Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1039

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1039, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1038

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1038, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

With much appreciation to dmmoelle.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #324

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #324, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Today's comic will be posted tomorrow (Sunday). Meanwhile, here's an old one (though, depending on who you choose to believe, they are all so very, very old).

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1037

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1037, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1036

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1036, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1035

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1035, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

This has been entered in the New Yorker's 2009 Eustace Tilley contest.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1034

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1034, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Some of you would just as soon put yesterday behind us, so here's Tuesday's comic a bit early.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1033

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1033, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

I can't tell you how nice it is to have a possibly fictional great-dad to blame utterly ridiculous things on.
That guy was nuts.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1032

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1032, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1031

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1031, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1030

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1030, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Puddles and Pals #0001

Puddles and Pals #0001, originally uploaded by phasepistol.

Click on this to read all about it, as it were.
Onward to 1000+, good phasepistol, sir.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1029

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1029, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1028

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1028, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1027

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1027, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

I am home after a couple of weeks on the road. If you have a pending request or an email I haven't responded to, I hope to rectify everything soon.
Also, I will be attending New York ComicCon next month and signing copies of my book at the Abrams table on Friday and Saturday, and maybe more. I'll post more details as they develop.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1026

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1026, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1025

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1025, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Bonus! Two today but none tomorrow.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1024

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1024, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Happpy New Year.
I added the extra p for no reason.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1023

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1023, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1022

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1022, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1021

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1021, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Apparently I've been dugg, so welcome new visitor(s)! Nice mustache(s).

To answer the two main questions I get:
1. I don't understand half of these either.
2. Faber Castell PITT pens sizes B and S.

Also: my holiday unreachability continues this week, so I may be less than responsive on the comments, and may even be forced to skip a day or two. I apologize in advance.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1020

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1020, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1019

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1019, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Happy LOLidays

Happy LOLidays, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Christmas is a time for repeats.
I hope your day is wonderful.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1018

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1018, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1017

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1017, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1016

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1016, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Please note the mechanical hobo

Barbershop Quarter
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad

As seen at Musee Mecanique in San Francisco.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1015

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1015, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

I'll be increasingly difficult to contact over the next several days as the holidays descend upon us. Please know that I do read and appreciate all of your comments.

Christmas Night

Another hobo-based animated short, via CartoonBrew.com.
Fun fact! O. Soglow (creator of the Little King and minimalist cartoonist before there was such a thing) is buried in the same cemetery as Malcolm X!

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1014

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1014, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1013

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1013, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Hobo Gadget Band

How is it possible I've never seen this?!

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1012

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1012, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1011

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1011, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1010

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1010, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1009

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1009, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

I failed to mention that the zodiac image posted below is available on shirts and things via zazzle dot com slash apelad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1008

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1008, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

This is actually yesterday's comic. I'll post today's later.

Zodiac

Zodiac step 2, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

I've posted this for sale on etsy. It's the lineart for my entry in this week's Avalanche Software blog thing, which you can see here.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1007

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1007, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Note: this blog is currently experiencing a wave of spammy, spammy comments. Comments will be moderated for the duration.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1006

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1006, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1005

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1005, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1004

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1004, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Presented with all due respect.

2 hours left

my alarm clock, originally uploaded by Joi.

There are just a couple hours left on the ebay auctions for numbers 800 and 900.
Here are the links again:
800
900

No comic tonight, just this--UPDATE--We have a winner

O Hai, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

I will send the original drawing for this to the first person to tell me what this specific image is based on. I'll only accept answers in the comments here, not on flickr and not via email. Bonus points for details and links.

Also: you can get this on stuff over on zazzle.

msnshn313 correctly answered the question. 1974 brought the world the first appearance of Hello Kitty on a vinyl coin purse.

Congratulations msnshn313. Email me via adamkoford.com with your address.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1003

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1003, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1002

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1002, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1001

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1001, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1000

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1000, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

I had originally planned on stopping around #1000, if we ever got that far, but that's not my plan anymore.

ebay listings for #800 and #900

Curious Photo, originally uploaded by George Eastman House.

Can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/lol800
and
here: http://tinyurl.com/lol900.
Please feel free to email me if you have any questions, unless they are about the above photo. I have no idea what's going on there.

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #900

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #900, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

Tonight: 900. Tomorrow: 1000.

One thousand, originally uploaded by cesarastudillo.

For those of you who are relatively new around here, here's how I generally handle every 100th comic: they're usually drawn and painted with watercolor then sold on ebay.
However, #1000 is an exception. It was created last month and auctioned for charity as part of the LOLarts exhibit, which you can learn more about here. You may even glimpse it briefly in the video, though not in any significant detail.
I really should have been more forthcoming about the show, but I totally spaced it, and, through no fault of anyone else, I was unclear on some of the more important details. Sorry.
Even so, #1000 will still be posted here tomorrow.
#900 is coming later tonight. It's drying. It will be sold on ebay, as will the lineart for #800, which was colored digitally (each sold separately).
#700, which was also posted recently, was also colored digitally and cobbled together from smaller drawings, and won't be sold.
Thank you for your patience, support, comments, notes, and general well-wishings.