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1. 3 days ago on Off the Mark

   Fascinating! Thank you for pulling back the curtain. I’m not an artist, but rather a writer, and the “already drawn it once” reminds me of the frequent discussion among writers about “plotter vs. pantser.” Plotters will outline the whole book before writing, but a lot of pantsers say that doing that makes it so they don’t want to write the book—they’re already worked out the plot and the characters, etc. I have to wonder if the cartoonist who doesn’t like inking tends to go straight to drawing in ink. The difference is that since a pantser works with a word processor instead of setting type, a pantser can always go back to edit and polish up. I would imagine that would be hard if you were working directly in ink. But I can see where the drawing of the leaves would have the calming effect. Again, fascinating and thanks!

2. 4 days ago on Off the Mark

   Impressive! That leads to a couple of questions that may sound random, but I’m genuinely curious. Do you ever have an idea and then think, “Nah, that would take too long to draw”? I know you have deadlines, so can you balance one like this with simpler drawings on other days to meet the schedule? When you have something like this, does it become a grind, or do you slip into a sort of Zen space that leads to relaxation? Thanks for opening the mind of the artist a bit!

3. 8 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I love Jimmy’s attention to a little detail. Janis’s hair is slightly mussed in the first panel, having just pulled a sweatshirt over her head. Brushed in the next two panels. Slightly mussed in the last panel as a result of doffing said sweatshirt. The tousle adds to the effect that Arlo definitely feels.

4. 13 days ago on Wallace the Brave

   And the football in panel 3 is just then descending from low orbit.

5. 28 days ago on In the Bleachers

   Hence the name, Marty McFly!

6. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I am a great Heinlein fan, but I had never seen this. I found it on the Internet, and now I’m sitting here in a puddle. Thank you for pointing me to this. I just conducted a funeral yesterday for a woman who died suddenly last week. She and her husband met when they were 12 years old, never dated anyone else, married at 22, married for 53 years. After her stroke, last week he never left her side. So this story as well as this comic hit me especially hard today.

7. about 1 month ago on Close to Home

   Of course, the people who got the real drug arrived a month ago….

8. about 1 month ago on Gray Matters

   Good advice! Thanks!

9. about 1 month ago on Gray Matters

   I appreciate that! Thanks! I only recently started reading the strip, and I figured out it was “off schedule” by a half year, but didn’t know it was off by 7.5 or 8.5. That will help the context. Back then, I used Zoom, but I used Skype a lot more, and that makes complete sense.

10. about 1 month ago on Off the Mark

    Yeah, just try going in a restaurant and ordering chicken pot pie.