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Chris Baldwin is an author and illustrator for MAD Magazine. Little Dee has been written up in the Washington Post and the UK Daily Telegraph.

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06/19/10 Ice Cream Truck

June 19th, 2010 | by christopher
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06/19/10 Ice Cream Truck

This was one of the first strips where I showed the deep blur in their lives between being animals with animal behaviors, and being cartoon characters who live very human lives as well.

└ Tags: Blake, Dee, Ice_Cream, Scavenger, Ted, Vachel
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06/18/10 A Drawing for the Fridge

June 18th, 2010 | by christopher
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06/18/10 A Drawing for the Fridge

Sometimes the “throwaway gag” is the funniest. “Have you thought about renting her out for factory work” is a good contender (although I like the actual punchline here too).

There is perhaps an inconsistency here, in that Vachel points out that they don’t have a fridge (the blog originally erroneously read, “friday” instead of “fridge,” if you’re wondering about the posts below), and later we see them having a fridge. This happened because my vision of their world changed (I originally pictured them living a bit more primitively), but I never went back in and “corrected” it because I like that the strip developed, and I can totally justify it by telling you that they bought a fridge that week in order to put the drawing on it.

└ Tags: Dee, Dee's_Parents, Message_In_A_Bottle, Ted, Vachel
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06/16/10 Message in a Bottle

June 16th, 2010 | by christopher
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06/16/10 Message in a Bottle

Ted has little humility, I think. It’s not that he doesn’t see Vachel’s sarcasm, he’s just not very interested in it, and will take an idea if it has merit. I like Ted.

This will also be the first of several messages in a bottle, which is such an endearing kid notion.

└ Tags: Dee, Dee's_Parents, Message_In_A_Bottle, Ted, Vachel
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06/15/10 Any Survivors

June 15th, 2010 | by christopher
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06/15/10 Any Survivors

I’ve always felt proud of the naturalness of her getting in his way in this strip. I also think this was a good solid intro to Vachel and Dee’s relationship: two wills not very interested in the other’s motivation.

And ahhh…. Walt Whitman. So relaxing.

└ Tags: Dee, Ted, Vachel
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06/12/10 Feeding Dee

June 12th, 2010 | by christopher
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06/12/10 Feeding Dee

I remember, when younger, almost the only food I had in the house was a pyramid stack of SpaghettiO’s. For lunch I’d take a can and a can-opener.

Healthier than cake, perhaps, but not much.

└ Tags: Blake, Cake, Dee, Honey, Scavenger, Ted, Vachel
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06/11/10 Deeeeranged

June 11th, 2010 | by christopher
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06/11/10 Deeeeranged

From the start i wondered: if she doesn’t speak, how would they learn her name? Originally I think I had them looking for her name written on the tag of her shirt, with obvious brief errors in judgement: “It looks like her name is ‘Fruit of the Loom’ .”

└ Tags: Dee, Flowers, Ted, Vachel
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06/10/10 Lunch!

June 10th, 2010 | by christopher
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06/10/10 Lunch!

In the original version of this strip, in fact while the strip was still in development before Vachel even existed, this punchline was spoken by a second bear, who was later cut from the cast.

└ Tags: Blake, Dee, Ted, Vachel
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A full color graphic novel "Little Dee And The Penguin" featuring the cast of Little Dee (and written and illustrated by me) is being published April 5, 2016 by Penguin/Dial and is available for pre-order. (more information on the Penguin website)

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