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1. 28 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   That is your choice, and is irrelevant to what other people choose to do. You have asked; the answer was silence. It would be wise to respect that.

2. about 1 month ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   While I can understand your curiosity, please remember no one on the Internet is under any obligation to share personal information with you.

3. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   In short, life isn’t an isolated system. Increasing complexity is possible because of an enormous hydrogen fusion plant constantly bombarding the planet with energy.

4. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   (sigh) So, I’m just pointing out that your statements have been inconsistent and incorrect. I don’t think we have anything more to say to each other. Take care, and enjoy your day.

5. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   I’m not following you. Your premise is that the comics business is equally tough on male and female artists, yet you also state the belief that most newspaper readers, being male, would prefer the paper contain material that interests only them. How is this not contradictory?

   It’s funny that you make the claim that the gender of the name makes no difference on the success of the work, and then use Andre Norton as an example. Did you realize her name was originally Alice? She legally changed it to a masculine name to get published. In her own words: “There were about five women writing fantasy, and all of them used male names. We had no choice.”

6. about 1 month ago on Petunia & Dre

   He was, though he seems to have faded out roughly when Griffin came in, around summer 2021.

7. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   While there’s nothing preventing comic strips from taking a stand on a particular issue, entertainment is the reason for the comics section. It sounds like you’re describing editorial cartoons, which are intended to make a point and get readers to think about it—often, but not always, employing humor.

   If newspaper are looking to advertisements to fill the financial gap left by declining readership, they’ve picked the wrong strategy. Nobody reads the paper for the ads. Instead they should run more comics, and charge the highest for a little advertising space on THOSE pages.

8. about 2 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   It would be more reasonable, but that’s not what’s happening here. Does anyone really think that the entire readership of the 200 papers Gannett owns all agree that only 34 comic strips are worthy of seeing print? My local newspaper conglomerate (not Gannett) recently standardized their comics pages without polling readers, and with no response to feedback other than “sorry we didn’t warn you”.

9. about 2 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   I especially liked the new ones she interspersed into the beginning, to flesh out some of the stories that weren’t as fully developed at the start of the strip’s run.

10. about 2 months ago on Breaking Cat News

    To tell you the truth it was the opposite for me. I never could get into Tatulli’s Heart because I had such a hard time distinguishing the characters, but I find Steenz’s style gives them vastly more distinctive looks.