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Line 1: {{work\|wppage=Shoe (comic strip)}} A [[Print Long Runners\|long-running]] newspaper comic strip begun in 1977 by Jeff MacNelly., It''[[Shoe]]'' ~~centralizes~~centers on a cast of anthropomorphic bird characters, and is ~~titled~~named after a purple martin character named P. Martin Shoemaker, who runs a newspaper called ''The Treetops Tattler''. Other prominent characters include Prof. Cosmo Fishhawk (usually called "Perfessor"); Roz, the owner of a local treetop diner; Skyler, a younger bird; and Loon, a mail carrier and former pilot. MacNelly worked on this strip and his lesser-known second strip, ''[[Pluggers]]'', in addition to doing illustrations for [[Dave Barry]] columns and several political cartoons. In 1997, he turned over ''Pluggers'' to Gary Brookins; following MacNelly's death in 2000, Brookins took most of the work that MacNelly had previously illustrated, with help from Chris Cassatt and MacNelly's wife, Susie, on ''Shoe''. Line 6: The strip can be read [http://www.shoecomics.com/ here]. {{tropelist}} ~~== Tropes present: ==~~ * [[Anthropomorphic Shift]]: According to the foreword of one book, the birds were initially a lot less humanlike, and "Roz's Roost" was little more than a bird feeder. * [[Big Eater]]: Older strips made Cosmo out to be this. * [[Character Blog]]: Not so much a blog, but the ''Shoe'' website runs a ''Treetops Tattler'' section written in the character of Cosmo. * [[Da Editor]]: The title character is this. * [[Furry Reminder]]: Sometimes the punchline will actually rely on the fact that the main characters are all birds. Sometimes they even fly! * [[Greasy Spoon]]: Roz's Roost. Line 16 ⟶ 17: * [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: Occurs with every female bird that's ever appeared in the strip. Quoth [[The Comics Curmudgeon]]: {{quote\|"I dunno, there's something about the combination of beaks and feathers with some distinctly, er, mammalian characteristics that just utterly [[Squick\|squicks]] me out."}} * [[Print Long Runners]]: Begun in 1977 and ~~hasn't~~outlived ~~stopped~~its creator. * [[Punny Name]]: One recurring character is Senator Batson D. Belfry. * [[Take That]]: As MacNelly was generally politically conservative, his portrayal of Senator Belfry is a barely disguised stand-in for Ted Kennedy (identical hairstyle, hints at womanizing, heavy drinking) Line 25 ⟶ 26: [[Category:Print Long Runners]] [[Category:Shoe]] [[Category:~~Comic~~Newspaper ~~Strip~~Comics of the 1970s]] [[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 1980s]] [[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 1990s]] [[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 2000s]] [[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 2010s]] [[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 2020s]]