DORK ADDENDA:

Tiny Titans: http://www.dccomics.com/dckids/?action=comics&i=13844

Blackest Night: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackest_Night

Twenty-four years ago, at the University of Wisconsin student newspaper offices of the Daily Cardinal, a really cute girl asked me to do a sketch for her, of one of the characters from my then-comic strip, Wild Life. So I did. (Did I mention she was really cute?)

I lost track of the girl for seven years, but met her again, by chance, one February day in 1993.

She told me she kept the drawing.

Cut to the present: I was unpacking some boxes just now, and it turned out she DID keep the drawing.

Here it is. Twenty- four years and one month later.

It was only a rough sketch. Done quickly, for a girl I thought was really cute.

Who became my wife, and the great love of my life.

I need to find a very, very special frame for this, tomorrow.

– John

Just time for a short note of GREAT concern.

I only now realized something.

You know those Wisconsin ‘Cheesehead’ hats you see at Packers games? You know: these. Or THESE:

I’ve lived in my adopted, cheddary homeland for just about 25 years now, and it suddenly hit me…

Cheddar has no holes in it!

Swiss cheese isn’t yellow!

At best – at BEST – Gruyere is off-white, and has SLIGHT holes in it. AT BEST!

This is no cheese known to mankind of this unholy yellow/hole-y nature! Certainly no cheese native to Wisconsin’s fair shores. In other words…

OMFG: THE HAT IS A LIE, people! THE HAT IS A DAMNABLE LIE!

Oh, Wisconsin…your great ambassador of drunken football revelry and frat-house impertinence is nothing but a lie.

I hang my head for thee.

Be…ashamed.

Be ashamed.

*****

For some reason, DorkTower.com coughed up a few dozen “Contact John or Webmistress Cat” messages it had been sitting on for a while. All at once.

Many of which said “about one in four of the cartoons in the archive have broken links.”

I think that has something to do with the site suddenly becoming very case sensitive. I’m not entirely sure about this, but I have my suspicions.

Anyway, we’re working on it as best we can. And maybe one or two other, bigger changes for the site.

And you know what else?

HEY! Look over THERE!

THE HAT IS A LIE!!!!

– John