Zoodents 7: Monkey Badger

This was the final Zoodents comic strip in my university paper, and so the final strip to ever be published anywhere (even if it was just a student rag).

It was a good run, and I got a lot of excellent feedback. After a couple of years of weird, very studenty comic strips, people liked having what was a relatively normal comic to read.

But Zoodents ran alongside one of these weird comics in a few issues. It was occasionally very strange, often not funny (or not supposed to be funny) and always dribbled with song lyrics and Japanese lettering. The art style was a twisted scrawl with panels occasionally being drawn in a kind of realism. This was the inspiration for Monkey Badger.

The cartoonist of the other strip contacted me shortly after this went to press - how they got my email I don't know. I never did work out if they thought the parody was offensive or justified. They just offered to buy the rights to Monkey Badger!