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Twenty Years of The Suburban Jungle!
Time flies when you’re having fun, eh? The first Suburban Jungle comic ran on February 1, 1999, in what feels like a whole other world. Supermodels were a thing. Being super-into ’80s music was a perfectly reasonable idea. Having an openly gay character who was happy in himself and important to the story was… crazy talk.
I wanted to have some great meaningful thing to say here, but honestly I’ve been drawing all day and my brain is mush… which suits somehow. XD I will say that it brought me a great deal of pleasure to draw the old gang again and to integrate Charity, who is clearly just excited to be there.
Which reminds me, starting this month Rough Housing will officially be switching to a two pages per month schedule, as my hand tremors are making it harder to get the pages done in a timely fashion and honor my various other commitments. On the other hand, that means the comic will run well into 2020, and you’ll be able to enjoy some of the OTHER stuff that I haven’t been able to get to. >.> Look for a big announcement from me and FurPlanet in March, for starters. (More on that later!)
Thanks as always to my awesome readers and Patreon supporters. You folks are absolutely why I’ve kept doing this for twenty years. I love you all. <3 And now, I need some sleep. G'nite!
http://suburbanjungleclassic.com/
http://roughhouse.suburbanjungle.com/
https://www.patreon.com/the_gneech
I wanted to have some great meaningful thing to say here, but honestly I’ve been drawing all day and my brain is mush… which suits somehow. XD I will say that it brought me a great deal of pleasure to draw the old gang again and to integrate Charity, who is clearly just excited to be there.
Which reminds me, starting this month Rough Housing will officially be switching to a two pages per month schedule, as my hand tremors are making it harder to get the pages done in a timely fashion and honor my various other commitments. On the other hand, that means the comic will run well into 2020, and you’ll be able to enjoy some of the OTHER stuff that I haven’t been able to get to. >.> Look for a big announcement from me and FurPlanet in March, for starters. (More on that later!)
Thanks as always to my awesome readers and Patreon supporters. You folks are absolutely why I’ve kept doing this for twenty years. I love you all. <3 And now, I need some sleep. G'nite!
http://suburbanjungleclassic.com/
http://roughhouse.suburbanjungle.com/
https://www.patreon.com/the_gneech
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I have no idea what's happened with Conrad after the comic, although I have a vague idea there may have been a substance abuse and recovery arc that was just not my story to tell. For this picture, I drew him as he was at the end of the original comic. I suspect 50-year-old Conrad may be heavier and grayer.
Leonard, yes, has aged very well; he's got some gray streaks in his mane and he's gotten a bit skinnier/less muscular.
Leonard, yes, has aged very well; he's got some gray streaks in his mane and he's gotten a bit skinnier/less muscular.
Not sure where/when I first bumped into the Suburban Jungle (possibly through a link on LJ, or perhaps in the Class Menagerie forums... the years all blend together for me after a while), but I'm glad I did! And I'm sure some people still remember my character from a couple of SJ cameo comics.
Thanks for the 20 years of SJ, and hopefully more to come!
Thanks for the 20 years of SJ, and hopefully more to come!
Man I loved this comic when I was a young thing on the internet. I remember finding it back in... Gods, it had to be in the first 4 years of the 2000's, and I loved reading every single page of it. Something about the concept of Dover doing just so much programming that he started speaking in programmer code, and then later spending enough time with Comfort that she did it, was something I loved for reasons I can't even find the right words for. I will say that, despite my mother being a child of the 60's, it was Yin's sub-plot that got me listening to Hotel California and keeping listening to it. So many things I remember fondly from this comic, and the impact it left on me. And look at where I am now, because The Suburban Jungle ended up being my Furry Awakening, as it were. Thank you, Gneech, for such a wonderful comic that had such an impact on my life!
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