The Honeybunnies

Back in 1985 there was a short-lived television series called George Burns Comedy Week, with each episode starring different characters. There was one in particular I remember watching that really stuck with me as one of the most memorable pieces of prime time comedy from the 1980s. It was called "The Honeybunnies" and featured Howard Hesseman, Laraine Newman, and Casey Kasem.

Hesseman played a grim, existential playwright who enjoyed giving readings on plays about death and despair, but fate trapped him in a position where the only talent he had that could earn an income was writing scripts for an animated series about a bunch of insipid bunnies. The whole thing came across as sort of a cartoonist's Twilight Zone.

This was back in the days before Internet, and before VHS technology was commonplace enough for working Joes like me to record the thing, so the show resided in a favored place in my memory for quite some time without being actually revisited. Eventually, thanks to the kind help of Casey Kasem, believe it or not, I was able to locate a copy of the script about 15 years ago. If there was a commercial copy of the show itself out there, I could never find it and it was too obscure to show up in reruns.

But just recently some wonderful person posted the entire episode in two parts on YouTube. Any cartoonist who has felt a bit trapped by creating their own Tulpa popular character might enjoy this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkV9cnaVOSw (part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vPidb_7N4E (part 2)

Tulpa

First published in 1990 by Starhead Comix in Seattle. My guess I had 4 pages left over from Raining Quills pt. 3 and this was used to fill the space.

The June 2005 1st Danger Room Reprint Ed. had 5 pink cardstock copies and 1 regular white paper copy.

I'm not sure where this story came from. Maybe it was a dream. Black bears are all over the place around here. In fact, McCleary has an annual bear festival where bear stew is served. Seriously.

The tulpa first came to my attention when I learned about Alexandra David-Néel, an adventurer a century ago who wrote of her travels in Tibet and India. In short, she said a tulpa was a fictional character you could visualize until it became real, but they always turned bad and then they became extremely difficult to destroy. She claimed to have actually done this.

After my experience with Morty the Dog, I know how she must've felt.