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1. about 1 hour ago on Maria's Day

   Here in Delaware we’ve already had more snow than an average winter. We just had the third in a month. That would be nothing if we lived in the Great Lakes or New England. It’s just unusual for here.

2. about 1 hour ago on Pooch Cafe

   Yes, that’s the danger of coloring black and white strips without direct communication with the artist. I see lots of mistakes, where the colorist doesn’t seem to have read the strip. I’m a colorist myself, but I have to turn my work into the artist for approval, and changes as requested.

3. about 1 hour ago on Working Daze

   That doesn’t come across as any kind of flattery. You do the work that you can get and that pays. The Zoo strip didn’t sell the first time it was tried with Andre as artist. It still found no interest with me on board.

   I used to do a ton of work for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network Comics, writing stories, drawing, laying out, coloring… John also did work for Nick, and we first worked together on the Rugrats strip. I pitched stories, and you simply expected that most of each new batch of pitches would be turned down. I worked on the ones that were bought. I will say that I was the only one of the writers on the Rugrats strip to sell an entire batch of gags with no rejects. Once. Just once.

   Plenty of cartoonists have piles of unsold work. That’s quite normal. The artists and writers don’t necessarily get to decide what clicks with the public or gets bought by editors. You just keep trying until something gets through.

4. about 20 hours ago on Working Daze

   In one like this, I’ll look it up just so I can understand what it’s about.

5. 1 day ago on Working Daze

   I never have enough shelves for my books, but I still want the books.

6. 1 day ago on Working Daze

   That, alas, is one of the reasons Medusa doesn’t appear very often. She’s basically a one-joke character, and everyone can the joke coming. So we worked the idea into his one.

7. 1 day ago on Working Daze

   My mother-in-law prefers ebooks. She’s had several Kindles over the years. I still want traditional, paper books. Collecting them is one of my passions.

8. 2 days ago on Working Daze

   Same here. The great thing about John and me both writing gags is that we get a variety. But video game gags are almost certain to be John’s, because I don’t understand half of them myself. I look up whatever I need to know.

9. 2 days ago on Mutt & Jeff

   Could it be cut out, or hidden under the 1993 copyright notice?

10. 3 days ago on Working Daze

    My Dad had a boss once who ordered him to stop meeting with the clients, and stop planning the media releases, because Dad was getting better results. Why was that bad? Increasing business should have pleased the boss! Wouldn’t it please you or me?

    The reason why was the boss’ ego. That needed feeding, and he decided to visit with the clients himself. He wanted- he NEEDED- it to be all because of him. Sales plummeted, but he would not relent. How appropriate that his name was King.