I’m not sure how much of this strip is having fun defining Dee’s character, and how much of it was that I wasn’t sure yet what she should be.

Here’s the pumpkin I carved this year.
This strip, I’m not sure where the inspiration came from. I think I may have been carving a pumpkin and made a joke about how it seemed I was performing brain surgery. Giving Vachel the role of explaining this to Dee was the most fun route.
it occurred to me when I was finishing this week of strips: where do the bottles come from?
I always imagined he was drinking grape sodas.
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Sometimes kindness is self-serving, and if there is a way it is, Vachel will find it.
If you do good, if you do bad, even if you don’t do anything at all, I think you deserve a hug from Dee.
When I started drawing Little Dee, someone told me it’d never be big because too many people would think that it was horrible that parents might lose a kid, and scary for parents with kids thinking they could.
But there was something about the situation which kept intriguing me, like the little bit of spark and discomfort behind the entire strip. it is fun and happy and loving, but there is this background conflict which you know someday must be resolved.
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Despite having the protagonist of my strip being silent, it was rare I could come up with a good silent gag. I think this one was a pretty good job.
The Nixon joke is a interesting, but the thing I like most is Vachel’s defining how he thinks politicians speak. Although this is perhaps a bit more political than i normally decided to go with the strip. :)
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One of the reasons that English is so ripe for comedy is because words have so many different meanings. I love it.













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