Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for September 18, 1999

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god-man's cartooning tips! this week: lesson #22 plotting and characterization first, create your character. give him hopes and dreams. but don't let him attain them. or, let him attain them... then snatch 'em away. make him aspire to strength. but make him weak. drop in little inscrutable clues to nothing. make him do things even he doesn't understand. have him suffer doubt. just as he sees beauty... throw in horrific irony. then kill him. and after death, nothing. next week: lesson#23 cross-hatching.