Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Originally published in PISTIL (Spring, 2005), “One Day at the Daily Planet…” was one of my early forays into digitally-illustrated comics. While Clark Kent, Superman, and the Daily Planet were directly modeled after the Fleischer cartoons, Jimmy Olsen never appeared in those shorts, so I had to make him up — and he looks wretched, but I still love the absurdity of the strip.
Monday, August 9th, 2010
This strip accompanied an article of the same name about Chicago-area female stand-up comedians in the fourth issue of PISTIL (“The Game,” Fall 2004).
The strip stems from something comedian Jean Villepique says within the article: “I think being a white male is the hardest thing in comedy now. If you’re gay or black or a woman, you can get away with a hell of a lot more. If you’re a white guy right now, you can’t make fun of anything.”
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