Soapy is a Virus

Soapy the Chicken is no ordinary cartoon character. There is more to his blank, stupefying stare than may at first be readily apparent. Soapy is a virus… a bird flu if you will. In fact, by viewing this website, you may have already be infected.

This infection does not involve coughing up your lungs or having your skin develop festering boils, fortunately. No, this infection causes you to draw Soapy the Chicken on any surface that will soak in the pungent ink of a sharpie marker… to spray paint Soapy on the sides of train cars… to crochet Soapy the Chicken voodoo dolls… to cover the world with his heroically moronic iconic visage.

Much like the WWII virus Kilroy, Soapy spreads around through bathroom stalls and alley walls… he could lurk anywhere. If you see Soapy around, please send us photos of him so we can keep track of him or add them yourself to the SoapySightings Flickr gallery.

Win the Soapy the Chicken Award

You may wonder how you go about winning the prestigious and exclusive Soapy the Chicken award.

Well, guess what… YOU’VE already won, you lucky devil!

No, we’re not some Publisher’s Clearinghouse-style scam… Ed McMahon will not be darkening your doorstep… you REALLY ARE A WINNER!!!

And what have you won exactly?

Why, you’ve won the privilege to put up the below “Winner of the Soapy the Chicken Award” banner on your site. We encourage you to have it link to this site. You should feel honored, really.

Here is the code to do so:


Winner of the Soapy the Chicken Award

Soapy’s Cartoonist Outreach Program

Cartoonists! Have you always wanted to have some big name character make a guest appearance in your comic strip for an exciting crossover? Well, we can’t really help you with that. However, Soapy the Chicken is always available to appear in whatever comic strip, book, cartoon or animated film will have him. That’s right, Soapy has no integrity at all… he will appear absolutely anywhere regardless of quality, wit or novelty of the comic… just think of him as the Michael Caine of comics.

How do you go about getting permission to put Soapy in your comic, you may wonder. You don’t! Actually, upon consideration, Soapy will lodge himself in your pen nib until you can’t help but mar an otherwise fine comic strip with his visage. Best just get it over with and be done with it.

However, even though you do not need to ask permission to put Soapy in your strip, we would love to see it when he does go out cheating on us… please send us links or images of wherever he appears. If you do, we’ll link to where you post the cartoon, promote it in our daily post, and archive it here for posterity.

NEW: JOURNEY TO THE BOTTOM OF SOAPY THE CHICKEN

Soapy Guest Appearance Gallery (artists in order of appearance)

Dank (AKA Danno)


See more of Dank’s comics at staplegenius.com

Sean Tenhoff

See more of Sean’s comics at seantenhoff.com

David Steinlicht





See more of David’s comics at allsmall.net and www.cornercomic.typepad.com

M.J.

See more of M.J.’s comics at thepcstudio.tripod.com

Shad Petosky

See more of Shad’s work by following the zillion projects always going on at Big Time Attic.

Max Konardy

See more of Max’s comics at maxeem.com

Joshua and Shelley

See more of the Joshua Tree at joshuatreecomics.com

Bob Lipski

See more of Bob’s work at uptowngirlcomic.com and in the pages of his monthly comic book Uptown Girl.

Nick Raciti

Dan Olson

See more of Dan’s work at bewilderedkid.com.