"Fungi and Fun Gals", a Cartoon Tickler tribute (F/F, foot; **/FF, feet, underarm).

[Low_Roads]

Incredible! What a read! 🙂 This story is just perfect. You've managed to capture just the right atmosphere in every scene; from the retro-comic title page (a great tribute to the 50's-60's!) to the tripping hallucinations of the forest. And the latter scenes were great, possible the most believable hallucination scenes I've ever seen in a comic. Everything is just a little bit exagerated. Like in that panel where hayley towers over the spaced-out katie almost monstrously grinning. I also like how you have adapted c_tickler's characters to your own style ( just like you did with my Kitzalia and her henchmen) They really seem to belong in the comic universe you've created. They've become a little bit grittier, as kopfhorer said; more Crumb-ier. 🙂
Finally, I would agree that someone should publish your comics in print. I for sure would buy them. Your work got to be amongst the literature of tickling! 🙂

As always, Scav, you're so on top of so many of the things I'd hope to accomplish! (why do I sound surprised! As one of the most stellar of our Community's stellar talents, you understand these motivations and techniques better than most of us ever will!) The title page was indeed meant to harken back to the days of 10-cent comix (as an EC fan, I love all their stuff, even the romance titles, which this sort-of resembles. Considering Hayley's barely concealed ardor, it seemed fitting). And I'm so pleased you made special mention of looming Hayley on page 5! I particularly wanted that picture to work (it was a money-shot, of sorts, an establishing image to set up the hallucinatory pages)!

As with every artist's characters I've been lucky enough to adapt (the ferocious Kitazlia more than once!), learning to draw Katie, Hayley and Chewy has proved a fun, satisfying, educating experience! I have you to thank for that... it was your superb "World's Collide" series that first prompted me to try my hand! It has proved so worthwhile! Tabor County is a pretty insular landscape... these touches of a grander universe (with its myriad wonderful talents and personalities) make it a hundred times more potent and relevant than it could otherwise be!

 

[His Divine Shadow]

A psychedelic journey we have! Well, that and a crazy girl. 😛 Both are delightful! And, once again, I have flashbacks to the time I saw Little Shop of Horrors when viewing that plant. Audrey Jr./2 calls for bloooooood ...

You may rejoice, then, that they're both anesthetized!

That is a superb line. 😛

 

[Low_Roads]

A psychedelic journey we have! Well, that and a crazy girl. 😛 Both are delightful! And, once again, I have flashbacks to the time I saw Little Shop of Horrors when viewing that plant. Audrey Jr./2 calls for bloooooood ...

Oh yeah! Go Audrey Jr! (I'm a huge fan of the brilliant Roger Corman original, having owned copies on DVD, tape and super -8 film!) Chewy is definitely his spiritual twin... more mobile and less gabby, but entirely as potent! CT's come up with a classic concept in Chewy; also Hayley... perhaps even more so, as I don't believe she has any antecedent! Thank you HDS! :super_hap It's been a pleasure to work with them, and I 'm delighted I could do 'em some measure of justice!

 

[toesinhose]

That... was... awesome!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! Please do more!

 

[Low_Roads]

Thank you, Toesinhose, for the sizable bump-up, for your enthusiastiasm and for all the compliments! More will indeed be forthcoming... Chapter 8 of the regular Low Roads series is well underway! All preliminary work is done; I have three pages of linework finished, and the completed story should be ready to present by the end of May!

 

[TheJacques]

Many thanks, my friend

I love how your tickle art incorporates a surreal, dark/hallucinagenic flavor. Many, many thanks, btw, for reading my story and commenting. More to come!

 

[Low_Roads]

I love how your tickle art incorporates a surreal, dark/hallucinagenic flavor.

Thank you, Jacques! :content: Sending CT's lovely ladies on a short, wild trip (any excuse to vary the terrain!) was great fun! And menaces don't come much darker than Chewy, the plant who likes to play with his food! I'm very glad the exercise proved pleasing!

Many, many thanks, btw, for reading my story and commenting. More to come!

My great pleasure! Your story ("Osio's House", in the Non-Tk Story Section) is well structured, easy to read and full of quirky character touches and surprises! I eagerly look forward to the next one!

 

[Darth Vegeta]

Nice extra, another tiny masterpiece.
Why oh why am i not surprised? 😀

 

[Low_Roads]

Nice extra, another tiny masterpiece.
Why oh why am i not surprised? 😀

Much as I delight in supplying surprises, a reduction in quality is one I'd be chagrined to provide! Very grateful that this little interlude didn't disappoint! Thank you, Darth V! Low Roads Chapter 8 coming very soon!

 

[Featherdemon]

A fitting tribute excellently portrayed. 😀😀😀😀

 

[Low_Roads]

A fitting tribute excellently portrayed. 😀😀😀😀

Thank you Feathers! Yes indeed, creating a mini-adventure for icons Katie and Hayley (and Chewy, of course) proved to be great fun and just the routine-breaker I needed the time! Of course, I'm always grateful for the opportunity to try my hand at the creative designs and carefully crafted personalities of those characters provided by our forum's talented artists! Your own forbidding demon lord Feathers was a splendid thrill to draw... a challenge, with all those sneaking appendages, but an exhilarating one!

 

[FeatherHead]

Boy howdy! That was marvelous! I always liked a good cameo, so no need to tell how much I loved this one! Thumbs up again, LBH!

 

[Low_Roads]

Grateful thanks, Featherhead! CT's a longtime important asset to our Community, and I'm most happy I got the opportunity to honor him this way!

 

[c_tickler]

Again thank you so much LBH, I'm honoured you did this for me..... this Community would not be the same without your beloved contributions/time & effort/praise & superb idea's. 🙂

Grateful thanks, Featherhead! CT's a longtime important asset to our Community, and I'm most happy I got the opportunity to honor him this way!

 

[Low_Roads]

Wonderfully kind of you to say so, CT! Your cherished compliments can be offered back without the slightest fear of contradiction: Katie and Hayley are iconic, picture-perfect spokes-lasses for our Community's ideals... one needs no excuse for membership other than to delight in they're company and thrill to their adventures!

 

[sXeTickleDiva]

I can't believe I never responded to this. I absolutely loved this mini comic. I love all your comics, you should know that. I'm TickleGoddess06 at Ticklingforum.

 

[Low_Roads]

I can't believe I never responded to this. I absolutely loved this mini comic. I love all your comics, you should know that. I'm TickleGoddess06 at Ticklingforum.

Hi TickleGoddess! A real treat to talk to you here as well as at the TMF! Thanks so much for all your spirited support... it supplies such a nice lift no matter which forum I find it on! I'm most pleased you've enjoyed this side-trip with Katie and Hayley; it was a pleasant change of pace to write and draw, plus it's always great fun to spend time with CT's characters! Glad you got the chance to reply... individual Low Roads chapters aren't always easy to locate. If I'd been smart, I would have put everything in one thread, just as Bandito did with his "TIS" series, or as CT did with "The Good, the Bad and the Ticklish"... a convenience to bear in mind for the next big project!

 

[Mandrake]

Just discovered for the first time (how did i miss it?) It's excellent as is all of your work.

 

[Low_Roads]

Glad you enjoyed it, Mandrake! I don't turn out much in the way of short comic stories (most of my stuff falls into the "Multi-Part Behemoth" category!), so this was a nice change of pace to do! Great fun to spend time with CT's Katie and Hayley, too! Thanks so much for the nice compliment!

 

[melanie2]

I can't believe I never responded to this. I absolutely loved this mini comic. I love all your comics, you should know that. I'm TickleGoddess06 at Ticklingforum.

super neato avatar i might add..

and hey LittleBigHead...could you possibly post this on the city??? please?? for me?? looks pleadingly at you thru doe like eyes..hehe..i didn't know about this..damn...grrr you are full of surprises....

 

[Low_Roads]

... hey LittleBigHead...could you possibly post this on the city??? please?? for me?? looks pleadingly at you thru doe like eyes..hehe..i didn't know about this..damn...grrr you are full of surprises....

I checked, Izzy. Fungi and Fun Gals has already been posted at Tickling City, as part of the Low Roads thread (I was pretty sure I'd included it!); it's located between Chapters 7 and 8, posts 76-77. I was posting a lot of stuff really quickly there at that time, trying to get caught up for a new chapter... I'm not surprised if it got overlooked.

Your doe-like eyes are quite limpid, by the way... mesmerizing... engulfing.... zzzzzzz