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September 22, 2006

Donation Drive Redux… NOW WITH ‘TAILS TO AMAZE’!

As you can see, I’ve brought back the “TAILS” Donation drive inturrupted from earlier in the month. But with a new added TWIST! RAW DESPERATION! I really have being so blunt about it, but your lovin’ cartoonist is between jobs right now. My old day-job came to an early end… and while I HAVE secured a new job and have already began working, it will be a few weeks to many until I get PAID from the aforementioned new job. SO, having shared this info, I’m going it expresses just how much donations are REALLY worth. Thanks in advance.

You can do your part ot keep the funny flowing fresh by visiting our handy-dandy (pun intended) DONATIONS page and pitching in to help support the website and it’s sad, sorry cartoonist. (Aka, ME.)

And as a special added bonus, any donations totaling $15 (fifteen dollars) or more comes complete with the first, full color issue of my new comic, TAILS TO AMAZE! This is the exclusive convention edition with the snazzy sketch rear cover where I’ll draw one of the awesome new characters just for you! This also includes the 8 page, black and white preview comic, also a convention exclusive! If that’s not worth it, I don’t know what is! (Donations already recieved will have their books sent out at the end of this week. Thanks!)

If I may be so bold as to spill the beans a little here, there IS a point to this story, outside of just showing lil’ Dandy as a prankster. Really, it’s to allow ADULT Dandy to, when all is said and done, step out of that stereotype and allow for some more character growth.

If there’s one consistant criticism of the strip, it’s that Dandy can really be a JERK. Now, he’s going to get the perspective to see it for himself.

September 25, 2006

This strip is a bit of a call back to a gag WAY back when I first introduced Pumpkin and her self-help group. Back then, it was an adult Dandy using tennis balls to taunt one of the other attendees. This version is entirely more evil, I think.

September 27, 2006

Now, I’ve gotten a few questions regarding Pumpkin in this story, and let me just say now that she does NOT know that “Danny” is Dandy as a little kid. As is pointed out here, she clearly notices the similarities but would never make the leap that the puppy she’s talking to IS Dandy. Really, how many times have YOU run into child versions of adults you know?

That said, this is an important strip. At the end of the last storyline Pumpkin was in, I ended it by having her rattle off most of Dandy’s WORST qualities only to recoil at the realization that she actually LIKED him. The implication there was that, her being so straight-laced and proper, she was attracted to Dandy as a scoundrel. It seemed like a fun idea at the time and I thought about having the two of them hesitantly become a couple. But in the end, I realized how overdone that idea was. Heck, it’s a part of Maryweather’s attraction to him as it is, so it never came up again.

This time, I found myself struggling to attach some kind of meaning to this storyline after a few strips in and finding myself bored with just playing up Dandy as a prankster… another idea that’s becoming stale. This storyline originally didn’t include Pumpkin at all, and was originally going to end with Dandy pulling a prank at Disney World (Or Our stand in: The Enchanted Kingdom) so LARGE in scope, that it would garner national media attention and force Dandy to re-evaluate his lifestyle if only to escape prosecution. Much of the same results can come out of THIS twist. Pumpkin can see right through him, and likes the REAL Dandy… the Dandy that Dandy doesn’t want anyone to know even exists.

September 29, 2006

I know that there are going to be some of you readers who are NOT going to like where this story is going to lead. In many respects, things are going to start moving forward in the strip for Dandy. I was excited by the prospects of moving the strip ahead a year in time, aging Bernard, Audrey, Mistake and the rest, but after a few months of work on the characters, I realized that the only character that HASN’T changed in that year was Dandy. And that didn’t feel right.

October 02, 2006

No, I have no plans as of right now to explain just where Mistake gets his hi-tech gear from now-a-days. It’s REALLY not important.