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
So hot he can’t keep his lid on.
J. Short
said, 3 months ago
Head skin color, face red.
coz69 said, 3 months ago
Very funny today!
Mike Lester
said, 3 months ago
@coz69
Thanks. Tell your friends and I’ll send you a sketch. Should be worth $$$ on Antiques Roadshow 2099.
Colonel Claus
said, 3 months ago
Well, that one flipped his wig! Great toon, Mike!
Saskfan said, 3 months ago
My Beloved cooked some sausages tonight that had that effect on a friend of one of our sons. I thought it was delicious.
Saskfan said, 3 months ago
I don’t subscribe to any of the strips here at GoComics, but I do read 2 dozen of them daily. Yours is in the rotation, Mike, under the tab known as “Cartoons 4.” Dear heavens; I just counted 52 comics that I read every day. Plus there’s another tab titled “Daily Science” with 13 sites ranging from Astronomy Photo of the Day to Solar Dynamics Observatory’s home page and Spaceflight Now. Yeah, I read lots online, but I can quit any time I want. :)