Funny thing
how comics connect to people.
I did an
event where I had the first two issues available on the table. People generally bought the set, not single
issues (nice!) and several vendors purchased some too. The event was a few days long. On the second
day one of the vendors came over to talk about the cartoons. She’d read them
all the night before. I told her how a lot of it was based on our own cats, but
that we’d lost Dax to cancer a year before.
She said “Oh,
not DAX!”
That threw
me. She obviously was more upset than an average person hearing about someone’s
pet passing away – then I realized that based on just a few strips that Dax had
been in as a specific character, she had been ‘made real’ for a complete
stranger. Enough so that the person was
actually shocked at hearing about her passing.
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