Fun with Kathleen

One Year of Questionable Content

This issue marks some-
thing of a rarity in ‘university
newspaper cartoons...one
year of consecutive strips.
Well, on this occasion you’d
think I'd have a little bit more
to say, but unfortunately |
don’t. | am, however, feeling
rather pleased, simply
because from my experi-
ence, many of the strips that
find their way onto the fun-
nies page of any university
newspaper seem to eventu-
ally fall victim to not-enough-
goddamn-time-to-draw-the-
cartoon-syndrome and grad-
ually dwindle away. I’ve care-
fully avoided this downfall of
many cartoonists by simply
placing cartoons above
many things in my life. My
personal slogan is ‘sleep is
for pussies’ and | think that
makes itself clear when you
consider some of the stories
that have been in Fun with
Kathleen.

Anyhow, | usually get the
same two complaints about

the comic. The first one is
Where’s Kathleen? to which
my standard reply is “I’m
right here.” It’s amazing how
many people want the
Kathleen back in Fun with
Kathleen. See, the problem
with that is | only put a ditzy
brunette named Kathleen in
as a poor replacement for
any sort of real joke. | never
wanted to be the star of my
own cartoon.

The other common com-
plaint is that the cartoon has
turned into the Trevor and
Mike show. This is actually
on purpose. The strip was
always supposed to star
Trevor and Mike but it took a
lot longer than | was expect-
ing to work them into it. I’ve
been drawing Mike since |
was 12 years old, and Trevor
since | was 16, so technical-
ly it should have been the
Trevor and Mike show since
the beginning. Sorry to all
the Kathleen fans out there.
(But don’t you like Ursela

better? | do!)

Anyhow, the one good
thing about this year of ques-
tionable art has been the

improvement I’ve shown.
Yes I’m aware that I’ve still
got a long way to go before |
can call myself a real car-
toonist, but the amount that
I've improved in one year is
pretty amazing. As you can
see, | bought a ruler for
starters. Who knows, per-
haps by the time | graduate
the strip might even *gasp*
BE LEGIBLE!

Just to highlight the notice-
able improvement, I’ve
assembled a cavalcade of
horrors to feast your eyes
upon below. If you think that
Fun with Kathleen looks bad
now, just look at how it used
to look. Yeek.

Also, enjoy the Legendary
Lost Strips, the Fun with
Kathleen that just never got
into the papers. Probably for
the best....

Legendary Lost Strips!

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Tom: Beaten with an ugly shovel for over a year now! Note
any type of consistency in these profile drawings!

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