This is Jana-that was one sexy church puppet.

In many ways they are - but I really only saw it after I started looking back at them. These Prime-Rib strips were the last ones that I did (I never put them online before). I wanted to go in a completely different direction and started designing a small girl character that used the best aspects of Eve and Mia from Prime-Rib - this is how Lil came to be. I decided to give the new characters all different colors that represent a little of who they are inside. I love the use of symbols on the mouths of Prime-Rib characters to represent their voice (the pastor has a Jesus fish symbol for his mouth, and Mia has a heart for her mouth) - so I expanded this to Liltoon with the symbols on the shirts. Lyle has the same chin hair as Skip from Prime-Rib. LeRay has a beret that I once drew in a previous strip I did in college. Liltoon was designed simply so I can easily get an idea out, make it as large or small as I need to communicate the idea (not tie myself to the newspaper size) and take full use of the internet by using color and gif animation. Liltoon also represents the letting go of the syndication dream I had for years and years since college. There's no way a syndicate would consider it with the weird sizes and strange characters.

Thanks Mark, I still like my Prime-Rib comics but there just wasn't an audience for it. I also needed to get away from the newspaper size and make something outside the box I was in for so long and that is how Liltoon came about.

The wine doesn't talk back! Funny.

Thanks Mark, I'm sure there's more in that purse but that will have to be for another time.

Thanks Mark, did you bother to go get the Morse code decoded? I was wondering if many people did that. I had to do it - I loved the idea too much.

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Thanks Tony, I'll never look at this the same way now. ;)

I've only read a few pages of "Whack" but I am impressed with it. I also stumbled on the "I'm a PC" guy - John Hodgman's, "Areas of My Expertise" and "More Information Than You Require" crazy almanacs - they are like lessons in non sequiturs. It's true inspiration for me.

Thanks George, I think this strip is a turning point in some way - like I had these receipts in my pocket and I thought - man, I'm sad about Borders - what can I do to commemorate this passing - I'll scan them in and try to get a little further out of the box.