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#24 Clem: The Human Turned Alien Via Evolution
Second grade girl explains space aliens:
#23 The Infamous Knife Stealing Sun
#21 Sly The I.T. Guy
A hard working guy for a guy that stares at a multi monitor array mostly waiting for things to go wrong. Â He’s mostly hoping that if something goes wrong it’s worth his time… not that so and so on the third floor still doesn’t “get” how to work his e-mail.
#20 Tony G. Block
Tony G. Block is a Gelatinous… Block. He has an interesting ability to literally “block” the holographic projection and teleportation abilities of other puppets
#17 Centurion Chicken
Yeah.. pretty much how it sounds. He swings the plant… it pukes a rocket. He’s tough.
#16 Frankenstein’s Bear
What?… You think he jumped right to creating a Man? Naw… seriously, he had to start somewhere.
#15 Anthro-Zombie-Frog-With Teeth
A zombie aint much if it don’t have teeth… this frog? This Frog Zombie? Its gots teeth.
#14 Sand-Cows
An army of alien cows… with the ability to make their forms Malleable and shaped into any form.
#13 the M.A.B.D.S.T.T.F.
The M.A.B.D.S.T.T.F. was once a turkey of larger than average size towering over all other turkeys never to be slain for it was invariably connected to the Holiday Cheer of Thanksgiving… however as people started to overlook Thanksgiving more and more with stores staying open during thanksgiving and more families being forced to celebrate on different days due to work expectations of employers setting up Black Friday sales on… um… Thursday. (wait… what?) The mythical turkey began to shrink to the size of an average Squirrel…. and because misery loves company the M.A.B.D.S.T.T.F. took to stealing the Squirrels food…. because why should they worry about Christmas BEFORE THANKSGIVING… oh… they store that food for survival? You mean they aren’t hiding those nuts as early Christmas gifts for other squirrels? Oh… well I guess the M.A.B.D.S.T.T.F. is kind of a Jerk then.
#12 The Tar-tle
This beast of Tar was once a normal tortoise at least it was until it was challenged to a race by a rabbit…. the foolish rabbit was so far ahead that it decided to take a nap as the slow tortoise was so much slower and so far behind… the tortoise however never stopped and as the rabbit slept…. it took the lead and actually won the foot race…. unfortunately this Rabbit was actually a vindictive god in disguise… he had no humor for losing to a tortoise and transformed it into an immortal beast made of tar… unable to ever beat another animal in another foot race ever again.
#8 Zebra-Corn
When most people hear “Zebra-Corn” they maybe picture a regal unicorn like beast with a single horn and zebra stripes… But it’s actually something far less regal with a horrible reputation for how it “stalks” its prey.
#6 Squirrel Yeti
The elusive beast is considered by most to be a myth but he exists high above looking down on us from his Tree-Top-Cave. Waiting for the zombie apocalypse when he can come back down and exhume the food he buried oh so long ago… man oh man is he hungry.
#5 Velociraptor Jesus
When he returns it will like that of a thief in the night (or out of nowhere like a Velociraptor)… clever Messiah.
#4 Flintpower Sky-Mountain
Born as Flint Rockmann in the late 70’s he took on his “spirit name” Flintpower Sky-Mountain
#3 Dr. Mitchell K. Lowery
Dr. Mitchell K. Lowery is a very Bill Nye type character. He’s very intelligent college professor so when he gets excited he gets to talking fast and most folks don’t actually understand what he’s talking about. Because he looks very much like Colonel Sanders but has Red Hair his unofficial nick name on campus is Dr. Ginger Sanders.
#2 LeoBertin Leopard
LeoBertin Leopard (Sometimes Called Libertarian Leopard)
A Leopard concerned with smaller government,especially when it comes to government regulation of food. LeoBertin sometimes takes his beliefs to absolute extremes. Often going without food for days if he can’t find something that isn’t overly regulated… the thing he hates most vehemently is what he calls Government Pizza. Which is very literally Pizza that has been heavily processed and still regulated and passed by the FDA. As a hand puppet he seems small cute and precious… but Leopards are big game cats… and he’s very serious about smaller government.
#1 Edwin J. Spradlin
Eddie J. is practically a cartoon of a conservative red-neck and he is proud of it.
2012 Returning Challenger: Jesse Kiefer
Jesse Kiefer here at your disposal. Returning for a second year of 30characters! Last year I cut my teeth on this project with the idea in mind that I’d create characters for my webcomic projects (specifically Tank-Monkey), and while I did use a handful of the characters from last year most of them wound up being just for fun (30 is more than I thought, ha!). This year I’ve tinkered with some vlogging on YouTube where I’ve been coming up with some fun characters for a series of short webisodes that I’ve been collaborating on with a friend. Most of my time on these episodes has been spent as a green screened Hologram.
This year I’m not going to box myself into making characters for a specific project, but I do hope to come up with some characters for my vlog channel meaning some of my character studies might look like me in costume but I’ll try to vary the looks as much as I can (or as much as I can for a big hairy red-head).
Click the link below to see my work from last year
http://www.30characters.com/author/jekief01/
Or read my Challenger Entry from 2011
http://www.30characters.com/2011/10/21/2011-challenger-jesse-kiefer/
Jesse Kiefer – 30 Characters in 30 Days
It’s been a riot seeing what everyone has posted. The challenge was at times harder than I thought and at others easier. I really dug seeing all of the different styles and approaches to this challenge. There were SOOOOO many! I didn’t keep up with everyone’s submissions as much as I would have liked to… but wow! I definitely found some very cool new artists and creators to follow.
If you want to see how many of these characters will be used, I invite you to check my site as I put these crazy cats to work in my comic. 🙂 tankmonkeycomic.com
Thanks to anyone who commented on or retweeted my characters, and huge thanks to Tyler James for putting this all together, what a great project this has been to work on. An honor to be a part of it.
#30 Rene Magritte and Kal-Dar The Cave Man (TIME TRAVELERS)
And we end with a two-fer for good measure! Rene-Magritte has always been one of my favorite artists and I always thought “how cool would it be if the surrealists weren’t making it up” What if Dali Painted melty Clocks not because he dreamt them up but because he actually viewed these off the coast of an alien world in a far flung future?
So Rene Magritte using a time traveling orb from the Future travels through time with Kal-Dar a Cave man he saved when visiting the dawn of man. Kal-Dar has been traveling with him since that day hoping to repay the debt. DO NOT tell Kal-Dar that “time travel is so easy a cave man could do it…” he doesn’t like that.
Hope you all enjoyed my submissions because I definitely enjoyed the ones I got to see every day from these awesome contributors!
#29 Long-Box
Long-Box is likely the most obnoxious and youngest member of the Collection Agency, always citing continuity errors or asking about validity of an argument by asking if it’s “canon” or not. He disguises himself using the classic Clark Kent Method of putting on a pair of glasses.
#28 Porcelain
Porcelain, the Femme Fatale of the Collection Agency… Her Collect-o-mania is related to porcelain dolls, masks, pottery and the like… brazenly un-apologetically so, she is the only member of the Collection Agency that does not wear anything to mask her appearance. It’s uncertain how far she will go to further the aims of Collect-o and his group, sometimes it seems she has joined simply to find a community that embraces her and her obsessions as “normal”.
#27 Corey Calihan
Corey is the oldest Calihan Brother. He’s worked hard and has done well for himself. He means well but often gives Jace and Rex a hard time with his false interest in their “Karate” School (which makes Rex batty because they don’t teach “Karate”) He’s not a bad guy but he’s passive aggressive and frustrates his younger brothers to no end… he knows nothing about the business of running a martial arts school but often offers unsolicited advice on how to do it. What makes Corey the most frustrating though is that he is a good man and he loves his family and can be very generous, they’d just all be happier if he didn’t always have the last word.
#26 Mr. Ogden (next-door neighbor)
Everyone has a Mr. Ogden, he’s the cranky old neighbor of Tank-Monkey. He’s never having a good day, what’s so good about it?! Someone is always stealing his daily newspaper, and someone’s dog is always in his yard. And living next door to a tank driving monkey? Don’t even get him started on THAT!
#25 Reel 2 Reel
Movie Fanatics are some of the most obsessive of the collectors lot. That’s one reason that Collect-o sought out Reel 2 Reel. In his regular life R2R refused to distinguish reality and fiction. Always annoying people with his need to bring everything back to movies always using phrases like “I couldn’t have scripted that better” and asking questions like “who would play you in the movie of your life?” and then arguing the answer. He is one of the most fearsome members of the Collection Agency because he can physically back up his mania training many years to become a Hollywood stunt man he is trained in multiple martial arts styles. No one can fake a death (or death scene as he likes to call it) like Reel 2 Reel. It’s uncertain why he’s allied himself against Tank-Monkey as Tank-Monkey doesn’t have anything he wants.
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