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Hi ho, everyone. Crowden here. The mad cartoonist responsible for Nickyitis and also Chuckle A Duck and Age of Bacon.
CHUCKLE A DUCK examines atheism, religion, politics, and general silliness from its own unique perspective. Its audience includes atheists, evangelicals, the spiritual, the cynical, young, old, liberals, conservatives and the occasional space alien. Monday through Friday, with the occasional Saturday and/or Sunday posting as well.
But that's not all! If you want a classic strip, then NICKYITIS is waiting, Monday through Friday. The continuing adventures of Nicky Nickel and company.
Is that all? Nope. I also offer the N.S.F.W toon entitled AGEOFBACON. DOT COM. To be REALLY sure nobody goes there accidentally, you'll have to type the url into your browser manually. Because this is for work not safe. Nor for little tykes. So if you're not a fully operational, consenting grown-up, don't be going there. Updates on Sundays.
Thoughful comments and discussion always welcome on all sites. Name calling and general boorish behavior, not so much.
You can move forward a toon at a time on all sites by simply clicking the toon image. Or use the navigation buttons to go forward and back. An archive dropdown on the left of the page lets you jump to anywhere (timewise) that you'd like.
Nickyitis – An epidemic of humorous proportions!
As of 12/10/2012, Nickyitis is being rebooted. So what you'll find here are the basics of Nickyitis's first four years. You'll have to come back for the lowdown on the new version, as it's still being created.
Every Monday through Friday Nickyitis chronicles the continuing adventures of Nicky Nickel and friends. Let's start with the Nickel clan:
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Who's the Nicky of Nickyitis? Nicky Nickel! Nicky's possessed of a LOT of energy and defines free spirit. He enjoys life, has a very active imagination, loves his Binkycakes, and doesn't try to annoy anybody (but often succeeds nonetheless!) Since discovering Ölf he's gotten a taste of what he himself must be like to others because, compared to Ölf, Nicky appears almost responsible. | |
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Ölf. Originally hailing from his home planet Canzis, Ölf came to Earth through an unfortunate accident and quickly teamed up with Nicky. Originally hidden from the rest of the family (and aided by his ability to turn plink), Ölf was eventually outed. Most of Ölf's time is spent learning about our culture and doing his best to solve the ultimate problem: "What's in it for him?" His most life-changing discovery has been just how delicious soap is for a Canzan. | |
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Lex, Nicky's brother, is his polar opposite – logical, serious and focused. He's a Type A over- achiever and has trouble believing that he and Nicky actually share common DNA. Makes for interesting interactions. But they ARE brothers and have been known to cooperate. On occasion. Although he acts older, he and Nicky are in fact very close in age. | |
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Winston, the Cockatoo from Down Under. Gifted to the Nickels under suspicious circumstances, Winston has proven to an acerbic, opinionated and generally overbearing birdie. He fits in quite well! | |
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Ken Nickel is the leader of the Nickel clan. His major obsession is coffee, something he takes VERY seriously. He's athletic (biking whenever the weather is nice and often when it isn't), and tries to maintain a magisterial control of his back yard, something that Sammy, the resident alpha-squirrel, does his best to disrupt. Ken loves speaking with telephone solicitors. | |
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Connie has the task of maintaining some sort of structure in a family with three males plus an Ölf. She is highly health conscious, knows exactly how to maximize nutrition, and has so far failed spectacularly in convincing anyone else to embrace her healthy lifestyle. She's active at a local exercise club and loves nothing more than spending time in her garden, where she grows organically pure produce for her (so far) unappreciative clan. | |
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Sammy rules the outside of the Nickel's homestead and his particular pleasure is raiding Ken's bird feeder. Like most neighborhood house squirrels, Sammy isn't over-awed by his human co-inhabitants. Unlike most, he's developed a taste for Ken's espresso. | |
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The Overboss. Ölf's robot supervisor back on Canzis, only heard and not seen. Whenever Mike the Moron (as Ölf likes to call it) drops down into view, it's sure to presage some unpleasantness. |
What else? Blog entries that can range from short and sweet to in-depth and full of meat. Science, philosophy, art – they're all there. Sometimes long, sometimes short but always something interesting.
Intrigued enough to read more? Then go for it!
Toonfully yours,
Crowden
Discussion (23) ¬
It is quite possible that you have created a new universe to stand beside Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. I enjoy your strips a ton.
Glad to hear you like it. I do try to please!
Crow is so talented! Each character has great expressions, such confidence, that you just cannot help but fall in love with each of them. I especially enjoy Sammy, the Squirrel! What a character! More people need to tune in to Crow's toons!
Your toons should be in newspapers. Or are they? I don't read many newspapers these days.
Purely on the web for now.
Ok, Sarah Palin notwithstanding, humans and dinosaurs DID NOT coexist. Please don't confuse your young readers. We have enough trouble with the Luddites forcing the teaching of "Intelligent Design." Aside from that, your strip is pretty funny.
Thanks
You are, of course, correct that they didn't coexist. No argument here. But this is a comic. Rational kids have no problem separating the two. I sure didn't. Loved Fred Flintstone and loved Bugs Bunny and never for even a brief instant thought Fred was "real" or that dynamite could go off in your hand and only singe your fur.
Personally, I would rather have my children dream and imagine things such as cavemen and dinosaurs, or get a good laugh from the original loony toons, then I would want them to be sterile mindless drones that must accept whatever is the "popular" concept. As for teaching darwinism or intellegent design, I have one little question for you. "Why have things stopped evolving?" There are many animals that are considered living fossils, mosquitoes, dragonflies, fruitflies, ceolcanth, jellyfish, spiders, crocodiles, allagators, sharks etc, etc, etc… all of these are found in fossils that are millions of years old and yet no noticable change between the old ones and the current ones. Why don't we just admit that we don't know how things run and declare evolution as the speculation that it is. A theory or a law for that matter means there must be a scientific test that can be used to verify a hypothosis, neither intellegent design nor evolution can be tested in anyway shape or form. So just drop it and enjoy the comic. If you can't go read something else and leave the author alone to write something the rest of us enjoy.
Hahaha! As far as I'm concerned, none of this matters, but you've certainly added to what the artist was going for when s/he (which is it? I've not yet bothered to check) decided to incite giggles. These comments are pure comedy.
Firstly, I believe that God is a very complex being, as is the universe. And from what I know of evolution, it too is complex. So I don’t see a reason why God couldn’t have created the universe AND evolution. I base part of my belief in this idea beside my belief that God did not create the universe in seven HUMAN days, but seven days to god. And who knows how long that could be.
Secondly, I believe those species you list are older generations, which were of varying sizes and also had things that the modern descendant doesn’t have.
It also helps that Evolution usuually (in fact, almost always) takes place over the course of millenia, rather than a smaller amount like a few decades. I think thats part of the reason why some people have a problem with it. They can’t actually see evolution in action, and so say it doesn’t exist/happen.
Which, oddly enough, is the same thing Aethists say about god.
Oh, and nice comic. It reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes, both in characters and drawing style. If it wasn’t for the fact that their isn’t a stuffed tiger that turns real sometimes, I’d say you effectively copied the idea of C&H and added some personal twists.
their -> there
It’s not a nescient comic; you are.
If you base the seven days of creation by gods (-elohijm) on Scripture, then you must believe all of Scripture which includes the hundreds of mistakes therein.
This is one of my many messages on the YouTube video “I Hate Religion, and Jesus Too” :
Ghen says waters were there first, then earth, then sun, moon, and stars: wrong. It says grasses were there, then seed plants: wrong. It says man (HOCNPS…) was created from earth (OSiAlFeH…): wrong. It says female came after male: wrong. It says world’s languages arose after Tower of Babel (Etemenanci, 1500 BCE): wrong. It says there was a worldwide flood: wrong (also plagiarized Atra-Xasis tale). It says rainbows only 5000 years old: wrong. It says 100s yr. lifetimes of men: wrong.
Here’s the deal, breeder: Evolution has not stopped.
google.com/search?q=site:theblaze.com+alysdexia
google.com/search?q=ethnic+haplogroups
The newest species arose between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago during one of the last glacial extrema in American and Siberian arctic basins. The extant species are in equilibrium as nothing has killed them off.
Luddites had nothing to do with intelligent design. They hated the Industrial Revolution, not dinosaurs. I imagine Luddites might actually have enjoyed dinosaurs, since no dinosaur, as far as I've ever read, oppressed other dinosaurs with exploitative working conditions and borderline slave wages.
Just found this site and I already laughed my ass off
Well, put it back on and keep reading!
This "New Reader" info helps me out a lot with learning more about your universe. I'm a new guy and I can get lost quite easily. Thanks so much for the heads-up!
Happy it helps!
This comic strip can, indeed, compete with Calvin & Hobbes. They should put a link on newspapers since no one actually reads the funnies in there anymore.
I enjoy this.
The right margin (or frame or something) is chopping off the last few letters of every line in the descriptions of the characters.