After reading the same old jokes over and over and over in the newspaper, it makes me wonder why so few strips ever show anything NEW and exciting. They just keep recycling the same few ideas constantly. Even Foxtrot has settled into a routine. Honestly... Calvin and Hobbes was one of the few that broke out of that rut and stayed out of it.
One thing I want with my work is to NOT do any of the standard Garfield 'fat' jokes, to NOT keep to one storyline all the time, to NOT recycle someone else's work. There's no need for me to go over territory that's been so overused it's got a six mile deep rut to climb out of.
Another thing I've found with cat cartoons that get published on a regular basis is that the cats tend to either be pretty stupid creatures, or (time and again) they're downright mean. I guess trying to be mini-humans makes them mean? The real cats we've known never fell into that category, so my characters aren't going to follow in other's footsteps on that level either. They are going to be cats, seeing things from a cat perspective, but basically being themselves (with an added fantasy element here and there, yes).
One thing I want with my work is to NOT do any of the standard Garfield 'fat' jokes, to NOT keep to one storyline all the time, to NOT recycle someone else's work. There's no need for me to go over territory that's been so overused it's got a six mile deep rut to climb out of.
Another thing I've found with cat cartoons that get published on a regular basis is that the cats tend to either be pretty stupid creatures, or (time and again) they're downright mean. I guess trying to be mini-humans makes them mean? The real cats we've known never fell into that category, so my characters aren't going to follow in other's footsteps on that level either. They are going to be cats, seeing things from a cat perspective, but basically being themselves (with an added fantasy element here and there, yes).
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