• Everyone needs a break sometimes •
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As a past religious reader of the daily newspaper comics, I was shocked the first time I saw a cartoonist take a creative break. The comic was Doonesbury and the cartoonist was Garry Trudeau. I was in college at the time and it never occurred to me that a cartoonist could do that.
A comic strip is the equivalent of a performance streak for a runner. Other performers, runner or cartoonist, might be able to bank conditioning for short breaks with otherwise minimal disruption, but Trudeau reached a limit and had to take an extended break.
After months of reruns and public uncertainty, Doonesbury finally continued with Trudeau adequately refreshed. In recent years he’s limited cartooning to Sunday strips; again, not so unlike athletes like runners focusing on special competitions. On the other hand, Don Watterson pulled out completely when he stopped drawing his immensely popular Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. A kind of athlete retiring in their prime.
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FINE PRINT ¶Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 6/29/24), Shawmont Running Club website, Ruminations by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Rumination with added caption.
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