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1. about 4 hours ago on Working Daze

   John didn’t take part in these. I’m still waiting for some more gags from him. Not that he doesn’t write humorous essays- he does. Just not these.

2. about 7 hours ago on Working Daze

   That human weakness that tells us, “Oh, I can handle this…”

3. about 9 hours ago on Skippy

   Skippy’s go-kart crashes predate Calvin an Hobbes’ similar escapades by decades.

4. about 9 hours ago on Working Daze

   I remember the name of the guy whose picture inspired this one, but I don’t want to type it here it in case his relatives see this and think I’m making fun. I will say that his middle initial was actually W.

5. about 9 hours ago on Working Daze

   I read that Cary Grant took LSD as part of a controlled test by the military. Groucho Marx tried it when he was cast in the late 60s movie SKIDOO, for research purposes- even though it was Jackie Gleason’s character who accidentally ingests acid and has a trip.

6. about 9 hours ago on Working Daze

   That’s up to John. He handles the pickle ball material. But I’ve read comments that some people consider pickle ball spoiled by too much faddish attention. That it’s not the same as when it was lesser known and not commercialized. I’d like to see John handle that point of view. What do the pickleball playing character in WD think of how the game has altered? I don’t play, so I can’t wrote that stuff.

7. about 9 hours ago on Working Daze

   But I do like Steven, so you have some taste.

8. about 9 hours ago on Working Daze

   Oh well. Too bad. We have plenty of readers who disagree with you.

9. 1 day ago on Nancy

   I haven’t produced any in a long time, and my mind isn’t in that space much these days. Old issues float around the collectors’ market. There were some paperback collections, mostly B&W and one in color. One was a Christmas story. The strips of Nick were exclusive for them. They haven’t been collected.

   I do remember that Irving was going on about why ‘She sells seashells at the seashore’ made no sense to him.

10. 1 day ago on Working Daze

    Don’t blame John, as he wasn’t involved in this one. I wrote all of these profiles, and I knew when writing this one that it was not a joke at the character’s expense. Read my answer above to franksmin about the real man I based this on. Sometimes I want the strip to have heart, even poignancy. This is one, and for that reason I saved it to last in the series.

    So you’re right that isn’t a big gag- but it wasn’t meant to be.