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FUN FACT: Many indigenous Australian languages don't have words for left/right but instead use south/east/north/west to indicate relative direction. So you might have a "north hand" which becomes your "south hand" if you turn around. Unsurprisingly speakers of these have a better sense of direction.

... it’s very difficult for characters to carry on a conversation while one of them has his mouth full.
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...I resolved to make it work… and to add to the challenge, do it all in a 9-panel grid: one of the most notoriously “boring” page layouts. And the pun of “talking head” dictated what the story was about. 🙂 Making it even more difficult was the practical matter that...

... "how do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume?" I assume there was no implication that he was sexually grooming this girl, but to my ears the song sure as hell sounds like it! Which may be why I thought of it in the context of this piece.
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...probably because of the theme song, which was a #1 hit back in the day. Poitier's "Sir" is a strict teacher who pushes his English juvenile-delinquent students to take their education seriously. The song is written from the perspective of one the girls, who croons things such as...

... since this kind of gritty style doesn't play to my instincts.
The title of this piece is a reference to the 1960s Sidney Poitier movie, and the lettering is lifted from it. I haven't watched the whole film, but it's... not like this. Even so, the title has always seemed a little creepy to me...

... But he gets there on his own terms, not the terms forced on him, and that makes the difference.

...but a relentless spiral to the bottom. And I'm not here to tell that kind of story. They kinda suck. I need to rewrite the ending. It won't be a "happy ending" (except in the slang sense)... Our Hero ends in much the same place....

I recently drew a meeting between the US Dennis the Menace and the UK Dennis the Menace. jaqrabbit.com/blog/dennis-...

...one with a word balloon carefully covering some very frontal male nudity, and other with the balloon placed to the side. He used the latter, which led to a few mentions of my contributions in reviews of the book overall. 🙂
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...I intended this series to reflect that. It had actually been published once before I posted that, in an anthology called Anything That Loves, featuring comics looking at the “wibbly wobbly” world of diverse sexuality. I gave Zan at Northwest Press two versions...

...but I liked jogging enough to keep up them when they were out for just a training run. But there comes a time when you find you… can’t keep it up.

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I see that as a systemic thing, and I've made that argument trying to save many articles. I'm just saying that I don't know this specific editor's motive.

The key to keeping the article – documenting part of our culture – is to add those kinds of references, and *politely* discussing why it should be kept, on the article's "talk" page.
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