Turner Academy

Turner Academy is a Furry Webcomic found on the author's Deviant Art account. It is a slice of life comedy focusing on a group of teenage canine Petting Zoo People, who attend school at Turner Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts.

See also Zoo~la~la, another Furry Webcomic by the same author

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Tropes used in Turner Academy include:

• Boarding School: The title school is one of these
• Curtains Match the Windows: Many of the characters, but notable with Ripley, who has turquoise hair and eyes.
• Do Not Call Me Paul: Unless you're her parents or Alex, DO NOT call Ripley "Erika"
• Drama Club: Many of the main characters are in it
• Ears as Hair: All the girl characters with floppy ears
• Everything's Better with Penguins the school mascot
• Friend to All Living Things Ginger, and to a lesser extent, CB
• Hime Cut: Chloe.
• Last-Name Basis: (Erika) Ripley.
• Limited Wardrobe: Each character has two basic outfits, a signature school uniform combination and an outfit (or style of outfit) worn off-campus.
  • Alex's style off-campus isn't that far off from his regular uniform.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Ripley and Alex.
• My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels said in Welsh by Alex to Summer
• New Transfer Student: Beau.
• Nonuniform Uniform: The school's dress code allows many variations, with most of the main characters having a signature combination.
• Official Couple Alex/Ripley and Beau/CB
• Sexy Santa Dress: Ripley. See the above Full Costume Reference for pic.
• Species Surname: Both played straight and subverted. Ginger Foxx is a fox, but Chloe Cygnet is an Afghan Hound.
• Spell My Name with an "S" Scarlett
• Theme Triplet Naming the Turners all have colors as first names (Scarlet [Red], Tiffany [Blue], and Princeton [Orange]) and European cities as middle names (Geneva [Switzerland], Florence [Italy], and Dublin [Ireland])
• Tomboy and Girly Girl a few pairs fit this
  • Dev and Chloe
  • Dev and Scarlett
  • Tiff and Scarlett
• Town Girls Scarlett (Uptown), Ginger (Downtown), Dev (Out of Town)
• Whole Costume Reference: There is a drawing featuring Ripley wearing Angel's Santa costume and Alex wearing Collins' coat from Rent
• World of Funny Animals: All the characters are canines, and the majority are domestic dog breeds.
• Wrench Wench Tiffany
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Ripley has turquoise hair.
• Zettai Ryouiki: The school uniform allows girls to wear skirts and knee-socks together.
  • Also, Ginger has markings on her legs that naturally give her this look whenever she wears a skirt or dress.