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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win said, 3 months ago
This one was the weakest, Mike.
jreckard said, 3 months ago
I’d think it would be parva, or txiki, or mali, pieni, pequeno, litill, beag, piccolo, liten, or dogo. it just takes a little browsing with Google Translate.
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said, 3 months ago
I’ll take two Bloombergs, then!
stang119 said, 3 months ago
Funny…unless you live in NYC with that dick-tator!
Urban Space Cowboy said, 3 months ago
This comment was deleted (And Win’s “This one was the weakest” wasn’t? Really Mike, what the hell?), so here it is again:
OF COURSE a discussion of coffee sizes requires snarking about regulation of soft drink sizes! Makes perfect sense.