Who is the "Unfunny art jam artist" in the bottom right corner ?

Does WCotP seem to get stupider every day? What the fuck is the point of making a webcomic that nobody can possibly understand? Is he afraid of elaborating a little bit so that other people can get the jokes too?

But what's with the uniform?

Does WCotP seem to get stupider every day? What the fuck is the point of making a webcomic that nobody can possibly understand? Is he afraid of elaborating a little bit so that other people can get the jokes too?

That's the whole point. The in-jokes are supposed to be so obscure that virtually nobody gets them. The fewer people who understand the jokes, the more elite the inner circle is. In other words, it's a circle jerk on display.

OK, may have been covered before...

http://www.graphxpress.com/images/merchandise/wcotpbk8Keeponmuckin.jpg

He draws lots of chaotic assemblies.
http://www.graphxpress.com/cgi-bin/wcotp.cgi?date=20050717

I seem to remember seeing furries decked out in Heer and even occasionally Waffen-SS* or SS gear...

Pic NSFW from ED: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Image:Anime_furry_nazis.jpg

Part of me is saying "The uniform on the one on the left is slightly odd... The collar patch looks wrong, and I can't see any SS insignia on the cap... It looks more like a Heer uniform, with siegrunen just chucked on, and of course the artist has chosen to portray Field Grey as being more green than grey... The one on the right looks to be dressed in Allgemeine-SS** or SS-Totenkopfverbande*** uniform... Or perhaps an SS Panzer uniform..."

And then another part of me is "DUDE IT'S A WOLF BLOWING A FOX AND THEY'RE IN SS UNIFORM".

*The military wing of the SS, originally incorporating men taken from the other wings of the SS, then new recruits.
**The general SS.
***Concentration camp guards, some were taken to form the SS division Totenkopf.

Check out the ED furry article then. It's one of those things that has to be seen, for WtF value.

It's not especially nasty porn-wise, but I simply don't get what's with the Nazi gear, or Groat's German uniform.

Seriously, I have seen at least 3 separate instances of WWII Wehrmacht or even SS imagery in furry stuff. Maybe even 4-5.

Why dobermans and not German shepherds?

Why dobermans and not German shepherds?

Search me, you'd have to ask the gay nazi furs. I thought someone here expressed a fondness for "dobies" once ask him/her. Someday i will own a german shepherd, my buddies got a kennel club one and it's one of the coolest dogs ever.

Why dobermans and not German shepherds?

Search me, you'd have to ask the gay nazi furs. I thought someone here expressed a fondness for "dobies" once ask him/her. Someday i will own a german shepherd, my buddies got a kennel club one and it's one of the coolest dogs ever.

I've seen German Shepherds too. I think most furries assume Dobermans are German, and therefore Nazi because they share a bit of their name with a German tactic; "Pincher".

Groat just likes Nazi parephenalia because he hates the French, and once went to said nation with a Wermarcht cap, embuing the same spirit as a teenager who goes to an local GOP headquarters wearing a hammer and sickle.

Now, I cold see how one can be attracted to uniforms and not ideals of dictatorships. I happen to collect ex-soviet crap, and I even have a friend who owns an Iraqi Republican Guard uniform. Yet, I don't think Marx was teh awesome. However, the furries who post on the nazifur LJ group where that picture was posted seem to actually endorse fascism. While homosexuals like them would have ended up in concentration camps.

Groat just likes Nazi parephenalia because he hates the French, and once went to said nation with a Wermarcht cap, embuing the same spirit as a teenager who goes to an local GOP headquarters wearing a hammer and sickle.

Groat just likes Nazi parephenalia because he hates the French, and once went to said nation with a Wermarcht cap, embuing the same spirit as a teenager who goes to an local GOP headquarters wearing a hammer and sickle.

I don't know why Groat likes the Wehrmacht caps, but I think he was just blissfully ignorant that it's not a good idea to wear German WWII regalia while visiting any country that was attacked and occupied by the Nazis.

What the dickens is "Red Shetland" anyhoo?

I recall Groat saying in a post somewhere that the cap in question was a postwar German army cap from the 50s.

Any image of the hat in question ?

If it is the hat he wears on the "furry fan card" then its not german or military.
Looks like something Fidel Castro would wear.

What the dickens is "Red Shetland" anyhoo?

I recall Groat saying in a post somewhere that the cap in question was a postwar German army cap from the 50s.

And I recall numerous sources saying in many different forms of communicative media that Groat is a compulsive liar.

The art quality and content of european comics has a very wide spectrum from very bad to excellent. But if something sells here does not depend on quality but on the content and the target audience. Their stuff did not sell because it was done for another audience. Europe is one of the most independant, unpredictable and uncertain market for these things.

Groat just likes Nazi parephenalia because he hates the French, and once went to said nation with a Wermarcht cap, embuing the same spirit as a teenager who goes to an local GOP headquarters wearing a hammer and sickle.

I don't know why Groat likes the Wehrmacht caps, but I think he was just blissfully ignorant that it's not a good idea to wear German WWII regalia while visiting any country that was attacked and occupied by the Nazis.

I recall Groat saying in a post somewhere that the cap in question was a postwar German army cap from the 50s.

I think it was Skunked that had a short by one of the artists that had to put up with Groat during this. I use the term artist very loosy when it comes to Colin Upton. He's a self-publisher of mini-comics that used to and probably still does live off the Canadian version of public assistance. Anyway, I think Bobby or someone has a scanned copy of the book.

The French are extremists about their comics. They hate what are United States and American comics. These little paper things of 32 pages of badly coloured work. I've got a few examples of standard French comics and they are what Marvel sells at Marvel Masterworks. Large graphic novels, beautifully painted works. The reason Art Spiegelman was invited (it's pretty legendary because of all the shit that hit the fan over there with the uninvited idiots) was because of his work. Several other legends of United States comics were invited over, fully paid for their time. The French loved their work. The uninvited were seen basically as trash and it's understandable, at least to me.

Any image of the hat in question ?

If it is the hat he wears on the "furry fan card" then its not german or military.
Looks like something Fidel Castro would wear.

It was the modern version of this WWII German cap:



The Germans still use the exact same design of cap, though without the eagle emblem.

Frequently, the color layer was shifted noticibly off of the linework. (I dont know the techincal terms for that part of the industry, the printing)

What he had is probably a replica sold to those oddballs that like to reenact WW2 battles for some reason.

As far as I can tell it's a comic about a female barbarian red shetland who wears a chainmail bra and has a sword and I can only assume she goes about saving the day in a Xena-like fashion but I can't be for certain since I've never actually read an issue. She does make plenty of appearances in the WCotP comic, though.

My biggest problem with Groat at the moment is the guy just sits around and whines about having no money and no life and nobody loves him, boo hoo. His marriage sucks, his wife is a bitch, yadda yadda. He doesn't take too well to the suggestion that he get off his fat ass and GO GET A JOB either. All you ever hear from him is "Give me commissions! Give me commissions! I can't pay my bills!"

But he went to Disneyland for a week for the 50th anniversary. Sure Jim, you have no money. Maybe you're just immature and stupid.

European customs CAN cause you trouble. Though the borders between the countries *inside* the european union were opened the borders *into* the EU are still there. *dramatic exaggeration* The stereotypes of which european countries hate each other are all true. He could have made it worse, had he spoken british english at customs.

I pray to God there is not a military wing of the furry fandom. They could be like the Black Panthers: Following anime/SF-F con security around with guns to make sure no fursecution happens.

Looking through WikiFur reminded me of the old fun-poking "Skunk" comic, which had a strip lampooning Groat, and I re-read it and sure enough, it was a replica WW2 cap!

He doesn't take too well to the suggestion that he get off his fat ass and GO GET A JOB either. All you ever hear from him is "Give me commissions! Give me commissions! I can't pay my bills!"

Maybe more people would commission him if he could fucking draw something other than equines. Have a zebra/unicorn/whatever character? Great, it'll be done in a minute. Watching him struggle with a non-equine drawing, continually looking back to his little encyclopedia of animals, and taking FOREVER, is actually rather amusing.