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I am a graphic artist and an author who finds it pretty hard to type with a cat on her keyboard.
Comics I Follow
![Cathy Classics](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/ca/small_u-201701251612.png)
Cathy Classics
By Cathy Guisewite![Garfield](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/ga/small_u-201701251612.png)
Garfield
By Jim Davis![MythTickle](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/myth/small_u-201701251611.png)
MythTickle
By Justin Thompson![Wizard of Id](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/crwiz/small_crwiz_u_201704251550.png)
Wizard of Id
By Parker and Hart![Stone Soup](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/ssc/small_ssc_u_202406241242.png)
Stone Soup
By Jan Eliot![Thatababy](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/tab/small_tab_u_201704101122.png)
Thatababy
By Paul Trap![Endtown](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/end/small_u-201701251613.png)
Endtown
By Aaron Neathery![For Better or For Worse](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/fb/small_u-201701251612.png)
For Better or For Worse
By Lynn Johnston![Luann](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/lu/small_lu_u_201803261056.png)
Luann
By Greg Evans and Karen Evans![Lucky Cow](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/luc/small_u-201701251613.png)
Lucky Cow
By Mark Pett![Lio](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/lio/small_u-201701251612.png)
Lio
By Mark Tatulli![JumpStart](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/jt/small_u-201701251613.png)
JumpStart
By Robb Armstrong![9 Chickweed Lane](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/cw/small_u-201701251613.png)
They are not choking good literature. The publishing industry is changing. Those of us that are publishers and authors have known it was changing for more than five years. Poor B&N. The authors can now sell their books online themselves if they want to. You know that 20 dollar book you bought at B&N? The author probably made 2 bucks or less on it after everyone else got their cut. B&N gets a 55% or better discount off retail. Then the distributor gets a cut, the publisher gets a cut. The publisher keeps money back out of the sale in case B&N decides to return for full refund (and book stores wont’ carry books without that guarentee). By the time it’s said and done, the author is working for less than minimum wage. You want a printed book, great. Go to the author’s website and order one. Give them 100% of the royalties. Don’t waste your tears on commercial bookstores. Mourn the fact that a lot of communities don’t’ have LIBRARIES or if they do, they have very poor libraries that are the first things to get their budgets cut.