Just For Fun Comic Strip
September 26, 2007, filed under: Studio, by LexFor the last year I’ve been doing comic strip ads for my old employer, a stationery and gift store in San Francisco (where I was shackled to a table, forced to design wedding invitations and tie bows for a living…a true test of one’s manhood). While there I also did their ads for the local paper, occasionally drawing cartoons to advertise the latest product. When I took on my new job, I was asked to continue the ads, but as full-fledged comic strip.
Getting the opportunity to do a strip again sounded fun, and to marry it with advertising seemed like a challenge, so I decided to take a crack at it. The store Just For Fun & Scribbledoodles is a staple in Noe Valley and the owners and their dogs are celebrities in the neighborhood, so it seemed only natural to use them as characters (it worked well since they have a natural “Abbott & Costello” relationship). Below are several strips that ran in the local paper. 
From what I’ve heard the strip is a popular feature in the paper. One of the mandates was that the dogs appear in all the strips, either as focal points or window dressing (I actually forgot to put them in a strip and then had to Photoshop them in later on). John Marshall, the artist of Blondie, told me that whenever he draws Dagwood at home he has to draw Daisy with him, otherwise the syndicate will get letters from readers worried where the dog has gone to.
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