Friday

"So, why'd you quit?"

That’s hard to say. My wife and I got a puppy that fall, and suddenly I felt like I had no more free time. On top of that, work was becoming more and more “unfun.” I just didn’t feel the humor in the every day that I had before.

Although life is much better now, I have two girls and less time than ever. I want to concentrate on my family and other hobbies, so I will probably never return to cartooning.


But never say “never,” right?

October 14, 2003 - BONUS!

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The last official wingedpotato strip, though never posted on the original website. I’d rediscovered an old strip way back from the newsletter that I never redrew, and thought it would be fun to update. “In Living Color” did a sketch called “Krishna Cop” about a reincarnating police officer. Anyhoo, it’s kinda appropriate that the very last strip would be a rehash of one of the very first strips (and shows Jake cartooning). 
And there you go.

October 7, 2003 - Monomyth

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The last strip to appear on my old website, and one of my favorites. There’s a great quote by J.R.R. Tolkien that was the inspiration for this strip: 

“All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and as unlike the forms we give them as Man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know.”

September 30, 2003 - Veritas

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Besides being a little treatise on what really goes on inside our heads (or my head at least), this strip was a chance to remind readers of who these characters were.

September 23, 2003 - Runnin' from the Man

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Just another excuse to draw Gentle in various poses, but I thought it was cute. Now that we have a dog, I see how accurate this one can be.

September 16, 2003 - Good for the Gander

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Point-of-view rears its ugly head again. Yay! This was my attempt to put a good spin on my selfish customer rants.

September 9, 2003 - More Characters

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And of course once I got rolling, I couldn’t stop until I purged myself of them all. I can still remember a specific person to match all eight.

September 2, 2003 - Characters

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Well, once I had the ball rolling, I couldn’t stop. Cathartic? Can’t remember.

August 26, 2003 - Heh?

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I must have been in a mood, because I used the above strip as a springboard to vent about all the people who had annoyed me over the years. I’m not proud of it now, and I think I must have been watching a lot of Will & Grace, because this is the kind of gag they'd do.

August 19, 2003 - Nerd Snaphot

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When a guy came into the store and did this to me, I knew I had to make a strip out of it. Everyone was high on Peter Jackson’s movies then, and a few esoteric nerds felt they now had license to impress everyone with their knowledge.

Thursday

August 12, 2003 - Fun and Games

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This one’s cute. I envisioned the last panel as Joe thinking the pies were just for dessert, and he plowed through them before the game. Then I realized it also worked as him easily winning the contest because he’s voracious. Either way, still cute.

August 5, 2003 - FORE!

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I tried to get more mileage out of the previous strip. At least this one’s a little better. I also just found a new meaning in “extra hit” I didn’t originally intend.

July 29, 2003 - Socially Monogamous

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I enjoyed drawing a single panel, but as a joke (even based on real-life observation), I didn't think it flew too well. It happens.