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For February 2003 Commentary: February began a sort of renaissance for me. Taking a reader's emailed suggestion to do strips on Jennifer Lopez (I hate Jennifer Lopez), I came up with the idea to have the battle of the ex and the future-ex: P Diddy and Ben Affleck. But how could I draw them and have people be able to identify them? The answer came to me while I was at work one night - I WOULDN'T draw them. I cut and pasted their heads, over and over again, and would just draw in their bodies. I loved it! (Unfortunately, some of the layout staff at the newspaper didn't, as they had to scan these strips in grayscale and spend a lot more time with them. One of them was gracious enough to spend the time for me, but she went on a vacation and my last strip never did get published... The storyline was supposed to have ended with Jennifer Lopez running off with Mister Sausage, Ben Affleck exclaiming "Nooo! Just as I was learning to love again!" and P-Diddy saying: "Welcome to my world.." I went buck wild with the cut-and-pasting, trying to sell off my bike, my brother, and even plugging Vanessa in my comic (like I said, she wanted to be in the comic.. and that's what kind of boyfriend I am, even though she ended up dumping me in the end). February also brought in everyone's favorite dictator, Saddam Hussein. This was based on a reader's suggestion to do a few anti-war rallies. I was extremely pro-war at the time, yet wanted to take my readers' suggestions seriously. So I figured, who better to preach anti-war messages, than the man himself? --May 12, 2003
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