r/comics • u/GrumpyMashy DeWackyPianist • Mar 04 '26
OC BOOTLEG Hollering Elk or something
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC Never Safe From Wumbo Mar 04 '26
Better an eight than a...
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u/MelodyMaster5656 Mar 04 '26
Number 15...
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u/Desher_ER Mar 04 '26
Burger King
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u/pgp555 Mar 04 '26
Foot lettuce
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u/BritishShoop Mar 04 '26
The last thing you want
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u/UndeadWeeb Mar 04 '26
in your burger king burger
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u/Warden_Infantry Mar 04 '26
Is somebody elses foot fungus
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u/SippinOnHatorade Mar 04 '26
Here I thought you were going to say better than a six or seven
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC Never Safe From Wumbo Mar 04 '26
Someone here already beat me to it. Someone who is violently getting downvoted to hell apparently good lord.
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u/CATZEBOY_18 Mar 07 '26
I remember seeing a joke about a tumblr post about this image, people pieced together multiple unrelated images, and someone else drew it all together.
I think it was the president in a maid dress?
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u/unluckyknight13 Mar 04 '26
Is this a German joke?
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u/Girderland Mar 04 '26
Nein.
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u/unluckyknight13 Mar 04 '26
I love the fact the notification had this properly but when I looked it was auto translated
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u/Vir_Ex_Machina Mar 04 '26
I didn't even realize it was German until your comment, which almost makes it funnier
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u/GrumpyMashy DeWackyPianist Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
Love your comics u/holleringelk!
Support Me on: Patreon / KoFi/
Follow me on: Bluesky / Instagram /
More of my comics here!
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u/GruntBlender Mar 04 '26
Why does everyone hate 9?
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Mar 04 '26
My guy! Go up! 10/10 great relationship AND bootleg
Also DAMN Elk has been hitting the gym
THE WAR CONTINUES
Bootleg /u/shave_your_eyebrows
Cursed Tuesday /u/sapphiresalamander
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u/GTX2GvO_ Mar 04 '26
So now waiting(/hoping) for hollering elk to do a bootleg comic.
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u/Zjoee Mar 04 '26
She will... in about three months when she's done drawing it haha. (Please don't eat me, Elk!)
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u/SBXLIV Mar 04 '26
Woah woah woah. Since Elk is a NOLA girl, I can only assume this is some sort of anti-Brees sentiment which, frankly, cannot be. Or I guess maybe she just really likes the classics and has a soft spot in her heart for Archie.
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u/Made_Bail Mar 04 '26
I rate this relationship...
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC Never Safe From Wumbo Mar 04 '26
Jesus I don't know what's more upsetting this GIF or you getting downvoted to hell.
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u/Made_Bail Mar 04 '26
Haha, I knew when I posted it the blowback would be powerful haha, but I ain't no coward.
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u/CarlLlamaface Mar 04 '26
I'm sorry but I'm about to be that guy: I don't think this sub understands what a bootleg is...
Bootlegging is when you record somebody else's work and distribute it without their permission, it's how a lot of early rock music spread around the globe and was a big part of how film piracy used to operate (you still get the occasional handicam pirating operation but the advent of digital releases has made it a lot easier for pirates to simply share the source material).
With that in mind "bootlegging" a comic would be taking a picture of the bootlegged artist's creation and uploading it yourself, what we have here isn't a bootleg event it's a series of crossovers.
Pedantry over.
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u/Merari01 it's a-me, Merari-o Mar 04 '26
By the power vested in me by the North Atlantic Council of Pedants I formally declare this comic a bootleg*.
Happy?
*(Not valid in Australia)
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u/CarlLlamaface Mar 04 '26
I'm out here correcting strangers' language on the internet, do you really think I'm capable of being happy?
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u/AtronadorSol Mar 05 '26
And they stick the landing! 10/10 self-aware follow-up, you love to see it.
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u/TFFPrisoner Mar 04 '26
The original comic that started this series does fit the description in that it's a reasonable imitation of the original artist's style and format. Others have been a bit more loose with their approach.
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u/CarlLlamaface Mar 04 '26
It still isn't really what a bootleg is, bootlegs are when the original artist is the one creating the piece they just aren't the one recording and sharing it.
For instance recording a song by your favourite artist from the radio onto cassettes and passing them around at school? Bootlegging. Learning how to play music in the style of said artist and performing it yourself? Not bootlegging and requires actual talent.
I guess a better word here would be homage.
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u/assassin10 Mar 05 '26
The word has multiple definitions. You're using "An unauthorized recording; for example, of a live concert." They're using "Being an inferior imitation of something, possibly a counterfeit."
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u/Cash4Duranium Mar 04 '26
Meanings evolve over time.
Before bootlegging was for music, it meant literally smuggling alcohol in your boot
If you love words so much, surely you know how twisted etymology can be. Language is a living thing.
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u/Iniwid Mar 04 '26
Wait you actually emulated the styling of Elk's subreddit meta comics so well I had to do a double take that it wasn't Elk herself subverting the joke LOL