Whenever Newsletter 5-2

It's been a while since we've done this. There are lots of reasons, but the main one is that I'm a scatterbrain. Even so, some good things have been happening. Editor Judy Brown included my one-liners in her book Squeaky Clean Comedy. I returned to the stage for a recent column on standup. And "So It Goes" won fourth place in Humor from The National Society of Newspaper Writers.

If we're not careful, I'm going to develop some self-esteem.

I've also been ghostwriting, which pays great but is less filling (sorry). I wish I could reveal my clients, but let's just say that one of them appears in the classified section of 148 newspapers. If I tell you more than that, I'll wake up in a pool of my own blood.

After some legal finessing, I started production on Real Life Snapshots. These are pictures I take around town for important smart-aleck commentary. My slogan: Taking photojournalism to lows you never dreamed of.

The feature will debut in a blog at The Star sometime before the polar ice caps melt. Here's a sneak preview:





















Snapshots continue to spread online (like a rash, some say). We are up to 35 million hits per year. The other day I checked on the cartoon feed at one of our client websites, The Arizona Republic. After all of the concepting, sketching, inking, coloring, and technical preparation, the finished product looked like this.



So it goes.

J.