9 Chickweed Lane celebrated 30 years of comic stripping last month.
Recently GoComics posted a short interview with creator Brooke McEldowney.
I never approach my work – my characters, their motivations, my turns of phrase – with any intent other than to entertain myself. 9 Chickweed Lane is strictly a gallery of what I want to hear, what I want to see Amos and Edda (for instance) do, what I feel. I remember being advised right at the outset of syndication, by well-meaning friends, (and here I quote) “Find out what people want, and give them that.” I took this advice and immediately discarded it, clearing the bleachers with an enormous, overhand pitch.
featured image from the 30 year time passages Sunday strip of July 9, 2023
Sage advice for writing the world’s most annoying comic.
I like where Brook says: “ ‘Find out what people want, and give them that.’ I took this advice and immediately discarded it, clearing the bleachers with an enormous, overhand pitch.”
I have lived/worked by Jason Chatfield’s quote: “Don’t curate your art to what gets likes. Curate it to what you like.” That seems to work for me and Brooke and Jason, I guess.