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Do you know your pets so well you could create a comic from their point of view? Sarah does. The 25-year-old from Texas has two birds: a sweet but birdbrained cockatiel, Chicken, and a tiny but bossy parrotlet, Blue Boy, and she dedicated an entire comic series to them.
"[The stories are generally told] from Chicken's perspective with humans mostly off-screen, hence 'Chicken Thoughts,'" Sarah told Bored Panda. "I love how intelligent birds are but also how illogical they can be -- I'm sure we're the same way!"
Most of the strips were inspired by real-life pet behaviors, and are often thought up when Sarah's birds do something funny. "One thing that makes the series special is I draw comics about some of my readers' birds too, and have them on as guest stars! People will tell me a little bit about their birds and I come up with comics about them, drawn in my googly-eye style."
Sarah makes comics because she is a big fan of comedy and memes, and you can certainly get that from her works. They're lighthearted and self-aware. However, the comics aren't shallow at all. On the contrary; they perfectly capture all the nuances of living with companion parrots and their behavior. Continue scrolling and check them out.
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There's even a book! Chicken Thoughts: Comics About Birds will come out on the 1st of November, 2020 but is already available to pre-order. And Sarah has definitely worked long and hard to get to this point. "I've drawn comics for my friends at least since I was 11 years old," the self-taught artist said. "My best friend Jacky and I were in a lot of the same grade school classes, and we would draw cartoons about ourselves and our classmates and show each other. My earliest influence was Calvin and Hobbes, I would read my mom's collections as a child." Now, Sarah is also a fan of other bird cartoonists like Potatopato, A Budgie's Life, and It's A Birb Thing. She also loves animals and thinks they are much more like us than we realize.
Sarah hopes that people who don't have birds can still enjoy her comics, and maybe learn to appreciate birds, too. She definitely does. Besides Chicken and Blue Boy, she has also had another parrotlet, White Boy, who makes rare appearances in the series.
"A lot of people wonder why the cartoon Chicken is a lutino male while the real-life Chicken is a grey female. That's because I just drew the first comic as a one-off about cockatiels in general and posted it in a Facebook bird group. It was such a hit that people asked me to make a page and post more! So the comic Chicken became based on my real-life bird, Chicken."
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Camryn Ortega Griffin 3 years ago
HAHAHA i take the birds to the mirror and there just peck the glass and bite it
Monika Soffronow 4 years ago
"An estimated 365 million to 1 billion birds die each year from “unnatural” causes like building collisions in the US. The greatest bird killer in the US remains the estimated 60-100 million free-range cats that kill up to 4 billion birds a year." https://theconversation.com/buildings-kill-millions-of-birds-heres-how-to-reduce-the-toll-130695
danielw 4 years ago
glass is transparent, and there's not a lot of things that are transparent in nature. as for seeing a mirror, they *do* see the image being reflected in the mirror- when they're looking at it, that image will frequently be themselves, but they don't appear to realize that.
Load More Replies...She said her real birds act much like their comic personas. "They are allowed to roam around the apartment every day, and they mostly like to hang around me and my boyfriend preening, asking for food, and receiving head scritches."
Another thing that's really cool about Chicken Thoughts is how tight-knit the fans of the series are. They're a true community. Last year, for example, the readers of the comic raised $2,500 to help care for a disabled rescue cockatiel. And the critter is simply thriving today! They also raised an additional $1,000 for My Best Friends Animal Society.
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Rainbow Panda 4 years ago
I don’t normally have favorites, but I highly recommend the birb shredder! 📃🕊
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Kimora Cameron 4 years ago
my carpet's magical in that you dont know WHAT KIND of life it sustains...
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Rainbow Panda 4 years ago
I actually wish my birds were like this. 😢 They hate it, which is depressing because I wanna pet them. 😫
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Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
My kitten has feline pica and seems to fixate on metal, biting rings is a one of her pastimes. However, the other day I found out she had manage to scale a 5ft high chest of drawers and steal a silver necklace. The first I saw it she was bounding over my bed with the necklace carried nicely between her teeth. We're hoping it's behavioral and it's just a phase!
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Troux 4 years ago
I'm a fan of ChickenThoughts and happy to see it found its way here! Very cute and wholesome reflections of bird life. Keep them coming!
Laugh or not 4 years ago
A very nice pendant to yesterday post about Jenny Jinia's last comic (not that it was bad, just very sad).
Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
Absolutely, this was a lovely comic. As an animal lover the last one with birds was just too sad x
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JessG 4 years ago
All true! Also fact: sunflower seeds are not good for your psittacine birds (hook bilked parrot types) they are high in fat and nothing else. The birds will always choose them over more nutritional foods. It's like giving your kid candy every meal, in the long run can cause many health problems.
Pernille Dyre 4 years ago
This is funny. I can relate to a lot of these birds. I’ve lived with cockatiles most of my life. They are so cute and funny 😂❤️
YARETZI JIMENEZ CHAVARRIA 1 year ago
I can absolutely relate to this i have 13 parakeets 2 cockatiels 2 love birds so im very experienced with this XD.
kaiqeu leles 3 years ago
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Troux 4 years ago
I'm a fan of ChickenThoughts and happy to see it found its way here! Very cute and wholesome reflections of bird life. Keep them coming!
Laugh or not 4 years ago
A very nice pendant to yesterday post about Jenny Jinia's last comic (not that it was bad, just very sad).
Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
Absolutely, this was a lovely comic. As an animal lover the last one with birds was just too sad x
Load More Replies... JessG 4 years ago
All true! Also fact: sunflower seeds are not good for your psittacine birds (hook bilked parrot types) they are high in fat and nothing else. The birds will always choose them over more nutritional foods. It's like giving your kid candy every meal, in the long run can cause many health problems.
Pernille Dyre 4 years ago
This is funny. I can relate to a lot of these birds. I’ve lived with cockatiles most of my life. They are so cute and funny 😂❤️
YARETZI JIMENEZ CHAVARRIA 1 year ago
I can absolutely relate to this i have 13 parakeets 2 cockatiels 2 love birds so im very experienced with this XD.
kaiqeu leles 3 years ago
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