History ComicStrip / LibertyMeadows

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs

* ConspiracyTheorist: Al the bartender

!!Shows Examples Of

* AuthorAppeal: A predilection for busty, intelligent chicks who look like BettiePage has to be a more common thing than most other AuthorAppeal examples.

* BoundAndGagged: Happens to [[spoiler: Leslie and Ralph at the hands of the Cow]], complete with ball gags in a ShoutOut to PulpFiction. [[spoiler: Evil Brandy also does this, to Brandy and then to Frank.]]

* MoneyDearBoy: The reason the comic has been on hiatus since issue #37. Cho is getting way too much money drawing for Marvel Comics to spend his time on Liberty Meadows, especially (as he pointed out in the forums) with a family to provide for.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted. Al the Bartender refuses to serve Jenna Bush.

* BigBreastsBigDeal: Brandy is Type 3, Jen is Type 4.

An award-winning [[NewspaperComic newspaper comic strip]], and later ComicBook, created by FrankCho. It was syndicated in newspapers from 1997-2001, and since then has been collected in comic book form by Insight Studios and ImageComics.

* AuthorAppeal: Though I suppose a predilection for busty, intelligent chicks who look like BettiePage has to be a more common thing than most other AuthorAppeal examples.

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Invoked. In one comic, Brandy falls out of her own comic strip into ''{{Blondie}}'' and lands in a bathtub with Dagwood Bumstead. Franks' author avatar then reconsiders, and redraws the strip so she lands in the bathtub with Blondie.

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Invoked. In one comic, Brandy falls out of her own comic strip into {{Blondie}} and lands in a bathtub with Dagwood Bumstead. Franks' author avatar then reconsiders, and redraws the strip so she lands in the bathtub with Blondie.

* ShinyMidnightBlack: Brandy.

An award-winning [[NewspaperComic newspaper comic strip]], and later [[ComicBook comic book]], created by FrankCho. It was syndicated in newspapers from 1997-2001, and since then has been collected in comic book form by Insight Studios and ImageComics.

Though it started its life on the comics page, after four years, Cho pulled it from newspapers claiming to be tired of dealing with newspaper censors. Most of the censorship concerned the large amounts of LooneyTunes-esque violence, as well as Brandy and Jen, who were drawn in a style notably sexier than just about anything else on the comics page (with tons of MaleGaze to boot) and who were written as clearly aware of their sexuality in ways few other newspaper comics character have been. Another constant concern was Dean who, well, acted realistically lecherous and not just "newspaper comic" lecherous, if that makes any sense. Truthfully, the [[http://www.libertymeadows.com/uncengal/index.htm censored strips]] aren't that bad... they just toe the PG-13 line in ways newspaper editors were not comfortable with. Let's just say they didn't have these problems with ''TheBornLoser''.

* [[ABoyAndHisX A Duckling And His X]]: Truman and Oscar.
* {{The Aesthetics of Technology}}: Leslie activates Ralph's time machine because it looks just like the coffee maker

* BoundAndGagged: Happens to [[spoiler: Leslie and Ralph at the hands of the Cow]], complete with ball gags in a ShoutOut to PulpFiction. [[spoiler: Evil Brandy also does this, to Brandy and then to Frank.]]

* ContestWinnerCameo: Dave Colombo, "a huge fan from the Midwest" who pays Monkeyboy Cho a shoebox full of twenties for a 30 second appearance.

* {{Crossover}} with {{Player Versus Player}} while many other characters sneak in now and then

* [[{{Rule Of Cool}} Everythings Better With Dinosaurs Fighting Giant Monkeys]]

* RelaxOVision: the "graphic and nonpolitical correct" panels have been replaced by a picture of a bunny, who says, "[[http://www.libertymeadows.com/uncengal/pages/238.htm Gosh, I'm so cute and nonthreatening.]]"

* TakeThat: Many a NewspaperComic such as ''{{ComicStrip/Cathy}}'', ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'', ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'', ''ComicStrip/MarkTrail'', ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' and much more
** Which lead to some of the [[ExecutiveMeddling censoring]], such as one making fun of ''[[{{ComicStrip/BC}} B.C.]]''[='s=] [[AuthorTract evangelical turn]].

* BigWordShout: "'''[[StarTrek KHAAAAN!]]'''"

* RelaxOVision: the "graphic and nonpolitical correct" panels have been replaced by a picture of a bunny, who says: "Gosh, I'm so cute and nonthreatening."

* MarshmallowHell: Jen's (obviously successful) tactic for [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey persuading Frank to accompany her to Tom's art show]], among other occasions. Notably of the "soft and gentle" variety, as opposed to the "forceful, suffocating" type.

The strip is notable for how Cho freely mixes visual styles in the strip, drawing the majority of the cast like [[ComicStrip/Pogo Walt Kelly's anthropomorphic animals]], borrowing DaveStevens's pin-up look for Brandy, FranklinBooth's lush landscapes and routinely throws in the styles of whatever artists and cartoonists Cho feels like homaging at the time.

** Which lead to some of the [[ExecutiveMeddling censoring]], such as one making fun of [[{{ComicStrip/BC}} ''B.C.'']]'s ][[AuthorTract evangelical turn]].

* TakeThat: Many a newspaper comics such as Cathy, Family Circus, Peanuts, Mark Trail, Dick Tracy and much more
** Which lead to some of the [[ExecutiveMeddling censoring]], such as one making fun of BC's evangelical turn.

* AuthorAppeal: Though I suppose a predilection for busty[[hottip:*:To the point that a '"Washington Post'' profile of Cho begins, "Frank Cho is at his first comic book signing in Paris doing something he excels at: drawing women's breasts."]], intelligent chicks who look like BettiePage has to be a more common thing than most other AuthorAppeal examples.

An award-winning newspaper comic strip, and later comic book, created by Frank Cho. It was syndicated in newspapers from 1997-2001, and since then has been collected in comic book form by Insight Studios and Image Comics.

The strip concerns both the human and animal denizens of Liberty Meadows, an animal sanctuary/rehabilitation clinic. Said denizens include Brandy Carter, a beautiful animal psychiatrist, Frank Mellish, a nerdy veterinarian with a huge crush on Brandy, Al, the often-injured handyman, Julius, the beleaguered owner, Ralph, a mad-scientist/former circus bear, Dean, a lecherous sexist pig, Leslie, a hypochondriac frog, Truman, a cute and naive duckling, and Oscar, a mischievous dachshund (and one of the few animals not to talk). Other characters include Jen, Brandy's rocket-scientist roommate with a fondness for toying with men, Roger, Brandy's ex-fiance who constantly schemes to win Brandy back in that RomanticFalseLead kind of way, and Frank Cho, the author who appears as a monkey.

The strip is notable for how Cho freely mixes visual styles in the strip, drawing the majority of the cast like Walt Kelly's anthropomorphic animals, borrowing Dave Stevens's pin-up look for Brandy, Franklin Booth's lush landscapes and routinely throws in the styles of whatever artists and cartoonists Cho feels like homaging at the time.

Though it started its life on the comics page, after four years, Cho pulled it from newspapers claiming to be tired of dealing with newspaper censors. Most of the censorship concerned the large amounts of Looney Tunes-esque violence, as well as Brandy and Jen, who were drawn in a style notably sexier than just about anything else on the comics page (with tons of MaleGaze to boot) and who were written as clearly aware of their sexuality in ways few other newspaper comics character have been. Another constant concern was Dean who, well, acted realistically lecherous and not just "newspaper comic" lecherous, if that makes any sense. Truthfully, the [[http://www.libertymeadows.com/uncengal/index.htm censored strips]] aren't that bad... they just toe the PG-13 line in ways newspaper editors were not comfortable with. Let's just say they didn't have these problems with ''The Born Loser''.

After leaving the syndicated, Cho self-published the comic book until issue #27, with Image Comics taking over printing and distribution. The comic book went on a hiatus in early 2004 after issue #36 until June 2006 when issue #37 came out, the last issue published so far. Cho has said that he hopes to start the book up again soon.

* AuthorAppeal: Though I suppose a predilection for busty, intelligent chicks who look like BettiePage has to be a more common thing than most other AuthorAppeal examples.