some hints from Wikipedia:
“The raccoon’s natural predators include cougars, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, wolves, great horned owls, water moccasins, bears, mountain lions, and fishers. ”
Its easy when you know how.
Apparently spraying fox piss in the point of entry will ward them off. Or alternatively, my dad got rid of some raccoons in the attic by finding sounds of angry raccoons and playing them at high volume.
be careful, them hairy little buggers can carry rabies
did you know, dar also stands for daughters of the revolution, which I know because of google
A raccoon killed one of my cats.
I feel your pain. When I lived in Winston-Salem, the house backed up to the woods, and the raccoons (and the possums) found the cat door to be a door to cat food paradise, no matter how we tried to secure the door. I came out of the bedroom one day to find a raccoon hanging out in the living room!
The possums are worse, though. The raccoons are smart enough to run from the broom and loud angry human voices. The possums just sit there and chew, and turn and run when they damn well feel like it.
It’s like having a tiny Bruce Cambell living in the walls
Oh my god, this is so weird. I have never before drawn a raccoon in my life, but 10 minutes before coming to the site and reading this comic, I was drawing a raccoon.
Spooky.
In the true tradition of the British Christmas Panto….IT’S BEHIND YOU!
Okay, so Wikipedia claims that they don’t actually have opposable thumbs, but :
“In a study by the ethologist H. B. Davis in 1908, raccoons were able to open 11 of 13 complex locks in less than 10 tries and had no problems repeating the action when the locks were rearranged or turned upside down. Davis concluded that they understood the abstract principles of the locking mechanisms and that their learning speed was equivalent to that of rhesus macaques.”
That’s right : THEY CAN PICK YOUR FUCKING LOCK.
I thought SPX was on the 26th-27th this year? I remember being pissed because it’s on Yom Kippur…jew fail.
Raccoons don’t have opposable thumbs(they cant make their thumb go across their palm.)
But they’re very good with their little paws. My family used to own a ranch and outside in the barns we had to stop putting wire boxes over the wires because the raccoons would pull them out and ruin the circuit or worse, electrocute themselvse. Yuck.
Scaaaaaaaaaary! D: Though that last panel cracks me up :) We have them living under our rooftop porch, so thankfully we don’t hear them too often. (chronic masturbators? my goodness! :/ )
I found your comic on one of my run thru some of my favorites and lookin for more interesting one for my collection and i fell automatically fell in love opun ready your comic please keep up the good work.
Given opposable thumbs and nothing to do, *I’d* be a chronic masturbator.
Come to think of it, that describes my adolescence.
every time i pressed the “next” button i’d fight with myself, wanting to read more and at the same time knowing that the more i read, the less there would be left to read.
Violet Blue linked your comic a few days ago.
I adore the both of you for being so amazingly sex-positive and getting that out to everyday people. Thanks for doing what you love, and loving what you do.
There is something rather frighteningly Cronenberg about that. A raccoon foaming at the mouth. Staring at you with murderous intent. While masturbating.
………….
Great. I’ll never go “aww” at small animals again.
Love your comics. And psyched to know you’ll be at SPX! :)
And I agreed whole heartedly about what Cat said about “sex-positive.” That’s the best way anyone could have put it. :)
I LOVE the raccoon story!!!! XD Please make more pages about it if there are any developments!!
If you have a mice problem get a pet cat, if you have a raccoon get a pet grizzly bear… or a shotgun if you think it may try a sneak attack!
XD
Last night, a raccoon got into our chicken hutch and killed one (of six). We heard the squawking and got out in time to see it on the other side of the yard with the chicken in its mouth (or so my spouse’s father says, I wasn’t there). There were feathers everywhere.
These are full-grown hens that are no longer afraid of the neighbourhood cats. We didn’t even know that we had raccoons in SoCal! We closed up the hutch securely tonight, but I’m afraid that the raccoon will be back … and that it knows how to open a latch.
Don’t know if anyone suggested this, but you can trap a raccoon by making some kind of box with a hole in the side, just slightly larger than the raccoon’s hand. Place something solid, aromatic, and delicious inside the box, and leave it (idealy, secured to the ground) somewhere the raccoon with find it. Raccoons are notoriously persistent in their search for food, and they will not let go of the object once they have grabbed it. His fist will be too large to remove from the hole, and you can net it at your earliest convenience.
Racoons come onto my porch all the time to eat the cat food. There are all these little circles of (very minor) water damage on the floor that I figured were from rain splashing in or whatever, until a couple of weeks ago. A racoon sidled onto the porch while my boyfriend were hanging out inside, and we could see in through the glass door. It just sat there, staring straight at us, while it picked up kibbles with its little hands and ate them. It was pretty cute at first, but then I noticed that it was drooling all the fuck over the porch. The little guy had command over these massive torrents of drool. It was then that I realised that the drip marks on the floor are actually from racoon drool. EW. What the hell, racoons?
So here’s the question, Erika: has Mr Racoon (or Mr Racoon the Girl) flooded your house with gross racoon drool?
I once rented a place where a raccoon decided to move into the (old, boarded up) stovepipe chimney. It got into the apartment a couple times. Those things are pretty scary!! o_0
Panel 5… still not entirely cleared Ikea out then! XD
Whole strip: needs to have a throwdown with Sandra And Woo ;)