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Matthew Smith 💙

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Hello, readers! For when the inevitable happens and Twitter vanishes right up El Loon's fundament, here are some other places where you can find my reliably unpopular doings: Try to contain your excitement.

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

5 years

Eight...nine...ten! Aaaaand he's out! Rumble Rooster couldn't get back up in time! Which means, ladies and gents, we have a winner! By a knockout in round nine, it's the red wrecking ball, Mad Moe McCaw! (Art by @Greenendorf . You rock out loud, sir!) #BoxingDay #MadMoeMcCaw

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7 years

Finally, the amazing @TairuPANdA was groovy enough to render this stunning shot of Moe walloping his character Puma Tuler, with guest appearances from other chars belonging to @Greenendorf , @Doppleganger5 , @Dead_stray_bear and @OrangeTavi . BOOM! #BoxingDay #MadMoeMcCaw

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5 years

The big fight between Rumble Rooster and Mad Moe is underway, and OOF! The king-sized cockerel dodges a wild right from the pugnacious parrot, and catches him square in the gut with a hellacious left hand! Can McCaw make a comeback? (Art by @Greenendorf .) #BoxingDay #MadMoeMcCaw

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3 years

Greetings, grapple fans! It's time to take your ringside seats for another mighty match-up brought to you by the oustandingly excellent @KerWresArts : It's rowdy ape "Monkeywrench" Jim Simyan vs top chap @BandanaBird 's relentless lizard Tyson! #Wrestling

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Matthew Smith 💙

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3 years

Here be the Bowser sketch in question, drawn in the course of creating a commission piece. The big guy makes for quite a convincing scrapper!

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@Amiga_Square

5 years

And now, ladies and gents, it's time for our #BoxingDay main event, as rendered by the eternally lovely @Greenendorf . It's a super-heavyweight showdown between Mr Green's barnyard battler, Rumble Rooster, and the one, the only, Maurice "Mad Moe" McCaw! Seconds out! #MadMoeMcCaw

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5 years

The burly bird brawl continues, and WHAM! Mad Moe McCaw sends Rumble Rooster reeling with a colossal left hook to the jaw! The barnyard battler is going down! Can he possibly beat the count? (Art by @Greenendorf .) #BoxingDay #MadMoeMcCaw

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Matthew Smith 💙

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4 years

Here's a tremendously splendid thing courtesy of the outstandingly excellent @MrKermodeBear – a fantastic, action-packed comic page featuring his character Owen the eagle in a bruising wrestling bout with my pugnacious parrot, Mad Moe McCaw! Blimmin' ace, innit? #MadMoeMcCaw

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Matthew Smith 💙

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4 years

@chibiandchill Sandi Toksvig once described Anne Robinson as a “poisonous twat”. Seems a perfectly fair assessment.

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

1 year

A couple of minutes later, both @BuckTheBeaw and Jim Simyan have landed multiple weighty punches on each other; and after stunning Buck with a jab to the head, Jim follows up with a hefty left to the bear's undefended belly. THUMP! Art by @MerDeKyle7 ! #BoxingGorillaDay #BuckvsJim

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2 years

The commish ended up taking a different shape, but @Greenendorf splendidly allowed me to develop his sketch into something new. So here we have Mad Moe McCaw's very first fight with Rumble Rooster, at a county fair in the height of summer. Let the feathers fly! #MadMoeMcCaw

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1 year

Ladies and gentlebeasts, we have a tie! @BuckTheBeaw and Jim Simyan fought each other to a standstill, and what a show they put on in the process! Now they've managed to pick themselves up, let's give these tough guys a big hand! Art by @MerDeKyle7 ! #BoxingGorillaDay #BuckvsJim

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@Amiga_Square

5 years

Last (for this evening), but by no means least, we have this epic scene courtesy of the corking @CartoonrockeR , in which we see @ScretAgentBeast 's Steel (on the left) eating an almighty right from @Da_Boz_Tiger 's Bruiser, with @RyouLen 's Tanner as the ref. WHAM! #BoxingGorillaDay

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After a quarter of an hour the punches are flying less frequently, but they don't hurt any less when they land! Pulling up @BuckTheBeaw 's head to sock him in the nose again, Jim instead gets a ferocious right hand to the gut. THUD! Art by @MerDeKyle7 ! #BoxingGorillaDay #BuckvsJim

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1 year

Fully 20 minutes since the start of this bout, and both @BuckTheBeaw and Jim are on their last legs. Dazed, bruised and bloody-nosed, they summon all their remaining strength to take a swing at each other simultaneously – and BOOM! Art by @MerDeKyle7 ! #BoxingGorillaDay #BuckvsJim

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

3 years

Regular viewers may recall that, a while back, I ran an art raffle to win a digi-coloured character illo. That raffle was won by @TheMightyUrsa , and here's his burly bruin Boris taking a break from boxing and getting ready to do some grappling instead. Watch out, wrestleblokes!

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

3 years

Simian salutations! It's #APEril Art Raffle time, ahead of #BoxingGorillaDay 2022 (July 22)! Follow, RT, Like and Comment with an image of your OC to enter, and TWO winners will box each other. Non-apes are welcome: if you win, your OC gets gorilla-fied! Entries close April 15.

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Matthew Smith 💙

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5 years

@moonjam @BBCLondonNews That'll be why it's gone green and is emitting bubbles, then.

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Matthew Smith 💙

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6 years

Well, this is what those sketches were building towards: A big ol' brawl between DK and the King of the Koopas, with the pugnacious ape dodging a punch from the lumbering lizard and landing him a collosal thump to the belly in return. Enjoy! #BoxingGorillaDay

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

3 years

It's time for some more wrasslin' action, courtesy of @ArtByPac , featuring Mad Moe McCaw in a rematch with the terrifically tenacious @BriskyCoyote ! The submission-savvy canine made Moe tap out in their first encounter, so the parrot's been brushing up on his holds! #MadMoeMcCaw

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Matthew Smith 💙

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7 years

Good-natured prison guard Seth Barkley might be an Old English Sheepdog, but he's also an accomplished boxer. @CaptainGerBear

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Matthew Smith 💙

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5 years

Hello, all! Here's an arty thing I've been meaning to finish for quite some time, starring @MegaWaffle 's marvellous bulldog brawler Hector and my Siberian cat wrassler Dimitri "Big D" Bovvamog, both positively *itching* to start thumping one another. Place your bets now, viewers!

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1 year

A big part of Boxing Gorilla Day is the sharing and posting of pics created specially for the occasion by various marvellous artists, like this collection of illustrations by the terrifically talented @TheBlueBear27 , depicting my alien ape character Chimp Ion! #BoxingGorillaDay

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Matthew Smith 💙

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6 years

Okay, it's not a boxing-themed piccy, but it involves a ring and lots of punching so what the flip. Here, courtesy of the groovy @Eclipticafusion , we see burly cat Dimitri Bovvamog (AKA Big D) bashing Dusty Grrnor, a luckless wolf belonging to the lovely @Jimy55 . Oof! #BoxingDay

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Matthew Smith 💙

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7 years

Brawlin' Bowser!

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

1 year

Blow after booming blow has already left @BuckTheBeaw and Jim Simyan somewhat the worse for wear in this slobberknocker of a taped fist bout, but they just keep on sluggin'! And SMACK! A huge left cross from Jim sends Buck reeling! Art by @MerDeKyle7 ! #BoxingGorillaDay #BuckvsJim

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Matthew Smith 💙

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4 years

@Coelasquid Given how blatantly he repeats the same poses and expressions over and over and over again, it's a wonder he still finds work. But hey, I imagine it makes his page turnaround a darn sight quicker, and perhaps that's all Marvel cares about. Just get those books out the door!

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Matthew Smith 💙

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5 years

What ho! Here's a groovesome bit of grapply goodness from the ultra-nifty @RattyKai , featuring arch-rivals Hector ( @MegaWaffle 's burly bulldog) and Dimitri "Big D" Bovvamog in the midst of another no-holds-barred street fight match. It's an all-out wallop-fest, ladies and gents!

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

2 years

Well, to mark #Fightober , it's time for round two – and both Moe and Wingman have come out swinging! It's the burly burd brawl to end 'em all! And it once again comes to us courtesy of @BillMund and his marvellously talented arty hands. Who's your money on? #MadMoeMcCaw

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

5 months

Hello, all! I have drawn a thing. Inspired by @NanoTheHedgehog 's spiffingly fun Disney/Fox And The Hound alternate universe, here we have Copper (in the red gear) in the midst of a hard-hitting boxing bout against Danny (in the blue), the Great Dane from 101 Dalmatians. Ker-POW!

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@Amiga_Square

7 years

By the endlessly spifftacular @Greenendorf , here's a shot of Moe in rather more jocular form, happily signing autographs for his fans. He's not such a bad sort, really. #Wrestling #MadMoeMcCaw

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

17 days

While it's highly unlikely I shall have the time to draw anything myself for Fightober, I may be able to share a few new pieces by other folk. Here's a pic of rowdy reindeer Barney "Iron Hooves" Balonki by @CaptainGerBear for Day 1: Bruised. #Fightober #Fightober2024

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@Amiga_Square

3 months

For your viewing pleasure, @NanoTheHedgehog and I give you: Kerchak vs Tublat: Slugfest For Supremacy! Bonus points if you can guess which classic Studio Ghibli movie inspired certain elements of this opening page. #BoxingGorillaDay #KerchakvsTublat (Part 1)

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7 years

Next up is Maurice "Mad Moe" McCaw who, as well as being a successful pro wrestler, is a dab hand at the ol' fisticuffs. @CaptainGerBear

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1 year

And that, dear viewers, brings Boxing Gorilla Day/Weekend to a close for 2023! Scores have been settled, much punching has taken place, and @BuckTheBeaw and Jim will be off shortly to exchange their fist tape for bandages. Hurrah! Art by @MerDeKyle7 ! #BoxingGorillaDay #BuckvsJim

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3 years

And, because Boxing Gorilla Day wouldn't be complete without Apeman and Chimp Ion clambering into the ring, here's a top-notch illo of the pair of 'em duking it out (while Apeman's sidekick, Monkeyboy, looks on worriedly) by the ultra-amazing @Otukimi0808 . BOOM! #BoxingGorillaDay

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

6 years

Inspired by the art of @HoundGrey and @MegaWaffle , I decided to doodle a character I've not drawn for entirely too long. So watch out, wrasslin' mutts! The one and only Dimitri Bovvamog, AKA Big D, AKA The Dog Destroyer, is back in action – and he's comin' for ya! Oh yes.

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Matthew Smith 💙

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3 years

D'you know what? It's time for another pugilistic piccy, and on this occasion it's my half of an art trade with the heartily marvellous @NanoTheHedgehog , featuring my scrappin' sheepdog Seth Barkley and his brawlin' bulldog Bingo Wazziz in the midst of a right old slobberknocker!

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Matthew Smith 💙

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2 years

"Callin' all orc boyz 'n' uvver fantasy fighters! Think yer an 'ard case? Then now's the time ta prove it by steppin' inta @ZeirosLion 's Warband Wrestlin' ring! Ain't that right, Moz?" "Dead right, Ogrokh! This #Orctober , the WW wants YOU! Tell 'em The Beer Monsters sent ya!"

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Matthew Smith 💙

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4 years

Now, as is traditional during the latter stages of Boxing Gorilla Day, it's time to see who'll be fighting in our main events. First, coming to us from the brilliant @BobbyLontra , it's a mega-heavyweight match between Apeman (on the left) and Chimp Ion! BIFF! #BoxingGorillaDay

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Matthew Smith 💙

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1 year

If you're wondering what Boxing Gorilla Day is, it's the special day of the year (always on July 22) when I shine a spotlight on arty things depicting primates of a pugilistic persuasion, like this striking illustration by Toni Reyna. #BoxingGorillaDay

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

4 years

Sticking with the wrestling theme, here's a commission I was lucky enough to get recently from the outstandingly excellent @Knux17 , in which his hefty German shepherd Archer is getting worked over in no uncertain manner by my feline freight train, Dimitri "Big D" Bovvamog. OOF!

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

3 years

Without wishing to be unkind to protagonist Steve, who does seem fun, I can't help thinking that @RumbleMovie might have benefited from having one of these guys as its central character. Let's say, completely unbiasedly and at random, the giant mutant gorilla fella. For example.

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

4 years

Coming up now is a BIG fight in every sense of the word; a monsterweight bout between the one and only King Kong and up-and-coming young scrapper The Great Grape Ape, captured in exemplary style by the remarkable @Thymilph . Seconds out, round one! BOOM! #BoxingGorillaDay

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Matthew Smith 💙

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3 years

"Moving into the semi-finals of King Of The Ring: Gorillas Of Gaming, we find Donkey Kong and Jake Ostiombe trading blows in New Donk City. It's round after round of knock-down drag-out thumpage – and it ends with a KO from DK!" Fight pic by @TheChocoFox ! #BoxingDay #KOTRGOG

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3 years

@wrestlecub Tell him if he's looking for a fight, he'll have to put his name down on the register and wait his turn like everyone else. And he'll need to organise his own tag partner. And if he wants a Beer Monsters balloon, they're on sale from the little booth next to the concession stand.

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3 years

While we're at it, here's an MMA DK ready to duke it out with the king of the Koopas!

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7 years

Finally, here's the Captain's ace rendition of @Greenendorf 's pugilistic penguin, René "The Penguinator" Manchot. Hurrah! @CaptainGerBear

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

5 years

So, yeah, I'm quite looking forward to @PenduloStudios ' Blacksad game. #Boxing #Blacksad

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@Amiga_Square

1 year

Kongo and Goon don't show much technical skill during their bout – it's just a brutal seven-round slugfest! And ultimately, it's Gorilla Goon who slugs the hardest, laying the Kongo Killer out cold. Talk about a slobberknocker! Fight pic by @PitiYindee ! #BoxingGorillaDay #KOTRDDO

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4 years

...That would be their arch-rivals, the half-orc/half-pigman biker brothers Agro (left) and Greef Hogg, otherwise known as The Road Hoggs! Buckle your seatbelts, ladies and gents; it's gonna be a wild ride! (Heaps of cheery thanks once again to @Thebluebear27 for creating this!)

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3 years

🎶 Barney, the red-nosed pain deer Has a slightly busted snout And if it's you what done that He is gonna KNOCK YOU OUT 🎵

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Matthew Smith 💙

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2 years

Just putting this out there now: For the (hopefully) inevitable Donkey Kong spin-off movie, DK needs to visit Planet Punch-Out! and get into a plot-critical fight with King Hippo. #SuperMarioMovie #DonkeyKong #APEril #APEril2023

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Matthew Smith 💙

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4 years

Here's the first of two smashing wrestling-themed waist-up commission piccies created by the unfailingly fantastic @Thebluebear27 , starring my orcish tag-team The Beer Monsters, AKA Ogrokh Glug (left) and Mozgrog Broo. So, who are they getting ready to rumble with? Well...

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3 years

The twin-pronged prize in the first ever Boxing Gorilla Day art raffle was to have your character take part in a special exhibition fight – and here you can see @Rockfang27 's Ulrich (in the kilt) and @SkySkater_ 's Omari socking one another in that very bout! #BoxingGorillaDay

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Matthew Smith 💙

@Amiga_Square

7 years

(As a little bonus, here's an alternate version of the previous pic that @greenendorf kindly created, with Moe sporting his trademark biker jacket.) #BoxingDay #MadMoeMcCaw #Penguinator

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3 years

Our King Of The Ring: Gorillas Of Gaming contest is underway, live from the Kangaroo Treehouse Village. We're four rounds into this match between Donkey Kong and Big Ape, and OH! A devastating right from DK! Big Ape is OUT! Fight pic by @Otukimi0808 ! #BoxingGorillaDay #KOTRGOG

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4 years

Round two of the King Kong vs Grape Ape match, and the Kongster is fighting back, sending his younger opponent reeling with an almighty left hook to the jaw. THOOM! (Footage grabbed at great personal risk by the frankly heroic @Thymilph .) #BoxingGorillaDay

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3 months

Boxing Gorilla Day 2024 is drawing to a close, but the primate-punching action isn't *quite* over yet! Courtesy of top chap @ToastyFuzzBuns , here we have a surprise bout between @SkySkater_ 's Omari and @Da_Boz_Tiger 's Boogruk! Cheers for all your support, chaps! #BoxingGorillaDay

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1 year

@terrychristian Luckily, we have Labour waiting in the wings to do nothing substantively different whatsoever. Hooray.

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Matthew Smith 💙

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6 years

@JakeJarvisWV He ought probably to avoid swimming. He'd likely attract whaling ships.

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3 months

A sinister plot! A pre-emptive thwarting! And a whole lot of crunchin' punchin'! But who will emerge victorious in this bruising battle for control of the heart and soul of Mangani City? Read on! #BoxingGorillaDay #KerchakvsTublat (Part 3, by @NanoTheHedgehog and yours truly)

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3 months

Ladies and gents, courtesy of the dynamic duo that is @Thymilph and @Nanbuskhan , we bring you Grape Ape x Kong: The Rematch! (Part 1 by @Thymilph !) And straight away, the confident young champ seems to have the upper hand! #BoxingGorillaDay #GrapeApexKong

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The time has come to introduce the first of two special comic stories to bring Boxing Gorilla Day 2024 to an appropriately punchy conclusion. We start with a sequel to the titanic kaiju brawl seen here, drawn by the fab @Thymilph in 2020: Grape Ape vs King Kong! #BoxingGorillaDay

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7 years

Here's my character Maurice "Mad Moe" McCaw again, getting a bit shouty during one of his promos, as is traditional. #Wrestling #MadMoeMcCaw

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@Captaingerbear "We're seconds into this no-holds-barred tag-team title bout, and it's already turned into a pier-six brawl! All four fighters are outside the ring; Ogrokh and Agro are straight-up slugging each other, and Mozgrog...oh MAN, that's gotta hurt!" (Art by @CaptainGerBear .) #Orctober

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1 year

Another pencilled piece, this time inspired by the attitude-packed Gremlins art of @BulgeMonster and discussions about possible alternate skins for Stripe in MultiVersus. Pro Wrestler Stripe is definitely one I'd love to see!

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@voidroonil I prefer Bob Mortimer's description of him on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, during a round where the object was to describe a pop act without saying their name. He went with, "Pink spotty rubber twat." His teammates guessed who he meant immediately.

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DK thinks he's won! But Rillaboom is getting up – and he looks *mad*! The Pokémon hurtles back into the fray, catching DK off guard; and with a colossal final blow, Rillaboom is our King Of The Ring for 2021! Art by Alan Stewart! #BoxingGorillaDay #KOTRGOG

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2 years

@omegafolf @COWCATGames Ah, but Moe and Brok are old friends! Sort of.

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7 years

Bowser Day, y'say? To mark the occasion, here's a piccy of mine also starring DK, Big Blag and Pimple, plus special guest @Zexyz ! #BowserDay

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Since @FiorelliIvan 's version of Slammu was so cool, I wanted to see him in action against Killamari, with the two of them duking it out in a boxing match as in the episode of Street Sharks called Shark Fight – and thus the following two-page mini-comic was born! #BoxingDay

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Finally, we have the ultimate winner of this year's King Of The Ring: Gorillas Of Gaming contest. From the depths of the Pokémon Jungle, he may be best known as a drummer, but the mighty Rillaboom can bash skulls like he bashes the beat! #BoxingDay #Nintendo #Pokemon #Rillaboom

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Fantastically spiffingly, the super-lovely @AugustoLad_Art has kindly gifted me this ace illustration of his avian grappler, Edgar (the green guy), in the midst of a no-DQ brawl with my burly burd bloke, Maurice "Mad Moe" McCaw. It's a parrot-versus-parrot punchfest! #MadMoeMcCaw

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