How have the drawings changed over the years?
I spent a lot of time looking at the older cartoons during my long break and decided that the major problem with many of them was that they were overdone and hard to read. The focus of cartoons didn’t stand out well enough from the backgrounds, and many of them used all sorts of silly effects that didn’t add anything to the joke. All that aside, Doctor Fun has a certain “look” to it that was something more than pen and ink. So I decided to make a real effort to keep all the colorful stuff, but also keep the focus on the joke. So the backgrounds are now usually blown out and faded in order to make the line art stand out, and I go easier on the fancy effects. On the other hand, like most cartoonists, I’m hypercritical about my own work and would probably pull most of it off if I wasn’t self-aware enough to keep a lid on it. I drew cartoons for years and threw them in a drawer (or only showed them to a couple friends) because I didn’t think they were any good. There hasn’t been any time w
