Moments of Sweetness

No particular reason why I posted this cartoon; I just felt like it. It's not a bust-your-gut cartoon gag; more like a brief moment of sweetness, I think. I would imagine it would be very hard to be laugh-out-loud funny every single day, 365 days a year for years and years on end; I know I sure couldn't do it; sometimes I would just have to put in some moments of sweetness until the next wave of hilarity. Besides ain't life like that? You see, I'm defending myself here, 'cuz these comic strips I've been posting lately are from my latest submission to various syndicates; all rejected of course. Otherwise, I'd be in the papers, not here. I did get some good feedback, though. Who knows. I still may be Patricia The Stripper on day.

One little note about the cartoon. The overall tone was inspired by a recurring theme that Charles Schulz created in his strip Peanuts; every now and then he'd have all the characters on the baseball mound with Charlie Brown, just pontificating and philosophizing (is that a word?). I loved those strips. No gag was necessary. Instead of a good laugh, sometimes you just really needed some moments of sweetness. To see some really good moments of sweetness these days, check out Patrick McDonnell's Mutts, an incredibly beautiful, clever, adorable and just goddam good strip.

Comments

[Robot Johnny]

I <3 Mutts

[Amanda]

Patricia, this is lovely. Thank you.