9 Chickweed Lane celebrated 30 years of comic stripping last month.
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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.
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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.