Mike du Jour is, according to Lester, the rare triple entendre: the main character's name, the artist's own name and an honest description of the strip. "Like the freedom of a chef designing a menu every day based on what's fresh, MDJ is whatever fresh idea I can cook up," he says.
Mike (the character) is an autobiographical composite. He's "a combination of Walter Mitty, Buster Keaton and moi. He's single, a bit of a loner and a situational counterpuncher, heavyweight division," Lester adds. Mike works in a generic office environment known as Big Bottom Line Inc., and since he and his co-workers don't have enough problems, they invent them. "Office work is boring," says Lester, "or so they tell me."
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jreckard said, 3 months ago
I got nothin
win said, 3 months ago
Benchba?
nusbickel said, 3 months ago
He’s more of a cumulus thinker as opposed to cirrus.
Urban Space Cowboy said, 3 months ago
This comment was deleted, so here it is again:
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Why not post your guesses for what the “jokes” for the rest of the week will be, based on Monday’s? That might ease your pain. Here, I’ll start:
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MONDAY: Thinking about clouds.
TUESDAY: Fog is just clouds on the ground.
WEDNESDAY: Head in the clouds.
THURSDAY: Storing files in “the cloud”.
FRIDAY: Every cloud has a silver lining.
SATURDAY: On Cloud Nine.
SUNDAY: Living in Cloud Cuckoo Land (where the people think that eating mediocre chicken sandwiches to stick it to homosexual people is some kind of political statement).