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Simpsons Animator Illustrates Awkward Everyday Lives Of Lovable Animals, Amasses 849k Instagram Followers
When she's not working on The Simpsons, artist Liz Climo (previously here and here) is expanding her charmingly adorable animal kingdom. According to her, it's "a place where grizzly bears, porcupines, rabbits, and anteaters all grapple with everyday life with wit and humor." We learn a lot about human interaction through her animal comics, and it's these master-level anthropomorphizations that keep us fully engaged in Liz's work. I mean, who wouldn't be interested in how armadillos make fast-and-easy Halloween costumes? Or how dinosaurs deal with their inquisitive children? "The ingenious ways that animal friends can work together to ensure their juice is always freshly squeezed."
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Cordi Schmidtová 5 years ago
Well... in fact, dogs were most likely preferred over cats in ancient Egypt. They didn't even name their cats, just called them 'miu' which means 'a cat' in ancient Egyptian language whilst dogs were given people's names. :)
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Lemur 6 years ago
Also me, in the morning (as well the fact I can't get up, as well the fact that I don't know what I'm looking at.)
"The staff of The Simpsons are like family," Liz told Female First. "Many of them have been on the show since the beginning and still have such love for it. On my first day of work, I remember being embarrassed because I had a Homer Simpson sticker on my car, and I figured everyone there would be "too cool" for that sort of thing. But then, as I walked through the halls, I noticed all the Simpsons toys, posters, and memorabilia that everyone had in their cubicles and I realized that this was a group of people who took great pride in their work."
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Silver Margaret 6 years ago
See Kiwis can fly! They just need a little help from their friends
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Withnail 6 years ago (edited)
Haha, kitty dressed as a cucumber! Why are *some cats afraid of cucumbers? *Mine are not.
Benjámin Dorogi 6 years ago
If something unknown, green thing appeared near you, which is almost the same size as you or bigger, wouldn't you be scared? :D By the way, if you just put a cucumber near them while they are seeing it, the cats won't get scared. It's in the surprise I guess.
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Magpie 6 years ago
My elderly recently-adopted cat is scared of ice-cream. :-O. ... I was eating some and because he has such good manners i offered him a tiny bit on a spoon. ... he ran away from it. ( yes i know dairy can be a problem for some cats, a tiny bit rarely might have been ok )
TheNerdyOne 6 years ago
Tbh in a cat and dog world they pretty much dressed as very scary things such as in our world we dress as demons or witches or even Marge Simpson
As for her personal work, Liz said that her drawing ideas comes from everyday interactions with friends and the people around her, and from cute animals. "Even if I don't have an idea for a funny comic, sometimes just looking at pictures of animals will give me inspiration. There are so many different kinds with different physical attributes (and sometimes, limitations) that the possibilities for situational comedy are sort of endless."
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Nadja Lambacher 6 years ago
Possum moms are awesome. Sometimes they carry like 16 or 18 kids on their backs.
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Most of her characters can be found in her book The Little World of Liz Climo. "It [includes] about 100 comics from my blog and 40 new, book-exclusive cartoon drawings," the artist told Female First. "Many of the new comics were done when I was 9 months pregnant, which should give you a ridiculous visual of a very awkward me hunched over my computer screen."
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Master Markus 6 years ago
But blobfish don't look like that underwater! They're kind of ugly, but fairly normal. They have functional fins, don't have that nose shape...
When she started doodling her animal kingdom, the response was 'pretty modest.' However, it was much more positive than she'd ever expected. "I'd get a few likes and re-blogs here and there, and I was thrilled and surprised with each one. It wasn't until March 2012 (about 3 months after I started the blog) that it started getting more attention. I posted a tortoise and hare comic, which suddenly started getting a bunch of attention and helped me gain a lot of new Tumblr followers."
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Lucy Lou 6 years ago
And backing him up is the hippo himself. You guys have got that right.
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TheNerdyOne 6 years ago
I can see that since the bunny had a spoon in his/her hand he/she was ready to do something to the turkey
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
"When I said we're having him for dinner, I meant...Oh, never mind. Did you get one with mushrooms?"
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Steve Richardson 6 years ago
That's a red panda and there's a viral video of one doing exactly that move when startled.
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spacemanfromthe80s 6 years ago
Smart. I'm gonna do that when kids come asking for candies. I'll do a backflip
Lizzie the Crayon 6 years ago
One of my friends passes out the candy on her porch ever Halloween. One year the kids said "Trick or Treat!" And she told the kids to turn around backwards and count to three. She reached behind her and grabbed a box of rasins and a toothbrush. When they turned around she did put little candies in their bags...but when she told me I laughed out loud. You guys do me a favour, and tell meh funny Halloween 🎃 stories by repling to my comment, wanna hear what stories you guys have. Lets just say it took some practise for my friend to get her TRICK right!!!
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Julieta S. 6 years ago
Procrastination is the name of the game... and each generation does it the same!
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Ian Leong 6 years ago
Knowing my luck my crush would notice me but the mistletoe would be caught inbetween my teeth
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AzKahleesi 6 years ago
OMG that reminded me of my husband. He said the same thing when he hung the mistletoe up this year. I was like "awww mistletoe" and he was like "huh...weird." hahahaha
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Rachel Franke 6 years ago
I love Liz Climo's illustrations, I hadn't realized she worked as an animator! Why have we not seen these made into a children's cartoon yet??
Rachel Franke 6 years ago
I love Liz Climo's illustrations, I hadn't realized she worked as an animator! Why have we not seen these made into a children's cartoon yet??
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