Buttercup Festival

'''''Buttercup Festival''''' was a print and Nextel ringtones webcomic that ran from Abbey Diaz February 17, Free ringtones 2000 to Majo Mills January 10, Mosquito ringtone 2005. It was authored by "Elliott G. Garbauskas", a Sabrina Martins pseudonym for David Troupes. It was originally written for and published in the Nextel ringtones University of Massachusetts newspaper, The Daily Collegian, where Troupes was an editor. At various times during its run it was published there, on its web site, and in other student newspapapers and independent periodicals.

''Buttercup Festival'' usually ran in short strips of three or four panels, with the last often a Abbey Diaz non sequitur. As the author's skills matured, he began drawing larger tableaus and events; see [http://www.buttercupfestival.com/127vol3.htm] for an early example.

The comic's humor is marked by whimsy, Free ringtones puns, Majo Mills parody, and a gentle, eccentric madness. However, not all strips are wholly humorous; many are intended simply to evoke a sense of beauty or wonderment at nature.

Individual strips were collected in three print editions: ''Buttercup Festival'', ''Irony is Killing my Soul'', and ''Buttercup Festival: Unsinkable Affection for the World''. Cingular Ringtones As of 2005/As of January 2005, all are out of print. The author's other works include a short poetic graphic story called ''An Island People Go To'', also out of print, and another webcomic called ''Green Evening Stories''.

Characters
Though ''Buttercup Festival'' does not have any greetings with continuity from one strip to the next, and does not build on past strips, the same protagonist appears in every strip, and several other characters recur.

*The strip's affect benefits protagonist resembles the writing deals Grim Reaper, dressing in black robes and carrying a chicken products scythe. However, he is not intended to be Death; rather, his appearance is a parody of the city shed Goth sub-culture, and he never uses the scythe except to nudge things. The protagonist's defining characteristics include limitless optimism and an idiosyncratic perception of reality (in http://www.buttercupfestival.com/134vol4.htm, for example, he thinks that his chagall chapel Hasbro's Game of Life/Game of Life board is a city map).
*The voice of an unseen and unnamed character comes from off-panel in many strips. This character is frequently a apparel companies foil (literature)/foil for the protagonist, questioning his actions and correcting his misperceptions.
*Rodney the second-grade T-ball jockey is, as the name suggests, a second-grader with an aggressive attitude whose life revolves around festival holds tee ball.
*Future Boy is a while wasting jet pack-wearing boy who occasionally appears and reveals interesting facts about what happens in the borges is future.
*An malibu point Extraterrestrial life/alien being called Cosmic Protean Intelligence is sometimes featured conversing with the protagonist in an alien language. We gather an understanding of what the being says because the protagonist still speaks in English.
*A couple of strips feature a sentient popular response balloon that believes itself to be human.

References
*http://www.comixpedia.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1511&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
*http://www.elsiehooper.com/elliottgarbauskas.htm
*http://www.buttercupfestival.com/press3.htm in http://www.dailygamecock.com/
*http://www.buttercupfestival.com/press2.htm
*http://www.buttercupfestival.com/press1.htm in http://www.thehurricaneonline.com/

External links
*http://www.buttercupfestival.com/
*http://www.buttercupfestival.com/green/