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I haven’t received any hate mail yet about being a dog hater. I got a big ol’ 115 pound Four-Legged myself, and as I am parodying some odd people I’ve met while walking my dog through the frankly wonderful local park, I thought somebody might decide I hate dogs. I don’t. But that’s not to say that the occasional owner doesn’t need dog training lessons.
I’m also not saying that I’m the epitome of good dog owner. I’ve got my dog trained the way I like him, but that doesn’t mean a lot to people who see me out walking him, if they don’t like dogs, don’t trust dogs, or find it offensive that I often have my dog off the leash.
That being said, I’ve never taken my dog into any retail establishment except a pet store we have here locally. I got compliments on his behavior, and one lady thought it was pretty cool that I stood there while Roscoe (my dog’s name is Roscoe) looked over a bunch of bins holding pig ears and cow bones and other gory whatnot. I told Roscoe. “Pick one.” He looked at me, looked back at the bins, and chose a hunk of cow femur that’d been marinated in something brownish. “Okay. Come on.” He carried it to the counter where we paid for it and a bunch of other junk I’d gotten for him.
Good dog.
I’ve heard the old chestnut about there being “no bad dogs, just bad owners”, and some of the worst dog owners I’ve met are the ones that cuddle and coddle their dogs and would be astounded to think that anyone could consider them bag dog owners. Not ever teaching your dog anything? Bad owner. Your dog would probably really enjoy knowing what you’re saying to him or her. “Sit.” “Lie Down.” “Speak.” “No.” “Come here.” “Good Dog!” Those are your half of the conversation, and the dog seems genuinely happy to know what’s going on. Their reply is usually to carry out what you’ve asked of them, and occasionally to reply “Not until I’ve gone back for the stick I left back on the trail” but if you and your dog learn each other’s give-and-take, it’s pretty cool. Not nearly as upsetting as this one old guy I’ve met, whose dog is named ‘Kay-kay’. He shouts and hollers at ol’ Kay-kay, and she ignores him because, as near as I can tell, he’s never taken the time to teach her what any of his words mean. She runs up and down along the fence at the dog park barking at people on the other side of the fence. That’s the only game she knows, apparently. And she probably thinks her owner is darned impressed, otherwise why would he cheer her name at the top of his lungs the whole time she plays it?
I may be getting the hang of this vertical layout…
Notice anything different today? Well, so did Hubris and Paste, apparently, because what else could have rendered them speechless?
But because YOU persevere, and read all the way down here to this blurb, you get to learn that I went, this past weekend, to the National Cartoonist Society’s Southeast Chapter Annual Fall Meeting. It’s more fun to attend than to type, I notice. At any rate, the great Wiley Miller (Non Sequitur) was one of our guest speakers. I’ve been a fan of his for a long time, first because he draws beautifully, and second because I heard him predict the end of Editorial Cartooning As We Know It, and the reasons for its demise, accurately early on and noticed that he flourished as well as anyone could in comic strips hit their decline by being intelligent and treating it like a business he was involved in.
And he pointed out that his Non Sequitur Sunday cartoons’ vertical format read better than traditional two-tier horizontal formats, partly because it doesn’t give you a sneak peek at the punchline as you go from the last panel of the first tier to the first panel of the second, but also because it’s a fluid way to read comics- allowing the readers eye to flow downward in the story as it is wont to do when allowed to roam in a natural way.
And that, kiddies, is how WebComics work, too. So here’s the latest experiment- the vertical panel order in Hubris. We’ll see how it goes. It’s going to make arranging the cartoons for book format a little time consuming down the road, to be sure, but we’ll smash the crud out of that bridge when we come to it.
