Surewould Forest (The Lost Episodes)

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To make a short story long, I was thinking that I tried to self-syndicate Doopy Joe, (and failed, by the way) but I couldn’t remember if I submitted it to newspaper syndicates or not. I still don’t know, but I don’t think I did. So I decided to give it a try.

I figured that the first step would be to dig out the old Doopy Joe originals. At present, I have only 16 finished Doopy Joes. The syndicates ask for 24 to 36 samples. To sustain consistency, I needed to know how I made them!  While digging through my boxes of artwork, and fending off several spiders, I discovered two forgotten episodes of Surewould Forest. Here is the first, and the second is forthcoming. Enjoy!

PS……..I still haven’t found the old Doopy Joe originals. I will probably have to “reverse engineer” them from the copies that I have.

Sign of the Times

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Do you know the saying, “It’s funny because it’s true”? Well…that is not what I was going for when I came up with this particular comic. I was aiming for absurdity. Twenty years ago, this was a ridiculous proposition. Times have, indeed, changed. In Michigan, at least, you can’t even smoke in a bar anymore. Now, I don’t know for sure if smoking is not allowed in a pipe and tobacco shop…but I would not be surprised. Thus, the absurdity has faded like a puff of smoke.