Strips like today’s are a prime example of what cartoonists are talking about when we say things like: “I really like to let the characters write themselves.”
Wednesday’s strip with Mistake playing in the leaves was just envisioned as a nice, stand alone fun sight gag. Kind of a sorbet between plots, really. But as soon as I wrote it, THIS strip popped into my head because Mistake’s strip WAS so sugary. Dandy can’t stand sentiment like that and it was a prime opportunity to break the 4th wall and let Dandy just BE Dandy for a few panels and whine. I like when the personalities are so well defined that a strip like today’s just happens.
