Hi. I never really mentioned this, but I launched this webcomic months ago (beg. of Jan.) for two reasons. 1) My cool wife told me I should. Us artists are dreamers and we tend to strain the love relationships in our lives by constantly trying new things, not being focused, and coming up with crazy ideas that cost lots of money. So, when my wife of 24 years says “You should just post it online; just do it!”, well, she is speaking my love language. And 2), I had this idea for a fun, family strip (strongly based on my own family) that wouldn’t go away. So much so, that I finally had an idea I wanted to pursue enough to work long hours- for free- in order to get enough strips together to submit them to a comics syndicate. You need a months worth of strips for that (which is about 24 strips and 3-4 color, “Sundays”), and as of a couple weeks ago, I had that (sans a couple color ones, but I’ve been told that’s not a big deal). So, last week I printed them out and snail mailed them off to the UNIVERSAL Press Syndicate, home of PEANUTS, ZITS, and many of the best strips ever. Who knows what will happen and how long it will take to hear back, but I’m just glad I can check this off my artistic “bucket list”. I’m going to keep going with the strip, in the meantime. I’m enjoying it, so why not. At any rate, I hope you do too and that you also tell your friends about OUTNUMBERED. Thanks, Tom B.
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Nice touch of flopsweat as the panic sets in.
This morning I woke up and thought… “Thursday… oh! New Outnumbered!” Thanks for working hard on this! My wife also encourages me to do things that other wives would discourage their husbands from doing. Like leaving a perfectly good paying job (that was killing me on the inside) to follow an artists dream.
Blessings on your syndication submission! Doesn’t if feel great when something big like that is totally beyond your control?
Hey Tom…. Some years ago I did a lot of advertising work for Tribune Media who ran Dick Tracy, Mother Goose and Grimm and Jeff McNelly’s Shoe cartoon strips… You might want to send your strips to them too. I really enjoyed working for them… we even won a few awards with the paper sculptures i did for Mike Peters.
They are on the list too Dee, thanks. I guess I’m just hitting one at a time. Not sure I have to, but that’s what I’m doing so far….
Tom, I’m loving the strip and have become a regular reader. Keep it up please. I could soooo see this in the paper. You have a great voice and the artwork is fantastic
Too Funny Tom, This is a common occurrence at the Zore house. I even get the same response!!!!
howzabout this for a save: I don’t remember the exact words, because I was totally overwhelmed by the joy of knowing that I got to love and cherish you for the rest of our lives together. 😉
Just discovered this strip today, and loving it from the viewpoint of an outnumbered woman!
Glad you found me and super glad you like it also! Welcome!