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9.10.01 ...Sometimes Cavalier Daily comics will repeat a strip if there's not enough time to draw a new one before our deadline. I didn't want a comics page with three different repeated strips, so I used my tyrannical power as Graphics Editor to draw new installments for Paradigm Shift, Action Daxton and Sketchy. It was actually kind of fun to draw half of the comics page.

9.11.01 ...You really have to try this with one of those free AOL CDs.

9.12.01 ...This was the most difficult strip I've ever drawn. Like everyone else, I went through a roller coaster of emotions on September 11. Because I had shut myself into a music recording lab for the morning, I didn't find out what had happened until halfway through the day. My Dad worked at the Pentagon. When I heard the reporter on a makeshift Education School TV cart say that this was "worse than Pearl Harbor" and zoom into a shot of the Pentagon burning, I hid my face against the brick wall and cried. Later on I finally got through the phone lines and found out that my Dad was okay; his office was a third of the building length away from the impact. I was told that this simply-drawn comic meant a lot to several people, but I really drew it for myself.

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9.24.01 ...I had never really played out this aspect of the story before, but I felt that I needed to develop the characters before trying to do anything like this. This comic was just an experiment to see if I could get people to feel an emotion for Popsy...from the response I got, it seemed to work.

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10.1.01 ...I'd had the idea behind this comic in my head for the longest time but never knew quite how to word it, because weight can be a touchy subject with many people.