State of the comic strip for Monday, Feb 11
February 11th, 20083,500 unique readers this past week! Google’s ads are generating a little bit o’ income. Not bad. I like seeing the McCain and conservative ads up there. Happy to take their cash and provide a suitably ironic context for ‘em.
Part of last week, I was updating the strip from the road so a few strips - like the Tony the Tiger strips - were done in advance and were less topical. Given the craziness of last week, it was a tough week to not be on my laptop the whole time. My iPhone was a lifeline and I think that during the vacation days, there were more photos taken of me on my iPhone reading TPM, Andrew Sullivan or Politico than anything - except maybe drinking coffee. I’ve got some makeup strips to post to catch up. And I may go back an add gray tones to the strips drawn and scanned on the road.
mmm. Coffee, Sushi and Internet political punditry….
And thanks to reader John O for letting me know I don’t know jack about monkeys… 
Being an anthropologist, I felt compelled to remind you, Steve, that your drawing of the primate in the above strip actually was a chimpanzee… or at least, it LOOKED like a Chimp. And Chimps aren’t monkeys, they’re Great Apes, part of the super family of Hominoids… whereas Old World and New World Monkeys are part of a different branch of the Order of Primates. One way to know is that the Great Apes (Gorillas, Orangutans, Chimps and Bonobos) don’t have tails.
From his note, I’m assuming John means my drawing of the Unpaid Clinton Volunteer was anthropologically accurate.
Now that I’m back, I’m continuing to fill in the blanks in the archive and will see about getting that cafe press store up and running.
The blog comments are turned back on - now that I’m around to delete spam. We’ll see if it becomes too much of a pain in the butt.
Thanks again, everyone!
– Steve
Stumble it!
February 11th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Steve, you bastard! (Kidding!) =P
Keep up the good work.
-john