Schaller, Max – Bird With Tits

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Bird With Tits

Yes, of course this stood out to me at CXC this year! Look at that cover, that’s all kinds of wrong. Max graduated from CCAD here in Columbus this year (I just checked his resume on his website), so he’s had a few years to practice making comics. This one takes a while to get to the cover image, and there is actually a (fairly) reasonable explanation for it, as far as these types of things go. Things start out with our bird hero resting on a park bench, smoking a joint. A kid walks by, tosses a baseball over his shoulder in the general direction of the bird, which hits him square in the eye and causes him to drop his joint. This, naturally, calls for revenge, so he tries to ask another man in the park if he’s seen this kid, but notices that this man already has two black eyes (to his one from the baseball) and is talking to an ice cream sandwich. What I can only hope is a hallucination follows, and he wanders off to spot somebody else with marijuana in the distance. A brief conversation ensues, he smokes something that is very much not marijuana, and he’s immediately off on a psychedelic adventure that, yes, involves him growing breasts as a side effect. It’s a fun story, although if you’re looking for one of those grand morals to tie it all together you probably shouldn’t look in a comic called “Bird With Tits.” But it’s worth checking out, and hey, the guy is more or less just starting out in comics, so throw some encouragement his way! In the form of money. For his comics. $5