Of course, the subject line could have been 'SHE's...'
Feel free to point out what a misogynist I am.

The points of my posts vary:
Sometimes I write just to stall working on the next project.
Sometimes I write because someone else has written and it would be rude or non-egotistical not to write back.
Sometimes I write because the group needs some news.
Sometimes because I'm trying to start a fight, which usually leads to long and interesting forum threads. Typically, I'm lying to start the fight, and no one really gets all bent and goes on a rant. But one day, man, I'm gonna catch somebody's hot button...

And now, I'm writing because the new forum has that rotten thing that says how long it's been since the last post. I hate seeing 'one week, two weeks... eight months... whatever' So I'm going to try to bump all of the main ones up to date.

Unfortunately that'll lead to another problem I dislike- when all the threads have the same poster's name on them. So he'p me out here and reply to a couple.

But to the subject, now:

You ever meet a cartoonist and just can't believe how (fill in the blank) they are?

I mean, I met Frank Cotham when I was a young sprat. He was the guest at a Mid-South Cartoonist Meeting. I couldn't believe this quiet, cool, soft-spoken guy was a cartoonist. Granted I was young and all, but I expected cartoonists to be more... brassy, loud... more like ME, I suppose. (Of course, I only behave this way because I thought that's how cartoonists were supposed to act. I had to spend years overcoming delbilitating shyness in order to behave more cartoonerly.)

Actually, the whole thing reminds me of a tasteless cartoon I did once. In it, there was a televangelist with all the stereotypical trappings, looking at a more realistically drawn Returned Savior. The televangelist, in his awful pale suit and outlandish hairdo, says, "No, no, I'm glad you're here, it's just that I thought you'd look more like me...."

Mike Peters... There's a cartoonist! He fills up a room with cartoonerliness. Art Speigelman, on the other hand, seems more like a playwright- a really, really intense playwright. And I suppose in an odd sense, he is.

So tell us... who've you met that you said, "Well, isn't that interesting that a cartoonist is so...."