Line #38 Webcomic/Granitoons


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2	[[caption-width-right:198:Stan the Crow, stealing Farmer Giles' corncobs since 1996]]
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4	''Granitoons'' (or HRAM Comics) is a [[Main/UnclassifiedWebcomics web comic]] series by Aberdonian cartoonist Andrew 'Andy' Morrice, who now has a [[http://granitoons.deviantart.com/ DeviantArt account]] (active since Dec. 2006) where he publishes his works and is also a [[Tropers/{{Granitoons}} Troper]]. His characters include AstroCat, Stan the Crow, Farmer Giles, Hot Dog and April, May and June. Andrew mostly draws in the old-skool cartoon style and is a huge fan of Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons among others. Now, the characters are living with TopperHay's characters within the new series of HRAM Comics.
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6	!!This series provides examples of the following:
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8	* BerserkButton: Farmer Giles when Stan the Crow steals his crops or even shows up for that matter.
9	%%** Nelson the Cat has gone beyond this.
10	%%* BreakingTheFourthWall: Happens on many occasions.
11	* CrosscastRole: 1960's spoofmerical [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoEv882rOd0 Coffee Suds]] sees Andrew Morrice portray the housewife Mrs. Scatterbrain and Hayley Russell the husband.
12	* CurseCutShort: When April slips on the discarded human heart in "Forehead Follies" (drawn by Andy's wife Hayley Russell, aka [[http://topperhay.deviantart.com/ TopperHay]], using the April, May and June characters), she yells "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-" before causing a bloody mess.
13	* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: In "Crazy Chases", Snide and Snout decide to cheat by setting a trap which involves a candle, scales, anvil, seesaw, brick and cement. In the end Snide is the one who gets cemented.
14	* DumbBlonde: May of April, May & June, though she is at least aware that she's not that bright.
15	%%* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Farmer Giles and Cedric Snide.
16	%%* FanArt
17	%%* FourFingeredHands
18	* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Cedric Snide, who is rarely ever appearing improperly dressed, complete with eyepatch.
19	* GetRichQuickScheme: Stan the Crow is prone to trying these out with Farmer Giles often being a target or an obstacle.
20	* HappilyMarried: Andrew Morrice and Hayley Russell married on 24th September 2014.
21	* HeartwarmingOrphan: In the Christmas story "Mistletoe and Whine", April, who has no festive spirit, goes out for a sulk. She discovers a little boy who points up to the sky to make it appear that his parents have died and gone to Heaven. April feels sorry for the boy and decides to treat him as if she were his auntie, and also lets him live in her flat and sleep in her bed. It turns out that the kid had wandered off the holiday plane headed for Thailand thus averting this trope.
22	%%* HeroAntagonist: Farmer Giles is this to Stan the Crow.
23	* HookHand: The crazed feline Nelson the Cat has a hook in place of his right front paw, a la Captain Hook. And he also wears a paper hat.
24	* LemonyNarrator: Hot Dog takes this role as the Fairy Dogmother in the Christmas specials.
25	* LongRunner: Andrew Morrice has been cartooning since his late teens.
26	%%* LukeNounverber: Harold Montague Fairfellow.
27	* MeaningfulName: [[Creator/TimCurry Tim Curry]] in "Tim's Curry" who hands out South Eastern Asian cuisine to most of Barnton's residents, with disastrous consequences.
28	** Constable Beaner the plump policeman who does April's head in with his truncheon in "Odd-Jobbers".
29	* {{Pantomime}}: The style of the yearly Christmas specials done in conjunction with [[http://topperhay.deviantart.com/ TopperHay]] - such as Derpyrella (Cinderella), Stan-Laddin (Aladdin), Ashlyn in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland) and The Windsor of Oz (The Wizard of Oz) ...
30	* PoliticalOvercorrectness: In an early Stan the Crow strip, the cartoonist censors anything that sets bad examples to the readers including Stan's corncob which promotes thievery and Farmer Giles' shotgun which promotes violence.
31	%%* PunBasedTitle: Nearly all stories.
32	* RunningGag: Farmer Giles' ongoing rivalry with Stan the Crow.
33	** Cedric Snide's criminal plans always going awry, and his assistant and partner in crime Arthur Snout doing little to help.
34	** April, May and June, as Andrew Morrice says it "sodding things up", usually when instructed to do a task.
35	** Andrew's usual "sketch dumps" at the end of each month. (which he ripped off from [[http://topperhay.deviantart.com/ TopperHay]] in terms of keeping it themed by month.)
36	* SexyWhateverOutfit: [[https://www.deviantart.com/granitoons/art/AMJ-Happy-Slapper-Hallowe-en-330667224 When April, May and June go shopping for Halloween costumes]], they are NOT happy to see that the costumes they have selected are skimpy enough to make them look like floozies.
37	* SpikesOfVillainy: Sir Lustalot sports these on his suit of armour.
38	* SpyTuxReveal: Inverted twice by AstroCat when he reveals his spacesuit from underneath his tuxedo in 'Cruise to Disaster' and the James Bond Spoof 'Mooncrater.'
39	* StraightMan: Or in this case woman - Lt. Ashlyn in 'AstroCat'. She seems to be the closest to 'normal' out of the cast.
40	* TheSilentBob: June of April, May & June never says a word, yet somehow is able to communicate to her friends with ease. It's also implied, but never shown, that she might be something of a chatterbox 'off-screen.'
41	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Or rather Antagonist, Cedric Snide.
42	* WackyRacing: The story "Crazy Chases" wholly parodies the US cartoon ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'', with the Dick Dastardly and Muttley of the strip being Snide and Snout. The race is won by Artimus and Livingston from [[http://agentc-24.deviantart.com/ FAC-AgentC]] in the Savannavan.

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