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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Urban Space Cowboy said, 3 months ago
Left to its own devices, THE FREE MARKET will come out with “safer” or “healthier” or “better” products of dubious quality as long as they sell. Government regulation is required to ensure that “improved” products pass muster. A Good Cartoon.
bpullin said, 3 months ago
Govt. regulation ensures products are late, expensive and of severely bad quality.
mr_sherman said, 3 months ago
Just stop giving tobacco subsidies.
Urban Space Cowboy said, 3 months ago
bpullin: No.
Phil Judd said, 2 months ago
Funny….very funny