.Albums
- Life's an Obscure Hobo Bumming a Ride on the Omnibus of Art (as "Funny Aminals") LP (July 2, 2013; deleted/out of print)
- Vengeance Is Mine! (as "Funny Aminals") LP (August 18, 2013)
- Hell Is For Politicians (as "Funny Aminals") EP (September 18, 2013)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari alternate score (October 25, 2013)
- Nosferatu alternate score (October 29, 2013)
- The Night That No One Came Home (as "Funny Aminals") EP (January 2, 2014)
- Behind The Green Door LP (April 19, 2014, released here)
- None More Black LP (September 15, 2014, released here)
- The Wedding Album/Orchestral Favorites Triple-LP (December 25, 2014, released here)
Tropes exhibited by Isaac and/or his works include:
Comics
- Author Appeal: His female characters tend to have big butts and boobies. He also seems to have a strong affinity for black women, as evidenced by some of his pornographic work.
- Bleached Underpants: Tales of the Unrefined and unrelated porn drawings.
- Creator Thumbprint: Marijuana use, Libertarianism, Atheism.
- Erudite Stoner: Baranoff himself, and his fictional protagonists.
- Juggalo: Self-described.
- Inkblot Cartoon Style: Often draws like this.
- Parody: Often.
- Self-Deprecation: Exhibited often.
- Sphere Eyes: Often used in his character design.
- Underground Comics
- White Sheep: Comix from the Underground.
- White Void Room: Appears occasionally in the Funny Animal comic titles as a stylistic Shout-Out to American Splendor. Inverted in Soft Desire, which occasionally features black, featureless backgrounds.
Music
- Genre Roulette: "Fear" is a avant-garde piece with a bunch of sound effects, and "Stampeding Cattle Through The Vatican" is basically distorted guitar feedback.
- Sampling: Funny Aminals' free releases contain a bunch of these:
- Vengeance Is Mine! samples from the movies Save The Tiger, Convoy, Coonskin and A Day at the Races and the TV series Black Books.
- Hell Is For Politicians contains samples from Wild at Heart, Carny, Apocalypse Now, Blackenstein and The Dead Zone.
- The Night That No One Came Home samples The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, Hot Summer In The City and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
- Shout-Out: The song and album titles are mostly Shout Outs.
- His song title "I'm Way Too Baked To Drive To The Devil's House" is a line from Grandmas Boy 2006.
- A Bucket of Blood is where the Obscure Hobo album title comes from.
- Blue Velvet resulted in the song title "Here's To Your Fuck, Frank"
- "Stampeding Cattle Through The Vatican" is a quote from Blazing Saddles
- "The Van Was Last Seen Headed To Your Momma's Bedroom" is a line from a Up In Smoke deleted scene.
- On Vengeance, the song title "Blow Me Where The Pampers Is" is from PCU, and the album title, Vengeance Is Mine!, is the title of a Mike Hammer book.
- The album title Hell Is For Politicians is a parody of the Pat Benatar song "Hell Is For Children".
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: The "Funny Aminals" band name. Is actually the title of a comic book anthology which featured works by Robert Crumb, Terry Zwigoff, and the first appearance of Art Spiegelman's Maus.
Novels
- Author Tract: The libertarian politics in A Fistful Of Molotov
- Artistic License: Historical events and characters appearing in A Fistful Of Molotov intentionally mixed together regardless of when said events actually occurred, or if persons involved were alive at the time, or behave in disregard to their actual behavior.
- Black and Gray Morality: The uber-violent vampire in A Boot Full Of Blood and werewolf in A Claw Full Of Blood are the heroes.
- Black and White Morality: The Communist-killing hero of A Fistful Of Molotov has touches of Black and Gray Morality, but is more purposeful than Baranoff's supernatural heroes.
- Hardboiled Detective: He combines this with other genres.
- Giallo: This, too.
- Spaghetti Western: And this.
- Giallo: This, too.
- Our Vampires Are Different: In A Boot Full Of Blood, vampires can eat normal food if it is doused in blood.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: The method of turning a human into a werewolf in A Claw Full Of Blood involves feeding a human werewolf blood as he dies.
