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[jough]

I'm just throwing some snaps out there for "face to cartilage," because I know you thought that was funny and clever when you wrote it and clever should always be noticed and appreciated.

[filas]

thanks, and props to your perspicacious analysis.

[char *]

also i like that the CH cards carried over.  it makes sense to get a message on a card in the audience, b/c the performer can't talk at that moment, but CH uses a card to offer wine face to cartilage.

I'm guessing CH can't actually talk (perhaps due to the cartilageness), and has to rely on the cards.

[Paisley]

i think we're dodging the central issue at hand here, which is that, "how would one come up with the concept of a creature whose head is made completely of cartilage in the first place?"

Besides the brilliant theory postulated by JordanB regarding cartiliginous baby heads, I'm thinking the character owes something to the animations of Max Fleischer (didn't someone on the old forum have an animated .GIF of a similar character that seemed to tickle Onstad's fancy?). If Cartilage Head isn't directly based on the Koko's ghost character in the St James Infirmary sequence in Fleisher's Snow White, CH certainly must have been inspired by it:

http://www.archive.org/details/bb_snow_white

I'm thinking maybe Edvard Munch's The Scream might also be source material.

[Beatrice]

When babies are first born, the bones of their head
are not fused together and are thus extremely malleable.
Not like cartilage, exactly, but not nearly as solid as adult heads.
(I have a friend who has a vague but noticable crease
down the middle of his forehead, precisely because,
well, I forget how the story goes, but he got it because
of the fact that babies' heads aren't very solid.)

This is poetic in a highschool-creative-writing-class-annual-publication sort of way.

[arkabee]

When babies are first born, the bones of their head
are not fused together and are thus extremely malleable.
Not like cartilage, exactly, but not nearly as solid as adult heads.
(I have a friend who has a vague but noticable crease
down the middle of his forehead, precisely because,
well, I forget how the story goes, but he got it because
of the fact that babies' heads aren't very solid.)

This is poetic in a highschool-creative-writing-class-annual-publication sort of way.

try advil.

[hytmal]

waaah i just want to keep my account...!

but also i think that the tale of CH is not over yet.  like that bankrobber from "O, Brother, Where Art Thou"

Additionally, why the fuck would roast beef have gotten some tickets for a show like this

i mean, it seems like maybe Pat would have been the culrpit... it's something weird enough that i can see him hating people for being weirded out by the whole thing  ;-)

 -- hytmal **name is not related to Achewood canon**

[Thousand Sons]

Chris never ceases to amaze me with his creativity.  I love the fact that Achewood has never been pigeonholed into just a comic about 'funny animals'!  :wink:

[ndpatel]

Chris never ceases to amaze me with his creativity.  I love the fact that Achewood has never been pigeonholed into just a comic about 'funny animals'!  :wink:

You are either Onstad's wife, or his mother.

I vote mom, because I think moms are rad.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Chris never ceases to amaze me with his creativity.  I love the fact that Achewood has never been pigeonholed into just a comic about 'funny animals'!  :wink:

It's also about funny stuffed toys.

[Thousand Sons]

It's also about funny stuffed toys.

And Roomba vacuum cleaners.

[Null]

It's also about funny stuffed toys.

And Roomba vacuum cleaners.

And rollerskates.

[Golfhaus]

It's also about funny stuffed toys.

And Roomba vacuum cleaners.

And rollerskates.

And education.

[Thousand Sons]

And hugs.



"Hug the fuck out of 'em Phillipe!"