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Shirtheads - featuring Luckyvegetable

Zombies love brains. Let’s flip open the head of Luckyvegetable
and find ourselves a truly entertaining feed.

This shirt

tickled my funny bone in particular,
with a very obvious joke. ;o)

What would make a better date and why? A zombie, vampire, werewolf or Frankenstein’s monster?

Hmm…I’m thinking that sounds like the start of a great party already! I suppose I should stick to my theory that zombies would make the best lovers..well, the most persistent anyway. All that romantic mindless groaning teamed with the unstoppable undead shuffle….quite a combo, really. Of course, I have been known to keep company with at least one wolf, and I’m told by recent bestselling pop literature that vampires are really really ridiculously good-looking, so maybe I should keep my options open…

Where’s the magic?

With the unicorns, I assume. I can’t be sure though, as only virgins can get close enough to check. Ahem.

If a picture tells a thousand words, what are your pictures telling us?

Mostly? They’re pieces of my already scatterbrained imagination. Randomness personified. Which kind of gives you an idea as to how difficult a job my careers advisor at school had. He ended up giving me the choice of either prison warden, or clown. I kid you not. Obviously this man was paid the big bucks for his keen insight.

What’s the best about the bubble?

I’m going to go with cheesy, and say that I found people to love here, in a real grown-up, family kind of way. And it’s helped me understand that I won’t be laughed out of the room (metaphorically) when I put up my work.

What’s your favouritest tshirt you’ve ever worn?

When I was a kid, I had this shirt with a picture from Disney’s Cinderella on it, only it really was like a still from the film, rather than a design, and it showed the little cowering mouse with the floppy hat holding a piece of cheese bigger than his head. Looking on (and about to eat him) was the evil looking cat. It was such a macabre thing to put on a 4 year old’s shirt, it makes me wonder what the designer was thinking-or smoking- when it was deemed appropriate. I remember the back of the shirt was lemon yellow, and I wore it with ‘matching’ yellow shorts with an arty paint splotch pattern on them, yellow knee high socks, and my trademark rainbow stripy sandals. I was obviously a fashion genius, even then. Pfffft…

Who do you suspect is secretly an alien?

I suspect most politicians are aliens, if only because most of them lack sufficient eyebrow control, and this makes me suspicious. Also they have holes in their theories (and in some cases, their grammar) which makes it plausible that they’re merely stretching for time till the mother ship arrives. Let’s hope there’s at least one chocolate loving E.T. type among them.

What are your opening and closing thoughts every (or most) days?

It used to be fluffy things like “what are rainbows made of” but lately it’s just the generic “and why do/did I have to go to work?”

Apart from that though, I manage to keep my brain at least partially insane for the majority of my awake time. It tends to scare the normals, but it keeps it real. Boo-yah.

What makes you warm and fuzzy inside (If anything)?

When I eat a woolly mammoth? Because it’s woolly? And really big?

Where do you find inspiration the most?

It’s kinda like freaky lightening, although I have always likened my creative brain to a giant soup pot in which things bubble until they’re ready to be presented to the rest of the species. I think it’s when they float to the top. Yeah, so, it’s like cooking gnocci, only, those are my ideas. Man.

What did you want to be when you were 6 years old? (And did you eat your vegetables? ;o)

I wanted to be a pirate king. I told my kindergarten teacher and got in trouble when she told me I couldn’t because only boys could be kings, and I told her where to go. Yar.

Oh, and of course I didn’t eat my vegetables. My Mother used to boil them grey. What do you take me for?

Vegetables rot your brain. Best to leave them be. ;oP

And on another note, the never lazing, always amazing Thickblackoutline was one of the few Shirthead victims who took up my offer of purchasing the original art… And she got it framed! Yay! Jen is great.

Here it is. It looks AWESOME :oD

Memory lane…

The Original Strip BigFatRobot Chris Richards Paul McClintock David J Cunning Johdie Tambatoys Simon Sherry Ross Robinson Natalie Tyler thickblackoutline rubyred Liesl Yvette Wilson Chris Wahl Jaywalker sparklehen jemimalovesbigted purelydecorative nofrillsart Superteam: Non-Stop animo Tabita LilyM bahgoesthesheep LuckyVegetable o0OdemocrazyO0o MuscularTeeth

  • chelsgus

    chelsgus

    Excellent!
    And great strip!

  • najeroux

    najeroux

    Tip Top Lollipop! Have you considered making the shirtheads into shirts? I’d be super proud to have this one enblazoned upon my chest.

    najeroux

  • jemimalovesbigted

    jemimalovesbigted

    COOL! Both of you! I so look forward to these on a Monday.

    And yes, I am still waiting for my other half to make the frame for me… he is on holidays right now, so hopefully…. =D

  • Paul McClintock

    Paul McClintockZuul, the Gatekeeper

    I didn’t get a personal note with mine! Not fair!

  • Anne van Alkemade

    Anne van Alkemade

    That is so awesome. Something about that hair!

  • Tate ©

    Tate ©

    oh man… great new strip, tops interview and to the lucky buggers who get the caanan treatment… i do envy thee.

  • FlyAwayPeter

    FlyAwayPeter

    Wow these come out on a Monday!? I have never been good with keeping track of serials. I look forward to being utterly flabbergasted when yet another shirtheads makes it’s random appearence in my activity thingy. Awesome work as always!

  • sjem ©

    sjem ©

    Good to have you back on the shirthead train Canaan.

  • MuscularTeeth

    MuscularTeethVoted Most Helpful Bubbler

    i am each and every time gobsmacked by your skills in moving a tshirt into a comic strip. they are always so damn good and jelousy is slowly eating me up inside, until ill look like that zombie.

    10 out of 5 stars.

  • jumpy

    jumpy

    I think this one is my favorite :P

  • Damien Mason

    Damien Masoncommunity host

    Fantastic, your colour treatment on this is just wonderful. Great work Caanan :)

  • Michael Alesich

    Michael Alesich

    Great piece, Love the interview.

  • thickblackoutline

    thickblackoutlinet-shirt and design aficionado

    i love the colours of this one too! more! more! encore encore!

    hey thanks for the big ups…... the never lazing, always amazing? ooooooooooooh! :O
    i’m on the edge of my seat for the bub book.magazines.mooks, and you just have to have like shirtheads annual – it would be such a great way so showcase your work. LOVING Celadore btw :) xxx

  • Tabita

    Tabita

    Haha!! If I wasn’t at work I’d be laughing out loud at this! (I did in fact giggle out loud, my colleagues were busy not paying attention to me)

  • Luckyvegetable

    Luckyvegetable

    ok, my bum just fell off I laughed so much. I kid you not. Fell right off.

    You’re the King Of Aceness Caanan =D

  • caanan replied

    Well I laughed at most of your replies, making my bum fall off also. So we’re even. ;o)

  • ozlat

    ozlat

    now this is a new shirtheads i have not seen… change of style aye

  • caanan replied

    Hey Ozlat. Kinda. With doing my Zuda submission, colouring it myself and all, my style seems to be getting better with each page I burn through. Plus, Shirtheads always looks different when I take them out of the market stall setting.

  • Lisa  Jewell

    Lisa Jewell

    Very very cool…........and witty and just cool….

  • Paul Louis Villani

    Paul Louis Vil...

    Woohoo! :D

  • Pinhead Industries

    Pinhead Indust...

    amazing scene and another cool bean for the tin. how do you decide who to interview?
    I see the shirtheads feature as an ultimate goal.
    you do an awesome job for the site and deserve the bubble next to your name!
    Steve

  • caanan replied

    Hey Pinhead. It’s a combination of things, I guess… What I like. What I think is a strong and/or unique design. Someone who I think has something interesting to say, or is funny. Or both! And the biggest factor – whatever strikes me down with a comic idea as soon as I look at it.

    Sometimes I have sent questions off to people I want to interview thinking I can make a cartoon out of _some_thing here, but what? WHAT? And I get there… but it’s stressful that way. Inspiration must strike!

    However, designs I look at one day which yield nothing, will inspire a ton of cartoons the next day, depending on my mood, so I’m always looking at stuff. :o)

  • Xavier Shay

    Xavier Shay works here

    “When I eat a woolly mammoth? ” < good

  • Xavier Shay

    Xavier Shay works here

    and also +1 TBO “nice coloring”

  • Chanel2

    Chanel2

    Funny and so well done.
    Good stuff.

  • o0OdemocrazyO0o

    o0OdemocrazyO0o

    woo! X woo squared

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