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Over the summer I was experimenting with a Dilbert spin-off comic strip
about a little boy and his pig growing up in the clueless country of
Elbonia. Unfortunately this isn't a good time to launch a comic featuring
people who look like the Taliban. So it's on the shelf, probably
permanently.
The main character is a little boy named Plop. He's the only Elbonian who
has no bodily hair. In Elbonia, even the women and babies have full beards,
so everyone naturally thinks The Hairless Elbonian is slow.
The experimental aspect is that I blatantly "borrowed" every successful
cartooning technique I've ever seen (except for good artwork) and threw it
into the mix. For example, comics about little boys with pets tend to be
popular across all demographic groups, whereas comics about little girls
have limited appeal to young males. Hence, The Hairless Elbonian is a boy. In other words, it
's an engineered comic strip devoid of any artistic integrity whatsoever. I
was curious whether I could make that work. You be the judge.
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