WH!TLESS
from 2/29/2008
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This one was based on a fictional feud with another USA Today blog, “On Deadline”. The editor of O.D, posted a complimentary post about how Pop Candy had loyal readers, and asked how come O.D.’s readers aren’t a loyal or rabid? A few O.D. readers made a few negative comments about Pop Candy, and a pretend feud broke out. It was all in good fun, but inspired this strip about the big Dance Off between the blogs.
This strip holds the distinction of being the first strip where I drew nothing specific by hand. I added a few new characters, but specific to the strip, all of the background was drawn digitally in Corel Draw, and then I just positioned the characters within it.
It features a new design for Apronk. In the first strip, I had drawn her as a walking stick of butter, but while I liked the idea, the design was too non-descript, and just looked like a block, not butter. It bothered me since I first drew it,  but I had no better design until this week, when I got the idea to just spoof the Land O’ Lakes logo. I think this is a lot better and funnier, if more cumbersome.
Of the new character designs here, I think Spookycat is my favorite, although it’s obvious. I also like aches and Paynes.


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