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   BigNate+CalvinandHobbes=:) said, 9 months ago

   nice maria
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   Stella S said, 9 months ago

   Run Maria, dad looks like he’s about to get up for a reason.
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   capndunzzl said, 9 months ago

   …yeah, female doctors never marry non-doctor dudes.
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   Jeff0811 said, 9 months ago

   I tell my kids it’s either my funny looks or my funny sense of humor, then I cross my eyes and give them the “Bronx Cheer”. I haven’t figured it out yet.
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   Thomas Scott Roberts said, 9 months ago

   @capndunzzl

   It’s a kid’s point of view!
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   phritzg said, 9 months ago

   “Makes up stuff for a living” – it almost sounds like Dad’s a cartoonist!
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   deeceewye said, 9 months ago

   @phritzg

   No. All cartoons are based only on real life. Everything them is true and accurate. No “making stuff up.”
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   deeceewye said, 9 months ago

   @deeceewye

   The same is true with comic strips.
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   lightenup said, 9 months ago

   Yeah, go play before Mom comes to her senses and leaves me. (kidding…)
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    Redkaycei Repoc said, 9 months ago

    I was think writer myself… but cartoonest works as well.
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    Thomas Scott Roberts said, 9 months ago

    He’s an author. John says a novelist, but we haven’t discussed whether he has any published, or is still working toward that end.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 9 months ago

    @Thomas Scott Roberts

    If he isn’t published then when he appears on Jeopardy he would have to be identified as “unpublished author” like myself.
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    CougarAllen said, 9 months ago

    Hey, I could be a cartoonist! All I have to do is cover all the faces with word balloons … and the hands … and anything else that’s hard to draw. I could draw, like, furniture, and laptops…. :>

    -Cougar :{)
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    Thomas Scott Roberts said, 9 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    I’m a self-published author, with one fantasy novel out (and plenty more in the works.) No matter what anyone says, the old prejudice against self-publishing lives on.
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    Thomas Scott Roberts said, 9 months ago

    @CougarAllen

    Yeah, ‘cause that’s the only reason I did that. When we first did samples for the strip, Maria’s parents’ faces were shown. The strips have all been re-drawn, and we chose not to show their faces just yet. They’ll be introduced in time. Ms. Payne wasn’t shown the first week or so, and now she is. Irony is, I much prefer drawing faces to drawing backgrounds- and furniture is much harder to do well.
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