Glutton For Punishment
Why is doing a cartoon just like causing insurrection after an election in a small African country? Once you start, you can’t stop.
So despite a day job, a freelance business and a daily syndicated cartoon, I’ve started yet another cartoon. And I’m pretty jacked about it.
It occurred to me that real estate on the comics pages is getting kind of hard to find. So I’ve decided to build elsewhere. I thought there might be some other spots in a newspaper that could use a good comic. Or the one I do.
Meet Biz.
I wanted to do a New Yorkerish-style panel that would fit nicely in among industry bailouts, declining portfolios and dark blue suits with those absurd giant white pinstripes. I approached the business editors of The Philadelphia Inquirer and they must have been working in the garage next to truck fumes that day, and they picked it up.
Look above and you’ll see the very first Biz cartoon that kicked off the weekly Biz cartoon last September. It gives me a chance to draw in a little looser style and to work with looser shadings.
So where can you see the rest of the Biz cartoons? You can’t. Sorry. Newspapers have been good to cartoonists. It’s time we helped them out a little, too. They deserve to have something that people can see only if they go pick up a newspaper.
So go grab a Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer.
Unless you’re an editor jostling for a closer look at Biz. Then you just email me and you’ll have a deskfull of samples before your Send key gets cold.
A NOTE OF APOLOGY
There’s been something weird going on with Loose Parts the last few months .. and I’m sorry about it. There’s been an unusual amount of mistakes. Typos and things like that.
The latest happened on January 2. Take a look at the cartoon. It’s at the top of this post. See? In the third panel, I have the word balloon coming from the guy instead of from the thumb. Kind of blew a really good joke don’t you think? I do. What kind of idiot makes a mistake like that? (Link back to the About Dave page).
So what’s up with that? Well, this is what’s up. This website. A good chunk of October and November was taken up with me learning how to build this website and bring it up on the web. Because there are single-celled organisms with larger intellects than mine, it took time. So there were a lot of late nights and mistakes that normally never happen, happened. Not all of them showed up in my comic. By the way, did you know you can’t recharge a car battery by popping it in the microwave for an hour?
Anyways, this is more of an explanation than an excuse. I’m back to my semi-alert state. And anytime I’m not, readers waste no time in letting me know. What saddens me most is that mistakes just ruin the jokes. You spend all the time focused on the mistake and not on the fun.
Well, back yo work. I have to draw surgeons removing baloney from a cadaver.
Till then .... stay Loose.
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
