What are they saying? Don't ask me

More established cartoonists may take foreign editions in stride, but it is still a novelty for me to see my characters speaking in some language I don’t understand, as they did when both Perspective! and David Chelsea In Love came out in French editions. In my slow, deliberate campaign to cover the globe with my books the latest country to succumb is Japan, where an edition of Perspective! has recently been published. With the French books I was able to do a little second-guessing of the translations (does “parallelepipede” really have the same plain connotations in French as “box” does in English?) but given my utter ignorance of even the Japanese alphabet I will have to take it on faith that my translators know what they are doing. Evidently they are doing something right- according to my latest royalty statement, the Japanese edition is outselling the American version six to one.
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One question I get asked every so often is “When are you going to get back to drawing autobiographical comics like David Chelsea In Love?” For these fans, the long wait is over- I just posted a four panel autobiographical strip on the comics page of this site. I have grown a bit more reticent about revealing the intimate facts of my life than I was in the early 90’s, so I have altered a few minor details- like my age, my appearance, what I do for a living and the fact that I don’t habitually speak in rhyme. Otherwise, the guy is totally me.
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Caricature for Inx

See this week’s Inx drawings here