Bio byte

[scarfman]

The year I was at Northwestern University (1978-79), the first quarter I had a comic strip appear in the university paper. It was called NUances because the editor and I couldn't think of something cleverer. The characters in it were M*A*S*H characters converted into college students, much the way AKOTAS converts King Arthur characters into, among others, M*A*S*H characters. NUances appeared alongside the works of Robert Leighton, S. A. King, and Tim Downs (he was syndicated, he wasn't a Northwestern student).

I drew thirteen or so strips at the beginning of the year and turned them in to the editor. Near the end of my first semester or the beginning of my second semester, I phoned the editor to ask when he was going to run more NUances. He said, "When are you going to bring me more?" I said, "You still have three from the first batch!"

What I should have realized (whether he actually said it or not [which I don't remember he did {though he should have}]) is he didn't like those last three and wasn't going to run them. But I didn't, and I never took him another batch because I was still waiting for him to use up the first one, and NUances never did appear in the Daily Northwestern again*.

* Or if it did I'd sure like to hear about it.

Comments

[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

This post suffers from hyper-brackenosis.

[scarfman]

It was composing that bit of the story in my head that made me think, "This oughta be a bio byte."