I may have inspired something

(I posted this last night, but I added some hyperlinks this morning)

As some of you may remember from a previous post I love comic strips. I started having my dad and brother read me Krazy Kat and Garfield since before I could read and was as excited for the publication of new Calvin and Hobbes books as I am for new Harry Potters (no exaggeration). As soon as I could draw, I started making my own strips. For some reason though, my ability to draw never really progressed beyond what I was capable of doing when I was about 8 years old. So rather then pursue a career, I've been content to be a lifelong fan of the medium.

Last year I came across a new strip called "Retail" and loved it right away. It immediately became a part of my daily internet comic viewing along with Dilbert, Foxtrot, Garfield, and Non Sequitur. Also, though I don't check them everyday, I'm a big fan of Get Fuzzy and Pearls before Swine. When Foxtrot stopped doing dailies it got bumped up to my favorite current running comic.

I love this strip so much that I make a daily visit online to one of the fictional character's blogs and keep up on any news given out by the author, Norm Feuti. Also a few months back I even submitted a story to the author that I thought would be funny. Many comic strip writers offer fans ways of sharing ideas with them in order to help maintain inspiration and keep creating fresh daily comics. Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has been really big at hitting up the public for inspiration. If the idea is good, then maybe, just maybe you'll inspire a strip. If it is really good perhaps even a Sunday strip or a week long story. In my case though, a storyline VERY similar to one I emailed to the author looks to be panning out into a MULTI-WEEK STORYLINE.

I mentioned in the email how I had worked in a high end clothing store where we had to be prim and proper and look our best all the time. I told the author it would be funny if the goof ball stockroom worker, Cooper (shown here), somehow got temporarily transfered to the menswear department and had to start wearing a tie and dealing with balancing customer service and the hassle of recovery in a part of the store where everything has to be kept perfect. Well, that is exactly what happened this week and looks like what will continue to take place at least into next week.

Now I'm a reasonable enough person to realize that without further evidence I can't just jump to the conclusion that it was my email that provided Norm with this storyline, but I'm going to let myself enjoy the moment just in case I did.