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| Comics Update: May, 2002 In this issue of the Comics Update: Send A Dilbert Or Peanuts Mother's Day Card New Desktop Wallpaper And Link Icons Comics Added To Comics By E-Mail Catch Up With Pibgorn Test Your Comics Knowledge New Books For Get Fuzzy And 9 Chickweed Lane An Exclusive Interview With Rose Is Rose Cartoonist Pat Brady Sunday Get Fuzzy Strips on Prints and Clothing Baseball Jerseys With Dilbert Or Get Fuzzy Strips Discover Our New Editorial Cartoons Snoopy and Dilbert E-Cards ---------------------------------------------- Mother's Day is this Sunday! Don't forget to treat your mom to an e-card featuring Dilbert or Snoopy. You can also send cards to celebrate birthdays, graduations, and other occasions, or just to say hello! Dilbert e-cards: http://greetings.yahoo.com/cards/Dilbert/ Peanuts e-cards: http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/fun_and_games/e_cards.html Desktop Wallpaper and Link Icons ---------------------------------------------- Decorate your desktop with your favorite comic characters! Try one of the new wallpaper designs from Peanuts, Pearls Before Swine, and Rudy Park. Peanuts wallpaper: http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/fun_and_games/wallpaper.html Pearls Before Swine wallpaper: http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/html/wallpaper.html Rudy Park wallpaper: http://www.comics.com/comics/rudypark/html/wallpaper.html If you have a web site, try one of the new Frazz or Rudy Park link icons, and share some laughs with your visitors! Rudy Park link icons: http://www.comics.com/comics/rudypark/html/linkIcons.html Frazz link icons: http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/html/linkIcons.html Comics Added to Comics By E-Mail ---------------------------------------------- Don't forget to update your Comics by E-mail subscriptions when new comics are added! The newest additions are Drawing a Crowd and Pibgorn. Find a complete list here: http://www.comics.com/dailycomics/subscribe Catch Up with Pibgorn ---------------------------------------------- Brooke McEldowney's new strip follows the saga of the fairy Pibgorn. The story so far: Pibgorn took her human love interest, Geoff, reduced to fairy size, on an "unscheduled flight." Unfortunately, the flight was also illegal, and so she was caught by the wings by Prince Creweth and sentenced to death for her crime. Before her sentence could be carried out, Geoff broke free of his spider web prison with the help of Pibgorn's friend (and field mouse) Maurice. Upon Geoff's escape, he managed to grab Pibgorn's tethers, but before he could break her free, Gaggot (Creweth's evil sidekick) let fly an arrow that struck Geoff. Gaggot's arrow also sliced Pibgorn's tethers, and our heroes escaped. On the lam, Pibgorn healed Geoff's wound with a magical kiss, while Creweth hired his consultant fly, Luciano, to assassinate her. Before Luciano could execute his mission, he fell in love with Pibgorn. Read a month of Pibgorn here: http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/index.html Test Your Comics Knowledge ---------------------------------------------- Can you answer these comics questions? (Find the answers following the next section.) Which comic character fits this description? "It's not easy being an undiscovered genius. Armed only with his notebook, a number two pencil, and a knack for making fun of virtually everyone around him, this character is blazing a trail through sixth grade like a young Michelangelo." Which comic is drawn and written by a husband and wife team? Get Fuzzy 2: Fuzzy Logic The second Get Fuzzy collection is out! Don't miss Darby Conley's latest book featuring Bucky, the aloof, sarcastic cat; Satchel, the well-meaning but naive dog; and their stressed-out "guardian," Rob Wilco. Order Get Fuzzy 2: Fuzzy Logic: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0740721984/unitedmedia/102-4051043-9128964 Read a month of Get Fuzzy: http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/ Answers to the Comics Knowledge Questions Nate Wright, the main character in Big Nate, is blazing a trail through sixth grade like a young Michelangelo. He's armed only with his notebook, a number two pencil, and a knack for making fun of virtually everyone around him. Read Big Nate here: http://www.comics.com/comics/bignate/index.html Jack and Carole Bender are the husband and wife team behind Alley Oop. Jack Bender has drawn the comic strip since 1991, and Carole signed on as writer in 2001. Alley Oop was created in 1933 by V.T. Hamlin. Read Alley Oop here: http://www.comics.com/comics/alleyoop/ Hallmarks of Felinity ---------------------------------------------- From "Cat Physics" to "Threshold Envy," Brooke McEldowney's new 9 Chickweed Lane book will delight anyone who's ever met a cat. Order Hallmarks of Felinity here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0740721992/unitedmedia/102-4051043-9128964 Read a month of 9 Chickweed Lane: http://www.comics.com/comics/chickweed/index.html Interview with Rose Is Rose Cartoonist Pat Brady ---------------------------------------------- Question: What cartoonists have influenced you? Pat Brady: When I was very young I was influenced by all the cartoonists whose work appeared in MAD magazine. They were creating cartoons radically different from anything I'd seen before, and I was mesmerized. Until I saw my first MAD, I thought cartoons had to be about ducks and bunnies doing slapstick. I studied each panel with a magnifying glass thinking, "Oh, yes, I want to do that!" or, "Oh, no, I'd never do that!" Some of the MAD cartoonists I worshiped as gods and others I condemned as poseurs. I tried to draw exactly like those whom I admired. I made mistakes, and sometimes found that I liked what the mistakes looked like, so I cultivated them. I still do. This ever-blooming garden of mistakes is what passes for my personal style. Q: What was the inspiration for Rose's alter ego, Vicki? PB: There's a song with a line that goes, "I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll." Vicki the biker was born of the desperate look in the faces of young parents jolted awake to reality as if smacked with a Zen master's cedar stick. With Vicki the biker I try to add a twinkle to Rose's eye and tweak readers. Vicki is exhilarating and totally street legal. She's immune to criticism because she doesn't really exist. Q: Do you own a cat, or any other pets? PB: We have no pets at the moment, but I do love cats and have lived with many in my lifetime, including, but not limited to, Pooper, Shirley-Joan, Fluffy, Wild Guy, Runt, Mister Weems and Motor Mary. Q: How has feedback from fans affected Rose is Rose? PB: Feedback often awakens me to a greater potential in certain themes or visual devices, and leads to new and better material. Instant feedback via e-mail enhances this process and also provides those pats on the back that are so important to kids in their fifties. Q: Where does the title of your new book come from? PB: "High-Spirited Rose is Rose" is a title filled with promise on which I gave my personal best to deliver. Order High-Spirited Rose Is Rose here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0740723677/unitedmedia/102-4051043-9128964 Read a month of Rose is Rose: http://www.comics.com/comics/roseisrose/index.html Sunday Get Fuzzy Strips on Prints and Clothing ---------------------------------------------- Order a print or clothing with any Get Fuzzy strip published in the last 90 days, now including Sundays! Order here: http://www.cafepress.com/unitedmedia/category.aspx?category=getfuzzy Baseball Jerseys With Dilbert or Get Fuzzy Strips ---------------------------------------------- You can now get your favorite Dilbert and Get Fuzzy strips on baseball jerseys! Choose any strip published in the last 90 days, or selected older favorites. 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