Thursday Morning

I was up half the night reading Donald Trump's tax returns. A $600,000 deduction each year for bronzer as a business expense? Good luck with that.

My posting schedule, like my sleeping schedule, will be all askew for the next week or three due to sudden construction work needed on my house. If there's suddenly a dearth of new posts here for a while, you needn't write and inquire if I'm okay. It's just construction work. It can have that effect on anyone's life.

There are actual copies in the United States of Volume 8 of Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips. Amazon says they'll be shipping them December 13 and they'll also be shipping the box set of Volumes 7 and 8. We sent this thing to press a long, long time ago and it took forever to get them printed and twice as long to get the books bound and shipped to this country. I believe they had a dolphin swimming them over to us, one copy at a time. Order with as much confidence as you can muster.

The first issue of the new 4-issue Groo mini-series — Gods Against Groo — will be in stores in three weeks…and when the construction workers allow it, I'm working on the first issue of the next 4-issue Groo mini-series today. I hope to not be able to draw any inspiration for our usual jokes about incompetence and destruction from those workers.

Jeremiah, don't write and ask me where on the Internet I found Donald Trump's tax returns. It was a joke. For now.