Arthur Comic Creator
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About
Arthur Comic Creator is an online comic series based on the educational children's television cartoon Arthur[1] made via a generator[2] hosted by PBS Kids. Similar to Law For Kids PSA Parodies and Stop Bullying Comics, internet users began using the comic generator application to create humorous parodies with inappropriate messages.
Origin
The Arthur Comic Creator was launched by PBS Kids in October 2010. On October 30th, 4chan users on /v/ (video games) started a thread[5] discussing another game on the PBS Kids site, Binky's Facts and Opinions.[3] As the thread progressed, people began exploring other games available on the site and the first instance of the Arthur parody comic was used to tell a GameStop story about D.W. asking the store clerk for a copy of the western action adventure game Red Dead before turning into a teddy bear.
Spread
In the original thread, several other users followed up with their own comics. The next day, a thread dedicated specifically to the comic generator was shared on the Newgrounds forum[4], resulting in two pages of user-submitted comics. The following month, another Arthur parody comic strip was uploaded via deviantArt[6] and three pages worth of Arthur parody comics were posted on the Sputnik Music forums.[7]
On May 16th, 2011, the first single topic Tumblr[8] dedicated to Arthur parody comics was launched, reblogging 31 comics from the "arthur comics" tag[20] on the first day. In July 2011, a thread was started on 4chan's /mu/ (music) board[9] where users used the comic creator to reinterpret famous album covers was archived. Two months later, an Arthur comic was submitted to Reddit.[10] That September, another /mu/ thread[11] and a /b/ (random) thread[12] were archived, as well as threads on the BodyBuilding forums[13] and the Encyclopedia Dramatica forums.[14] In 2012, additional Arthur comics appeared on FunnyJunk[15], the Canterlot forums[16] and the ComicVine forums.[17] That August, a second Tumblr blog titled Arthur's Shitty Comics[18] was launched.
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Arthur (TV Series)
[2] PBS Kids – Arthur Comic Creator
[3] PBS Kids – Binky's Facts and Opinions
[4] Newgrounds – Create an Arthur comic!
[5] chanarchive – Arthur Game
[6] deviantArt – Arthur Comics are the best
[7] Sputnik Music – lets make arthur comics
[8] Tumblr – Arthur Comics For Everyone
[9] chanarchive – ITT: We recreate album covers using the Arthur comic creator
[10] Reddit – 4chan's newest hobby- Taking an Arthur comic maker from the PBS website and making their own art.
[11] chanarchive – Can we have an arthur comic thread please?
[12] chanarchive – ITT it's that time again.
[13] BodyBuilding Forums – Make Your Own Comic
[14] Encyclopedia Dramatica Forums – Arthur's comic maker
[15] FunnyJunk – Arthur comics Comp.
[16] Canterlot – Arthur Comic Creator
[17] ComicVine – Let's Make Arthur Comics
[18] Tumblr – Arthur's Shitty Comics
[19] YouTube – ArhtursShittyComics
[20] Tumblr – Posts tagged "arthur comics"
