I was mentioning us going apple and pumpkin picking in October. It reminded me of this guy that contacted me one day about writing gags for my comics. He was a gag writer. There’s a thing for cartoons and comics.
A few of us were headed upstate New York and this guy emails me just before we were to leave. He lived up where we were going – near Hudson, NY. He introduced himself and offered his services. He wanted to send me gags to buy for my Tomversation comic.
I emailed him back and thanked him for reaching out to me, but I explained that I don’t need that service because I write what I know and I express myself through the cartoons and I don’t think buying gags would be the same. Also, I strongly believe that 90% of a cartoon or comic strip is the writing. You’ve seen stick figure cartoons that have millions of followers – well, the people are there because of the writing, not the stick figures.
I told him I would keep him in mind, just in case and I mentioned the coincidence of us headed up his way that day. He invited us to stop by his house; of course we didn’t. But every time I think of us going upstate to pumpkin pick, I think of that incident.
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