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Sep 23, 2022

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What a week to find out that Trump has mind-powers that can alter reality.

This week’s comic takes place in Chagrin Falls, USA, and is titled, “First They Came for Trump, and I Said Nothing…”

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Hey, last Friday, I won the Nation Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award in Editorial Cartooning. CLICK HERE for more info, including a video of the presentation, which I unfortunately could not be there for (see below). Accepting the award on my behalf was my editor at Andrews McMeel Syndication, Lisa Tarry.

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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” featuring Charley the Australopithecine (from 2011).

Planet of the Apes? You’re living on it.

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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2019).

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Thanks to all who came out to the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD to say Hi last weekend!

HERE is a Comics Journal article about SPX that includes a brief interview with me, and an awkward picture. And HERE is my Twitter thread with a few updates throughout the event.

Okay, that’s it for this week, everybody.

If you engaged in just a little bit of a decades-long massive financial fraud in real estate, I’d be careful this week. Because if they can do that to Trump… well, you know the rest.

Yours Indeed,

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