To be honest, this was not the best pitch I ever made. It was based on a joke cartoon pitch I made on some other blog floating around where I typed terrible jokes.
Duckflaps is the world’s coolest private detective. He solves mysteries with the gadgets he keeps in his flaps. His best friend is Chorly, the Chocolate Squirrel. Every episode revolves around the town of Whale Lake, so called because it’s situated by a lake with a whale in it. The townspeople of Whale Lake are too busy keeping this whale, who barely fits in the lake, happy and wet and fed. So, they don’t really have a police force for when the dispicably evil Poodle Posse come to town and try and introduce evil practices such as Street Dancing.
Grrrr, street dancers. May they all be shot into the Sun on a rocket made out of cheese, so it gets unbearably hot on the way there and the dancers are all scrambling for a drink of water or something.
At the end of each episode of DUCKFLAPS, after the crime and/or mystery is solved, Flapsy takes a bite out of his chocolate accomplice, Chorly. Over the course of the series, there is less and less of the lovable squirrel, and Duckflaps’ teeth all explode; thus revealing the TRUE HORROR to children of
eating too many sweets.
In April this year, I decided to resurrect the concept and announce it as my NEW COMIC project on April the 1st — another terrible joke. I’m good at these things. I even drew a comic to make this ridiculous thing look more legitimate.
Probably too stupid and/or sinister for children, but I thought I’d draw up a character graphic and send with a bunch of pitches to a certain children’s comic.
For some reason this did not hit the mark, as it were. If I had to choose a moral for this story, it is probably that I shouldn’t be allowed to have ideas. Or something. At least the April fool comic entertained a few people.
