9 Chickweed Lane – 30 Years and 30 Days

D. D. Degg Updated: August 16, 2023 at 2:26 pm EDT 1 minute 2 comments

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

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.

_{featured image from the 30 year time passages Sunday strip of July 9, 2023}

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George Paczolt

Sage advice for writing the world’s most annoying comic.

Tom Falco

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.

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9 Chickweed Lane – 30 Years and 30 Days

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George Paczolt

Tom Falco

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