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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