Conroy Cat is a webcomic by Alex Dudley. Dedicated to animation fans,
The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat is about the titular character doing odd jobs to get his name out and try to become famous in
Cartoon Land. Most of the strips feature characters from other animation works, such as
Comic Books,
Anime, and lots of
Western Animation. There have also been "toon training" sessions, in which Doggy D. Dachshund, a toon based on old black and white animation toons and one of the few recurring characters, teaches Conroy how to harness the power of the "funny bone" to create all the gags that you see in cartoons. It often
lampshades the common gags and devices of animation. It ended in 2011, but it can be read
here
. Doggy also has his own series of shorts called
Toons These Days, where he rants about modern day animated shows, and which has ended as of December 29th, 2012.
Conroy Cat is also part of a series of animated shorts that can be seen on Alex Dudley's
YouTube channel,
Newgrounds page, and
Blip Tv page. Alex Dudley also has a
deviantART account where he showcases all his other toon ideas, including his upcoming
Web Animation series,
Kassandra Goddess Of Awesome.
The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat provides examples of:
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Conroy and Doggy, and sometimes whatever other other toon is the guest for the day. Lampshaded here.
- All There in the Manual: This Journal post that allowed viewers to speak with Doggy reveals a few things about Cartoon Land. Among one of those things is that Toons come into being at the Sea of Scraps. While bad toon ideas sink to the bottom, ones with potential float and get picked up by a ferry to Cartoon Land where they have to earn their place as a cartoon star.
- Alliterative Name:
- Conroy Cat. The comic's title is alliterative accordingly.
- Doggy D. Dachshund.
- Amusing Injuries: They happen. It is a comic about cartoons.
- Animated Actors: The comic takes place in a world where all toons are actors, and Conroy's many jobs involve working behind-the-scenes of several cartoon series.
- Anime Hair: When Conroy gets a job as a barber, his first customer is Yugi Moto.
- Aside Glance: Doggy does it here.
- Author Appeal: Dudley admits to being a big Pokémon fan when starting the Bag-'Em-Alls arc.
- Behind the Black: Conroy learns about this gag in this strip.
- Better than a Bare Bulb: When it comes to almost anything relating to cartoons.
- Brain Bleach: Conroy sees Doggy "naked" and says that he'll "take up that sale on brain bleach."
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: And lampshaded here
- By the Lights of Their Eyes: It got lampshaded, too.
- Carnivore Confusion: One cartoon lampshaded Heffer's cannibalistic behavior.
- Creating Life: In the very first strip, no less.
- Cutaway Gag: Parodied here.
- Dueling Movies: The strip lampshaded the timing of the release of the last Harry Potter movie and the new Winnie The Pooh movie.
- Foil: Conroy Cat and Doggy D. Dachshund were highly designed to contrast each other. Conroy is a modernly-designed young toon with an optimistic view on all cartoons, whereas Doggy is an Inkblot Cartoon Style Jaded Washout with a pessimistic, critical view on today's toons.
- Gaming Webcomics: Defied by Doggy when Conroy takes notice to Sonic Colors. He goes so far as to liken it to an animation channel airing Live-Action TV.
- Genre Shift: In late 2011, Dudley started doing animated shorts with the characters.
- Groin Attack: Doggy hates this trope. After hearing how Puss in Boots kept messing up jumping over a spike in the filming of his new movie, his detest for it increases.
- Kamehame Hadoken: Conroy does a chi blast with undesirable side effects.
- Lampshade Hanging: Happens practically every other strip.
- Lower Deck Episode: A few strips focus entirely on other cartoon characters and do not feature the main characters at all.
- Piano Drop: In this strip.
- Shout Out: How the funny bone works is a lot like chakra from Naruto. When Conroy points this out, he is immediately hit with a cane for it.
- The Smurfette Principle: Annie Mae is the closest this strip has to a female main character and she still doesn't appear very often.
- Sphere Eyes: Conroy.
- Spiritual Successor: This strip posits that Mad is one to Animaniacs.
- Symbol Swearing: It was lampshaded.
- Take That: "Okay, is anyone here not getting the 'live-action' treatment?"
- Toon Physics: Conroy learns that toon physics is broken down into two factors: the "Funny Bone" which handles Amusing Injuries and impossible physical feats, and the 4th wall.
- Toon Town: Cartoon Land.
- Unexplained Recovery: In "The Brat Came Back".
- Unusual Eyebrows: Conroy appears to have only one eyebrow, though he has been drawn with two eyebrows more recently.
- White Gloves: Doggy wears them, if only because that's what old toons wear.
- X Meets Y: The comic lampshaded the concept of Danny Phantom in the form of a mathmatical equation.
Toons These Days provides examples of:
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