Category Archives: Soapy the Chicken

Seedy Soapy Wins a Blue Ribbon!

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Hooray! I just got this message from master Crop Artist David Steinlicht:

Hey Steve,

Soapy the Chicken in seeds won a blue ribbon in the Minnesota State Fair Crop Art competition! (That is, in the Advanced Amateur section, the irregular shapes category.)

You can see the chicken in the Ag-Hort-Bee building in the south-east corner of the fairgrounds. The Ag-Hort-Bee building has the Space Tower ride on the east of it and the Haunted Mansion to the south west of it.

Don’t forget to get some honey flavored ice cream while you’re at the Ag-Hort-Bee building.

David Steinlicht

I always knew Soapy had an irregular shape!

Soapy Strip by Sean Tenhoff

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My friend Sean Tenhoff is going to be swapping comic strips with cartoonists next week… Sean draws the absurdly violent comic The Bean Men. This is the cool Soapy strip he drew for me in exchange for me drawing a Bean Men episode. You may recall Soapy made guest appearances in the Bean Men previously on two occasions, which you can see here and here. I’ll post here when he posts my Bean Men strip so you can check it out… it should be some time after the 5th.

Soapy the Chicken is Getting Really Corny

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While many of you may have noticed that this comic strip has no fear of corny (or even outright bad) jokes, my friend David Steinlicht is going to great lengths to create the corniest Soapy ever. In addition to being an excellent cartoonist, David is also an enthusiast of “crop art.” What is crop art, you may wonder… why it is elaborate art made from seeds! For a more involved description of crop art, see the rules of crop art here.

Here is David’s amazing gallery of crop art, featuring many of the stars of Hong Kong cinema (another of David’s passions… he once went to Hong Kong to meet Jackie Chan… his crop art rendition of Mr. Chan won third place in the amateur category in 1997. I think David has gone professional now).

David is honoring us by choosing to make his next crop art project Soapy the Chicken! And he is blogging about it while he builds it! Hopefully we’ll all be able to check out the finished Soapy at the Minnesota State Fair this year.

#96: Insects

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Man… I can’t believe it’s been a month since the last Soapy strip I drew and posted. Ack. How depressing. Obviously, this strip isn’t getting updated as frequently as it was before… hope you all will stick with it anyhow. I guarantee I’ll update whenever I get to it…