Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan
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About Pooch Cafe
Pooch Café is the story of a cheese-loving, squirrel-fearing, kibble-desiring, break-dancing, toilet-drinking mutt named Poncho. Dogs, like certain barflies, want to go where everybody knows their name (other than the vet’s office.) So they gather at the Pooch Café to compare notes on such weighty issues as avoiding baths, zebra-flavored kibble, toilet breath, and the construction of a giant catapult with which to hurl all the Earth’s cats into the sun. Don’t look for it out on the main street -- its actual location is a canine top secret that was only compromised that one time they got a pizza delivered.
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JonD17 said, 11 months ago
well, this one leaves me scratchin’ my …… ahhhh, nevermind
one8romeo said, 11 months ago
Perhaps Cesar Millan could explain this one to me.
lilybdcsa said, 11 months ago
Sniff and tell. In the last panel Poncho is yelling at his behind for ratting him out, so to speak.
ana_demeter said, 11 months ago
This actually looks like a tribute to Alison Bechdel’s cover for “The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For” http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/RESOURCE/MEDIA/IMAGES/bookcovers/Original/BookCovers13/978/0/6/1/8/9780618968800.jpg
AGrant311 said, 11 months ago
It’s actually based from a painting by Norman Rockwall called Gossip. There have been lots of parodies of it, including Bechdel’s, and Woot did a zombie version of it for a Halloween shirt.
HelmetHead said, 11 months ago
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/8/7376315_49f50493bd.jpg?v=0
Hope the link works…
(I love Rockwell – got to see a huge show of his work a few years ago; the prints are great, but the originals are amazing.)
comixboi said, 11 months ago
Obviously Rockwell inspired, but in this case Poncho might be upset that he is the only one with a tail not attached to his body.
JonD17 said, 11 months ago
ahhh, lilybdcsa, thank you now i got it ……
“sniff and tell”, interesting concept might give it a try with my mate
Tigger
said,
11 months ago
Poncho did something very bad, or stupid.
circuit7 said, 11 months ago
Yeah, now I get it, but how the butt-sniffing works into it I do not get.
HelmetHead said, 11 months ago
Circuit, dogs get their information (gossip) about each other by sniffing butts. In the Rockwell painting, which I linked above, the first woman is telling something juicy, and at the end, the man she was evidently gossiping about is yelling at her, since the gossip about him got back around and he knows she told. She has clearly betrayed him. Poncho’s butt has revealed something about him, so he’s yelling at it.
Now, does anyone still care on Monday…?