So what's the plan for Kick Irrational now? In short, it's in the submission stage. I'm waiting it out like other cartoonists, checking the mail box for a response, just hoping that the right editor will take a liking to the strip, and help it get in 1,000 newspapers. But that's just the business side of things. I also hope that Kick is already achieving its goal of making people laugh and think. On the "Calvin and Hobbes" website (www.calvinandhobbes.com), one can read letters people wrote when they found out Bill Watterson was ending the strip. Whenever it is that I finish this strip, I want to get responses like that, where people are sad and grateful and see themselves in the characters. Not that I want people to be sad, but I want them to connect with Kick and Kricket and Lewis and Tolk. Because if they do, it means I'll have made a small little difference in their lives, and that's all that I ask for.
To sign up to get Kick Irrational free every week via email, just send your City, State/Province, and email address to kickirrational@comcast.net, or go to www.KickComics.com.
Good luck for a successful future with Kick Irrational, Brian, and thank you for sharing your inspiring story with The Cartoonists.
The home page of Brian Lord and Kick Irrational:
An interview with Brian Lord in the DePauw University newspaper:
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